I stepped away from making art around 2010. About 8 years later I started dabbling again and have gratefully found my way back. Painting is such a weird, difficult, surprising, fun and terrible endeavor - same as it ever was.

Contact: mini.micro.studio at gmail.com

Dana Carlson

lives and works in Queens, NYC

Education

  • 2001 MFA, Hunter College, New York, NY
  • 1992BFA, University of Iowa, Iowa City

Awards

  • Vermont Studio Center residency, 2001
  • William Graf travel grant (Hunter College Award), 2000
  • Millay Colony residency, 1997
  • The Marie Walsh-Sharpe Foundation, Space Program, 1995
  • The Fine Arts Work Center, Myron Stout Fellowship, 1993-94

Exhibitions

  • 2009Trick of Light, Mahan Gallery, Columbus, OH
    Over and Under, Yard Dog Art, Austin, TX
  • 2008Pink Worlds, two person exhibition with Fawn Gehweiler @ Aftermodern, San Francisco, CA
  • 2007Meta-Majesty, Explosivo/Chasama, NY
    She was Born to be My Unicorn, Smith-Stewart, NY
    Horizon, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Gallery, NY
    Femmes Forces, Ai Gallery, Chicago, IL
    Our Dark Heroes, Secret Project Robot, Brooklyn, NY
  • 2006The Norf*ckneasters Take Pluto, Pluto, Brooklyn, NY
    Flight Plan, Morgan Lehman Gallery, NY
    Queen of Hearts, Paper Boat Gallery, Milwaukee
  • 2005solo exhibition, Baumgartner Gallery, New York, NY
    Prints and Plushies, Nonesuch, Richmond, Virginia
    24 frames a second anniversary show, Here Gallery, Bristol, UK
    Explosivo! Art Show, Stay Gold, Brooklyn, NY
    Stitch or Swallow, Here Gallery, Bristol, UK
  • 2003Group Show, Monya Rowe, Brooklyn, NY
    Drawings, etc., Lipstick Traces, Seattle, WA
  • 2002Artists to Artists: A Decade of the Space Program, Ace Gallery, New York, NY
    Drawings, etc., Lipstick Traces, Seattle, WA
  • 2001Peace, Sideshow, Brooklyn, NY
    Former Fellows, Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA

Publications

  • The Great Escape, Die Gestalten Verlag, pgs 41 and 66, 2006
  • Lauren Viera, "Bring on the Rainbows," Venus magazine, no.16, Summer 2003; pgs.16-17