Daniel Bejar Visual Art

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.

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.