JTT | Biography

1988	Born, New York, NY Lives and works in New York, NY

EDUCATION

2010	B.A., Columbia University, New York, NY
2009	Univeristät der Kunst, Klasse, Josephine Pryde, Berlin, DE

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2023	Capacity, JTT, New York, NY
2022	Industry City, High Art, Paris, FR
2020	Dry Season, Derosia (Bodega), New York, NY
2019	Force Majeure, High Art, Paris, FR
2018	The Shortest Shadow, Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta, GA
2017	The Lusting Breed, Bodega, New York, NY
2016	Heck & The Divested Set, Sandy Brown, Berlin, DE In Escrow, High Art, Paris, FR
2014	You and You're People, Boatos Fine Art, Sao Paulo, BR Dena Yago, White Flag Projects Library, St. Louis, MO a caelo usque ad centrum, with Laurie Spiegel, Cubitt, London, UK Distaff, Eli Ping Frances Perkins, New York, NY Heat Island, Gasconade, Milan, IT
2013	Meadows on the Grid Float, with Matthew Lutz-Kinoy, Deweer Gallery, Ghent, BE Because Reasons, Malraux's Place, New York, NY
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, DE
2011	ESPRIT, Tomorrow, Toronto, Ontario, CA

TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2014	a caelo usque ad centrum, with Laurie Spiegel, Cubitt, London, UK
2013	Meadows on the Grid Float, with Matthew Lutz-Kinoy, Deweer Gallery, Ghent, BE

SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022	Barbe à Papa, CAPC, Bordeaux, FR. Curated by Cédric Fauq SIREN (some poetics), Amant Foundation, Brooklyn, NY Crowd Control, High Art, Arles, FR Red Herrings for the Category Spell, Hudson House, Hudson, NY
2021	10 works, Sharp Projects, Copenhagen, DK Still Time, Fitzpatrick Gallery, Paris, FR
2020	Image Power, Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, NL
2019	On Orchids and Precarity, (Pogo Bar) KW Institute, Berlin, DE
2018	A Kiss Under the Tail, Arsenal Contemporary, New York, NY Caisson, Diver, Charmer, Commercial Street, Los Angeles, CA Human Applause, Bortolami Gallery, New York, NY Title II, Galerie Antoine Ertaskiran, Montreal, CA Softcore, South Willard, Los Angeles, CA
2017	A Spaghetti Dress for World Peace, Park View, Los Angeles, CA Caring For Animals...Benefiting People, Jeffrey Stark, New York, NY I'm Nobody, High Art, Paris, FR Teeter, Carl Louie, London, Ontario, CA
2016	Made in L.A. 2016 : a, the, though, only, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA Columbidae, Cell Project Space, London, UK
2015	Lands’ End, Bodega, New York, NY Joshing the Watershed, Del Vaz Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2014	Who Are Who, Studio for Propositional Cinema, Düsseldorf, DE Musique Concrete, Michael Thibault Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Unlock the Gates, JTT Gallery, New York, NY Dingum “A Matter of Taste,” The Ister at -1, Paris, FR Revelry, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, CH Santal 26 / 33, Grand Century, New York, NY. Curated by Tara Downs Bloomington: Mall of America, North Side of Food Court, Across From Burger King The Bank of Payphones That Don’t Take Incoming Calls, Bortolami Gallery, New York, NY Urbanities, James Fuentes, New York, NY
2013	NPR Bar, Know More Games, Miami, FL Day Before This Place, Tanya Leighton, Berlin, DE. Curated by Tara Downs L.I.I.T., Eli Ping, New York, NY Smiler’s Delicatessen, Smiler’s Deli, New York, NY Roman à clef, Bodega, Philadelphia, PA
2012	The Art of Cooking, curated by Hanne Mugaas, Royal/T, Los Angeles, CA Ten Ten, Jason Alexander, New York, NY UP AND PEARS L THE S, Emily Harvey Foundation, New York, NY
2011	Combine #1, Cage, New York, NY Formless Painting, Andrew Roth, New York, NY
2010	Four Seasons I, Senior Thesis Exhibition, Leroy Neiman Center, Columbia University SoA, New York, NY Multiplex, Peer to Space, Münich, DE Uncontrollable Flesh, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA Larry’s Non-Profit State of Mind, Cleopatra’s, New York, NY
2009	Can’t Rape the Willing, Second Floor Gallery, New York, NY Rundgang, Universität der Kunst, Berlin, DE Single White Female, Second Floor Gallery, New York, NY Larry’s Canadian Sculpture and Image, Atelierhof, Kreuzberg, Berlin, DE The Living and the Dead, Gavin Brown Enterprise, New York, NY

TALKS AND READINGS

2022	First + Second Impressions, The Paul Rand Lecture Series, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
2019	On Limits, Uncertainty Seminars, Stroom Den Haag, The Hague, NL On Orchids & Precarity, KW, Berlin, DE
2018	Optics: Brand as Visual Culture x Visual Culture as Brand, International Center of Photography, New York, NY Seven on Seven, Rhizome at The New Museum, New York, NY
2015	Next Top Models: New Forms for Artists’ Collectives, Frieze Talks, New York, NY K-HOLE, Insights 2015, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN 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

SELECT WRITING

2021	Isn’t it ironic? No, it’s Cringe: Dena Yago’s defense of rising trends, Art Basel, September. Blurred Vibrations: On Billie Eilish & Affect, appliedarts.mirror.xyz, June 14.
2020	Of Boomers and Bass, X-TRA Online, September.
2019	The Wall Stays in the Picture: Destination Murals in Los Angeles, e-flux journal #104, November. Soft Serve, Frieze, Issue 205, September.
2018	Figure Eight: On murals and the destination background, TANK Magazine, Autumn - Winter. Content Industrial Complex, e-flux journal #89.
2017	Bad Memory, Flash Art, November - December. On Ketamine and Added Value, e-flux journal #82. Climate Change & Art: A Lexicon, The Distance Plan Press. Deviant Art: Danny McDonald at House of Gaga Los Angeles, Texte zur Kunst, No. 106.
2016	Empire Poetry, Texte zur Kunst, No. 103. Art Production & Homelessness, Texte zur Kunst, No. 102.
2015	The Animated Reader: Poetry of Surround Audience, New Museum and McNally Jackson.
2014	Love at Work, Flash Art, May - June. Noon on the Moon, Sternberg Press. Come Away With Me, Frieze Project by Darren Bader. Heat Island: The Happy Hypocrite Issue 7, Book Works.
2010	Standard Remote, Sister Imprint.

SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

2023	Ayoung, Todd, et al. Why Do Art Collectives End? Frieze. February 23.
2022	Packard, Cassie. Unfiguring the Siren of Greek Mythology, Frieze. November 15. Diehl, Travis. In ‘Siren,’ Artists and Poets Singing From the Rocks, The New York Times. October 27. McGraw, Patrick. Lose Your Sense of Reality In The Warped World of Dena Yago, Highsnobiety. June 22. Bühler, Melanie. Tortured Disney, False Truths and Conflicted Memes. Institutional critique in the age of networked capitalism, Arts of The Working Class. January 17.
2020	Luquet-Gad, Ingrid. Dena Yago, Zerodeux. Spring.
2018	Dena Yago, Wall Street International Magazine. September 27. Diehl, Travis. Why the Gig Economy is Creatively Bankrupt, Garage. March 22.
2017	Graf, Josephine. Dena Yago, Boring Down, CURA, Issue 25. Summer. Heinrich, Will. Dena Yago, The New York Times. March 16. Gat, Orit. Dena Yago, Critic’s Guide: New York, Frieze. February 28. Faguet, Michéle. Dena Yago, Sandy Brown, Artforum. January.
2016	Dena Yago at Sandy Brown, Flash Art. November - December. Korman, Sam. Self-Reliance, Art in America. November.
2015	McLean Ferris, Laura. Circle The Wagons, Flash Art. November - December. Heilich, Marie. Dena Yago by Marie Heilich, Bomb. May 8. Baxter, Jared. Joshing The Watershed, Flash Art. March 17.
2014	Krug, Simone. Unlock The Gates, Flash Art. October 9. Tasman, David Andrew. Dena Yago, Art in the Anthropocene, DIS Magazine. November 16. Herbert, Martin. London Round-Up, Art Monthly. July - August. Young, Coco. Dena Yago, Distaff, Alldayeveryday. June 18. Rana, Matthew. In The Company of Flesh and Blood, Frieze, Issue 164. June - August.
2013	Leaver-Yap, Mason. Dena Yago, Life on Heat Island, Mousse, Issue 41. December.

PUBLICATIONS

2019	Fade the Lure, After 8 Books
2015	Esprit Reprise, Pork Salad Press
2014	Ambergris, Bodega Press
2011	ESPRIT, Yesterday Press

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