Dena Yago

Dena Yago (b. 1988, New York, NY) lives and works in New York City.

Recent solo exhibitions include High Art, Paris; Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta; Bodega, New York; Sandy Brown, Berlin; and Boatos Fine Art, Sao Paulo. Recent group exhibitions include Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, The Netherlands; Kunsthal Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark; The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; The Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw; Watermill Center, Watermill, NY; Emalin, London; Bortolami, New York, NY; and Park View/Paul Soto, Los Angeles.

Her work has been reviewed in The New York Times, Frieze, Artforum, Art in America, Flash Art, Mousse Magazine, CURA Magazine, Garage Magazine, Bomb, and DIS Magazine, among others.

Yago has published numerous texts including “The Walls Stays in the Picture: Destination Murals in Los Angeles” (e-flux journal, 2019); “Soft Serve: On Food, Affect, and the Silicon Valley Workplace” (Frieze, 2019); “Content Industrial Complex” (e-flux journal, 2019); “Bad Memory” (Flash Art, 2017); “On Ketamine and Added Value” (e-flux, 2017); and “Empire Poetry” (Texte zur Kunst, 2016). Multiple books of her work have been published including Fade the Lure (After 8 Books, 2019); Esprit Reprise (Pork Salad Press, 2015); and Ambergris (Bodega Press, 2014).

Her work is included in the permanent collection of The Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, The Netherlands.