Dean Dempsey

Dean Dempsey (born 1986) is an American visual artist, actor and filmmaker based in New York, New York. His art practice spans a range of media including photography, painting, drawing and video. He is also the writer and director of his debut feature film Candy Apple (2015), for which he won the NY Perspectives Award at the Winter Film Awards the following year.[1] Dempsey later directed and co-wrote his second feature-length movie Deadman's Barstool (2018), and played lead actor in Flasher (in post-production) .[2][3][4][5][6] In 2018, he was featured in New York Magazine's "The Cut - They Seem Cool" column entitled, "The Painter Who Loves To Hate The Art World."[7]

Life and career

Dempsey was born in Tucson, Arizona. He received his BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2009 with study at the Chelsea College of Art and Design in London in 2008. He went on to do a residency at the Villa Waldberta in Feldafing, Germany in 2012, which resulted in the exhibition Next Generation: Contemporary American Photography at Munich's Pasinger Fabrik & Amerika Haus that same year.[8][9] Dempsey's studio is in Orchard Street, New York City. His first two-artist exhibition in the New York City was held at the BOSI Contemporary gallery in 2012, curated by Renato Miracco and entitled Mutatio.[10] This was followed in 2013 by his first solo exhibition there.[11]

Exhibitions
  • 2007 - Another Country, Worth Ryder Gallery, University of California, Berkeley, curated by Allan deSouza.
  • 2007 - Regeneration, Hall of Flowers, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco
  • 2009 - Dislocation, Exploration and Meaning Gallery 39K, Lahore, Pakistan.
  • 2009 - Re-Think, Matisonn Burgin: Shoreditch Space, London
  • 2010 - Counterpoint 2010, Togonon Gallery, San Francisco.
  • 2010 - Borders, Root Division, San Francisco
  • 2011 - Dean Dempsey: Selected Works, solo exhibition, Togonon Gallery, San Francisco[12]
  • 2012 - Dean Dempsey, solo exhibition, MC2Gallery, Milan, Italy.
  • 2012 - En Foco: Selected Works from the Permanent Collection, Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, D.C.[8]
  • 2012 - Next Generation: Contemporary American Photography, Pasinger Fabrik & Amerika Haus, Munich, Germany.[13]
  • 2012 - Art Stays 2012, 10th Festival of Contemporary Art, with MC2 Gallery, Ptuj, Slovenia.[14]
  • 2012 - En Foco: Selected Works from the Permanent Collection, Aljira Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, New Jersey[8]
  • 2012 - Mutatio, two-artist exhibition with Max Glaser, Bosi Contemporary, New York City, curated by Renato Miracco.
  • 2013 - Dean Dempsey, solo exhibition, Bosi Contemporary, New York City
  • 2013 - Vital Signs: The Enigma of Identity, Pelham Art Center, Pelham, New York, curated by Lisa Banner and Kathleen Monaghan.[15]
  • 2014 - 5 Year Anniversary Show, Ever Gold Gallery, San Francisco
  • 2016 - "Black", Two-person exhibit, Spring/Break Art Show, New York, NY, curated by Kara Brooks.

Collections

Dempsey's work is held in the collections of:

References
  1. "Dean Dempsey". Winter Film Awards. 2018-02-14. Retrieved 2018-04-04.
  2. Zimmer, Lori (10 July 2014). "Creem Presents Candy Apple". Art Nerd New York. Retrieved 14 July 2014.
  3. Huston, Johnny Ray (4 August 2010). "The Photo Issue: Dean Dempsey". San Francisco Bay Guardian. Retrieved 7 July 2014.
  4. Creem Magazine (2014). Candy Apple Archived 2014-07-07 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 7 July 2014.
  5. Banner, Lisa A. (18 June 2013). "Interview with Dean Dempsey at his studio on Orchard Street, New York City". Site95. Retrieved 7 July 2014.
  6. "Dean Dempsey". IMDb. Retrieved 2018-04-04.
  7. Tsui, Diana (October 25, 2018). "They Seem Cool". The Cut.
  8. En Foco. Photographers: Dean Dempsey Archived 2013-08-07 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 7 July 2014.
  9. Internationales Künstlerhaus Villa Waldberta (2012), p. 23. Landeshauptstädt München. Retrieved 7 July 2014.
  10. BOSI Contemporary Mutatio Archived 2014-07-14 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 14 July 2014.
  11. Del Monte, Diana (18 April 2012). "BOSI. Storia di una famiglia, un uomo e una galleria". i-italy (Italian/American Digital Project). Retrieved 7 July 2014 (in Italian).
  12. Huston, Johnny Ray (7 April 2011). "First Thursday: Deathly portraits, cubic rams, smudgy painted mutts, and Aids 3-D". San Francisco Bay Guardian. Retrieved 7 July 2014.
  13. Betz, Thomas (November 2012). "Rätsel- und Zeigebilder" Archived 2014-07-14 at the Wayback Machine (review). Münchner Feuilleton, p. 4. Retrieved 7 July 2014 (in German)
  14. Art Stays: Festival of Contemporary Art (2012 programme book), p. 24. Retrieved 7 July 2014.
  15. Banner, Lisa and Monaghan, Kathleen (2013). Catalog: Vital Signs Archived 2014-07-14 at the Wayback Machine. Pelham Art Center. Retrieved 7 July 2014.
  16. Crocker Art Museum (2013). Annual Report 2012–2013 Archived 2014-07-14 at the Wayback Machine, p. 4. Retrieved 7 July 2014.
  17. Kinsey Institute (2012). Left/over from the series Fragmentations (2010), Dean Dempsey. Retrieved 7 July 2014.
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