Denise Prince is an Austin-based, American artist working in a variety of media including film, photography, and performance. Influenced by conceptual and critical theory at CalArts in Los Angeles, Prince has worked closely with clinical philosopher and Lacanian psychoanalyst Charles Merward since 2007.

Prince is best known for her work redefining beauty, “beyond the veil of ego.” Using the visual syntax of fashion and style photography, she obstructs desire by refusing to honor its imaginary heirarchies. Her work has been clarified, confronted, and interpreted by psychoanalyst members of the World Association of Psychoanalysis and has been featured on PBS Television.  

SELECT EXHIBITIONS

The High Line, New York; Buffalo Bayou, Houston; Waller Creek, Austin; The 606, Chicago; The Bentway, Toronto; New Monuments for New Cities

Marfa Open, Captivating Not Captive, Marfa, Texas

Red Hooks Labs, Labs New Artists III, Brooklyn, New York

Off Bratislava, dogmatiX, Bratislava, Slovakia

Helskini Photo Festival, Anarchy, Helsinki, Finland

PBS Television, Captivating Not Captive featured in Coming Back

International Zizek Studies Conference, Parallax Future(s) in Art, Design Ideology, and Philosophy, photography and film in exhibition, Cincinnati, Ohio

Kopeikin Gallery, Women's Work, Los Angeles, California

LA Fashion Film Festival, short film in programming, Los Angeles, California

Assistance League of Houston Celebrates Texas Art, Houston, Texas; curator Jennie Goldstein, Whitney Museum of Art

Centro Cultural De Jesus, film in IBICENCO, Ibiza Spain

MFAH, Photography included in the permanent collection, Houston, Texas

Effearte Gallery, Solo exhibition + performance, Beyond This Thing Between Us, Milan, Italy

Arcaute Arte Contemporaneo, Los Americanos, Monterrey, Mexico

Women and Their Work, Object Lessons, Solo exhibition, Austin, Texas

Public art installation, Good for Amusement Only, Los Angeles, California

Festival de Cine Internacional de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Barbarian Art Gallery, BAZAR, Zurich, Switzerland

E8 Galeria, E8 Colectiva, Madrid, Spain

 
Barbarian Gallery, Art Moscow, Moscow, Russia

New York Photo Festival, Provocation, New York, New York 

CentralTrak, That Moral Coil; Rebuking the Ideal in Contemporary Figurative Art, Dallas, Texas  

Bridge Art Fair, performance and photography, Miami, Florida

Albuquerque Museum of Art & History, Biennial Southwest, Albuquerque, New Mexico + San Francisco, California

Wright State University, Photography Now: One Hundred Portfolios, Dayton, Ohio

Galleri Urbane, Me, Myself and Everybody Else, Marfa, Texas

The Contemporary, New American Talent: The Nineteenth Exhibition; juror Jerry Saltz 

Anthology Film Archive, The Deep End, New York, New York

Bliss Gallery, The Significance of Bricolage, Pasadena, California 

EDUCATION

California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California

School of Visual Arts, New York, New York

Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture

BIBLIOGRAPHY / MEDIA

Picnic Magazine Issue #3, Tel Aviv, Israel

Visual ARTBEAT Magazine, Salzburg, Austria

Las Bases del Coleccionismo, Taxi Magazine Issue 3, Guadalajara, Mexico

The Tausk Group: Art, Analysis, Intervention, Origins Magazine

Love and Hate padres e hijos, Duende Magazine, Madrid, Spain

Irreversible Magazine an International Art Project

The Language of Reality: An Interview with Photographer Denise Prince in Canvas, Saatchi Art blog

Interview in Boulevard Quarterly  

Bodies, Models, Sex and Death: That Mortal Coil at CentralTrak, D Magazine, May 2013, Dallas, Texas

The Artist’s Way, L Style G Style, Austin, Texas

A Heightened State: Drash Pit, Eye Openers

I Shutter To Think: A Group Portrait of Austin's Photography Scene By Six of its Rising Stars, The Austin Chronicle volume 30, number 3

A Tale of Two Bridges, ARTINFO, Miami, Florida

Downtown television program, KLRU

“Things I Never Told You: The Photographs of Denise Prince, catalog accompanying show at Women and Their Work

Inner Worlds We Inhabit, Austin Chronicle, Austin, Texas

Biennial Southwest catalogue, Albuquerque Museum of Art, Albuquerque, New Mexico

Oh, Give Me a Home, The Austin Chronicle, Austin, Texas

Wonder Women, bRILLIANT Magazine, Austin, Texas

A Piece of Work, Austin Chronicle