All artworks by Dana Schutz
Recognition
The Artist was highlighted in an article in ArtMajeur Magazine
Biography
Dana Schutz, born in 1976 in Livonia, Michigan, is a prominent American painter and sculptor known for her vivid, gestural, and often surreal figurative works. Her art explores complex narratives, frequently depicting imagined or impossible scenarios that comment on contemporary life.
Raised in suburban Detroit, Schutz was influenced early by her mother, an art teacher, and her father, a school counselor. She graduated from Adlai E. Stevenson High School in 1995 and went on to earn her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Cleveland Institute of Art in 2000. During her studies, she attended the Norwich School of Art and Design in England and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine. She completed her Master of Fine Arts at Columbia University in New York in 2002.
Schutz gained early recognition with her debut exhibition Frank from Observation at LFL Gallery (now Zach Feuer Gallery) in 2002, featuring a fictional character, Frank, imagined as the last man on Earth. Her paintings, marked by bold color palettes and dynamic compositions, often portray exaggerated figures in fantastical situations, blending humor with sharp psychological and social commentary. In addition to painting, she has created sculptures, extending her narrative style into three dimensions.
Her work has been widely exhibited internationally and is part of the collections at major institutions including the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. She has achieved notable market success, with her painting Civil Planning selling for $2 million at auction. Throughout her career, Schutz has received prestigious awards such as the Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant, the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award.
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Nationality:
UNITED STATES
- Date of birth : 1976
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- Groups: Contemporary American Artists Artists presented by a gallery