Dana Matthews

Dana’s artistic vision manifests itself in various forms, but throughout her career an unflinching allegiance to the feminine divine and a sacred sense of responsibility to and for the natural world has been an unbroken thread through her work. Born in Alabama, where she received a BFA, then on to RISD where she received her MFA, she has called New York her second home for nearly 30 years. Her first memories of intimacy and connection are with the land of her Alabama family farm. This connection to land shaped her creative journey, and continues to anchor who she is and how she responds in the world today.

Currently, she has a photography show at The Farmers Museum in Cooperstown, NY. Before that she exhibited work at Maryland Institute College of Art. The exhibition Locus amoenus, challenged conventional notions of what it means to be human in the endless cycle of life. Dana has participated in various shows from Hudson, NY to the Fries Museum in Leeuwarden Holland. She is represented in domestic and international collections and has been exhibited in museums and galleries across the United States, including the Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Chashama and ACA gallery in NYC.

Education
2008 Scully & Osterman Studio, Rochester, NY
Apprenticeship in collodion wet plate printing techniques.
1992 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI MFA (Photography)
1989 University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL BFA (Photography)

Solo Exhibitions
2023 “Garden Goddesses,”[site-­‐‑specific garden installation], Opus 40, Catskill, NY
2019 “Road to River,” Tivoli Artists Gallery, Tivoli, NY
2017 “Dissonance,” Tivoli Artists Gallery, Tivoli, NY
2016 “Cyanotypes; Homage to Anna Atkins,” Davis Orton Gallery, Hudson, NY “One Farm; One Decade,” TK Home and Garden, Hudson, NY
2013 “The Cruel Radiance of What Is,” Chashama Arts, New York, NY 2012 “Farmwork,” Main Street Farm Store, Livingston Manor, NY
“Momento Mori,” Urban Zen, New York, NY and Los Angeles, CA
2011 “Oceanscapes, “Urban Zen, New York, NY
2010 “Farmwork,” Trickhouse.org (Vol. 8, Spring 2010) “Fortuity Series,” ABC Home and Carpet, New York, NY
2009 “Farmwork,” Yardmeter, Brooklyn, NY
2008 “Baptismal Fonts,” Columbia Theological Seminary, Decatur, GA “Desertscapes,” Urban Zen, New York, NY
“Seascapes and Gardenscapes,” Urban Zen, Sag Harbor, NY “Select Works,” Rico Bruno Marina, Brooklyn, NY
“Take Me to the Water,” Central Presbyterian Church, Atlanta, GA
1999 “Transcending Landscapes,” Salem State College, Salem, MA
1993 “Video & Photographs,” Birmingham Art Association, Birmingham, AL