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Artist
Dana Schutz
b. 1976, Livonia, Michigan, USA · American · Based in Brooklyn, New York, USA
- MFA, Columbia University, New York (2002)
- BFA, Cleveland Institute of Art (2000)
- Painting
- Sculpture
- Drawing
- Prints
Dana Schutz paints invented scenes of bodily distortion, absurd situations, historical reference and social anxiety in saturated color. Her work became central to debates about representation after the 2017 controversy around Open Casket.
Painting; drawing; sculpture
Gallery Representation
Objects
Dana Schutz
Myopic
2004
An official Louisiana exhibition poster kept in circulation by the museum's own shop.
Artist Films
Dana Schutz on the personalities of paintings
San Francisco Museum of Modern ArtOfficial source ↗ (opens in a new window)
Major Works
- 2003Self-Eater
- 2002Frank as a Proboscis Monkey
- 2005Presentation
- 2007How We Would Give Birth
- 2016Open Casket
- 2001Sneeze
- 2004Surgery
- 2009Swimming, Smoking, Crying
- 2010Shaving
- 2018Boatman
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