Guanyu Xu's work "Facing North, Looking West" (2019) is featured in exhibition "Funny Business: Photography and Humor", presented by the Phoenix Art Museum.
Dates: 14 June 2025 - 4 January 2026
Location: Norton Photography Gallery, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, US
Spanning nearly the entire history of the medium, "Funny Business: Photography and Humor" offers a compelling view into the ways artists have utilized visual humor not only to provoke laughter and delight, but also as a means of resistance, an antidote to the heaviness of the world, and a way to interrogate and subvert norms and hierarchies.
Drawn primarily from the collection of the Center for Creative Photography (CCP) at the University of Arizona in Tucson, the exhibition presents 70 photographs that showcase the mechanics of photographic humor, while examining the reasons for which artists throughout time have employed it as a strategy in their work.
Image courtesy of the artist
Learn more --
https://phxart.org/exhibition/funny-business/
