Second Sight Conversation:
Vikesh Kapoor and Chanell Stone with Shana Lopes
On Thursday, October 13 from 4:00 - 5:00pm Pacific time we hosted the inaugural Second Sight Conversation of 2022, examining the work of two artists nominated for the 2023 Second Sight Award: Vikesh Kapoor and Chanell Stone. The event was moderated by Shana Lopes, Assistant Curator of Photography at SFMOMA.
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Vikesh Kapoor
Vikesh Kapoor is a multidisciplinary artist based in Los Angeles whose work examines race, class and identity as a first-generation American. He is currently a fellow in the inaugural Google Image Equity Fellowship, with partners For Freedoms, Aperture Foundation, Free the Work and Creative Theory Agency. In 2021, he produced the Leica x 1854 Witnesses of: Devotion commission for the British Journal of Photography.
He has received numerous awards, including the Daylight Photo Award, The Joan Hohlt and Roger Wich Emerging Photographer Scholarship from the Houston Center for Photography, The Hopper Prize, LensCulture Art Photography Juror's Pick Award, PhotoNola Review Grand Prize and a Project Development Grant from CENTER, Santa Fe, NM. He has been a finalist for the Documentary Essay Prize from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University; PHmuseum Mobile Photography Prize; and Portrait Award from the Head On Photo Festival, Sydney, Australia as well as a semifinalist for the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery’s triennial Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition.
Kapoor was an artist-in-residence at Latitude Chicago in 2020 and the Center of Photography at Woodstock, NY in 2019.
Chanell Stone
Chanell Stone is an artist living and working in Southern California. Through self-portraiture, collage and poetry Stone investigates the Black body’s intersectional states of being and connection to the natural world. In this, she negotiates potentialities for reconciliation and reprieve by upending historical and ancestral memories buried within the American landscape.
Stone earned her BFA from the California College of the Arts and is currently an MFA Candidate at the University of California San Diego. She has exhibited in institutions across the United States and internationally. Most recently, Stone’s work has been displayed at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Pier 24 Photography, and Museo Cabanas in Guadalajara. Her work has also been published in The New York Times, NPR, Aperture, Pop Magazine, and Vogue.
More information about Chanell’s work can be found on the artist’s website.
Moderated by Shana Lopes
Shana Lopes is the Associate Curator of Photography at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Since her arrival at the museum in 2019, she has organized exhibitions on cyanotypes, the 1906 earthquake, Atget, and Wright Morris. She is the co-curator of Constellations: Photographs in Dialogue, which pairs recent acquisitions with existing work from the collection, and A Living for Us All: Artists and the WPA, both currently on view. Over the past fourteen years, she has gained curatorial experience at the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, Arizona, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
