Deana Lawson wins Hugo Boss Prize 2020: for the first time, a female photographer

Deana Lawson (Rochester, New York, 1979), an American photographer who makes true intimist tableaux, is the winner of the2020 Hugo Boss Prize. Selected by a jury of international critics and curators, the artist will receive a prize of $100,000 and a solo exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York to be held in spring 2021.

“Lawson is the first female artist photographer to achieve this recognition; her contribution to the cultural landscape is indelible,” said Richard Armstrong, director of the U.S. museum’s headquarters.

The rationale states that “the artist offers new ways of seeing and imagining.” And again, "Lawson brilliantly combines documentary, vernacular and conceptual photography to create indelible tableaux of black daily life. Staged and choreographed images of family, friendship and love, in which the subjects are in aesthetically rich settings even as they move in an ethereal elsewhere. A skillful and remarkable undertaking. She employs formal and conceptual strategies in her works that will occupy audiences and scholars for generations to come."

Image: Deana Lawson, Chief (2019) Photo Credit Deana Lawson. Courtesy Sikkema Jenkins and David Kordansky Gallery.

Deana Lawson wins Hugo Boss Prize 2020: for the first time, a female photographer

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