Dana Frankfort

Born 1971, Houston, Texas
Lives in New York

Education

1997

Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
MFA, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT

Solo Exhibitions

2011

"Solo Show",Galleria Glance, Turin, Italy

"HI",La Montagne Gallery, New York, NY

2008

Sorry We're Closed, Brussels, Belgium
Greener Pastures Contemporary Art, Toronto, Canada

2007
"Word", Inman Gallery, Houston, TX
"DF", Bellwether, New York, NY

2006
"Believer", Kantor/Feuer Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2005
"What's So Funny", Brooklyn Fireproof, Brooklyn, NY

Group Exhibitions

2010

Greenberg Van Doren gallery, New York
2008

"Abstract America", The Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
"Small Show About Unnamed Style", curated by Dave Eggers, Apex Art, New York, NY
2007
"A New High in Getting Low", curated by John Connelly, Artnews Projects, Berlin, Germany

"In Defense of Ardor", Bellwether, New York, NY
"Joe Bradley, Ann Craven, Dana Frankfort, & Keith Mayerson", Zach Feuer Gallery, New York, NY
"Late Liberties", curated by Agusto Arbizo, John Connelly Presents, New York, NY
"Warhol and.", Kantor/Feuer Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"Post Retro", Brooklyn Fire Proof, Brooklyn, NY
"Loneliness and Melancholy", Hans Weiss Newspace Gallery, Manchester Community College, Manchester, CT
"I am the Walrus!", curated by David Coyle, Gallery 40000, Chicago, IL
"What F Word", curated by Carol Cole Levin, Cynthia Broan Gallery, NY, NY
2006

"Scarecrow", Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY
"History Lesson: Part III", Gavin Brown Enterprises-Passerby, New York, NY
"The Jaundiced Eye", Scope NY, New York, NY
"Something and Nothing", Exhibition Dynasty, Gallery MC, New York, NY
"Open Network: Brooklyn", Ampersand Inernational, San Francisco, CA
2005

"Suggestion, Belief, Emptiness", Jessica Murray Projects, New York, NY
"All In the Family", Texas Gallery, Houston, TX
"Glimpse", Mixed Greens, New York, NY
"Conversational Lag", Volume Gallery, New York, NY

2004
"August", Brooklyn Fireproof, Brooklyn, NY
"Grotto II", Jessica Murray Projects, Brooklyn, NY
2003

"The Light Show", Clock Tower, Brooklyn, NY
2000

"New Painting", Nancy Littlejohn Fine Art, Houston, TX
"New Work", Rudolph Poissant Gallery, Houston, TX
1999
"Red Hot: Painting", Arlington Museum of Art, Fort Worth, TX
"Core Fellows", MFA Exhibition, Glassell School Gallery, Houston, TX

Honors and awards

2006

Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship
2005

Artist-In-Residence, Ox-Bow, Saugatuck, MI
1999-2000

Core Fellow, MFA, The Glassell School of Art, Houston, TX

Press

2010

Dana Frankfort & Wendy White in Conversation - NYFA
2007
Neil, Jonathan T. D., "Late Liberties", Art Review, Issue 15, October, p. 148
Maine, Stephen, "Poles of the Feminist Spectrum", The New York Sun, October 4
Scott, Andrea, "Dana Frankfort/Abbey Williams", The New Yorker, October 1, p. 20
Miller, Keith (interviewer), "Dana Frankfort", The Rack Room, Artslant, September 26
Mueller, Stephen, "The Word May Be the Thing", Gay City News, September 20
Smith, Roberta, "Dana Frankfort: DF", The New York Times, September 14, E41
Weiner, David, "Dana Frankfort", The Chosen Issue, HEEB, #14, September
Goodbody, Bridget L., "Late Liberties", Art in Review, The New York Times, August 3
Holliday, Frank, "Abstraction Reconsidered", Gay City News, July 26
Schwendener, Martha, "Galleries: Chelsea, 'In Defense of Ardor'", The New Yorker, June 25, p. 22
Cotter, Holland, "What F Word?", The New York Times, March 9
2006
Fyfe, Joe, 'What's So Funny', Art In America, February
2005
Smith, Roberta, 'What's So Funny', The New York Times, June 24
McAdams, Shane, 'What's So Funny', The Brooklyn Rail, July
Johnson, Patricia, 'Esprit de Core' , Houston Chronicle, Houston, TX. March 21
1999
Reese, Christine, 'Not Art', Dallas Observer, Dallas, TX June 29
Dewan, Shaila, 'Remaining Calm', Houston Press, Houston, TX. April 8