![]() ![]() Willis has received several prestigious accolades throughout her career, including MacArthur and Guggenheim fellowships and the NAACP Image Award in 2014. She is a professor and chair of the department of photography and imaging at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. Willis was born in 1948 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and studied at George Mason University, the City College of New York, Pratt Institute and the University of the Arts. ![]() The New York-based photographer, author and curator Deborah Willis, who explores themes related to gender and Black bodies in her work, has received the $200,000 Don Tyson Prize for the Advancement of American Art, a prize awarded by the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas. ![]()
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