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Dionne Lee: Currents

A powerful meditation on the land as a site of refuge and loss.

Description

Dionne Lee’s first monograph is a powerful meditation on the tension between the landscape as sanctuary and site of violence for African Americans.

Dionne Lee’s work across photography, video, and collage spans themes of dispossession, loss, survival, and resilience. 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—create new narratives that reclaim the great outdoors. Covering a decade of her work from 2016 to the present, Dionne Lee: Currents features contributions by curator Eric Booker and award-winning poet Camille T. Dungy, offering a timely reckoning with land, memory, and identity. It stands as an essential statement on the medium’s potential today.

Details

Format: Hardback
Number of pages: 160
Number of images: 88
Publication date: 2026-04-21
Measurements: 8 x 10.5 x 1 inches
ISBN: 9781597115988

Contributors

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 and exhibition coor­dinator 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.