Richard Renaldi & Sharon Harper: On Photography, Labor & Intimacy

Please join us for a conversation between Richard Renaldi and Sharon Harper celebrating Renaldi’s recent monograph, Billions Served (Deadbeat Club, 2025). The discussion will explore issues around labor within the fast-food service industry, alongside Renaldi’s broader artistic practice. He will also preview some work from his forthcoming photographic memoir, 1996 (L’Artiere, 2026).

Thursday, April 23, 2026 

6:00–7:30 pm, Theater, Lower Level 

Richard Renaldi was born in Chicago in 1968. He received a BFA in photography from New York University in 1990. He is represented by Benrubi Gallery in New York and Robert Morat Galerie in Berlin. Six monographs of his work have been published, including Richard Renaldi: Figure and Ground (Aperture, 2006); Fall River Boys (Charles Lane Press, 2009); Touching Strangers (Aperture, 2014); Manhattan Sunday (Aperture, 2016); I Want Your Love (Super Labo, 2018); Billions Served (Deadbeat Club, 2025). He was the recipient of a 2015 fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

Sharon Harper works at the intersection of technology, perception, and the living environment. Her work is in permanent collections at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, the Harvard Art Museums, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art in Santa Barbara, California, the Nelson-Atkins Museum in Kansas City, Missouri, The New York Public Library, and the Denver Art Museum among other collections. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in Photography, a Meredith S. Moody Residency Fellowship and an Elizabeth Ames Residency Fellowship at Yaddo, a Sam and Dusty Boynton Residency Fellowship at the Vermont Studio Center, and residency fellowships at the Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, California the MacDowell Colony, the Ucross Foundation, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Monastery of Halsnøy.. A monograph of her work, From Above and Below, was published by Radius Books. She is Professor of Visual Art, Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies, Harvard University.