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Photography Portrait Sessions with artist Ruben Natal-San Miguel

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Ruben Natal-San Miguel, "Courtney (Forsythia, Spring Fever)", 2024, Harlem NYC, Kodak luster finish photograph. Courtesy of the artist

Wave Hill invites you to a fine art photo portrait session with exhibiting artist Ruben Natal-San Miguel on Sat, Aug 3 from 1:30 to 4:30 PM. This session is organized as part of the solo photography exhibition Ruben Natal-San Miguel: Nature Finds a Way, in Wave Hill House, and Perfect Trouble: Queering Natureculture, at Glyndor Gallery.

The exhibition Nature Finds a Way brings together portraits, with a particular focus on the Bronx, showcasing individuals in both real and synthetic nature. Through these images, Natal-San Miguel challenges aesthetic and cultural norms by foregrounding the diverse tapestry of urban life, and how city dwellers both seek and are affected by nature in their lives. The group exhibition Perfect Trouble: Queering Natureculture presents the work of artists who both challenge the way nature is used to uphold standards of normativity and recognize that the nature-culture divide, and other theoretical binaries, are arbitrary.

Visitors are invited to have their fine art photo portrait taken by Ruben Natal-San Miguel on the grounds of Wave Hill. Each sitter will receive a free high-resolution image file of their portrait, emailed to participants at a later date.

Advance reservations are now closed! The artist will also take portraits of walk-ins in between scheduled portrait sessions on a first-come first-serve basis. Walk-ins will be asked to fill out a photo release form on site.

If you require accommodations, please email visualarts@wavehill.org or call 718.549.3200 x398.

  • Ruben Natal-San Miguel

    Headshot Courtesy the artist

    Ruben Natal-San Miguel

    Natal-San Miguel's photographs are in the permanent collections of esteemed institutions including El Museo del Barrio, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Studio Museum in Harlem, School of Visual Arts, Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, Museum of the City of New York, The Center for Photography at Woodstock and Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, all in NY; The Contemporary Collection of the Mint Museum in Charlotte and North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh, NC.; Fitchburg Museum of Art, Provincetown Art Museum, Museum of Fine Arts Boston and Griffin Museum of Photography, MA, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Kruizenga Art Museum at Hope College, MI, and Newark Museum of Art, NJ. Learn more about the artist on Instagram @realrubennatalsanmiguel

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