L. Kasimu Harris b. 1978, New Orleans, LA; lives in New Orleans, LA

L. Kasimu Harris is a New Orleans-based artist whose practice deposits a number of different strategic and conceptual devices in order to push narratives. He strives to tell stories of underrepresented communities in New Orleans and beyond.

Harris earned a BBA in Entrepreneurship from Middle Tennessee State University in 2004 and an MA in Journalism from the University of Mississippi in 2008. He has shown in numerous group exhibitions in the US and internationally. His ongoing series Vanishing Black Bars & Lounges (2018–) has been exhibited in several cities across the US. Harris’s writing and photographs were featured in “A Shot Before Last Call: Capturing New Orleans’s Vanishing Black Bars” in The New York Times. Selections from Vanishing Black Bars & Lounges will be featured in The Museum of Modern Art’s New Photography 2025, the 40th anniversary edition of MoMA’s celebrated New Photography series. His work is in the permanent collections of New Orleans Museum of Art, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, and the Newcomb Art Museum, New Orleans, LA; The Wedge Collection, Toronto, Canada; Center of Photography at Woodstock, Kingston, NY; Fort Wayne Museum of Art, IN; The Do Good Fund, Columbus, GA; and Crystal Bridges Museum of Art, Bentonville, AR.