Dean Dempsey (born 1986) is a visual artist and filmmaker based in New York City. His art practice spans a range of media including photography, painting, drawing and video. He is also the writer and director of his debut feature film, Candy Apple (2015), presently awaiting distribution.
Life and career
Dempsey was born in Tucson, Arizona. He received his BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2009 with study at the Chelsea College of Art and Design in London in 2008. He went on to do a residency at the Villa Waldberta in Feldafing, Germany in 2012, which resulted in the exhibition Next Generation: Contemporary American Photography at Munich's Pasinger Fabrik & Amerika Haus that same year. Dempsey's studio is in Orchard Street, New York City. His first two-artist exhibition in the New York City was held at the BOSI Contemporary gallery in 2012, curated by Renato Miracco and entitled Mutatio. This was followed in 2013 by his first solo exhibition there.
2007 - Another Country, Worth Ryder Gallery, University of California, Berkeley, curated by Allan deSouza.
2007 - Regeneration, Hall of Flowers, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco
2009 - Dislocation, Exploration and Meaning Gallery 39K, Lahore, Pakistan.
2009 - Re-Think, Matisonn Burgin: Shoreditch Space, London
2010 - Counterpoint 2010, Togonon Gallery, San Francisco.
2010 - Borders, Root Division, San Francisco
2011 - Dean Dempsey: Selected Works, solo exhibition, Togonon Gallery, San Francisco
2012 - Dean Dempsey, solo exhibition, MC2Gallery, Milan, Italy.
2012 - En Foco: Selected Works from the Permanent Collection, Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, D.C.
2012 - Next Generation: Contemporary American Photography, Pasinger Fabrik & Amerika Haus, Munich, Germany.
2012 - Art Stays 2012, 10th Festival of Contemporary Art, with MC2 Gallery, Ptuj, Slovenia.
2012 - En Foco: Selected Works from the Permanent Collection, Aljira Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, New Jersey
2012 - Mutatio, two-artist exhibition with Max Glaser, Bosi Contemporary, New York City, curated by Renato Miracco.
2013 - Dean Dempsey, solo exhibition, Bosi Contemporary, New York City
2013 - Vital Signs: The Enigma of Identity, Pelham Art Center, Pelham, New York, curated by Lisa Banner and Kathleen Monaghan.
2014 - 5 Year Anniversary Show, Ever Gold Gallery, San Francisco
Dempsey's work is held in the collections of:
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California
Kinsey Institute, Bloomington, Indiana
En Foco, New York City
