Danielle Dean (born 1982) is a British-American visual artist. She works in drawing, installation, performance and video. She has exhibited in London and in the United States; her work was included in an exhibition at the

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focusing on new or under-recognized artists working in

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Early life and education

Dean took a BA in

fine arts In European academic traditions, fine art is developed primarily for aesthetics or creative expression, distinguishing it from decorative art or applied art, which also has to serve some practical function, such as pottery or most metalwork ...

from Central Saint Martins in London in 2006, and completed an MFA at the California Institute of the Arts in 2012. In 2012 she was an

artist-in-residence Artist-in-residence, or artist residencies, encompass a wide spectrum of artistic programs which involve a collaboration between artists and hosting organisations, institutions, or communities. They are programs which provide artists with space a ...

at the

Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture is an artists residency located in Madison, Maine, just outside of Skowhegan. Every year, the program accepts online applications from emerging artists from November through January, and selects 65 t ...

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, and in 2013 was part of the independent study program of the

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; between 2014 and 2016 she was an artist-in-residence at the Museum of Fine Arts of

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Work

Dean's work explores "the colonization of the mind and body through media and cultural production, engaging their relationship to capital accumulation." Dean participated in the

2022 Whitney Biennial The 2022 Whitney Biennial, titled ''Quiet as It's Kept'', is the Whitney Museum's art biennial, hosted between April and September 2022. Described by Artnews as the "most closely watched contemporary art exhibition in the United States", the b ...

titled "Quiet as It's Kept" curated by Adrienne Edwards and David Breslin.

Collections

Her work is included in collections at the

, the Stedelijk Museum, the Whitney Museum and the Kadist Foundation. and has been reviewed in publications such as

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and ARTnews.

Teaching

Dean is currently an Assistant professor in Visual Art at the

University of California, San Diego The University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego or colloquially, UCSD) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in San Diego, California. Established in 1960 near the pre-existing Scripps Insti ...

. She has previously taught at the California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA.

Solo exhibitions

* 2012 - ''Confession on a Dance Floor'', The Bindery Projects, Minnesota, MN, U.S * ''2012 - PTL'' ''(Part Time Lover)'' at Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles, CA, U.S * 2015 - ''Hexafluorosilicic'' at Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles, CA, U.S * 2015 - ''Focus: Danielle Dean'',

The Studio Museum in Harlem The Studio Museum in Harlem is an American art museum devoted to the work of artists of African descent. The museum's galleries are currently closed in preparation for a building project that will replace the current building, located at 144 W ...

, New York, NY * 2017 - ''a shoe, a phone, a castle'', Commonwealth and Council,

, CA, U.S * 2018 - ''True red Ruin'',

Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD) is a non-collecting contemporary art museum located in Detroit. MOCAD is housed in a building, a converted former auto dealership designed by architect Andrew Zago. The architecture of the building ...

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* 2018 - ''Landed (two-person show)'', Cubitt Gallery,

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* 2018 - ''A Portrait of True Red'',

Cranbrook Art Museum The Cranbrook Educational Community is an education, research, and public museum complex in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. This National Historic Landmark was founded in the early 20th century by newspaper mogul George Gough Booth. It consists of Cra ...

, Bloomfield Hills, MI * 2018 - ''Bazar'', 47 Canal, New York, NY * 2019 –

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, Aachen

Awards

* Rema Hort Mann Foundation award, New York, 2014 * Creative Capital, visual arts award, New York, 2015 * Long Prize, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, 2016

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Dean, Danielle Living people Alumni of Central Saint Martins British artists California Institute of the Arts alumni 1982 births Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture alumni