Harry Dodge

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Harry Dodge
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Born1966 (age 57–58)
San Francisco, California, U.S.
Alma mater Bard College
Occupation(s)sculptor, performer, video artist, professor, writer.
Employer California Institute of the Arts
Spouse Maggie Nelson
Children2

Harry Dodge (born 1966) is an American sculptor, performer, video artist, professor, and writer.

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His solo exhibitions have included works in New York, Los Angeles and Connecticut, while his group exhibitions have taken place at The New Museum, the Whitney Biennial, the Getty Museum and the Hammer Museum, among others. He was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2017 and is the author of the book My Meteorite: Or, Without the Random There Can Be No New Thing (2020). He lives and works in Los Angeles, California.

Early life

Dodge was born in 1966 in San Francisco, California. [1] [2] Dodge earned an MFA degree in Fine Art in 2002 from the Milton Avery School of the Arts at Bard College. [3]

Career

In the early 1990s, Dodge was one of the founders of and curators for the San Francisco community-based performance space, Red Dora's Bearded Lady Coffeehouse. [4] [5] During this time Dodge wrote, directed, and performed several evening-length, monologue-based performances, including "Muddy Little River" (1996) and "From Where I'm Sitting (I Can Only Reach Your Ass)" (1997). [6]

In the late 1990s, Dodge co-wrote, directed, edited and starred in (with Silas Howard) a narrative feature film, By Hook or By Crook, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival (2002), and received five Best Feature awards at various film festivals. [7] Dodge also performed in the 2000 John Waters film Cecil B. Demented . [8] [9]

From 2004 to 2008, while continuing to make solo work, Dodge formed half of a video-making collaboration with artist Stanya Kahn. [10]

Since 2008, Dodge has focused on sculpture, drawing, video, and writing. His interdisciplinary practice is “characterized by its explorations of relation, materiality and ecstatic contamination”. [11]  Artforum says his “dense, idea-rich” works are “designed to hold ideas of individuality and multiplicity in tension and to create spaces of dynamic slippage between the whole and its parts.” [12]

Dodge teaches in the School of Art at California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) [13] and in sculpture program of the Milton Avery School of the Arts at Bard College. [14]

Collections

Dodge's collaborative work with Stanya Kahn, Can't Swallow It, Can't Spit It Out, [15] is part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. [16] Dodge's solo work is also included in the collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, [17] and the Hammer Museum. [18]

Awards

In 2017 Dodge was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. [19] In 2012, he received an Art Matters grant. [20]

His co-directed film By Hook or By Crook received several awards, including Best Feature, Audience Award at Outfest Los Angeles Lesbian & Gay Film Festival; Best Screenplay, Grand Jury Prize at Outfest Los Angeles Lesbian & Gay Film Festival; Best Feature, Jury Prize at Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival; Best New Director, Jury Prize at Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival; Best Feature, Audience Award at Mardi Gras Festival, Australia; Best Feature, Audience Award at South by Southwest Film Festival; Best Feature, Jury Award at Philadelphia Lesbian & Gay Film Festival. [21]

Personal life

Dodge is married to the author Maggie Nelson, with whom he has a child. [22] He has an older child from a previous relationship. [23]

Dodge uses the pronoun “he,” but has long expressed disinterest in gender designations. [24] He identifies as a butch. [25] [26] In a 2017 interview with Lunch Ticket he discusses an interest in Adorno’s theory of “non-identity,” or “non-language knowings.” [27]

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  2. ↑ "HARRY DODGE AND STANYA KAHN". www.artforum.com. February 2006. Retrieved July 26, 2021.
  3. ↑ "Electronic Arts Intermix: Harry Dodge and Stanya Kahn : Biography". www.eai.org. Archived from the original on July 4, 2019. Retrieved July 4, 2019.
  4. ↑ Warren, Nancy (March 30, 2001). "Tea Time at Red Dora's Cafe". San Francisco Chronicle. Archived from the original on July 4, 2019. Retrieved October 31, 2014.
  5. ↑ ""Bound in Body, Gagged by the Present": 5 Trans Artists to Support in the Wake of Trump's Transphobic Memo". Artspace. Retrieved July 26, 2021.[ permanent dead link ]
  6. ↑ Gonzalez, Rita, Steve Seid and Bruce Yonemoto. California Video: Artists and Histories. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2008.
  7. ↑ By Hook or By Crook. Directed by Harry Dodge and Silas Howard. Los Angeles: Steakhaus Productions, 2002.
  8. ↑ See https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0173716/fullcredits?ref_=tt_ov_st_sm Archived May 3, 2015, at the Wayback Machine
  9. ↑ Cecil B. DeMented. Directed by John Waters. Los Angeles, CA and Paris, France: Polar Entertainment Corporation and Canal+, 2000.
  10. ↑ Gonzalez, Rita; Seid, Steve; Yonemoto, Bruce (July 4, 2008). California Video: Artists and Histories. Getty Publications. ISBN   9780892369225 – via Google Books.
  11. ↑ Sillman, Amy. “ Harry Dodge and Amy Sillman Archived February 6, 2020, at the Wayback Machine .” Public conversation at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Wednesday March 6, 2019.
  12. ↑ Kastner, Jeffrey. “Harry Dodge, Callicoon Fine Arts,” Artforum, September 2019, pg. 258, print and online. Archived February 6, 2020, at the Wayback Machine
  13. ↑ Cal Arts Faculty, Harry Dodge Archived July 4, 2019, at the Wayback Machine
  14. ↑ Bard MFA People, Harry Dodge Archived August 15, 2018, at the Wayback Machine   
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  17. ↑ MoCA Artist, Harry Dodge Archived July 4, 2019, at the Wayback Machine   
  18. ↑ Hammer Museum Artist, Harry Dodge Archived July 4, 2019, at the Wayback Machine   
  19. ↑ John Simon Guggenheim Fellows 2017, Harry Dodge. Archived July 4, 2019, at the Wayback Machine
  20. ↑ Art Matters Foundation Grantees 2012, Harry Dodge Archived July 4, 2019, at the Wayback Machine .
  21. ↑ Best Feature, Jury Award at Philadelphia Lesbian & Gay Film Festival Archived October 10, 2018, at the Wayback Machine   
  22. ↑ Als, Hilton. “Immediate Family: Maggie Nelson's Life in Words Archived September 24, 2017, at the Wayback Machine .” New Yorker, April 18, 2016  
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  25. ↑ "Maggie Nelson on Explaining the Spectrum of Transgender Identity". Longreads. October 16, 2015. Retrieved October 11, 2021.
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