Justin Brice Guariglia
American photographer and artist
Justin Brice Guariglia, also known as Justin Brice (born 1974), is an American conceptual artist and a former photojournalist, whose work explores the relationship between humans and the natural world. Brice frequently partners with scientists, poets and philosophers in his research based art practice that addresses climate change and the ecological crisis. Notably, this includes a series of seven missions he's flown with NASA scientists beginning in 2015 to document Greenland's rapidly changing ice, images which he's used as source material in his work.
He is a former photographer and photojournalist in Asia for 20 years, his work had appeared in National Geographic, Smithsonian, and The New York Times, before he transitioned into an art practice in 2010.
Biography
Justin Brice Guariglia was born in 1974 and grew up in Maplewood, New Jersey. He attended Wake Forest University, graduating with a bachelor of arts degree in 1997. While attending Wake Forest University, he studied abroad initially in 1995 in Venice, Italy at Casa Artom and later in 1996 in Beijing, China at Capital Normal University.
Guariglia lived in Asia over a 20-year period, working as a documentary photographer for 15 of those years. In 2015, Brice moved his studio from Asia back to Brooklyn, New York. In 2018, Sotheby's referred to Guariglia as "one of the most prominent cultural figures working to address climate change."
Guariglia participated in For Freedoms, a Super PAC started by Hank Willis Thomas and Eric Gottesman, which launched a show at Jack Shainman Gallery in 2016.
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