Together as Kids: Dan Colen, Ryan McGinley and Dash Snow in New York

This thesis examines the art and friendship of Dan Colen, Ryan McGinley and Dash Snow, who worked in different mediums but made their interconnected lives the subject of their art. Together these artists became synonymous with the downtown art scene in New York that developed after 9/11. Although not a work of biography, this thesis uses biography to consider how selfhood can be performed both privately and in public.