Daniel “Dusty” Albanese is a New York-based photographer, filmmaker, and internationally-recognized queer street art expert. Shaped by his background in anthropology and through his website TheDustyRebel, he's built a worldwide following documenting the global street art scene and political movements. His feature documentary and book exploring the queer history of street art—OUT IN THE STREETS—is currently in post-production.
Daniel has lectured at various academic institutions including Stanford University, Wheaton College, City College of New York, Adelphi University, and MoMA PS1. His work has been acquired by the Leslie-Lohman Museum and the International Center of Photography, and has been prominently featured in several books, such as Banksy. You Are An Acceptable Level of Threat; Post No Bills: Poems by Robert Janz; Women of Resistance: Poems For A New Feminism; A Wild and Precious Life: A Memoir by Edie Windsor; #ICPConcernedGlobal Images for Global Crisis; and Queer Happened Here: 100 Years of NYC's Landmark LGBTQ+ Places. He's appeared in several documentaries as an expert and cultural critic, such as Janz In the Moment and Stick To It.
LECTURES & TALKS
• Diversity Leadership: Street Art and Social Justice — University of St. Thomas, Minnesota (2024)
• Queer Street Art In Italy, Ally Super Love: Benefit — Rome Italy, 2023
• The Gayly Show — Willamette Valley PRIDE Employee Resource Group at the Oregon Department of Human Services (2021)
• Exploring Queer Street Art — University of St. Thomas, Minnesota (2021)
• Living History: Importance of Self Documentation — Boerum Hill School for International Studies, NYC (2020)
• Queer Street Art Around The Word — In Heroes We Trust, Los Angeles, CA (2019)
• Queer America: Art, Photography, Politics — Stanford University, CA (2019)
• "Hidden Delights" Of The Street — Adelphi University, NY (2019)
• Dusty Rebel In Conversation With Sara Erenthal — The Storefront Project, NYC (2019)
• Creative Approaches to Change — Metropolitan State University of Denver (2018)
• Women of Resistance & The Dusty Rebel — MoMA PS1 (2018)
• History of Graffiti and Street Art — City College of New York (2018, 2017, 2016, 2015)Text
• Memory Is Witness First: Street Photography — Wheaton College (2013)
BOOKS (PHOTOGRAPHY CONTRIBUTIONS)
• Queer Happened Here: 100 Years of NYC's Landmark LGBTQ+ Places, Marc Zinaman, 2025
• Consumer Activism: Promotional Culture and Resistance, Eleftheria J Lekakis, 2022
• #ICPConcerned: Global Images for Global Crisis, 2020
• A Wild and Precious Life: A Memoir, Edie Windsor, with Joshua Lyon, 2019
• Advertising Shits in Your Head: Strategies for Resistance, Vyvian Raoul & Matt Bonner, 2019
• Women of Resistance: Poems For A New Feminism, 2018
• Let Her Be Free, Icy & Sot, 2016
• Lilyluciole, ou l'art de croire au Street Art, Lilyluciole, 2016
• Post No Bills Poems, Robert Janz, 2015
• Art Is Trash, Francisco de Parajo, 2015
• Banksy. You Are An Acceptable Level of Threat (4th edition), 2014
COLLECTIONS:
• International Center of Photography, NYC
• Leslie-Lohman Museum, NYC
EXHIBITIONS:
• Free, For All, Center for Photography at Woodstock, Kingston, NY (2025)
• Robert Janz: Mythical Creatures, La Capella de Nuestra Señora Maria del Camino, Gardiner, NY (2021, 2023)
• Ally Super Love: Benefit — Rome Italy (2023)
• #ICPConcernedGlobal Images for Global Crisis, International Center of Photography, NYC (2020)
• The Streets Are Queer, In Heroes We Trust Gallery, Los Angeles (2019)
• Resistance Is Queer, Various Locations, NYC (2019)
Remember Stonewall: Queer Art Flags, AnconaCrea Art Festival, Ancona, Italy (2019)
• 'Miss Colombia' -Osvaldo Gómez, Espresso 77, NYC (2019)
• Downtown Denim, Colacino Gallery at Nazareth College, NY (2018)
• Street Cuts, Arlene’s Grocery, NYC (2017)
• Young New Yorkers Exhibition & Silent Art Auction, NYC (2017)
• Young New Yorkers Exhibition & Silent Art Auction, A+E Studios, NYC (2016)
• Young New Yorkers Exhibition & Silent Art Auction, Joseph Gross Gallery, NYC (2015)
• Run Wild, Wall Works Gallery, NYC (2015)
• A Group Show, Arlene’s Grocery, New York NY (2014)
• Murder Lounge’s Downtown Denim, City Life Gallery, Jersey City (2014)
• The Unveiling, The TownHouse Art Gallery, Brooklyn (2013)
• Occupy!, International Center of Photography Governor’s Galleries, NYC (2012)
• Take Back the News Art Benefit, Brooklyn, (2006, 2007)
• Valentine’s Day Show, Brooklyn (2006)
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
• Evelyn Danzig Haas Visiting Artists Program (Wheaton College) 2013