Photographer and author Chester Higgins was born in Alabama in 1946, and was formally educated at Tuskegee University, graduating in 1970. Experiences with his family’s church community, as well as with college campus student protest, were formative in developing the direction Higgins’s artistic practice. Higgins’s oeuvre portrays the dignity of the African American and African diasporic communities, and this work has brought Higgins all over the world, and to Africa in particular, many times. Higgins worked as a staff photographer for The New York Times from 1975 until 2014, and is the author of several publications, including Black Woman (1970); Drums of Life (1974); Feeling the Spirit: Searching the World for the People of Africa (1994); Elder Grace: The Nobility of Aging (2000); and Echo of the Spirit: A Photographer’s Journey (2004).
Higgins’s work has been the subject of many international exhibitions, and is held in notable collections, such as The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco; Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond, and The Brooklyn Museum of Art. Higgins lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
Flight into Egypt
Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876–Now17 Nov 2024 - 17 Feb 2025Outside ExhibitionsThe Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 899 Flight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876–Now examines how Black artists and other cultural figures have engaged with ancient Egypt through...Read moreSummer Glow
11 Jul - 7 Sep 2024In photography, light is the medium’s essence, shaping each photograph’s composition, mood, texture, and depth. During the long days of summer, light evolves from the soft, diffused glow of the...Read moreHood Museum of Art: And I'm Feeling Good
Relaxation and Resistance20 Jan - 13 Apr 2024Outside ExhibitionsFeaturing selections from the Hood Museum's photography collection, And I’m Feeling Good: Relaxation and Resistance celebrates joy in African American life. Simultaneously, it considers the pleasures and challenges in achieving...Read moreChester Higgins: Black Pantheon
14 Sep - 28 Oct 2023Gallery ExhibitionsBlack Pantheon , an exhibition of Chester Higgins’ portraits, is not a comprehensive overview of his life’s work but rather disparate but also strategically placed moments with individuals he encountered...Read moreChester Higgins: Signature of the Spirit
Shippensburg University26 Jan - 23 Feb 2022Outside ExhibitionsRead more20th Anniversary Exhibition
REWIND16 Dec 2021 - 19 Feb 2022Gallery ExhibitionsBruce Silverstein Gallery is pleased to announce REWIND , a celebration of our 20th anniversary. Featuring works selected from over one hundred exhibitions, REWIND is an opportunity to revisit the...Read moreChester Higgins
The Indelible Spirit 6 May - 26 Jun 2021Gallery ExhibitionsThe exhibition Chester Higgins: The Indelible Spirit at Bruce Silverstein Gallery charts the early course of Higgins’s journey from the late 1960s through the 1990s with a selection of images...Read more
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