Dana King is a multimedia artist and poet whose work interrogates language and landscape through absurdity, dark humor, and the materiality of Book Arts. Their practice combines scholarly research with a praxis that embraces both the intuitive and the counterintuitive. Dana’s artistic explorations embrace rigorous hand and digital work, using processes such as Risograph, Inkjet, and Letterpress printing as well as large-scale hand-papermaking. Dana’s primary scholarly interest is the origin and history of English text as a technology, specifically as an early labor technology appropriated by artists.

Dana has taught Book Arts for the University of Iowa Center for the Book, the University of Iowa International Writing Program’s Summer Youth Program, and Iowa City arts non-profit Public Space One.

Dana is currently based in Iowa City, Iowa and loves every wolf and every dog.

Illustration of wolf supported by text
Risograph printed poster with erasure poetry and images
An accordion book with abstract prints laid out
Three views of a book with blue cover and link stitch binding
A book spread with asemic writing and diagrams
Book with text and diagrams laid open
Two spreads with images of flowers and text on them

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