EDUCATION

1993 M.F.A. Yale University School of Art
1990 B.A. Empire State College

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

1998 Columbia College Chicago, Chicago IL, Professor of Photography
1995-98 Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts, New Brunswick, NJ, Assistant Professor of Art
1994-95 Kenyon College, OH, Visiting Assistant Professor of Art
1993 Yale University School of Art, Teaching Assistant
1992 Yale University School of Art, Teaching Assistant
1988-91 Empire State College, State University of New York, Instructor of Photography


SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2001 Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1999 Dawoud Bey: Recent Work, Rhona Hoffman Gallery at Gallery 312, Chicago, IL-
1999 Dawoud Bey:The Southampton Project, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY
1999 Portraits of New Haven Teenagers, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
1998 Dawoud Bey, Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm, Sweden
1998 Dawoud Bey, Queens Museum Of Art, Queens, NY
1997 Dawoud Bey :Recent Work, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
1997 Dawoud Bey: Portraits, The Light Factory, Charlotte, NC
1997 Dawoud Bey: Recent Photographic Portraits, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA
1997 Dawoud Bey: Hartford Portraits '96, (A collaborative project including including Dawoud Bey/MATRIX 132, Dawoud Bey/Amistad Gallery and African American Studio Portraits: Dawoud Bey Selects from the Amistad Foundation Collection, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
1996 Dawoud Bey David Beitzel Gallery, New York, New York
1996 Dawoud Bey University of Massachusetts Amherst, Fine Arts Center
1996 Picturing the South:The Commission Project, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
1996 Dawoud Bey: Residency Exhibition, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH
1996 Dawoud Bey, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1995 Dawoud Bey: Portraits, 1975-1995, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN. Exhibition travels to Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY; Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL; Virginia Beach Center for the Arts, VA: El Paso Museum, TX ;The Newark Museum, NJ, The Jersey City Museum, NJ; Robeson Center Gallery, Newark, NJ; Cleveland Center For Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO; and the Barbican Centre, London England. Catalog.
1995 The Photographer?s Gallery, London, England – ?Dawoud Bey?
1994 Dawoud Bey Photographs: PortraitsCleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
1994 Dawoud BeyOlin Art Gallery, Kenyon College Gambier, OH
1993 Polaroid PortraitsThe Museum Of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
1993 Dawoud Bey: PhotographsStockton State College, Pamona, NJ
1993 Photographs from The Streets, Drew University, Madison, NJ
1992 Dawoud Bey: Photographic Portraits, Addison Gallery Of American Art, Andover, MA
1992 Dawoud Bey: Photographs, The Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
1991 Dawoud Bey, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
1990 Recent Photographs, Ledel Gallery , New York, New York. Catalog.
1988 Brooklyn Street Portraits, BACA Downtown Center For the Arts, Brooklyn, NY
1986 Dawoud Bey, Light Work, Syracuse, NY
1986 Photographs by Dawoud Bey, The Midtown Y Photography Gallery, New York, NY
1986 Dawoud Bey, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR
1984 Puerto Rica: A chronicle, Hunter College, New York, NY
1983 Cinque Gallery, NYU – ?Dawoud Bey: Recent Photographs
1979 Harlem, USA, Studio Museum in Harlem, NYC

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2001 20th Century Recent Acquisitions, National Portrait Gallery, London
2001 Identities: Contemporary Portraiture, New Jersy Center for Visuals Arts, Summit NJ
2001 Snap! Photography from the Collection, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
2000 Whitney Biennial 2000, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
2000 Paper Cuts, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2000 On the Street: Photographs from the Permanent Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA
2000 Indivisible: Stories of American Community, Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, IL. Exhibition travels to: Akron Art Museum, OH; Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA; John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL; Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA; Anchoragte Museum of History and Art, AK; San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX. Publication.
2000 Surface and Depth: Trends in Contemporary Portrait Photography, Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, NH. Publication
2000 The Persistence of Photography in American Portraiture, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
2000 American Perspectives: Photographs from the Polaroid Collection, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan. Exhibition travels to: Museum Kyoto, Japan; Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Japan; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sapporo, Japan. Catalogue
2000 Representing: A show of Identities, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY
2000 What?s New: Recent Acquisitions in Photography, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1999 Ghostsin the Shell : Photography and the Human Soul, 1850-2000, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles , CA
1999 Get the Picture: Photographs from the Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA
1999 As American As?100 Works from the Collection of the Parrish Art Museum, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY
1999 International Fotografie, Galerie Linde, Lubeck, Germany
1999 Innovation/Imagination: 50 Years of Polaroid Photography, The Friends of Photography/ Ansel Adams Center forPhotography, San Francisco, CA
1999 Beyond the Photographic Frame, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1999 Black New York Photographers of the 20th Century: Selections from the Schomburg Center Collections,The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, NewYork, NY
1999 Through the Looking Glass: Visions of Childhood, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Staten Island, NY
1999 Selected Contemporary Photography,Susquehana Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA
1999 The Big Picture: Large Format Photography, Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, VT
1999 Recent Photographs from the Martin Z. Margulics Collection,The Art Museum of Florida International University, Miami, FL
1998 Space/Sight /Self, The Smart Museum of Art , Chicago, IL
1998 Photography?s multiple roles: Art, Document, Market, Science, The Museum Of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
1998 Eight Million Stories: 20th-Century New York Life in Prints and Photographs from the New York Public Library, The New York Public Library, New York, NY
1998 Transatlantic Connections, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, Scotland. Exhibition travels through Scotland.
1998 Selections From the Midwest Photographer?s Project, The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago
1998 Consuming Passions: Photography and The Object,Davis Museum, Wellesley College, Wellesely, MA
1998 The Apropriate Frame, Dark Arches, Granary Wharf, Leeds, England
1998 Now And Later: Art Since 1945 at Yale, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven CT
1998 Knowing Children, David Beitzel Gallery, NYC
1997 Heart, Body, Mind, Soul: American Art in the 1990?s, Selections From the Permanent Collection, The Whitney Museum of Art, New York, NY
1997 Heaven: Public View, Private View, PS.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City , NY
1997 Portraits: Dawoud Bey, Wendy Ewald, Johnson County Community College Gallery of Art, Overland Park, KS
1997 Face and Figure in Contemporary Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
1997 Composite Persona, University Art Gallery, San Diego State University, CA. Exhibition travels to Fullerton Museum Center Center, CA
1996 Portraits, James Graham and Sons, New York
1996 A/Drift, Center for Curatorial Studies Museum, Bard College, Anandale- on-Hudson, NY
1996 Posing for the Backdrops, Props, and Presentation, Ansel Adams Center For Photography, The Friends Of Photography, San Francisco, CA
1996 The Addison Gallery of American Art: 65 Years, The Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA
1995 Fact or Fiction, The Whitney Museum of American Art at Champion, Stamford,
CT
1995 Strokes of Genius, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA
1995 New Portraits: Dawoud Bey and Judith Black, Silver Eye Center for Photography, Pittsburgh, PA
1994 Faces of the Addison: Portraits of the Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA
1994 Photographs: Selections from the Permanent Collection, The Whitney Museum Of American Art at Phillip Morris, New York, NY
1994 The New Face of the Portrait, Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA (catalog)
1994 Targeting Images, Objects + Ideas, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
1994 Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL Group Show:Gallery Artists

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