FotoFest Broadcasts 2026 Biennial Artists & Companions

FotoFest, set to acknowledge its 40-year historical past with the FotoFest Biennial 2026 in March, has introduced a roster of taking part artists.

Global Visions – FotoFest at 40 will current new commissions from Lola Flash, a genderqueer photographer and lively participant within the ACT UP demonstrations of the Eighties; Shavon Aja Morris, a discovered images collagist centered on Black memorabilia from previous eras; and André Ramos-Woodard, a Houston-based photographer recognized for his latest BLACK SNAFU collection of images with drawing interventions. 

The curatorial group of FotoFest, which incorporates co-founder and former Artistic Director Wendy Watriss, Executive Director Steven Evans, Exhibition Coordinator Annick Dekiouk, and Associate Curator Madi Murphy, has chosen photographic artists Mónica Alcázar-Duarte, Adrian L. Burrell, Lalla Essaydi, Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Flor Garduño, Alfredo Jaar, Dorothea Lange, Susan Meiselas, Luis González Palma, and Doug and Mike Starn to take part within the biennial. Their work will be part of the images of artists from over 58 international locations in complete, together with greater than 450 artists from the U.S.

The biennial’s central exhibition will likely be organized chronologically, that includes vital works and themes from every of the 20 earlier FotoFest biennials. The group’s historical past can even be chronicled in a brand new 400-page e book, co-published by Schilt Publishing.

In protecting with the collaborative nature of FotoFest, 75 Houston venues will take part within the 2026 biennial, together with The Menil Collection; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Moody Center for the Arts at Rice University; the Houston Museum of Natural Science; the Houston Museum of African American Culture; Houston Center for Photography; Moody Gallery; Inman Gallery; Project Row Houses; and Uncle Bob’s Photo Zine Market/FLATS. 

Special regional collaborations will embrace an artwork tour of Galveston, and an April 19, 2026, efficiency by the Galveston Symphony Orchestra. The group’s Masterworks V: Motion & Memories collection will function The Photographer, a 1982 chamber opera by composer Philip Glass, fuses visuals from Eadweard Muybridge’s iconic movement research with music a libretto recounting the early photographer’s homicide trial.

Global Visions – FotoFest at 40 will open at Houston’s Sawyer Yards on March 7, 2026, and run by May 10, 2026. To be taught extra about FotoFest’s exhibitions, packages, and the biennial, go to the group’s website.