Ralph Lemon

Ralph Lemon is a choreographer, writer and visual artist based in New York. His most recent works include Rant (2018-2022. A live performance with film installation in collaboration with Artist/DJ Kevin Beasley). Chorus (2015-2018), Scaffold Room (2015), Four Walls (2012), and How Can You Stay in The House All Day And Not Go Anywhere? (2008-2010). His book, Come home Charley Patton, the final in a series documenting his The Geography Trilogy (1997-2004), was published in 2013 by Wesleyan University Press. Mr. Lemon was honored with one of the first Doris Duke Performing Artist Awards; he was also one of the first artists to receive the United States Artists Fellowship (2006). He is a recipient of three Bessie Awards (1986, 2005, 2016); two Foundation for Contemporary Art Awards (1986, 2012); a 2009 Guggenheim Fellowship; and the 1999 CalArts Alpert Award. He received a 2015 National Medal of Arts from president, Barack Obama. The first monograph of his work was published by The Museum of Modern Art (part of their new Modern Dance Series) in 2016. He is a 2018 percipient of the Heinz Family Foundation Award and a 2020 John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship. In 2022 he won the Bucksbaum Award for his work included in the 2022 Edition Whitney Museum of American Art Biennial.