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Dana Hoey, Bull Whip, 2022

Dana Hoey

Bull Whip, 2022

Archival inkjet

Unframed:
16 x 24 inches
40.6 x 61 cm
Framed Dimensions:
16.5 x 24.5 x 1.25 inches

Edition 1/2, 1 AP

(DH 22/012)

Dana Hoey -  - Viewing Room - Petzel Gallery

Dana Hoey (b. 1966, San Francisco, CA) is an American photographer based in the Hudson Valley, New York. She received a B.A. in Philosophy from Wesleyan University and an M.F.A. in photography from the Yale University School of Art.

The artist’s work examines contemporary female identity through staged and directed photographs and videos, which set off “peculiarly allusive narrative sparks” by echoing familiar photographic and filmic conventions. At the beginning of her career, Hoey photographed her friends, but her oeuvre has since widened to portray women of all ages in various scenarios. Pushing the photographic and video medium’s tendency to blur the line between fact and fiction, interior and exterior appearance, Hoey interrogates the social roles that women play.

Hoey has exhibited in museums and galleries internationally. Solo exhibitions include Dana Hoey: Five Rings, Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit, MI (2017); Dana Hoey & Em Rooney, Raising Cattle, Montreal (2016); Love Your Enemy, at the Albany Institute of History & Art, NY (2014); Experiments in Primitive Living, organized by Maurice Berger, at the Center for Art Design and Visual Culture, University of Maryland in Baltimore, MD (2010); and Dana Hoey at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C. (2000). Selected group exhibition include We Pictured You Reading This at Redux Contemporary Art Center in Charleston, SC (2010); Found on Facebook at the Arthur M. Berger Art Gallery, Manhattanville College in Purchase, NY (2010); and Muse at the Wildenberg Art Center, Tulane University in New Orleans, LA (2010).

Her work is held in various public collections including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NY; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, CA; Middlebury College Museum of Art, VT; Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.; the Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL; Princeton University Art Museum, NJ; The Cornell Fine Arts Museum at Rollins College, Winter Park, FL; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA. 

Dana Hoey: Dana Hoey Presents, Petzel Gallery, 2019  Installation view

Dana Hoey: Dana Hoey Presents, Petzel Gallery, 2019

Installation view

Dana Hoey: Dana Hoey Presents, Petzel Gallery, 2019, Installation view

Dana Hoey: Dana Hoey Presents, Petzel Gallery, 2019

Installation view

Dana Hoey: Five Rings, Detroit Museum of Contemporary Art, 2017  Installation view

Dana Hoey: Five Rings, Detroit Museum of Contemporary Art, 2017

Installation view

Dana Hoey: The Phantom Sex, Petzel Gallery, 2013

Dana Hoey: The Phantom Sex, Petzel Gallery, 2013

Installation view

Experiments in Primitive Living, curated by Maurice Berger, Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, University of Maryland, 2010

Experiments in Primitive Living, Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, University of Maryland, 2010

Installation view