LAQUANN DAWSON

LaQuann Dawson is a Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary artist, photographer and filmmaker from Ohio.

His practice moves across photography, painting, film, installation, set design and publishing, often building small worlds around Black queer interiority, fantasy, desire, softness and escape.

Dawson began in self-portraiture and continues to return to the body as a site of play, transformation and self-invention. Across mediums, he is interested in the tension between being seen and wanting to disappear, and in creating spaces where Black queer people can exist with more freedom, color, intimacy and imagination than everyday life often allows. Fairies, dancers, flowers, constructed environments and otherworldly figures recur throughout his work as ways of thinking about otherness, pleasure, solitude and belonging.

His practice also extends into community-centered cultural work. As Visual Director of MOBI, Dawson has helped shape years of free public programming, exhibitions, films, performances and portrait environments created for Black queer communities. Accessibility has remained central to his approach, through both free cultural programming and collaborative projects that redirect resources back into community.

Alongside his independent practice, Dawson works across editorial, commercial and experiential projects, creating photography, moving image, visual identities, sets and immersive portrait environments.

SELECTED CLIENTS + COLLABORATORS

PUMA, GLAAD, ACLU, Vaseline, Saks OFF 5TH, Pop-Tarts, TikTok, Google Pixel, Amazon Prime / Freevee, Paul Stuart, MOBI, Impulse Group NYC and the American Black Film Festival.

Across all of this work, Dawson is interested in making images and environments that feel tactile, emotional, playful and alive, while expanding the ways Black queer life can be seen, imagined and remembered.

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BOOKING

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laquann@laquanndawson.com