Deana Lawson
About Deana
Deana Lawson is an acclaimed photographer whose work bridges documentary traditions and imagined realities through careful staging of environments, poses, and objects. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2013 and, in 2020, became the first photo-based artist to receive the Hugo Boss Prize. Her 2021 exhibition Centropy at the Guggenheim Museum marked the final iteration of the prize. Lawson’s work is held in major collections including the Tate Modern, Brooklyn Museum, LACMA, the Whitney, and MoMA. She teaches at Princeton University as the Dorothy Krauklis ’78 Professor of Visual Arts and lives and works between Brooklyn and Los Angeles.
