Dean Ebben is a New York based artist. His artistic practice is guided by a conceptual approach, informed by the psychological and physical experience. Themes ranging from, identity, loss, body, memory and mythology. These ideas are articulated through sculpture, works on paper, video and performance.
He is best known as an interdisciplinary artist. He works in a variety of mediums and dimensions, often using non-precious materials and everyday items that have been discarded or over looked. He appropriates material from the media, art history and his own private sources, giving them new meaning by obscuring, reinterpreting and elaborating on them.
Ebben earned his BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston, Massachusetts, where he studied sculpture and papermaking, and earned his MFA with distinction from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York where he studied video and installation.
Ebben’s work has been shown in such museums and galleries as Johnson & Johnson World Headquarters in New Brunswick, NJ, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN, Museum of Biblical Art, NY, Alice R. Rogers and Target Galleries, Saint John’s University, Collegeville, MN, SUNY Cortland, Cortland, NY A Gathering of the Tribes, New York, NY and The Center for Book Arts, NY.
His work is included in numerous public and private collections.
