Danielle Mužina is an artist and educator from Cleveland, Ohio. As an artist, she makes paintings that explore place, identity and crisis, inspired by her experiences as a member of a family that immigrated from Croatia. She received her B.F.A at Ohio Wesleyan University, her M.A. at Eastern Illinois University, and her M.F.A. at Miami University.
Mužina has studied at the Jerusalem Studio School in Civita Castellana, Italy, and completed residencies at Chautauqua School of Art, the Vermont Studio Center, and The Sam and Adele Golden Foundation.

 

Her paintings have been shown at numerous galleries nationally including juried exhibitions at First Street Gallery, Blue Mountain
Gallery, Bowery Gallery, The Untitled Space, and Prince Street Gallery in New York, NY, Buckham Gallery in Flint, MI, the Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art in Augusta, GA, and Verum Ultimum Gallery in Portland, OR. Her current Pink Apocalypse series was recognized with an Artist Enrichment Grant from the Kentucky Foundation for Women
and national scholarly organization SECAC’s Outstanding Artistic Achievement Award in 2021. Her artwork is included in John Seed’s 2023 book More Disruption: Representational Art in Flux, and she is represented by Bruno David Gallery in St. Louis, MO.

Formerly Assistant Professor of Painting at Murray State University before co-founding reframe52, LLC, Mužina was recognized with her institution's Emerging Scholar Award in 2019, Excellence in Teaching Award in 2021, and Board of Regents Teaching Excellence Award in 2022, the highest teaching distinction at her university.

 

Mužina lives and works in her hometown of Cleveland, Ohio as a proud rust-belter, amateur mixologist, and caretaker. In Fall 2023, she was chosen as the Walker D. and Helen Bryant Wyman Visiting Professor in Art at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls, and she looks forward to leading a series of workshops at Eastern Illinois University as Visiting Artist during the 2024-2025 academic year.