Workshop
Workshop
Deana Lawson
Deana Lawson
Self-portrait by Deana Lawson
Join internationally acclaimed photographer Deana Lawson for an immersive, week-long workshop in the vibrant city of San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. This workshop is designed for photographers who have developed a body of work yet aspire to refine their craft and push the poetics of their work further. In addition to group discussions, portfolio reviews, and readings, each participant will receive personalized feedback tailored to their creative aspirations. This workshop is a rare opportunity to learn directly from an artist whose evocative portraiture has redefined the boundaries of documentary photography.
Deana Lawson was born in 1979 in Rochester, New York, USA. In 2001 Lawson earned a BFA in photography from Pennsylvania State University, State College, after which she pursued an MFA in the same medium from the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, graduating in 2004. Lawson's photographs engage documentary traditions, however her directorial hand at obscuring and/or reconfiguring meaning through various choices of environment, pose, objects, dress or undress, bridge imagined and lived realities. In 2020 she became the first photo-based artist to receive the Hugo Boss Prize, with her 2021 exhibition Centropy at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York marking the final iteration of the prize. Her works are held in the permanent collections of the Tate Modern in London, Brooklyn Museum; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York; Pinault Collection in Paris; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; and Museum of Modern Art, New York. Lawson lives and works between Brooklyn and Los Angeles.​