Dawoud Bey
Dawoud Bey was born in Jamaica, Queens, NY in 1953. Bey received his BA from Empire State College, State University of New York in 1990, and earned his MFA from Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut in 1993. Bey’s photographs have earned him a variety of fellowships, awards, and commissions including the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in 2002. His work has been presented in numerous one-person and group exhibitions in the USA, Europe and Asia. Bey’s work is included in the collections of the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris; The Brooklyn Museum, New York; The Museum of the City of New York; and The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York, among other institutions.

A Girl In A Deli Doorway, 1988
(Black & White) Silver Print from
Polaroid
24 x 20 inches
Edition 2 of 16
Courtesy of the artist and Rhona
Hoffman Gallery
Value: $4,000