Aria Dean

Aria Dean (born 1993) is an American critic, artist, and curator.[1] Dean is the assistant curator of net art and digital culture at Rhizome.[2][3] Her writings have appeared in various art publications including Artforum, e-flux, The New Inquiry, Art in America, and Topical Cream.[4] Dean has exhibited internationally at venues such as Foxy Production and American Medium in New York, Chateau Shatto in Los Angeles, and Arcadia Missa in London.[5] Dean also co-directs As It Stands LA, an artists project space that opened in 2015.[6] Dean lives and works in Los Angeles, California.

Early life and education

Dean was born in 1993. Dean graduated from Oberlin College in 2015.[7]

Work

After graduating from Oberlin College, Dean was appointed social media coordinator for the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art.

In September 2016, ARTnews announced that Dean had been appointed assistant curator of net art and digital culture for Rhizome.[8] Dean works to help Rhizome's efforts to preserve, present, and re-perform works of net art from the 1980s to the present day (called Net Art Anthology), organize events, and publish articles online.[9]

Dean's first solo exhibition, Baby Is A Cool Machine, opened at American Medium in 2017. The exhibition, according to the gallery's website, "hones in on her materially-driven examination of the situation of blackness in the United States."[10] The show was critically praised by James Hannaham at 4Columns and selected by Kat Herriman as a Critic's Picks for Artforum.[11][12] In 2018, Aria Dean was named one of Cultured Magazine's[13] 30 artists under 35.

In late 2017, Dean curated New Black Portraitures as part of Rhizome's Net Art Anthology.[14] The online exhibition included visual artists Manuel Arturo Abreu, Hamishi Farah, Juliana Huxtable, Rindon Johnson, Pastiche Lumumba, N-Prolenta (Brandon Covington), Sondra Perry, and Redeem Pettaway and, "explored the changing status of black portraiture in relation to strategies for visibility, concealment, and self-representation online."[15]

In early 2018, Dean wrote and directed a play for the Swiss Institute in New York.[16]

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

  • Gut Pinch, The Sunroom, Richmond, VA 2018[17]
  • Baby is a Cool Machine, American Medium, New York, NY 2017

Selected two-person exhibitions

  • White Ppl Think I'm Radical, Arcadia Missa, London, U.K., 2017[18]

Selected group exhibitions

  • The Pain of Others, curated by Myriam Ben Salah, Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2018
  • Condo New York: Château Shatto, Los Angeles, presents: Jean Baudrillard, Body by Body, Aria Dean, Jacqueline de Jong, Foxy Productions, New York, NY 2017[19]
  • At this stage, Château Shatto, Los Angeles, CA 2017[20]

Selected lectures/presentations

  • "Notes on BlacceleraLon," Reed College, September 1, 2017
  • "Blackness Against the Digital," University of the Arts, Helsinki, April 2017
  • "Busta Rhymes at the End of the World," Machine Project, LA, February 24, 2017
  • "Our Bodies, Online" panel at the New School, February 7, 2017
  • "Blackness in CirculaLon," panel at Open Score, New Museum, 2016
  • "Due West," Arcadia Missa/Dominica Reading at LACA, Los Angeles 2016

Bibliography

Essays

  • Notes on Blacceleration (e-flux, 2017)[21]
  • The Demand Remains (The New Inquiry, 2017)[22]
  • Poor Meme, Rich Meme (REALLIFE Magazine, 2016)[23]
  • Alex Da Corte (Artforum, 2016)[24]
  • Closing the Loop (The New Inquiry, 2016)[25]

References

  1. ↑ "Notes on Blacceleration – Journal #87 December 2017 – e-flux". www.e-flux.com. Retrieved 2018-01-16.
  2. ↑ Durón, Maximilíano (September 22, 2016). "Rhizome Hires Aria Dean as Assistant Curator of Net Art". ARTnews. Retrieved 2018-01-15.
  3. ↑ "Announcing: Aria Dean appointed as Rhizome's assistant curator of net art". Rhizome. Retrieved 2018-01-15.
  4. ↑ "Announcing: Aria Dean appointed as Rhizome's assistant curator of net art". Rhizome. Retrieved 2018-01-15.
  5. ↑ "Variation and Repetition: Aria Dean •Mousse Magazine". moussemagazine.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2018-01-15.
  6. ↑ "Baby is a Cool Machine". American Medium. Retrieved 2018-01-15.
  7. ↑ Hannaham, James. "Aria Dean". Retrieved 2018-02-06.
  8. ↑ Durón, Maximilíano (September 22, 2016). "Rhizome Hires Aria Dean as Assistant Curator of Net Art". ARTnews. Retrieved 2018-01-16.
  9. ↑ "Announcing: Aria Dean appointed as Rhizome's assistant curator of net art". Rhizome. Retrieved 2018-02-06.
  10. ↑ "Baby is a Cool Machine". American Medium. Retrieved 2018-02-06.
  11. ↑ Hannaham, James. "Aria Dean". Retrieved 2018-02-06.
  12. ↑ "Aria Dean at american medium". www.artforum.com. Retrieved 2018-02-06.
  13. ↑ Dean, Aria. "Aria Dean Cultured Magazine". Retrieved 2018-02-06.
  14. ↑ "online black art is moving from instagram to bitmapping". I-d. January 31, 2018. Retrieved 2018-02-06.
  15. ↑ "New Black Portraitures". www.newmuseum.org. Retrieved 2018-02-06.
  16. ↑ "SI OFFSITE | LUNAR INTERVAL IV: FULL MOON | Aria Dean: Get-Together: A Tragedy of Language | Swiss Institute". www.swissinstitute.net. Retrieved 2018-03-27.
  17. ↑ "Gut Pinch". thesunroom.xyz. Retrieved 2018-02-06.
  18. ↑ "White ppl think I'm radical, Arcadia Missa". Arcadia Missa. Retrieved 2018-01-16.
  19. ↑ "Condo New York | Chateau Shatto". chateaushatto.com. Retrieved 2018-01-16.
  20. ↑ "At this stage | Chateau Shatto". chateaushatto.com. Retrieved 2018-01-16.
  21. ↑ "Notes on Blacceleration – Journal #87 December 2017 – e-flux". www.e-flux.com. Retrieved 2018-01-16.
  22. ↑ "The Demand Remains". The New Inquiry. March 28, 2017. Retrieved 2018-01-16.
  23. ↑ "Poor Meme, Rich Meme – Real Life". Real Life. Retrieved 2018-01-16.
  24. ↑ Dean, Aria. "Alex Da Corte at Art + Practice". artforum.com. Retrieved 2018-01-16.
  25. ↑ "Closing the Loop". The New Inquiry. March 1, 2016. Retrieved 2018-01-16.
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