The Hugo Boss Prize 2020: Deana Lawson, Centropy

At Guggenheim Exhibitions, *The Hugo Boss Prize 2020: Deana Lawson, Centropy* presents Lawson’s staged photographic portraits as a study of how images construct identity, intimacy, and power. The installation situates her work within New York’s museum history through the Guggenheim’s long-running Hugo Boss Prize program, which has helped frame contemporary practice for a broad public. Lawson’s subjects meet the camera head-on, mixing the domestic with the ceremonial. One clear takeaway is how the show treats photography less as documentation than as a negotiated performance.