Daniel Bejar
Daniel Bejar is an interdisciplinary artist living and working in New York. His work considers and critiques the representation of history, place, and the self within the structures of power that encompass our physical and digital worlds.
Through forms of performance and intervention, Bejar inserts himself and his work into public sites and systems (such as Google search engines, Google Maps, protest rallies at Republican National conventions, and a no-fly zone over the Super Bowl in New Jersey) to construct new narratives within the public realm.
ABOUT
Bejar is a 2015 fellow in Interdisciplinary Work from the New York Foundation for the Arts and is currently a 2016-17 Artist-in-Residence in the Mana Residencies program at Mana Contemporary, and participating in The Drawing Center's 2016-17 Open Sessions Program.
He is also a 2014 recipient of a Franklin Furnace Grant, and 2013 recipient of the Rema Hort Mann Visual Arts Grant.
Bejar's work has been featured in publications such as the New Yorker, Harpers Bazaar HK, Magazine B, and Hyperallergic, among others. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and was recently exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum's "Crossing Brooklyn" exhibition.
Additional exhibition venues include Espai d'art Contemporani de Castello, Spain; El Museo Del Barrio, NY; SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM; Georgia State University, GA; Artnews Projects, Berlin, Germany; and The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY.
Bejar holds an MFA in sculpture from the State University of New York at New Paltz, NY and, received his BFA from Ringling College of Art & Design in Sarasota, FL.
