Contact: danamaiden@gmail.com
Lives and works in Los Angeles, California
Education
BA, Columbia University, New York, NY, English, Visual Arts and Art History
MFA, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA, Sculpture and Photography
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2012
Margins and Rocks, RAID Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Sheets of Summer Glass, Dana Maiden and Bari Ziperstein at Passerby, Los Angeles, CA
Here, Chime & Co., Los Angeles, CA
2009
Every Era Dreams the One to Follow, Proekt Fabrika, Moscow, Russia
Dana Maiden, SCA Project Gallery, Pomona, CA
2008
A Lamp is Put in Place of the Sun, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery-Barnsdall
Project Room, Los Angeles, CA
MFA Thesis Show, East Gallery, Claremont, CA
2007
Before Tomorrow, Peggy Phelps Gallery, Claremont, CA
2003
The Neighborhood, CCA North Gallery, Oakland, CA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2018
Faculty Show, Sierra Vista Art Gallery, Glendale, CA
2016
Pictures of the Gone World, Peggy Phelps Gallery, Claremont, CA
Now Be Here, Hauser Wirth & Schimmel, Los Angeles, CA2015
Witty and Urbane, Fellows of Contemporary Art (FOCA) Los Angeles, CA
Feigned: Real and Not Real Everyday Things, Sam Francis Gallery at Crossroads School for Arts & Sciences, Santa Monica, CA
2014
Transmogrification of the Ordinary, Angles Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2013
MAS Attack 2, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
In the Good Name of the Company, For Your Art, Los Angeles, CA
Six Shooters, Oxnard Street Studios, Van Nuys, CA
Dialogues of Practice Part 2, First Street Gallery, Claremont, CA
Dialogues of Practice Part 1, West Los Angeles College, Culver City, CA
2012
Made in L.A., KK Outlet, London, GB
The Holodeck, PØST Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Open Field, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Recapture, Galerie Rheeway, Los Angeles, CA
Work It Out, Chime & Co., Los Angeles, CA
2011
Open Field, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
SOMA Summer Open Studios, Mexico City, MX
Abstract Smallness, PØST Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Chain Letter, Shoshana Wayne, Los Angeles, CA
Northern Spark, Nuit Blanche, Minneapolis, MN
When My Solution is a Hammer, All My Problems Look Like Nails,
DEN Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
2010
F*Utility, Arena 1 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Venn Diagram, Kristi Engle Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Summer Art Swap, Storefront Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
Re:Creation (Serious Play with Canonical Art), Cerritos College Art Gallery, Norwalk, CA
Ice Art Swap, Art Shanty Projects, Minneapolis, MN
2009
Cut: Makings of Removal, Wignall Museum, Chaffey College, CA
October Group Show, Chime & Co., Los Angeles, CA
Sea and Space Resort II, Sea and Space Explorations, Los Angeles, CA
Made for More, Chime & Co., Los Angeles, CA
Irrational Exhibits 7, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2008
Cut, Vincent Price Art Museum, Monterey Park, CA
Part: Whole, Sea and Space Explorations, Los Angeles, CA
Resident Artists Exhibition, Anderson Ranch Gallery, Aspen, CO
Cycling Apparati, High Energy Constructs/Solway Jones, Los Angeles, CA
Made in the USA, Brewery Smokestack Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Summerland, Chime & Co., Los Angeles, CA
GLAMFA, CSU Long Beach, Long Beach, CA
Truthiness: Photography as Sculpture, California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA
My Space, SCA Project Gallery, Pomona, CA
2007
Time Machine, High Energy Constructs, Los Angeles, CA
Small Squares Project, The Mountain Bar, Los Angeles, CA
Exhibitionists, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA
Time-Space Travel Device: Planetary Research Log, LA Art Show, Barker Hangar, Santa Monica, CA
2006
Harvesters of Culture, Claremont, CA
2003
Free Beer, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
Intersections, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2002
Identity Crisis, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
2001
Midori, Sui Gallery, Kanazawa, Japan
2000
Disco Disaster, Wallach Art Gallery, New York, NY
Mysterious Shopper, Prentis Hall, New York, NY
Awards
2011 SOMA Artist Residency Fellowship
2009 Proekt Fabrika Residency
2008 Anderson Ranch Artist Residency Program Full Fellowship
Lorser Feitelson and Helen Lundeberg Feitelson Foundation Fellowship including Solo Exhibition at the Barnsdall Art Gallery
2007 Ann Peppers Foundation Fellowship
Claremont Graduate University Art Department Fellowship
2004 New York City Teaching Fellowship
2003 California College of the Arts Merit Scholarship
2002 Monbusho Fellowship--Japanese Government Exchange Program
1999 School of the Art Institute of Chicago Summer Scholarship
Bibliography
2016
Morse, Rebecca. “The Evolving Photographic Object,” The Photographic Object 1970, ed. Statzer, Mary, Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2016. p.105
2012
Fitzpatrick, Kyle, “Dana Maiden Can Bend Space”, Los Angeles, I’m Yours, laimyours.com, March 26.
Rolnik, Daniel, Dana Maiden, Margins + Rocks at Raid Projects, Argot and Ochre, aopublic.com, February 16.
2010
Rosko, M.A. “Art Shanty Project on Medicine Lake,” foxnewstwincities.com, January 25.
Kesti, Julie. “Numb Fingers, High Hopes: Making the Art Swap Shanty” Twin Cities Daily Planet, January 9. (reproductions)
2009
Thiel, Jens. “Dana Maiden Plastic Mountain (2008),” Functionalfate.org, December 23. (reproductions)
Billah, Fariyal. “Paper Cutting Takes a Lead Role in Cut: Makings of Removal” The Chaffey Breeze, October 19, p.6. (reproduction)
Von Taube, Annika. “Los Angeles,” Sleek Magazine Berlin. Winter Issue, p. 81. (reproduction)
2008
Williamson, Damien. “Leaving on a Jet Plane,” Aspen Daily News, November 27, pp. 8-9 (reproductions)
Cheng, Scarlet. “The Joy of Paper Work,” Los Angeles Times, October 26, p. F4.
Tibbits, Ashley. “Truthiness at the California Museum of Photography,” Artweek, October, pp. 16-7.
Wagley, Catherine. “Truthiness,” DailyServing.com, August 28.
Truthiness: Photography as Sculpture, California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA, catalogue.
GLAMFA, California State University Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, catalogue.
Residencies
2011 SOMA Summer Mexico City, Mexico
2010 Art Shanty Project, Minneapolis, Minnesota
2009 Proekt Fabrika, Moscow, Russia
2008 Anderson Ranch, Aspen, Colorado