Cenìnye


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ContactCenìnye (b. 2002) is a portrait photographer originally from Monrovia, Liberia, and currently based in Chicago. 
Mayflower’s Birth, 16 x 20 inches, Boston, MA, 2021.

Exhibitions (solo)

2025, Here: A New Discovery, SITE Galleries, Chicago, IL
2023, Da First Showcase, Tufts University, Boston, MA
2020, MXFAM: MY VOICE. MY POWER., Middlesex School, Concord, MA

Exhibitions (group)

2024, Subversive Pleasures, School of the Art Institute, Chicago, IL
2024, we are our own healers, School of the Art Institute, Chicago, IL
2024, Black Creativity Juried Art, Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, IL
2024, Confront, School of the Art Institute, Chicago, IL 
2023, Black Harvest Film Festival, Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago, IL
2023, for: evergreen, Tufts University, Boston, MA, (Curator) 
2022, Griffin Museum 28th Annual Juried Members Show, Winchester, MA
2022, Through These Realities, Boston, MA

Collections

Diasporic Rhythms, Chicago, IL
Joan Flasch Artist Book Collection, Chicago, IL

Awards

2023, MLK Student Voices Award, Tufts University
2021, U.S Presidential Scholar in the Arts
2021, Finalist in Photography, National YoungArts Foundation
2019, Winner, New York Times’ Second Annual Student Photo Contest
2019, Thoreau Medal for Best Portfolio, Middlesex School

Features

WBEZCHICAGO | LENSCRATCH | PhotoVogue | New York Times | College Board | Booooooom Magazine | Der Grief | ArtConnect | Feature Shoot | Tufts Now | What Will You Remember | Concord Journal | and more
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works

01.  Perhaps Here.
02.  Untitled “American Portraits”
03.  Son of Liberia.
04.  Princess.
05.  From Home.
06.  Self Portraits As An American Optimist.commissioned  

07.  Design Museum Of Chicago
08.  Onyx, The Black Literary Experience.
09.  Africana Center.
10.  STYLE
11.  Mourning Walls .
12.  Through These Realities.
13.  MXFAM about               

                 
              God is good,
              all the time. 



© 2025 Cenìnye Harris.  All  Rights Reserved.  

there is this thing.
I speak vaguely because it’s hard for me to define.
it sits in the in-between, perhaps—the unseen, the here and there.
the future and the present.

       there is this thing.
this feeling, this incredible awe, this incredible—
the incredible discovery that I am living here.
that I am here.

It is amazing to think that I am here.
I don’t know how to make that clear.
that I know not of my origin—



                   that one day—poof!



                   
       I am here.



I am incredibly grateful for being here.
and to God be all the glory.