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American artist, actor and filmmaker From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dean Dempsey (born 1986) is an American visual artist, actor and filmmaker based in New York, New York. His art practice spans a range of media including photography, painting, drawing and video. He is also the writer and director of his debut feature film Candy Apple (2015), for which he won the NY Perspectives Award at the Winter Film Awards the following year.[1] Dempsey later directed and co-wrote his second feature-length movie Deadman's Barstool (2018), and played lead actor in Flasher (in post-production) .[2][3][4][5][6] In 2018, he was featured in New York Magazine's "The Cut - They Seem Cool" column entitled, "The Painter Who Loves To Hate The Art World."[7]
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Dempsey was born in Tucson, Arizona. He received his BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2009 with study at the Chelsea College of Art and Design in London in 2008. He went on to do a residency at the Villa Waldberta in Feldafing, Germany in 2012, which resulted in the exhibition Next Generation: Contemporary American Photography at Munich's Pasinger Fabrik & Amerika Haus that same year.[8][9] Dempsey's studio is in Orchard Street, New York City. His first two-artist exhibition in the New York City was held at the BOSI Contemporary gallery in 2012, curated by Renato Miracco and entitled Mutatio.[10] This was followed in 2013 by his first solo exhibition there.[11]
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Dempsey's work is held in the collections of:
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