Dana Robinson

Bio/CV: Dana Robinson has exhibited at Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Texas State University, Fuller Rosen Gallery, 92nd Street Y, Spellerberg Projects, A.I.R. Gallery, Haul Gallery, and Regular Normal. Robinson was a contributing artist for the New York Times Magazine and The Baffler, and her work had been written about in Artsy, It’s Nice That, and Ain't Bad magazine to name a few. She was a fellow at A.I.R Gallery, a Vision Fund resident at ISCP and has shown work at Turley Gallery in Hudson, New York and The Bureau of General Services- Queer Division, in New York City. She has recently finished a public art work for ArtBridge in Bushwick, New York.

Artist Statement: Using painting, collage, printmaking, and fabric I address the topics of youth, femme identity, ownership, nostalgia through combining, reproducing and blurring vintage Black media. My visual language uses primarily 70’s Ebony magazines as a source material. I select stylized advertisements or editorial images that highlight the idea of upward mobility and a growing black middle class. This pop media leaves little room for deviation away from a cis hetero patriarchal middle class lifestyle. This is the life we are meant to aspire to but consistently fail to achieve to perfection due to not wanting to or it being out of reach. While being pushed and pulled towards this goal of a “perfect” I address the ways we deviate from this norm and find ourselves. Employing a language of humor and relaxation, I open up spaces of laughter and irony, while retaining an empathetic quality.

As these images are separated from their origins or recreated, their definitions change. The images are pared down to almost unrecognizable images that dissolve into flashes of skin and color, making an atmosphere that gently circulates and never quite settles. In the banality of the content is the intensely personal that reveals without giving everything away.

Selected Solo Exhibitions: 
2022 A.I.R Gallery: Brooklyn, NY, Haul Gallery: Brooklyn, NY, Fuller Rosen Gallery: Portland, OR
2021 Specialist Gallery: Seattle, WA, In Celebration of Excellence and The Ordinary: Selenas Mountain, Queens, NY
2019 Ebony Reprinted: Co-Lab Projects- Austin, TX
2018 Gold Tin: 621 Gallery- Tallahassee, FL

Selected Group Exhibitions: 2022 ‘BAITBALL’, a Group Show at Palazzo San Giuseppe, Polignano, Italy, Homecoming: Artist Alumni, Kates-Ferri Projects, New York, NHY, Mehari Sequar Gallery, Washington, DC, 92nd Street YMCA, New York, NY
2021 What Comes After, Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY, The Meeting Point, Regular Normal/ ArtNoir, NY, NY, BAM Benefit Auction, Artsy Online, NADA x Foreland, Catskill Mountains, NY, Sapphire Pools IV, Selenas Mountain, Queens, NY, Red, Welancora Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, STONELEAF Retreat, Catskill Mountains, NY, Celebrate Black, Culture Place, Liliana Bloch Gallery, Dallas, Texas, Liliana Bloch Gallery, Dallas, Texas, Last Supper, LatchKey Gallery, NY
2020 Future Fair, Selenas Mountain, Online, Wassaic Project Holiday Sale, Online, Amsterdam Flag Project, Harriman Steel, Amsterdam, Netherlands, White Columns Registry Exhibition, White Columns Online, ISCP Benefit Auction, Artsy Online, Beverly’s at STONELEAF, Upstate Art Weekend, Untitled Art Fair Online- Selenas Mountain Gallery, Untitled Art Fair Online- LatchKey Gallery, Amref Health Africa ArtBall: Benefit Auction 2020, Artsy Online, SNACKS, Standard Space, Sharon, CT, Touch, Moisturizer Gallery, Online Exhibition, Everything is Different Now, Stay at Home Gallery, Paris, Tennessee, Reality Used To Be a Friend of Mine, Selena's Mountain, Online Exhibition, Week 3: Domestic Interiors, Stay at Home Gallery, Online Exhibition, Wassaic Project Winter Benefit, Brooklyn, NY, Medium Tings, Online Exhibit, New York, NY, Material Art Fair- Mexico City, Mexico, Lupercalia, Ace Hotel- New York, NY, Beverly’s, New York, NY
2019 My Country ‘Tis of Thee, HERE Art Center, New York, NY, Satellite Art Show- Miami, FL, Untitled Art Fair, Miami, FL, Dinner's Ready- Gallery Bang Bang, Nashville, TN, Carry On, Yadegaran Gallery- Kerman, Iran, Body Building, Moisturizer Gallery- Gainesville, FL, Soft Power, APT. 1902- Jersey City, NJ, WERQ: We’ve Been Doing This Our Whole Lives, Cluster Art Gallery- Brooklyn, NY, Now That's What I Call Love!, DCTV- New York, NY, Co-Lab Projects- Austin, TX, Wassaic Project Summer Exhibition- Wassiac, NY, SVA Chelsea Gallery Group Exhibit- Chelsea, NY, DREAM HOUSE, Gloria's Project Space- Ridgewood, Queens, No Place Like, Field Projects Gallery- Chelsea, NY
2018 Satellite Art Show- Miami, FL, Small Works, The Cluster Gallery- Brooklyn, NY, The Art of Sharing, Saint-Paul de Mausole- Saint-Remy de Provence, France, Locations, Brooklyn Waterfront Arts Coalition- Brooklyn, NY, SVA Residency Alumni Show, SVA Flatiorn Gallery- New York, NY, GIFC, Fisher Parrish Gallery- Brooklyn, NY, Craftswomen, SVA Flatiorn Gallery- New York, NY, Thing Power, Moisturizer Gallery- Gainesville, FL
2017 Art·Letter Home ,China Academy of Art- Zhejiang, China, Lemon Fodder & Loam, DBHOM Gallery- Gainesville, FL, Fiber: An Art Show, Tench Building Studios- Gainesville, FL, Creative Life Project, Foundation Coffee- Tampa, FL, The Way You Look At Me, Gallery : /protocol/- Gainesville, FL
2016 Field Projects Gallery, guest curator Paulina Bebecka- New York, NY, Taste Makers II, Treat Gallery- Brooklyn, NY, Sinkhole- SUPER FUN!- Gainesville, FL, Five by Five 2016, Arts Council of Hillsborough- Tampa, FL, Unfurl Adjust Astir- Waldo Road Studio Gallery, Gainesville, FL, Postcards from the Edge- Visual AIDS- New York, NY, Extra Credit- Poole Building- Gainesville, FL, Women in Jeopardy- Hippodrome Art Gallery- Gainesville, FL
2015 Sweltering Misery #3- SUPER FUN!- Gainesville, FL, Courthouse Gallery- Court of Civil Law- Gainesville, FL, Zine World - Doomed Gallery - London, England, Motherlands Zine- Hoxton Basement- London, England, SECOND WAVE - FERMENTER Summer Group Show- Gallery : /protocol/- Gainesville, FL, The Blueprint Show- Poole Building- Gainesville, FL, Buy Some Damn Art-Brooklyn, NY
2014 Orange You Glad- Factory- Gainesville, FL, Five by Five 2014, Arts Council of Hillsborough- Tampa, FL, Cross Section, Open Studio- FERMENTER- Gainesville, FL, Nesting, Open Studio- School of Visual Arts- New York, NY, Trash Rainbow Salon- Maudes- Gainesville, FL, Art Buffet- Display- Gainesville, FL, Gainesville Fashion Week- University Air Center- Gainesville, FL
2013 The Roosevelt 2.0- Tampa, FL, Black and White Ball- Art Pool- St. Petersburg, FL
2012 Strawberry Milk- Museum of Fine Art- Tallahassee, FL, Friends of Friends- The Farside- Tallahassee, FL

Residencies: 2022 Wassaic Project, Artist-In-Residence
2021 A.I.R. Fellowship, Kates-Ferri Projects, Artist In Residence, STONELEAF Retreat, Artist-In-Residence
2020 Elizabeth Murray Artist Residency — COLLAR WORKS, EMR at Home, Spaceworks, Nfinit Foundation Artist-In-Residence
2018 Mildred’s Lane Fellowship, Geophagic Water Closet- Beach Lake, PA
2017 Elsewhere Art Collaborative- Greensboro, NC
2014 FERMENTER Residency, Protocol Art Center and Gallery- Gainesville, FL, School of Visual Arts, Multi-Media and Painting Residency- New York, NY

Selected Press: Baffler Magazine, It’s Nice That, New York Times, Aint-Bad Magazine, VICE

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