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

Dakota X is an American Painter, Curator and Founder of Pinesmoke Artist Residency. 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 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. X’s work is included in the permanent collection of The Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA.

Work by Dakota X has been included in curatorial exhibitions at The Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA; The Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA; Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA; William Rolland Gallery of Fine Art, California Lutheran University, Thousand Oaks, CA; Lancaster Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA; The Salton Sea History Museum, North Shore, CA; New Museum Los Gatos, Los Gatos, CA; Orange County Center of Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA; The Marks Art Center, College of the Desert, Palm Desert, CA; Peggy Phelps Gallery, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA; Annenberg Theatre, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA; among others.

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