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"What I’m trying to do is create this metanarrative that’s about family, but also going across time and space, using the legends and lore of the marvelous parts of Africa in my work—to reactivate that." (© Deana Lawson)
About the American photographer, Deana LAWSON (b. 1979, Rochester, NY)
Deana LAWSON graduated (M.F.A. Photography) from the Rhode Island School of Design and was awarded both a Guggenheim Fellowship and the 2020 Hugo Boss Prize. Her photographic portraits of contemporary Black life in the U.S., Brazil, Haiti, Jamaica, or Ethiopia are precisely staged and reflect beyond stereotypes, motifs such as Black spirituality, culture, and history. But instead of a documentary look, Deana Lawson focuses on intimacy, which she builds into a disorienting visual experience.
Photo books by and on the work of Deana LAWSON
'Deana Lawson' (2021, by Peter Eleey & Eva Respini, eds.); 'Dark Mirrors' 2021, by Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa)
The photographic work by Deana LAWSON can be found in collections such as MoMA Collection and Whitney Museum of American Art (both in New York); Art Gallery of New South Wales (Sydney); Carnegie Museum of Art (Pittsburgh); Huis Marseille Museum voor Fotografie (Amsterdam)
Exhibitions
Group exhibitions (a selection)
- 'Radical Passivity: Politics of the Flesh', nGbK, Berlin
'Masculinities: Liberation through Photography', Gropius Bau, Berlin
'Seeing Chicago', MCA Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, US.
'Greater New York 2015', MoMA PS1, Long Island City, US
Whitney Biennial 2017