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= Dena Yago =

Dena Yago (b.1988) is an American artist and writer. Her work focuses on the interplay of language and image, and the relationship of advertising to constructions of individual and collective identities.

She has published numerous texts including The Walls Stays in the Picture: Destination Murals in Los Angeles (e-flux journal, 2019) ; What Affective Labour Has to Do with Reddit’s Corporate Cafeteria (Frieze, 2019) ; Content Industrial Complex (e-flux journal, 2019) ; Bad Memory (Flash Art, 2017) ; On Ketamine and Added Value (e-flux, 2017) ; and Empire Poetry (Texte zur Kunst, 2016). Multiple books of her work have been published including Fade the Lure (After 8 Books, 2019) ; Esprit Reprise (Pork Salad Press, 2015) ; and Ambergris (Bodega Press, 2014 ).

She is a founding member of the art collective K-HOLE, a trend forecasting group. Yago has exhibited at numerous galleries and museums including Atlanta Contemporary, Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, Kunsthal Aarhus. Her work has been reviewed in The New York Times, Frieze, Artforum, CURA, Garage, Art in America, Flash Art, Bomb, DIS Magazine, and Mousse, among others. Her work is in the permanent collection of The Frans Hals Museum and FRAC Loraine.

She received a BFA from Columbia University in 2010 and studied with the artist Josephine Pryde at the Universität Der Kunst in Berlin in 2009