Masters of Fine Arts, UC San Diego 2008
Bachelor of Arts, UC Irvine 2002
Awards & Commissions
2025 Society of Hellman Fellowship
Chinati Artist in Residence
Foundation for Contemporary Art, Research Grant
2024 Foundation for Contemporary Art, Emergency Grant
2018-20 Vera List Center for Art and Politics Fellowship, New York
2019 Urban Glass Artist Fellow
2018. Metro Commission, Leimert Park, Los Angeles (open 2022)
2013 California Community Foundation, Emerging Artist Fellowship
2012 Center for Cultural Innovation, Completion Grant
Solo Exhibitions
2028 ICA San Diego, San Diego CA
2026 Vitrum, Company Gallery, NYC NY
Anya and Andrew Shiva Gallery, CUNY NYC NY
2024 38, Louche Ops, Berlin
2022 Untitled, Los Angeles Metro K Line Leimert Park, permanent installation
2020. And, Apollo: A Laboratory, Aronson Galleries NY
2017 Undone, curated by McLean Fahnestock, Austin Peay State University, TN
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, NY
Are We Not Drawn Onward To A New Era, 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, Wight Gallery, Los Angeles
Blackout, Peekskill Film Festival, Hudson Valley Center for the Arts, NY
Calafia, MexiCali Biennial, Robert and Frances Museum of Art, San Bernardino
If Only It Were That Easy, performance with Carmen Argote, Pacific Standard Time, Los Angeles
2016 Seduction of a Cyborg, Curated by David Evans Frantz, Hannah Grossman, Simone Krug, Human Resources, Los Angeles
Squash, organized by Rachel James and Laetitia Jeurissen, Mexico City
Watchqueen, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan; Spiral Hall, Tokyo, Japan
2015 Edible Planets/Soylent Dialogues, Organized by Mateo Tannatt, The Pit, Los Angeles
Touch of the Other: Performing the Laud Humphreys Archive, ONE Archives Los Angeles
New Original Works Festival, Takao Kawaguchi, Jonathan Hall and Dean Erdmann: Touch of the Other, REDCAT, Los Angeles
Watchqueen, ONE Archives, Los Angeles
Form is the outline and structure of a thing, University Art Gallery, UC Irvine
2014 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, OC 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, Public Fiction, curated by Lauren Mackler an Alexandra Gaty, Los Angeles
All That is Solid, Images Festival, Toronto Canada
Waxing the Bud, Actual Size, curated by Erich Bollman, Los Angeles
CAC 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, LA
Dirty Looks: Long Distance Love Affairs, curated by Darin Klein and Bradford Nordeen, Hammer Museum, LA 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 and
Dirty Looks NYC, New York City, New York
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
Y53k, curated by Micha Cardenas, ARTifact, San Diego
Publications
2020 Dean Erdmann: And Apollo: A Laboratory, published by The Vera List Center for Art and Politics
Articles & Reviews
2026 New Social Environments with Dr. Ksenia Soboleva, Brooklyn Rail
Grace Byron, The Critics’ Table Speed Round, Cultured Magazine
2025 Grace Byron, In ‘Scientia Sexualis’, The Scientific is Political, Frieze
Michel Wagenschütz, 38, Global Provence
Austin S. Phillips, Defying Erasure and Straddling Worlds with Scientia Sexualis at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Transgender Studies Quarterly
2024 Liou, Caroline, Scientia Sexualis: dean erdmann
Cassie Packard, The Top Ten Shows in the US in 2024, Frieze
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 Statement 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
2026 Brooklyn Rail, New Social Environments with Dr. Ksenia Soboleva
Interview with Brainard Carey, Yale Radio
2025 Artist Talk, The Chinati Foundation
2023 A Trans Hirschfeld Renaissance: Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany
2020 Queer 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