D-TAG

Exhibitions

Group Exhibition, A Fluid & Emphatic Now, 2021

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D-TAG, moniker of visual artist Dan Tague, is well known for his photographic series of political commentary as told through folded paper currency. He addresses the issues of our day by rendering visual equivalents in this most influential medium. Installations, photography and artistic activism are his means of confronting and responding to the concerns of today’s world.      

Taking the US dollar as ready-made, D-TAG conjures new meaning through his obsessive folds, severing the bill from its usual path of exchange. This shapeshifting reveals the arbitrary and ever-changing value of the dollar while simultaneously conveying a message. Rather than a link in the chain of commodity exchange, the paper money becomes an object-of-desire expressing desire, and breaks free from this cycle of exchange altogether.

D-TAG is a photographer based in New Orleans. He shows nationally and internationally and can be found in prestigious collections including Whitney Museum of Art, New Orleans Museum of Art, The Speed Museum of Art, Luciano Benetton Collection, Frederick R. Weisman Foundation, West Collection, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, and J House. D-TAG’s photographs have been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, Neon Magazine (Munich), Mondo Magazine (Venezuela), Frieze Magazine, The Washington Post, and was included in the acclaimed book “For Which It Stands: Americana in Contemporary Art,” curated by Carla Sakamoto. He has created high profile commissions for Help USA, Talib Kweli, and Neil Barrett fashion.

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