Prism Photo Workshop program manager Oriana Koren is a polymathic artist based in Chicago. Merging language, memory and the image as auto-fiction, Koren’s work explores the body itself as a form of archival knowledge. Koren's work revisits and revises one’s personal history allowing for the recreation and redemption of a self/body fractured by performances of race, gender and sexuality in the context of societal legacies of erasure, abuse and trauma. Informed by the theory of ‘wake-work’ as described by theorist Christina Sharpe and ‘re-memory’ as explored by writer Toni Morrison. Koren’s work is an exploration of revision, repatriation, reclamation and redemption. Oriana is currently a visiting lecturer at Stonybrook University and operations manager at the Prism Photo Workshop.

Email: oriana@prismphotoworkshop.org