Michael Dean, A Thestory of Luneliness for Fuck Sake
September 10 - October 30, 2021, Andrew Kreps Gallery, 22 Cortlandt Alley, New York
Photo: Dan Bradica
Michael Dean, A Thestory of Luneliness for Fuck Sake
September 10 - October 30, 2021, Andrew Kreps Gallery, 22 Cortlandt Alley, New York
Photo: Dan Bradica
Michael Dean, A Thestory of Luneliness for Fuck Sake
September 10 - October 30, 2021, Andrew Kreps Gallery, 22 Cortlandt Alley, New York
Photo: Dan Bradica
Michael Dean, A Thestory of Luneliness for Fuck Sake
September 10 - October 30, 2021, Andrew Kreps Gallery, 22 Cortlandt Alley, New York
Photo: Dan Bradica
Michael Dean, Under the stairs and by the fire.
June 12 – August 13, 2021, Mendes Wood, Brussels, Belgium
Michael Dean, Under the stairs and by the fire.
June 12 – August 13, 2021, Mendes Wood, Brussels, Belgium
Michael Dean, Under the stairs and by the fire.
June 12 – August 13, 2021, Mendes Wood, Brussels, Belgium
Michael Dean, The End
January 23 – February 15, 2020, Fondazione Converso, Milan, Italy
Michael Dean, The End
January 23 – February 15, 2020, Fondazione Converso, Milan, Italy
Michael Dean, The End
January 23 – February 15, 2020, Fondazione Converso, Milan, Italy
Michael Dean, Kiss Emitting Die Odes
October 13, 2020 - March 31, 2021, Progetto, Lecce, Italy
Michael Dean, Kiss Emitting Die Odes
October 13, 2020 - March 31, 2021, Progetto, Lecce, Italy
Michael Dean
don’t relax (Working Title), 2020
Lipstick on paper
Framed: 13 1/2 x 18 1/2 inches (34.3 x 47 cm)
Michael Dean, Kiss Emitting Die Odes
October 13, 2020 - March 31, 2021, Progetto, Lecce, Italy
Micheal Dean, Your text here
December 11, 2019 - March 1, 2020, Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico
Micheal Dean, Your text here
December 11, 2019 - March 1, 2020, Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico
Micheal Dean, Your text here
December 11, 2019 - March 1, 2020, Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico
Micheal Dean, Your text here
December 11, 2019 - March 1, 2020, Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico
Michael Dean, Laughing for Crying
March 31 - May 19, 2019, Lismore Castle Arts, Waterford, Ireland
Michael Dean, Laughing for Crying
March 31 - May 19, 2019, Lismore Castle Arts, Waterford, Ireland
Michael Dean
October 26 - January 20, 2019, The Hepworth Prize for Sculpture, The Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Michael Dean
October 26 - January 20, 2019, The Hepworth Prize for Sculpture, The Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Michael Dean
October 26 - January 20, 2019, The Hepworth Prize for Sculpture, The Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Michael Dean, Having you on
June 22 - September 30, 2018, BALTIC Center for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, United Kingdom
Michael Dean, Having you on
June 22 - September 30, 2018, BALTIC Center for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, United Kingdom
Michael Dean, Having you on
June 22 - September 30, 2018, BALTIC Center for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, United Kingdom
Michael Dean, Having you on
June 22 - September 30, 2018, BALTIC Center for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, United Kingdom
Michael Dean, Having you on
June 22 - September 30, 2018, BALTIC Center for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, United Kingdom
Michael Dean, Analogue LOL
March 24 - May 13, 2018, ShanghArt Gallery, Shanghai, China
Michael Dean
Lollol (Working Title), 2018
Concrete, steel reinforcement, plastic, publications, ink stained publication, cable ties, bike locks, paper on crushed cans, coins
70 7/8 x 31 1/2 x 28 3/8 inches (180.0 x 80.0 x 72.1 cm)
Michael Dean, Analogue LOL
March 24 - May 13, 2018, ShanghArt Gallery, Shanghai, China
Michael Dean
LooL (Working Title), 2018
Concrete, steel reinforcement, cable ties, bike locks, ink stained publications
68 1/8 x 40 1/2 x 42 1/8 inches (173.0 x 102.9 x 107.0 cm)
Michael Dean
lol (Working Title), 2018
Concrete, steel reinforcement, plastic, ink stained publication, padlocks, cable ties
74 7/8 x 26 x 20 1/2 inches (190 x 66 x 52 cm)
Michael Dean, Analogue LOL
March 24 - May 13, 2018, ShanghArt Gallery, Shanghai, China
Michael Dean, Analogue LOL
March 24 - May 13, 2018, ShanghArt Gallery, Shanghai, China
Michael Dean
LOL (Working Title), 2018
Concrete, steel reinforcement, plastic, cable ties, publications, stickers
71 1/4 x 50 x 31 1/2 inches (181.0 x 127.0 x 80.0 cm)
Michael Dean, Analogue LOL
March 24 - May 13, 2018, ShanghArt Gallery, Shanghai, China
Michael Dean
LOLLOLLOL (Working Title), 2018
Concrete, steel reinforcement, plastic, padlocks, bike locks, cable ties, publications, stickers,
grass
70 x 65 x 35 3/8 inches (177.8 x 165.1 x 89.9 cm)
Michael Dean, Analogue LOL
March 24 - May 13, 2018, ShanghArt Gallery, Shanghai, China
Michael Dean
Lols (Working Title), 2018
Concrete, steel reinforcement, plastic, padlocks, stained publications
84 3/4 x 46 1/2 x 39 3/8 inches (215.3 x 118.1 x 100.0 cm)
Michael Dean, Four Fucksakes
September 23 - November 18, 2017, Herald St., London, United Kingdom
Michael Dean, Four Fucksakes
September 23 - November 18, 2017, Herald St., London, United Kingdom
Michael Dean, Four Fucksakes
September 23 - November 18, 2017, Herald St., London, United Kingdom
Michael Dean
L (Working Title) Cursive, 2017
Concrete, steel reinforcement, ink soaked publication (ILO VEY), paperback publication (ILO VEY), cable ties, U Lock, chain lock, vinyl stickers, custom made plastic carrier bag
69 3/8 x 51 1/8 x 40 1/8 inches (176.2 x 129.9 x 101.9 cm)
Michael Dean, Tender Tender
June 10 - October 1, 2017, Skulptur Projekte, Münster, Germany
Michael Dean, Tender Tender
June 10 - October 1, 2017, Skulptur Projekte, Münster, Germany
Michael Dean, Tender Tender
June 10 - October 1, 2017, Skulptur Projekte, Münster, Germany
Michael Dean, Teaxths and Angeruage
July 1 - September 3, 2017, Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany
Michael Dean, Teaxths and Angeruage
July 1 - September 3, 2017, Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany
Michael Dean, Sightings: Michael Dean: Lost True Leaves
October 22, 2016 - February 5, 2017, Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Texas
Michael Dean, Sightings: Michael Dean: Lost True Leaves
October 22, 2016 - February 5, 2017, Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Texas
Michael Dean, Sightings: Michael Dean: Lost True Leaves
October 22, 2016 - February 5, 2017, Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Texas
Michael Dean, Sic Glyphs
March 17 - May 22, 2016, South London Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Michael Dean, Sic Glyphs
March 17 - May 22, 2016, South London Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Michael Dean, Sic Glyphs
March 17 - May 22, 2016, South London Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Michael Dean was born in 1977 in Newcastle Upon Tyne. He lives and works in London. Dean initiates his artistic process with his personal writings, transforming textual elements into sculptures and immersive installations that delve into themes of language, the body, and intimacy. A solo exhibition featuring Michael Dean’s latest work, titled Four Fucks Sake, will be on display at the gallery until October 28, 2023.
His previous solo exhibitions are Smittens For Smoticons, Goswell Road, Paris, France (2022), Tendre-Sur-Estime, Yvon Lambert Gallery, Paris, France (2022), Unfuckingtitled at CC Strombeek in Flanders, Belgium (2021), A Thestory of Luneliness for Fuck Sake at Andrew Kreps Gallery in New York (2021), Michael Dean – The End at Converso in Milan, Italy (2020), Tu texto aquí at Museo Tamayo in Mexico City, (2019), Michael Dean: Laughing for Crying at Lismore Castle Arts in Lismore, Ireland (2019), Having you on at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead (2018), Teaxths and Angeruage at Portikus in Frankfurt, Germany (2017), Sic Glyphs at South London Gallery, London (2016), and Lost True Leaves at Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas (2016).
Dean was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2016 and for the Hepworth Prize in 2018. In 2017, Dean participated at Skulptur Projekt Münster. His works are featured in significant public collections, including Tate, London; Henry Moore Foundation, Hertfordshire; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; S.M.A.K. Gent; Arts Council Collection, London; Kadist Art Foundation, Paris; The Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield; and Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas.
Barakat Contemporary presents Garden of Delete, the first exhibition of the British sculptor Michael Dean (b. 1977, UK) in Korea.
While the transmutation of language is particularly important to Dean’s practice, his works are not intended to be read as words, but rather to be identified as an element of language in their own form and imagined as a word or idea. He attributes a physical form to a personally developed language, based on a series of typographic alphabets, which he designs himself.
Michael Dean’s immersive sculptural installations begin with his own writing, which he translates into physical form, from letter-like human-scale figures to self-published books deployed as sculptural elements within his installations. His materials are readily available, and include concrete and steel reinforcement bars. For Lismore, Michael has created a new body of work developing on from recent work which examines how our experience of text exists in the realm of the street. Commonplace signs such as hazard and police tape have been replaced by Dean’s own typographies and nonsensical poetic fragments, emptying them of their original meaning. The transformation of written words into a language of concrete objects is characteristic of Dean’s work. Typically beginning with his own writing, he abstracts and deforms these texts into new typographies, subsequently materialized in solid, physical forms.
The Hepworth Prize for Sculpture was established in 2016 as a £30,000 biennial award recognizing a British or UK-based artist of any age, at any stage in their career who has made a significant contribution to the development of contemporary sculpture.
