Danielle De Jesus

Danielle De Jesus (1987, Bushwick, Brooklyn) is an American Nuyorican visual artist with deep ties to Puerto Rican culture in New York. She works primarily as a painter and often uses photography and table cloth to comment on urban renewal, gentrification, and collective stories of migrant communities in her Bushwick neighborhood. Her work is mostly recognized by her portrait paintings on dollar bills.

Early life and Education
Danielle De Jesus is the offspring of a Puerto Rican family in Bushwick, Brooklyn. De Jesus received an MFA from Yale School of Art, New Haven, and a BFA from the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York.

Work
Danielle De Jesus highlights the life stories of neighboring Puerto Ricans and migrant communities in Bushwick while elaborating on the impacts of gentrification and urban renewal for those cultural groups and the city landscape at large. She often works with painting, photography and non-traditional materials such as plastic table cloths, community gardens, and United States currency.

In 2022, Danielle De Jesus was the inaugural resident at Beecher Residency, established at the Stillman House in Litchfield, Connecticut, designed by 20th-century architect Marcel Breuer with permanent installations from Alexander Calder.

De Jesus was included in prominent group shows such as Reflections on Percepctions, Akron Art Museum, Ohio; Life Between Buildings (2022) at MoMA PS1, Long Island; the No existe un mundo poshurácan: Puerto Rican Art in the wake of Hurricane Maria (2022-2023) exhibition and accompanying scholarly catalog at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. In 2022, De Jesus participated in a two-person show at Calderon International in New York, alongside visual artist Shellyne Rodriguez titled Siempre en la calle.

Collections
Paintings by Danielle De Jesus are featured in the collections of the Pérez Art Museum Miami, Florida; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

External link

 * Danielle De Jesus website