Danni O’Brien (she/they), b. 1992 in Virginia, is a queer, interdisciplinary artist. Her artistic practice is rooted in irreverence, tinkering, and owned queerness. Through scavenging and collecting, O’Brien assembles a reservoir of images, objects, and material from which to concoct enigmatic assemblages. In the studio, they cycle through continuous acts of deconstruction and reconstruction, and employ assemblage, cyanotype, ceramic handbuilding, paper making, casting, and woodworking, to concoct amalgamated sculptures and reliefs. O’Brien exhibits these works at venues such as Current Space, Hamiltonian Gallery, The Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington, Asya Geisberg Gallery, Tephra Institute for Contemporary Art, and the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art. She has been awarded residencies with PLOP, The Wassaic Project, Byrdcliffe Colony, Art Farm, Baltimore Clayworks, and Stove Works, among others. They are the recipient of a 2022 Individual Artist Grant from the Belle Foundation for Cultural Development and a 2024 Individual Artist Grant from the Maryland State Arts Council. O’Brien recently completed a semester-long artist in residency with Furman University in Greenville, SC and was the Innovation Studio Artist in Residence with the Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington this past fall.