DENA YAGO

Born: 1988, New York, USA
Lives and works in New York

EDUCATION
2006-2010 Columbia University, New York
2009 Universität der Kunst, prof. Josephine Pryde, Berlin

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 Capacity, JTT, New York
2022 Industry City, High Art, Paris
2020 Dry Season, Derosia (Bodega), New York
2019 Force Majeure, High Art, Paris
2018 The Shortest Shadow, Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta
2017 The Lusting Breed, Bodega, New York
2016 Heck & The Divested Set, SANDY BROWN, Berlin
2016 In Escrow, High Art, Paris
2014 You and You're People, Boatos Fine Art, Sao Paulo
2014 Dena Yago, White Flag Projects Library, St. Louis
2014 a caelo usque ad centrum, w. Laurie Spiegel, Cubitt, London
2014 Distaff, Eli Ping Frances Perkins, New York
2014 Heat Island, Gasconade, Milan
2013 Meadows on the Grid Float, w. Matthew Lutz-Kinoy, Deweer Gallery, Ghent
2013 Because Reasons, Malraux's Place, New York
2012 A car ride driven topless taken alone Reminds major city thoroughfares of their Contracting hopes as they pass, to carry the Breasts of the driver, SANDY BROWN, Berlin
2011 ESPRIT, Tomorrow, Toronto

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Those of Us, SANDY BROWN, Berlin
2022 Barbe à Papa, CAPC, Bordeaux
2022 SIREN (some poetics), Amant Foundation, Brooklyn
2022 Crowd Control, High Art, Arles
2022 Red Herrings For The Category Spell, Hudson House, New York
2021 10 works, Sharp Projects, Copenhagen
2021 Still Time, Fitzpatrick gallery, Paris
2020 Image Power, Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem
2019 On Orchids and Precarity, (Pogo Bar) KW Institute, Berlin
2018 A Kiss Under the Tail, Arsenal Contemporary, New York
2018 Caisson, Diver, Charmer, Commercial Street, Los Angeles
2018 Human Applause, Bortolami Gallery, New York
2018 Title II, Galerie Antoine Ertaskiran, Montreal
2018 Softcore, South Willard, Los Angeles
2017 A Spaghetti Dress for World Peace, Park View, Los Angeles
2017 Caring For Animals...Benefiting People, Jeffrey Stark, New York
2017 Condo NY, w. SANDY BROWN, Rachel Uffner, New York
2017 Teeter, Carl Louie, London, Ontario
2017 I’m Nobody!, High Art, Paris
2017 Ministry of Internal Affairs, Museum of Modern Art Warsaw, Warsaw
2016 Made in L.A.: a, the, through, only, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
2015 Columbidae, Cell Space, London
2015 Misanthrope-NY, Mathew Gallery, New York
2015 Grand Opening Reception, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen
2015 Some Versions of Pastoral, Tomorrow, New York
2015 Jazz Endured, SANDY BROWN, Berlin
2015 New Needs, House Wittman, Vienna
2015 No Body No Soul, Young Art, Los Angeles
2015 Lands' End, Bodega, New York
2015 Joshing the Watershed, Del Vaz Projects, Los Angeles
2014 Who Are Who, Studio for Propositional Cinema, Düsseldorf
2014 Musique Concrete, Michael Thibault Gallery, Los Angeles
2014 Unlock the Gates, JTT Gallery, cur. Dena Yago, New York
2014 Dingum “A Matter of Taste”, The Ister at -1, Paris
2014 Revelry, Kunsthalle Bern, cur. Tenzing Barshee, Bern
2014 Santal 26 / 33, Grand Century, cur. Tara Downs, New York
2014 Bloomington: Mall of America, North Side of Food Court, Across From Burger King The Bank of Payphones That Don’t Take Incoming Calls, Bortolami, New York
2014 Urbanities, James Fuentes, New York
2013 NPR Bar, Know More Games, Miami
2013 Day Before This Place, Tanya Leighton, cur. Tara Downs, Berlin
2013 L.I.I.T., Eli Ping, cur. Carlos Reyes, New York
2013 Smiler’s Delicatessen, Smiler’s Deli, cur. Jason Lee and Ben Schumacher, New York
2013 Bathrobe Baden Baden, a reading w. Alex Field, Matthew Lutz-Kinoy and Natsuko Uchino, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden
2013 Roman à clef, Bodega, Philadelphia
2012 The Art of Cooking, Royal/T, cur. Hanne Mugaas, Los Angeles
2012 Ten Ten, Jason Alexander, New York
2012 UP AND PEARS L THE S, Emily Harvey Foundation, New York
2011 Combine #1, Cage, New York
2011 Formless Painting, Andrew Roth, New York
2010 Four Seasons I, Senior Thesis Exhibition, Leroy Neiman Center Columbia University SoA, New York
2010 Multiplex, Peer to Space, cur. VVORK, Münich
2010 Uncontrollable Flesh, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley
2010 Larry’s Non-Profit State of Mind, Cleopatra’s, New York
2009 Can’t Rape the Willing, Second Floor Gallery, New York
2009 Rundgang, Universität der Kunst, Berlin
2009 Single White Female, Second Floor Gallery, New York
2009 Larry’s Canadian Sculpture and Image, Atelierhof Kreuzberg, Berlin
2009 Single White Female, Second Floor Gallery, New York
2009 The Living and the Dead, Gavin Brown Enterprise, New York

PUBLICATIONS
2021 Isn’t it ironic? No, it’s Cringe: Dena Yago’s defense of rising trends, Art Basel, August
2019 Of Boomers and Bass, X-TRA, December 7
2019 Soft Serve. Consumption and affective labour in today’s corporate cafeterias, Frieze, September
2017 On Ketamine and Added Value, e-flux journal, Journal #82, May
2017 Climate Change & Art: A Lexicon, The Distance Plan Press
2016 Empire Poetry, Texte zur Kunst, Issue No. 103, September
2015 ESPRIT Reprise, Pork Salad Press
2015 The Animated Reader: Poetry of Surround Audience, New Museum and McNally Jackson
2014 Noon on the Moon, Sternberg Press
2014 Come Away With Me, Frieze Project by Darren Bader
2014 Heat Island: The Happy Hypocrite Issue 7, Book Works
2014 Ambergris, Bodega Press
2011 ESPRIT, Yesterday Press
2010 Standard Remote, Sister
J, 3⁄4 of U (with Erik Lindman & Juan Olivares), Freja
K-HOLE #5 A Report on Doubt
K-HOLE #4 Youth Mode
K-HOLE #3 Brand Anxiety Matrix
K-HOLE #2 ProLASTicity
K-HOLE #1 FragMOREtation

TALKS AND READINGS
2022 First + Second Impressions, The Paul Rand Lecture Series, Yale School of Art, New Haven
2019 On Limits, Uncertainty Seminars, Stroom Den Haag, The Hague
2019 On Orchids & Precarity, KW, Berlin
2018 Optics: Brand as Visual Culture x Visual Culture as Brand, International Center of Photography, New York
2018 Seven on Seven, Rhizome at The New Museum, New York
2015 Next Top Models: New Forms for Artists’ Collectives, Frieze Talks, New York, NY
2015 K-HOLE, Insights 2015, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
2015 K-HOLE Miami Report, ICA Ideas, ICA Miami, Miami, FL
2014 89plus Resources Workshop and Panel, LUMA Westbau, Zurich, CH
2013 89plus Marathon, Serpentine Galleries, London, UK

SELECTED PRESS
2023 Todd Ayoung, et al. "Why Do Art Collectives End?" Frieze. February 23
2022 Cassie Packard. "Unfiguring the Siren of Greek Mythology", Frieze. November 15
2022 Travis Diehl. "In ‘Siren,’ Artists and Poets Singing From the Rocks", The New York Times. October 27
2022 Patrick McGraw. "Lose Your Sense of Reality In The Warped World of Dena Yago", Highsnobiety. June 22
2022 Melanie Bühler. "Tortured Disney, False Truths and Conflicted Memes. Institutional critique in the age of networked capitalism", Arts of The Working Class. January 17
2020 Ingrid Luquet-Gad. "Dena Yago", Zerodeux. Spring
2018 "Dena Yago", Wall Street International Magazine. September 27.
2018 Travis Diehl, “Why The Gig Economy is Creatively Bankrupt”, GARAGE, March 22
2017 Josephine Graf, “Dena Yago. Boring Down”, CURA, June
2017 Will Heinrich, “What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week”, The New York Times, March 16
2017 Orit Gat, “Critic’s Guide: New York”, Frieze, February 28
2017 Michéle Faguet, “Dena Yago at SANDY BROWN”, Artforum, January
2016 Sam Korman, “Self-Reliance”, Art in America, November
2015 Laura McLean-Ferris, “Circle The Wagons”, Flash Art, Issue 305, December 9
2015 Jody Graf, “Lands' End”, The Brooklyn Rail, March 5
2015 Marie Heilich, “Dena Yago. Care and control of the social and self”, Bomb Magazine, May 18
2014 David Andrew Tasman, “Dena Yago. Art in the Anthropocene”, DIS Magazine, November 16
2014 Coco Young, “Dena Yago. Distaff”, Alldayeveryday, June 18
2014 Matthew Rana, “In the Company of Flesh and Blood”, Frieze, Issue 164, June–August
2013 Isla Leaver-Yapp, “Life on Heat Island”, Mousse Magazine, Issue 41, December 13

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL
Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, NL
FRAC Lorraine, Metz, FR
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA