DEANNA DIKEMAN — The Near and The Known

MEMORY CULT Visiting Artist Series Presents

Deanna Dikeman

The Near and The Known

Deanna Dikeman was born in 1954 in Sioux City, Iowa, USA, and currently resides in Kansas City. She has photographed her midwestern family and surroundings since 1985, when she left a corporate job to try a photography class. She has M.S. and B.S. degrees from Purdue University. She received an Aaron Siskind Foundation Fellowship in 1996, and the United States Artists Booth Fellowship in 2008. She is a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow.  “A Photographer’s Parents Wave Farewell” was one of the top 25 stories of 2020 in The New Yorker. She has two photobooks published by Chose Commune: Leaving and Waving in 2021 and Relative Moments in 2024. Leaving and Waving received the 2021 Prix Nadar awarded by the Association Gens d’Images in France. The book also was a finalist for the 2021 Paris Photo/Aperture Foundation First PhotoBook Award. Photographs from Leaving and Waving have been exhibited at festivals, museums, and galleries in fourteen countries: Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Switzerland, the UK, and the United States.