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RISD Graduate Wins the 2020 Hugo Boss Prize
Deana Lawson MFA 04 PH who chronicled of the Black Diaspora, won the 2020 Hugo Boss Prize.
A photographer born in Rochester, New York, and based in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, Lawson’s large-format images—mostly portraits—foreground Black diasporic experience and culture.
Her work has appeared in solo exhibitions at the Huis Marseille, Museum voor Fotografie in Amsterdam; the Underground Museum in Los Angeles; and the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, among other institutions.
