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Bio
Yaron Dotan is a Los Angeles-based artist who works in a variety of media and styles to produce optical drawings, narrative paintings, portraiture and video art. He holds an MFA from Tufts University, an MS Ed. from St. John’s University, and a BA in English Literature from Queens College.
Having only ever seen out of one eye, Dotan has used what would otherwise be a hindrance to heighten his creativity. Through a body of optical paintings that combine realistic imagery with rhythmic lines inspired by optical design, he poses questions about the nature of perception, illusion, invisibility, and certainty.
In California he has shown at bG Gallery, Gallery 825, Trunk Gallery, LACDA, LAMAG, Art Share LA, Atrium 26, the Coachella Valley Art Center, the Manhattan Beach Art Center, Surrogate Gallery Projects and the CSU Northridge Art Gallery. In New York Dotan’s work has shown at Art in Flux Harlem and SPACEWOMb. Internationally he has also shown at the Jerusalem Biennale, and in September 2017 he will show at National Taiwan Museum of Fine Art.
In Brooklyn Dotan developed a mural program for at-risk high school students to create murals in schools throughout the borough. His mural efforts were broadly covered by the press, including the Brooklyn Eagle, The Home Reporter, Sing Tao Daily, Brooklyn News 12, Sinovision, and have appeared in the New York Times. In Los Angeles he co-developed StArt Projects, a program designed to help advanced high school art students create large scale projects in a variety of different media.
As part of an ongoing project Dotan has travelled throughout more than twenty states drawing roadside portraits of people from all walks of life using his signature marker and white-out style in what became the Draw America Project.
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Born in New York, NY
Lives in Los Angeles, CA
Education
M.F.A. School of the Museum of Fine Arts/ Tufts University, Boston 2008
M.S. Ed. St. John’s University 2004
B.A. English, Cum Laude, Queens College, New York, 1998
Solo Exhibitions
2017 Sight Unseen, bG Gallery, Los Angeles CA
2016 In The Land Of The Blind, Atrium 26 Gallery, Los Angeles CA
Group Exhibitions
2017 New Media Exhibition, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Art, Taiwan (upcoming)
2017 Cratedigger, Gabba Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2017 Venice Fine Arts Film Festival, Los Angeles, CA
2017 Day Dreamers, bG Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2017 Faculty Show, Barnsdall Art Center, Los Angeles, CA
2017 S+P=A, Surrogate Projects, Pasadena, C
2017 Mod Squad Group Show, Art Share L.A., Los Angeles CA
2016 LA in CV 3, Coachella Valley Art Center, Los Angeles CA
2016 Grayscale Wonderland, bG Gallery, Los Angeles CA
2016 Multi-World, bG Gallery, Los Angeles CA
2016 Open Show, LA MAG, Los Angeles CA
2016 Video Art Show at LACDA, Los Angeles CA
2015 Open Show, Gallery 825, Los Angeles CA
2015 Opulent Mobility, CSU Northridge, Los Angeles CA
2015 Jerusalem Biennale 2015, Jerusalem, Israel
2015 Ai Weiwei Tribute Exhibition, Trunk Gallery, Los Angeles CA
2015 CA 101 2015, AES Power Plant, Los Angeles CA
2015 Culture Lab Group Exhibition, Atwater Theater, Los Angeles CA
2015 Untold Narratives, Mission Valley Library Gallery, San Diego,CA
2015 Adorn Group Show, Gallery 825, Los Angeles CA
2014 MAS 7 Group Show, Santa Monica Studios, Santa Monica, CA
2014 Dragnet Group Show, Manhattan Beach Contemporary Art Center, Los Angeles CA
2014 Black and White Group Show, Art in Flux Gallery, New York, NY
Murals
2014 Underwater Mural, New Utrecht High School, Brooklyn, NY
2014 New Year’s Mural, New Utrecht High School, Brooklyn, NY
2013 Imagination Mural, New Utrecht High School, Brooklyn, NY
2013 Environmental Mural, New Utrecht High School, Brooklyn, NY
2013 Music Mural, Brooklyn School for Global Studies, Brooklyn, NY
2012 Noble Souls Mural, William E. Grady Technical High School, Brooklyn, NY
2012 Coney Island Mural, William E. Grady Technical High School, Brooklyn, NY
2012 Robotics Mural, William E. Grady Technical High School, Brooklyn, NY
2011 Automotive Mural, William E. Grady Technical High School, Brooklyn, NY
2011 Culinary Mural, William E. Grady Technical High School, Brooklyn, NY
Awards and Grants
2017 Best Experimental Film at Venice Fine Art Film Festival
2016 First prize winner at bG Gallery for Grayscale Wonderland
2013 Hatchfund crowd-sourced funding for Draw America Project
2007 Drawing scholarship for School of the Museum of Fine Arts/ Tufts University
2006 Drawing scholarship for School of the Museum of Fine Arts/ Tufts University