Born in 1981, Montgomery, AL. Lives and works in Jersey City, NJ.
EDUCATION
2013
Master of Fine Arts in Photography, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
2005
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Photography and Related Media, Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, GA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
Metamorphic, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2022
Golden Hour, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY
2021
Midnight Oil, Marianne Boesky Gallery, Aspen, CO
Smoke and Mirrors, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Saw my Shadow, Fortnight Institute, New York, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
Talk of the Town: A Dallas Museum of Art Pop-Up Exhibition, curated by Dr. Anna Katherine Brodbeck, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Art Fair, and NorthPark Center, Dallas, TX
Presence as a Pause: Interiority and its Radical Immanence, curated by Rachel Adams, Bemis Center For Contemporary Arts, Omaha, Nebraska
Rear View, LGDR, New York, NY
So let us all be citizens too, curated by Ebony L. Haynes, David Zwirner Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2022
A Different Now is Close Enough to Exhale on You, curated by Bonaventure Ndikung, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
When We See Us, Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa, Cape Town, South Africa
In Our Time: Selections from the Singer Collection, curated by Allison Glenn, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ
IN A DREAM YOU SAW A WAY TO SURVIVE AND YOU WERE FULL OF JOY, The Contemporary Austin, TX
Uncanny Interiors, Nicola Vassell Gallery, New York, NY
Black Melancholia, Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Women Painting Women, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX
Fire Figure Fantasy: Selections from ICA Miami’s Collection, Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL
2021
Reflections: Part 1: Female Figures by Women Artists, Workplace Gallery, New Castle, United Kingdom
My Secret Garden, Asia Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan
Black Bodies, White Spaces: Invisibility & Hypervisibility, Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas, TX
and I will wear you in my heart of heart, FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY
The Lonely Ones, curated by Katelyn Eichwald, Fortnight Institute, New York, NY
Friend Zone, Curated by Vaughn Spann, Half Gallery, New York, NY
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2023
Victoria Woodcock, "Art's nude awakening," Financial Times, January 24
Lauren Moya Ford, “What Can Art Do for Women?,” Hyperallergic, January 19
Arun Kakar, “6 Collectors on the Artists, Shows, and Trends to Watch in 2023,” Artsy, January 9
2022
Annabel Keenan, “Danielle Mckinney Embraces the Golden Hour,” Cultured, October 12
Stephanie Eckardt, “In the Stuido With Daniell Mckinney, the Artist Bringing Intimate Moments to Life,” W Magazine, September 28
Alexis Okeowo, “The Interior Lives of Danielle Mckinney,” Vogue, September 20
Courtney Thomas, “The female gaze is front and center in ‘Women Painting Women,’” Sightlines Magazine, July 7
2021
Sarah Kearns, “Danielle McKinney’s Paintings Capture Women in Moments of Deep Reflection” Hypebeast, July 7
Molly Cranston, “Danielle McKinney’s Smoke and Mirrors,” The Editorial Magazine, June 21
Charlotte Jansen, "Why Danielle McKinney Abandoned Photography In Favour of Painting," Elephant, June 4
Victoria L. Valentine, "Danielle Mckinney's Portrait's are Self-Reflective: ‘Sometimes They're Me. Sometimes They're an Emotion I'm Feeling,'" Culture Type, June 2
Kristin Farr, “Danielle Mckinney: Comfort and Quietude,” Juxtapoz, May 20
Alison Gingeras, “Taming the Bird: Danielle Mckinney,” Mousse Magazine, May 16
Katie White, “Editors’ Picks: 11 Events for Your Art Calendar This Week, From a Celebration of Linda Nochlin to a Virtual NFT Explainer,” Artnet News, April 19
Editors of Juxtapoz, "Saw My Shadow: New Works by Danielle Mckinney," Juxtapoz, April 12
Charlotte Jansen, “Elephant’s Pick of the Artists Making a Mark in April: Danielle McKinney,” Elephant, April 12
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Buffalo AKG Museum (formerly the Albright-Knox Art Gallery), Buffalo, NY
Center for Curatorial Studies and Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
Institute of Contemporary Art Miami, Miami, FL
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Pérez Art Museum, Miami, FL
Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY
The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY