Dean Monogenis is an American painter and sculptor. In his work he creates

architectural Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction. It is both the process and the product of sketching, conceiving, planning, designing, and constructing buildings o ...

settings using a variety of techniques which result in added lines, edges and textures. Architecture became a key theme in Monogenis' work shortly after 911. "Watching the World Trade Center towers come down I realized that buildings, like people, were fated to a similar cycle of life and death." Dean Monogenis

Education

Monogenis Attended

Skidmore College Skidmore College is a private liberal arts college in Saratoga Springs, New York. Approximately 2,650 students are enrolled at Skidmore pursuing a Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science degree in one of more than 60 areas of study. History Sk ...

and graduated from the

School of the Art Institute of Chicago The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) is a private art school associated with the Art Institute of Chicago (AIC) in Chicago, Illinois. Tracing its history to an art students' cooperative founded in 1866, which grew into the museum and ...

, BFA.

Solo exhibitions

Monogenis has shown his work internationally at galleries including: Galerie Xippas: Paris, Geneva, Montevideo, and Athens, Baronian, Brussels;

Stux Gallery Stux Gallery is a contemporary fine art dealership located on 520 West End Avenue on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, New York City. Artists represented/exhibited by the gallery have included Doug and Mike Starn, Vik Muniz, Andres Serrano, Dennis O ...

, NYC; CCA Andratx, Spain; and the

Walter Maciel Gallery Walter Maciel Gallery is an art gallery founded in 2005, located at 2642 S. La Cienega Boulevard, in the Culver City Arts District in Los Angeles, California, United States. Walter Maciel worked as a gallery director in San Francisco for fourteen ...

, Los Angeles

Group exhibitions

His works have also been exhibited in galleries and

museums A museum ( ; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is a building or institution that cares for and displays a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance. Many public museums make these ...

including:

Musée d'art moderne (Saint-Étienne) The Musée d'art moderne et contemporain (Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art), or MAMC, is an art museum in Saint-Étienne, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France. It was inaugurated as a separate museum in 1987. It has one of the largest collections of ...

Pavillon de l'Arsenal The Pavillon de l'Arsenal is the ''Paris Center for architecture and urbanism'', a center for urban planning and museum located in the 4th arrondissement at 21, boulevard Morland, Paris, France. It is open daily except Mondays; admission is free ...

Neuberger Museum of Art Neuberger Museum of Art is located in Purchase, New York, United States. It is affiliated with Purchase College, part of the State University of New York system. It is the nation's tenth-largest university museum. The museum is one of 14 sites on ...

, Santa Monica Museum of Art, CCA Andratx,

Wave Hill Wave Hill is a estate in the Hudson Hill section of Riverdale in the Bronx, New York City. Wave Hill currently consists of public horticultural gardens and a cultural center, all situated on the slopes overlooking the Hudson River, with exp ...

Federal Reserve Board of Governors The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, commonly known as the Federal Reserve Board, is the main governing body of the Federal Reserve System. It is charged with overseeing the Federal Reserve Banks and with helping implement the mon ...

Mykonos Biennale The Mykonos Bienniale is held every odd year at the start of the summer on the Greek island of Mykonos, originally created by Lydia Venieri. For one week at the end of June or the beginning of July, the island of Mykonos, hosts an extensive ra ...

, Angels Gate Cultural Center, Herter Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Bedford Gallery at the Lesher Center for the Arts, Schneider Museum of Art,

Hunterdon Art Museum The Hunterdon Art Museum, previously known as the Hunterdon Art Center and the Hunterdon Museum of Art, is located in a historic stone mill at 7 Lower Center Street in Clinton, New Jersey. It was founded in 1952 when it purchased Dunham's Mill, t ...

Awards

Monogenis was awarded: The Artist in the Market Place (AIM) Program from the

Bronx Museum of the Arts The Bronx Museum of the Arts (BxMA), also called the Bronx Museum of Art or simply the Bronx Museum, is an American cultural institution located in Concourse, Bronx, New York. The museum focuses on contemporary and 20th-century works created by A ...

(Bronx, NY, USA)., FLOW 14 Art at Randall's Island, (Randall's Island Park, NYC, USA)., Visiting Artist Anderson Ranch,(Snowmass, Colorado, USA) City Pillars Dean Monogenis

Artist in residence

Monogenis has twice held the position Artist in Residence at Spain's CCA Andratx Art Centre (in 2012 and 2016) The Fountainhead Residency, Miami, New York's Pace University, Dyson College of Arts and Sciences.

Collections

In addition to corporate collections such as Capital Group, The Progressive Art Collection and Wellington Management, Monogenis’ work is included in the public museum collection o
the Federal Reserve Board
Washington DC.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Monogenis, Dean Living people 1973 births 21st-century American painters 21st-century American sculptors 21st-century American male artists School of the Art Institute of Chicago alumni