Dawoud Bey
Dawoud Bey is a widely celebrated photographer and educator whose work engages with the Black presence in America, both past and present. Predominantly working in portraiture for the first several decades of his career, more recent projects utilize landscape to open a dialog about intentionally hidden American stories, exploring how places can hold memory.
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The Artist "Dawoud Bey: Elegy" Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Selected Work
Artist News
Exhibition
If Emmett Till Lived: Freedom on American Ground
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
Through December 19, 2026
Solo Exhibition
Dawoud Bey: Material Histories, Living Landscapes
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
July 24, 2026 – July 4, 2027 as part of the Toronto Biennial of Art “Things Fall Apart”
Exhibition
Poetics of Blackness
Tate Modern, London
Through January 10, 2027
Exhibition
Time, Truth, and Other Immeasurables
Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, UT
September 11, 2026–June 5, 2027
Best of List
Aperture’s “25 Photobooks that Define America”
Dawoud Bey, “Elegy”
Exhibition
Dreamtime in Newark: Aljira and the Making of Global Contemporary Art
Newark Museum of Art
October 15, 2026 – June 30, 2027
Exhibition
Roll Call: Two Hundred Years of Black American Art
Birmingham Museum of Art, AL
Through January 10, 2027
Exhibition Catalog
Gallery Exhibitions
Dawoud Bey: 2020 Exhibition
February 1 – March 21, 2020
Dawoud Bey: The Birmingham Project
September 5 – October 19, 2013
Dawoud Bey: 2001 Exhibition
June 7 – July 14, 2001
