Aria Dean
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Aria Dean’s multifarious practice is defined by a playful and probing dialogue with representational systems. Her sculptures, installations, videos and essays unsettle the status and operational motives of the art object, and emphasize dispossession and circulation over a static dictation of meaning
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Facts Worth Knowing
2024
Installation view
Château Shatto, Los Angeles
o, ye I encountered context exposed at the nape of your neck/stripped flat to hold space for your friends
2024
Bronze
17.5 x 32.25 x 29.5 in / 44.5 x 83 x 74.9 cm
Facts Worth Knowing
2024
Installation view
Château Shatto, Los Angeles
so solid
2024
Bronze
35 x 34 x 34 in / 89 x 86.4 x 86.4 cm
Aria Dean: Abattoir
2024
Installation view
Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
Aria Dean: Abattoir
2024
Installation view
Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
Aria Dean: Abattoir
2024
Installation view
Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
Wolves
2023
Installation view
Progetto, Lecce
Wolves
2023
Installation view
Progetto, Lecce
Wolves
2023
Installation view
Progetto, Lecce
Together in Time
2023
Installation view
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Together in Time
2023
Installation view
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Abattoir, U.S.A!
2023
Installation view
The Renaissance Society, Chicago
Abattoir, U.S.A!
2023
Installation view
The Renaissance Society, Chicago
Art Basel Statements
2022
Installation view
with Château Shatto, Basel
I Think We’re Alone Now / Hillside Casablanca v 1 (1.0)
2022
Hard foam, MDF, coated and painted
60.3 x 38 x 26 in / 153.2 x 96.5 x 66 cm
I Think We’re Alone Now / Hillside Casablanca v 1 (1.0)
2022
Detail
ERASER (scratch for use)
2021
Cryogenically engraved crepe rubber, aluminum
36.25 x 41.75 in / 92.1 x 106 cm
Suite!
2021
REDCAT, Los Angeles
Installation view
Suite!
2021
REDCAT, Los Angeles
Installation view
Suite!
2021
REDCAT, Los Angeles
Installation view
Show Your Work Little Temple
2021
Greene Naftali, New York
Installation view
Eraser (that’s the abattoir!)
2021
Cryogenically engraved crepe rubber, aluminum
16.25 x 13.25 x 0.88 in / 41.3 x 33.7 x 2.2 cm
Show Your Work Little Temple
2021
Greene Naftali, New York
Installation view
Show Your Work Little Temple
2021
Greene Naftali, New York
Installation view
Eraser (plastic phenomena)
2021 Cryogenically engraved crepe rubber, aluminum
36.25 x 13.25 x 0.88 inches (92.1 x 33.7 x 2.2 cm each
36.25 x 41.75 x 0.88 in / 92.1 x 106 x 2.2 cm overall
Show Your Work Little Temple
2021
Greene Naftali, New York
Installation view
Show Your Work Little Temple
2021
Greene Naftali, New York
Installation view
Work (tout son col secouera cette blanche agonie)
2021
3D print in polylactic acid, pigmented silicone
66.25 x 35.75 x 35.75 in / 168.3 x 90.8 x 90.8 cm
Show Your Work Little Temple
2021
Greene Naftali, New York
Installation view
Figure Head
2021
Drywall, aluminum studs, wood, acrylic paint Dimensions variable
Work (new eye rag)
2021
3D print in polylactic acid, pigmented silicone 69.75 x 35.75 x 35.75 in / 177.2 x 90.8 x 90.8 cm
Studio Parasite
2021
Cordova Gallery, Barcelona
Installation view
Studio Parasite
2021
Cordova Gallery, Barcelona
Installation view
Studio Parasite
2021
Cordova Gallery, Barcelona
Installation view
Studio Parasite
2021
Detail
Les Simulachres
2020
Acrylic
Dimensions variable
Made in L.A. 2020: a version
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Installation view
Les Simulachres
2020
Detail
King of the Loop
2020
Steel, acrylic, polyester window film, monitors
120 x 144 x 144 in / 304.8 x 365.8 x 365.8 cm
Made in L.A. 2020: a version
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Installation view
King of the Loop
2020
Steel, acrylic, polyester window film, monitors
120 x 144 x 144 in / 304.8 x 365.8 x 365.8 cm
Made in L.A. 2020: a version
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Installation view
King of the Loop
2020
Detail
Ironic Ionic Replica
2020
Engineered wood, latex coating
136 x 71.75 x 48 in / 345.4 x 182.2 x 121.9 cm
Made in L.A. 2020: a version
The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino
Installation view
Frieze Los Angeles
2020
Installation view
Dead Zone (4)
2019
Cotton branch, polyurethane, bell jar, wood, signal jammer
13.25 x 12.5 x 12.5 in / 33.7 x 31.8 x 31.8 cm
Dead Zone (4)
2020
Detail
Mise en abyme 2.0
2020
Blackened steel with stainless steel standoffs
35 x 21.75 in / 88.9 x 55 cm
cipher (4)
2020
Mirror, vinyl wall text
Dimensions variable
cipher (4)
2020
Detail
Aria Dean, Helen Marten, Kelley Walker, Olga Balema, Raque Ford
2020
Greene Naftali, New York
Installation view
Ironic Ionic Replica
2020
Engineered wood, latex coating
136 x 71.75 x 48 in / 345.4 x 182.2 x 121.9 cm
Aria Dean, Helen Marten, Kelley Walker, Olga Balema, Raque Ford
2020
Greene Naftali, New York
Installation view
Mise en abyme 1.0, 2020
2020
Blackened steel with stainless steel standoffs
43 x 36.25 x 2 in / 109.2 x 92.1 x 5.1 cm
Production for a Circle
2019
Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève, Geneva
Installation view
Production for a Circle
2019
Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève, Geneva
Installation view
Production for a Circle
2019
Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève, Geneva
Installation view
Phantom Plane, Cyberpunk in the Year of the Future
2019
Tai Kwun, Hong Kong
Installation view
Dead Zone (copy)
2019
Cotton branch, polyurethane, bell jar, wood, signal jammer
13.25 x 12.5 x 12.5 in / 33.7 x 31.8 x 31.8 cm
Great Force
2019
Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond
Installation view
Great Force
2019
Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond
Installation view
Great Force
2019
Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond
Installation view
Great Force
2019
Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond
Installation view
Great Force
2019
Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond
Installation view
Great Force
2019
Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond
Installation view
(meta) models or how i got my groove back
2019
Chapter, NY
Installation view
Discoveries
2019
Art Basel, Hong Kong
Installation view
(meta)model: fraternity
2019
Security mirror, oak
38 x 36 x 10 in / 96.5 x 66 x 25.4 cm
Recto
(meta)model: fraternity
2019
Verso
Frieze Los Angeles 2019
Installation view
box (a clear mirror)
2018
etched plexiglass
6 x 10 x 12 in / 15.24 x 25.4 x 30.48 cm
'Some Kind of Halfway Place,' Higher Pictures, New York
BLACKBOX
2017
Etched plexiglass
6 x 10 x 12 in / 15.24 x 25.4 x 30.48 cm
Proof of Work
2018
Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin
Installation view
A River Called Death and But as One Doesn’t Know Where My Centre Is, One Will With Difficulty Ascertain The Truth . . . Though This Task Has Made Me Ill, It Will Also Make Me Healthy Again (Crowd Index)
2018
Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo
Installation view
Eulogy for a Black Mass and But as One Doesn’t Know Where My Centre Is, One Will With Difficulty Ascertain The Truth . . . Though This Task Has Made Me Ill, It Will Also Make Me Healthy Again (Crowd Index)
2018
Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo
Installation view
Honey
2018
Bodega, New York
Installation view
cipher (3)
2018
Mirror, vinyl wall text
Dimensions variable
'Honey,' Bodega, New York
cipher (3)
2018
Detail
But as One Doesn’t Know Where My Centre Is, One Will With Difficulty Ascertain The Truth . . . Though This Task Has Made Me Ill, It Will Also Make Me Healthy Again (Crowd Index)
2018
Video
10 min 47 sec
'lonesome crowded west,' Château Shatto, Los Angeles
Installation view
But as One Doesn’t Know Where My Centre Is, One Will With Difficulty Ascertain The Truth . . . Though This Task Has Made Me Ill, It Will Also Make Me Healthy Again(Crowd Index)
2018
Video still
But as One Doesn’t Know Where My Centre Is, One Will With Difficulty Ascertain The Truth . . . Though This Task Has Made Me Ill, It Will Also Make Me Healthy Again(Crowd Index)
2018
Video still
Summer Ghost
2018
Silk, galvanized steel, glass
61 x 15 x 15 in / 154.9 x 38.1 x 38.1 cm
'lonesome crowded west,' Château Shatto, Los Angeles
Installation view
Forward Proxy 1.1
2018
Clay, resin, wood
30 (diameter) x 3 (height) in / 76.2 (diameter) x 7.6 (height) cm
'lonesome crowded west,' Château Shatto, Los Angeles
Forward Proxy 1.1
2018
Clay, resin, wood
Side view
A River Called Death
2017
7:33 minutes
A River Called Death
2017
7:33 minutes
Installation view
'Gut Pinch,' The Sunroom, Richmond
Cipher (2)
2017
Mirror, vinyl and wall text
With Untitled (Bale #1) reflected
Dimensions variable
'Gut Pinch,' The Sunroom, Richmond
Untitled (Obscenities)
2017
Galvanizing steel, silk, wax, chain
39 x 50 x 10 in / 99 x 127 x 3.9 cm
'Baby is a Cool Machine,' American Medium, New York
BLACKBOX
2017
Etched plexiglass
6 x 10 x 12 in / 15.24 x 25.4 x 30.48 cm
'Baby is a Cool Machine,' American Medium, New York
Untitled (Canvas #1)
2017
Cotton batting, stretcher bars
48 x 36 in / 122 x 91.5 cm
'Baby is a Cool Machine,' American Medium, New York
cipher (1)
2017
Mirror, vinyl wall text
Dimension variable
'Discretion,' BFA Boatos Fine Arts, São Paulo
At this stage
2018
Installation View
Château Shatto, Los Angeles
Dead Zone (1)
2017
Cotton branch, polyurethane, bell jar, wood, signal jammer
13.25 (height) x 12.5 (diameter) in / 33.7 x 31.75 cm
Wata Proxy (Yazoo City, MS)
with Aallyah Wright
2017
Digital photographs, white frames
18.8 x 10.4 in / 48 x 26.5 cm
'White Ppl Think I’m Radical,' Arcadia Missa, London
Wata (Yazoo City, MS)
with Aallyah Wright
2017
Video, 2:51 min
'White Ppl Think I’m Radical,' Arcadia Missa, London
A Regular Thing
2017
Burnt vests on hangers, candlewax
110.63 x 37.4 in / 281 x 95 cm
'White Ppl Think I’m Radical,' Arcadia Missa, London
Gear
2016
FUBU Sneakers, Expanding Foam
13 x 13 x 7 in / 33 x 33 x 17.78 cm
'West Hollywood,' AA|LA, Los Angeles