Dionne Lee

Dionne Lee (born 1988, in New York, New York) is an American artist whose multidisciplinary practice explores landscape, survival, power, memory, and the fraught relationship between blackness and the American land. Working across photography, collage, sculpture, and installation, Lee examines how the natural environment can function simultaneously as a site of refuge, danger, inheritance, and historical erasure through manipulated photographs, fragmented imagery, and materially layered interventions.  Lee received her MFA from California College of the Arts in 2017. Her work often engages landscape, the body, hunting, camouflage, survivalism, and Black spatial history, using darkroom manipulation, collage, sculptural assemblage, and serial image-making to consider how race shapes belonging, vulnerability, and movement through the natural world. Across her practice, she reworks photographic images to trouble ideas of mastery, ownership, and visibility, often positioning Black presence within terrains historically coded as white, masculine, or exclusionary.  Her work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, Carnegie Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the New Orleans Museum of Art, and the Contemporary Art Gallery in Vancouver. She is a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow and has held residencies at Light Work, the Chinati Foundation, and Unseen California. Dionne Lee lives and works in Columbus, Ohio.