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Introduction
Daniel Graham (March 31, 1942 – February 19, 2022) was an American visual artist, writer, and curator in the writer-artist tradition. In addition to his visual works, he published a large array of critical and speculative writing that spanned the spectrum from heady art theory essays, reviews of rock music, Dwight D. Eisenhower's paintings, and Dean Martin's television show. His early magazine-based art predates, but is often associated with, conceptual art. His later work focused on cultural phenomena by incorporating photography, video, performance art, glass and mirror installation art structures, and closed-circuit television. He lived and worked in New York City.
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Introduction
Graham disavowed Conceptual Art as a term, and identified with no movement or creed, though his work with video, installation, photography, architecture, and text may be considered examples of the genre. He exhibited the work of his peers Donald Judd, Sol LeWitt, and Robert Smithson at the John Daniels Gallery in New York, where he was briefly the curator and director, before showing alongside these and many other Minimalists and Conceptualists during the 1960s and 70s. In the 1980s, Graham became an active observer of New York’s punk and experimental music scenes, collaborating with Sonic Youth and befriending Glenn Branca. His book and film essay Rock My Religion of 1983-1984 linked contemporary music groups to the ecstasy of religious communities. His pavilion structures of glass, steel, and mirrors dominated the latter half of his career, from the 1990s.
Nationalities
American, British
Gender
Male
Roles
Artist, Director, Art Critic, Writer, Conceptual Artist, Installation Artist, Founder, Painter, Performance Artist, Photographer, Sculptor, Video Artist
Names
Dan Graham, Daniel H. Graham, Daniel Harry Graham, Dan Gureamu, Dan Grahan
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Works

93 works online

Exhibitions

View all 31 exhibitions

Publications

  • New Ground: Jacob Samuel and Contemporary Etching Edited by Esther Adler, 2023 Exhibition catalogue, Hardcover, 176 pages
  • Signals: How Video Transformed the World Edited by Stuart Comer and Michelle Kuo, 2023 Exhibition catalogue, Paperback, 188 pages
  • Information: 50th Anniversary Edition Kynaston McShine, 2019 Exhibition catalogue, Paperback, 208 pages
  • Photography at MoMA: 1960 to Now Edited by Quentin Bajac, Lucy Gallun, Roxana Marcoci, and Sarah Hermanson Meister, 2015 Hardcover, 368 pages
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