SRO Photo Gallery
2025-2026 Exhibition Season

 

PRESS RELEASE 
For Immediate Release: June 30, 2025

Texas Tech University’s Landmark Arts Announces 
2025-2026 SRO Photo Gallery Exhibition Schedule

LUBBOCK – The SRO Photo Gallery at the Texas Tech School of Art holds an annual open call to select photographic artists who will present solo exhibitions of their work in the upcoming academic year. Six to eight artists are selected by a review team of graduate students and faculty from the Photography area, and Landmark Arts staff. Additionally, this year we have added four solo moving image exhibitions. The team looks for portfolios that demonstrate photography and moving image in diverse styles, techniques, and aesthetic approaches, while also exploring the ever-changing landscape of contemporary image making. Below is the list of artists selected for the 2025-2026 exhibition schedule.

Photography

Phantasmagoria 
Group Exhibition Curated by Matthew Mishevski and Joshua Mokry 
Monday, August 18, 2025 – Sunday, September 14, 2025 
The eight MFA photography students in the annual SRO group exhibition explore the possibilities of building worlds in front of a camera lens. Selected by last’s year SRO Photo Gallery Coordinators, MFA Candidates Matthew Mishevski and Joshua Mokry, the exhibition includes works by: Anna Guyton (Fayetteville, Arkansas), Anna Lawrence (Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio), Leni Wiegand (Bloomington, Indiana), Maddie Casagranda (Houston, Texas), Nika Mckagen (Madison, Wisconsin), Sammie Correa (Iowa City, Iowa), Ruiqi Xu (Albuquerque, New Mexico), and Xinyu Liu (Bend, Oregon).

Rachel Jump: Everyone is Icarus 
Thursday, September 18, 2025 – Sunday, October 12, 2025 
Rachel Jump (b. Chicago, Illinois, 1991) received her BFA in Photography from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2014. Her photographs have been exhibited nationally and internationally, which includes Unseen Amsterdam Festival in The Netherlands, Filter Photo in Chicago, and dnj Gallery in Los Angeles. Her prints were a part of the Midwest Photography Project at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago from 2017-2021 and are in the permanent collection at the RISD Museum, in addition to private collections. 

Joe Reynolds: Cristalândia 
Thursday, October 16, 2025 – Sunday, November 9, 2025 
Joe Reynolds was raised in the town of Chattanooga, Tennessee. His mother was a language teacher from Brazil and his father an avid creator and storyteller, Reynolds and his brother were provided a steady diet of books. Both sides of the family were journalists, and this is where Reynolds began his professional life. After 20 years of making pictures, Reynolds has returned to storytelling through documentary images to tell stories of how people relate to their environment and each other. Reynolds lives and works in Lawrenceburgh, Tennessee.

André Ramos Woodard: Black Snafu 
Thursday, November 13, 2025 – Sunday, December 7, 2025 
Raised in the Southern states of Tennessee and Texas, Houston-based André Ramos-Woodard (he/ they) is a photo-based artist who uses their work to emphasize the experiences of marginalized communities while accenting the repercussions of contemporary and historical discrimination. His art conveys ideas of communal and personal identity, influenced by their direct experience with life as a queer African American. Focusing on Black liberation, queer justice, and the reality of mental health, he aspires for his art to help bring power to the people. 

Jessica Hays: The Summer Sets Midafternoon 
Thursday, January 15, 2026 – Sunday, February 8, 2026 
Jessica Hays is a photographer and artist based in Montana and Chicago. Her intimate work draws on personal experience to communicate ubiquitous human experiences, tackling topics like mental health, trauma, environmental issues and loneliness. Grounded in the American west, she explores relationships between people, places, and experiences of being deeply connected to one's surroundings. Hays works in a variety of processes including pigment printing, handmade artist books, video, and historic and experimental photo processes.

Chung Chak: Whispers in The Dark 
Thursday, February 12, 2026 – Sunday, March 8, 2026 
Chak is an immigrant from Hong Kong now living and working in Yardley, Pennsylvania. His work consistently explores the relationship between individuals and their environments. Chak draws inspiration from cultural clashes, gender expectations, historical memory, and feelings of alienation. These themes form the backbone of his artistic inquiry, with the hope that his work encourages greater tolerance and understanding among people of diverse backgrounds. While many of his visual metaphors stem from Chinese culture, they are designed to transcend cultural boundaries—inviting viewers, particularly in the West, to reflect on their own societies. 

Congyu Zoe Liu: Palace 
Thursday, March 12, 2026 – Sunday, April 12, 2026 
Congyu (Zoe) Liu was born in Beijing, China in 1999 and now lives in Santa Clarita, California. She is an interdisciplinary artist who uses photography, film and video installation to explore the themes of female visibility and the Asian diaspora’s generational traumas and loss. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Melbourne and a Master of Fine Arts degree in photography at the California Institute of the Arts.

Joseph Matty: A World Apart 
Thursday, April 16, 2026 – Sunday, May 10, 2026 
Joe Matty is a photographer from Pittsburgh, PA, whose work bridges historical photographic practices and contemporary digital culture. His images explore how material processes shape our understanding of place, memory, and constructed experience. Using 19th-century techniques such as wet plate collodion, Matty transforms virtual landscapes—often sourced from video games—into physical objects that carry the visual weight and authority of early photographs. His work invites viewers to reconsider the boundaries between real and simulated environments, questioning how photographs influence our perceptions of authenticity, space, and memory.

Moving Image

Katina Bitsicas : Linseed and Gardens  
Monday, August 18, 2025 – Sunday, October 12, 2025 
Bitsicas is a Greek-American new media artist based in Columbia, Missouri who utilizes video, installation, projection mapping, AR, photography, and performance in her artworks to explore grief, loss, trauma and memory. She is an Associate Professor and Coordinator of Digital Storytelling and Associate Director of the School of Visual Studies at the University of Missouri, where she conducts collaborative research with the School of Medicine and College of Health Sciences utilizing digital storytelling as a meaning-making intervention for bereaved families and mental health promotion and policy. 

Alessia Lupo Cecchet: Dolasilla 
Thursday, October 16, 2025 – Sunday, December 7, 2025 
Los Angeles artist Alessia Lupo is compelled by forgotten histories of oppression, disempowerment, and the pain that these bring to both human and non-human individuals and seeks to bring these histories to the surface to create a space devoted to mourning and healing, dissent, and dispute. That challenges mainstream expectations about movement and storytelling in the context of moving image practices. After working for over ten years with the short film form, Lupo began experimenting with the micro form. Through short, looped, video vignettes that configure as multi-channel installations, she looks to engage the viewer in contained experiences aimed at evoking questions, and challenge the perception of movement and time in our society. 

Alexis McGrigg title forthcoming 
Thursday, January 15, 2026 – Sunday, March 8, 2026 
McGrigg is a contemporary artist who examines themes of Blackness, space, spirituality, identity, and collective consciousness. Her artwork utilizes the mediums of painting, drawing, and interdisciplinary media to explore the multiplicity of Blackness through figurative abstraction and conceptual narratives. She integrates poetry, sound, and performance in her arts practice and research.

Anna Azizzy: title forthcoming  
Thursday, March 12, 2026 – Sunday, May 10,  2026 
Anna Azizzy is a Pittsburgh artist reimagining their past and creating their queer future through performance. Azizzy processes and procures their identity by performing absurd and hilarious exaggerations of desire and shame. By reimagining their past as a cast of secret-keeping queers, Azizzy discovers who they wish to become, soothes the shame of being, and celebrates the queerness that is so joyful to live. Azizzy’s practice spans many mediums, including performance art, video art, experimental music, and gymnastics, most often performing live alongside a cast of digital characters, all played by Azizzy. Their work is wonky and faulty but brimming with heart and bursting with laughter. 

SRO Photo Gallery is a graduate student run exhibition space dedicated to contemporary photography. Housed within the Digital and Narrative Arts program at the Texas Tech School of Art. SRO Photo Gallery gives students, faculty, and staff from across the University access to cutting edge photographic and moving image art from across the USA and is an integral part of the MFA in Photography program.

Landmark Arts exhibitions and speaker programs in the Texas Tech University School of Art are made possible with Cultural Activities Fees administered through the J.T. & Margaret Talkington College of Visual & Performing Arts. 

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Contact: Matthew Mischevski, SRO Gallery Coordinator
srophotogallery.art@ttu.edu