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Dionne Lee (born in New York) works across photography, video, and collage to examine interwoven histories of land, power, survival, and Black identity in the American landscape. Lee's formal interventions and innovative darkroom techniques-including rephotographing found imagery from wilderness survival manuals and using graphite pencils to create inscriptions on her photographs of the landscape-weave together new narratives that address themes of dispossession, loss, survival, and resilience. Dionne Lee: Currents, the artist's first monograph, brings together key works from over a decade of Lee's career alongside essays by award-winning poet Camille T. Dungy and curator Eric Booker, as well as an interview with the artist Gabrielle L'Hirondelle Hill, offering a deeper look at a visionary artist reshaping how we see-and choose to imagine-the great outdoors.

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Dionne Lee (born in New York) is an artist whose work explores power, survival, and personal history in relation to the American landscape. She has exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver; and New Orleans Museum of Art; among others. Her work is held in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art and Museum of Modern Art, New York, and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, among others. Lee is assistant professor of fine art and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at Ohio State University and a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow. Eric Booker is associate curator at Storm King Art Center, New York. Formerly, he was assistant curator at the Studio Museum in Harlem and held positions at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Foundation for Contemporary Arts; Calder Foundation; and National Academy of Design, New York. Camille T. Dungy is a Colorado-based writer. She is author of the award-winning book Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden (2023), five collections of poetry, includ­ing America, A Love Story (2026), and the essay collection Guidebook to Relative Strangers (2017). Dungy is a university distinguished professor at Colorado State University. Gabrielle L’Hirondelle Hill is a writer and an artist whose sculptural practice explores the history of found materials to investigate concepts of land and property in a capitalist economy. Hill is a member of BUSH Gallery, an Indigenous artist collective that decenters Eurocentric models of making and thinking about art. Eric Booker is a curator and writer. He is associate curator at the Storm King Art Center. Previously, Booker was assistant curator at the Studio Museum in Harlem. His curatorial projects include Method Order Metric at the National Academy of Design Museum; Jamel Shabazz: Crossing 125th, Smokehouse 1968–1970, and Regarding the Figure at the Studio Museum in Harlem.

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