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Lyle Ashton Harris

“This was at my first gay pride parade on the West Coast,” Lyle Ashton Harris says, “my first time seeing Dykes on Bikes.” A New York native, Harris had recently finished his first semester of graduate school at CalArts when this snapshot was taken. Harris’s (2017), a multimedia installation presented in the 2017 Whitney Biennial, included cameos from

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