Daniel Giles
dannygiles1(at)gmail(dot)com
+31 (06) 45 95 56 87
Based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands
EDUCATION
2013
MFA, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
2011
BFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
(*indicates performance)
2022
Game, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
2019
The Practice and Science of Drawing a Sharp White Background, Seattle, WA
Figura, SOIL Gallery, Seattle, WA
The Thing and its Double, Chicago Artists Coalition, Chicago, IL
2018
dead(air)*, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL
2017
Here*, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL
Remembrancer, Sector 2337, Chicago, IL
2016
Lyric, Andrew Rafacz Gallery, Chicago, IL
2012
Phantom Shapes and Ghost Events, Incident Report, Hudson, NY
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022
Dark Sousveillance, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA
2019
Walls Turned Sideways: Artists Confront the Justice System, Tufts University Art Gallery
2018
Walls Turned Sideways: Artists Confront the Justice System, Contemporary Art Museum Houston, Houston, TX
Preview 8, Chicago Artists Coalition, Chicago, IL
Bio (performance), True/False film festival, Columbia, MO
Cubed Luminous, Pensacola Art Museum, Pensacola, FL
Dialogue/Diálogo (performance with Eduardo Rabasa) Lit and Luz Festival, Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico
Lyric (performance), Eclipsing Festival, Links Hall, Chicago, IL
2017
Anthropophagy for Pedestrians(performance with Eduardo Rabasa), Lit and Luz Festival, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago, IL
The 3rdTerrain Biennial, Terrain Exhibitions, Oak Park, IL
O(p)positions, The Luminary, St. Louis, MO
Standards Variance, Public Access, Chicago, IL
Expanded Chicago, Mana Contemporary, Chicago, IL
PDF Objects, Es Espectro, Mexico City, Mexico
2016
Ascend (MCA Prime Time), MCA Chicago, Chicago, IL
Chicago and Vicinity, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, IL
PDF Objects, Mana Contemporary, Chicago, IL
YesREMIXED, Threewalls, Chicago, IL
Past Lives: Live Stream on ACRE TV, Union Docs Center for Documentary Art, Brooklyn, NY
2015
The Great Good Place, Threewalls, Chicago, IL
Simplicity, Starcom Mediavest Group, Chicago, IL
Public Utility, New Capital, Chicago, IL
The Annual, Chicago Artist Coalition, Chicago, IL
Listening and Making Sound, The Great Poor Farm Experiment, Little Wolf, WI
The 2ndTerrain Biennial, Terrain, Oak Park, IL
Finnocchio, The Franklin, Chicago, IL
Satellites, The Franklin, Chicago, IL
Ideal Perfection, LVL3 Gallery, Chicago, IL
Were the Eye Not Sunlike, Fernwey Gallery, Chicago, IL
Direct Object/Direct Action, Threewalls, Chicago, IL
RESPOND, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY
2014
go/figure, two-person exhibition with eliza myrie, Roots and Culture, Chicago, IL
Open Office: A Project of United States Artists, Chicago, IL
Community Area One, Roman Susan, Chicago, IL
Please Stand By, Mana Contemporary, Chicago, IL
GRANTS AND AWARDS
2022
Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in Fine Art Research and Development Grant
CBK Rotterdam Research Development Subsidy
*finalist* Creative Capital Award
2014
Foundation for Contemporary Arts, emergency grant
WRITING AND PUBLICATIONS
2020
Guest Editor, Monday Journal 4th edition, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
2016
Danny Giles, “Family History”, catalog essay for exhibition “Tide/Tithe” featuring Alexandria Eregbu and Rami George at Roots and Culture
2015
Danny Giles, “Some Notes on Being and the Void”, Finnocchio exhibition catalog
PUBLIC LECTURES AND PANELS
2021
White Pictures, lecture, it's a mutant space, ‘Studio’ Generale Rietveld Academie, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2019
Visiting Artist Lecture, Black Embodiments Studio Residency, Jacob Lawrence Gallery at University of Washington Seattle, WA
Panel conversant with Greg Foster Rice, Julie Rodriguez, and Allison Cuddy, Illinois Humanities Festival: “VIOLENCE!”,Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL
2018
Artist Talk, Missouri Theater, True/False Film Festival, Columbia, MO
2017
Artist talk, ESPAC, Mexico City
Visiting Artist Lecture, Illinois State University, Bloomington/Normal, IL
Panel Presentation: “Observing Power”, Open Engagement Conference, Chicago, IL
2016
Visiting Artist Lecture, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
Visiting Artist Lecture, University of Chicago graduate program, Chicago, IL
2015
Visiting Artist workshop, SAIC Homan Square Project, Chicago, IL
Black Artists Retreat, panel chair, “Black Queer Feminisms”, Theaster Gates Studio, Chicago, IL
2014
Black Artists Retreat, workshop leader, “Study Hall: Fugitive Planning in The Undercommons”, Theaster Gates’ Studio,
Chicago, IL
RESIDENCIES
2019
Jacob Lawrence Legacy Resident, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Black Embodiments Studio Resident, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
2018-19
BOLT Artist-in-Residence, Chicago Artists’ Coalition, Chicago, IL
2017
Sector 2337 Project Space Residency, Chicago, IL
Illinois State University Visiting Artist, Bloomington-Normal, IL
2015
Mana Contemporary Artist-in-Residence, Chicago, IL
2014
ACRE Residency, Steuben, WI
High Concept Laboratories, Chicago, IL
Publications
2019
Danny Giles Draws a Black Frame Around Whiteness, by Emily Pothast, ArtPractical.com,
https://www.artpractical.com/column/danny-giles-draws-a-black-frame-around-whiteness/
2018
Walls Turned Sideways: Artists Confront the Justice System, catalog, edited by Risa Puleo, various contributors
2016
Too Many Degrees podcast, Funky Timeshare, http://www.toomanydegrees.com/
Jared Richardson, “Danny Giles: “Lyric”
2015
Kate Sierzputowski, Hyperallergic, A Procession of Black Love Responds to Controversial Michael Brown Exhibition in Chicago, Sept. 7, 2015
LVL Artist of the Week, Interview, LVL3 Gallery
2014
Review: Daniel Giles and eliza myrie at Roots and Culture, by Matt Morris, Newcity Art, September 29, 2014
Kate Sierzputowski, Inside Within Web Archive, Danny Giles: The Utility of the Synthetic, Mar.14
Meg Onli, go/figure, catalog essay (go/figure at Roots and Culture Contemporary Art Center)
TEACHING AND PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
2020-Present
Course Director and Associate Professor, Piet Zwart Institute Master Fine Art, Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam University
2017-2020
Academic Director, Ox-Bow School of Art and Artists’ Residency
2014-2019
Lecturer, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2016-2019
Ox-Bow School of Art and Artists’ Residency