2010 SPE Annual ConferenceSpeakers

Dawoud Bey

Saturday, March 06, 2010 @ 7:00pm, Salon EF

"Beyond Diversity and Toward Inclusivity"

Dawoud Bey began his career as a photographer in 1975 with a series of photographs, "Harlem, USA," that were later exhibited in his first one-person exhibition at the Studio Museum in Harlem in 1979. He has since had numerous exhibitions worldwide, at such institutions as the Art Institute of Chicago, the Barbican Centre in London, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, GA, the National Portrait Gallery in London, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, among many others. Bey holds a master of fine arts degree from Yale University School of Art, and is currently Distinguished College Artist and associate professor of Art at Columbia College Chicago, where he has taught since 1998.