Bio/CV
Dan Torop
| 2012 | “Alkali Desert”, Center for Land Use Interpretation, Wendover, Utah |
| 2010 | “Skydiving”, Derek Eller Gallery, New York |
| 2007 | “Snowbound”, Derek Eller Gallery, New York |
| 2005 | “Estimated Landscapes”, Derek Eller Gallery, New York |
| 2002 | “Lost Domain”, Derek Eller Gallery, New York |
| 2001 | “Landscapes”, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York |
| 1999 | untitled, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York |
| 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 |
| 2012 | “That Sinking Sense of Wonder”, Southfirst Gallery, Brooklyn, NY |
| “Situation”, Deborah Berke & Partners Architects, New York | |
| 2011 | “Channel to the New Image”, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York |
| “80WSE Presents”, 80WSE Gallery, New York | |
| 2010 | “50 Artists Photograph The Future”, Higher Pictures, New York |
| “We Pictured You Reading This”, Redux Contemporary Art Center, Charleston, SC | |
| “Gold in Braddock”, UnSmoke Systems Artspace, Braddock, PA | |
| 2009 | “The Audio Show”, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York |
| “2009 SCANZ Raranga Tangata”, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, NZ | |
| 2008 | “Cosmological Embeddedness OR The Flying Spaghetti Monster”, Higher Pictures, NY |
| “Double Take”, Eyebeam, New York | |
| 2007 | “Virtual Unreality”, The Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA |
| “Landescapism”, Islip Art Museum, Islip, New York | |
| “String Show”, Greene Naftali, 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 | |
| “Axxxpresssunizm”, aliceday, Brussels and Vilma Gold, London | |
| 2003 | “Faking Real”, Leroy Nieman Gallery, Columbia University, New York |
| “The Club in the Shadows”, Kenny Schachter Gallery, New York | |
| “Focus-Pocus: Fact & Fiction”, Beaker Gallery, Tampa, FL | |
| 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 | |
| “Phenomena”, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA | |
| 2001 | “Synth”, White Columns, New York |
| 2000 | “Pogo Stick”, Contemporary Arts Collective Gallery, Las Vegas |
| “Unbottled”, Hammond Museum, North Salem, NY | |
| Marianne Boesky Gallery, NY | |
| 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 |
| “People, Places, and Things”, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York | |
| 1997 | “Blind Faith”, White Columns, New York |
| “Self-Portraits”, Herndon Gallery, Yellow Springs, Ohio | |
| “Photography MFA Show”, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT | |
| “Charlotte 22’s show”, Fairbanks, Alaska |
| 2012 | “Lines of Sight: Readings of photography in fiction”, Triple Canopy, 155 Freeman St., Brooklyn, NY |
| “The Amnesia Pavilions with Nicholas Muellner” (discussion), Union Docs, Brooklyn, NY | |
| 2011 | “Climate”, ArtProjx Cinema, SVA Theater, NY |
| 2010 | “Virtual Bowery”, Passing Time, 80WSE Gallery, NY |
| “Notations in the Flicker: Brion Gysin's Text and Image”, NYU Steinhardt w/New Museum | |
| “Seven Summits”, Mount Tremper Arts, Mount Tremper, NY | |
| “The Breezy Pines”, Royal Lace Paper Works, Mabou Mines, NY | |
| 2009 | “The Invisible Grammar”, Triple Canopy, NY Art Book Fair, P.S. 1, Brooklyn, NY |
| 2004 | “The Baxters”, Robert Beck Memorial Cinema, NY |
| “Soundlab”, Volume, Brooklyn | |
| 2003 | “LoveDeath”, Game Engine, New York Video Festival, Walter Reade Theater, New York |
Publications — my work
- Triple Canopy (editor), Invalid Format: An Anthology of Triple Canopy, Vol. 2, 2012.
- Triple Canopy (editor), The Binder and The Server, 2012.
- Paper Monument (editor), Draw It With Your Eyes Closed: The Art of the Art Assignment, 2012.
- “Tahoe Passage”, Triple Canopy, issue 12, 2011.
- Skydiving, A-Jump Books, 2010.
- Murison, Jason, “Black Bleeds Red”, Paper Monument, Issue Three and web, 2010.
- “TC-Compose Versify, 2009” and “The Audio Show, Part 1”, Triple Canopy, podcasts, 2010.
- “Virtual Bowery”, Triple Canopy, issue 6, 2009.
- Spoonbill & Sugartown, This is my book, This is your book, Near Fine Press, 2009.
- Jennings, Susan (editor), This: A Collection of Artists' Writings, 2009.
- “Wingward View”, A Series of Flight Postcards, Projectile Press, 2008.
- “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.
- Russell, John (editor), Frozen Tears III, ARTicle Press, 2007.
- 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, 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.
Publications — on others
- “From Blur to Bourriaud”, Triple Canopy, Annotation, August 2, 2011.
- “David Deutsch: Nothing Real”, (press release text), Southfirst, April 1, 2011.
- “The Blue Room”, Modern Painters, February 2009.
- “Introducing: Tim Roda”, Modern Painters, May 2008.
- “Introducing: Shannon Ebner”, Modern Painters, July-August 2007.
- “Artists 2000-2006: Photographs by Jason Schmidt”, Modern Painters, September 2006, p.114.
- interview with Reuben Margolin, North Drive Press #2, June 2005.
Bibliography
- Cullen, Paul, “Dispatch: On the Road from the Spiral Jetty”, Art News New Zealand, Spring 2012.
- “That Sinking Sense of Wonder”, Wagmag, July 1, 2012.
- “Art Pick: Eyes Wide Shut”, The New Yorker online, March 2, 2012.
- “Wandering a Fjord”, Unless You Will, June 23, 2011.
- “Paper Trail”, Bookforum.com, May 6, 2011.
- Pulitzer, Sam, “Critics' Picks: Dan Torop”, Artforum.com, December 15, 2010.
- Schwendener, Martha, “Focus Here! A Round-up of Current Photography Exhibits”, The Village Voice, December 1, 2010, p. 33.
- Wolf, Alexander. “The Audio Show”, Modern Painters, November 2009.
- Pollack, Barbara. “Faces of Photography Now: Eight Under 40”, Departures, November/December 2008.
- Rosenberg, Karen. “Rough-Hewn Images for Rough-Hewn Times”, The New York Times, Art Review, September 18, 2008, p. E30.
- Juarez, Jerry. “Code For the End of the World”, Simple Mechanisms aka Chocolate Robot, June 2008.
- 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.
- Johnson, Ken. “Back to the future”, The Boston Globe, April 27, 2007.
- 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 New York, 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.
- Dannatt, Adrian. “Synthesiser's synthetic synthesis”, The Art Newspaper, no. 116, July-August 2001.
- Griffin, Tim. “Synth”, Time Out New York, July 5-12 2001, p. 60.
- Wilson, Michael, “New York Round-up: review of Dan Torop, Barbara Bloom, Tim Gardner, Visibility Fair”, Art Monthly, no. 247, p. 43.
- 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.
| 2008-present | Adjunct Instructor, NYU Steinhardt |
| 2012- | Adjunct Lecturer, City College |
| 2010 | Mentor, MFA in Visual Arts Program, The Art Institute of Boston |
| 1998-2000 | Adjunct Instructor, Parsons The New School for Design, NY |
| 2012 | CLUI Corps |
| 2011 | Wendover Residence Program, Center for Land Use Interpretation |
| 2009 | EdLab Digital Art Resident, Teachers College, Columbia University |
| 2009 | Eyebeam Roadshow at Interdisciplinary Film & Digital Media Summit, University of New Mexico |
| 2008 | Winter Resident, Eyebeam, New York. |
| 2008 | Panelist, Machinima Filmfest 2008. |
| 2006 | Visiting Artist Lecture, Columbia University's School of the Arts |
| 2006 | Listagil Gueststudio, Akureyri, Iceland |
| 2003-7 | Visiting Photography Critic, Yale School of Architecture |
| 2002 | “Quintessence: The Clumpy Art of Matter”, Banff New Media Institute, Alberta, Canada |
| 2002 | “Crossover: Studio A”, Web Lab, White Oak Plantation, Florida |
| 2000 | Visiting Artist Lecture, Columbia University's School of the Arts |
| 1994 | Gardner Travelling Fellowship |
| 1997 | Yale School of Art, Connecticut, MFA |
| 1994 | Harvard University, Massachusetts, BA |