DAN GRAHAM
Born 1942 in Urbana, Illinois; lives and works in New York City, USA
Selected Grants and Awards
1992 Coutts Contemporary Art Foundation Award, USA
1992 Skowhegan Medal for Mixed Media, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, New York
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2008
Sagitarian girl, Francesca Minini. Milan
2003
Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada Dan Graham Retrospective, Chiba City Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan; Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Fukuoka, Japan
2002
Dan Graham Works 1965-2000, KiASMA, Helsinki
2001-2002
Dan Graham Works 1965-2000, Museu Serralves, Porto, Portugal; ARC/Musée d´Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris; Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, TheNetherlands; Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf
1999
Dan Graham Architekturmodelle, Kunst-werke Berlin, Berlin
1998
JIRI SVESTKA GALLERY, Prague Fundació Antoni Tapies, Barcelona
1997
The Suburban City, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz Centro Calego de Arte Contemporánea Santiago de Compostela, Spain
1995
Video/Architecture/Performance, EA-Generali-Foundation, Vienna
1994
Public/Private, Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia; List Visual Arts Center, Massachussetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge,Toronto, LACE - Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles
1981
P.S.1 / Institute for Art and Urban Resources, Long Island City, New York Two Viewing Rooms, Museum of Modern Art, New York
1980
Museum of Modern Art, NewYork
1977
Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
Selected Group Exhibitions
2004
Reflecting the Mirror, Marian Goodman Gallery, NewYork Metamorph: 9th International Exhibition of Architecture, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy Beyond Geometry: Experiments in Form, 1940s-70s, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles Behind the Facts (Interfunktionen 1968-1975), Fundacio Joan Miro, Barcelona; Kunsthalle Fridericanum, Kassel A Minimal Future? Art as Object 1958-68, The Geffen Contemporary at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
2004-3
The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography,1960-1982, Walker Art - Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota; UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
2003
Video Acts: Single Channel work from the Collection of Pamela and Richard Kramlich and the New Art Trust, Institute of Contemporary Art, London 7th Art Series: Process into Film, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,
San Francisco
2002
Passenger. The Viewer as Participant, Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo, Norway
2001
Into the Light, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
2000
Insites, Interior Spaces in Contemporary Art, Whitney Museum American Art at Champion, Stamfort, ConnecticutArtisti e Architetti: La Collezione del FRAC Centre di Orléans, Palazzo delle Papesse Centro Arte Contemporanea,Siena,Italy Quotidiana, The Continuity of the Everyday in 20th Century Art, Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Turin
Dream Machines, Royal Festival Hall, Hayward Gallery, London
Postmedia, Conceptual Photography in the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Media_City Seoul 2000. Contemporary Art and Technology Biennial, Seoul
1999 Seeing Time: Selections from the Pamela and Richard Kramlich Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco ; ZKM_Karlsruhe (2000|2001)
American Century: Art and Culture (1950-2000), Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1997
Documenta X, Kassel
1995
1965 -75: Reconsidering the Object of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Dan Graham and Mariko Mori, American Fine Arts, New York
1993
American Art of the Twentieth Century; Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Royal Academy of Art, London
1989
Image World: Art and Media culture, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1986
Dan Graham and Sol Le Witt, Lisson Gallery, London
1976
Dan Graham, Lawrence Weiner, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel
1970
Information, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Commisions / Public Project
2003
Waterloo Sunset, Hayward Gallery, London, England
Double Exposure, Serralves Foundation, Porto, Portugal
Yin/Yang Pavilion, MIT Dormitory, (building by Steven Holl), Cambridge, Massachusetts
2002
Bisected Triangle, Interior Curve, Public Art Fund, Madison Square Park, New York, New York
2001
Stoffels Maze, Stoffels Skulpturenpark, Cologne, Germany
S-Curve, Sammlung Hauser & Wirth, St. Gallen, Switzerland
2000
Curved Two-Way Mirror Triangle, One Side Perforated Steel, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Two-Way Mirror, Curved Hedge, Open Parallelogram, Kirishima Open Air Museum, Kagoshima, Japan
Two Different Anamorphic Surfaces (a collaboration of the Wanås Foundation and the Kulturboro 2000 Foundation), Wanås Park, Knislinge, Sweden
Rivoli Gate Pavilion, Castello di Rivoli, Brescia, Italy
1999
Pavilion for International Garden Year, Mageburg, Germany
Walkway for Hypo-Bank, Bayerische Hypotheken und Wechselbank AG, Munich, Germany
Elliptical Pavilion, Neubau der Berliner Kraft und Licht (bewag) AG, Berlin, Germany
Star of David Pavilion, Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel
Truncated Garden Pyramid, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria
Two-Way Mirror Curved and Straight Open Shoji Screen Triangle, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
1998
Café Bravo, Kunstwerk, Berlin, Germany
Two-Way Mirror Curved Hedge Zig-Zag Labyrinth, Middlebury College Center for the Arts, Middlebury, Vermont
1997
Triangular Solid With Circular Insert, Chiba City Museum of Art, Hikari, Areba
Empty Shoji Screen Pergola/Two-Way Mirror Container, Naoshima Cultural Village, Naoshima Island, Seto Inland Sea
1996
Two-Way Mirror Punched Steel Hedge Labyrinth, Minneapolis Sculpture Garden, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Parabolic Triangular Pavilion I, Städtische Galerie Nordhorn, Nordhorn, Germany
Two-Way Mirror Triangle With One Curved Side, Lofoten Islands, Norway
Cylinder for Benesse, Naoshima, Japan
Two-Way Mirror and Punched Aluminium Solid Triangle, Skydebanehaven, Copenhagen, Denmark
Cylinder Bisected by Plane (Star of David Pavilion), Schloss Buchberg, Austria
1995-96
Double Cylinder (The Kiss), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
1994
Nouveau Labyrinth pour Nantes, Place du Commandment Jean l’Herminier, Nantes, France
1993
Gate of Hope, International Garden Year Exhibition, Stuttgart, Germany
1991
Two-Way Mirror Cylinder Inside Cube and Video Salon: Rooftop Urban Park, Dia Center for the Arts, New York, New York
1990
Gate of Hope, Internationale Garten-Ausstellung, Stuttgart, Germany
Open Two-Way Mirror Pyramid for Günther Steinle, Ulm, Germany (private collection)
Triangle Solid with Circular Inserts, Variation I, Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, Georgia
Heart Pavilion, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania (private collection)
Bob Mangold Pavilion, Marseilles, France (private collection)
Two-Way Mirror Triangular Pavilion With Shoji Screen, Yamaguchi Prefectorial Museum, Yamaguchi, Japan
Triangular Bridge Over Water, Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, Missouri
1989
Two Triangles/Two Levels, Hamburg, Germany
Two-Way Mirror Bridge and Triangular Pavilion in Relation to Existing Mill House, Domaine de Kerguehennec, Brittany, France (proposal)
Triangular Solid with Circular Inserts, Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, Georgia
Triangle for Circular Inserts, Variation II, Musée d'Art Contemporain, Lyons, France
Newstand (collaboration with Tod Williams, Bille Tsein and Associates, Architects), New York, New York (proposal)
Two-Way Mirror Hedge Labyrinth, La Jolla, California (private collection)
Star of David Pavilion, Fahrhausstrasse, Aussenalster, Hamburg, Germany
1988
Triangular Two-Way Mirror Walkway for Fort Asperen, Fort Asperen, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Pyramid over Goldfish Basin, Villa Arson, Centre National d’Art Contemporain, Nice, France
1987
Altered Two-Way Mirror, Revolving Door, and Chamber with Sliding Door (for Loie Fuller) Consortium Dijon, France
Two-Way Mirror Pergola Bridge I, Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain Pays de la Loire, Glisson, France
Two Cubes, One 45° Rotated, Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain Norde, Lille, France
Three Linked Cubes, Galerie Isy Brachot, Brussels, Belgium and Nicole Klagsburn Gallery, New York, New York
1984
Pavilion/Sculpture II, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
1981
Two Adjacent Pavilions, Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo, The Netherlands
1978-81
Pavilion/Sculpture for Argonne, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois
Dan Graham is represented by the JIRI SVESTKA GALLERY www.jirisvestka.com
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Dan Graham is a highly influential figure in the field of contemporary art, both as a practitioner of conceptual art and as a well-versed art critic and theorist. His oeuvre spans over 40 years and he is considered the “guru” of artists' pavilions having interrogated the concept since the 1970s. Graham's work questions the relationship between people and architecture and the psychological effects it has on us.