Bio
Daniel Bejar is a multi-disciplinary visual artist of Puerto Rican and Spanish descent based in New York City. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at venues including the Brooklyn Museum, NY; The Drawing Center, New York, NY; Socrates Sculpture Park, Queens, NY; Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona, Spain; El Museo Del Barrio, NY; SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM; Artnews Projects, Berlin, Germany; and The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY.
Bejar’s work has been supported through grants and fellowships from NYFA, Franklin Furnace, and the Rema Hort Mann Foundation and through artist residencies at Socrates Sculpture Park, Queens, NY; Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, NY, NY; and SOMA, Mexico City, D.F. His work has been featured in publications such as the New Yorker, Harpers Bazaar HK, Magazine B, and Hyperallergic, among others.
Bejar has an MFA from the State University of New York at New Paltz, NY, and a BFA from Ringling College of Art & Design, Sarasota, FL.
Artist Statement
I am an interdisciplinary artist who examines issues of historical erasure, migration, borders, and hybrid identities through drawing, photography, prints, sculpture, socially-engaged public art, and web-based media. Working with archives and strategies of appropriation, I reactivate images and histories to bring the past into a conversation with the present to subvert the dominant historical narratives of our current moment.