Aria Dean: In Conversation Wed, Aug 17, 2022, 7 pm

Aria Dean: In Conversation

Wed, Aug 17, 2022
7 pm

A crushed metal-like object with a ball attached to the midsection.
A crushed metal-like object with a ball attached to the midsection.

Aria Dean, Little Island/Gut Punch, 2022. Sculpture. Collection of the artist; courtesy the artist; Greene Naftali, New York; and Chateau Shatto, Los Angeles. Photograph by Ron Amstutz

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Artist Aria Dean will discuss her work and process in conversation with Whitney Assistant Curator Laura Phipps and Curatorial Project Assistant Gabriel Almeida. Dean’s sculpture Little Island/Gut Punch is included in Whitney Biennial 2022: Quiet as It’s Kept.

Aria Dean (b. 1993) lives and works in New York. Her work is included in Whitney Biennial 2022: Quiet As It’s Kept, on view through September 5, 2022. Recent solo and two-person exhibitions and performances include REDCAT, Los Angeles (2021); Greene Naftali, New York (2021); Artists Space, New York (2020); Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève (2019); and the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York (2018). Her writing has appeared in publications including Artforum, Art in America, e-flux, The New Inquiry, X-TRA Contemporary Art Quarterly, Spike Quarterly, Kaleidoscope Magazine, Texte zur Kunst, CURA Magazine, and November. Dean’s work is in the collection of the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York; The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.


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