Danielle Degon Rhodes is a multi-media sculpture artist and a curator at AUTOMAT Collective in Philadelphia. She is focused on the human tendency towards production and progress. Through curating and sculpture, her work identifys the appropriation of water, air, land, bodies, and minds.

*currently enrolled* MA, Art History, Tyler School of Art, Temple University
Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts; Salzburg, Austria, 2021
BFA, Sculpture, Tyler School of Art, Temple University; 2017
Summer Intensive in Painting and Printmaking, Tyler School of Art, Temple University; 2016

Fear of Becoming the Fool, Straw Gallery, 2020
Irreversible Process, Stella Elkins Gallery, 2017

Knew Normal, AUTOMAT Collective, 2020
Side Conversations, Stella Elkins Gallery, 2017
Red Hot, Stella Elkins Gallery, 2016

Centennial Rust, AUTOMAT Collective; Philadelphia, PA; 2023
Reverse Grip, AUTOMAT Collective; Philadelphia, PA; 2022 (Co-curator)
Void Fill, AUTOMAT Collective; Philadelphia, PA; 2021
The Edge of Precarity, Little Berlin; Philadelphia, PA; 2018

Philadelphia Sculptors Grant 2020
Full Scholarship, Tai Kwun Contemporary, 2018
Resident at Tai Kwun Summer Institute, Tai Kwun
Contemporary; Central, Hong Kong, 2018
Lester & Violet Hecht Memorial Award, 2017

Curatorial Member, Automat Collective, Philadelphia 2019-current
Exhibitions Committee, Da Vinci Art Alliance, Philadelphia 2018-current

Work Experience

Exhibitions Coordinator, Da Vinci Art Alliance, Philadelphia, 2022-current
Marketing Manager, Da Vinci Art Alliance, Philadelphia 2019-2020
Project Coordinator, Claes Gabriel Studio, Philadelphia 2019-2020
Fundraising Chair, Philadelphia Sculptors, Philadelphia 2019
Fabricator, David Altmejd Studio, Long Island City 2017
Teaching Assistant, Tyler Sculpture Department, Philadelphia 2017
Studio Assistant, Nicole Wilson Studio, Brooklyn 2017
Fabrication Assistant, Rust Fab, Philadelphia 2017

︎ danielle.d.rhodes@gmail.com 
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