DM Witman
Semifinalist
MVS Project Review Award
DM Witman (b. 1973, Reading, PA; l. McAllen, TX and Midcoast, ME) has a BS in Environmental Science, Kutztown University, PA, and an MFA from Maine Media College, Rockport. Witman’s work has appeared in more than 120 solo and group exhibitions, including at the Klompching Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; the Danforth Art Museum, Framingham, MA; Museum of Fine Arts Houston, TX; Newport Art Museum, RI; Portland Museum of Art, ME; Candela Gallery, Richmond, VA; and The Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland, as well as internationally in Amsterdam, China, Korea, Spain and Sweden. Her work resides in the permanent collections of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, TX; Portland Museum of Art, ME and Czong Institute for Contemporary Art, South Korea. She has had residencies with the Ellis-Beauregard Foundation, Monson Arts and How to Flatten a Mountain. Her work has been recognized with grants from the John Anson Kittredge Fund, Kindling Fund, Maine Arts Commission, Puffin Foundation and the Andy Warhol Foundation. Witman’s interviews and work have been published on Inside Climate News, The Guardian, BBC Culture and WIRED. Witman is affiliated with Photo-Eye Gallery and the Maine Museum of Photographic Arts.
Statement from the Artist:
Witman’s transdisciplinary work navigates the polycrisis using photographic materials, video, installation and community engagement. Ecologies of Mourning creates dialogue around grief and resiliency, expressed with salt, silver, handmade papers, and metal threads. These works exist as evidence of process and transition. They are meditations of loss, presence, absence and that which we seek to understand.