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Daphane Park is a multidisciplinary artist experimenting with energy and transformation as material, subject, and ritual. Through painting, sound, sculptural installation and performance, she traces the invisible dynamics that shape human perception — the currents of emotion, vibration, and form that move through bodies, textiles, and landscapes.
Her work explores how primordial formlessness finds form and continually transforms, drawing from scientific, spiritual, and mythological systems of understanding.
Her ongoing investigations focus on camouflage and the cosmos, examining how concealment and revelation mirror the structure of the universe itself. Her interest in camouflage — is not only a visual strategy, it is key to understanding evolution and the human psychological and social condition. Through her immersive environments and voice-based sound works, Park examines the tension between visibility and invisibility, vulnerability and power.
One of her central projects, Planets, is a long-standing personal ritual that explores energy, frequency, and embodiment. Across her practice, Park seeks to unify opposites — visible and invisible, science and spirituality, utopic and dystopic — proposing that the space between them is where transformation begins.
She was awarded a Fulbright Research Award to investigate ideas of flux — political, indigenous, and natural — in Quito, Ecuador. Her research culminated in Cartografías, Cuerpos y el Deseo, a traveling exhibition of paintings and installations that mapped human territorial desires and globalization.
Park has held teaching positions at the University of Texas at Austin and at its former interdisciplinary campus in Castiglion Fiorentino, Italy, as well as at the Universidad Central in Quito, Ecuador. These experiences continue to shape her interest in dialogical and community-based practices, in which collective making becomes a way to share knowledge and transform social narratives.
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS
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2026
Estrella en camuflaje, Mexico City
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2024
Flowers Uprising hosted by curator Anna Dusi, Casa Córdoba, Mexico city
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2023
Cuerpos Exquisitos MMAC, Cuernavaca, Mexico
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2021
Todo surge de la nada, Union, Mexico City
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2020
Muestra, Mexico City
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2017
Let’s Meet in the Mineral World, MASS Gallery, Austin, TX.
2016
ArseTotem, commission for Museum of Old and New Art (MONA), TAS, Australia.
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2015
Maggots 2 Riche$, New Media Art Sound Summit, Austin, TX.
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2011 - 2012
‘Gangster Mini’, Museum of Old and New Art (MONA), TAS, Australia.
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2010
Superconductor II, Honey Space, NY.
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2009
Superconductor, Creative Research Laboratory, Austin, TX.
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2006
True Originals, Volitant, Austin, TX.
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2006
Guess Who The Fuck's Coming to Town
Lisa Boyle Gallery, Chicago, IL.
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SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
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2026
about, Fundación M, Mexico City
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2026
Ebriedad Geométrica, Casa de Arte Limantour, Mexico City
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2025
Shabam! Pow! Blop! Wizz!, Espacio 33 1/3, Curated by Michel Blancsube, Mexico City
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2024/25
Utopium GESTE, Curation by ShinDo, Paris
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2023
Dancing Meridians, Curated by Polina Stroganova, Mexico City
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2022
Bitácoras, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Querétaro, Mexico
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2022
A Moveable Art Feast, Curator´s salon, Casa Versalles, Mexico City
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2022
Parallax, PADA, Lisbon
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2021
Fé(M), Galeria54, Mexico City
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2020
Clavo Movimiento, Casa Versailles, Mexico City
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2019
Every Woman Biennial, La MaMa Galleria, NY.
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2017 - 2018
Light Bodies, performance commissioned for the grand opening of PHAROS, Museum of Old and New Art (MONA), TAS, Australia
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2015
Heavy Metal, Museum of Old and New Art (MONA), TAS, Australia.
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2013
Family Business, Cold Castle, NY.
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2012
Gangster Mini, Museum of Old and New Art, TAS, Australia.
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2012
Never Ever Ever Land, Anna Kustera Gallery, NY.
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2012
Apocalypse, Old School, SPRING BREAK, NY.
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2012
Honey me to Tears, Honey Space, NYC
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2011
Nomadic Tea Room,
Moscow Biennale Of Contemporary Art
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2011
New York Tea Ceremony
Festival of Ideas, New Museum
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2010
Ex Deo Libertas!
Life is Art, West Sonoma, CA.
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2010
Order of 8, Eiffel Society, New Orleans, LA.
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2010
Do You Want Gold?, Honey Space NY.
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2009
Voodoo, City Park and New Orleans Botanical Gardens.
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2008
New Orleans Biennial, Life is Art Foundation, New Orleans, LA.
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2007
A Course in Minerals, Life is Art, New Orleans, LA.
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2007
Femme Fantastique, Volitant, Austin, TX.
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2005 Pool video, A Covenant of Creatures
Art Basel, Miami Beach, FL.
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2005
Aqua Art Fair, Miami 2005 Magnan Projects, NY. 2004 Group Exhibition and
Beach, FL.
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1999
Cartografías, cuerpos y el deseo, Traveling Solo Exhibition Art forum, Quito, Ecuador, Museo del Banco Central, Cuenca, Ecuador, el Museo del CEN, Guyaquil, Ecuador (catalogue).
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ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
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2002 – 2003
Lecturer, University of Texas, Castiglione Fiorentino, Italy.
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2000 – 2002
Lecturer, University of Texas Austin, TX
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1997 – 1999
Lecturer, Universidad Central, Quito, Ecuador.
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RECOGNITIONS / AWARDS / RESIDENCIES
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2021
Recipient, Foundation for contemporary Arts (Grant)
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2020
Artist in Residence, Casa Wabi, Mexico
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2009
Joan Jonas Invitational Performance Workshop and Private Performance Creative Research Laboratory, Austin, TX.
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2004 - 2006
Chashama Studio Residency at 40 worth, NY.
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1999
Creative Projects Grant, US Cultural A airs, US Embassy Quito, Ecuador.
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1997 - 1999
Fulbright Research Award, Ecuador (with 9 month extension and traveling exhibition).
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1996
University of Texas Continuing Fellowship.
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1996
University of Texas Art and Art History Research Award.
EDUCATION
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1991 - 1997
University of Texas at Austin, MFA. Indiana University, Honors BA
1996
University of Study Abroad.
1996
University of Texas Scholarship for Texas Travel Grant, Italy.
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1994 - 1996
David Price Endowed Presidential Scholarship, University of Texas
at Austin.
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1993
Indiana University Honors Division Creative Research and Travel Grant, Central America.