Whitney Museum Presents DAWOUD BEY: AN AMERICAN PROJECT – Preview

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Dawoud Bey, Don Sledge and Moses Austin, Birmingham, AL, 2012. Inkjet prints, 40 x 64 in. (101.6 cm x 162.56). Rennie Collection, Vancouver. © Dawoud Bey

When:

April 17- October 3

Closed Tuesdays and Wednesdays

Where:

The Whitney Museum of American Art
99 Gansevoort Street between Washington and West Streets
New York City

Tickets:

$25 (student, senior, disabled visitor discounts available; minors free)
Reservations required.

The Whitney Museum exhibits a career retrospective of Dawoud Bey, a New York native and photographer. The retrospective, entitled An American Project includes nearly eighty photographic works, spanning over eight of the artist’s major series between the years of 1975 and 2017. 
According to a museum spokesperson, the exhibition examines Bey’s engagement with portraiture, place, and history while highlighting his evolution as an artist, and his primary focus of telling the stories of underrepresented subjects and Black individuals. Some of the series featured in the retrospective include Harlem, U.S.A (1975-79), Class Pictures (2001-06), The Birmingham Project (2012), Harlem Redux (2014-17), Night Coming Tenderly, Black (2017), among others.

Dawoud Bey, A Boy in Front of the Loew's 125th Street Movie Theater, Harlem, NY, 1976. Gelatin silver print, 14 x 11 in. (35.6 x 27.9 cm) © Dawoud Bey and courtesy of the artist, Sean Kelly Gallery, Stephen Daiter Gallery, and Rena Bransten Gallery
Dawoud Bey, Two Girls from a Marching Band, Harlem, NY, 1990. Inkjet print, 30 x 40 in. (76.2 x 101.6 cm) © Dawoud Bey and courtesy of the artist, Sean Kelly Gallery, Stephen Daiter Gallery, and Rena Bransten Gallery
Dawoud Bey, Martina and Rhonda, 1993. Six dye diffusion transfer prints (Polaroid), 48 × 60 in. (121.9 × 152.4 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Eric Ceputis and David W. Williams 2018 © Dawoud Bey
Dawoud Bey, Untitled #20 (Farmhouse and Picket Fence I), 2017. Gelatin silver print, 44 x 55 in. (111.8 x 139.7 cm). Collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Accessions Committee Fund purchase © Dawoud Bey
Dawoud Bey, Hilary and Taro, 1992. Two dye diffusion transfer prints (Polaroids), 30 1/8 × 44 in. (76.5 × 111.8 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Photography Committee. © Dawoud Bey

For more information, visit Whitney Museum of American Art website or call (212)570-3600.

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