"Untitled (Frame #4–Rhubarb Wireframe)," 2024, ceramics, LED tube light, custom wiring, 16 × 48 × 4 in. Photo courtesy of the artist.
Dana Hemenway
Teaching Artist Cohort
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2026
Dana Hemenway is an artist based in San Francisco. Her work is rooted in the excavation and elevation of utilitarian objects to make visible what has become habituated in our built environments. Hemenway uses these functional items as materials to form traditionally fiber-based crafts—lights and cords are woven through ceramics or the gallery wall, extension cords are transformed into macramé chains. Hemenway has had residencies at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art (Omaha), ACRE (Stueben, Wisconsin), SÍM (Reykjavik), Joya: arte + ecología (Spain), the Wassaic Project (Upstate New York), Recology Waste Management (San Francisco), the Space Program (San Francisco) and Arts/Industry at Kohler (Sheboygan, Wisconsin). Dana was a 2024 Eureka Fellow from the Fleishhacker Foundation and the recipient of the San Francisco Arts Commission Individual Artist Grant and a Southern Exposure Alternative Exposure Grant. She has a public art commission at SFO’s Terminal 1. Dana has exhibited her artwork locally, nationally, and internationally. From 2015 to 2017, Dana served as a co-director of Royal Nonesuch Gallery, an artist-run project space in Oakland, California. She received her MFA from Mills College and her BA from the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is represented by Eleanor Harwood Gallery.
Selected works
"Untitled (Frame #2–Flakes & Strips)," 2024, ceramics, LED U light, custom wiring, hardware, 22 × 21 × 3 in. Photo courtesy of the artist.
"Untitled (Stacking Column #4–After Brâncuși)," 2024, ceramics, powder-coated chain, zip ties, 126 × 10½ × 10½ in. Photo courtesy of the artist.
"Untitled (Stacking Column #3–Nishihara Street & Osaka Colors)," 2024, ceramics, LED tube light, custom wiring, hardware, OSB wood, 70 × 18 × 18½ in. Photo courtesy of the artist.
"Untitled (Stacking Column #2–Hook Rug)," 2024, ceramics, Cat-6 cables, LED tube light, lighting gels, custom wiring, hardware, OSB wood, 66 × 14¾ × 14¾ in. Photo courtesy of the artist.
"Untitled (Stacking Column #6)," 2025, ceramics, MDF, rope, zip ties, 90 × 17 × 17 in. Photo courtesy of the artist.
"The Color of Horizons," 2020, extension cords, rope, wood, steel, ceramics, LED circular bulbs, outlets, wiring, 21 × 30 × 30 ft. Photo courtesy of the artist.
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