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Dan Torop

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

Curated or Co-Curated Exhibitions

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

Selected Group Exhibitions

2008
“Cosmological Embeddedness OR The Flying Spaghetti Monster”, Higher Pictures, NY
2007
“Virtual Unreality”, The Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA
“Landescapism”, Islip Art Museum, Islip, New York
“An Orchid in the Land of Technology”, OH+T Gallery, Boston
“...a landscape show”, Sampson Projects, Boston, MA
“Play”, Proteus Gowanus, Brooklyn, NY
“NeoIntegrity”, Derek Eller Gallery, New York
2006
“Screened and Selected: Contemporary Photography and Video Acquisitions 1999-2005”, Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, Vermont
“Think Twice, Young American Photography”, TH Inside, Milan, Italy
“Inaugural Group Exhibition”, Derek Eller Gallery, New York
2005
“Weather Gallery”, Fairbanks Museum, St. Johnsbury, Vermont
“There's a City in My Mind”, Southfirst Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2004
“#12 - Escapism: A Viable Political Alternative”, Champion Fine Art, Brooklyn
“#13 - Pictures With People”, Champion Fine Art, Brooklyn
“The Baxters”, Robert Beck Memorial Cinema, Manhattan
“Axxxpresssunizm”, aliceday, Brussels and Vilma Gold, London
“Soundlab”, Volume, Brooklyn
2003
“Game Engine”, New York Video Festival, Walter Reade Theater, New York
“Faking Real”, Leroy Nieman Gallery, Columbia University, New York
“The Club in the Shadows”, Kenny Schachter Gallery, New York
2002
“<ALT> DigitalMedia”, American Museum of the Moving Image, Astoria, NY
“Graphic”, Curt Marcus Gallery, New York
“Landscape”, Derek Eller Gallery, New York
“Séduire/Seduce”, Sotheby's, New York
2001
“Synth”, White Columns, New York
“Insider Trading”, London
2000
“Pogo Stick”, Contemporary Arts Collective Gallery, Las Vegas
1999
“Mr. Fascination”, Thread Waxing Space, New York
“Game Show”, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA
“Animal Artifice”, The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
1998
“Photo Op”, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
1997
“Blind Faith”, White Columns, New York

Publications

“Street View: A Selection”, Triple Canopy, issue 2, 2008.
Ocean portfolio, Columbia Journal, Issue 54, 2007.
Petrovich, Dushko and White, Roger (editors), Paper Monument, Issue One, 2007.
“Shannon Ebner”, Modern Painters, July-August 2007.
Russell, John (editor), Frozen Tears III, ARTicle Press, 2007.
“Artists 2000-2006: Photographs by Jason Schmidt”, Modern Painters, September 2006, p.114.
Bloom, Philip E. and Donadio, Emmie. “Screened and Selected: Contemporary Photography and Video Acquisitions 1999-2005”, Middlebury College Museum of Art, 2006.
CD-ROM Edition and interview with Reuben Margolin, North Drive Press #2, June 2005.
“Artist Project: Ocean Photographs”, Cabinet, issue 16, 2005.
Russell, John (editor), Frozen Tears II, ARTicle Press, 2004.
Torop, Dan and Margolin, Reuben, “Labrador: 1995”, 2003.
Putnam, Adam (editor), Into The Abyss, 2003.
“New Jersey Portfolio”, Purple Magazine, issue 7, 2001.
Fabry, Alexis, Céline Fribourg, and Grégory Leroy, eds., “Séduire/Seduce”, Paris: Coromandel Press, 2001.
Bernheimer, Alan. “Billionesque” (cover), The Figures, 1999.

Bibliography

Zamudio, Raul. “Dan Torop,” Flash Art, Reviews, October, 2007, page 124.
Wolin, Joseph. “Dan Torop,” Time Out New York, Art Reviews, July 5-11, 2007.
Schwendener, Martha, “Art in Review: Dan Torop”, The New York Times, June 29, 2007, page E34.
Genocchio, Benjamin. “New World Ordering”, The New York Times, March 11, 2007 (NY Region).
Lichtenstein, Miranda, in "The Artist's Artists." Art Forum International, December 2006, p. 111.
Schmidt, Jason. “Work In Progress: Weird Science”, V Magazine, 43, Fall 2006, p. 145.
Schmerler, Sarah. “A Rabbit as King of the Ghosts”, Art on Paper, September, 2006.
Ross, Lauren. “A Rabbit as King of the Ghosts”, The Brooklyn Rail, September, 2006, p. 38.
Neil, Jonathan T.D. “A Rabbit as King of the Ghosts”, Modern Painters, September, 2006, p. 101.
Schwendener, Martha, “A Rabbit as King of the Ghosts”, Time Out, August 10-16, 2006.
Grosz, David. “Haunted by Ghosts, And by the Art World”, The New York Sun, August 3, 2006
Goings on About Town, “A Rabbit as King of the Ghosts”, The New Yorker, July 31, 2006.
Smith, Roberta. “Critic’s Notebook: Chelsea Is a Battlefield: Galleries Muster Groups”, The New York Times, July 28, 2006.
Maerkle, Andrew. “Photography: A Rabbit as King of the Ghosts”, Flavorpill NYC, Issue #320, July 25, 2006.
Rosenberg, Karen. “The Best of the Summer Art Shows in Chelsea”, New York, July 17, 2006.
Kazakina, Katya. “Spiritual Photography”, Bloomberg News, July 12, 2006.
Fry, Naomi. “A Rabbit as King of the Ghosts”, Artforum.com, July, 2006.
Murison, Jason. “Dan Torop Estimated Landscapes”, The Brooklyn Rail, October, 2005, p. 24.
“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.
Takahashi, Corey. “Exhibiting A Potential For Digital Art", Newsday, December 8, 2002, p. D39.
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.
Cotter, Holland. “Art in Review: Blind Faith”, The New York Times, January 9, 1998.

Honors

2008 Winter Resident, Eyebeam, New York.
2006 Visiting Artist Lecture, Columbia University's School of the Arts
2006 Listagil Gueststudio, Akureyri, Iceland
2003 to 2007
Visiting Photography Critic, Yale School of Architecture
2002 “Quintessence: The Clumpy Art of Matter”, Banff New Media Institute, Alberta, Canada
“Crossover: Studio A”, Web Lab, White Oak Plantation, Florida
2000 Visiting Artist Lecture, Columbia University's School of the Arts
1994 Gardner Travelling Fellowship

Education

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