HAPPY ACCIDENTS, Rob Roth's Solo Polaroid Exhibition, to be Presented at Wild Project
The exhibition features portraits of Parker Posey, Ruth Negga, and Debbie Harry shot across four countries.
wild project will present Happy Accidents, a solo exhibition of 45 polaroid works by artist and director Rob Roth. Friends, lovers, muses, and metropolitan texture in locations spanning Brazil, Paris, Madrid, and New York City, are presented as singular sacred objects of Roth's private life. Some are decorated as shrines, embellished with gold leaf, ink, and glitter. Shot over a decade, the series marks Roth's most personal presentation of his photographic practice to date. The exhibit will be on display in the wild project lobby from July 9th through August 30th, 2026 with an opening reception on Thursday, July 9th from 6pm-9pm.
Drawing from goth, camp, drag, and pagan influence, Roth contends with the preservation of the everyday as relic. He juxtaposes the erotic and flamboyant with the quiet and mystical and asserts a commitment to ritual, analog immediacy, and the documentation of ethereality.
Subjects include Parker Posey in a Paris hotel, Ruth Negga in a Whitechapel alleyway, Morgan Spector in the woods, Jenny Runacre backstage at the Alternative Miss World in London, Wayne Kostenbaum at his painting studio in New York, Majur in Brazil, and China on Fire Island. These are interspersed with images of queer intimacy and urban decay: plugs, portals, lyrical fragments, and obstructed environments. Roth's creative collaboration with Blondie weaves throughout, with backstage and BTS portraits of Debbie Harry around the globe.
Rob Roth (b. 1968, New York City) is an artist and director working across performance, film, and visual art. Emerging from the underground of '90s New York, including Jackie 60 and Click + Drag, Roth has developed a practice that continues to shape queer subculture. His recent Polaroid work appears in Bob Mizer Foundation Physique Pictorial Magazine 74 (2026). He has collaborated extensively with Debbie Harry and Blondie, directing projects including Harry's New York Times bestselling memoir Face It, "Doom or Destiny" featuring Joan Jett, and Blondie: Vivir En La Habana, which premiered at the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival. His theater work includes Soundstage (HERE Arts Center, 2018), featuring Rebecca Hall.
wild project is a nonprofit producer and venue which supports the diverse independent theater, film, music, visual arts, and spoken-word artists of New York City. Since 2007, wild project has presented and produced theater that enriches, educates, and unifies its East Village community in an environmentally responsible green space. Located on E. 3rd St. in Manhattan, wild project curates resident companies in its 89-seat theater and devotes specific initiatives toward LGBTQIA+ and BIPOC projects and the work of local East Village artists, to ensure nonprofit theater sustains its roots in the community. wild project places the utmost importance on engendering a climate that supports the artists and cultivates artists who commit to artistic excellence, enrich the community and promote social equity.
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