Location: Vallejo, CA
Medium: Photography, film
Website: qqfphoto.com
Lemia Monét Bodden was born in 1982 and hails from the San Francisco Bay Area. She received her BFA with honors in Film and Television Production from New York University in 2008. A photographer since the age of twelve, she has had her work in over fifty exhibitions internationally, including at the United Nations in New York, the New York Photo Festival, the DUMBO Arts Festival, Vox Populi in Philadelphia, ARLES 2018, Freies Museum Berlin, Altonaer Museum Hamburg, Ferencvarosi Gallery in Budapest, and CICA Museum in South Korea. Her student short film LOVE'S LOST was selected for the 60th Cannes International Film Festival Short Film Corner. She lives and works in Vallejo, California, where she is a longtime collaborator with Personal Space, a community arts organization and gallery dedicated to poetic and experimental practice in one of California's most diverse cities.
Bodden works across photography and film, with a practice rooted in portraiture, intimacy, and the representation of Black women's interiority and embodiment. Her photographs are warm, direct, and deeply attentive — images made in relationship rather than at a distance. Her film work extends into narrative and experimental directions, exploring themes of displacement, visibility, and the layered experience of Black womanhood in America. Her work has appeared in group exhibitions alongside artists engaged in feminist, queer, and diasporic perspectives, and she has been a consistent presence in the Bay Area's independent arts community, particularly in Vallejo. She is also a practicing filmmaker, with completed short films including GLANCE (2013), which was accepted into the Auckland International Film Festival and curated by IFC Center in New York.
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