ABOUT

Danielle Kosann (b. 1986, New York) reimagines the contemporary feminine experience, rendering ordinary moments with a dreamlike quality while challenging societal taboos around female gathering. Kosann’s work features layered references to architecture, art history, and literature, drawing from her background in photography to create paintings that possess a theatrical quality. Her finished canvases suggest careful orchestration, as though arranged by a stage designer. In practice, they emerge intuitively through a process of giving form to emotion. A title arrives first, setting the emotional foundation for the work before brush meets canvas.

With that title as a guide, the composition unfolds into luminous worlds where women move freely through spaces that glow with possibility, unburdened by the male gaze or the weight of the current moment. Their moments of communion propose a redefinition of romance, one that expands beyond its conventional boundaries to encompass the full spectrum of human connection. Kosann’s paintings suggest that transformation is not found elsewhere. It has been here all along, hiding in plain sight: in our capacity to love and be loved, to connect deeply with ourselves and others. The viewer is left with an invitation to approach the everyday with a childlike curiosity, a restoration of wonder that does not require a new life, only a new way of seeing.

Recent Exhibitions/Fairs include: The Lobster Club LA Group Show, Los Angeles (2026), You Still Haven’t Met All of the People Who Are Going to Love You, Solo Exhibition, Lobster Club, New York (2025),  NADA NYC, Group Show, Lobster Club New York  (2025), The Lobster Club LA Group Show, Los Angeles (2025), The Mysteries That Were Ours, Solo Exhibition, Salon 21, New York  (2024), and A Divine Comedy, Solo Exhibition, Rosenbaum Contemporary Palm Beach  (2024). Her work is on permanent view at the Carlyle Hotel in New York City.

Please reach out to studio@daniellekosann.com with inquiries