Bio/CV

 

Dan Torop

Solo Exhibitions
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 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
2010 “We Pictured You Reading This”, Redux Contemporary Art Center, Charleston, SC
  “50 Artists Photograph The Future”, Higher Pictures, New York
  “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
  “The Baxters”, Robert Beck Memorial Cinema, NY
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
  “Insider Trading”, London
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
Selected Screenings/Performances
2010 “Virtual Bowery”, Passing Time, 80WSE Gallery, NY
  “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

  • 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.
  • “The Blue Room”, Modern Painters, February 2009.
  • “Wingward View”, A Series of Flight Postcards, Projectile Press, 2008.
  • Street View: A Selection”, Triple Canopy, issue 2, 2008.
  • “Introducing: Tim Roda”, Modern Painters, May 2008.
  • Ocean portfolio, Columbia Journal, Issue 54, 2007.
  • Petrovich, Dushko and White, Roger (editors), Paper Monument, Issue One, 2007.
  • “Introducing: 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.

Selected Bibliography

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
Honors
2008-present Adjunct Instructor, NYU Steinhardt
2010 Mentor, MFA in Visual Arts Program, The Art Institute of Boston
2009 EdLab Digital Art Resident, Teachers College, Columbia University
2009 Eyebeam Roadshow at Interdisciplinary Film & Digital Media Summit, University of New Mexico
2009 Instructor (substitute), SVA
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
1998-2000 Adjunct Instructor, Parsons The New School for Design, NY
1994 Gardner Travelling Fellowship
Education
1997 Yale School of Art, Connecticut, MFA
1994 Harvard University, Massachusetts, BA