Artist Walkthrough: Rahim FOrtune
May 12, 2026
6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
In Collaboration With
California African American Museum
Artist Rahim Fortune will lead a walkthrough of his exhibition, Between a Memory and Me. Fortune’s exhibition features photographs and a film that explores the layered, complex nature of American identity and foregrounds the connections between the Texas communities he photographs and the land they inhabit.
Speakers
Rahim Fortune, born 1994, is a visual artist from the Chickasaw Nation of Oklahoma. He uses photography to ask fundamental questions about American identity. Focusing on the narratives of individual families and communities, he explores shifting geographies of migration and resettlement and the way that these histories are written on the landscapes of Texas and the American South. Fortune’s book, I Can’t Stand to See You Cry, was published by Loose Joints in 2021 and was nominated for the Paris Photo-Aperture Photobook of the Year and the winner of the Rencontres d’Arles Louis Roederer Discovery Award 2022. His 2024 Monograph, Hardtack (Loose Joints), has garnered international attention, earning a nomination for the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2025. His work has been featured in exhibitions worldwide and in many permanent collections, including the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, LUMA Arles, France, the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, The Virginia Museum of Art, Richmond, The Nelson Atkins Museum, Kansas City, MO and the Boston Museum of Fine Art.
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