DAVE EASSA
Baltimore, MD.
EDUCATION
2013 BFA in Painting, concentration in Printmaking, Maryland Institute College of Art
SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2022 People and Places You don’t know how to know Cody Gallery at Marymount University, Arlington, VA.
2020 I Wanna Hug You The Shed, Baltimore, MD.
2020 Preserve Sistered, Portland, ME.
2018 Stop and Smell the Roses Sometimes Space Gallery, Portland, ME.
2017 You Can’t Just Draw A Line In The Sand School 33 Art Center, Baltimore, MD.
2016 The Road to Rio Platform Gallery @ Little Berlin, Philadelphia, PA.
2016 Wide Eyed with Nicole Dyer, Savery Gallery, Philadelphia, PA.
2015 My Mother Always Told Me I'd Grow Up To Be A Lawyer Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA.
2015 Forwards / / Backwards with Evelyn Hoffmann, Columbia Art Center, Columbia, MD.
2014 The End of Spring Big Law Country Club @ Silent Barn, Brooklyn, NY.
2014 Dreamhouse Lil' Gallery, Baltimore, MD.
2013 Golden Years (e)merge Art Fair, Capitol Skyline Hotel, Washington, D.C.
PUBLIC SCULPTURE
2023 Archway to the Garden, Harwood Community Garden, Baltimore, MD.
2021 - 2023 Founder’s Park, Johnson City, TN.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Let the Right One In, CPM Gallery, Baltimore, MD.
2022 Rites of Spring Gallery CA, Baltimore, MD.
2021 Johnson City Sculpture Founder’s Park, Johnson City, TN.
2020 By Yourself with Everyone Good Mother, Oakland, CA.
2020 As It Should Be Gallery CA, Baltimore, MD.
2019 Art in the Round The ARC, Baltimore, MD.
2019 Cordial Frontside Garden Society, Greensboro, NC.
2019 How Can You Tell? Cade Gallery, Arnold, MD.
2018 If the Sun goes down, it must come up Boys Latin School, Baltimore, MD
2017 Got It For Cheap Art Athina, Athens, Greece.
2017 Ltd. Wear 2 LVL3 Gallery, Chicago, IL.
2017 Coldstream Homestead Montebello Sculpture Park, Baltimore, MD.
2017 No Human Being Is Illegal Naming Gallery, Oakland, CA.
2016 The Last Supper Turpentine Gallery, Oakland, CA.
2016 JRR and Roy Signal, Brooklyn, NY.
2016 W e l c o m e W e l c o m e Platform Gallery @ Alternative Art Fair, Baltimore, MD.
2016 Improbable LVL3 Gallery, Chicago, IL.
2016 Deer in Headlights Tastykake Gallery, Baltimore, MD.
2016 Consumption Galerie Myrtis, Baltimore, MD.
2015 Blushing Ballroom Gallery, Baltimore, MD.
2015 Yes Please Thank You Platform Gallery, Baltimore, MD.
2015 SNTL FUNdraiser The Windup Space, Baltimore, MD.
2015 Baltimore Flavor MK Gallery, Vienna, VA.
2015 We Should See Each Other More Often The Koban Project, Baltimore, MD.
2015 Black and Blue Gallery 919, Wilmington, DE.
2014 B¡NGO Platform Gallery, Baltimore, MD.
2014 Get Small 2014 SessionSpace, Oakland, CA.
2014 Bawlmer Crosstown Arts, Memphis, TN.
2014 All The Homies Lil' Gallery @ Alternative Art Fair, Baltimore, MD.
2014 The End Sophiajacob, Baltimore, MD.
2014 Baltimore Array Carspecken-Scott Gallery, Wilmington, DE.
2014 Figure 50 www.figure50.com (online)
2014 Select 2014 Artisphere, Rosslyn, VA.
2014 Select 2014 Preview Curated by Mera Rubell. Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY.
2013 Shaper Image: Part II Ethan Cohen Fine Arts @ artSTRAND, Provincetown, MA.
2013 This Red Door This Red Door @ Reh Kunst, Berlin, Germany.
2013 Making It Out Alive Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD.
2013 Odd Logic Current Space, Baltimore, MD.
2013 On/Loan curated by Cara Ober, Area 405. Baltimore, MD.
2012 Loaded Pistols curated by Samantha Fein, Gallery 500, Baltimore, MD.
2011 Certainly So Penthouse Gallery, Baltimore MD.
2011 Los Jaca Dos Americanos Casa das Artes Criação Ambiente Utopias Sao Tome, Sao Tome.
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
The Robert W. Deutsch Foundation, Baltimore, MD.
Michael Sherman and Carrie Tivador, Los Angeles, CA.
The Artist Legacy Project, Baltimore, MD.
GUEST LECTURER
2024 University of California San Diego - Department of Visual Arts
2023 Univerity of Texas at Austin - Masters in Art Education
2022 Johns Hopkins University - Museum Studies
2022 Maryland Institute College of Art - Curatorial Practice
2021 Maryland Institute College of Art - Painting, Drawing, and General Fine Arts
PRESS
2024 Herein Journal “Dave Eassa with Herein” written by Lainey Tomasoski.
2022 The Washington Post “In the Galleries: Artists bring light out of the darkness of night” written by Mark Jenkins.
2021 BMA/Stories “From Baltimore, MD to Amman, Jordan, Skateboarding makes the world go round” Op-ed
2020 Bmore Art “I Wanna Hug You: Dave Eassa on Community, Connection, and Covid” written by Nora Belblidia.
2019 The Arc Baltimore “The Art of Exploring the World Beyond Four Walls” Written by Chris Knoerlein
2018 The Chart “Unearthing Optimism: the visual and sociopolitical weight of Dave Eassa’s Roses” Written by Julien Langevin.
2017 Inertia “Dave Eassa Exhibition Visit” Written by Amy Boone-McCresh
2016 Art F City “This Week’s Must-See Art Events: The Art World Never Shuts Down”
2016 Title Magazine "Wide Eyed at Savery Gallery" Written by Julie Chu Cheong.
2016 Fresh Paint Magazine "Interviews and Wide Eyed Exhibition at Savery Gallery"
2016 The Art Blog “Wide Eyed: Nicole Dyer and Dave Eassa at Savery Gallery”
2016 MICA Juxtapositions. “Alumni Spotlight”
2015 Midday with Sheilah Kast, WYPR, “OSI Community Fellows”
2015 OSI Baltimore. “Introducing OSI-Baltimore’s 2015 Community Fellows”
2015 Baltimore Magazine. “OSI-Baltimore Gets Behind 10 Community Activists with $60,000 Grants”
2015 Bmore Art. "My Mother Always Told Me I'd Grow Up To Be A Lawyer" Written by Cara Ober.
2014 Number Inc Issue Eighty "Bawlmer" Written by J. Stokes Casey.
2014 Bmore Art. "So good it made nudes and oil paint feel fresh" Written by Michael Farley
2014 Baltimore Fishbowl "Exhibit of the Week: Dave Eassa" Written by Marie Claire Bryant.
2014 Bmore Art. "Building a Dreamhouse, Mark by Mark" Written by Kevin Michael Runyon.
2014 The Baltimore Sun "Art collector Mera Rubell tours 37 Baltimore art studios in 36 hours" Written by Mary Carole McCauley.
2013 Bmore Art. "Baltimore Artists, Galleries, and Arts Organizations to exhibit at (e)merge art fair" Written by Cara Ober.
2013 Bmore Art. "Sloppy, Inexplicable, and Refreshingly Candid: Odd Logic at Current" Written by Mac Falby.
2013 ArtFCity. "We went to Baltimore: Jumbo Mumbo, Part Two" Written by Paddy Johnson, Whitney Kimball and Micheal Farley.
2013 CityPaper. "Baltimore and the so-called death of the gallery" Written by Baynard Woods.
PUBLICATIONS
2022 New American Paintings, No. 160
2018 New American Paintings, No. 136
2016 Alt Esc. Volume 3
2015 The Pinch Journal, Issue 35
2014 New American Paintings, No. 112
2014 Studio Visit Magazine, Volume 25
AWARDS
2023 Public Art Across Maryland New Artworks Grant, Maryland State Arts Council.
2022 Mayor’s Individual Artist Award, Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts.
2022 Spruce Up Grant, Central Baltimore Partnership, Baltimore, MD.
2022 Public Art Across Maryland Planning Grant, Maryland State Arts Council.
2021 Ruby’s Artist Award, Robert W. Deustch Foundation, Baltimore, MD.
2021 Global Innovations on Youth Violence, Safety, Justice, Salzburg Global Fellow, Salzburg Austria.
2021 Sondheim Prize Semifinalist, Baltimore, MD.
2018 Young Cultural Innovator Fellow, Salzburg Global Forum, Salzburg, Austria.
2016 BmoreArt, Top Ten Art Shows 2017: “Deer In Headlights”
2016 Citypaper, Top Ten Art Shows 2016: “Free Space x BYA: A Way Out”
2016 Creative Baltimore Fund, Individual Artist Award, Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts
2016 The Gutierrez Memorial Foundation Merit Award
2015 - 2017 Baltimore Community Fellow, Open Society Institute, Baltimore, MD.
2015 Creative Baltimore Fund, Individual Artist Award, Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts
2015 Maryland State Arts Council Minigrant
2015 Grit Fund Grantee, The Contemporary.
2014 Maryland State Arts Council, Individual Artist Award, Sculpture
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2023 Histories Collide: Jackie Milad x Fred Wilson x Nekisha Durrett, Baltimore Museum of Art.
2015 The Kickapoo, Stueben, WI.
2015 The Parking Lot, Baltimore, MD.
EXPERIENCE
2024 Art Produce, Artist in Residence, San Diego, CA,.
2024 Liberty Station Arts District, Artist in Residence, San Diego, CA.
2023 Managing Director, New Village Arts Center, Carlsbad, CA.
2021 - Present Director of Public Engagement, Baltimore Museum of Art.
2021 Artist in Residence, Al-Raseef 153, Amman, Jordan.
2020 Artist in Residence, SPACE Gallery, Portland, ME.
2019 The Arc Baltimore, Beyond Four Walls. Mentor Artist.
2018 Baltimore Artist Retreat Consultant, The Robert W. Deutsch Foundation.
2017 – 2021 Manager of Community Engagement, Baltimore Museum of Art.
2017 Coldstream Homestead Montebello Sculpture Park Fellowship
2017 Station North Arts and Entertainment District Mini-Golf Project
2016 Baltimore Artist Retreat Resident, The Contemporary
2015 ACRE Artist in Residence, Steuben, WI.
2015 - 2017 “Free Space" Founder and Director, MD Prison system