Biography

New York-based painter Danielle Dimston has received numerous grants and awards, including from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Stephen and Palmina Pace Foundation, and the Peter S. Reed Foundation. Funding from Artists Space saw the launch of the Ladder Project, and with a commission from the Millay Colony for the Arts, that project was used for their fundraiser. A grant for a site-specific installation helped inaugurate Smack Mellon in Dumbo, Brooklyn, and a commission from Tiffany & Co. welcomed their Soho, Manhattan location. Her artist residencies have included: Yaddo, Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Millay Colony for the Arts and Mino Art Paper Village in Japan.

After studying drawing and painting at the New York Studio School, Dimston earned an MFA from Boston University. She has taught as a visiting professor at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and as a visiting artist at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts.

Danielle Dimston has shown widely in the United States and abroad. Her work is in many private and public collections, including the Cleveland Museum of Art, which acquired a suite of Dimston's prints produced by C.R. Ettinger Editions in Philadelphia. Danielle Dimston is represented by Municipal Bonds, San Francisco, CA.