Daniel Bejar is a multi-disciplinary artist living and working in Brooklyn, New York. In 2009 he participated in the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Swing Space Residency as well as the Vermont Studio Center Residency, and in 2008 he participated in the Artist in the Marketplace Program at the Bronx Museum of Art, NY. In 2011 Bejar will participate in El Museo Del Barrio’s (S) Files Bienal.

His work has been exhibited internationally, and recent exhibitions include “Loss Generation”, Seton Gallery, University of New Haven, CT; Get Lost! (NYC), Abrons Art Center, New York, NY; Hope-A-Holic, Newhouse Center For Contemporary Art, Staten Island, NY; The New Easy, Artnews Projects, Berlin, Germany; and How Soon is Now? AIM 28, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY. He is a 2007 MFA sculpture recipient from the State University of New York, New Paltz, and received his BFA from the Ringling College of Art & Design, Sarasota, FL. Please visit www.danielbejar.com for more information.

My practice is informed by questions of collective memory, traces, and histories embedded in contemporary life. Utilizing a multi-disciplinary approach through sculpture, photography, video, performance, and intervention, my practice connects the past to the present, reexamining historical and geo-political narratives. My practice employs appropriation and recontextualization towards familiar objects, sites, and situations as a strategy to provoke historical amnesia and subvert ingrained systems of belief. I believe that the past can influence the future, and by employing modes of evocation to bring the past into the present, a rupture is created, which provides an opportunity to pose critical questions through my work.