Artist Statement
Dustin Paden imagines a reality where digital spaces are squishy rather than rigid. With a background in both psychology research and user experience design, he embraces queer theory to challenge the ways that people and technologies reinforce norms. By projecting, screening, painting, and performing, he shares personal stories and builds participatory collections. His work breaks binary expectations as it glitches between digital and physical, intangible and tangible, technological and human.
Artist CV
2025
Interiors - Dual Exhibition with Madylan Coleman
Hartnett Gallery, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY2024
Adirondack Climate Project - Artist Retreat
Hewitt Pond, Adirondack Park, NY
interface - Solo Exhibition
Hartnett Gallery, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
Undergraduate Juried Show: Revival - Group Exhibition
Hartnett Gallery, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
The Land Protectors - Group Exhibition
AsIS Gallery, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
2023
Roc Rainbow Experience - Virtual Reality Group Exhibition
Studio X, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
(IN)TANGIBLE - Group Exhibition
AsIS Gallery, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
Everything But Words - Group Exhibition
AsIS Gallery, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
2022
Up Against the Wall: Art, Activism, and the AIDS Poster - Archive Exhibition
Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY