SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Jenkins Johnson Gallery announced representation of photographer Lola Flash.

Lola Flash recently penned a powerful article in the New York Times, was featured in NPR, and is also being honored by the LGBTQ+ arts organization Queer|Art with an award for sustained achievement.

Flash works primarily in portraiture with a 4x5 film camera, engaging those who are often deemed invisible. Her practice is firmly rooted in social justice advocacy around sexual, racial, and cultural difference. Working at the forefront of genderqueer visual politics for more than three decades, Lola Flash's work challenges stereotypes and gender, sexual and racial preconceptions. In the 1980's she was very involved in HIV/AIDS awareness efforts, appearing with several other couples in a PSA poster calling out bigotry and complacency. She is an activist and a member of ACT UP as well as ART+. She reflects on the crisis of the 80's and 90's in her AIDS FLASHback series, portraying images from ACT UP demonstrations in New York and Washington D.C. Other series, like SALT, engage with women who are 70+, exploring the idea of equating beauty with youth and featuring subjects like Agnes Gund and renowned civil rights activist Esther Cooper Jackson. She is also a member of the Kamoinge Workshop (a collective of black photographers established in New York City in 1983.)

Her work is in important collections including The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney Museum, New York; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; African Museum in Philadelphia, and the Brooklyn Museum. The photographs of Lola Flash have been exhibited in institutions including The Royal Academy of Art, London; African Museum in Philadelphia and Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta. In 2021 she received an Art Matters Grant and participated in the BOFFO Fire Island Residency Program. Lola Flash received her bachelor's degree from Maryland Institute and her Masters' from London College of Printing, in the UK. Forthcoming presentations of Lola Flash's work include Frieze LA, Expo Chicago, and AIPAD NY. Her first solo exhibition with the gallery will be in 2022.