Dionne Lee (b. 1988, New York, NY) works in photography, collage, and video to explore power, survival, and personal history in relation to the American landscape. Lee lives and works in Columbus, Ohio and received an MFA at California College of the Arts in San Francisco in 2017.
Lee’s work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New Orleans Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, The Princeton University Art Museum, Contemporary Art Gallery of Vancouver, CA, Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA, Aperture Foundation, New York, International Center of Photography, New York, and Light Work, New York.
Recent exhibitions include Whitney Biennial 2024: Even Better Than the Real Thing, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Spora, Swiss Institute, New York, NY, Widening the Lens: Photography, Ecology, and the Contemporary Landscape, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA, Prologue, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH, All This Soft Wild Buzzing, Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA, Re/Sisters, Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK, Penumbra Foundation, New York City, Site Unfolding, Bibeau Krueger, New York City, Tara Downs, New York City, Cushion Works, San Francisco, CA, The Locker Plant / Chinati Foundation, Marfa, TX, Et al. San Francisco, CA, /(Slash), San Francisco, CA, FotoFest Biennial 2022: If I Had a Hammer, Houston, TX, and Center For Fine Art Photography at the Gregory Allicar Museum of Art, Fort Collins, CO.
Lee is a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow. She was an Artist-in-Residence at the Chinati Foundation, Unseen California, and Land Arts of the American West between 2022-2023. In 2019 Lee was an artist in residence at the Center for Photography at Woodstock.