Dana Matthews was born in Alabama, lived 19 years in Brooklyn and currently resides in the Hudson Valley in upstate New York. She received a BFA at the University of Alabama and an MFA at Rhode Island School of Design. She makes drawings, paintings and photographs all over the world, using digital and film cameras in multiple formats, and fusing documentary and fine art tradition.
Most recently, she exhibited her 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, and considers the effects of a future purely man-made apocalypse. The Albany Museum of Art recently purchased a large scanograph. In addition The Farmers Museum and Fenimore Art Museum also acquired her " One Farm; One Decade" portfolio. In 2018 she had a solo show of cyanotypes at the Davis Orton Gallery in Hudson, NY and in 2017 she exhibited work in the Noorderlicht Photo Festival at 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, and has had solo shows at Urban Zen in Los Angeles, CA, and Chashama Gallery in NYC. Photographs from her “Bordello” series were recently published in the book “Nude Art Today” by Editions Patou and “One farm; One Decade” published in Burn Magazine and CNN Photo Blog.
