Dana Schutz’s paintings depict darkly humorous narratives, hypothetical situations, and impossible physical feats, such as swimming while smoking and crying or a manically refracted self-exam. Vibrant and tactile, Schutz’s oddly compelling images simultaneously engage the unique capabilities of the medium while conjuring a world both urgent and harrowing.
In June 2024, the George Economou Collection, Athens, presented the solo exhibition Dana Schutz: The Island. A major solo traveling exhibition of the artist’s work, Dana Schutz: The Visible World, was recently presented at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, followed by the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris. Other recent solo museum exhibitions of the artist’s work include Dana Schutz: Eating Atom Bombs, held at the Transformer Station, Cleveland, which debuted a series of paintings by the artist; an exhibition of new work at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; a career survey at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal; and a comprehensive solo exhibition at The Hepworth Wakefield (traveled to Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover).
Schutz’s work is held in numerous public collections, including Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; MoMA, New York; Pérez Art Museum Miami; Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
In 2018, Dana Schutz was the TWO x TWO for AIDS and Art Honoree Artist.
[excerpted from David Zwirner website: www.davidzwirner.com]