Deanna, in front of one of her photographs from "Leaving and Waving" at Cortona on the Move, Cortona, Italy, 2021.
Résumé PDF here.
Deanna Dikeman has been an artist-photographer since 1985, when she left a corporate job to try a photography class. She resides in Kansas City and Columbia, Missouri, USA. She has photographed her family in Iowa and Nebraska in a body of work called Relative Moments. She has done a series of photographs of interior details of homes, Home Alone in the Middle of the Day. Her Wardrobe project includes photographs of old clothes in thrift stores and a historical costume collection. Other projects are Suburban Photographs, Lost Dog (posters of lost pets), Ballroom (ballroom dancers and their clothing in movement), Lot Line (looking at the spaces between houses), and Sprinklers, Birdbaths, and Puddles.
Fellowships and Grants
Fellowships and Grants
• Prix Nadar 2021
• ArtsKC Fund Inspiration Grant, 2011
• United States Artists Booth Fellowship, 2008
• Charlotte Street Foundation Fellowship, 2006
• Aaron Siskind Foundation Individual Photographer’s Fellowship, 1996
• ArtsKC Fund Inspiration Grant, 2011
• United States Artists Booth Fellowship, 2008
• Charlotte Street Foundation Fellowship, 2006
• Aaron Siskind Foundation Individual Photographer’s Fellowship, 1996
Awards
• Paris Photo/Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards: First PhotoBook Shortlist, 2021
• MACK First Book Award Shortlist, 2020
• Nikon Photo Contest, Third Place, The Open Award: Photo Story, 2017
• Art Omi International Artists Residency, 2011
• Forward Thinking Museum, JGS Photography Contest Runner-up, 3rd Quarter 2011
• Art Omi International Artists Residency, 2011
• Forward Thinking Museum, JGS Photography Contest Runner-up, 3rd Quarter 2011
Museum Collections
• Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedelia, Missouri
• Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Illinois
• Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri
• Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, Kansas
Corporate Collections
• American Century Corporation, Kansas City, Missouri
• Barnes-Jewish Hospital Foundation, St. Louis, Missouri
• Corporate Communications Group, Overland Park, Kansas
• CBIZ Corporation, Shawnee Mission, Kansas
• City of Kansas City, Missouri
• Fidelity Investments, St. Louis, Missouri
• Fidelity Investments, Boston, Massachusetts
• The Federal Reserve Bank, Kansas City, Missouri
• The Landrum Company, Columbia, Missouri
• Shook, Hardy and Bacon LLP, Kansas City, Missouri
• Sprint Corporation, Overland Park, Kansas
Academic Collections
• Aaron Siskind Foundation Fellows Collection, Princeton University
• Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, Arizona
Flat Files
• Pierogi Flat Files, Brooklyn, New York
• Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedelia, Missouri
• Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Illinois
• Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri
• Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, Kansas
Corporate Collections
• American Century Corporation, Kansas City, Missouri
• Barnes-Jewish Hospital Foundation, St. Louis, Missouri
• Corporate Communications Group, Overland Park, Kansas
• CBIZ Corporation, Shawnee Mission, Kansas
• City of Kansas City, Missouri
• Fidelity Investments, St. Louis, Missouri
• Fidelity Investments, Boston, Massachusetts
• The Federal Reserve Bank, Kansas City, Missouri
• The Landrum Company, Columbia, Missouri
• Shook, Hardy and Bacon LLP, Kansas City, Missouri
• Sprint Corporation, Overland Park, Kansas
Academic Collections
• Aaron Siskind Foundation Fellows Collection, Princeton University
• Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, Arizona
Flat Files
• Pierogi Flat Files, Brooklyn, New York
PechaKucha artist’s talk at United States Artists Assembly, March 2015