Bio

Mairikke Dau (b. 1979, San Francisco, CA) received a BFA from University of California Santa Cruz in 2001, and an MFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2013. Most recently, Dau’s work has been exhibited at SHRINE (2022), Harper’s, New York and East Hampton, NY (2021 and 2020); EXPO Chicago, online (2021); SHRINE, New York, NY (2020); Sardine, Brooklyn, NY (2019); and Safe Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (2016). From 2013–17, she organized Home Perm, a performance art event at various venues in Brooklyn, NY. Dau lives and works in New York City.

Exhibition History

ARTIST RESIDENCIES

2016

Artist-in-residence, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT

Solo and Two Person Exhibitions

2022

Daisy Cutter, SHRINE, New York, NY

Mairikke Dau, One River School, Montclair, NJ

2021

Historic Rainbow, Harper’s Apartment, New York, NY

2016

Dau and Dill, Safe Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (with Ariel Dill)

Selected Group Exhibitions

2022

Popup exhibition, The Shilla, Seoul, KR

25 Years, Harper’s, East Hampton, NY

2021

NADA Miami, Harper’s booth, Miami, FL

UNTITLED Miami Beach, Harper’s booth, Miami, FL

Melrose, Harper’s, Los Angeles, CA

EXPO Chicago (online)

2020

36 Paintings, Harper’s, East Hampton, NY

Good Luck, SHRINE, New York, NY

2019

We Woke Up This Way, Sardine, Brooklyn, NY

Art Party, Burdian Place, Queens, NY

2017

Jedauffry, Otto’s Shrunken Head, New York, NY

2016

Home Perm 8: Ideal Glass, Safe Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2015

Four Options, Wildlife, Brooklyn, NY

Home Perm 6: I Will Always Love You, 245 Varet, Brooklyn, NY

2014

Home Perm 3: Portraits of Boy George, 245 Varet, Brooklyn, NY

Special Guests, Sardine, Brooklyn, NY

2013

Boston Young Contemporaries, 808 Gallery, Boston, MA

On Color, Aviary, Boston, MA

2012

Pieces on Earth, Sardine, Brooklyn, NY

Boston Young Contemporaries, 808 Gallery, Boston, MA

Boundaries, Friend St. Gallery, Boston, MA

Publications

2015

Logue [blue], 2nd edition, ed. David Fishkind (Norway: AFV Press, 2015)

2014

Parallax 2 (Brooklyn, NY: Singing Saw Press, 2014)

Selected Press

2019

Sharon Butler, “Post-Show Shout Out: ‘We Woke Up This Way’ at Sardine,” Two Coats of Paint, August 7, 2019

2018

Christiane Lemieux, “A Creative Guru’s Loft Where Conventional