Dan Tesene is a Brooklyn based artist whose drawings, sculptures, and multimedia works are recognizable for their labor intensive processes and painstaking attention to detail. Tesene employs traditional modes of mark making, molding, casting, and carving processes, as well as highly inventive hybrids which blend digital fabrication techniques with synthetic materials in the production of his images and objects. Tesene has exhibited in New York, Los Angeles, and Minneapolis, and internationally in Cairo and Alexandria Egypt, and Florence Italy. In 2010 Tesene founded Artifact, a digital fabrication, sculpture, and design studio, which produces a wide variety of works for artists, architects, electronics specialists, and prosthetics developers.
Education
2005 Bachelor of Fine Arts • Minneapolis College of Art and Design / Minneapolis, MN
2004 Accademia di Belle Arti, additional studies / Florence, IT
2004 Instituto delle Arti, additional studies / Florence, IT
Solo Exhibitions
2010 Lessons of Excess • Devotion Gallery / Brooklyn, NY
2007 Systems • Rochester Art Center / Rochester, MN
Group Exhibitions
2015 New Forms, Realities, and Environments in Digital Manufacturing, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, MN
2012 Soundwalk 2012, FLOOD, Long Beach, CA
2012 Hybrid Geographies, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY
2010 TEDx Brooklyn, Devotion Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2010 The Shift, 319 Scholes, Brooklyn, NY
2008 La Raccolta • Plateau, Minneapolis, MN (curation, exhibition)
2008 Meander, The Soap Factory, Minneapolis, MN
2007 Convergence, Town House Gallery, Cairo, Egypt
-Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum, Alex. Egypt
2007 Ephemerality, Ephemeral Art Space, Minneapolis, MN
2006 Jerome Fellowship Exhibition, Minneapolis, MN
2006 Cities, Catherine E. Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
2005 Apparatus, Plateau Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2005 Construct • Gallery 148, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, MN
2004 Art Shanty Projects • Medicine Lake, MN
Awards/Grants
2006 Jerome Foundation Fellowship for fine arts
2005 Vanderlip Travel Grant
2004 MCAD Merit Scholarship
Publications
2010 Drunken Boat ISSN#1537-2812
2010 In Digest issue #18
