Dan Colen
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Dan Colen (born 1979, New Jersey) is an artist based in New York. He has been exhibited internationally by leading galleries such as Gagosian Gallery and featured in the USA Today exhibition at the Royal Academy in Fall 2006. He was a participant in the 2006 Whitney Biennial. His work consists of painted sculptures appropriating low-cultural ephemera, graffiti-inspired paintings of text executed in paint, and installations.
Dan Colen graduated with a BFA in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Art and Design in 2001.
His father, Sy Colen, a wood and clay sculptor, is a participant in the reality TV show Artstar.
[edit] Exhibitions
Colen’s work has been exhibited at galleries including Deitch Projects and Barbara Gladstone Gallery in New York. He has shown work internationally in many exhibitions including “Potty Mouth, Potty War, Pot Roast, Pot is a Reality Kick” at Gagosian Gallery in New York, “USA Today” at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, the 2006 Whitney Biennial in New York, “Fantastic Politics” at the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design in Oslo and “No Me” at Peres Projects in Berlin. He is represented by Peres Projects in Los Angeles. He has several pieces in the Saatchi Gallery collection and in the Whitney’s permanent collection. Solo shows in include 5 Bathrooms 5 Paintings at the Gagosian Gallery in 2006, and No Me at Peres Projects in Berlin.
[edit] Works
In ‘Secrets and Cymbals, Smoke and Scissors: My Friend Dash’s Wall in the Future’ (2004), Colen built an exact replica of a section of poster, photo and flyer-covered wall from friend Dash Snow's apartment. Each piece of visual material was hand-made and attached to a Styrofoam copy of the wall.
