Sight Unseen presents work by the world’s most accomplished blind photographers as they explore ideas about the nature of seeing. Great art, it has been said, is not a product of the eyes, but of the mind. Beethoven composed music without the ability to hear, and blind writers Milton and Homer conjured the landscapes of the heavens and the underworld. Similarly, the artists of Sight Unseen, in bringing their inner visions into the world of the sighted, reveal a rich visual and emotionally complex blending of the physical and conceptual worlds. The artists represented span a wide spectrum of sight impairment: most are completely blind, some are legally blind but nevertheless perceive an attenuated image of the physical world in varying degrees. All of them, with photography as their medium, navigate with their other senses to visualize and represent the space around them.

WORKS
121 photographs, 8 tactile illustrations

DIMENSIONS
8 x 10 in (20 x 25 cm) to 48 x 57 in (121 x 144 cm)

SPACE REQUIREMENTS
500 linear ft (153 linear m)

INQUIRIES
exhibitions@curatorial.org | 626.577.0044

EXHIBITOR RESOURCES
Prospectus
Documentary Film: Shot in the Dark (Frank Amman, 2016)

EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMING
Curator available for lectures.

FEE
Please inquire

EXHIBITION SCHEDULE

Massillon Museum | Massillon, Ohio
(March 22 – May 18, 2025)

Bedford Gallery | Walnut Creek, California
(July 8 – September 17, 2023)

Kean University | Union, New Jersey
(February 20 – April 14, 2023)

Huntington Museum of Art | Huntington, WV
(October 15, 2016 – January 8, 2017)

Canadian Museum for Human Rights | Winnipeg, Canada
(February 18 – September 18, 2016)

Purdue University | Hammond, Indiana
(March 3 – April 9, 2015)

Sejong Center | Seoul, South Korea
(April 18 – June 3, 2013)

Museo de Arte de Querétaro | Santiago de Querétaro, Mexico
(January 24 —March 24, 2013)

The Baker Museum | Naples, Florida
(December 22, 2012 – March 24, 2013)

Centro Fotográfico Manuel Álvarez Bravo | Oaxaca, Mexico
(January 14 – February 11, 2012)

Fototeca de Nuevo León | Monterrey, Mexico
(September 14 – November 6, 2011)

Biblioteca Vasconcelos | Mexico City
(March 24 – May 4, 2011)

Center for Visual Art | Denver, Colorado
(March 3 – April 9, 2011)

Galeria De Arte, Universidad Iberoamericana | Puebla, Mexico
(January 20 – March 5, 2011)

Flacon Arts Complex | Moscow, Russia
(December 3 – 28, 2010)

Centro Regional de las Artes de Michoacán | Zamora, Mexico
(September 21 – 25, 2010)

Centro de la Imagen | Mexico City
(June 10 – August 8, 2010)

Kennedy Center for the Arts | Washington, D.C.
(May 24 – June 20, 2010)

California Museum of Photography | Riverside, California
(May 2 – August 29, 2009)