Education
Masters of Fine Arts, UC San Diego 2008
Bachelor of Arts, UC Irvine 2002
Awards/Commissions
2025 Chinati Artist in Residence, Marfa Texas (forthcoming)
2024 Wheaton Creative Glass Fellowship
Faculty Career Development Grant, UCSD
Academic Senate Grant, UCSD
Foundation for Contemporary Art, Emergency Grant
2018/20 Vera List Center For Art and Politics, Fellow, New School, New York
2019 Urban Glass Artist Fellow, Brooklyn, NY
2016/20 Metro Artist Commission, Crenshaw/LAX Line
2013 California Community Foundation, Emerging Artist Fellowship
2012 Center for Cultural Innovation, ARC (Artists’ Resource for Completion) Grant
2008 Honorarium, The New Children’s Museum, San Diego
Graduate Research Grant, UCSD
Solo Exhibitions/Screenings
2024 38, Louche Ops, Berlin
2022 Untitled, Los Angeles Metro K Line Leimert Park, permanent
2020 And, Apollo: A Laboratory, Aronson Galleries, curated by Christiane Paul and Eriola Pira, NY
2017 Undone, curated by McLean Fahnestock, Austin Peay State University
2012 Quartet For The End of Time, Angel’s Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro
2011 Three New Works, Luis de Jesus, Los Angeles
2009 Donut, Patrick Painter, Los Angeles
2008 Desert USA, compact/space Gallery, Los Angeles
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 Scientia Sexualis, ICA Los Angeles, curated by Jeanne Vaccaro and Jennifer Doyle
2023 10 Billion Barrels, curated by Rachel V. Steinberg & Žanete Liekite, Smack Mellon, New York
Are We Not Drawn Onward To A New Era, curated by Ceci Moss, Mandeville Art Gallery, San Diego
Here: Arts & Culture Along the K, Museum of African American Art, Los Angeles
2022 Faculty 2022, Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Ithaca NY
I tilted over until it becomes horizon, String Room Gallery, Wells College, Aurora NY
2019 Forms and Figures, Echo Park Film Center, organized by Primsuda Sakuntabhai, Los Angeles
Calafia, MexiCali Biennial, w/Nikki Darling, curated by Daniela Lieja, The Armory, LA
2018 Ain’t I A Womxn, with Dirty Looks LA, organized by Raquel Gutierrez, Los Angeles
After Hours, UCLA Wight Gallery, Los Angeles
Blackout, Peekskill Film Festival, Hudson Valley Center for the Arts, NY
MexiCali Biennial, Southern California sites include: Los Angeles, Lancaster, Mexicali
If Only It Were That Easy, performance with Carmen Argote, Pacific Standard Time
2016 Seduction of a Cyborg, Curated by David Evans Frantz, Hannah Grosman, Simone Krug, Human Resources, Los Angeles
Watch queen, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan; Spiral Hall, Tokyo, Japan
SQUASH, organized by Rachel James and Laetitia Jeurissen, Mexico City
2015 Edible Planets/Soylent Dialogues, organized by Mateo Tannatt, The Pit, Los Angeles
New Original Works Festival 2015, Takao Kawaguchi, Jonathan Hall and Dean Erdmann: Touch of the Other, REDCAT, Los Angeles
Touch of the Other: Performing the Laud Humphreys Archive
WATCHQUEEN, ONE Archives, Los Angeles
Form is the outline and structure of a thing, University Art Gallery, UC Irvine
201 Apollo TBD, curated by Evelena Ruether, Samuel Freeman Gallery, Los Angeles
Reverb, curated by Max Presneill and Daniel Rothman, Torrance Art Museum, Los Angeles
Transmission (Parts 1 and 2), curated by Catlin Moore and Matthew Gardocki, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach and Eagle Rock Center for the Arts, Los Angeles
Rainbow Control Room, Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles
2013 The Stand In (or A Glass of Milk), Public Fiction, curated by Lauren Mackler and Alex Gaty, Los Angeles
All That is Solid, Images Festival, Toronto, Canada
Waxing the Bud, Actual Size, curated by Eric Bollman, Los Angeles
CAC (Community Action Center) or BUST!, organized by AL Steiner, Art Theater of Long Beach, CA
Disc Storage 24 (PINK), organized by Darin Klein, Institute for American Art, Portland Maine
2012 Tilt-Shift LA: New Queer Perspectives on the Western Edge, curated by Darin Klein, Luis de Jesus, Los Angeles
Dirty Looks: Long Distance Love Affairs, curated by Darin Klein and Bradford Nordeen, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles and Yale University, New Haven
It’s The Thought That Counts, curated by David Bell, Control Room, Los Angeles
COLT, Platinum Series – Experimental Showcase, Outfest, REDCAT, Los Angeles
Dirty Looks NYC, New York City, New York
Move In, curated by ONE Archives & David Evans Frantz, Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles
2011 DRUMSTICK (with Community Action Center), REDCAT, Los Angeles
Adult Contemporary – Family Romance, Kavi Gupta Berlin
Drumstick, Platinum Series – Experimental Showcase, Outfest, REDCAT, Los Angeles
Abstract Smallness, curated by Farrah Karapetian, POST Gallery, Los Angeles
Things I Never Say, screening curated by Trish Stone, ArtProduce, San Diego
Y53k, curated by Micha Cardenas, ARTifact, San Diego
2010 Adult Contemporary - Dirty Black Summer, Kavi Gupta, Berlin
Depthless, Statler Waldorf Gallery, Los Angeles
Machines for the Future, curated by Genevieve Yue, Mandrake, Los Angeles
Original Plumbing #2 Release Party, curated by Darin Klein, workspace, Los Angeles
5 Points Reading Series Present: Treasures From a Lesbian Library, curated by Eve Fowler, workspace, Los Angeles
2009 Social Climbing, curated by Luis de Jesus, Seminal Projects, San Diego
We Cant’ Stop Thinking, That’s Why We’re Running Away, curated by Farrah Emami, grove of trees, San Diego
2008 Studio Green, The New Children’s Museum, San Diego
Cocked: The Possessed Male / Object of My Desire, curated by Luis de Jesus, Seminal Projects, San Diego CA
GLAMFA, (Greater Los Angeles MFA select exhibition), Cal State Long Beach
Publications
2020 Dean Erdmann: And Apollo: A Laboratory, published by The Vera List Center for Art and Politics
Residencies
2016 SOMA, Mexico City
Articles & Reviews
2024 Liou, Caroline, Scientia Sexualis: dean erdmann
2022 Loss Across Landscapes: Sonya Merutka writes on the queer kinship & the histories that remain in I tilted over until it becomes horizon, AQNB
2021 Reaching Out of Habit: Dean Erdmann: AQNB’s Artist podcast
2020 Digesting Place, Dean Erdmann interviewed by Amanda Parmer, BOMB Magazine
2015 A conversation between Nikki Darling and Dean Erdmann, TIR Journal
2013 Emergent Presence: Fresh Faces in Art: Eight LA Artists You Should Know, Fabrik Magazine
2010 Notes on Looking, For Your Art, Geoff Tuck
2009 Dean Erdmann at Patrick Painter, Holly Willis, KCET Blur + Sharpen
2002 The Advocate, The Sex Issue, August 20, 2002
Artist Talks, Panels and Presentations
2023A Trans Hirschfeld Renaissance: Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany
2020Queer Archives: The New School
2019 USC Visiting Artist Lecture
Parsons Visiting Artist Lecture
2018 Vera List Center for Art and Politics, Forum, The New School
2017 Meet the Metro Artists, Museum of African American Art, Los Angeles
2014 Visiting Artist, University of Dayton, OH
Visiting Artist, USC, CA
Visiting Artist, Queer Visions, Queer Voices, Pomona College
2013 Visiting Artist, USC, CA
Destroy More Monsters, REDCAT