Dana Sperry

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Emailjdsperry@ysu.edu
Phone330.941.3627
 

Dana Sperry

Professor
Digital Media

LocationBliss Hall 4081 
  Cliffe College of Creative Arts
  547 Wick Avenue
  Youngstown, OH 44503

 

Education

  • 2001

    M.F.A., Sculpture

    Indiana University
     

  • 1995

    B.F.A., Studio Art

    Southern Methodist University
     

  • 1995

    B.A., Philosophy

    Southern Methodist University

 

About

Dana Sperry is an interdisciplinary digital media artist whose work spans multiple formats and mediums. His recent work explores states of loneliness and isolation resulting from experiences that convey insignificance within a modern post-industrial society. Each piece considers different aspects of contemporary remoteness. In addition to exploring ideas of loneliness, Sperry is fascinated by the inevitable distortion, fabrication and simplification of value structures and renderings of past realities within a culture. His has been exhibited/screened widely including New York, Chicago, Miami, Paris, Moscow, Amsterdam, Brazil, and India.


Sperry received a BA in philosophy as well as a BFA in studio art from Southern Methodist University. After studying at the Art Institute of Chicago, He received an MFA from Indiana University. In 2024, he completed a graduate certificate in data analytics from Youngstown State University.
 

 

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