ABBREVIATED BIO / 2025

About Dawn DeDeaux

Dawn DeDeaux is a highly regarded American artist born and based in New Orleans.  Her work from recent decades are influenced by cataclysmic events such as Hurricane Katrina, the BP Oil Spill, Louisiana’s vanishing coastline and challenges to planetary existence.  DeDeaux has been at the forefront of envisioning a post-anthropocene world as part of her ongoing MotherShip Series recently on view for two years at MassMoCA and at Houston’s Transart Foundation for Art and Anthropology.  

DeDeaux has been Artist-in-Residence at American Academy in Rome and Robert Rauschenberg and Joan Mitchell Foundations where she contributed works for her 2022 career retrospective at New Orleans Museum of Art titled The Space Between Worlds accompanied by a comprehensive book published by Hatje Cantz, Berlin. 

Her future-tense works consider both the micro and macro challenges ranging from pandemics to environmental hazards - inspiring her survivor wardrobe series Space Clowns and other futurist meditations featured in Eva Diaz’s new book After Spaceship Earth by Yale University Press and her related essay on DeDeaux’s work for Aperture Magazine.

Works by DeDeaux are currently on view at Longhouse Reserve Sculpture Garden in East Hampton, NY and at The Shepherd Art Center in Detroit, MI.