Dan Colen was born in 1979 in Leonia, New Jersey. He received his B.F.A. in 2001 from the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence. His work is held in various public collections including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; and the de la Cruz Collection Contemporary Art Space, Miami. Recent solo exhibitions include ‘Help!’ at the Brant Foundation Art Study Center, Connecticut (2014); ‘The L...o...n...g Count’ at the Walter De Maria Building, New York (2014); ‘Psychic Slayer’ at the Herning Museum of Contemporary Art, Denmark (2015); ‘Shake the Elbow’ at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo (2015); and ‘Oil Painting’ at the Dallas Contemporary (2016).

Colen currently lives and works in New York.