Dana Hemenway
2025 Eureka Fellow
Photo Courtesy of KQED and Graham Holoch
Dana Hemenway is an artist based in San Francisco. Her work is rooted in the excavation and elevation of utilitarian objects to make visible what has become habituated in our built environments. Hemenway uses these functional items as materials to form traditionally fiber-based crafts – lights and cords are woven through ceramics or gallery walls, extension cords are transformed into macramé chains.
Hemenway has had residencies at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art in Omaha, NE; ACRE in Stueben, WI; SÍM in Reykjavik, Iceland; Joya: arte + ecología in Spain; The Wassaic Project in upstate New York; and at Recology Waste Management in San Francisco. Dana is the recipient of a San Francisco Arts Commission Individual Artist grant and a Southern Exposure Alternative Exposure grant. She has a public art commission on display at the San Francisco International Airport. Dana has exhibited her artwork locally, nationally, and internationally. From 2015 - 2017, she served as a co-director of Royal Nonesuch Gallery, an artist-run project space in Oakland, CA. She received an MFA from Mills College and a BA from University of California, Santa Cruz. She is represented by Eleanor Harwood Gallery.
Back to Eureka fellows