LaQuann Dawson is a photographer and filmmaker from Ohio now based in Brooklyn, New York. He is a Black, queer artist who is in love with Black and queer art. LaQuann got his start in photography through self-portraiture. His work now explores and celebrates isolation and the sexual ritual. It is a blooming conversation between seen and unseen (or unnoticed) ostentatious acts of love, desire and disappointment.
contact:
laquann@laquanndawson.com | 440.452.2787
resume / cv
Film
“we are mobi”, mobi, nyc, production, photo, video, post-production, writer, 2019
a study of him, 2018, MOBIfest + theGENERhouse Film Festival, Godsbanen
his coven, 2018
beyond the battleground - bushwick stories - 2018, bushwick film festival
peloton tread experience - harley and co - 2018 - wardrobe and production
as much as i can - harley and co. - 2018, harlem + raleigh - wardrobe + asst. director
we are mobi - mobi - 2018-2019, harlem + raleigh - production, photo, video, post-production, writer (upcoming)
Solo Exhibition
i am androgyNY exhibit, foley gallery, NY, feb2018
Group Exhibition, Presentation
the blkqueer romantics, the tenth magazine, Hudson Hall, NY, 2018
“he loves him” film, MOBIfest by MOBInyc, Melrose Ballroom, NY, 2018
“space is the place” retreat, PA, Basin and Main, 2018
“a study of him” film, The GENDERhouse Film Festival, Godsbanen 2018
“RGB” show at Fredricks and Mae, film screening, 2019
“the homosexual object”, Fredricks and Mae, Brooklyn, NY, 2019
“Queer as I”, HERE Art Center, NY, NY, 2019
Publication
jack’d, relaunch campaign, 2019
risk magazine, self study + notes on escape, 2019
cove magazine, his coven, 2019
out magazine, 28 Self-Portraits Show the Beauty of Queer Creativity, 2019
cove magazine, coven, 2019
humans of peloton, photo booth, 2019
nylon magazine, what do you take pride in?, 2019
nylon magazine, See These Glowing Portraits For MOBI’s “Take Pride” Campaign, 2019
the tenth magazine, calicod special edition, “revizionist history”, 2018
the tenth magazine, "black queer romantic", vol. 5, 2018
brooklyn magazine
style profiles, 2018
david bowie exhibit, 2018
uhuru magazine, "androgyny project", 2018
kaltblut magazine, “i hate getting my picture taken”, 2018
elegant magazine, "i am androgyNY", cover, 2018
get out magazine, MOBIfest, cover, 2018
musee magazine, art out: lensculture winter print show, 2017
subvert mag, "new america", 2018
teachers and writers, roya marsh, lauren routt, joshua bennett, 2018
urban word, black girl magic ball, 2018
imirage mag
yahdon isreal, literary swag book club, 2018
taste talks, 2018
Panel
“queering radical pedagogies”, black lives matter pratt, pratt university, 2018
Books
“notes: from a sexual object”, self published, 2019
“lackwhen: self-portrait”, self-published, 2017
Interview, Article, Review, Etc.
HIM Podcast,
ep. 34, ep. 35, 2018
atavist, “a home away from home” by ian flickinger-galeza, 2016
the pillow talk project “me, masculinity and my father” by Keith f. miller Jr., 2016
kent state university, “changing the future, one student at a time", 2015
society 19, “10 kent student bloggers you NEED to follow”, 2016
associated press advertising awards, best house ad, 2016
ohio newspaper foundation, 2015 scholarship winners
Appearance
museum of pizza NYC, opens oct2018
soulta, lust and leisure, 2017
“as much as i can”, by harley and company, 2018
“blush”, joe morris events
Internship
bushwick film festival, 2018
fashion week pr intern, bradbury lewis, 2016-2017
photo intern, museé magazine, 2017
design intern, tko, 2016