How can I buy a work by Danielle Mužina?

Bruno David Gallery handles the sale of available works by Danielle Mužina. For prices and availability, email info@brunodavidgallery.com or call +1 314 696 2377.

Where can I see work by Danielle Mužina in person?

At Bruno David Gallery, 7513 Forsyth Boulevard, Saint Louis, Missouri 63105, during public hours or by appointment.

What does Danielle Mužina make?

Figurative paintings in oil and acrylic on panel in which groups of women respond to ambiguous social, bodily and environmental crises beneath an unnatural pink sky, exploring gender, trauma, queer identity and place.

Where is Danielle Mužina based?

Danielle Mužina lives and works in Cleveland, Ohio.

Has Danielle Mužina had an exhibition at Bruno David Gallery?

Yes. Femme in the End Times (February 2025) is one of her exhibitions at the gallery. Catalogues can be read in the gallery’s Publications library at brunodavidgallery.com/publications.

Danielle Mužina

Danielle Mužina is a Cleveland-based painter who makes figurative paintings about place, identity, and crisis, drawing on her experience as a queer woman from a Croatian immigrant family. In her Pink Apocalypse series, groups of women respond to ambiguous social, bodily, and environmental events beneath an unnatural pink sky, some bearing magenta wounds, as a metaphor for an unstable present.

Working in oil and acrylic on panel, she turned to these subjects after Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony and the #MeToo movement; the work examines how gender performance and trauma shape relationships, selfhood, and the experience of space, drawing on Catholic imagery and her immigrant grandmother’s reflections on crises in the former Yugoslavia. Femme in the End Times grew from a wish to build community and a “safe house” as a queer person; during a Feverdream residency in Cleveland, tableaux vivants staged with community members became source material for paintings and a 2026 mural.

Mužina earned a B.F.A. from Ohio Wesleyan University (2013), an M.A. from Eastern Illinois University (2014), and an M.F.A. from Miami University in Ohio (2016), and studied at the Jerusalem Studio School in Italy.

After teaching at Edinboro University, she was assistant professor and head of painting at Murray State University in Kentucky (2017–2022), where she received the Board of Regents Teaching Excellence Award. She later held the Wyman Visiting Professorship at the University of Wisconsin–River Falls and was a gallery teacher at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

She has had solo exhibitions at Southeast Missouri State University, Western Kentucky University, and Buckham Gallery in Flint, and has shown in juried exhibitions at First Street, Prince Street, Bowery, and Blue Mountain galleries in New York. Her residencies include the Chautauqua School of Art, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Sam & Adele Golden Foundation; she received SECAC’s Outstanding Artistic Achievement Award (2021) and an Artist Enrichment Grant from the Kentucky Foundation for Women, and her work appears in John Seed’s book More Disruption: Representational Art in Flux. Bruno David Gallery began representing Mužina in October 2024 and opened her solo exhibition Femme in the End Times, with a catalogue, on 7 February 2025.

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