Dan Devening is an artist, curator, writer, and educator based in Chicago. He is currently an adjunct professor in the Department of Painting and Drawing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He has received grants and awards from the Ford Family Foundation in Oregon, the Illinois Arts Council, the NEA, and the MacArthur Foundation (International Connections), among many others. He has also been awarded fellowships from Yaddo, the Maison Dora Maar, and the Nick and Keven Wilder Foundation. Devening is the founder and director of Devening Projects, an exhibition and event space established in 2007.
His work has been exhibited extensively, with recent shows in Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, Berlin, Tokyo, Brussels, Amsterdam, and Mexico City. He has curated exhibitions both nationally and internationally, including projects at Ditch Projects in Oregon, oqbo in Berlin, dok25A in Düsseldorf, Hagiwara Projects in Tokyo, and the Block Museum of Art in Chicago, among others.
His essays have appeared in several recent publications, including Out of Place: Artists, Pedagogy, and Purpose, Clay Pop: What’s New in Clay, and Where the Echo Drifts, an essay on the work of artist Dagmar Varady published in Expanded Studio.
