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  • Dana Lixenberg, Alicia, Oudezijds Achterburgwal, 2022, 2025
    Dana Lixenberg
    Alicia, Oudezijds Achterburgwal, 2022, 2025
    Gelatin Silver print mounted on aluminum, maple frame, museum glass
    Print size: 100 x 78.8 cm | 39 3/8 x 30 3/4 in
    Frame size: 102 x 81 x 3 cm | 40 1/8 x 31 7/8 x 1 1/8 in
    Edition of 4 plus 2 artist's proofs
  • Dana Lixenberg, Amina and Diranny, Warmoesstraat, 2022, 2025
    Dana Lixenberg
    Amina and Diranny, Warmoesstraat, 2022, 2025
    Gelatin Silver print mounted on aluminum, maple frame, museum glass
    Print size: 32.7 x 26 cm | 12 7/8 x 10 1/4 in
    Frame size: 34 x 27.5 x 3 cm | 13 3/8 x 10 7/8 x 1 1/8 in
    Edition of 4 plus 2 artist's proofs
  • Dana Lixenberg, Arnela, Barndesteeg, 2021, 2025
    Dana Lixenberg
    Arnela, Barndesteeg, 2021, 2025
    Gelatin Silver print mounted on aluminum, maple frame, museum glass
    Print size: 32.7 x 26 cm | 12 7/8 x 10 1/4 in
    Frame size: 34 x 27.5 x 3 cm | 13 3/8 x 10 7/8 x 1 1/8 in
    Edition of 4 plus 2 artist's proofs
  • Dana Lixenberg, Banana Bar, Oudezijds Achterburgwal, 2024, 2025
    Dana Lixenberg
    Banana Bar, Oudezijds Achterburgwal, 2024, 2025
    Inkjetprint mounted on dibond, maple frame, museum glass
    Print size: 100 x 127 cm | 39 3/8 x 50 in
    Frame size: 103 x 129.5 cm | 40 1/2 x 51 in
    Edition of 4 plus 2 artist's proofs
  • Dana Lixenberg, Dolma, with her son Tenzing Norbu Woing and daughter Jennifer Woing, Warmoesstraat, 2023, 2025
    Dana Lixenberg
    Dolma, with her son Tenzing Norbu Woing and daughter Jennifer Woing, Warmoesstraat, 2023, 2025
    Gelatin Silver print mounted on aluminum, maple frame, museum glass
    Print size: 32.7 x 26 cm | 12 7/8 x 10 1/4 in
    Frame size: 34 x 27.5 x 3 cm | 13 3/8 x 10 7/8 x 1 1/8 in
    Edition of 4 plus 2 artist's proofs
  • Dana Lixenberg, Erik Lauw, Zeedijk, 2022 (+2022), 2025
    Dana Lixenberg
    Erik Lauw, Zeedijk, 2022 (+2022), 2025
    Gelatin Silver print mounted on aluminum, maple frame, museum glass
    Print size: 32.7 x 26 cm | 12 7/8 x 10 1/4 in
    Frame size: 34 x 27.5 x 3 cm | 13 3/8 x 10 7/8 x 1 1/8 in
    Edition of 4 plus 2 artist's proofs
  • Dana Lixenberg, Ivar Bonapart, Oudezijds Voorburgwal, 2022, 2025
    Dana Lixenberg
    Ivar Bonapart, Oudezijds Voorburgwal, 2022, 2025
    Gelatin Silver print mounted on aluminum, maple frame, museum glass
    Print size: 32.7 x 26 cm | 12 7/8 x 10 1/4 in
    Frame size: 34 x 27.5 x 3 cm | 13 3/8 x 10 7/8 x 1 1/8 in
    Edition of 4 plus 2 artist's proofs
  • Dana Lixenberg, Jan Otten, Oudezijds Achterburgwal, 2024 (+2024), 2025
    Dana Lixenberg
    Jan Otten, Oudezijds Achterburgwal, 2024 (+2024), 2025
    Gelatin Silver print mounted on aluminum, maple frame, museum glass
    Print size: 32.7 x 26 cm | 12 7/8 x 10 1/4 in
    Frame size: 34 x 27.5 x 3 cm | 13 3/8 x 10 7/8 x 1 1/8 in
    Edition of 4 plus 2 artist's proofs
  • Dana Lixenberg, Lenny Hazeberg, Sint Annenstraat, 2022, 2025
    Dana Lixenberg
    Lenny Hazeberg, Sint Annenstraat, 2022, 2025
    Gelatin Silver print mounted on aluminum, maple frame, museum glass
    Print size: 32.7 x 26 cm | 12 7/8 x 10 1/4 in
    Frame size: 34 x 27.5 x 3 cm | 13 3/8 x 10 7/8 x 1 1/8 in
    Edition of 4 plus 2 artist's proofs
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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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