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Dawoud Bey

 
Dawoud Bey

American 20th-21st century photographer and educator
(Queens, New York, NY, 11/25/1953 – )

From Getty ULAN: Born 25 November 1953 in Jamaica, New York, United States; B.A. from Empire State College, State University of New York (1990); M.F.A. from the Yale University School of Art (1993); documented a collective portrait known as Harlem USA (1975-1979); began teaching photography at the Studio Museum in Harlem and at the Jamaica Arts Center in Queens (1976); mounted his first exhibition at Benin Gallery in Harlem (1976); professor of photography at Columbia College in Chicago since 1998; honors include a New York State Council on the Arts residency fellowship (1984), a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship (1991); exhibitions at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, and the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University. Works in Chicago.

3 objects

Kyle

2001
c-print on paper
Archival Collection of Marion Boulton Stroud and Acadia Summer Arts Program, Mt. Desert Island, Maine. Gift from the Marion Boulton "Kippy" Stroud Foundation
2018.10.25
 

Five Children, Syracuse, New York, 1985

1998
silver gelatin print on paper
Archival Collection of Marion Boulton Stroud and Acadia Summer Arts Program, Mt. Desert Island, Maine. Gift from the Marion Boulton "Kippy" Stroud Foundation
2018.10.24
 

Sugarcane II

2019
gelatin silver print on paper
Museum Purchase, Gridley W. Tarbell II Fund and the Helen Johnson Chase Fund
2021.69