{"title":"Miatta Kawinzi","description":"\u003cp\u003eMiatta Kawinzi (born 1987, Nashville, TN) is an artist based in Brooklyn, New York, whose practice moves between photography, language, performance, and Black social space. Her work compresses intimacy, coded language, and collective identity into minimal image structures, often drawing on vernacular speech, gesture, and the visual economies of Black everyday life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKawinzi has been included in The Studio Museum in Harlem’s Harlem Postcards series and has exhibited within the broader ecosystem of post-2010 Black contemporary art practice in New York. Her work sits within a generation of artists rethinking photography, text, and performance as interconnected tools for articulating Black social experience and community.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis collection brings together printed matter and ephemera connected to Kawinzi’s practice and institutional presentations.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"kawinzi-streetspeak-harlem-postcards-2016","title":"Miatta Kawinzi — Streetspeak — Harlem Postcards Summer 2016, The Studio Museum in Harlem","description":"\u003cp\u003eArtist postcard\u003cbr\u003eHarlem Postcards Summer 2016\u003cbr\u003eThe Studio Museum in Harlem, 144 West 125th Street, New York\u003cbr\u003e10 × 15 cm\u003cbr\u003eOffset print on card stock\u003cbr\u003e2016\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIssued as part of \u003cem\u003eHarlem Postcards Summer 2016\u003c\/em\u003e at The Studio Museum in Harlem, this postcard reproduces \u003cem\u003eStreetspeak\u003c\/em\u003e (2016) by Miatta Kawinzi — an artist born in Nashville and working in Brooklyn whose practice moves between photography, language, performance, and Black social space. The work’s arrangement of gesturing hands around the phrase “my sista” compresses intimacy, coded language, and collective identity into a sharply minimal image structure.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Studio Museum’s Harlem Postcards series has become an important document of emerging Black contemporary art practice in New York during the 2010s. Produced as freely distributed institutional material rather than commercial editions, many examples disappeared through handling, mailing, or casual disposal, giving surviving clean copies an increasingly archival quality. The series now reads less as supplementary museum merchandise and more as a dispersed record of a particular cultural and institutional ecosystem around Harlem, Brooklyn, and post-2010 contemporary photography.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe card functions somewhere between exhibition support, artist introduction, and portable image object. Biography, reproduction, and institutional branding are reduced into a single circulating surface.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Very good vintage condition. Light handling wear, faint corner softening, and minor surface marks consistent with storage and circulation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShipping and handling included.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The New Rare","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53766281331026,"sku":"KAWINZI-SMH-PC-2016","price":45.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Kawinzi_Miatta._Artist_postcard_The_studio_museum_in_Harlem_2016_front_c2489172-d55b-43a8-bded-d2bf9b0ac0fb.jpg?v=1781607614"}],"url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/collections\/miatta-kawinzi.oembed","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}