Date & Time
2:00pm EDT - 4:00pm EDT
About This Event
Please join Hernease Davis, VSW curator, for a conversation with visionary photographer, educator, and MacArthur Genius Fellow Dawoud Bey.
Dawoud Bey
Groundbreaking artist and MacArthur Fellow Dawoud Bey examines the Black past and present. His photographs and films have been exhibited widely in museums and galleries throughout the world as the subject of numerous solo exhibitions, including Elegy at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (2023–2024) and the New Orleans Museum of Art (2025–2026); Street Portraits at the Denver Art Museum (2024–2025); and An American Project, which was organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art (2020–2022). He has been the subject of several monographs, including Elegy (Aperture/VMFA, 2023), a major publication documenting his landscape retrospective at VMFA. Bey’s upcoming projects include an exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ontario (2026) and participation in the Berlin Prize Fellowship (2026) and the Triennial of Photography Hamburg (2026).
Herease Davis
Hernease Davis is an artist, curator, and educator deeply engaged with contemporary photography. At VSW Hernease is a curator and manages the artist residency program including production of the Project Space Podcast. She holds an MFA from ICP/Bard College (2011).
About This Event
Please join Hernease Davis, VSW curator, for a conversation with visionary photographer, educator, and MacArthur Genius Fellow Dawoud Bey.
Dawoud Bey
Groundbreaking artist and MacArthur Fellow Dawoud Bey examines the Black past and present. His photographs and films have been exhibited widely in museums and galleries throughout the world as the subject of numerous solo exhibitions, including Elegy at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (2023–2024) and the New Orleans Museum of Art (2025–2026); Street Portraits at the Denver Art Museum (2024–2025); and An American Project, which was organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art (2020–2022). He has been the subject of several monographs, including Elegy (Aperture/VMFA, 2023), a major publication documenting his landscape retrospective at VMFA. Bey’s upcoming projects include an exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ontario (2026) and participation in the Berlin Prize Fellowship (2026) and the Triennial of Photography Hamburg (2026).
Herease Davis
Hernease Davis is an artist, curator, and educator deeply engaged with contemporary photography. At VSW Hernease is a curator and manages the artist residency program including production of the Project Space Podcast. She holds an MFA from ICP/Bard College (2011).
Date & Time
2:00pm EDT - 4:00pm EDT