About Danielle Dean

Working with archives, social practice, performance, video, drawing and sculpture—Dean investigates the recursive loops between the circulation of ideas and the material reproduction of global capitalism. Operating across media and with a variety of collaborators and participants, she tries to find fault lines within this seemingly closed circuit. Dean received her MFA from California Institute of the Arts and is an alumna of the Whitney Independent Study Program. She recently worked on a new commission for, Mercer Union, Toronto, (2024) and Spike Island, Bristol, U.K (2025) She was comionsed by Performa 21, New York, (2021); Amazon Proxy and a solo show at The Tate Britain, London (2022); Amazon.  Other solo shows include, Time Square Arts, NY, (2023) ; Long Low Line, Bazar at the ICA San Diego (2023), True Red Ruin at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (2018). She participated in The Whitney Biennale in New York (2022) Other group exhibitions include This is Land at the Contemporary Austin (2023), Freedom of Movement, Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, Netherlands, The Centre Cannot Hold, Lafayette Anticipation, (Paris), and Made in L.A. 2014 at The Hammer Museum (Los Angeles). 

About Design and Politics in Transition

Who should design serve? How does design work in a crisis, and also recognizing that some people have been living in crisis for hundreds of years? And how might we reimagine design as a radical discipline for dialogue and action? From reinterpreting legal histories and theories that enable the design of place, to redesigning food distribution systems around food and land justice, to transforming what it means to be family, design offers many ways to transform our relationships with ourselves, each other and our environment. Design and Politics in Transition offers inspiration, theory, and guidance on a variety of design practices and epistemologies that together help us transition toward different, more equitable worlds where all can thrive–even during historical moments of political and social strife.