Dawoud Bey was born in 1953 in Queens, New York, and is based in

Chicago. Bey holds a Master of Fine Arts from Yale University School

of Art and is currently Professor of Art and a former Distinguished

College Artist at Columbia College Chicago. In 2017, Bey was awarded

the MacArthur Foundation “Genius” Fellowship. He is also the

recipient of fellowships from United States Artists, the John Simon

Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the National Endowment for the

Arts, amongst other honors. In 2020, the San Francisco Museum of

Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art opened a major

retrospective exhibition of Bey’s work which also traveled to the High

Museum of Art, Atlanta. In 2022, the Grand Rapids Art Museum

organized the two-person exhibition Dawoud Bey & Carrie Mae

Weems: In Dialogue, which will travel to the J. Paul Getty Museum,

Los Angeles in the spring of 2023. Bey’s work is featured in numerous

publications, and is the subject of numerous monographs and

publications, including Class Pictures (Aperture, 2007), Harlem, USA

(Yale University Press, 2012), Picturing People (Renaissance Society at

the University of Chicago, 2012), and Dawoud Bey: The Birmingham

Project (Birmingham Museum of Art, 2013). In 2018, a major fortyyear

retrospective publication, Dawoud Bey: Seeing Deeply, was

published by the University of Texas Press. In 2020, Yale University

Press and SFMOMA published the monograph Dawoud Bey: Two

American Projects. Dawoud Bey’s work has been included in important

solo and group exhibitions worldwide and is included in the permanent

collections of the Addison Gallery of American Art, 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,

Works of Art for Consideration Toledo Museum of Art

the High Museum of Art, the J. Paul Getty Museum, 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

Studio Museum in Harlem, the Tate Modern, the Whitney Museum of

American Art, and other museums around the world.