David-Simon Dayan is an artist based in Los Angeles. His work has been published in several publications, such as The Advocate, Behind the Blinds, CAP 74024, Elle, Gay Times, Glassbook, Grazia, Man About Town, Numero, Nylon, Out, Paper, Rollacoaster, The Times, and Wonderland as well as exhibited in The Museum of Fine Arts Boston, The Little Black Gallery, The Brooklyn Film Festival, and New York City Independent Film Festival.
His visual and written work captures an intimate and poetic look into an avant-garde world with a distinctive visual style and tangible feeling of warmth with his subjects. This is illustrated in BLACK PAINT, a photographic series of individuals in the queer nightlife space, exploring his interest in celebrating the “other” in the settings that make them come alive, as well as INTIMACY, a portrait series of coupling in it’s pure state, and VEIL, a series exploring the relationship between sexual consumption and violence
Dayan’s first solo exhibition, BALLERINO, was meant to open at A Love Bizarre in April of 2020, but unfortunately had to be postponed due to Covid. Dream Brother included the series in its inaugural print, and Dayan is now represented by The Little Black Gallery in London, after being shortlisted for their photographic competition and having BALLERINO printed in its soft cover annual print, BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! volume IV. in August of 2022 as well as its hardcover coffee table book, out soon.