Rose Cunningham

About:

Rose Cunningham (b. 2000 Wichita, Kansas) is a Chicago-based photographer and writer whose work seeks to define eroticism as surrealist praxis. Cunningham often employs performative portraiture within the intimate, dream-like space of the bedroom as an auto-theoretical means of entangling sexuality, gender, touch, and photography. 
    
Cunningham’s projects muse on the transgressive qualities of emerging queer desire through a female gaze, using alternative photographic processes to speak to the history of image making and directly engage touch physically and conceptually. 

Rose holds a BFA in Fine Art Photography and Visual Critical Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including Filter Photo, LATITUDE Chicago, Glasgow Gallery of Photography, The Royal Academy of Art, and the United States Congress.