The Miami Art Museum presents Dana Schutz. If the Face Had Wheels an exhibition opening January 14, 2012, from 6-9pm, and will remain on view until February 26, 2012.
Dana Schutz, Swimming, Smoking, Crying, 2009 Oil on canvas 45 x 48 inches Collection Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Johnson County Community College, Overand Park, Kansas, Gift of Marti and Tony Oppenheimer and the Oppenheimer Brothers Foundation © Dana Schutz Courtesy of the artist and Zach Feuer, New York
Dana Schutz was born in Livonia, Michigan in 1976. She received a BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art in 2000 and an MFA from Columbia University in 2002. She has had solo exhibitions at the Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland; and Site Santa Fe; and has been included in group exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York and The Saatchi Gallery, London; and international events such as the Venice and Prague Biennales. Her paintings are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, among others.
Dana Schutz: If the Face Had Wheels, organized by the Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York, is curated by Helaine Posner, Chief Curator and Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs at the Neuberger Museum of Art. Schutz is the 2011 recipient of the Roy R. Neuberger Exhibition Prize, awarded every two years to an artist for an early career survey and monographic catalogue. Additional funding is provided by the Friends of the Neuberger Museum of Art, Carlo Bronzini Vender and Tanya Traykovski, Helen Stambler Neuberger and Jim Neuberger, and Sara M. and Michelle Vance Waddell.