Aria Dean (b. 1993) lives and works in New York. Recent solo and group exhibitions and performances include REDCAT, Los Angeles (traveling to Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève, Geneva in 2022); Greene Naftali, New York (2021); the Hammer Museum’s biennial Made in L.A. 2020: a version (2021); Greene Naftali, New York (2020); Artists Space, New York (2020); MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts (2020); Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia (2019); Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (2019); Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève, Geneva (2019); The MAC, Belfast, Northern Ireland (2019); Tai Kwun, Hong Kong (2019); Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York (2018); Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin (2018); Swiss Institute, New York (2018); and the de Young Museum, San Francisco (2017).
Her writing has appeared in publications including Artforum, Art in America, e-flux, The New Inquiry, X-TRA Contemporary Art Quarterly, Spike Quarterly, Kaleidoscope Magazine, Texte zur Kunst, and CURA Magazine. Dean's work is in the collection of the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York; The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.