Danielle Dean


Danielle Dean is a 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 Hammer Museum focusing on new or under-recognized artists working in Los Angeles. She has received grants from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the Rema Hort Mann Foundation, and Creative Capital.

Life and education

Dean took a BA in fine arts 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 at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine, and in 2013 was part of the independent study program of the Whitney Museum of Art in New York City; between 2014 and 2016 she was an artist-in-residence at the Museum of Fine Arts of Houston, Texas.

Work

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

Exhibitions

Dean has had solo exhibitions at the Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, the Cranbrook Art Museum, Detroit, the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, the Studio Museum in Harlem, and Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles.

Collections

Her work is included in the museum of the Stedelijk Museum, the Hammer Museum,the Whitney Museum and the Kadist Foundation. and has been reviewed in publications such as ArtForum and ARTnews.
She is currently represented by Commonwealth and Council in Los Angeles, and 47 Canal in New York.

Teaching

Dean is currently an Assistant professor in Visual Art at the University of California, San Diego. She has previously taught at the California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA.

Exhibitions