Daniel Hesidence

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Daniel Hesidence (b.1975 Akron, Ohio) is a painter based in New York.

He studied at the University of Tampa, Florida, graduating with a BFA in 1998, and completed his MFA at Hunter College in New York in 2001.

Hesidence’s work has been featured in several important international exhibitions including “Greater New York” at PS1 Contemporary Art Center and MOMA in New York, and “USA Today” at The Royal Academy in London. He is represented by Feature Inc. Gallery in New York.

Daniel Hesidence is a painter working with both figurative and abstract imagery in an intuitive style that equally recalls Abstract Expressionist works from the mid-20th century, primitive gestural ‘cave painting’ and fantasy illustration. Hesidence uses paint as a means of unbridled expression of subconscious whims and fancy, all the while striving to reach a plain of understanding via pure visual material that stretches way beyond the accepted codes of communication to speak to the primal instinctual realm of the brain where there is no time for considered reactions. Hesidence’s handles paint with both gestural abandon and delicate purpose to forge a visual language which is rich and varied whilst remaining directly relevant and significantly tapped into the consciousness of his audience.