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