Rose Cunningham is a photographer and writer whose projects muse on the transgressive qualities of emerging queer desire. Through a lens of queer theoretical discourse, she uses analogue photographic processes to challenge the history of image making and engage the hapticality of the photographic object.

Her work has been exhibited internationally, including Filter Photo Space, LATITUDE Chicago, The Hyde Park Art Center, Glasgow Gallery of Photography, and the United States Congress. She holds a BFA in Photography and Visual Critical Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

She is currently pursuing her MFA in Photography at the University of Arkansas.


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