Dean Erdmann
Dean Erdmann is an interdisciplinary artist in moving and still images, sculpture, and installation. Their sculptural practice evolved from their image-making practice. Previously, they built moving images like a sculptor, cutting away from the materiality of the image; now, they build sculptures from images, making indexical impressions from molds and 3D modeling. These reversals reflect their ongoing commitment to unearthing the materiality of politics and power and of threading the personal through geography and geology. Their work is a research-based practice exploring class, whiteness and Americana, technological migrations, the body and queerness, place, family, geopolitics, and recuperative histories.

Erdmann is a 2018-2020 Vera List Center for Art+Politics Fellow, 2019 Urban Glass Fellow, 2013 California Community Foundation Fellow, and a Center for Cultural Innovation grant recipient. Their work has been exhibited at ONE Archives, Mexicali Biennial, Hammer Museum, REDCAT, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Spiral Hall, Tokyo, Kavi Gupta Berlin, the Sheila Johnson Design Center, Torrance Art Museum, and Public Fiction, to name a few. Recently, their public commission for the LA K-line Leimert Park Station opened in the Fall of 2022, and they had shows at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum and String Room Gallery (NY) in 2022. In 2024, they have a solo exhibition at Louche Ops (Berlin), which will be included in Scientia Sexualis at ICA Los Angeles. They are a Creative Glass Fellow at WheatonArts in 2024 and will be a Chinati Artist in Residence in 2025. They are currently an Assistant Professor in the Visual Arts Department at UC San Diego.