Project Space Residency

MYAH ASHA JEFFERS (b. 1994) is a London-based, Barbados-raised, award winning artist whose practice spans photography, performance and film. Her work focuses on witnessing and documenting the nuances of daily life within diasporic communities. Myah’s photographs have been featured in a host of publications including VOGUE, The Guardian, ELLE and The Sunday Times Magazine. She is a recipient of The Photography Foundation Awards (2024), two-time winner of the Portrait of Britain Award (2019/21), Future High Streets Artist-in-Residence at KWMC and has an upcoming Darkroom Residency at Art Hub Studios. Myah has facilitated workshops / engaged in artist panels for the likes of The Photographers’ Gallery, TATE Modern, Autograph ABP and Whitechapel Gallery. Myah’s directorial debut ‘BATHSHEBA’ world premiered at Toronto’s Inside Out Film Festival (TIFF Lightbox) and will have its UK premiere in August 2024.

VSW Project Space Residencies are supported by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the New York State Legislature, Monroe County, and Joy of Giving Something. Photography-based artists participating in the program receive support from the Phillip and Edith Leonian Foundation.