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  • Dana Lixenberg, Auditorium, Noorderbegraafplaats (II), 2010, 2010
    Dana Lixenberg
    Auditorium, Noorderbegraafplaats (II), 2010, 2010
    Archival pigment print
    47.5 x 60.5 cm | 18 3/4 x 23 7/8 in
    Edition of 4 plus 1 artist's proof
  • Dana Lixenberg, Auditorium, Noorderbegraafplaats (II), 2010, 2010
    Dana Lixenberg
    Auditorium, Noorderbegraafplaats (II), 2010, 2010
    Archival pigment print
    97.5 x 125 cm | 38 3/8 x 49 1/4 in
    Edition of 4 plus 1 artist's proof
  • Dana Lixenberg, Studio Nieuw Noord, 2009, 2009
    Dana Lixenberg
    Studio Nieuw Noord, 2009, 2009
    Archival pigment print
    47.5 x 60.5 cm | 18 3/4 x 23 7/8 in
    Edition of 4 plus 1 artist's proof
  • Dana Lixenberg, Fred Goodhope, 2007
    Dana Lixenberg
    Fred Goodhope, 2007
    Archival pigment print mounted on dibond, maple frame, museum glass
    Print size: 100 x 78.5 cm | 39 3/8 x 30 7/8 in
    Frame size: 102.1 x 80.6 cm | 40 1/4 x 31 3/4 in
    Edition of 5 plus 1 artist's proof
  • Dana Lixenberg, The Nayokpuk-Tocktoo home, 2007
    Dana Lixenberg
    The Nayokpuk-Tocktoo home, 2007
    Archival pigment print mounted on dibond, maple frame, museum glass
    Print size: 78.5 x 100 cm | 30 7/8 x 39 3/8 in
    Frame size: 81 x 102 cm | 31 7/8 x 40 1/8 in
    Edition of 5 plus 1 artist's proof
  • Dana Lixenberg, Allen Ginsberg, 1995
    Dana Lixenberg
    Allen Ginsberg, 1995
    Gelatin Silver print mounted on aluminium, walnut frame, museum glass
    Printed in two sizes
  • Dana Lixenberg, Kamaal “Q-Tip” Fareed, Ali Shaheed Muhammad & Malik “Phife” Taylor (A Tribe Called Quest), 1997
    Dana Lixenberg
    Kamaal “Q-Tip” Fareed, Ali Shaheed Muhammad & Malik “Phife” Taylor (A Tribe Called Quest), 1997
    Archival pigment print mounted on dibond, maple frame, museum glass
    Printed in three sizes
  • Dana Lixenberg, Toni Morrison, 2003
    Dana Lixenberg
    Toni Morrison, 2003
    Archival pigment print mounted on dibond, maple frame, museum glass
    Printed in two sizes
  • Dana Lixenberg, Shawn Carter (Jay Z), 1998
    Dana Lixenberg
    Shawn Carter (Jay Z), 1998
    Archival pigment print mounted on dibond, maple frame, museum glass
    Printed in three sizes
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Biography

Dana Lixenberg is known for her stripped-down portraits that revel in the elemental characteristics of her subjects. She uses a large-format field camera – a cumbersome tool, which necessitates what the artist refers to as a ‘slow dance’ between her and her subjects. The resulting portraits contain an enormous amount of detail and texture, and are as revelatory as a personal encounter. The power of the work arises from its intimacy, compositional rigor and, importantly, the absence of social stereotyping. Lixenberg has been predominantly active in the United States, and her thorough understanding of the country and its society seeps through palpably in her work. 

Besides her extensive editorial practice, for which she photographed many cultural icons, she pursues long-term projects with a primary focus on marginalized communities. These projects include Jeffersonville, Indiana (2005), a collection of landscapes and portraits of a small town’s homeless population and The Last Days of Shishmaref (2008), which portrays an Inupiaq community on an eroding island off the coast of Alaska. Lixenberg’s most extensive body of work to date is Imperial Courts, 1993-2015 (2015), which she begun in the aftermath of the 1992 Rodney King riots. Spanning 22 years, the project tracks the changing shape of an underserved community in Watts, Los Angeles. In contrast to the often one dimensional, sensationalized media coverage of this neighborhood, Lixenberg employs a more subdued and collaborative photographic approach. Like her other projects, Imperial Courts consists of a series of photographs and a publication. Exploring other media for the first time, Lixenberg also included audio recordings and created a three-channel video installation. The project was awarded the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize in 2017 and continues to be exhibited internationally.

Dana Lixenberg lives and works in Amsterdam (NL) and New York, NY (US). She studied photography at the London College of Printing (UK) from 1984 to 1986, and at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam (NL) from 1987 until 1989. Her work is collected widely and has been exhibited at institutions such as Aperture Foundation, New York, NY (US); Mai Manó Ház, Budapest (HU); Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (NL); Centre Photographique, Rouen (FR); MMK, Frankfurt am Main (DE); The Photographers’ Gallery, London (UK); Busan Biennale (KR); Huis Marseille, Amsterdam (NL); LACP, Los Angeles, CA (US); Fotomuseum, The Hague (NL) and Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (NL).

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