About Aria Dean

Aria Dean is a visual artist, writer, and curator born in Los Angeles and currently working in New York. She uses minimalist sculpture, installation, and video to discuss the framework of collective and individual structures, and their relationships to power, visibility, and representation. Her work often revolves around the idea of Blackness and questions how Black culture is depicted in media.

Dean obtained her BA in Studio Art from Oberlin College in 2015. Since then, her work has been exhibited at various solo and group exhibitions, nationally and internationally at The Renaissance Society, Chicago (2023); Artists Space, New York (2020); Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève (2019); Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia (2019); and Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin (2018); among other institutions. Her work is held in the collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; De Pont Museum of Contemporary Art, Tilburg; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, among others.

Dean’s written work has appeared in various publications including Artforum, Art in America, Kaleidoscope Magazine, and CURA Magazine. A volume of her collected writings was published by Sternberg Press in 2023, entitled Bad Infinity.