Artist Talk with Dionne Lee

Aperture Foundation, in collaboration with the photography program at Parsons School of Design at The New School, is pleased to present an artist talk with Dionne Lee.

Through the use of photography, collage, video, and sculpture, Dionne Lee explores ideas of power and personal history in relation to the American landscape. Lee’s relationship with the natural world is a thread that is carried throughout her work. “I’m interested in the history of landscape photography and history, and authorship, and who has historically captured these types of images,” states Lee. In this artist talk, she will discuss her practice and the complex topics addressed in her work.

Dionne Lee (born in New York, 1988) is a visual artist working in photography, collage, and video. She received her MFA from California College of the Arts, Oakland, in 2017. Lee has exhibited work at the Museum of Modern Art, Aperture Foundation, and International Center of Photography, New York; and throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, including at Aggregate Space Gallery, and Interface Gallery, Oakland, and at the San Francisco Arts Commission. In 2019, she was artist-in-residence at the Center for Photography, Woodstock, New York, and a finalist for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art SECA Art Award and San Francisco Artadia Awards. Lee currently teaches at Stanford University, California, and lives on the unceded territories of the Ohlone and Chochenyo peoples.

Image: Dionne Lee, True North, collage of silver gelatin prints, with graphite, 12×16”, 2019