Naomi Livia

Naomi Livia is a Paris- and New York-based artist working at the intersection of weaving and photography. She trained at SUNY's Empire State College and Hunter College, and spent the 1990s and 2000s showing in New York, including a solo exhibition at Feature, Inc., where she was represented by Hudson.

Primal Radiant Force - Gelatin silver print, handmade weave mounted on wooden loom, 2024, Photo: Alan Wiener

She weaves by hand and layers the woven pieces onto analog photographs, drawing on the history of fiber work as domestic and coded female. She calls the result "feminizing the landscape": woven material worked directly into images of the desert, pushing back against the idea that people and the natural world are separate.

Desert Weave, Frampton Co at The Barn, Photo: Eric Striffler

Her current solo exhibition, Desert Weave, is on view at The Barn with Frampton Co. in Bridgehampton through July 17. The pieces move between screen and loom, dune photographs worked over with natural fiber, and raise questions about technology, intimacy, environmentalism, and feminist identity.

Cosmology Collage (with Primitive Mysteries II) - Navajo churro wool, kid silk, alpaca silk, cotton, oil on paper, silver gelatin contact print, 2022

Before turning fully to her own practice, Livia spent years as an image editor for magazines including Cabinet and The New Yorker. She later spent time in Germany and Rome on fellowships, work that shaped the eye she now brings to her own photographs.