On the occasion of the Innocence Project's annual gala event, “A Celebration of Freedom and Justice”, Vik Muniz created a series of portraits of exonerees to be sold by the Innocence Project. Muniz's works depict exonerees with incredible stories of perseverance: Termaine Hicks, who spent 19 years in prison after Philadelphia police shot her three times in the back while attending to a woman who had been attacked, and Rosa Jimenez, who was wrongfully convicted and imprisoned in Texas after the accidental death of a child, unjustly punished for a crime that never occurred. The two portraits will be unveiled today, May 15, at the Innocence Project's annual gala event in New York.
Since its inception, the Innocence Project has used DNA and other scientific advances to free or exonerate 250 people who collectively spent more than 3,800 years unjustly incarcerated.
learn more
Vik Muniz, Termaine Hicks, after Sameer Abdel-Khalek (November 27, 2001-December 16, 2020), 2024. Courtesy of the artist.