American b. Boston, 1961
Lives and works in Pinyon Pines, CA

X studied Painting and Art Education at the Museum School of Fine Art, Boston and Tufts University. She holds a BFA in Fine Art and a BS Masters of Arts in Teaching, Art Education respectively. X is a recipient of the Orlowsky Freed Foundation Grant sponsored in part by PAAM (2011) and a finalist in the shortlist of seventy for the 2018 BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London. Her work is included in the permanent collection of The Provincetown Art Association and Museum (PAAM), Provincetown, MA.

Work by Dakota X has been exhibited nationally at The New Museum Los Gatos, Los Gatos, CA; The Lancaster Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA; The Biggs Museum of American Art, Dover, DE; The Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA, The Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA; The Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA; LAUNCH LA, Los Angeles, CA; Melissa Morgan Fine Art, Palm Desert, CA; Marks Art Center, College of the Desert, Palm Desert, CA; Peggy Phelps Gallery, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA; William Rolland Gallery of Fine Art, California Lutheran University, Thousand Oaks, CA, Sam Francis Gallery, Santa Monica, CA; Billis Williams Gallery, Los Angeles, CA and MM Fine Art, South Hampton, NY.

X’s work has been featured in publications including Juxtapoz Magazine; Palm Springs Life Magazine ARTS+CULTURE; art ltd.; Angeleno Magazine; Art and Cake; FABRIK Magazine; AEQAI Magazine; New American Paintings Magazine, The Provincetown Independent; Provincetown Magazine, The Provincetown Banner; and Provincetown Arts among others.