Special Programs

Artist's Talk: Dawoud Bey 

Marwen welcomes renowned photographer Dawoud Bey for an intimate artist's talk about his career---from early photographs to new work.

Since 1992, Dawoud Bey has aimed at increasing the participation in art institutions by young people, and by extension their families and the broader community.

Friday, April 17, 2009

6pm - Artist's Talk

7pm - Reception

Marwen's Susan and Steven Berkowitz Gallery
833 North Orleans Street, Chicago

Free Admission

Photographer Dawoud Bey has 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, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Walker Art Center among many others. The traveling exhibition Class Pictures, consisting of portraits of American teenagers accompanied by their self authored texts, is touring to museums throughout the United States, and will open at the Milwaukee Art Museum in April 2009.

Bey's works are included in the permanent collections of numerous museums, both in the United States and abroad, including the Addison Gallery of American Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Brooklyn Museum, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, the Museum of Modern Art, NY, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and other museums worldwide.

Dawoud Bey holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from Yale University, and is currently Distinguished College Artist and Professor of Photography at Columbia College Chicago, where has taught since 1998. He is represented by Rhona Hoffman Gallery in Chicago and Howard Yezerski Gallery in Boston.

To reserve seats, please RSVP to Brandon Hayes at 312.944.2418 ext. 236 or bhayes@marwen.org by Friday, April 10, 2009.

(Photo by Bart Harris)