Dana Schutz (b.1976, Livonia, Michigan) lives and works in New York. She graduated from the Cleveland Institute of Art with her BFA in 2000. She went on to attend Columbia University, where she finished her MFA in 2002. In this same year, Schutz produced her inaugural show Frank From Observation, an exhibition based on the conceit of Schutz as the last painter representing the last subject: ‘Frank’. Schutz also participated at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture residency in Skowhegan, ME, and the Norwich School of Art and Design in the United Kingdom.