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Name: |
Dawoud Bey '90
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Graduation Year: |
1990
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BA
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The Arts
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Graduation Center: |
Metro NYC Center
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Profile: |
Bey received an MFA at the Yale University School of Art, and he has been teaching for more than thirty years. He began his artistic career in 1975 with a series of photographs, Harlem, USA, that was later exhibited in his first solo exhibition at the Studio Museum in Harlem in 1979. |
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A writer as well as an artist, Bey has published critical writings on contemporary art in books and journals throughout the US and Europe. He is the author of several groundbreaking essays, including “The Black Artist as Invisible (Wo)Man” in the catalogue for High Times, Hard Times: New York Painting, 1967–1975 (2006), in which he places the work of African American artists Al Loving, Joe Overstreet, Howardena Pindell, and Jack Whitten within this important era in art history.
Learn more about Dawoud Bey here.
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Job Title: |
Associate Professor of Art
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Employer: |
Columbia College Chicago
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