All photos © Aziz + Cucher

Anthony Aziz and Sammy Cucher have been working as a collaborative team, Aziz + Cucher, since 1992, after meeting as graduate students at the San Francisco Art Institute. They are now members of the Fine Arts faculty at Parsons School of Design (New York) and based in Brooklyn.

Their interdisciplinary work is project-based and idea-driven, with outcomes ranging from video and photography to printmaking, digital animation, sculpture and large-scale jacquard tapestries. The images, objects and installations they produce are meant to reflect on the boundaries of identity at a time when these are becoming increasingly fluid and undefined. Often a synthesis of reality and fiction, their work tries to reveal the pathologies associated with unfettered globalization, post-human conditions and the intersections between the social, the biological, and the technological. In all their projects they are searching for a visual poetics that can express both the anxieties and expectations of living in such a moment.

Aziz + Cucher have exhibited at the 46th Venice Biennale, MASS MoCA, the New Museum (New York), the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the List Visual Art Center at MIT (Cambridge, MA), the National Gallery of Berlin, and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia (Madrid), among others.

To view more works of Aziz + Cucher, please visit: www.azizcucher.net.

2022 marked the 30th anniversary of their collaboration, and to celebrate this milestone La Fábrica Editions (Madrid) and Gazelli Art House (London) have co-published Aziz + Cucher: XXX 1992—2022. Covering the breadth of their career so far, this monograph includes 130 full color reproductions as well as essays by independent curator Agustin Perez Rubio and cultural critic Aruna D’Souza, along with a conversation with pioneering digital artist Lynn Hershman Leeson.

Pre-order available in the US through D.A.P.

XXX: Aziz + Cucher by Aziz + Cucher
Texts by Agustin Perez Rubio, Aruna D’Souza, Lynn Hershman Leeson

Published by LA FÁBRICA, 2023.
Hardcover, 9 x 12 in, 130 color, photographs, 224 pages
ISBN 978-8-418934-46-9

All photos © Barbara Boissevain

Barbara Boissevain is a visual artist and photographer from Silicon Valley who explores the impact of environmental change and its effects on humans and other species. Boissevain studied painting at Parsons School of Design in New York, and then went on to receive her B.F.A in Photography from the San Francisco Art Institute and an M.F.A. in Photography at San Jose State University. In 2009, she was awarded the Best of ASMP from the American Society of Media Photographers.

She has exhibited her work widely, including international solo and group exhibitions in the USA and Europe. These include: Memoire De L'Avenir, Paris, France; Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle, WA; the Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA; Galerie Numero Cinq, Arles, France; the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, Poland; and the David Brower Institute in Berkeley, CA. In 2009 she published Children of the Rainbow, a book and traveling exhibition that documents humanitarian problems due to climate change, facing Quechua communities in Peru. Her work has been published in a number of publications including Lenscratch and The American Scholar. In 2021 her work was featured on NPR’s “The Picture Show” (in conjunction with the U.N. Climate Change Summit in Glasgow, Scotland) as well as on the PBS News show Something Beautiful.

Her art has been acquired by numerous public and private collections around the world, including the Google corporate collection. For the past seven years, she was an artist in residence with the City of Palo Alto’s Cubberley Artist Studio Program in Palo Alto, California. In 2018 she was awarded an artist-in-residence in France at Galerie Huit in Arles, France in conjunction with the Les Rencontres de la Photographie Festival. In July of 2022 she was invited to Atelier 11 for a solo residency through L’AiR Arts international residency program in Paris, France. Her upcoming book Salt of the Earth will be published by Kehrer Verlag in the Fall of 2023.