Main Authored publications Design work CV
Dayna Casey (Boorloo AU/NL, 1988)
info(at)daynacasey.com
+31 (0)6 4164 7070
Based in The Hague, NL


  • DEGREES
  • Master of Fine Arts, DUTCH ART INSTITUTE, art praxis & critical theory (NL), 2020
  • Bachelor of Design, KABK, graphic design (NL), 2013
  • VWO (NL), 2007

  • POST-GRADUATE
  • Jan van Eyck, Post-graduate academy, Maastricht (NL), 2023

  • EDUCATION
  • Writing workshop, PERDU, Platform for Poetry and Experimentation, Amsterdam (NL), 2024-2025
  • Master of Fine Arts, DUTCH ART INSTITUTE, art praxis & critical theory (NL), 2020
  • At the Limits of the Writerly: Anthropology and Global Fantasy, DAI critical theory seminar led by Rachel O’Reilly (NL), 2019-2020
  • All about my mother: on care, reproductive labour, the familial and the institutional, coop led by Sepake Angiama, Staci Bu Shea, Nina bell F., DAI: CASCO ART INSTITUTE: Working for the ­Commons (NL), 2019-2020
  • School of Expressions: experimental summer school, ­PLATO, Ostrava, (CZEC), 2019
  • At the Limits of the Writerly: Queer Theory and the Critique of Energy, DAI critical theory seminar led by Rachel O’Reilly (NL), 2018-2019
  • Everyday practice and global power, coop led by James Bridle, Navine G.Khan-­Dossos, DAI: VAN ABBE MUSEUM: Agency (NL), 2018-2019
  • Beyond Fictocriticism, DAI writing class led by David Maroto (NL), 2018-2019
  • BA Graphic Design, KABK (NL), 2008-2013

  • COMMITTEES
  • Advisory committees Design and Talent Development STIMULERINGSFONDS (NL), 2024-ongoing

  • TUTORING/EDUCATIONAL
  • Tutor seminar, "Lateral tracing: editorialising as research practice" HFG KARLSRUHE (DE), Apr–Jul 2026
  • Tutor seminar, "Visual literacy" HfG OFFENBACH (DE), Apr-June 2026
  • Performative reading, Collapsed Mythologies: A Geofinancial Atlas. KOHLSWAT HFG KARLSRUHE (DE), May 2026.
  • Performative reading, Collapsed Mythologies: A Geofinancial Atlas. OFFSHORE STUDIO, Zürich (CH), May 2026.
  • Lecture at Symposium "Confused, feeble, romantic, (profusely) decorated, cyber, and: key.—Ornament as feminist practice.", HfG Offenbach (DE), June 2026
  • Artist talk, Sandberg Design Department (NL), 2026
  • Editorialising research tutor: editing as a visual genre, MA CRITICAL INQUIRY LAB, Design Academy Eindhoven (NL), 2026
  • Editorialising research tutor: editing as a visual genre, MA CRITICAL INQUIRY LAB, Design Academy Eindhoven (NL), 2025
  • Guest lecture and feedback sessions: book projects with JAN ROSSEEL, Antwerp (BE), 2024
  • Artistic research tutor: MA CRITICAL INQUIRY LAB, Design Academy Eindhoven (NL), 2024
  • Guest tutor feedback sessions: MA GRAPHIC DESIGN, KASK Gent (BE), 2023
  • Artistic research tutor: MA CRITICAL INQUIRY LAB, Design Academy Eindhoven (NL), 2023
  • External critic: Honours programme, WDKA Rotterdam (NL), 2022

  • EXHIBITIONS/EVENTS
  • Screening, The Flora: Hedging (a.k.a. Hedge Heist). Index Foundation Stockholm (SE), 2026
  • Best Book Design from All Over the World, Bronze Medal. Stiftung Buchkunst, Leipzig (DE), Mar 2026
  • Best Dutch Book Designs, Best Verzorgde Boeken, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (NL), Nov 2026
  • Collapsed Mythologies: A Geofinancial Atlas. Reading. VARIOUS BOOK LAUNCHES, 2026
  • Collapsed Mythologies: A Geofinancial Atlas. Reading. OSLO KUNSTFORENING, Oslo (NO), 2025
  • Collapsed Mythologies: A Geofinancial Atlas. Reading. PAGE NOT FOUND, Den Haag (NL), 2025
  • The Flora: Hedging (a.k.a. Hedge Heist). Exhibition TEA TENERIFE ESPACIO DE LAS ARTES, Tenerife (ES), 2025
  • Degrowth Conference. Group exhibition, DEGROWTH (NO), 2025
  • The Flora of Finance. Group exhibition, OSLO KUNSTFORENING, Oslo (Norway), 2024-2025
  • Antwerp Art Weekend. Group show curated by Carl Haasse, FROM ME TO YOU SPACE (BE), 2024
  • The Desire for a Donut (Economy). Group show curated by Niekolaas Lekkerkerk and Sergi Rusca, RADIUS CCA, Delft (NL), 2024
  • The End will Tune In with More Beginnings. By Valentina Curandi, Merian PhD practice, JAN VAN EYCK, Maastricht (NL), 2024
  • Meeting Grounds: The Essay as Event. Curated by Paul Bailey, KUNSTHAL GENT, Gent (BE), 2023
  • Fertile Imaginaries: A Vessel for 92% Water, group show, ABC ARTBOOKFAIR, Hangzhou (CHINA), 2023
  • Open Studios, JAN VAN EYCK, Maastricht (NL), 2023
  • The Care Manifesto. Group exhibition, CUSP, Hangzhou (CHINA), 2023
  • Open studios. BERMUDA OPEN, The Hague (NL), 2022
  • Tiny Art Gallery. Group exhibition, TINY ART GALLERY, The Hague (NL), 2021
  • Gossip and Joyful Militancy. DIPTYCH, Amsterdam (NL), 2020
  • Daisyworld. Launch Issue One, reading at SAN SERRIFFE, Amsterdam (NL), 2020
  • Fertile Imaginaries: A Vessel for 92% Water. DAI: AEROPONIC ACTS, Radio Kootwijk (NL), 2020
  • It Doesn't Have to Taste Good to be Affective. Collective exhibition, DAI: CASCO ART INSTITUTE, Radio Kootwijk (NL), 2020
  • A Queer Rewriting of the Last Will and Testament. Collaboration with Saskia Burggraaf and Anja Khersonska. DAI: CASCO ART INSTITUTE, Radio Kootwijk (NL), 2020
  • How do Bodies Read Together. Performative reading. Grote Kerk Groede (NL), 2019
  • Reading Evaporated Tears. Collective exhibition, DAI: VAN ABBEMUSEUM, Parco Naturale Regionale Molentargius-Saline, Cagliari, Sardinia (IT), 2019
  • Beyond Fictocriticism. Curated by David Maroto, DAI STORMKOP, Antwerp (BE), 2019
  • Transitioning to (il)logics. SILENT GREEN Berlin (DE), 2019
  • Terms of Now. Performative reading. PATRONAAT, Epen (NL), 2018
  • Next, Rising, Mood. Exhibition curated by Roxane Bovet, ZABRISKIE POINT, Geneva (CH), 2017
  • Held Together with Water. Group show curated by Roxane Bovet, BÂTIMENT D’ART CONTEMPORAIN BAC, Geneva (CH), 2017
  • Next, Rising, Mood. Group show curated by Ceel Mogami de Haas. ONE GEE IN FOG, Geneva (CH), 2017
  • Intl. Print exhibition. THE LIGHTHOUSE, Glasgow (SC), 2017
  • Things to Remember (Page Not Found). Group show curated by Radna Rumping, CASTRUM PEREGRINI, Amsterdam (NL), 2016

  • TALKS/PRESENTATIONS
  • Lecture at Symposium "Confused, feeble, romantic, (profusely) decorated, cyber, and: key.—Ornament as feminist practice.", HfG Offenbach (DE), June 2026
  • Artist talk, Sandberg Design Department (NL), 2026
  • International launches for Collapsed Mythologies: A Geofinancial Atlas. Supported by SPECTOR BOOKS & PAGE NOT FOUND (EU), 2026
  • Lecture, Cli-fi-fi. with Eline Benjaminsen. TEA TENERIFE ESPACIO DE LAS ARTES, Tenerife (ES), 2025
  • Splash Down Tender with Afra Eisma and Dagmar Bosma. PAGE NOT FOUND, Den Haag (NL), 2025
  • Lecture, practice presentation, Research and theory in editorial practices, KABK graphic design (NL), 2025
  • Practice presentation, Editorialising research, CRITICAL INQUIRY LAB Master programme (NL), 2025
  • Lecture, artist talk, OSLO KUNSTFORENING (Norway), 2025
  • Lecture, artist talk, KASK Gent Master programme (BE), 2024
  • Practice presentation, CRITICAL INQUIRY LAB Master programme (NL), 2024
  • Lecture, Essayistic Tendencies, with Metahaven and Katja Mater, at Meeting Grounds: Essay as Event. Invited by Paul Bailey, PhD KASK, Kunsthal Gent (BE), 2023
  • Artist talk, ABCB Collective MAX Brussels (BE), 2023
  • Workshop, Language of Climate Care, Care Ecologies. With Ania Molenda, ARIAS Amsterdam, Academie van Bouwkunst (NL), 2023
  • Presentation, Fertile Imaginaries, JAN VAN EYCK Maastricht (NL), 2023
  • Practice presentation, CRITICAL INQUIRY LAB Master programme (NL), 2023
  • Practice presentation, JAN VAN EYCK Maastricht (NL), 2022
  • Talk, with Erika Sprey, FIBER FESTIVAL MUTATION, Amsterdam (NL), 2022

  • AUTHORED PUBLICATIONS
  • Collapsed Mythologies: A Geofinancial Atlas. Ed. Eline Benjaminsen & Dayna Casey. SPECTOR BOOKS & PAGE NOT FOUND, (EU), 2025 — Best Book Design from All Over the World, Bronze Medal and Best Dutch Book Designs
  • Wxtch Craft zines. Series of three. Ed. Dayna Casey & Erika Sprey. Self-published/KABK, (NL), 2020-2021
  • Epistemic Anxiety: Disembodied Objectivity and the Oscillating Climate Sceptic. Dayna Casey. MA Thesis supervised by Rachel O'Reilly, DUTCH ART INSTITUTE (NL), 2020

  • RESEARCH PROJECTS
  • Cli-fi-fi: climate finance fiction. With Eline Benjaminsen (NL/NO), 2023-ongoing
  • Reproductive Industrial Complex & BHP Group Ltd (NL/AU), 2021-ongoing
  • Black Swan. Colonial mapping and catastrophe bonds, Boorloo, Perth, Australia (AU), 2022-ongoing
  • Hedging. Property demarcation and wealth management, with Eline Benjaminsen, Konijnenlaan, Wassenaar (NL), 2022-ongoing
  • Vampire Squid. Investment funds and Norwegian oil industry, with Eline Benjaminsen (NO/NL), 2022-2025
  • Witching Hour. Carbon emissions and market volatility, with Eline Benjaminsen (NL), 2022-2025
  • Hectocorn. Start-up wealth speculation and intellectual property, with Eline Benjaminsen (NO/NL), 2022-2025
  • Fertile Imaginaries: A Vessel for 92% Water. Climate denial histories, worlding, reproduction and toxicity (NL), 2020
  • Wxtch Craft. Contribution to Erika Sprey's curatorial framework: zines on institutional care, support and tools (NL), 2020-2023
  • Epistemic Anxiety. Climate scepticism and denialism, climate change visual languages, right-wing exploitation, and capitalist discourses of financial risk, MA research DUTCH ART INSTITUTE, supervised by Rachel O'Reilly (NL), 2018-2021

  • WRITTEN CONTRIBUTIONS FOR PUBLICATIONS
  • Hedging. Collapsed Mythologies: A Geofinancial Atlas, SPECTOR BOOKS & PAGE NOT FOUND, 2024
  • Hectocorn. Collapsed Mythologies: A Geofinancial Atlas, SPECTOR BOOKS & PAGE NOT FOUND, 2024
  • Black Swan. Collapsed Mythologies: A Geofinancial Atlas, SPECTOR BOOKS & PAGE NOT FOUND, 2024
  • Seeking Channels. Well Projects, Margate (UK), 2022
  • Purity is Not an Option. Climate Care, at The Rewilding Years: On a Nature Culture Learning Site, HOOPS, FLOATING UNIVERSITY Berlin (DE), 2021
  • Radio Robida. ROBIDA Collective, Topolo (IT), 2021
  • Daisyworld. Magazine Issue Two, Amsterdam (NL), 2021
  • Daisyworld. Magazine Issue One, Amsterdam (NL), 2020

  • REVIEWS
  • De ware fictie van de financiële wereld: over de geo-financiële atlas Collapsed Mythologies. METROPOLIS M, by Kylièn Bergh (2026)
  • Jonge Garde. GROENE AMSTERDAMMER, by Joke de Wolf (2024)
  • Open Studios Jan van Eyck Academie. METROPOLIS M, by Stella Kummer (2023)

  • FUNDING, SUPPORT, STIPENDS
  • Stroom Den Haag Pro Onderzoek, 2025
  • Stimuleringsfonds, Experiment, 2025
  • Spector Books Publisher, 2025
  • Page Not Found Publisher, 2025
  • Stimuleringsonds International Voucher, 2025
  • Stroom Den Haag Pro Project, 2022-2025
  • Stimuleringsfonds Design: Publication, 2022-2025
  • Jan van Eyck Residency, 2023

  • SELECTED COMMISSIONED WORK: DESIGNER
  • Rewire publication, design alongside Bart de Baets, Jonathan Castro, The Rodina, and Jim Kühnel. REWIRE FESTIVAL, published by Page Not Found. Edited by Katía Truijen. (NL), 2026
  • Afra Eisma, Artist Book visual editor and designer, assisted by Minne Piot, published by Page Not Found (NL), 2025
  • Annosh Urbanke, Zero Foundation, assisted by Minne Piot (DE), 2024
  • Studium Generale KABK, Programme advisor and co-editor with Erika Sprey (NL), 2021-2023
  • SPRING Performing Arts Festival, collaboration with Floris Schrama (NL), 2019
  • Stroom Den Haag, Mondriaanfonds design (NL), 2019
  • Studium Generale KABK, Programme visual communication(NL), 2016- 2022
  • NEST Den Haag, identities (NL), 2022
  • KABK Salone del Mobile, Milano, Interior Architecture, INSIDE master, Fashion (NL), 2014-2017
  • And many other various individuals and institutions.