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Dana Frankfort
Associate Professor

Dana Frankfort

MFA, Yale University
BA, Brandeis University

Dana Frankfort received a BA from Brandeis University and an MFA from Yale University. She has attended residencies including the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Yaddo and Ox-Bow, and the MFAH Core Studio Art Program. She has had solo exhibitions at Inman Gallery (Houston, TX) Southwest School of Art, (San Antonio, TX); James Harris Gallery (Seattle, WA); Sorry We're Closed, (Brussels, Belgium); Bellwether Gallery (New York, NY); and Kantor/Feuer Gallery (Los Angeles, CA). Her paintings have been included in group exhibitions nationally and internationally such as Texas Women: A New History of Abstract Art (San Antonia Museum of Art), Abstract America (Saatchi Gallery, London), The Jewish Museum (New York, NY). Her work has been written about in ArtForum, Art in America, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Wall Street Journal, and others. Frankfort has been a recipient of an Artadia grant as well as the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship. Her paintings are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, Rice University, Houston, TX, St. Edward's University, Austin and The Jewish Museum, New York, NY.