Danielle Mckinney

Danielle Joy Mckinney (born 1981) is a contemporary visual artist who resides and works in New Jersey. in 1981, where she was raised as a Southern Baptist. Mckinney has always been connected to visual art. Her grandmother introduced her to painting Mckinney catches the figure engaged in leisurely activities and intense reflections. Her paintings reveal hidden storylines and evoke surreal settings, frequently in the context of the internal home world, as she engages with topics of spirituality and self. With a background in photography paints with a keen awareness of the female gaze, using very vivid colors and subtle details with "cinematic effect."

Mckinney made Reading Room, an acrylic on canvas painting, in 2022.

In 2024, Mckinney presented her first solo exhibition in Italy at the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo. Fly on the Wall expands on Mckinney's pictorial interest and depictions of Black women portraiture in intimate spaces.

Exhibitions

● 2021 SAW MY SHADOW, Fortnight Institute | New York

● 2022 Golden Hour, Marianne Boesky Gallery | New York