On View January 31 – March 1, 2026
Opening reception: January 31, 2026, 5-8PM
The CPW Community Gallery will feature work by Jiatong Lu, the winner of CPW’s 2025 Portfolio Review Prize. Nowhere Land is an ongoing documentary project that examines, with fresh, creative, and broad range, the systemic failures of the U.S. medical system in addressing chronic tick-borne illnesses. After her own neurological Lyme diagnosis in 2021, Lu began interviewing fellow Lyme patients, and through a combination of text, photographs, and archival documents, she highlights the fugitive and insidious nature of Lyme. Lu’s imagery, alternately abstract and concrete, reveals the profound physical, psychological, and financial toll of this often overlooked, hidden disease.
Jiatong Lu, a New York–based visual artist grew up in Northwest China. She holds an MFA in Photography, Video, and Related Media from the School of Visual Arts. Working with photography, video, text, and archives, she focuses on people living outside dominant narratives. Her practice moves between individual experiences and public history to examine how personal and collective trauma, systemic forces, and social inequality shape human life. Her current project, Nowhere Land, which focuses on the chronic Lyme disease community in the United States, was featured in TIME magazine. Her work has been exhibited internationally. Awards include the Award of Excellence from the 2025 Alexia Vision Grant, the Winner of the 2024 LensCulture Art Photography Award, and the 2019 NYFA Artist Fellowship in Photography.
About the Community Gallery:
CPW’s Community Gallery is a new space dedicated to fostering connections between diverse local communities using photography. It will host a rotating schedule of short-run exhibitions featuring work by CPW members, local artist collectives, student groups, and projects by local nonprofit organizations. CPW is committed to being a welcoming hub for critical and creative explorations of photography from varied perspectives.
