Dawn Arrowsmith is an American artist based in Los Angeles, California. She has exhibited her paintings, works on paper, sculptures, installations, and performance work in the United States, Europe and Asia. Her work is included in museums, corporate and private collections including Eli Broad/Sun America, the Capital Group Foundation, Claremont Lewis Museum of Art, the Ducal Palace, Gubbio, Italy, the Princess Madawi M. Aboulaziz of Saudia Arabia and the Schrager|York Collection of Contemporary Art.
Exhibitions include the Armand Hammer Museum of Art in Los Angeles, the Eli Broad Foundation of Los Angeles, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery (Barnsdall), Claremont Lewis Museum of Art, Huntington Beach Art Center, Torrance Art Museum, the Toomey-Tourell Gallery in San Francisco, Daniel Saxon Gallery, Acuna-Hansen Gallery, Jancar Gallery, POST in Los Angeles, the William Turner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, the David Richard Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Brennan & Griffin, New York.
International exhibitions include the Lidovy Gallery in Prague and Galerie Califia in Horazdovice, Czech Republic; the Ducale Palace in Gubbio, Italy; the East China University in Shanghai, China; Museum of Contemporary Art in Minsk, Belarus; Zirrat Bankasi Gallery, Ankara, Turkey; Giacomo Projects, Venice, Italy, and the Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom.
Arrowsmith was born in San Francisco and received her B.F.A. from California State University Fullerton, and her M.F.A. at Claremont Graduate University. She lives and maintains her studio in Los Angeles.
Arrowsmith is currently represented at William Turner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA.