Dana Schutz was born in 1976 in Livonia, Michigan. She received her BFA at the Cleveland Institute Art and her MFA at Columbia University in 2002. Schutz’s fictive subjects have ranged from people who can eat themselves, a gravity fanatic, imaginary births and deaths, and public/private performers. She has been the subject of museum exhibitions both nationally and internationally. Most recently, a survey exhibition of her work at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montreal opened on October 17, 2015. Her solo museum shows include, The Hepworth Wakefield, Yorkshire; kestnergesellschaft, Hannover; The Neuberger Museum, Purchase; Miami Art Museum, Miami; the Denver Art Museum and the Denver Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver; Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, the Museo d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Italy, The Rose Museum, Massachusetts, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland and the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas. Dana Schutz lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She is represented by Petzel Gallery in New York and Contemporary Fine Arts in Berlin.
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