DAWOUD BEY
Exhibition Remarks
Date: September 17th, 2025
Time: 6 – 8 PM CT
Cost: FREE
Location: Stephen Daiter Gallery | 230 W Superior St #400
Join us at Stephen Daiter Gallery for an exhibition reception for SYRACUSE ‘85 by Dawoud Bey, featuring remarks by the artist. SYRACUSE '85, made in Syracuse in 1985 during Bey’s artist residency at Light Work, chronicles the community and history of South Salina Street.
Groundbreaking artist and MacArthur Fellow Dawoud Bey examines the Black past and present. His photographs and film installations have been exhibited in museums and galleries throughout the United States and Europe. Bey’s work has been the subject of numerous solo museum exhibitions, including Dawoud Bey: An American Project organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art (2020-2022), Elegy at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (2023-2024) and New Orleans Museum of Art (2025-2026); and Dawoud Bey: Street Portraits at the Denver Art Museum (2024-2025). His work has been the subject of several monographs, including Elegy (Aperture/VMFA, 2023), which chronicles Bey's history projects and landscape-based work. Bey is the recipient of numerous awards including five honorary doctorates, and in 2024, the artist was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Bey lives and works in Chicago and New York. He is currently a Critic at Yale University, where he received his Masters in Fine Arts, and is Professor Emeritus at Columbia College, Chicago.