Dorian Lynde is a Canadian artist who lives and works in Los Angeles, California. Her work is most often centered around investigations into the systems of power and inequity concealed within the cultural signifiers of femininity and their machinations.
Much of Dorian's work involves hand painting production cels, a process of painting vinyl paint onto celluloid sheets that are most often used in animation. It is a historically gendered practice, with roots in Disney's corporate policy to bar women from contributing creatively to their productions, instead hiring them for the ink and paint department.
Exhibitions
2018
2017
2016
2015
2012-2014
Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles, California - "Buying Power"
Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, California - "Buying Power Commercials 1-4"
Contemporary Art Museum of Raleigh, Raleigh, North Carolina - Above The Rim
California State Democrat Convention, San Diego, California - "Buying Power"
Superchief Gallery, Los Angeles, California - "Buying Power"
Also Gallery, Los Angeles, California - Mistakes, "Snowy Production Cels 1-3"
Contemporary Art Museum Raleigh, Raleigh, North Carolina - "No Damsel"
3W Biennial, Athens, Greece - "No Damsel: Time and Place"
Legal Goods, Los Angeles, California - "She Can't Burn Without Fire"
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California - "Diamonds of Del Paso"
South Bay Contemporary Arts Gallery, Los Angeles, California - Outside Inside
Bombay Beach Biennale, Salton Sea, California - "Pray For Rain"
Colors2, Raleigh, North Carolina - "Little Promises"
Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan - Fairy Tales
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California - "Silence Was Golden"
Square Gallery, Maroochydore, Australia - Interior/Exterior
Think Tank Gallery, Los Angeles, California - "LOS ANGELES"
Love Gallery, Denver, Colorado - "One And Only"
Q Gallery, Franklin Arts Center, Brainerd, Minnesota - Correspondance
Los Angeles Center For Digital Art, Los Angeles, California - Snap To Grid
CC Gallery, Toronto, Canada - Dream City
Contact Photography Festival, Toronto, Ontario - How I Love You Installation
90th Annual Exhibition of Photography, Hart House, Toronto, Ontario
Vision, One Spadina, Toronto, Ontario
Invited Talks
2018
M/Used with Charles Long, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2016
2016
TEDxItaewon, Seoul, South Korea
Crocker Museum of Art, Sacramento, California
Education
2007 - 2011
University of Toronto