Dana Hoey

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Dana Hoey (born 1966 Marin County, California) is a visual artist working with photography, using "the camera to reveal the inner life of women, especially young women." Her photographs are often ambiguous and have multiple meanings. [1] In 1999, in an exhibition entitled Phoenix she showed a series of seventeen black-and-white photo-prints and one forty-one-foot-long digital billboard image; writing in Frieze, Vince Aletti said, "the exhibition is a mystery that bristles with clues but is ultimately unsolved; perhaps it is unsolvable." [2] In her introduction to the catalog for Hoey's 2012 exhibit, The Phantom Sex, at the University Art Museum, University at Albany, curator Corinna Ripps Schaming wrote, "Using both staged and directed photography, her meticulously constructed pictures speak to her deep knowledge of the art and its ability to conflate fact and fiction. Her seemingly spontaneous pictures are choreographed through simple directives and are subject to her ruthless editorial eye, which is always attuned to bringing social dynamics to the fore." [3]

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She is represented by the Petzel Gallery in New York. In the biographical information about Hoey on the gallery website, they write, "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." [4]

Her work has been exhibited in the U.S., Germany, Switzerland, and London, England. [5] Hoey's most notable solo exhibitions have been at the Tache Levy Gallery in Belgium and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, in Washington, D.C. [6] Her work is included in collections at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, CA; the Middlebury College Museum of Art, VT; the National Museum of Women in the Arts, D.C.; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA; and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NY.

Hoey holds a B.A. from Wesleyan University (1989) and an M.F.A. from Yale University (1997). [7] [8] She also teaches at Bard College Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts and Columbia University.

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  1. ↑ Smith, Roberta (1997-09-12). "Art in Review". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 12 July 2022.
  2. ↑ Aletti, Vince (1999). "Dana Hoey". Frieze Magazine. Archived from the original on 24 October 2012.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Hoey, Dana (2012). The Phantom Sex (pdf). Albany: University Art Museum, University at Albany, State University of New York. ISBN   978-0-910763-44-8. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 March 2021.
  4. 1 2 3 4 "Dana Hoey - Biography". Petzel Gallery. Retrieved 2018-04-09.
  5. ↑ "Visiting Artists & Designers: Dana Hoey". University of Maryland, Baltimore County. 2010. Archived from the original on 19 July 2017. Retrieved 24 September 2015.
  6. ↑ "Dana Hoey". Muse. Archived from the original on 25 September 2015. Retrieved 24 September 2015.
  7. ↑ Genocchio, Benjamin (16 November 2003). "Art Review; Old Faces Inaugurate a Renovated Gallery for Wesleyan". The New York Times .
  8. ↑ "Dana Hoey". LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies. Columbia University - School of the Arts. Retrieved 24 September 2015.
  9. ↑ "Exhibitions - Dana Hoey". Petzel Gallery. 1997. Retrieved 12 July 2022.
  10. ↑ "Exhibitions - Dana Hoey - Phoenix". Petzel Gallery. 1999. Retrieved 12 July 2022.
  11. 1 2 3 4 Carey, Brainard (2 August 2018). "Dana Hoey". Museum of Nonvisible Art. Yale University Radio - WYBCX. Retrieved 12 July 2022.
  12. ↑ "Exhibitions - Dana Hoey - Moon Bitches". Petzel Gallery. 2002. Retrieved 12 July 2022.
  13. ↑ "Exhibitions - Dana Hoey - Pattern Recognition". Petzel Gallery. 2006. Retrieved 12 July 2022.
  14. ↑ "Exhibitions - Dana Hoey - Experiments In Primitive Living". Petzel Gallery. 2008. Retrieved 12 July 2022.
  15. ↑ "Exhibitions: Dana Hoey: The Phantom Sex". University at Albany. 2012. Retrieved 12 July 2022.
  16. ↑ "Summer Exposure: Photographic Works by Martin Benjamin, Carolyn Marks Blackwood, Tom Fels, Dana Hoey, and William Jaeger". Albany Institute of History & Art. 2014. Retrieved 2018-04-09.
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