Dakota Gearhart (2023)
Dates of residency: Term 4 and 5：8/14~10/6 2023
Dakota Gearhart is an artist, animator, and educator based in New York City.
She creates a collaborative video series called “Life Touching Life” that invites scientists, researchers, and caretakers to share observations on consciousness and its relationship to biodiversity.
Her work has been supported by the New Museum’s NEW INC program, United States Artists, Franklin Furnace, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
She has exhibited nationally and internationally at venues such as Queens Museum, NY; Bronx Museum of Art, NY; Horse Hospital, London; Xanadu, Berlin; Lab’Attoir, Thessaloniki, Greece; Taiyuan University, Taiyuan, China; and I-House, Tokyo, Japan.
She has been awarded the BRIC Digital Media Fellowship and the Franklin Furnace Fellowship.
Currently, she is based in New York, serving as an adjunct lecturer at Parsons The New School and New York University.
During her residency at SAIKONEON, she immersed herself in research on her own work. She explored and observed the natural environment near the facility and experienced the common Japanese culture in downtown areas in Fujiyoshida. Additionally, after her residency, she stayed in various regions of Japan, including Tokyo and Okinawa, where she engaged deeply with and documented the diverse local cultures. This research is likely to have informed her creative process.
Dakota Gearhart (2023)
Dates of residency: Term 4 and 5：8/14~10/6 2023
Dakota Gearhart is an artist, animator, and educator based in New York City.
She creates a collaborative video series called “Life Touching Life” that invites scientists, researchers, and caretakers to share observations on consciousness and its relationship to biodiversity.
Her work has been supported by the New Museum’s NEW INC program, United States Artists, Franklin Furnace, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
She has exhibited nationally and internationally at venues such as Queens Museum, NY; Bronx Museum of Art, NY; Horse Hospital, London; Xanadu, Berlin; Lab’Attoir, Thessaloniki, Greece; Taiyuan University, Taiyuan, China; and I-House, Tokyo, Japan.
She has been awarded the BRIC Digital Media Fellowship and the Franklin Furnace Fellowship.
Currently, she is based in New York, serving as an adjunct lecturer at Parsons The New School and New York University.
During her residency at SAIKONEON, she immersed herself in research on her own work. She explored and observed the natural environment near the facility and experienced the common Japanese culture in downtown areas in Fujiyoshida. Additionally, after her residency, she stayed in various regions of Japan, including Tokyo and Okinawa, where she engaged deeply with and documented the diverse local cultures. This research is likely to have informed her creative process.