Dhyandra Lawson

Dhyandra Lawson is the Andy Song Associate Curator of Contemporary Art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), where she develops exhibitions and stewards the museum’s contemporary collection of over 3,000 works. Her research emphasizes African and African Diasporic art history and postcolonial theory. Her recent exhibition Imagining Black Diasporas: 21st Century Art and Poetics examined nearly a quarter century of practice by sixty Black artists working across Africa, Europe, and the Americas. In another recent exhibition at LACMA, she presented the work of thirty five Indigenous and Latine artists based in the Americas and the Pacific, whose work explores the earth not only as physical terrain but as a conceptual framework for memory, home, and sovereignty. Lawson’s exhibitions and publications investigate identity, media, materiality, and aesthetics through a transnational lens. Before joining contemporary art at LACMA, Lawson was a photography curator specializing in Black visual culture and representation.