EDUCATION
1994 MFA, Mixed Media, Otis Parsons College of Arts and Design, Los Angeles, CA
1988 BFA, Sculpture, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA
1987 Painting, Studio Arts Center International, Florence, Italy
RESIDENCIES
2011-2014 Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
2011-2014 Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA
RESEARCH and SCIENTIFIC ART COLLABORATIONS
2024 International Ocean Discovery Joides Expedition, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Georgia State University Partnership with Bolton Lab, Neuroscience Institute
2022-2023 Joel Kotska, Dept. of Microbial Ecology, Georgia Tech University
2022-2023 Georgia Sea Grant NOAA
2022-2023 “SAW” Science Art Wonder, with Georgia Tech University and Emory University
2019-2024 Water Cycle, children’s book, with David Lavers, European Center for Medium Range Weather Forecast & Alexander Gershunov, Research Meteorologist, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
2019 Ocean Tunnel, Burning Man, Black Rock City, Nevada
2017-2018 Ocean Tunnel, Burning Man, Black Rock City, Nevada
2015-2017 Weather on Steroids, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
2011-2014 Scripps Institution of Oceanography
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2025-Present Affiliate Professor, California Institute of the Arts: Guide postgraduate students in studio development, professional practice, and thesis projects
2025-Present Graduate Mentor, Vermont College of Fine Arts (VCFA): Guide postgraduate students in studio development, professional practice, and thesis projects
2022-Present Part-time Instructor, Georgia State University, Atlanta GA: Water Based Media, Drawing as Research, Art Society and Culture, Art 4500 Directed studies, Art 4980 Special Problems, Capstone
2019-2023 Part-time Instructor, Underwood University, Atlanta GA: Modern Art History Art Appreciation, Abstract Painting, Aqueous Media, Color Theory, Seminar in Contemporary Studies, Photography, Drawing Media
2004-2019 Instructor, Montlack Studio: Portfolio Development IB Art & Art History, College and High School Curriculum development, Monoprint workshops, Mixed media collage workshops, Photo-collage workshops
2000-2002 Adjunct Professor, Fashion Institute of Art and Design:, San Diego CA, Modern Art History
2000-2003 Part-time Instructor, Cuyamaca College, San Diego CA: Art Appreciation, Mixed Media
1997-2004 Associate Faculty, National University, San Diego CA, Associate Faculty: Modern Art History, Contemporary Art History, Mixed Media, Painting, Collage, Art Appreciation
1998-1998 California Arts Project, San Diego CA
1993-1994 Adjunct, Otis Parsons School of Arts and Design, Los Angeles CA: Monoprint, Collage
1998-1999 Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego CA
CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT
Arts Curriculum Director National University, 1997-2004
Co-Created and developed the Post Graduate Certification in Art Therapy National University
Created, developed, implemented an Online World Art History Online course National University
California Arts Project, San Diego CA This course was developed for teachers who are teaching art in the K-12 system
“Visual Environments for Visual Education” Program, a non-profit arts organization focusing on youth at risk
Windows Charter School, San Diego, California. Lead Art Currriculum and Educator Director
Underwood University- Developed and taught Seminar in Contemporary Art History, Mixed Media Collage and Photography
GRANTS AND AWARDS
2024 International Ocean Discovery Program, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2022 Georgia Sea Grant, NOAA Office for Coastal Management
2019 Finalist, Public Art Commission, Georgina Cole Library, CA
2018 Finalist, Public Art Commission Florida State University, FL
2002 Judges award, In Focus, Lewis - Clark Center for Arts and History, Lewiston, ID
2000 21st Century Award for Achievement, “Outstanding Artists and Designers of the 20th Century,” International Biographical Centre
1998 California Council for the Arts and Humanities
1996 Honorarium, San Bernardino County Museum
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS and TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2025 Pre·ter·nat·u·ral, Dana Montlack + Pam Longobardi, Spruill Center for the Arts, Atlanta, GA
Imaginative Realities, The Curators Studio, Cortland Residences, Atlanta, GA
2023 Coastal Fragility, Illges Gallery, Columbus State University, GA
2022 JCostello Gallery, Hilton Head, SC
2018 Seeing Through Water, Seeing Through Weather, Joseph Bellows Gallery, San Diego, CA
2014 Sea of Cortez, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA
2014 Sea of Cortez, Joseph Bellows Gallery, San Diego, CA
2011 Art San Diego Contemporary Art Show, Joseph Bellows Gallery, San Diego, CA
2011 Sea Creatures, Joseph Bellows Gallery, San Diego, CA
2008 Joseph Bellows Gallery, San Diego, CA
2007 Dana Montlack: Recent Works, Taylor Library, San Diego, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 Land and Sea, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA
Summer Line-up, Spruill Gallery, Dunwoody, GA
2024 Waves of Wonder, Ships of the Sea Maritime Museum, Savannah, GA
2024 Boundary Lines, The Bakery, The Curator’s Studio, and Labyrinth Curation and presented at the Supermarket Gallery with the Atlanta Art Fair, Atlanta, GA
2024 Synesthesia, COTA Faculty Performance and Art Exhibition, Eyedrum Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2019 Weather the Weather, a SciArt Initiative exhibition, New York Hall of Science, Queens, NY
2018 Ocean Tunnel, Burning Man, traveling exhibition
2018 Little Things, Swan Coach House Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2018 La Jolla Canyons: Place, Diversity, Connections, La Jolla Historical Society, San Diego, CA
2017 Weather on Steroids, Aquarium of The Pacific, San Diego, CA
2017 Weather on Steroids, La Jolla Historical Society, San Diego, CA
2017 Weather on Steroids, San Diego Library, San Diego, CA
2015 H20/Water, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO
2015 Nasty Women Art Exhibition, Helmuth Projects, San Diego, CA
2015 Nasty Women NOLA, Angela King Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2014 The Hoochie – Art of Nature, The Goat Farm Arts Center, Atlanta, GA
2008 Sylvia White Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2008 Naomi Silva Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2004 Six Digital Contemporary Artists, San Diego Central Library, San Diego, CA
2003 Sushi Performance & Visual Art, San Diego, CA
2002 Palos Verdes Art Center, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA
2002 Digital Visions, Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento, CA
2002 In Focus, Lewis - Clark Center for Arts and History, Lewiston, ID
2002 Made in California, Brea Civic & Cultural Center, Pasadena, CA
LECTURES & PRESENTATIONS
2025 Marine Extension and Georgia Sea Grant, Federal Site Review, Atlanta, GA
2024 Zen and the Art of Scientific Ocean Drilling, The Geological Society of America, Anaheim, CA
2023 Art and Ecology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
2023 Illges Gallery, Columbus State University, Columbus, GA
2021 Virtual interview, VoyageAtl
2019 Podcast interview by Marthame Sanders, AJCAST
2019 Weather on Steroids – The Art of Climate Change Science, panelist, Scripps Aquarium, San Diego, CA
VISITING ARTIST
2023 University of Georgia, Art and Ecology
2023 Illges Gallery Columbus State University, GA
PUBLIC ART
2025 Maritime Forest, Marsh, and Ocean, Shelter Cove Sculpture Trail, Hilton Head, South Carolina
2019 Burning Man Festival, Black Rock, Nevada
2018 Burning Man Festival, Black Rock, Nevada
CURATORIAL
1996-1997 University of Georgia, Art and Ecology
1996-1997 Curator/Co-director, 3770 Park Blvd. Gallery, San Diego, CA
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
Art Table Leadership
College Art Association
Science-Art Collaborations
BOOKS, POETRY, CATALOGS
2020 Bialosky, Jill. Asylum: A personal, historical, natural inquiry in 103 lyric sections
2018 Selections From ResMed’s San Diego Art Collection, ResMed
The Artist Portrait Project, She Writes Press
2013 American Athenaeum, A Museum of Words, Sword & Saga Press, Charles
1999 The Bagua Book, Paper Brain Press, San Diego, CA
1999 Text, Paper Brain Press, San Diego, CA
1999 Suite Mary, Paper BrainPress, San Diego, CA
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Atlantis The Palm, Dubai, UAE
Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney, Law Offices, San Diego, CA
City of Hilton Head Sculpture Park, Hilton Head, SC
City National Bank, Manhattan Beach, CA
City of San Diego Library, San Diego, CA
Crowne Plaza Hotel, Atlanta, GA
Emory Crawford Long Hospital, Atlanta, GA
Garden Fresh Corporations, San Diego, CA
Hilton Convention Center. Houston, TX
Hotel 1000, Seattle, WA
Marriott Timber Lodge, South Lake Tahoe, CA
Medigene Inc., San Diego, CA
Merck Pharmaceuticals, San Diego, CA
Mirage Tower, Las Vegas, NV
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA
Nine-Ten Restaurant, San Diego, CA
Nokia, San Diego, CA
North University Library, San Diego, CA
Orlando World Center, Orlando, FL
ResMed, San Diego, CA
San Diego Cancer Center, San Diego, CA
Scripps Memorial Hospital, San Diego, CA
The Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience, Saint Augustine, FL
Top of the Market, San Diego
Torrey Reserve-American Assets Trust, Del Mar, CA
World Travel Inc., Mexico
SELECTED PRESS
2025 Kevin Storer, ARTS ATL, “Review: At Spruill, Raw Construction Breathes Life Into a Refined Nature,“
2025 Lucy Rosen, Celebrate Hilton Head, “A Window Into the Wild.”
2025 Canvas Rebel, “Meet Dana Montlack.”
2025 THERESanDiego, “New on View at MCASD: ‘Celestial and Terrestrial Worlds’ and ‘Land and Sea’.”
2024 Jonathan Bergstrom, Le Mile Magazine, “Microscopic Worlds: Dana Montlack on Art and Science.”
Tania June Sammons, Tania Talks Museums, “Behind the Scenes of Waves of Wonder.”
2019 Voyage ATL, “Meet Dana Montlack of Studio Montlack in Sandy Springs.”
2018 Artsy, “Burning Man Artists on 15 of the Most Anticipated Artworks in 2018.”
2017 The San Diego Union-Tribune, “‘Weather on Steroids’ Exhibit Takes Two-Pronged Approach to Climate Change.”
2017 Aijcast Podcast, “Dana Montlack Interview, S3E09.”
2017 The San Diego Union-Tribune, “Art, Science Join Forces for ‘Weather on Steroids’ show in La Jolla.”
2014 Jerry Cullum, ARTS ATL, “‘Second Nature,’ Thoughtful and Visually Stunning Group Show at Goat Farm.”
2014 The San Diego Union-Tribune, “Making the Invisible Visible.”
2014 SDNews.com, “Nine Ten Restaurant Looks Good Enough to Eat Thanks to Renovation.”
2014 James Chute, The San Diego Union-Tribune, “Dana Montlack Finding a Universe in Tiny Worlds.”
2013 The San Diego Union-Tribune, “What’s New? Exhibit Trio Opens at Museum of Contemporary Art.”
2013 Photo District News, “Photo of the Day.”
2013 Sword & Saga Press, “The Dana Montlack Sea of Cortez Exhibit.”
2013 Pacific Magazine, ”Art Seen.”
2013 San Diego Visual Arts Network, “RAW November 2013.”
2013 Citybeat, “Dana Montlack: Sea of Cortez.”
2013 Cathy Breslaw, Artful Life, “MOCA La Jolla, California, Dana Montlack: 'Sea of Cortez', Photocollage Exhibition.”
2013 Kevin Cooley, San Diego Magazine, “Visual Arts Preview.”
2013 The Wanderer Guides, “10 Things To Do This Weekend in San Diego (9/21-9/22).”
2013 ABC 10 News, “Open Doors La Jolla.”
2013 San Diego Art News, “San Diego MCASD Fall Lineup.”
2013 The Daily Bag, “Monte Carlo Brings Three New Shows to La Jolla and More.”
2013 Maya Laksham, Hi-Tide, “Sea of Cortez.”
2011 Aline Smithson, Lenscratch, “Sea Creatures: Joni Sternbach, Liz Lantz, and Dana Montlack.”
2010 James Chute, The San Diego Union-Tribune, “Arts Month: Growing Photography Community Attracts Artists.”
2008 The San Diego Union-Tribune, “The Show on the Road.”
2008 The Photo Exchange, “Dana Montlack at Joseph Bellows Gallery.”
2008 The Guild Sourcebook of Architectural & Interior Art 23
2007 San Diego Weekly Reader, “Fragility and Beauty of Aquatic Life.”
2007 Mark-Elliot Lugo, The City of San Diego Public Library, “Dana Montlack Exhibition Offers Unusual Perspective on Aquatic Creatures.”
2007 The Library Connection, “Dana Montlack “Recent Works” at Pacific Beach/Taylor Branch Library.”
2005 The Artful Home, The Guild Sourcebook of Residential Art, “Dana Montlack.”
2000 Art in America, Artists Index.
2000 La Jolla Village News, “Favorable Judgement Rendered at Athenaeum Show.”
2000 The San Diego Union-Tribune, “Eye Catchers: Athenaeum’s Annual Show Has Some Artists That Make You Say Nice Work.”
2000 Guild.com, Catalog of Selected Artists.
1998 Montserrat Puigdomenech, Beach & Bay Press, “Three Artists from PB Participate in Open Studios ’98.”
1996 Frank Wright, The Publication, “The Triangle District.”