American b. Boston, 1961
Lives and works in Mountain Center, CA

Dakota X is a Contemporary American Painter. X received a BFA and BS Masters of Arts in Teaching, Art Education from The Museum School of Fine Arts, Boston and Tufts University respectively.

X's artistic work examines the complexities of individual experience particularly in relation to home, isolation, gender identity and memory. X’s stark landscape paintings often feature marginalized communities located on the fringes of American society.

X’s work is included in the permanent collection of The Provincetown Art Association and Museum (PAAM), Provincetown, MA. He 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.

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

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

Outside of the Binary - Opening the Narrative of Gender and The Memories You Keep - Surviving Generational Addiction and Mental Illness are current portrait projects.