Jay Ritchie (they/he) is a queer trans* artist from Berlin whose art practice combines inter- and transdisciplinary approaches. Ritchie's work includes installations, photography, video performances, and text-based works that create a counter-narrative to normative structures through queer-feminist and intersectional perspectives. Thematically, he focuses in particular on identity, queer visibility, and gender as a fluid continuum. Ritchie's work understands visibility as a productive and discursive force.

Education

2020 - 2022 Master student with Prof. Tina Bara, Leipzig Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig

2018 - 2020 Diploma studies in the class for photography and moving image with Prof. Tina Bara, Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig

2013 - 2016 Studies at the Ostkreuzschule for Photography, Berlin

Awarts / Scholarship

2026 BMW Photo Award Leipzig

2022 Münzenberg Forum Berlin

2020 - 2022 State Graduate Funding – Sächsisches Landesstipendium

2020 gute aussichten - junge deutsche fotografie 2020/21

2018 Deutscher Jugendfotopreis

2017 Monovisions Photography Award - Black and White People Photo of the Year

2015 Zenith Fotopreis - Muslime in Deutschland

Exhibitions (selection)

ON VIEW
MdbK Leipzig, exhibition on the BMW Photo Award, exhibition runs 11.06. - 13.09.2026

UPCOMING
Widerstand und Wunden, Künstler*innenhaus Dortmund, opening on September 18, 2026, exhibition runs from 19.09. - 8.11.2026

2026
Merck Prize of the Darmstadt Days of Photography, Museum Künstlerkolonie Darmstadt
DER LÄCHELNDE HASE – QUESTIONING NORMALCY, Triennale Expanded, Hamburg

2025
Queer Lives Queer Loss Queer Mourning - Remembrance in the midst of loss, connection and resistance, Kiezkapelle Berlin-Neukölln. The project is funded by the Fachbereich Kultur des Bezirksamts Neukölln von Berlin, the Hannchen Mehrzweck Foundation, GLS Treuhand, and the Bürgerstiftung Neukölln.
program

2024
Wandlung & Scherben, Solo show, alpha nova & galerie futura, Berlin
Genogramm, Familienpädagogisches Institut der KAB, Haltern am See

2023
Uncover I, Westwerk, Hamburg
Uncover II, Künstlerhaus Sootbörn, Hamburg

2022
M22, A&O Kunsthalle, Leipzig
Meisterschülerinnen Ausstellung, HGB Galerie, Leipzig
RIZOMA, Kunstverein Glauchau - art gluchowe, gallery for contemporary art
gute aussichten - junge deutsche Fotografie 2020/21, Haus der Photografie, Deichtorhallen Hamburg

2021
Family Portrait, OFF Bratislava Festival, main program 2021
Bewegung und Transformation, Galerie in der Zukunft am Ostkreuz, Berlin
come closer, f/stop Festival, Halle 14, Spinnerei Leipzig
gute aussichten - junge deutsche Fotografie 2020/21, Künstlerhaus Dortmund & Kulturzentrum Festung Ehrenbreitstein, Landesmuseum Koblenz

2020
4 Wände, Galerie Baturina, Leipzig
Diplomausstellung, HGB Galerie Leipzig
FICO DI AMALFI, Strandbad Plötzensee, Berlin
Translating Art, Interaktion Leipzig e.V., Leipzig

2019
WhiteWall Store, Hamburg
Was ist ICH - Auseindersetzung zum SelbstPortrait, Sprechsaal, Berlin

2018
Photokina, Köln
In Glasgow, Trongate,103 and Hillhead Library, Glasgow
a(f)frappant, Frappant Galerie, Hamburg
Keep Your Eyes Peeled IV, aff Galerie Berlin
Glaubenswelten, A World of Faith, Fotogalerie Friedrichshain, Berlin
Wovon ich rede, wenn ich vom Glück rede, aff Galerie Berlin

2017
Wiesbadener Fototage 2017, Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst, Wiesbaden
Fotohaus Parisberlin, Voies-Off Festival, Arles
Athens Photo Festival, Photobook exhibition, Benaki Museum, Athen
1917 - Hundert Jahre Revolution, Sprechsaal, Berlin
Keep Your Eyes Peeled III, aff Galerie, Berlin
Portraits, Hellerau Photography Award, Europäisches Zentrum der Künste, Dresden
_lesque, solo show, Aotu Studio, Peking

2016
ZEHN, European Month of Photography, Kühlhaus, Berlin
Formations, European Month of Photography, aff Galerie, Berlin
Encontros da Imagen, International Photography Festival, Portugal
Keep Your Eyes Peeled, Gallery Weekend, aff Galerie, Berlin

Publications (selection)

2026
BMW Photo Award, catalogue published by the Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig & Sandstein Kultur Dresden

2022
somewhere with me, artist book/exhibition object
WHEN THE ATMOSPHERE IS LESS THAN PERFECT, collaborative book project

2021
gute aussichten 2020/21, exhibition catalog

2019
ZOOM`18, German Youth Photography Award, published by kopaed Verlag

2017
Hellerau Photo Award - Portraits, exhibition catalog

2016
_lesque, artist book, self-published
Encontros da Imagen, exhibition catalog
ZEHN, exhibition catalog, European Month of Photography
European Month of Photography, exhibition catalog