Dawn Kasper is a visual artist working across genres of performance, installation, sculpture, drawing, photography, video, and sound. Kasper’s work often improvisational emerges out of an obsessive need to research topics of ritual, origin myth, existentialism, subjects of vulnerability, desire, and the construction of meaning. Kasper has a BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University (1999) and an MFA from University of California, Los Angeles (2003).
Select solo and group exhibitions: Portikus (Frankfurt), 57th Venice Biennale (Italy), Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (Portland), Tang Museum, Skidmore College (New York), Granoff Center for the Arts (Providence), ADN Collection (Italy), CCS Bard College (New York), Issue Project Room (New York) David Lewis (New York), American Academy in Rome (Italy), 2012 Whitney Biennial (New York), Tramway (Scotland), Hammer Museum (Los Angeles), Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Los Angeles), Pacific Standard Time Public and Performance Art (Los Angeles), Public Art Fund, (Miami), Migros Museum fur Gegenwartskunst (Zurich), Kasper is represented by David Lewis (New York), and has work included in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, (New York) ADN Collection (Italy), and Aïshti Foundation (Beirut). Kasper has been visiting faculty and guest critic at Sarah Lawrence (New York), Temple University Tyler School of Art and Architecture (Philadelphia), Yale University (New Haven), Städelschule (Frankfurt), Brown University (Providence), Rhode Island School of Design (Providence), Parsons (New York), California Institute of the Arts (Valencia), and Otis College (Los Angeles).