Synthesizing traditional painting techniques with computer-based compositional methods, Dekkenga’s work explores the emerging dialectic between digital technology and painting as a craft. Questions about how images function as physical objects that convey virtual information are central to her practice, as is how information in such contexts is mediated, communicated and defined.
Mariah Dekkenga is an artist and educator living and working in Vermont and Colorado. Dekkenga has held solo exhibitions at Situations, New York and Eli Ping Frances Perkins, New York. Selected Group exhibitions include Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha Qatar; The Hole, New York; Golestani Gallery, Dusseldorf; Clifton Benevento, New York; Kraftwerk, Berlin; and Suzanne Geiss, New York. Dekkenga has participated in residencies at Rondo in Mexico City, Kamen in Bosnia Herzegovina; Halka Sanat in Istanbul, Takt Kunstraum in Berlin, and Doha Fire Station in Qatar. She is collected by QMA Qatar Museums, Aïshti Foundation in Beruit, the US Embassy in Nogales Mexico and JP Morgan Chase. Her work has been featured in ArtNews, Elephant Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, ArtReview, Cura Magazine, and New York Observer.