| Danielle De Jesus | |
| Birth Place: | Bushwick, Brooklyn, U.S. |
| Alma Mater: | Yale School of Art (MFA, 2021) Fashion Institute of Technology (BFA, 2019) |
| Known For: | Painting on US currency |
Danielle De Jesus (1987, Bushwick, Brooklyn) is an American Nuyorican visual artist with deep ties to Puerto Rican culture in New York. She works primarily as a painter and often uses photography and table cloth to comment on urban renewal, gentrification, and collective stories of migrant communities in her Bushwick neighborhood. Her work is mostly recognized by her portrait paintings on dollar bills.[1] [2]
Danielle De Jesus is the offspring of a Puerto Rican family in Bushwick, Brooklyn. De Jesus received an MFA from Yale School of Art, New Haven, and a BFA from the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York.[3]
Danielle De Jesus highlights the life stories of neighboring Puerto Ricans and migrant communities in Bushwick while elaborating on the impacts of gentrification and urban renewal for those cultural groups and the city landscape at large. She often works with painting, photography and non-traditional materials such as plastic table cloths, community gardens, and United States currency.[4] [5] [6]
In 2022, Danielle De Jesus was the inaugural resident at Beecher Residency, established at the Stillman House in Litchfield, Connecticut, designed by 20th-century architect Marcel Breuer with permanent installations from Alexander Calder.[7]
De Jesus was included in prominent group shows such as Reflections on Perception (2022), Akron Art Museum, Ohio;[8] Life Between Buildings (2022) at MoMA PS1, New York;[9] [10] the No existe un mundo poshurácan: Puerto Rican Art in the wake of Hurricane Maria (2022-2023) exhibition and accompanying scholarly catalog at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.[11] [12] In 2021-2022, De Jesus participated in a two-person show at Calderón in New York, alongside visual artist Shellyne Rodriguez titled Siempre en la calle.[13] [14]
Paintings by Danielle De Jesus are included in the permanent collection of the Pérez Art Museum Miami, Florida;[15] El Museo del Barrio, New York; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.[16]