Dannielle Tegeder

Light Emerald System with Circle Worlds

2021

Dannielle Tegeder is an American abstract painter working in the expanded field. Her multi-media practice is inspired by abstract art history and informed by architecture, and is rooted in a desire to make invisible systems visible. She lives and works in New York City. Tegeder earned her BFA from the State University of New York at Purchase in 1994, and her MFA in Painting and Drawing from the The School of The Art Institute of Chicago in 1997. She is an Associate Professor of Art at Cite University of New York at Lehman College. She has also held full time university positions at Cornell University and SUNY Purchase, and been a visiting artist in over forty institutions, including Rhode Island School of Design, The School of The Art Institute of Chicago, Princeton University, Rice University, and many others. Work by Tegeder has been exhibited extensively in galleries and museums around the world, including at PS1/MOMA, The Brooklyn Museum of Art in New York, The New Museum, and Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. Her works are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, The Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, and The Weatherspoon Museum of Art in Greensboro, NC, among others.