Vernell Dunams

Vernell Dunams is an artist living and working in New Orleans, LA, and Seattle, WA. Dunams’ work is created at the intersections of lens-based mediums (analog photography and video) and prose poetry. Dunams’ process is often rooted in the idea of translation and questioning how visual imagery is translated into a literary language and, oppositely, how literary language is translated into a visual matrix. Likewise, Dunams is conceptually driven by the desire to translate interpersonal experience, identity, and storytelling into intrapersonal dialogue about race, gender, and sexuality. Dunams holds a B.A. in Hispanic Studies and a B.F.A in Studio Arts from Louisiana State University.