cv
Dena Winter [also known as May Waver]
New media artist + production designer
Lives and works in NYC
education
Beloit College 2011–2015
BA summa cum laude, Studio Art
BA summa cum laude, Health & Society
ACM Pune, India, 2013
gallery representation
Lemonade Gallery, Windsor, UK, 2015–16
solo exhibitions
perennia, Littman and White Galleries, Portland, OR, 2016
Float dreams = 4D*cosradiansflower+sky; (also known as the cybertwee bb dome), Cybertwee solo show at Godine Gallery, Boston, MA, 2016
Afferent, Lemonade Gallery, Windsor, UK, 2015
Embedded Lullabies, commissioned series for newhive.com, 2015
Real Girl, Gallery ABBA, Beloit, WI, 2014
group exhibitions / screenings
Pre-Future, fluidity.online, 2017
Mutual Feelings 2 – VR: Cybertwee HQ , The Alibi, London, England, 2017
ULTRAFEM, Honey, Minneapolis, MN, 2017
Selected Works, Public Functionary, Minneapolis, MN, 2016
Friends Only, Pacific Place, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2016
Digital Dark, Public Access, Chicago, 2016
An Exhibition Of Artists That Have Unfollowed Me, Berlin, Germany, 2016, at www.router.gallery
Your Digital Self Hates You, Stadtgalerie, Bern, Switzerland, 2016
#Them, Broadcasted live via Lemonade Gallery at lemonadegallery.com/them, 2016
Austere Magazine Release Party, Art Baby Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 2016
The Front Presents: Into You, curated by Molly Soda and Rachel Bell, ATM Gallery, Austin, TX, 2016
This Video Requires a Password, curated by Ambar Navarro, Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles, CA, 2016
Art Show / House Show, Camaraderie Records, Minneapolis, MN, 2016
Fr(o)(o)t L(o)(o)ps, curated by Paula Nacif -- TCC Chicago, Chicago, IL, 2015
New Vacation, curated by Julia Greenway, hosted by Interstitial -- Northwest Film Forum, Seattle, WA, 2015
THE FUTURE IS WHATEVER, curated by Andrea McGinty, presented by BHQFU -- Nitehawk Cinemas, Williamsburg, NY, 2015
Give Me Ur Attention Vol. II, curated by Hana Aoake and Katherine Botten -- Audio Foundation, New Zealand, 2015
WAX 2, an event in partnership with Polyester Magazine, Girls on Film and Ligature -- Library Members Club, London, UK, 2015
Urgent: Beloit College Senior Art Show, The Wright Museum of Art, Beloit, WI, 2015
#JETLAG: DEEP WEB NEVERLAND, curated by Dylan Neuwirth, Al Manshar Rotana Hotel, Fahaheel, Kuwait, 2015
Sincerely, Sent from My iPhone, curated by Molly Soda for NewHive, online at newhive.com, 2015
Free Things, curated by Jack Fisher, STCFTHOTS, Leeds, UK, and online at www.freethings.xyz/, 2015
gURL FREAX, curated by Paula Nacif, James Theophilos, Nu Evil, Church of Templehead, Chicago and online at gurlfreax.net, 2015
Body Anxiety, curated by Jennifer Chan & Leah Schrager, online exhibition at BodyAnxiety.com, 2015
GIM presenta:~Áreas Grises, curated by Gaby Cepeda, Sala Luis Miró Quesada Garland, Lima, Peru, 2015
Beloit College Annual Juried Art Exhibition, Wright Museum of Art, Beloit, WI, 2014
You poked me on facebook, curated by Eve Rusk and Carly Newman, Gallery 637 New York, NY, 2014
Art/Word, curated by Nathan Fritz, Gallery ABBA, Beloit, WI, 2014
curatorial
Cybertwee Virtual Artist Talks Series, hosted by Cybertwee on tinychat, 2016
Cybertwee Virtual Exhibition, hosted on the Cybertwee HQ App, 2016
Eyes on the Prize, featuring photography by Simon Comminos & paintings by Sam Becker, Gallery ABBA, Beloit, WI, 2015
girlhood, featuring photography by Sasha Jacobs, Gallery ABBA, Beloit, WI, 2015
Outside Lines, Inside Lanes, featuring paintings by Sara DeLong, Gallery ABBA, Beloit WI, 2014
lectures
Brown University + RISD: Cybertwee artist talk and workshop, 2016
Massachussetts College of Art and Design, Godine Family Gallery: Cybertwee artist talk, 2016
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Film, Video, New Media, and Animation Department: May Waver artist talk, 2015
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Jennifer Chan's Digital Practices class: May Waver artist talk, 2014
selected features/press
NewHive Blog -- Nature x tech = digiGarden
SheRa Magazine -- Interview with Victoria Khroundina
Dazed Magazine -- Interview with Monique Todd
Bitch Magazine -- "Five Rad New Media Artists to Watch" by Miriam Karraker
Art21 -- Interview with Sam Wisneski
i-D Magazine -- Interview with Isabelle Hellyer
Topical Cream -- "Digi-Feminism" by Yasmin Geurts
Artforum -- "Women on the Verge" by Johanna Fateman
Rhizome -- "May Waver, 'Embedded Lullabies'" by Michael Connor
cybertwee press
New York Times -- "Where Art and Technology Collide" by Melissa Smith
The Creators Project -- "How to Build a Safe Space for Earnest, Feminine Cyberpunk" by Giaco Furino
Forbes -- "Love it or hate it, Instagram's new logo is so Internet right now"
Mic -- "Y2K Aesthetic Is New Again in Cybertwee, My Pastel Cyberspace Paradise"
Motherboard -- "I Bought Adorable Cookies on the Deep Web" by Kari Paul
Coin Cafe Blog -- "The Sweetest Things on the Deep Web"
Motherboard -- "Coming Soon to the Deep Web: Adorable Baked Goods" by Kari Paul
Broadly -- "Cybertwee Artists Are Overriding the Patriarchy with Cuteness" by Zing Tsjeng
Dazed Magazine -- "Meet the digital daredevils of 90s feminism"
The Digital Manifesto Archive -- "The Cybertwee Manifesto"
The Cage is Worms -- "On the Cybertwee Manifesto"
residencies
Emerging Artists Program, Tofte Lake Center, MN, 2017
awards
Best Instagram, City Pages "Best Of the Twin Cities: 2018" Issue, 2018
Beloit College Presidential Scholar, Beloit College, 2015
Theodore Wright Fine Arts Prize for Best Writing on Art, Beloit College, 2013
