Dan Torop View Work Biography Press


Born: 1971

Education
1997 Yale School of Art, Connecticut, MFA
1994 Harvard University, Massachusetts, BA

Solo Exhibitions
2007 "Snowbound", Derek Eller Gallery, New York (project room)
2005 "Estimated Landscapes", Derek Eller Gallery, New York
2002 “Lost Domain”, Derek Eller Gallery, New York
2001 “Landscapes”, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
1999 Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York

Selected Group Exhibitions
2008 "Cosmological Embeddedness OR The Flying Spaghetti Monster," Higher Pictures Gallery, New York, NY
2007 "...a landscape show", Samson Projects, Boston, MA
"Play", Proteus Gowanus, Brooklyn, NY
"NeoIntegrity", curated by Keith Mayerson, Derek Eller Gallery, New York
“An Orchid in the Land of Technology”, curated by Joseph R. Wolin, OH+T Gallery, Boston, MA
“Landescapism”, curated by Joseph R. Wolin, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY
2006 “Think Twice, Young American Photography,” TH Inside, Milan, Italy
“Screened and Selected: Contemporary Photography and Video Acquisitions 1999-2005”, Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, Vermont.
“Inaugural Group Exhibition”, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY
2005 "Weather Gallery", Fairbanks Museum, St. Johnsbury, Vermont
"There's a City in My Mind", Southfirst Gallery, Brooklyn
2004 "#12 - Escapism: A Viable Political Alternative", Champion Fine Art, Brooklyn, A Fia Backström Projet
"Axxxpresssunizm", Vilma Gold, London
"#13 - Pictures With People", Champion Fine Art, Brooklyn, curated by Roe Ethridge
"The Baxters", Robert Beck Memorial Cinema, Manhattan
2003 "Game Engine", New York Video Festival, Walter Reade Theater,
New York, curated by Ze Frank, Graham Leggat, and Katie Salen
"Focus-Pocus: Fact & Fiction", Beaker Gallery, Tampa, FL, curated by A. A. Rucci
"Faking Real", Leroy Nieman Gallery, Columbia University, New York, curated by Stephen Hilger
2002 "<ALT> DigitalMedia", American Museum of the Moving Image, Astoria, NY, curated by Carl Goodman
“Phenonmena”, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
"Graphic", Curt Marcus Gallery, New York
"seduire/seduce", Sotheby's, New York
"Landscape", Derek Eller Gallery, New York
2001 Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
"Insider Trading" London
"Synth", White Columns, New York
2000 Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
"Unbottled", Hammond Museum and Japanese Stroll Garden, North Salem, NY
"Pogo Stick", Contemporary Arts Collective Gallery, Las Vegas
1999 "Game Show", Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA
"Mr. Fascination", Thread Waxing Space, New York
"Animal Artifice", The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
1998 "Photo Op", Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA "People, Places and Things", Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
1997 "Blind Faith", White Columns, New York

Curated Exhibitions
2006 “A Rabbit as King of the Ghosts”, curated with Justine Kurland, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York
2004 "Reading Room", Southfirst Gallery, Brooklyn
2002 "I Just Can't Pretend", Derek Eller Gallery, New York

Publications
Bloom, Philip E. and Donadio, Emmie, “Screened and Selected Contemporary Photography and Video Acquisitions 1999-2005”, Middlebury College Museum of Art, 2006.
Keegan, Matt (editor), North Drive Press #2, June 2005
"Artist Project: Ocean Photographs", Cabinet, issue 16, 2005
Russell, John (editor), "Frozen Tears II", ARTicle Press, 2004.
Putnam, Adam (editor), "Into The Abyss", 2003.
Fabry, Alexis, Céline Fribourg, and Grégory Leroy, eds., Seduire/Seduce, Paris: Coromandel Press, 2001.
"New Jersey Portfolio", Purple Magazine, issue 7, 2001.
Bernheimer, Alan. "Billionesque" (cover), The Figures, 1999.

Selected Bibliography
Zamudio, Raul, "Dan Torop," Flash Art, October 2007, p. 124
Wolin, Joseph. “Dan Torop,” Time Out New York, Art Reviews, July 5-11, 2007
Schwendener, Martha.”Snowbound.” The New York Times, Art Review, June 29, 2007
Genocchio, Benjamin, “New World Ordering”, The New York Times, Art Review, March 11, 2007.
Murison, Jason, “Dan Torop Estimated Landscapes”, The Brooklyn Rail, October, 2005, p. 24.
Rosenberg, Karen, “The Best of the Summer Art Shows in Chelsea”, New York, July 17, 2006.
“Don't Miss!”, Time Out New York, October 6-12, 2005, p. 78.
Tuchman, Phyllis, "Mark Wyse at Wallspace", Art in America, April, 2004.
Gunn, Angela, "The Personal Touch", Time Out, January 9-16, 2003.
Newhall, Edith. "The Drifters", New York, December 2 2002, p.100.
Griffin, Tim. "Synth", Time Out New York, July 5-12 2001, p. 60.
Goings on About Town, "Dan Torop", The New Yorker, May 14, 2001, p. 27.
Gangitano, Lia. "Mr. Fascination", Trans, Volume 6, 1999, pp.16-25
Hall, Emily. "The Art of Play", The Stranger, December 16-22, 1999.
Lombardi, D. Dominick. "A Show That Shapes Perception of Animals", The New York Times, December 5, 1999.




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