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Artworks

Born

1958    Santa Monica, CA 

Education

1988  M.F.A., University of California, Berkeley 

1987 B.A., University of California, Berkeley

1981   Cert. of Art, University of California, Santa Cruz

1980 B.A., University of California, Santa Cruz

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2017 Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 

2016 Dean Byington, “Tout le Necessaire”, Aires Libres 2016, Montreal, Canada 

2015 “The New City”, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York, NY

“Dean Byington, Buildings Without Shadows”, American University Museum at the

Katzen Arts Center, Washington, DC

2010 “Black Maps,” Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York, NY

2009 Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA

Frist Center for the Arts, Nashville, TN

2007 Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York

2005 Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York

2003   “New Paintings,” Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA  (Exhibition catalog)

1999   “New Work,” Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA 

1997  “New Work,” Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA 

1994    “New Paintings,” Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA 

Selected Group Exhibitions

2018 EXPO Chicago, Anglim Gilbert Gallery, Chicago, IL

“Chaos and Awe: Painting for the 21st Century”, Frist Art Museum, Chrysler Museum 

“Unconscious Rationale: Artists Amend Reality”, Anglim Gilbert Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2016 “Land/Sky: Temporal Concepts”, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York, NY

“Order & Nature”, Anglim Gilbert Gallery, Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco

2015 “Retrospective”, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA

2014 “Summer in Black & White…And Color”, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA

“Fusion: Art of the 21st Century”, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmomd. VA

2013 “Hybridity: The New Frontier”, 21c Museum, Bentonville, Arkansas

“Rarely Seen Contemporary Works on Paper”, Art Institute of Chicago, IL

2012 “Convergence: Highlights from

Dean Byington (born 1958), is a visual artist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is known for large, hyper-detailed mixed-media paintings and paper collages of labyrinthine landscapes and invented universes that serve as settings for enigmatic allegories on nature, culture, time and humanity's effect on the planet. Seamless amalgams of images reworked from diverse sources, including his own stylized drawings, his art evokes fairy tales gone awry, the precision of centuries-old etchings and cartographic detail, and utopian and dystopian science-fiction. In 2017, critic Shana Nys Dambrot wrote, "achieving a profound, operatic feat of scale, density, and clarity … Byington’s surrealism is that of dreams and memories, with an internal logic that unifies Eastern and Western antiquity, the consequences of climate change, the engineering of urban sprawl, and the limited role of culture in making sense of the soul- and soil-crushing weight of all that civilization."

Byington's work belongs to the public art collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Art Institute of Chicago and Berkeley Art Museum, among others. He has exhibited at the San Jose Museum of Art, Nevada Museum of Art, San Antonio Museum of Art, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Frist Art Museum and Katzen Arts Center.