Stephen Dean

Stephen Dean
Period: 2009-2010
Profession: Visual artist Stephen Dean was born in 1968 in Paris. Guest artist from April 2009 to April 2010. ”
Stephen Dean not only revisits a large part of the history of painting, but produces a new pictorial occurrence, irreducible to the painting. However, if the painting, already there, only awaits the painter’s eye, however mechanical, it is only placed on the video screen at the end of a series of operations reminiscent of the painting’s journey through the studios of yesteryear”.   Jean Marc Huitorel Painter and video artist, he has exhibited at the Biennale of Contemporary Art in Venice (2005), Istanbul (2003) and the Whitney museum, NY (2002) and recently at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2008). Film festivals in Locarno, Miami, Edinburgh, Rio de Janeiro, Bilbao and Naples have also presented his videos. His work has been shown in museums such as the Guggenheim Museum and the Whitney Museum in New York, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, the Musée d’Art Contemporain in Vitry, the Institut d’Art Moderne in Valencia, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, as well as in public and private collections: Le Fond National d’Art Contemporain (Paris), La Caxai (Barcelona), La Coleccion Jumex (Mexico City), Société Generale (Paris), the Progressive Collection (Cleveland). He is working on a project for the “Contemplating the Void” exhibition at the Gugenheim Museum in New York and preparing two solo shows – Galerie Sara Meltzer (NY) – Galerie Max Estrella (Madrid) in autumn 2009. The Koldo Mitxelena in San Sebastian will present a selection of his videos in early 2010.