Dean Monogenis
{{Short description|Greek-American painter and sculptor}}
Dean Monogenis is an American painter and sculptor. In his work he creates architectural settings {{Cite web|url=https://www.juxtapoz.com/tag/dean-monogenis/|title=Juxtapoz Magazine – Displaying items by tag: dean monogenis|website=www.juxtapoz.com|language=en|access-date=2017-08-29}} using a variety of techniques which result in added lines, edges and textures. Architecture became a key theme in Monogenis' work shortly after 911. "Watching the World Trade Center towers come down I realized that buildings, like people, were fated to a similar cycle of life and death."
Education
Solo exhibitions
Monogenis has shown his work internationally at galleries including: Galerie Xippas: Paris, Geneva, Montevideo, and Athens,{{Cite web |url=http://www.xippas.com/artists/dean-monogenis/ |title=Dean Monogenis | Xippas |access-date=September 3, 2017 |archive-date=August 13, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200813115618/https://www.xippas.com/artists/dean-monogenis/ |url-status=dead }}, Baronian, Brussels; Stux Gallery, NYC;{{cite web|url=http://www.stuxgallery.com/exhibitions/dean-monogenis|title=Dean Monogenis – Exhibitions – Stux Gallery|website=www.stuxgallery.com}} CCA Andratx, Spain;{{cite web|url=https://www.artsy.net/show/cca-andratx-kunsthalle-dean-monogenis-habitat-and-the-void|title=DEAN MONOGENIS, Habitat and the Void – CCA Andratx Kunsthalle – Artsy|website=www.artsy.net}} and the Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles{{cite web|url=http://artillerymag.com/walter-maciel-gallery-dean-monogenis/|title=Walter Maciel Gallery: Dean Monogenis – Artillery Magazine|date=April 5, 2017|publisher=}}Art exhibition at [[Walter Maciel Gallery by Dean Monogenis|right|275px|thumb]]
Group exhibitions
His works have also been exhibited in galleries and museums including: Musée d'art moderne (Saint-Étienne),{{Cite web|url=http://www.mam-st-etienne.fr/index.php?rubrique=31&exposition_id=259|title = Accueil | MAMC, Musée d'art moderne et contemporain, Saint-Étienne Métropole}} Pavillon de l'Arsenal,{{Cite web|url=http://www.pavillon-arsenal.com/en/expositions/10126-artists-and-architecture.html|title = Artists and Architecture | Exhibitions | Pavillon de l'Arsenal}} Neuberger Museum of Art,{{Cite web |url=https://www.neuberger.org/video/FTWEBChecklist.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=September 3, 2017 |archive-date=September 3, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170903210652/https://www.neuberger.org/video/FTWEBChecklist.pdf |url-status=dead }} Santa Monica Museum of Art, CCA Andratx,{{Cite web|url=http://www.ccandratx.com/de/p404/agenda_12/dean-monogenis-habitat-and-the-void.html|title="www.ccandratx.com"|website=www.ccandratx.com}} Wave Hill,{{Cite web |url=https://www.wavehill.org/arts/exhibits/bronx-calling-second-aim-biennial/ |title=Bronx Calling: The Second AIM Biennial - Arts at Wave Hill || Wave Hill - New York Public Garden and Cultural Center |access-date=September 3, 2017 |archive-date=September 3, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170903204812/https://www.wavehill.org/arts/exhibits/bronx-calling-second-aim-biennial/ |url-status=dead }} Federal Reserve Board of Governors,{{Cite web |url=http://contemporary.neuegegenwart.de/kuenstler/monogenis.htm |title=Neue Gegenwart® Contemporary | Stephan Tillmans |access-date=September 3, 2017 |archive-date=September 3, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170903211011/http://contemporary.neuegegenwart.de/kuenstler/monogenis.htm |url-status=dead }} Mykonos Biennale, Angels Gate Cultural Center, Herter Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Bedford Gallery at the Lesher Center for the Arts, Schneider Museum of Art,{{Cite web|url=http://www.ashlandgalleries.com/members/schneider-museum-of-art/2014/01/home-shelter-and-habitat-in-contemporary-art/|title=Home: Shelter and Habitat in Contemporary Art | Ashland Galleries}} Hunterdon Art Museum.
Awards
Monogenis was awarded:
The Artist in the Market Place (AIM) Program from the Bronx Museum of the Arts (Bronx, NY, USA).,{{Cite web|url=http://www.xippas.com/exhibition/dean-monogenis/|title=Dean Monogenis|website=www.xippas.com|language=en-US|access-date=2017-08-29}} FLOW 14 Art at Randall's Island, (Randall's Island Park, NYC, USA).,{{cite web|url=https://randallsisland.org/flow-14/flow-14-dean-monogenis/|title=FLOW.14: Dean Monogenis – Randall's Island Park Alliance|publisher=}}{{cite web|url=https://www.timeout.com/newyork/things-to-do/flow-14-opening-1|title=FLOW.14 Opening|publisher=}} Visiting Artist Anderson Ranch,(Snowmass, Colorado, USA){{cite web|url=https://www.andersonranch.org/programs/visiting-artists/past-visiting-artists/|title=Past Visiting Artists at Anderson Ranch Arts Center|publisher=}}
Artist in residence
Monogenis has twice held the position Artist in Residence at Spain's CCA Andratx Art Centre (in 2012 and 2016){{cite web|title=Residence Program|url=http://www.ccandratx.com/en/c27/artists-in-residence_27.html|publisher=CCA|accessdate=August 24, 2017}} The Fountainhead Residency, Miami,{{cite web|url=https://www.fountainheadresidency.com/dean-monogenis/|title=Dean Monogenis|website=The Fountainhead|access-date=September 2, 2017|archive-date=September 2, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170902224708/https://www.fountainheadresidency.com/dean-monogenis/|url-status=dead}} New York's Pace University, Dyson College of Arts and Sciences.{{Cite web|url=http://www.artspace.com/dean_monogenis|title=Dean Monogenis {{!}} Artspace|website=Artspace|language=en|access-date=2017-08-29}}
Collections
In addition to corporate collections such as Capital Group, The Progressive Art Collection and Wellington Management, Monogenis’ work is included in the public museum collection of [https://www.governmentattic.org/48docs/FRBartworkFAC2022curator2014.pdf the Federal Reserve Board], Washington DC.
Further reading
The Precision of Nowhere {{Cite book|url=https://www.academia.edu/38221432|title = The Precision of Nowhere: Dean Monogenis|date = January 2019|last1 = Merjian|first1 = Ara H.}} artist monograph with text by Ara H. Merjian and interview with Walter Maciel {{ISBN|978-989-20-9160-0}}
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Category:21st-century American painters
Category:21st-century American sculptors