Aria Dean is an artist, writer, and curator whose work engages questions of Blackness within internet culture, examining the generative and gratuitous workings of online cultural production. Her writings have been published in Artforum, Art in America, Texte zur Kunst, and elsewhere. From 2016 to 2019, Dean served as assistant curator of net art and digital culture at Rhizome, and then, from 2019 to 2020, as editor and curator there, overseeing the blog at rhizome.org and Net Art Anthology. Dean has shown her works widely in solo and group exhibitions at such venues as the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Het Hem, Amsterdam; Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, and Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo.
