Born in Tel Aviv, Israel
Works in San Francisco
Education
2000 Bachelor of Architecture with Honors, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Solo Exhibitions
2018 Self Seed, Ogaard, Oakland, CA
2017 Suites & Chambers, Small Trade Company, San Francisco, CA
Reliquary, Some.Time.Salon, San Francisco, CA
2016 The Great Vessel, Ramon’s Tailor, San Francisco, CA
Dana Harel: Works on Paper, Gensler, San Francisco, CA,
2014 Ex.pose: Dana Harel, Between Dreams and Nightmares, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
Between Dreams and Nightmares, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA
2012 Wrestling God, Gallery Wendi Norris, San Francisco, CA
2010 Manimal, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya, Israel
2009 Kin, Frey Norris Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2020 Record of Succession, Cult Exhibitions, San Francisco, CA
2018 David Brower Center, Berkeley, CA
2018 University of Hawaii, Hilo, Hawaii
2017 Some Sort, EUQINOMprojects, San Francisco, CA
Detritus, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
2016 Bring It Home: (Re)Locating Cultural History through the Body, San Francisco Arts Commission, San Francisco, CA
2015 Possibilities of Paper, Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga, CA
2014 The Skull Show, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
2011 De-Bombed, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA
Pangea: Art at the Forefront of Cultural Convergence, Frey Norris Gallery, San Francisco, CA
A Live Animal, Root Division, San Francisco, CA
Size Matters, San Jose Contemporary Art Institute, San Jose, CA
2010 Human Nature, Montalvo Center For The Arts, Saratoga, CA
Secret Drawings, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA
Echo: Eight Bay Area Artists Respond to Surrealist Masterworks, Frey Norris Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Herstory, Napa Valley Museum, Yountville, CA
Permutations from Nature’s Perimeter, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA
Contemporary Drawings, Elder Gallery, Nebraska Wesleyan University, NE
2006 Emerge, Gen Art, San Francisco, CA
Product Design
2018 SUITES
Six porcelain vessels produced for White Dirt, limited edition of 20.
2020 ATRIO
Three porcelain vessels produced as second collection for White Dirt, limited edition of 20.
Grants and Awards
2009 Irvine Fellowship recipient, Montalvo Arts Center Residency Program, Saratoga, CA
2006 Gen Art- ‘Emerge’, San Francisco, CA
Theater Collaboration
2012 ‘The Conference of the Birds Unfeathered’, Mondavi Art Center, Davis, CA & Montalvo Center for the Arts, Saratoga, CA
Selected Press
The Vassar Review, “Trauma & Träume”, May 2016
Art Practical, "Reopening San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery", March 17, 2016
Bay Area Reporter, “Bodies of Work”, January 2016
SF Examiner, “Expanded SFAC Gallery showcases diverse local artists”, January 2016
Stark Insider, “Possibilities of Paper” (Video), May 2015
J Weekly, “The Space Between | Looking at the Middle East Through Murals, May 2015
Pipeline Magazine, Issue 47 | Disruptive Dreams, April 2015
Art Practical, “Dana Harel: Between Dreams and Nightmares”, Sept 2014
PA Weekly, “Hot Picks- Between Dreams and Nightmares”, Aug 2014
Bay Area Reporter, “What’s Up at the Galleries”, Aug 2014
CBS Los Angeles, “Best Museum Exhibits this Spring in the OC”, March 2014
J Weekly, “Artist exorcises military trauma through drawing”, July 2014
OC Weekly, “Dreaming of War with Dana Harel at the Laguna Art Museum”, April 2014
Fine Art Connoisseur, “Dana Harel’s Between Dreams and Nightmares”, Spring 2014
Laguna Beach Independent, “Exhibit Reveals the Soul of Warriors”, March 2014
Riviera Magazine, “Wayne Thiebaud and Dana Harel at the Laguna Art Museum”, July 2014
Bay Area Reporter, “What’s Coming Up in the Art World”, 2012
Eleven Eleven Journal, New Issue #13, Sept 2012
The Davis Enterprise “New works by local composers”, April 2012
Beautiful Decay Magazine, Future Perfect, Book 6, 2011
ZYZZYVA Magazine, Fall issue, 2011
NYTimes, “Side by side, a bold opening for Frey Norris”, March 2011
ArtfixDaily, “From Monumental to Microscopic: Spectrums of Size and Scale at ICA”, Jan 2011
Midnight East, “The Beast Within Us—Manimal at the Herzliya Museum, June 2010
Yediot Hsharon, Review on ‘Manimal’, Summer 2010
ARTnews Magazine, Review on ‘Echo’ by Kenneth Baker, Vol. 108, No. 11, 2009
Artshift San Jose, “Mankind Merges into the Impermanent Ecosystem”, July 2009
Artweek, “‘Herstory’ at the Napa Valley Museum”, 2010
Inside City Limits - TV Interview on ‘Kin’, 2009
San Francisco Bay Guardian, “Local Artist of the week: Dana Harel”, April 2009
Arteaser, Dana Harel, March 2009