Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY
AWARDS, GRANTS, AND RESIDENCIES:
2020 The 2020 Socrates Annual Fellowship, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY
2017 Artist-in-Residence, Focus on Puerto Rico, Clocktower NYC & Mana Contemporary, Miami, FL
2016 Artist-in-Residence, Mana Residencies 2016-17, Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ
2016 Open Sessions 2016-17, The Drawing Center, NY, NY
2015 Artist-in-Residence, AIRspace 2015-16, Abrons Arts Center, NY, NY
2015 New York Foundation for the Arts, NYFA Fellowship, New York Foundation for the Arts, NY
2014 Franklin Furnace Fund 2014-15, Franklin Furnace, Brooklyn, NY
2014 Artist-in-Residence, Process Space, Governors Island, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, NY, NY
2014 Artist-in-Residence, The Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY
2013 The Rema Hort Mann Foundation Visual Arts Grant, NY, NY
2013 Associate Artist with Coco Fusco, Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL
2013 The Art Law Program, NY, NY
2013 Blade of Grass Fellow 2012-13, Blade of Grass, NY, NY
2012 Visiting Scholar 2011-2012, NYU Steinhardt School, NY, NY
2012 Artist-in-Residence, Workspace 2011-2012, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, NY, NY
2011 SOMA Summer Residency, SOMA Mexico City, D.F.
2011 Hot Picks, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY
2009 Swing Space Residency, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, NY, NY
2009 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2008 AIM 28, Artist in the Marketplace, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY
PUBLIC COMMISSIONS
2022 NYC Percent for Art & NYC SCA Public Art for Public Schools, Permanent public commission,
Academy of American Studies, Long Island City, NY
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2018 Going Public, Westchester Community College, Valhalla, NY
2012 Bushwick Basel, NURTUREart, Brooklyn, NY
2010 Get Lost!, Abrons Art Center, NY, NY
2007 Collecting the Sun, The Icehouse, Phoenix, AZ
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2024 Poli/Gráfica de Puerto Rico: Bajo presión/Under Pressure, Arsenal De La Marina Española, San Juan, PR
2023 A=A, B=B, Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona, Spain
2021 M.E.S.S. (Marker Emblem Symbol Signal), New York Historical Society, NY, NY
2021 Exposed 2021, The Current, Stowe, VT
2020 MONUMENTS NOW: Call and Response, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY
2020 M.E.S.S. (Marker Emblem Symbol Signal), Standard Space, Sharon, CT
2019 Museum of Capitalism, Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Gallery, The New School, NY, NY.
2019 In The Historical Present, Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Gallery, The New School, NY, NY.
2019 Flat Out: Drawings, 2000-2019, Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ
2019 Body Politic, Thorne-Sagendorph Art Gallery, Keene State College, Keene, NH
2019 Virtual and Real Estate, BRIC, Brooklyn, NY
2017 Where Do We Stand?, The Drawing Center, NY, NY
2017 Commodity & Ideology, Klapper Hall Art Gallery, Queens College, NY
2017 Marginalia, The Drawing Center, NY, NY
2016 AIRspace 2015 - 2016 Exhibition, Abrons Arts Center, NY, NY
2016 Of the people, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY
2016 Doppelnamer, Spring/Break Art Show, Moynihan Station, NY, NY
2015 The Evening Star, Peekskill Project 6, Peekskill, NY
2015 In Search of One City: Sensing (In)equality, Old Stone House, Brooklyn, NY
2015 Hunters, Gatherers, Clickers, The Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY
2015 Respond, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY
2014 Crossing Brooklyn: Art from Bushwick, Bed-Stuy, and Beyond, Brooklyn Museum, NY
2014 Quality of Life, BOSI Contemporary, NY, NY
2014 Ten, Cindy Rucker Gallery, NY, NY
2013 5x5 Castelló 13 International Contemporary Art Prize, ESPAI D'art Contemporani El Castell, Valencia, Spain
2013 Empire, FiveMyles, Brooklyn, NY
2013 Shadow Puppets: Traces of New Documentary Practices, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA
2012 Public Trust, Flux Factory, Long Island City, NY
2012 ...Is This Free?, NURTUREart, Brooklyn, NY
2012 March 2012, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
2012 Systemic Risk, NURTUREart, Brooklyn, NY
2011 Parts And Labor, Abrons Arts Center, NY, NY
2011 Art in Odd Places: Ritual, 14th Street, NY, NY
2011 30: A Brooklyn Salon, BRIC Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2011 The (S) Files Bienal 2011, El Museo Del Barrio, NY, NY
2011 Sorta Rican, Taller Boricua, NY, NY
2011 Loss Generation, Seton Gallery at University of New Haven, New Haven, CT
2010 Past Place, Anna Leonowens Gallery, NSCAD University, Halifax, NS Canada
2010 I'm Caught Up..., Bronx Art Space, Bronx, NY
2010 Hope-A-Holic, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Staten Island, NY
2010 Rompe Puesto, Bronx River Art Center, Bronx, NY
2009 Conflux City 2009, NY, NY
2009 The New Easy, Artnews Projects, Berlin Germany
2009 (re)terrain, vertexList, Brooklyn, NY
2008 The New Easy, Agentur, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2008 A Wrinkle in Time, BRIC Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2008 How Soon is Now?, AIM 28, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY
2008 The World is a Handkerchief, Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs, Long Island City, NY
2008 The Audacity of Desperation, PS122, NY, NY
2007 The Uncanny Valley, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, State University of New York at New Paltz, NY
2006 Peekskill Project 2006, Peekskill, NY
2006 Smoke and Mirrors: Photography and Performance, Siegfried Gallery, Ohio University, Athens, OH
2005 Artistic Fragments 2005, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY
ARTIST TALKS, PANELS:
2021 Panelist, In Conversation: Daniel Bejar, Fontaine Capel, Dionisio Cortes Ortega & Bel Falleiros, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY
2020 Artist, Artist Talk, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
2019 Artist, Artist Talk. University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, PA
2019 Artist, Artist Talk. Parsons The New School, NY, NY
2019 Panelist, Art + Community Activism. BRIC, Brooklyn, NY
2019 Panelist, Social Action, Censorship, and Campus Art Museums. 2019 College Art Association Conference, NY, NY
2018 Artist, Artist Talk. University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, PA
2018 Panelist, Optics: Visual Culture and Electoral Politics. International Center Of Photography Museum, NY, NY
2018 Artist, Artist Talk. Westchester Community College. Valhalla, NY
2017 Artist, Artist Talk. University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, PA
2017 Artist, Artist Talk. Queensborough Community College (QCC), Bayside, NY
2017 Artist, Artist Talk. Hyper Natural Sounds #5, Destination Unknown, Harvestworks, NY, NY
2017 Artist, Artist Talk. Parsons The New School, NY, NY
2017 Artist, Artist Talk. Bruce High Quality Foundation, Brooklyn, NY
2016 Panelist, Art and Propaganda. Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY
2016 Artist, Guest Artist, To Whom Will Art Belong?. MoMA Agora Program, Museum of Modern Art, NY, NY
2016 Panelist, What Now? 2016, On Future Identities, Technology and the Self. The New School, NY, NY
2016 Artist, Artist Talk. Purchase College, State University of New York, Purchase, NY
2014 Artist, Artist Talk. State University of New York at New Paltz, NY
2013 Panelist, Traces of New Documentary Practices. Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA
2013 Artist, Artist Talk. Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA
2010 Artist, Artist Talk. NSCAD University, Halifax, NS, Canada
2008 Artist, Artist Talk. University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, WI
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:
2022 Collection of the New York City Department of Education, Public Art for Public Schools, NY
2021 New York Historical Society, NY, NY
PUBLICATION / CATALOGUE:
2021 Bejar, Daniel. Dear Aisha, Volume 1. New York City, Ligature Press, 2021
2021 Roalf, Peggy. ”Daniel Bejar at Socrates Sculpture Park”, ai-ap.com, April, 1, 2021
2019 Steinhauer, Jillian. “New York Art Galleries: What to See Right Now”, The New York Times. March, 28, 2019
2018 Can Yerebakan, Osman. “College gallery closes exhibition after complaints about “false flag” work”, The Art Newspaper.com, November 9, 2018
2018 Johnson, Darren. “Politics as misdirection, and art”, Campus News. November 6, 2018: Pg. 3
2018 Rosario, Isabella and Poljak, Goran. “Political Art Stirs Controversy”, The Viking News. Fall 2018 Issue 1: Pg. 1
2018 Peter Gregorio, Javier Barrios, Christina Papanicoaou, Ellie Krakow. Vector Artists Journal, Issue-8, New York, Vector Productions, 2018: Pg. 46-55
2018 Furness, Dyllan. "The Artists Representing Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria", Vice.com, January 18, 2018
2016 Rodney, Seph. "How to Tell the Difference Between Propaganda and Art", Hyperallergic.com, August 5, 2016
2016 Harmon, Katharine. You Are Here NYC: Mapping The Soul of the City. New York, Princeton Architectural Press, 2016
2016 Colucci, Emily. "People Have The Power: "Of the people" At Smack Mellon", ArtFCity.com, July 6, 2016
2014 Kleeman, Sophie. "Here's What Happens to Your Life When You Have a Famous Internet Doppelgänger", Mic.com, December 19, 2014
2014 Steinhauer, Jillian. "Crossing Brooklyn, Without Leaving the Safe Parts", Hyperallergic.com, December 19, 2014
2014 Johnson, Ken. "The Artist Next Door, 'Crossing Brooklyn' Local Talent at Brooklyn Museum", The New York Times. October 2, 2014
2014 Kim, Eunah. "Google; Creators", Magazine B, Issue No. 28. August 2014: Pg. 96
2013 Veronica. "Bushwick's Special", Harpers Bazaar Art HK. December 2013
2012 Hurst, Howard, "Art Is Free ...Sometimes, Hyperallergic.com, September 4, 2012
2012 Guzman, Alissa. "Bushwick Basel, a Very Small Art Fair", Hyperallergic.com, June, 4, 2012
2011 Cotter, Holland. "Artists Whose Vitality Flows From the Streets", The New York Times. June 16, 2011
2011 Sanneh, Kelefa. "Two Bejars", The New Yorker Magazine. March 21, 2011: Pg. 21-22
2010 Fressola, Michael J.. "Hope-a-Holic", Staten Island Advance. May 2, 2010
2009 Slome, Manon, Simon, Joshua. The Aesthetics of Terror. Italy, Charta, 2009
2009 Archey, Karen. "The New Easy" Map Magazine. Issue 19 / Autumn 2009
2008 Lopez, Erin-Riley. "How Soon Is Now?" AIM 28 (exhibition catalogue), 2008
2006 Wood, Alison. "The Uncanny Valley", Roll Magazine, August, 2007: 46
2006. Genocchio, Benjamin. "Down by the River", The New York Times, September 30, 2006
2006 Byrd, Jeffery. "Smoke and Mirrors" Photography and Performance, Catalouge, 2006: Pg. 8
EDUCATION:
MFA, State University of New York at New Paltz, New Paltz, NY (Sculpture)
BFA, Ringling College of Art & Design, Sarasota, FL