Mr. J. Dana Sperry

Professor
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Mr. J. Dana Dana Sperry

Professor

Art

Bliss Hall

phone: (330) 941-3627

jdsperry@ysu.edu

Bio

Dana Sperry is a interdisciplinary digital media artist whose work spans multiple formats and mediums. His recent work explores states of loneliness and isolation resulting from experiences that convey insignificance within a modern post-industrial society. Each piece considers different aspects of contemporary remoteness. In addition to exploring ideas of loneliness, Sperry is fascinated by the inevitable distortion, fabrication and simplification of value structures and renderings of past realities within a culture.

His has been exhibited/screened widely including New York, Chicago, Miami, Paris, Moscow, Amsterdam, Brazil, and India.

Sperry received a BA in philosophy as well as a BFA in studio art from Southern Methodist University. After studying at the Art Insititute of Chicago, He received an MFA from Indiana University.

  • Education
    • 2001

      MFA, Sculpture

      Indiana University

    • 1995

      BFA, Art

      Southern Methodist University

    • 1995

      BA, Philosophy

      Southern Methodist University