Cannon Hersey (b. 1977, New York City, USA, Vassar College) Photographer, fine artist, filmmaker and organizer of large-scale cultural movements in non-traditional spaces in New York City, Sao Paulo, Miami, Tokyo, Houston, Hiroshima and Johannesburg. He is committed to connecting art and the public in unique and unexpected ways to explore the meaning of race, religion, culture and commerce in the modern global world. Hersey has exhibited at numerous institutions and galleries including Lincoln Center’s Frieda and Roy Furman Gallery, the opening event of the 2008 Sao Paulo Bienale at the private collection of Kim Esteve, the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporic Arts (MoCADA), the New York Open Center, the Johannesburg Art Foundation, and the presidential award ceremony for Nelson Mandela at NYU.