Dana Colleen Kane was born in Wyandotte, MI in 1952. She received a B.F.A. in painting and printmaking at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro and a master’s degree in sculpture and multi-media from Washington University, St. Louis. In 1982, she relocated to New York to pursue a career as an artist. Her work spans many mediums, from photography and paper to sculpture and large-scale installations.
Kane’s numerous awards include grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation (2003), the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation (2003), the Artist’s Fellowship (2003), and Change Inc. (2003). She was also a finalist for an NEA/MAAF regional fellowship grant and received state grants from the Minnesota in 1980 and Maryland in 1982. She has served as visiting artist at the Rhode Island School of Design and Wellesley College, as well as participated on a guest panel at the Judith Rothschild Foundation in New York. She has also held residencies at MacDowell and the Fine Art Work Center in Provincetown, MA. Kane’s work has been exhibited at museums, art centers, and universities across the United States and abroad and her work has been written about in the New York Times, The Daily Telegraph of London, and The Los Angeles Times.
