Sikkema Jenkins & Co. congratulates Deana Lawson, winner of the 2020 Hugo Boss Prize. Lawson is the first artist working in the medium of photography to be recognized with the award. The Guggenheim Museum will present a solo exhibition of Lawson's work in spring 2021.

In the announcement for the award, the jurors released the following statement on Lawson's practice:
"Lawson brilliantly negotiates the legacies of vernacular, documentary, and conceptual photography to create indelible tableaux of Black colloquial life. While appearing to be images of actual families, friends, and lovers, her large-format works are in fact highly staged, cast, and choreographed, grounding their subjects in aesthetically rich material environments even as they gesture toward an ethereal elsewhere—a deft, remarkable feat. Throughout her oeuvre, Lawson employs a number of formal and conceptual strategies that we believe will occupy viewers and scholars for generations to come. We are particularly excited that she is the first photographer to receive the Hugo Boss Prize, an indication that her singular approach, at once socially humane and technically incisive, is transformative of both the medium and the very concept of representation."

To read the full announcement, click here.