Dana Chodzko

Dana Chodzko won a Ford Foundation scholarship to Otis Art Institute to study Sculpture and Performance Art. She was awarded an NEA grant for a performance piece recorded on video at a Los Angeles television studio, and graduated with a BFA in Intermedia. After landing a full fellowship to Stanford University, she received an MFA in Sculpture and Installation. Her graduate work included collaborations with Nobel Prize winning physicists at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. Chodzko has served as Faculty at various universities, most recently, thirteen years directing the Allan Houser Sculpture/Foundry building at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe NM. She has traveled to international academic institutions as a visiting artist, including Ondokuz Mayis University in Turkey, Australia National University in Canberra, and Calle Bohemia in Colombia, culminating in solo exhibitions and installations.
Chodzko's prolific and diverse work is based in form and language, often manifesting as invented alphabets in many different mediums. Complex ideas are conveyed through simple, symbolic forms. Chodzko's mixed media sculptures, public works, installations and site sculptures are held in corporate collections including th...

1989 MFA, Stanford University, Sculpture / Installation Stanford, CA, GPA 4.0

1976 BFA, Otis Art Institute, Sculpture / Intermedia
Los Angeles, CA

Solo Exhibitions (selected)

2015 Australia National University, Canberra, AU, ”The Desert and the Sea”, Installation

2013 Art Santa Fe, Solo Artist Space

2010 Fundacion Calle Bohemia, Antigua Estacion Del Ferrocarril, Armenia Colombia,
Exhibtion and Site Sculptures

2009 Fundacion Calle Bohemia, Sala Roberto Henao Burtica Gobernacion Del Quindio, Armenia
Colombia, Exhibition with performance (TV interview Youtube: http://youtube/dpNJVacevt8

2002 Evo Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, "In Retrospect" (retrospective) Chiaroscuro Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, "The Einstein Alphabet"


Group Exhibitions, Installations, Site Sculptures (selected)

2021 Long Beach Island Foundation of Arts and Science, NJ “Works on Paper”

2020 Pasadena Museum of Art “Art of the Cosmos” Installation for International art and
science event sponsored by Hubble Space Telescope (on hold due to Corona Virus)

2019 Bond House Museum, Espanola NM “Crossing Borders” (Review: Rio Grande Sun 10/24/19)

2018 Amarillo Museum of Art, Amarillo TX “Burning Ring of Fire” (Catalogue)

2018 Leonora Wetland Preserve Sant Fe NM “Wilderness Act” Axle Contemporary

2018 Northern New Mexico State College, “Word Play”, Espanola NM

2018 Adams State University C...