Dawn Surratt earned a B.A. in Studio Arts from the University of North Carolina in Greensboro and a Bachelor and Master’s Degree in Social Work from the University of Georgia. Her years of work with dying patients in hospice settings is the backbone of her imagery combining photographs with photography based book structures, installations, and objects as visual meditations exploring concepts of grief, transition, healing and spirituality. Her work has been widely published for book covers and publications such as The Sun, BETA Magazine, Lenscratch, SHOTS, Diffusion and The Hand. She has exhibited in galleries across the United States including The Center for Fine Art Photography, Southeast Center for Photography, A.Smith Gallery, Photoplace Gallery and the Griffin Museum of Photography. She is a 2016, 2020 and 2024 Critical Mass Finalist and her work is in collections across the United States including the Peabody Essex Museum and the Rubinstein Library at Duke University, Archive of Documentary Arts. She is a 2018 nominee for the Royal Photography Society’s 100 Heroines. She has published two books including a handmade limited edition of Sweeping The Graves in 2024. Dawn is a full time artist living in rural North Carolina and teaches multi-media process and photography object work through Maine Media Workshops and College. You can find her roaming the countryside with her camera, her husband, and their Pembroke Welsh Corgi Winston who doubles as their photography assistant.