Born 1994, New York, NY
BOOKS & PUBLICATIONS
2024
Keep the Kid Alive by Arielle Bobb-Willis, Aperture, October 2024
AWARDS & NOMINATIONS
2025
Book Nomination, Rencontres d’Arles Book Awards - The Photo-Text Book Award for Keep the Kid Alive
2019
Curatorial Prize: An Inward Gaze, Blue Sky Gallery, Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts, Portland, OR, USA
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2025
Imagining Black Diasporas: 21st-Century Art and Poetics, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, CA, USA (Dec 15, 2024 – Aug 3, 2025)
Furiously Happy, Billboard Exhibition, Capture Photo Festival, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Furiously Happy, Davisville Subway Station Exhibition, Capture Photo Festival, Toronto, ON, Canada
Portrait(s) Photo Festival and Residency, Vichy, France
2023
Moon, Makers Yard Gallery, Photo Frome Festival, Frome, Somerset, UK
The New Black Vanguard: Photography Between Art and Fashion, Sarasota Art Museum, Sarasota, FL, USA
As We Rise: Photography from The Black Atlantic, The Polygon Gallery, North Vancouver, BC, Canada
Persona, Les Filles du Calvaire, Paris, France
2022
The New Black Vanguard: Photography Between Art and Fashion, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
The New Black Vanguard: Photography Between Art and Fashion, Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD), San Francisco, CA, USA
The New Black Vanguard: Photography Between Art and Fashion, Fotografiska, Stockholm, Sweden
The New Black Vanguard: Photography Between Art and Fashion, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, USA
Hues, Hannah Traore Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2021
The New Black Vanguard: Photography Between Art and Fashion, The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI, USA
INWARD: Reflections on Interiority, International Center of Photography (ICP), Curated by Isolde Brielmaier, New York, NY, USA
2020
Just Pictures, Projects+Gallery, Saint Louis, MO, USA
Tools of Revolution: Fashion Photography and Activism, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX, USA
2019
Adorned: The Fashionable Show, Foam Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
The New Black Vanguard: Photography Between Art and Fashion, Aperture Foundation, New York, NY, USA
At Zephyr, The Philadelphia Photo Arts Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA
She, Elizabeth Houston Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2018
Ever Lucid, Solo Show, Medium Tings, Brooklyn, NY, USA
SELECTED COMMERCIAL & EDITORIAL COMMISSIONS
2024
The New York Times Magazine - Suzan-Lori Parks, Online Feature, New York, NY
2022
The New York Times Magazine - Coco Gauff, Online Feature, Delray Beach, FL, USA
The New York Times Magazine, Music Issue - Mary J. Blige, Cover Shoot, New York, NY, USA
2021
Valentino, Voce Viva Eau de Parfum Campaign #2 featuring Lady Gaga, Los Angeles, CA, USA
The New York Times Magazine - Janicza Bravo, Online Feature, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2020
Valentino, Voce Viva Eau de Parfum Campaign featuring Lady Gaga, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Vanity Fair, The Great Fire: Special Issue by Ta-Nehisi Coates - Ava DuVernay, Photo Shoot, Los Angeles, CA, USA
The New York Times Magazine, Music Issue - Billie Eilish, Lil Nas X, Megan Thee Stallion, Cover Stories, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2018
L’Uomo Vogue Relaunch, Cover Story featuring Alton Mason, Union City, NJ, USA
Le Monde d’Hermès, Hermès Campaign, Paris, France
SELECTED PRESS & FEATURES
2021
It’s Nice That, Article by Joey Levenson - “Arielle Bobb-Willis Captures Celebrities with a Colourful Eye”
2019
i-D Magazine, Article by Ryan White - “The Loud and Strange Photography of Arielle Bobb-Willis”
2019
I On the Arts, Deborah Krieger - “Two Photographers’ Strikingly Different Approaches to Turmoil”
2018
Marigold Warner, British Journal of Photography- “Arielle Bobb-Willis’ Darker Shade of Bright“
2018
Majestic Journal, Amelie Varzi - “Portfolio Crush: Somewhere Between Grace and Awkwardness Lies a Colorful World of Textile and Concrete”
2017
The New Yorker, Antwaun Sargent -
“A Young Photographer Finds Inspiration in Jacob Lawrence, Fashion Photography, and Her Own Struggle with Depression”
