Bio
Daniel Bejar is a Latinx multi-disciplinary visual artist based in Brooklyn, NY. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at venues including Brooklyn Museum, NY; The Drawing Center, New York, NY; Socrates Sculpture Park, Queens, NY; Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona, Spain; El Museo Del Barrio, NY; SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM; Artnews Projects, Berlin, Germany; and The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY.
Bejar’s work has been supported through grants/fellowships from the NYFA, Franklin Furnace, and the Rema Hort Mann Foundation and through artist residencies at Socrates Sculpture Park, Queens, NY; Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, NY, NY; and SOMA, Mexico City, D.F.. His work has been featured in publications such as the New Yorker, Harpers Bazaar HK, Magazine B, and Hyperallergic, among others.
Bejar has an MFA from the State University of New York at New Paltz, NY, and a BFA from Ringling College of Art & Design, Sarasota, FL.
Artist Statement
I create art in the public realm that uses interventions to critically re-imagine themes of history, immigration, borders, citizenship, and memory within the everyday.
Working and intervening at sites including the US/Mexico border, The Whitney Museum, the halfway point between the US and Puerto Rico, and a gerrymandered New York State Senate district my work employs evocation to create fractures in these sites and bring the past into a conversation with the present. This process allows my work to open a space where the legacies of colonialism that continue to impact the present can be seen and challenged while centering lesser known histories and voices and imagining alternative futures.