Dan Colen
Dan Colen | |
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Born | Daniel Colen 1979 (age 41–42) Leonia, New Jersey, U.S. |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Rhode Island School of Design |
Known for | Painting |
Daniel Colen (born 1979 in New Jersey) is an American artist based in New York. His work consists of painted sculptures appropriating low-cultural ephemera, graffiti-inspired paintings of text executed in paint, and installations.
Early life and education[]
Born in 1979 and raised in Leonia, New Jersey.[1][2] His father, , a wood and clay sculptor, was a participant in the 2006 reality TV show Artstar. Colen attended Solomon Schechter Day School, and was raised Jewish.[3] Colen graduated with a B.F.A. in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2001.[4] After graduation he moved to the East Village in Manhattan, and by June 2006 he became a known artist.[3]
Colen was close friends with artists Dash Snow and Ryan McGinley.[5] In 2007, Snow and Colen shredded phone books in Jeffrey Deitch’s SoHo gallery for an installation called Nest or Hamster Nest.[6][7] He was described by The Guardian as a "bad boy of post-pop New York".[8] When Snow died in 2009 of a heroin overdose, Colen was greatly impacted and said he was determined to end his own addiction.[6][8]
Work[]
Colen’s work has been exhibited at galleries including Deitch Projects, Gagosian Gallery (2006) and Gladstone Gallery in New York, in Berlin, as well as Venus and OHWOW in Los Angeles.[citation needed] 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,[9] “Fantastic Politics” at the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design in Oslo and “No Me” at Peres Projects in Berlin. In 2011 he had a solo show at the Astrup Fearnley Museum in Oslo, Norway.
In his work, 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.[10] Each piece of visual material was handmade and attached to a Styrofoam copy of the wall.
His works are held in the collection of the Saatchi Gallery,[11] the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art.
References[]
- ^ Haramis, Nick. "Everything & Nothing: Dan Colen Reveals There Are Two Sides to Every Story" Archived 2010-12-23 at the Wayback Machine, BlackBook (magazine), October 1, 2010. Accessed March 31, 2011."The 31-year-old artist was born in Leonia, New Jersey, where, as a teenager, he befriended photographer Ryan McGinley at their local skate park."
- ^ Whitney Biennial 2006 - Artists, Whitney Museum of Art. Accessed March 31, 2011. "Born 1979, Leonia, New Jersey; lives in New York, New York"
- ^ a b Fischel, Jack R. (2008). Encyclopedia of Jewish American Popular Culture. ABC-CLIO. pp. 68–69. ISBN 9780313087349.
- ^ "Afterparty". RISD XYZ Magazine. issuu: Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). Winter 2018. p. 13. Retrieved 2018-02-25.
- ^ "Chasing Dash Snow". NYMag.com. Retrieved 2017-11-25.
- ^ a b "Dan Colen". Interview Magazine. 2010-08-17. Retrieved 2017-11-25.
- ^ Feuer, Alan; Salkin, Allen (2009-07-24). "Death and Life of Dash Snow, Artist, Addict and Provocateur". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-11-25.
- ^ a b Helmore, Edward (2014-05-09). "Dan Colen: how the bad boy of New York art discovered the good life". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2017-11-25.
- ^ "Whitney Biennial 2006 :: Day for Night". whitney.org.
- ^ "Something to chew on". The Economist. ISSN 0013-0613. Retrieved 2020-03-07.
- ^ "Dan Colen - Artist - Saatchi Gallery". www.saatchigallery.com.
External links[]
- Media related to Dan Colen at Wikimedia Commons
- Dan Colen on ArtFacts.Net
- What to look for in the Whitney Biennial artnet.com
- Dan Colen--Artwork--Saatchi Gallery
- 1979 births
- Sculptors from New York (state)
- 21st-century American painters
- 21st-century male artists
- 21st-century American sculptors
- American male sculptors
- Living people
- People from Leonia, New Jersey
- Rhode Island School of Design alumni
- 20th-century American sculptors
- 20th-century American painters
- American male painters