Dean Kessmann
Person TypeArtist
BiographyDean Kessmann's photographs – alternately made with scanners, cameras, camera-less darkroom processes, and most recently, screenshots from computer monitors – comment on image-making technologies and contemporary consumer culture. He has had one-person exhibitions at Furthermore, Washington, DC; Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL; William Shearburn Gallery, St. Louis, MO; Humanity Center Galleries, California State University, Chico, CA; White Flag Projects, St. Louis, MO; and the Miller Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA. He has also participated in numerous group exhibitions, and will have a career survey titled Dean Kessmann: Light Years, Chemical Days, and Digital Seconds at VisArts in Rockville, MD. Many institutions have collected Kessmann's work, including the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Baltimore Museum of Art, Walker Art Center, The Phillips Collection, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, and the Orlando Museum of Art. Kessmann is Program Head and Professor in the Studio Arts program at the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design at The George Washington University.
