Through the use of photography, collage, video, and sculpture I explore power and survival through the remnants of personal and collective histories, such as fossils, petroglyphs, and other forms of human intervention on the American landscape. A touchstone of my practice are historical narratives that highlight survival and a conflict of belonging between people and place.

 

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Dionne Lee received an MFA at California College of the Arts in San Francisco in 2017. Lee’s work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, New Orleans Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, The Princeton University Art Museum, Contemporary Art Gallery of Vancouver, CA, Aperture Foundation, New York, International Center of Photography, New York, Light Work, New York, and Florida State University’s Museum of Fine Arts. 

 

Recent exhibitions include Whitney Biennial 2024: Even Better Than the Real Thing, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Widening the Lens: Photography, Ecology, and the Contemporary Landscape, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA, FOMU Photo Museum, Antwerpen, Belgium, Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK, Penumbra Foundation, New York City,  Bibeau Krueger, New York City, Tara Downs, New York City, Cushion Works, San Francisco, CA, The Locker Plant / Chinati Foundation, Marfa, TX, Et al. San Francisco, CA, / (Slash), San Francisco, CA, FotoFest Biennial 2022: If I Had a Hammer, Houston, TX,  and Center For Fine Art Photography at the Gregory Allicar Museum of Art, Fort Collins, CO. 

 

Lee was an Artist-in-Residence at the Chinati Foundation, Unseen California, and Land Arts of the American West between 2022-2023. In 2019 Lee was an artist in residence at the Center for Photography at Woodstock.