Daniel Bejar
2009 Swing Space Resident, 77 Water Street
Daniel Bejar is a multi-disciplinary artist living and working in Brooklyn. Employing sculpture, video, photography, and site-specific intervention, his practice looks to connect the past to the present. Evoking the origins of social memories and histories, while acting as a documentation of the passage of time, his work is concerned with the evolution and erosion of histories that takes place over generations, eventually propagating histories in question.
Daniel received his MFA from the State University of New York, New Paltz, and received his BFA from the Ringling College of Art & Design, Sarasota, FL. He has participated in Vermont Studio Center Residency and the Artist in the Marketplace Program at the Bronx Museum. His work has exhibited internationally, including, Artnews Projects, Berlin, German; vertextList, Brooklyn, NY; The Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY; BRIC Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; and Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs, Long Island City, NY.
During his Swing Space residency at LMCC, Daniel will restore a series of MTA subway maps designed by Michael Hertz Associates in 1979 to what they may have geographically looked like when Henry Hudson first sailed by Mannahatta’s shores in 1609.
