-
-
Samuel Levi Jones
Holding Space, 2023 -
Danny Dunson is an art historian, art advisor, curator, and writer and the Director of Curatorial Services and Community Partnerships for The DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center. Dunson graduated from the University of Illinois at Chicago, earning a BA in Art History from the School of Art & Art History. He is a 2016 Fulbright Grant recipient and Gilman Scholarship, fellow. His research as an art historian has been primarily focused on figurative representations within African and African Diasporic Art.
In June 2018, Dunson presented In Memoriam, Portraits of the Middle Passage, in Situ, a large-scale exhibition in the dungeons of Ghana’s Cape Coast Castle Museum, featuring the art of the Ancestor Project, a visual art collective with Ghanaian artist, Kwame Akoto-Bamfo at the helm.
Dunson is currently conducting research that interrogates portraiture and figurative compositions aligned with space, place, memory, and the Middle Passage. Through his work with Legacy Brothers and Lab, curated a group exhibition presented by Gallery 1957 in Accra, Ghana entitledCollective Reflections: African and Diasporic Expressions of a New Vanguard in 2020.
Most recently Dunson curated Nick Cave/ Jack Cave: The Color Is Fashion Exhibition installed at The DuSable Museum Roundhouse from August to December of 2022, and Diaspora Stories: From the CCH Pounder Collection opening March 2023 at The DuSable Museum.
Saturday, May 20, 12pm ET in the gallery -
Galerie Lelong: Dialogues | Samuel Levi Jones with Danny Dunson
Saturday, May 20, 12pm ET in the gallery
Galerie Lelong, New York
528 West 26th Street
New York, NY 10001
T +1 212 315 0470
F +1 212 262 0624
art@galerielelong.com
Galerie Lelong, Paris
13, rue de Téhéran
75008 Paris France
T +33 1 45 63 13 19
F +33 1 42 89 34 33
info@galerie-lelong.com
Galerie Lelong, Paris
38, avenue Matignon
75008 Paris France
T +33 1 45 63 13 19
F +33 1 42 89 34 33
info@galerie-lelong.com
Facebook, opens in a new tab.
Instagram, opens in a new tab.
WeChat, opens in a new tab.
Artsy, opens in a new tab.
Copyright © 2025 Galerie Lelong
This website uses cookies
This site uses cookies to help make it more useful to you. Please contact us to find out more about our Cookie Policy.