BIOGRAPHY

Born: Rochester, New York, 1979
Resides: Brooklyn, New York
Education: Rhode Island School of Design (M.F.A, 2004); Pennsylvania State University (B.F.A., 2001)


SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2020    Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland.

2019    Huis Marseille, Museum for Photography, Amsterdam.

           
2018    “Planes,” Underground Museum, Los Angeles.

                        “Deana Lawson,” Sikkema Jenkins, New York.
                        Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh.
           
2017     Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Missouri.
                        Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago.
2015     Art Institute of Chicago.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2019    “Deana Lawson and Dru Donovan,” Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago.
            “Fragments of a Crucifixion,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.
            “Here We Are,” Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.

2018    “The Wall Turned Sideways: Artists Confront the Carceral State,” Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Texas.

2017    “Whitney Biennial,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
             “Woe—Men Keep Going,” Mary Boone Gallery, New York.
             “Subjektiv,” Malmö Konsthall, Sweden.
             “The Half-Life of Love,” Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams.
             “Deana Lawson, Judy Linn, Paul Mpagi Sepuya,” Sikkema Jenkins, New York.
           
2016    “Human Interest: Portraits from the Whitney’s Collection,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
             “Black Cowboy,” Studio Museum in Harlem, New York.
             “Non-Fiction,” Underground Museum, Los Angeles.
             “Desire,” Moore Building, Miami.
             “Tête-à-tête,” David Castillo Gallery, Miami.

2015    “Greater New York,” PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York.
            “Tête-à-tête,” Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Brussels, Belgium.

SELECTD BIBLIOGRAPHY

2018    Molesworth, Helen. “On Deana Lawson,” Artforum (December).
            Lubow, Arthur. “Deana Lawson Reveals Hidden Grandeur in Her Uncanny Portraits,” New York Times (October 11).

             “Queen Rihanna by Deana, Lawson,” Garage (September).

            Smith, Zadie. “Deana Lawson’s Kingdom of Glory Restored,” The New Yorker (May 7).

            Deana Lawson. New York: Aperture.

2017    Solway, Diane. “How the Family-Run Underground Museum Became one of L.A.’s Most Vital Cultural Forces,” W Magazine (November).

            Smith, Zadie. “Getting In and Out: Who Owns Black Pain,” Harper’s (July).

            Smith, Roberta. “Why the Whitney’s Humanist, Pro-Diversity Biennial Is a Revelation,” New York Times (March 16).

2016    Long, Monique. “Deana Lawson and Mickalene Thomas: Direct Gaze,” Document Journal (June 6).