Whitney Dail was born in Alexandria, VA to a Naval aviator and an artist-entrepreneur, and was raised in Annapolis, MD. For five years, Whitney worked as a graphic designer in the comic book industry but returned to school in 2009 to pursue a better-suited Master's degree in Arts Administration. She is currently in the process of writing and researching her thesis on expanding art, science, and technology interactions in U.S. cultural institutions.
Credit: Image by Jonathan Yoerger.
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The following list is an ongoing compilation of contemporary art exhibitions that are either inspired by or use the cosmos as a theme. Keep checking back for further additions!

NASA | Art: 50 Years of Exploration October 25, 2008 - October 9, 2011 Traveling Exhibition PDF Exhibition Prospectus Artists: Norman Rockwell, Robert Rauschenberg, Lowell Nesbitt, Jack Perlmutter, Paul Arlt, Nicholas Solovioff, John Pike, William Thon, Paul Calle, Alden Wicks, Mitchell Jamieson, Billy Morrow Jackson, Doug Kingman, Fletcher Martin, Robert McCall, James Wyeth, Paul Sample, Peter Hurd, Franklin McMahon, George Weymouth, Fred Freeman, Robert Vickrey, Lamar Dodd, Robert Shore, Stan Stokes, Andy Warhol, James Dean, Henry Casselli, James Cunningham, Howard Koslow, Jaune Quick-to-see Smith, Arthur Shilstone, Robert Schulman, Attila Hejja, Tina York, Greg Mort, Chakaia Booker, Barbara Ernst Prey, Annie Leibovitz, Lonny Schiff, Keith Duncan, Clayton Pond, Vija Celmins, John Solie, Andreas Nottebohm, Doug and Mike Starn, Yvonne Jacquette, Daniel Zeller, Stephen Sprouse, Russell Crotty, E.V. Day, Judith Eisler, Jason Middlebrook, and William Wegman.
Atmosphères: A Walk in Silence March 3 - April 27, 2010 Galerie Pangée (Montreal, Canada) Artists: Michael Flomen, Judith Braun, Maria Antelman, Michael Aerts, Vargas-Suarez Universal, and Luca Pozzi.

Star City: The Future Under Communism February 12 - 18 April 18, 2010 Nottingham Contemporary (Nottingham, U.K.) Artists: Pawel Althamer, Micol Assaël, Stano Filko, Diango Hernández, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, Július Koller, Robert Kusmirowski, Goshka Macuga, Joanna Malinowska & Christian Tomaszewski, David Maljkovic, Aleksandra Mir, Deimantas Narkevičius, Otolith Group, Tobias Putrih, and Jane and Louise Wilson.

Aleksandra Mir: The Dream and the Promise October 1 – November 30, 2009 Galeria Joan Prats (Barcelona, Spain) PDF Press Release Artist Website

Deceitful Moon July 21 - August 31, 2009 Hayward Gallery Project Space (London, U.K.) Artists: Tom Dale, William Hogarth, Matthre Day Jackson & David Tompkins, Grant Morrison & Cameron Stewart, Aleksandra Mir, Amalia Pica, Sam Porritt, Karen Russo, Johannes Vogl, Keith Wilson, and Carey Young.

Life on Mars May 3, 2008 - January 11, 2009 The Carnegie Museum of Art (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) Website Artists: Doug Aitken, Kai Althoff, Mark Bradford, Vija Celmins, Phil Collins, Bruce Conner, Cao Fei, Peter Fischli & David Weiss, Ryan Gander, Daniel Guzmán, Thomas Hirschhorn, Richard Hughes, Mike Kelley, Friedrich Kunath, Maria Lassnig, Sharon Lockhart, Mark Manders, Barry McGee, Mario Merz, Marisa Merz, Matthew Monahan, Rivane Neuenschwander, Manfred Pernice, Susan Philipsz, Noguchi Rika, Wilhelm Sasnal, Thomas Schütte, Ranjani Shettar, David Shrigley, Paul Sietsema, Rudolf Stingel, Katja Strunz, Paul Thek, Wolfgang Tillmans, Rosemarie Trockel, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Andro Wekua, Richard Wright, and Haegue Yang.

Out of this World July 11 - September 13, 2008 Wood Street Galleries (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) PDF Press Release Artists: Jean-Pierre Aube, Maria Antelman, Vera-Maria Glahn, Marcus Wendt, and Gail Wight.

Stardust ou la dernière frontière October 5, 2007 - January 13, 2008 MAC/VAL (Vitry-sur-Seine, France) PDF Booklet (French) Website Artists: Guy Allott, Renaud Auguste- Dormeuil, Nicolas Baier Gilles Barbier, Davide Bertocchi, Pascal Broccolichi, Etienne Chambaud, Claude Closky, Julien Discrit, Sylvie Fleury, Claude Gassian, Trevor Gould, Serge Guillou, Andreas Gursky, Vincent Lamouroux, Roberto Martinez, Philippe Mayaux, Paul McDevitt, Jorge Méndez Blake, Aleksandra Mir, Joachim Mogarra, Bernard Moninot, Jacques Monory, Olivier Mosset, Nicolas Moulin, Melik Ohanian, Roman Ondák, Bruno Peinado, Didier Rittener, Gwen Rouvillois, Thomas Ruff, Stéphane Sautour, Yinka Shonibare MBE, Bridget Smith, Wolfgang Tillmans, James Turrell, Jean-Luc Vilmouth, Mark Wallinger, Jane & Louise Wilson, and Jordan Wolfson.

Space Is The Place November 18, 2006 - September 7, 2008 Traveling Exhibition PDF Project Specs Artists: Laurie Anderson, Colette Gaiter, Lia Halloran, Ronald Jones, Nina Katchadourian, Oleg Kulik, Julian LaVerdiere, Aleksandra Mir, MIR Project, Damián Ortega, Marko Peljhan, Steve Roden, Jason Rogenes, Adam Ross, Katy Schimert, and Jane and Louise Wilson.

Tom Sachs: Space Program September 8 - October 13, 2007 Gagosian Gallery (Los Angeles, California) Exhibition info PDF Press Release Artist website

Cosmologies January 11 - February 10, 2007 James Cohan Gallery (New York, New York) Exhibition info Artists: Allora & Calzadilla, Kamrooz Aram, assume vivid astro focus, Ingrid Calame, Dawn Clements, Joseph Cornell, Simon Evans, Cerith Wyn Evans, Nancy Holt, Alfred Jensen, Jess, Jasper Johns, Laleh Khorramian, Anselm Kiefer, Kimsooja, Yayoi Kusama, Mark Lombardi, Josiah McElheny, Dominic McGill, Matt Mullican, Ad Reinhardt, Matthew Ritchie, Thomas Ruff, Ward Shelley, Shahzia Sikander, Robert Smithson, Fred Tomaselli, Sara VanDerBeek, Martin Wilner, Terry Winters, and Adolf Wolfli.

SPACE SOON: Art and Human Spaceflight September 9 - September 13, 2006 The Roundhouse (London, U.K.) Exhibition Info PDF Press Release Artists:Aleksandra Mir, N55, Neal White, London Fieldworks, Jerry Dammers Spatial AKA Orchestra, Laurie Anderson, Michelle Griffiths, Jane & Louise Wilson, Semiconductor, Kodwo Eshun.
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