Dhyandra Lawson is the Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). She is currently organizing the exhibition and publication Imagining Black Diasporas: 21st Century Art and Poetics (2024). Other LACMA exhibitions she has curated include Family Album (2021); Children of Aztlán (2021), Eleanor Antin: Time’s Arrow (2019), and Richard Prince: Untitled (cowboy) (2018). Recent publishing includes writing in the LACMA publications Black American Portraits (2022) and Objects of Desire: Photography and the Language of Advertising (2022), as well as in Lightwork (2023). Her research areas include photography, performance, digital and media-based practice; contemporary African American and African Diaspora artists; rhetoric and contemporary art theory.
In addition to her curatorial practice, Lawson is Visiting Faculty at the California Institute of the Arts and Occidental College in Los Angeles, where she teaches photographic history and curatorial studies.