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Dana Hoey is a feminist artist who has exhibited and taught since 1996. She works in photography and video, but appreciates working with artists of all genres. She is represented by Petzel Gallery, NY, and has presented solo museum exhibits at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington DC, The Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture at the University of Maryland, and The University Art Museum at the University at Albany, NY. Currently she has a large video installation “Fighters” as part of “Photography in the Expanded Field” at MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA. She was professor at Columbia School of Art from 2001 to 2007, and currently is visiting artist at The Cooper Union, NYC and Bard College MFA program. Three books are available on her work, “The Phantom Sex” with essay by Johanna Burton, “Experiments in Primitive Living”, with essay by Maurice Berger, and “Profane Waste” in collaboration with the writer Gretchen Rubin. The persistent questions in her work regard representation, beauty and the possibility of political art.
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source: artsynet
Photographer Dana Hoey achieved recognition for her staged compositions investigating women’s social roles and relationships, often depicting counter-cultural, idealistic figures, as in Freedom Officers (1999), two female correction officers on four-wheelers, or Pregnant Smoker (2002), a woman reclining in ecstatic triumph. Recently, she has departed from her narrative style in series like “Pattern Recognition” (2006), kaleidoscopic collages of original and appropriated images of women, and “Experiments in Primitive Living” (2007-2008), a photographic cycle exploring life under different weather conditions.

American, b. 1966, San Francisco, California, based in New York, New York