| Daniel Bejar | selected projects | statement / bio | current | cv | contact | |||||||||
| Statement Seeing the world through the traces and memories man has left behind, I use these remnants as my material. Working in multimedia, primarily video, sculpture, and photography, my works engage social and historical memory by challenging their origins and how they have evolved or devolved through time. My practice utilizes a deconstructive approach towards familiar signifiers like the American Flag in the “Betsy Ross Trilogy” or the key to my apartment in “The Visual Topography of a Generation Gap”. Working backward towards the signifiers origins, alternative possibilities and understandings of our adopted memories, histories and identities are illuminated providing a space for redefinition. |
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| Bio Daniel Bejar is a multi-disciplinary visual artist living and working in Brooklyn, NY. He is a 2007 MFA sculpture recipient from the State University of New York at New Paltz, and received his BFA from Ringling College of Art & Design, Sarasota, FL. In 2008 he participated in the Artist in the Marketplace program at the Bronx Museum of the Arts. His recent exhibitions include "How Soon is Now?" AIM 28, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx,NY / "The World is a Handkerchief", Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs, Long Island City, NY / CAA New York area MFA exhibition, New York, NY / The 2006 Peekskill Project, Peekskill, NY / Temporary Cities - Russia, National Centre for Contemporary Arts NCCA, Moscow, Russia / Smoke and Mirrors: Photography and Performance, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio. He is also the recipient of a Graduate Student Research and Creative Project Grant from the Graduate School at the State University of New York at New Paltz. |
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