@the Lilley Museum of Art on March 4 & 5, 2026
Photography and the Unseen: A symposium featuring the work of Steven Seidenberg
This two-day symposium explored photography as a medium and discussed the different ways artists and scholars contend with this complicated and ever-changing art form. Photography and the Unseen is rooted in the exhibition of Steven Seidenberg’s photographs entitled Home Truth: Image-making in Absence on view at the Lilley Museum of Art from January 27 to May 30, 2026.
Seidenberg’s work is concerned with the role of documentation and its tension with artistic practice. The symposium explored how photography drifts and migrates across and between these seemingly oppositional stances and the ideas and complications that arise when both sides of that line are celebrated.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Barry Schwabsky, Art Critic and Poet
Steven Seidenberg, Artist, Photographer, Philosopher, Writer
Carolyn White, Director, Preservation Studies Program, Professor of History of Art and Architecture and Archaeology, Boston University
PANELISTS
Antone Dolezal, Artist and Photographer
Iyana Esters, Artist and Folklorist
David Fahey, Gallerist, Fahey/Klein Gallery
Stephanie Gibson, Director, John and Geraldine Lilley Museum of Art
Scott Hinton, Artist and Photographer, Department of Art, Art History, and Design, University of Nevada
Ayana V. Jackson, Artist and Photographer
Renata Keller, Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Nevada
Susan Ressler, Artist and Photographer
Frances Richard, Senior Editor, Places
Christine Robinson, Nancy Inman and Marlene Nathan Meyerson Curator of Photography, University of Texas, Austin
