Deanna Dikeman (b. 1954) is a Missouri-based photographer who has spent decades training her camera on the people and places closest to her. A former Columbia resident and recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship, her work has been featured in The New Yorker, British Journal of Photography, and Vanity Fair, and has been exhibited widely across Europe and the United States. Deanna Dikeman: A Sense of Place brings her work back to Columbia, presenting her most celebrated series alongside new work in a thematic exploration of place.  

This exhibition explores the role of home across four bodies of work. Her critically acclaimed Leaving and Waving and Relative Moments examine family bonds and domestic life, while Sue's House explores how homes hold presence even after death.  In her most recent series, and Donna's House—presented here for the first time — follows a friend through the difficult process of leaving her home. Through Dikeman’s lens, the ordinary becomes a meditation on family, loss, and the places we call home. 

Featured image: Deanna Dikeman (American, b. 1954), Leaving, 11/95, 1995, from the series Leaving and Waving, gelatin silver print, Gift of Simmons Bank (2023.2.13)