Dean Dempsey (born 1986) is an American visual artist, actor, and filmmaker based in New York City. His art practice spans a range of media including photography, painting, drawing and video. He is also the writer and director of his debut feature film Candy Apple (2015), for which he won the NY Perspectives Award at the Winter Film Awards the following year. Dempsey later directed and co-wrote his second feature-length movie Deadman's Barstool (2018), and played lead actor in Flasher (in post-production) .Zimmer, Lori (10 July 2014). "Creem Presents Candy Apple". Art Nerd New York. Retrieved 14 July 2014.Huston, Johnny Ray (4 August 2010). "The Photo Issue: Dean Dempsey". San Francisco Bay Guardian. Retrieved 7 July 2014.Creem Magazine (2014). Candy Apple . Retrieved 7 July 2014.Banner, Lisa A. (18 June 2013). "Interview with Dean Dempsey at his studio on Orchard Street, New York City". Site95. Retrieved 7 July 2014. In 2018, he was featured in New York Magazine's "The Cut - They Seem Cool" column entitled, "The Painter Who Loves To Hate The Art World."
Life and career
Dempsey was born in Tucson, Arizona. He received his BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2009 with study at the Chelsea College of Art and Design in London in 2008. He went on to do a residency at the Villa Waldberta in Feldafing, Germany in 2012, which resulted in the exhibition Next Generation: Contemporary American Photography at Munich's Pasinger Fabrik & Amerika Haus that same year.Internationales Künstlerhaus Villa Waldberta (2012), p. 23. Landeshauptstädt München. Retrieved 7 July 2014. Dempsey's studio is in Orchard Street, New York City. His first two-artist exhibition in the New York City was held at the BOSI Contemporary gallery in 2012, curated by Renato Miracco and entitled Mutatio.BOSI Contemporary Mutatio . Retrieved 14 July 2014. This was followed in 2013 by his first solo exhibition there.Del Monte, Diana (18 April 2012). "BOSI. Storia di una famiglia, un uomo e una galleria" . i-italy (Italian/American Digital Project). Retrieved 7 July 2014 .
Exhibitions
2007 - Another Country, Worth Ryder Gallery, University of California, Berkeley, curated by Allan deSouza. 2007 - Regeneration, Hall of Flowers, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco 2009 - Dislocation, Exploration and Meaning Gallery 39K, Lahore, Pakistan. 2009 - Re-Think, Matisonn Burgin: Shoreditch Space, London 2010 - Counterpoint 2010, Togonon Gallery, San Francisco. 2010 - Borders, Root Division, San Francisco 2011 - Dean Dempsey: Selected Works, solo exhibition, Togonon Gallery, San FranciscoHuston, Johnny Ray (7 April 2011). "First Thursday: Deathly portraits, cubic rams, smudgy painted mutts, and Aids 3-D". San Francisco Bay Guardian. Retrieved 7 July 2014. 2012 - Dean Dempsey, solo exhibition, MC2Gallery, Milan, Italy. 2012 - En Foco: Selected Works from the Permanent Collection, Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, D.C. 2012 - Next Generation: Contemporary American Photography, Pasinger Fabrik & Amerika Haus, Munich, Germany.Betz, Thomas (November 2012). "Rätsel- und Zeigebilder" (review). Münchner Feuilleton, p. 4. Retrieved 7 July 2014 2012 - Art Stays 2012, 10th Festival of Contemporary Art, with MC2 Gallery, Ptuj, Slovenia.Art Stays: Festival of Contemporary Art (2012 programme book), p. 24. Retrieved 7 July 2014. 2012 - En Foco: Selected Works from the Permanent Collection, Aljira Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, New Jersey 2012 - Mutatio, two-artist exhibition with Max Glaser, Bosi Contemporary, New York City, curated by Renato Miracco. 2013 - Dean Dempsey, solo exhibition, Bosi Contemporary, New York City 2013 - Vital Signs: The Enigma of Identity, Pelham Art Center, Pelham, New York, curated by Lisa Banner and Kathleen Monaghan.Banner, Lisa and Monaghan, Kathleen (2013). Catalog: Vital Signs . Pelham Art Center. Retrieved 7 July 2014. 2014 - 5 Year Anniversary Show, Ever Gold Gallery, San Francisco 2016 - "Black", Two-person exhibit, Spring/Break Art Show, New York, NY, curated by Kara Brooks.
Collections Dempsey's work is held in the collections of: Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CaliforniaCrocker Art Museum (2013). Annual Report 2012–2013 , p. 4. Retrieved 7 July 2014. Kinsey Institute, Bloomington, IndianaKinsey Institute (2012). Left/over from the series Fragmentations (2010), Dean Dempsey. Retrieved 7 July 2014. En Foco, New York CityEn Foco. Photographers: Dean Dempsey . Retrieved 7 July 2014.
References
External links
Dean Dempsey on Creem (video by Melissa Fortunatti, written by Greg Mania). CREEM Magazine 2013 Candy Apple (official movie page) The Cut (New York Magazine)