Dan Graham
Dan Graham (born
1942) is a
New York based
U.S. artist. He is an influential figure in the field of contemporary art, both a practitioner of
conceptual art and a well-versed art critic and theorist.
He was born in
Urbana, Illinois, but moved to
Winfield Park,
New Jersey at age 3, and then to
Westfield, NJ at age 13. Dan's early childhood experience of New Jersey informed some of his early minimal art pieces. Dan and
Robert Smithson photographed New Jersey together during the mid to late sixties. Dan was romantically linked to artist
Lee Lozano, rock artist
Laurie Anderson, and artist
Judith Barry among others. Dan has served as a visiting teacher internationally, and was especially influential in
Halifax (at
NSCAD) and
Vancouver.
Dan Graham has been identified as a minimal artist,
conceptual artist,
performance artist,
rock music writer, art critic, architecture critic and writer, pop culture critic, educator,
sculptor, and collaborator with architects and other artists. While widely appreciated in
Europe and
Japan, Dan has received less recognition in the United States than his contemporaries and friends, who include
Robert Smithson,
Gordon Matta-Clark,
Vito Acconci,
Sol Lewitt,
Carl Andre,
Dan Flavin, and many others.
Rock My Religion: Writings and Projects 1965-1990 by Dan Graham, edited by Brian Wallis; (MIT Press 1994) ISBN 0262571064
Dan Graham Interviews by Dan Graham; (Hatje Cantz 1995) ISBN 3893223185
Dan Graham - Models to Projects by Dan Graham and Alexander Alberro; (Marian Goodman Gallery 1998) ISBN 0944219136
Two-Way Mirror Power: Selected Writings by Dan Graham on His Art by Dan Graham, edited by Alexander Alberro; (MIT Press 1999) ISBN 0262571307
Dan Graham: Catalogue Raisonne by Dan Graham, Eric de Bruyn, Benjamin Buchloh, Markus Muller, Marianne Brouwer, and Corinne Diserens; (Richter Verlag 2001) ISBN 393380731X
Dan Graham: Half Square Half Crazy by Dan Graham, Adachiara Zevi, and Pietro Valle; (Charta 2005) ISBN 8881585200
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EAI: Dan Graham*
Lisson Gallery: Dan Graham *
Profile on mediamatic*
NYFA interview*
old interview (1995)*
essay by
Lynne Cooke*
Dan Graham: Public/Private*
Create it Act out Dan Graham's graphic "SCHEME".
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Arch'it artland Dan Graham interviewed by Pietro Valle
