Foster – Black cat day dream ; signé et numéroté sur 200 par le photographe

Born in 1985, Foster Mickley studied at Medill School of Journalism in Chicago, fine arts in Columbia University and photography at Magnum Photo in Paris. Past exhibitions include a solo show at NYC Munch Gallery, and group shows in Arles Voies Off, Korea National University of the Arts, NYC Ilon gallery, Berlin Foto Kiez, Tokyo Reminders Project Stronghold and KG+ in Kyoto (2020). A New-Yorker, he has been living and working between his hometown, Berlin and Tokyo for over ten years. Based in Kyoto since 2020, Foster Mickley is a member of Antibodies Collective and a co-founder of Jama Gallery. He will participate in the coming Research Fellow Program of the ICA (Institute of Contemporary Arts) Kyoto 2021.

A photographer, a writer and a visual artist, Foster Mickley develops a multidisciplinary practice centered around photography and writing, nourished by a long standing admiration for Japanese photography, an engagement in literature and poetry circles, and a love for music and painting. An active member of art collectives in New-York and Berlin, his creative process infers a keen collaborative approach, a way of looking that does not preempt the given, and a practice holding that shared imagination unsettles norms, that multiplicity undermines authority – so that art can expand the possible. Throughout his years of wanders, within and for the worlds he encounters and engages with, Foster Mickley unfolds an intimate visual language. He tells them through soft and luminous forms that reveal a sense of warmth, wonder and admiration, and sketches a delicate poetics of relation.