Aria Dean
Adjunct Instructor
Aria Dean is an artist, writer, and filmmaker based in New York City whose work across the moving image, writing, sculpture, and installation mounts a critique of representational systems, examining the structures of individual and collective subjectivity in relation to aesthetics, cultural histories, and technology. She has exhibited widely in the U.S. and internationally; recent exhibitions include Figuer Sucia at Greene Naftali, New York (2023), Abattoir, U.S.A! At the Renaissance Society, Chicago (2023); Quiet as It’s Kept: Whitney Biennial 2022 at The Whitney Museum, New York (2022). Her work has been shown at film festivals internationally including IFFR (Rotterdam), Villa Medicis Film Festival (Rome), and New York Film Festival (New York.) Her first book of collected writing is out via Sternberg Press and her second publication, a catalog for Abattoir, U.S.A! Is out in 2024. From 2016-2021, Dean worked as a curator and editor at born-digital institution Rhizome, co-organizing the exhibition and co-editing the book Net Art Anthology among other projects related to net art and digital culture. She is now a Creative Development Executive at artist and filmmaker Arthur Jafa’s film company Sunhaus, where she develops and writes projects for television and film.
Aria Dean received a BA in Studio Art from Oberlin College (2015).