Danielle Degon is a project-based artist and a curator at AUTOMAT Collective in Philadelphia.

Her work explores the effects of productivity on human psychology, biography, sociality, and the art-making process. Often appropriating tools of industrialization such as mold-making and repetitive fabrication, she reveals the contradictions of ceaseless extraction, production, and profit.

Education

BFA, Sculpture, Tyler School of Art, Temple University 2017

Exhibitions

2021 Void Fill (forthcoming) AUTOMAT Collective, Philadelphia, PA
2020 Knew Normal, AUTOMAT Collective, Philadelphia, PA
2020 Fear of Becoming the Fool, Straw Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2018 The Edge of Precarity, Little Berlin, Philadelphia, PA
2017 Irreversible Process, Stella Elkins Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2017 Side Conversations, Stella Elkins Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2016 Red Hot, Stella Elkins Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Residencies & Awards

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

Bibliography

Artblog, “Young Artists on the Edge of Precarity at Little Berlin,” Nitz, Morgan. 7 November 2018

Work Experience & Affiliations

Curatorial Member, Automat Collective, Philadelphia, PA
Marketing Manager, Da Vinci Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA
Project Coordinator, Claes Gabriel, Philadelphia, PA
Fundraising Chair, Philadelphia Sculptors, Philadelphia, PA
Exhibitions Committee, Da Vinci Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA
Fabricator, David Altmejd Studio, Long Island City, NY
Teaching Assistant, Tyler Sculpture Department, Philadelphia, PA
Studio Assistant, Nicole Wilson, Brooklyn, NY
Fabrication Assistant, Rust Fab, Philadelphia, PA