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Tuesday 03/23/21 4PM
Conversations · Exhibition-Related

Dawoud Bey in Conversation with Gary Carrion-Murayari

Cover Image:

Dawoud Bey, Taylor Falls and Deborah Hackworth, from “The Birmingham Project,” 2012. Thirteen inkjet prints mounted to dibond, 40 × 64 in (101.6 × 162.56 cm.) Courtesy the artist and Stephen Daiter Gallery.

In conjunction with the exhibition “Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America,” the New Museum is honored to host this conversation series and highlight the practices of artists participating in this exhibition.

Accessibility: This program will be live captioned. We strive to make our programs as accessible as possible. For full accessibility information, including services available by request, please click here.

Dawoud Bey is an American photographer who has spent the past forty years moving across genres, from street photography to portraiture to landscapes, to create a fuller, more complex picture of American society. His work has served to highlight the both personal narratives and collective histories within the African-American community. Bey’s The Birmingham Project (2012), which is featured in the New Museum exhibition, commemorates the lives of six young African Americans killed on September 15, 1963 in the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church and the ensuing protests in Birmingham, Alabama.

Born in New York, NY, Bey earned his MFA from Yale University School of Art, and is currently a Professor of Art and a former Distinguished College Artist at Columbia College Chicago. His works have exhibited by and included in numerous institutional collections such as Addison Gallery of American Art, Art Institute of Chicago, Brooklyn Museum, Detroit Institute of Arts, Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University, High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Museum of Modern Art, NY, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Studio Museum in Harlem, Whitney Museum of American Art, National Gallery of Art, and other museums worldwide.

He has been honored with numerous fellowships over the course of his long career, including a MacArthur “Genius Award” Fellowship, as well as a United States Artists Fellowship, a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, among many others.

Accessibility: we strive to make our programs as accessible as possible. For full accessibility information, including services available by request, please click here.

Sponsors

Lead support for “Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America” is provided by the Ford Foundation.

Major support is provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and Agnes Gund.

New Museum Digital Initiatives are generously supported by Hermine and David B. Heller.

Generous ongoing support is provided by the Charlotte and Bill Ford Artist Talks Fund.

Support for Education and Public Engagement programs is provided, in part, by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

Endowment support is provided by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund; the Skadden, Arps Education Programs Fund; and the William Randolph Hearst Endowed Fund for Education Programs at the New Museum.

Support of artist participation is provided by Laura Skoler.

Additional support for education and community programs is provided by the American Chai Trust.

A full list of support for “Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America” can be viewed here.

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