American artist, born in California of Michigan, who has studied at the Cleveland Institute of Art and Columbia University, now lives and works in New York. Dana Schutz is known for her representative image paintings, which are usually based on specific themes or stories. Imagination and nightmares are the subjects of her pure color blocks, and messy limbs and broken human figures are the protagonists in her gorgeous tones. Her paintings heralded the extreme morbidity of modern society.