Whitney Hubbs

Hubbs was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. She graduated with a degree in photography from California College of the Arts in 2005 and received an MFA from the University of Southern California in 2009.

With the series Body Doubles, "she photographed women in various states of undress, their faces obscured by a variety of textured papers and fabrics in bold colors" "in poses that defy the conventional language of nude photography."{{cite web|access-date=2022-03-26|title=Nude Portraits Explore Empathy and the Female Form|url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/jpv4q4/whitney-hubbs-photography-nude-exhibit|website=www.vice.com}} "The series was her way of showering off the male gaze by looking at women through her own eyes."

Her book Say So (2021) contains self-portraits{{cite web|first1=Alex|last1=Merola|access-date=2022-03-26|title=Whitney Hubbs' self-portraits are an ode to fetish, ageing & isolation|url=https://i-d.vice.com/en_uk/article/xgx9m7/whitney-hubbs-photography|date=13 September 2021|website=I-D}} that could, in the words of Chris Wiley writing in frieze, "be superficially described as sadomasochistic erotica, since they feature Hubbs in a variety of compromising positions (bound and gagged, piss-covered, breasts plastered with glistening blobs of pink chewing gum) and in various states of undress." However, "when we plumb their depths, these pictures reveal themselves as being less about titillation and more about universal, close-to-the-bone emotional struggles, and Hubbs's attempt to overcome them."{{cite web|first1=Chris|last1=Wiley|access-date=2022-03-26|title=Whitney Hubbs's Unholy Rites for the Spiritually Bankrupt|url=https://www.frieze.com/article/whitney-hubbss-unholy-rites-spiritually-bankrupt|date=13 December 2021|website=frieze}}

Hubbs is a professor of photography at Alfred University in Western New York.

• Woman In Motion. Los Angeles: Hesse, 2017. {{ISBN|9780997697322}}.
• Say So. London: Self Publish, Be Happy, 2021. {{ISBN|9781916041219}}. With an essay by Chris Kraus. Edition of 1000 copies.

• Whitney Hubbs, Situations, New York City, 2020{{cite web|access-date=2022-03-26|title=Exhibition Review: Whitney Hubbs at Situations|url=https://museemagazine.com/culture/2020/2/11/exhibition-review-whitney-hubbs-at-situations|website=Musée Magazine}}{{cite web|access-date=2022-03-26|title=Whitney Hubbs|url=https://www.newyorker.com/goings-on-about-town/art/whitney-hubbs|website=The New Yorker}}{{cite web|access-date=2022-03-26|title=Whitney Hubbs "Animal, Hole, Selfie"|url=http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2020/71AA|website=www.nyartbeat.com}}{{cite web|access-date=2022-03-26|title=Whitney Hubbs at Situations|url=https://www.artforum.com/picks/whitney-hubbs-82066|website=www.artforum.com}}

Hubbs' work is held in the following permanent collections:

• J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA: 5 prints (as of 26 March 2022)
• UCR/California Museum of Photography, College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at University of California, Riverside, CA: 1 print (as of 26 March 2022)

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• {{Official website|www.whitneyhubbs.com}}

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