Dan Graham

born Urbana, IL (USA) 1942

Born 1942 in Urbana, Illinois (USA). Graham was owner of a gallery, art and culture theorist, photographer, film producer, performance and installation artist. A pioneer in performance and video art in the 1970's, Graham later turned his attention to architectural projects designed for social interaction in public spaces. Furthermore, writing has been an essential aspect of Graham's work. His texts range from early conceptual art pieces inserted in mass-market magazines, to writings on his fellow artists, to analyses of popular culture. Graham lives and works in New York City (USA).

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• 2000 - Marian Goodman Gallery, Dan Graham: Childrens Day Care Center, CD-Rom, Cartoon, and Computer Screen Library Project, New York
• 2001 - Galerie Hauser & Wirth, A Show For All The Children, Zurich
• 2001 - Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Dan Graham Works 1965 - 2000, Porto
• 2001 - ARC/Musee dArt Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Dan Graham Works 1965 - 2000, Paris
• 2001 - Kroller Moller Museum, Dan Graham Works 1965 - 2000, Otterlo
• 2001 - Lisson Gallery, Dan Graham. Sculptures / Pavilions, London
• 2002 - Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, Dan Graham Retrospective, Dusseldorf
• 2002 - Galleria Minini, Dan Graham, Brescia
• 2002 - Galerie Rudiger Schottle, Dan Graham, Munich
• 2002 - Kiasma - Museum of Contemporary Art, Dan Graham Retrospective, Helsinki
• 2002 - Galerie Marian Goodman, Dan Graham, Paris
• 2002 - Galerie Christine Mayer, Dan Graham, Munich
• 2002 - Marian Goodman Gallery, Dan Graham, Five Films (1969-1973), New York
• 2002 - Essor Gallery, Mapping the Process, London
• 2002 - Galerie Thomas Schulte, Cafe Bravo, Berlin
• 2002 - Kunsthalle Basel, Painting on the Move, Basel
• 2002 - O.K. Center for Contemporary Art, communicative tubes, Linz
• 2002 - Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Passenger - The Viewer as Participant, Oslo
• 2002 - Greene Naftali Gallery, Pictures, New York NY
• 2002 - Galerie Hauser & Wirth, Ten Years Galerie Hauser & Wirth, Zurich
• 2003 - Georg Kargl, Reproduktion, kuratiert von Thomas Locher, Vienna
• 2003 - La 50. Biennale di Venezia, Delays and Revolutions, Italian Pavilion, Venice
• 2003 - Walker Art Center, The last picture show: Artists using photography, 1960-1982, Minneapolis
• 2003 - Generali Foundation, Sammlung, Vienna
• 2003 - Madison Square Park, Target Art in The Park, New York NY
• 2003 - Chiba Cty Museum of Art, Dan Graham by Dan Graham, Chiba/Jap
• 2003 - Hayward Gallery, Waterloo Sunset at the Hayward Galery, commission in collaboration with Haworth Tompkins Architects, London/UK
• 2003 - Contemporary Art Gallery, Dan Graham, Vancouver
• 2003 - Fundacao de Serralves, Dan Graham. Double Exposure, Porto
• 2003 - Meyer Kainer, Dan Graham, Wien
• 2004 - Lisson New Space, Dan Graham. Performance, London
• 2004 - Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Dan Graham by Dan Graham, Kitakyushu
• 2004 - Galerie Christine Mayer, Dan Graham, Munich
• 2004 - Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum fur Gegenwart, Friedrich Christian Flick Collection im Hamburger Bahnhof, Hamburg
• 2004 - Galerie Roger Pailhas, C la rentree! , Marseille
• 2004 - Marian Goodmann Gallery, Reflecting the Mirrow, New York NY
• 2004 - Collection Lambert en Avignon, A Fripon. Fripon et demi, Avignon
• 2004 - UCLA Hammer Museum, The Last Picture Show. Artists Using Photography, 1960-1982, Los Angeles CA
• 2005 - Witte de With, Occupying Space, Rotterdam, Netherlands
• 2005 - Museum fur Gegenwartskunst Siegen, Kontexte der Fotografie, Siegen, Germany
• 2005 - The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Dedicated to you, but you werent listening, Toronto
• 2005 - Museum Kurhaus Kleve, En / of, Kleve, Germany
• 2005 - Sammlung DaimlerChrysler, Minimalism and After IV, Berlin
• 2005 - Tate Modern, Open Systems: Rethinking Art c. 1970, London
• 2005 - Dundee Contemporary Arts, Behind Closed Doors, Dundee, UK
• 2005 - Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Behind the Facts. Interfunktionen 1968-75, Kassel
• 2005 - Fotomuseum Winterthur, Der Traum vom Ich, der Traum von der Welt, Winterthur
• 2005 - Museum der Moderne, Les grandes spectacles, cur. Roberto Ohrt, Salzburg
• 2005 - Kunstmusum Basel, Covering the Real , Basel
• 2005 - Museum fur Gegenwartskunst Siegen, Kontexte der Fotografie , Siegen
• 2005 - Wiener Festwochen, Dont trust anyone over thirty. Enterntainment by Dan Graham and Tony Oursler with Rodney Graham, Vienna
• 2005 - Musee des Beaux-arts de Nantes, LAction Restreinte, Nantes
• 2005 - Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Dan Graham, Antwerp
• 2006 - Projektion, Kunstmuseum Luzern
• 2006 - The Downtown Show, Grey Art Gallery/New York University, New York

Select Artwork

• Park Avenue Atrium, 1987
• Homes for America, 1967
• View Interior, New Highway restaurant, Jersey City, NJ, 1967
• Swimming Pool/Fish Pond, 1997
• Row Houses, Bayonne, NJ, 1966
• Roll, 1970

Quotes

Publications

• Dan Graham - by Dan Graham, Ediciones Poligrafa S.A. (July 15, 2001)
• Two-Way Mirror Power: Selected Writings by Dan Graham on His Art - by Dan Graham (Author), Alexander Alberro, The MIT Press (November 19, 1999)

Quick Facts

• Dan Graham has been identified as a minimal artist, conceptual artist, performance artist, rock music writer, art critic, architecture critic and writer, pop culture critic, educator, sculptor, and collaborator with architects and other artists.
• He was born in Urbana, Illinois, but moved to Winfield Park, New Jersey at age 3, and then to Westfield, NJ at age 13.

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