Rhode Island School of Design, Pennsylvania State University
Known for
Photography
Awards
Hugo Boss Prize 2020 Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2022
Deana Lawson (1979) is an American artist, educator, and photographer based in Brooklyn, New York.[1] Her work is primarily concerned with intimacy, family, spirituality, sexuality, and Black aesthetics.
Lawson has been praised for her ability to communicate the nuances of African American experience: "Lawson's oeuvre explores intimacy, affinity, sexuality and relationships.[2] She has work held in the International Center for Photography collections. Her photographs have been exhibited in a number of museums and galleries including the Museum of Modern Art,[3] Whitney Museum of American Art,[4] and the Art Institute of Chicago.
A solo exhibition of her work, The Hugo Boss Prize 2020: Deana Lawson, Centropy is on view May 7-October 11, 2021 at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.[5]
^"Deana Lawson". John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. Retrieved 2017-05-04.
^Nelson, Steven (June 4, 2018). "Issues of Intimacy, Distance, and Disavowal in Writing About Deana Lawson's Work". Hyperallergic. Retrieved December 25, 2021.
DeanaLawson (1979) is an American artist, educator, and photographer based in Brooklyn, New York. Her work is primarily concerned with intimacy, family...
cultural hub for Black art, artists such as Kahlil Joseph, Arthur Jafa, and DeanaLawson presented their work there, while musicians John Legend and Solange Knowles...
photographer DeanaLawson and together they have two children. Lawson and Gilbert's work is mutually influential, and much of Gilbert's artwork depicts Lawson and...
Photographs by Sassen and Moyra Davey, Zhang Dali, George Georgiou, DeanaLawson and Doug Rickard. 2012: The Youth Code, part of Daegu Photo Biennale...
is a 2009 photograph titled Binky and Tony Forever by American artist DeanaLawson. Freetown Sound takes its name from Freetown, Sierra Leone, where Hynes'...
include Francesca Woodman (BFA 1978), Todd Hido (attended 1991-92), DeanaLawson (MFA 2004), and RaMell Ross (MFA 2014). Among the school's alumni in...
Tsang (United States) 2020 The thirteenth Hugo Boss Prize was awarded to DeanaLawson, an American photographer. The other nominees were: Nairy Baghramian...
and cultural criticism on Angela Y. Davis, John Edmonds, Gordon Parks, DeanaLawson, Rihanna, Mickalene Thomas, Fatimah Tuggar, Diana Ross, Serena Williams...
Photography 2011, Museum of Modern Art, New York. With Moyra Davey, DeanaLawson, Doug Rickard, Viviane Sassen and Zhang Dali. Last Stop, Le château d’eau...
participated in a two-person exhibition, American Family: Derrick Adams and DeanaLawson, at the Foundation as part of the award. Adams says about the exhibition...
include photographers Gordon Parks, Don Hogan Charles, Jamel Shabazz and DeanaLawson. In 2020, the Greater Columbus Arts Council granted him an Art Unites...
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such as Wilson Bentley, Helen Frankenthaler, Lewis Hine, Jasper Johns, DeanaLawson, Raphaelle Peale, John Quidor, Clifford Ross, and Remington (the subject...
Wojnarowicz, Hito Steyerl, Seth Price, Hamza Walker, John Akomfrah, and DeanaLawson, architects Elizabeth Diller, Mabel O. Wilson, and Mark Wigley, and authors...
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Solomon Art: Dawoud Bey Critical Writing and Research: Zadie Smith, “DeanaLawson’s Kingdom of Restored Glory” for The New Yorker Emerging Photographer:...
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