Dawoud Bey

Photographer Dawoud Bey, a professor at Columbia College Chicago, has been sharing the world he sees through a camera's lens for 50 years. Since the mid 1970s, he has photographed place and race in America. The size of his cameras and the size of the images displayed has varied over time, but his interest in ordinary people presenting themselves to the camera has been unchanging.

Bey is a 2017 MacArthur Foundation Genius Fellowship awardee. He is also the recipient of fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the United States Artists, and the National Endowment for the Arts, among other honors.

His work has been featured in notable solo and group exhibitions worldwide and including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Brooklyn Museum, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Museum of Contemporary Photography, the Museum of Modern Art, NY, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and other museums around the world.