Dawn DeDeaux, a 73-year-old conceptual artist, has been creating art that explores the universe’s most pressing questions for decades. Now she’s preparing for what is arguably the contemporary art world’s most important show: the Venice Biennale.
Read more about her work and how she’s prepared for the special event here.
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Dawn DeDeaux’s studio photographed at Camp Abundance in New Orleans, Thursday, March 26, 2026. (Photo by Sophia Germer, The Times-Picayune)
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Dawn DeDeaux’s studio, photographed in March, is just one part of Camp Abundance, the compound she’s created in Gentilly.
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Camp Abundance, artist Dawn DeDeaux’s home base, “pushes the bounds of what art can be,” a curator said.
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Artist Dawn DeDeaux collects palm fronds to put in cases at Camp Abundance in New Orleans, Thursday, March 26, 2026. (Photo by Sophia Germer, The Times-Picayune)
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Artist Dawn DeDeaux poses in her studio at Camp Abundance in New Orleans, Thursday, March 26, 2026. (Photo by Sophia Germer, The Times-Picayune)
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Dawn DeDeaux explains her art in her studio at Camp Abundance in New Orleans, Thursday, March 26, 2026. (Photo by Sophia Germer, The Times-Picayune)
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Plants grow out the top of a sculpture by Dawn DeDeaux at Camp Abundance in New Orleans, Thursday, March 26, 2026. (Photo by Sophia Germer, The Times-Picayune)
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Chairs are placed around a large sculpture at Camp Abundance in New Orleans, Thursday, March 26, 2026. (Photo by Sophia Germer, The Times-Picayune)
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Artist Dawn DeDeaux poses at Camp Abundance in New Orleans, Thursday, March 26, 2026. (Photo by Sophia Germer, The Times-Picayune)
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Vicky Tsirou, Dionisis Christofilogiannis, Dawn DeDeaux and Gary Craddock pose at Camp Abundance in New Orleans, Thursday, March 26, 2026. (Photo by Sophia Germer, The Times-Picayune)
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Artist Dawn DeDeaux poses at Camp Abundance in New Orleans, Thursday, March 26, 2026. (Photo by Sophia Germer, The Times-Picayune)
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Flowers bloom at Camp Abundance in New Orleans, Thursday, March 26, 2026. (Photo by Sophia Germer, The Times-Picayune)
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Artist Dawn DeDeaux poses on a bed in one of her artist residency spaces at Camp Abundance in New Orleans, Thursday, March 26, 2026. (Photo by Sophia Germer, The Times-Picayune)
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Artist Dawn DeDeaux poses at Camp Abundance in New Orleans, Thursday, March 26, 2026. (Photo by Sophia Germer, The Times-Picayune)
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Dawn DeDeaux explains her art in her studio at Camp Abundance in New Orleans, Thursday, March 26, 2026. (Photo by Sophia Germer, The Times-Picayune)
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A long table photographed at Camp Abundance in New Orleans, Thursday, March 26, 2026. (Photo by Sophia Germer, The Times-Picayune)
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An African vessel holds the ashes of William Fagaly at Camp Abundance in New Orleans, Thursday, March 26, 2026. (Photo by Sophia Germer, The Times-Picayune)
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Artist Dawn DeDeaux poses at Camp Abundance in New Orleans, Thursday, March 26, 2026. (Photo by Sophia Germer, The Times-Picayune)
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Artist Dawn DeDeaux places palm fronds into vases at Camp Abundance in New Orleans, Thursday, March 26, 2026. (Photo by Sophia Germer, The Times-Picayune)
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Dawn DeDeaux hugs visiting artist from Greece Dionisis Christofilogiannis as Greek art historian and curator Vicky Tsirou stands in the doorway at Camp Abundance in New Orleans, Thursday, March 26, 2026. (Photo by Sophia Germer, The Times-Picayune)
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Artist Dawn DeDeaux poses with one of her art pieces at Camp Abundance in New Orleans, Thursday, March 26, 2026. (Photo by Sophia Germer, The Times-Picayune)
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Multimedia Dawn DeDeaux poses in her studio at Camp Abundance in New Orleans ahead of the Venice Biennale, arguably the contemporary art world’s most important exhibition. (Photo by Sophia Germer, The Times-Picayune)
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Artist Dawn DeDeaux reflects into one of her art pieces at Camp Abundance in New Orleans, Thursday, March 26, 2026. (Photo by Sophia Germer, The Times-Picayune)
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Celebrated multimedia artist Dawn DeDeaux, whose work finds beauty in calamity, poses in her studio at Camp Abundance in New Orleans in March. (Photo by Sophia Germer, The Times-Picayune)
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Aristides Logothetis helps Dawn DeDeaux put food on the table during a dinner party at Camp Abundance in New Orleans, Wednesday, April 1, 2026. (Photo by Sophia Germer, The Times-Picayune)
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Artist Dawn DeDeaux cuts into one of the many dishes she cooked for a gathering at Camp Abundance in early April.
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Days before leaving for Venice, Dawn DeDeaux raises a glass with dinner guests at her New Orleans home.
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A leaf filled with salt photographed during a dinner party at Camp Abundance in New Orleans, Wednesday, April 1, 2026. (Photo by Sophia Germer, The Times-Picayune)
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Dawn DeDeaux, second from left, thanks guests during a dinner party at Camp Abundance in New Orleans, Wednesday, April 1, 2026. (Photo by Sophia Germer, The Times-Picayune)
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Dinner guests dig in during a dinner party at Camp Abundance in New Orleans, Wednesday, April 1, 2026. (Photo by Sophia Germer, The Times-Picayune)
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Artist Dawn DeDeaux poses with Paolo Meozzi during a dinner party at Camp Abundance in New Orleans, Wednesday, April 1, 2026. (Photo by Sophia Germer, The Times-Picayune)
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Susan Taylor and Dawn DeDeaux during a dinner party at Camp Abundance in New Orleans, Wednesday, April 1, 2026. (Photo by Sophia Germer, The Times-Picayune)
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Artist Dawn DeDeaux sets food on the table during her dinner party in New Orleans. “The table is where everything happens,” she said.
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Dawn DeDeaux greets Filippo Meozzi and Paolo Meozzi at the door during a dinner party at Camp Abundance in New Orleans, Wednesday, April 1, 2026. (Photo by Sophia Germer, The Times-Picayune)
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