Dev Harlan is a New York based artist working in sculpture, installation and digital media. He has exhibited in the US and internationally and has permanent commissions with corporate and private collectors. Dev is a 2020 NYFA Fellowship Finalist in Digital Media Arts and winner of the 2022 Mozaik Artist Grant. Solo exhibitions include Christopher Henry Gallery (NY) and Gallery Madison Park (NY). Group shows include “Noor” at the Sharjah Art Museum, the New Museum’s “Ideas City” NY and the Singapore Light Art Festival. Dev has been an artist in residence at the Frank Lloyd Wright School Of Architecture and the SVA Sculpture & New Media Residency. Dev is currently pursuing a BA in Earth Science at Columbia University.
Statement
My practice explores a range of themes including landscape, anthropogenic change and technological consumption. I often use technology to question itself and the narrative that human societies and technology are somehow separate from the natural world. Rather I ask, how are they entangled and embedded within each other?
Contact
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EXHIBITIONS, SCREENINGS & COMMISSIONS
2023-01 Five Body Problems #3 (Afterlives), Public Art Screening, MIT School of Engineering, Boston MA
2023-01-26 Yonder Crush, Group Show, Satchel Projects, New York, NY
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2022-11-01 Rivers and Mountains, Group Show, Oolong Gallery, Solana Beach, CA
2022-11-28 NEST Highlights from Untitled Art, Virtual Group Show, Miami Art Basel, Vortic Art
2022-10-01 Five Body Problems #3 (Afterlives), Public Art Commission, LA Central Library, Los Angeles, CA
2022-09-17 Five Body Problems #3 (Afterlives), Outdoor Public Screening, Silent Screen, Denver CO
2022-06-02 Re-Sourced, Group Show, SVA Flatiron Gallery, New York, NY
2022-05-26 Are You Human?, Online Group Exhibit, Niio Artcast
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2021-06-05 Steel Breeze, Public art commission, Plum Canyon Park, Santa Clarita, CA
2020-08-15 Digital Realism, Online Exhibition, Samsung+Niio, The Wall, Tel Aviv
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2019-07-24 WYSIWYG, Residency Exhibition, SVA Sculpture Center, New York, NY
2019-06-09 Pooltime!, Public Art Pavilion, NYC Parks, Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, Queens, NY
2019-05-21 Pooltime and Other Worldly Narratives, Group Show, Chashama, Brooklyn Bridge Park, NY
2019-11-01 workPlayMoneyLoveWhatIsWhatCouldBeBothNiether, Group Show, N-S Gallery, Austin, TX
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2018-08-01 Parmenides I, Public art commission, CUNY Oswego, Oswego, NY
2018-03-15 Midnight, (group show), Paradise Palace, Brooklyn, NY
2018-01-20 After Images, Two person show, Northern Southern Gallery, Austin TX
2018-03-15 Mineral Consciousness, Solo show, Gallery Madison Park, New York, NY
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2017-5-21 Life On Earth, Group show, Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Brooklyn, NY
2017-2-24 En Arcadia Et Ego, Two person show, David & Gladys Wright House, Arcadia, AZ
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2016-9-15 Eighteen, Group show, Usagi Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
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2015-12-16 Mineral Consciousness and Unremarkable Stars, Museum show, Sharjah Art Museum, UAE
2015-2-25 After Sunset On The Information Super Getaway, Solo show, Vazquez Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
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2013-08-08 Icosidodecahedron, Corporate commission, Canon USA Headquarters, Melville, NY.
2013-07-04 Astral Fissures, Commission for private residence, Singapore
2013-06-12 Parmenides, Installation, Absolut Open Canvas Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY
2013-12-04 Suffolk Deluxe Electric Bicycle, (w/ Olek) Commission for private residence, Miami, FL
2013-10-17 Downstairs at Eric’s / Time is a Vector, Solo show, Christopher Henry Gallery, New York, NY
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2012-09-20 Eon Surf, Two person show (w/ Ritta Ikonen), Christopher Henry Gallery, New York, NY
2012-03 Parmenides I, Public art exhibition, Sustainable Light Festival, Singapore
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2011-09 Astral Flight Hangar, Solo show, Christopher Henry Gallery, New York, NY
2011-03 Infinity Landing, Solo Exhibition, ROUGE 58 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2011-05-24 “New Ideas for the New City”, Public Art Festival, The New Museum, New York, NY
2011-02-18 Suffolk Deluxe Electric Bicycle, (w/ OLEK) New York Studio Gallery, New York, NY
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2010-12 Pyramid II, Scope Art Fair, Christopher Henry Gallery, Miami, FL
2010-10 Light And Substance, Group Show, curated by NYU ITP for Vimeo Film Fest, New York, NY
2010-07 T-Minus 20, Group Show, Christopher Henry Gallery, New York, NY
2010-05 Ouroboros Showcase, WhiteBox Gallery, New York, NY
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2009-06 Cube Considered, Screening, Monkey Town, Brooklyn, NY
2009-03 In Order To Dance, Screening, Scope Cinema Program, Scope Art Fair, New York, NY
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2008-06 Equilibrium III, Commission, BIX Media Façade, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria
2008-05 One Step Beyond, (Live Video Performance), Museum of Natural History, New York, NY
2008-02-29 MonkeyTown Invitational, (Live Performance & Screening) Monkey Town, Brooklyn NY
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2007-11-22/25 STRP Festival, (Screening), Heindhoven, The Netherlands
2007-10-19 Festa del Cinema, (Screening), Brancaleone, Rome, Italy
2007-10-16 VeidRAM Festival, (Screening), National Museum of Popular Art, Rome, Italy
2007-10-13 Kinofest Digital Film Festiva, (Screening), Bucharest, Romania
2007-08-16 File l Festival Hipersonica, (Screening), Sao Paulo, Brazil
2007-03 Optronica Festival, (Screening), London, UK
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2006-12 PAM (Screening), Scope Fair – Art Basel, Miami, FL
2006-12 IFC Media Lab Festival, (Screening), New York, NY
2006-08-14 City On the Roof Festival, (Public art Installation), Pavlov Media Center, Groningen, Netherland
2006-06-28 Images Contre Nature Festival, (Screening), Marseilles, France
2006-06-07 Sonar Festival, (Screening), Barcelona, Spain
2006-05-24 Liquid Video Festival, Design Mai, (Live Video, Screening, Panel Discussion), Berlin, Germany
2006-05-12 European Media Arts Festival, (Screening, Live Video Performance), Osnabrück, Germany
2006-01-23 Mapping Festival, (Live Video Performance, Panel Discussion), Geneva, Switzerland
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2005-09-15 ResFest (Live Video Performance), New York, NY
2005-08 Semi-Permanent Design Conference NYC, (Screening) New York, NY
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2004-11-26 Cimatics Festival, (Screening), Brussels, Belgium
2004-10-31 Terpischore, (Screening), LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
2004-07-15 New York Video Festival at the Lincoln Center (Screening), New York, NY
2004-06-11 Transcinema Showcase, RX Gallery, (Live Video Performance), San Francisco, CA
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2003-11-03 AMODA Digital Showcase (Screening), Austin Museum of Digital Art, Austin, TX
2003-08-03 Xfest 03 (Screening), Remote Lounge, New York, NY
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2002-11-16 Whitebox Lounge, (Live Video Performance), Drum Machine Museum, San Francisco CA
2002-10-11 Transcinema Festival (Live Video, Installation), 111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2002-10-08 Video Riot, (Outdoor Projections), San Francisco, CA
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1999-07-11 “68k Lounge” (Interactive installation), RGB + Bill Viola, SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
AWARDS
2022-09 Future Art, Grant Awardee, MOZAIK Digital Art Competition
2020-08 Digital Realism, Winner, Niio+Samsung International Digital Art Competition
2020-10 NYFA 2020 Fellowship Finalist, Digital Media Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts
GRANTS
2019 POOLTIME! (w/ Cheryl Wing-Zi Wong), Queens Council on the Arts
2019 POOLTIME! (w/ Cheryl Wing-Zi Wong), Partnership for Parks, Building Healthy Communities
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE
2019-06 SVA Summer Studio Residency, Sculpture & Digital Media, New York, NY
2017-09 Joshua Tree Highlands Artist Residency (JTHAR), Joshua Tree CA
2017-02 Taliesin West Artist Residence Program (TARP), Frank Lloyd Wright School, Scottsdale, AZ
2006-04 City on a Roof AIR, “Vertical Zoetrope” (w/ Nika Offenbac) Pavlov Media Center, Groningen, NL.
GALLERIES / REPRESENTATION
2020-2022 Niio (digital placement)
2021-2022 Artpoint, (Digital placement) Paris, France
2020-2022 Standard Vision, (Digital placement) Los Angeles, CA
2018 – 2020 Gallery Madison Park, New York, NY
2018 – 2019 Northern-Southern, Austin, TX
2011 – 2015 Christopher Henry Gallery, New York, NY
PUBLICATIONS
2023-04 The Tickle, Vol #81 (Interview)
2017 WASH Magazine, Issue II, SoAT, Taliesin West, “Parmenides and The Search for the Unknowable”
2015-09 SuperLux: Smart Light Art, Design & Architecture for Cities, Davina Jackson (London, Thames & Hudson, 2015), Artist image feature
2013-03 Holo I, (Image feature) Alexander Scholz (2013),
2006-12 The Ve’Ja Book, Xarene Eskandar, TouchSmart Publishing
PRESS / BLOGS
2023-03 Right Click Save, Katherine Howatson-Tout (Q & A) ART IN THE AGE OF ALGORITHMIC SELECTION
2022-12 Niio Art, Roxanne Vardi, Artist Feature
2012-12 Blackbook Magazine, Adam Brent Houghtaling, “New Regime”, Interview
2012-09 Creator’s Project, Kathleen Flood, “Y-3’s NYFW Projections Were A Colorful, Triangulated Masterpiece”
2011-10 Details Magazine, RJ Del Russo, “Details Guild”
2011-10 Creator’s Project, Kevin Holmes “Stunning Light Sculpture Merges The Virtual And Real”
2011-02 Rhizome, Ceci Moss, “Any Color You Like”
2006-11 Res Magazine, “Reline” Review
2006-10 Apple Pro, C-TRL Labs Online Feature
2006-03 Page Magazine, “Video and Architecture” Feature
2006-05 Page Magazine, “Berlin Design Mai” Review
2004-01 Audiovisual.jp, C-TRL Labs Interview
2004-03 IDN Magazine, “Seeing is believing, the Rise of the VJ”
2003-03 VJTV, Artist Interviews
2003-02 San Francisco Bay Guardian, “Visual Riot”
2002-09 Wired News, “One Man’s Retro Revolution”
1999-07 Rhizome, “RGB Mixes Viola with Rave”
LECTURES / PRESENTATIONS
2017-03 MA Studio Lecture, Architecture/Design Dept. ASU, Phoenix AZ
2013-08 Touch-In, Brooklyn, NY
2012-10 Pixel Show Conference, Sau Paulo, BR
2012-03 Media Arts Practice, taught by Chika Watanabe, NYU ITP, NY
2011-12 Media Arts Practice, taught by Gabe Garcia-Colombo, NYU ITP, NY
2007-04 Apple Store Creative Series, ADC, NY
TEACHING
2014-06 “COIR” Design Build Studio, (Co-Taught w/ Adjunct Professor Cheryl Wong)
International Design Architecture Program (INDA), Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, TH
2013-06 “Intro to Design” Studio, (Co-Taught) International Design Architecture Program (INDA),
Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, TH
EDUCATION
2023 Columbia University, BA Earth Science, (Class of 2025)
2019-2022 City University of New York, BMCC, (Associate of Science)
2021-06 School for Poetic Computing, “Dark Matters”, (8 wk Lecture w/ American Artist)
1999 UC Berkeley, Continuing Ed, (Computer Science)
1998 UC Santa Cruz, Continuing Ed, (Figure Drawing)
1995-1998 Evergreen Valley / San Jose City College, (Visual Art)