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

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


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