Dan Colen
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Dan Colen (b.1979, New Jersey) is an artist based in New York. He has been exhibited internationally by leading galleries such as Gagosian Gallery and features in the USA Today exhibition at the Royal Academy in Fall 2006.[1]
[edit] Life and work
Dan Colen graduated with a BFA in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Art and Design in 2001.
Colen’s work has been exhibited at galleries including Deitch Projects and Barbara Gladstone Gallery in New York. He has been featured in shows including Infinite Painting at Villa Manin in Italy, the Whitney Biennial [2] at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, and is scheduled for the forthcoming USA Today at the Royal Academy, London.[3] He has several pieces in the Saatchi Gallery collection,[4] and in the Whitney’s permanent collection. Solo shows in include 5 Bathrooms 5 Paintings at the Gagosian Gallery in 2006,[5] and No Me at Peres Projects in Berlin.[6]
Colen's work quotes from mass media and graffiti to create hyper-realist canvases, text-scrawled boards, ready-made objects and trompe l’oeil sculpture. His paintings feature aerosol slogans. He often exhibits canvases found in thrift shops, which he alters through re-painting and framing.
His father, Sy Colen, a wood and clay sculptor, is a participant in the reality TV show Artstar.
