Dana Schutz was born and grew up in Livonia, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit.
20 Facts About Dana Schutz
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Dana Schutz's mother was an art teacher in a junior high school and an amateur painter, her father a high school counselor.
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An only child, Schutz graduated in 1995 from Adlai E Stevenson High School.
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In 1999, while pursuing her BFA at the Cleveland Institute of Art, Dana Schutz then went abroad to attend the Norwich School of Art and Design in Norwich, England.
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In 2002, Dana Schutz received her MFA from Columbia University in New York City.
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Dana Schutz first came to attention in 2002 with her debut exhibition Frank from Observation at LFL gallery.
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Dana Schutz has become a reliable conjurer of wickedly grotesque creatures and absurd situations, willed into existence by her vigorous and wildly colorful brush strokes.
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Dana Schutz has challenged herself to come up with a subject that's too awkward, gross, impractical or invisible to paint.
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In 2012 Dana Schutz presented her exhibition Piano in the Rain at Petzel Gallery in New York.
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Dana Schutz seems to want every stroke and smudge of paint to register separately so that you can see through to the bare canvas and reconstruct her every move as she fearlessly tackles life's flux.
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Dana Schutz has shown sculptures in 2019 at Petzel Gallery in New York that were first made in clay and then cast in bronze.
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Dana Schutz's work was included in the 2022 exhibition Women Painting Women at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth.
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Dana Schutz was the last man on earth and I was the last audience and his last witness.
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Dana Schutz would pose for me and I would make other people and events out of him.
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One interpretation of Dana Schutz's exhibit is the chance to start anew; no laws, no society, and no one else to hold oneself accountable.
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Dana Schutz' painting of the corpse of Emmett Till, titled Open Casket, drew protests when shown in the 2017 Whitney Biennial, and there were demands that it be removed from the show.
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Dana Schutz's 2016 painting Open Casket derives from the photograph of the mutilated corpse of Emmett Till, whose mother, Mamie Till Mobley, insisted on an open casket at his 1955 funeral because she wanted her community to see what had happened to her son.
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Dana Schutz is represented by Petzel Gallery in New York and Contemporary Fine Arts in Berlin.
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Dana Schutz has participated in group exhibitions including the Venice Biennial, Prague Biennial, Greater New York at MoMA PS1, Take Two.
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Dana Schutz is married to the artist Ryan Johnson, whom she met interviewing for entry into Columbia's MFA program.