Dana Frankfort (born 1971, Houston, Texas) is an artist based in Houston and a painting professor at University of Houston. Her work often engages with the history of abstract art and features bright colors, gestural brushwork, and text. Frankfort earned a BA from Brandeis University and received her MFA in 1997 from Yale School of Art, New Haven. She also attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 1997. Frankfort was a Core Fellow at the Glassell School of Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston in 1999. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2006.