BIOGRAPHY

Born in 1977 in Ulm, Germany

Lives and Works in Berlin and Blowing Rock, NC

 

EDUCATION

2004  Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME

2004  MFA, Tufts University, Medford, MA/ School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

2001  BFA, Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, GA

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS and TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2024 Parallels. Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY

2023 Vertical Drift, Weber Fine Art, Greenwich, CT

2022 Flat Earth, Miles McEnery Gallery, NY

2020 (co)vertex. Studio Trouble, Berlin, Germany

Back to the Future. Miles McEnery Gallery, NY

2018  Never Forever. Peter Blum Gallery, NY  

2015  On a Boat, Looking to Land: Gil Heitor Cortesao & Daniel Rich. Carbon 12,               

            Dubai, UAE

2015   John Beech & Daniel Rich. Frieze Art Fair New York, Peter Blum Gallery

2014   Systematic Anarchy. Peter Blum Gallery, New York

2012   Platforms of Power. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. September 29th 2012 – March 31st 2013, Boston, MA

2010   Berlin, Daniel Rich and Wieland Speck. Horton Gallery, NY

2009   1989-2009: Paintings of the Berlin Airports 20 Years after the Fall of the Wall. Andrew Rafacz Gallery, Chicago, IL

2008   Downburst. Perry Rubenstein Gallery, New York, NY

2007   Black Sunday. SUNDAY, New York, NY

            Baghdad. Mario Diacono Gallery, Boston, MA

2006   Torre Velasca. Mario Diacono Gallery, Boston, MA

2005   Project Space. Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York, NY

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024 On Architecture. Bernhard Knaus Fine Art, Frankfurt, Germany

Olympic Visions. Artsy/ Outfront, US Transit Systems Nationwide

2023 Nocturne: Part I. Andrew Rafacz Gallery, Chicago, IL

Interactions of Color Outdoor Installation. Group Exhibition of Recipients of the 2022 NC Arts Council Support Grant. Turchin Center for the Arts,

Boone, NC

2022 Dreamland, Helac Fine Art, Charlotte, NC

Otherwordly, Mucciacca Gallery, London, UK

2021 Studio Visit. Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy

Group Show. Weber Fine Art, Greenwich, CT

Beyond the Streets Works on Paper Exhibition. South Hampton Arts Center, South Hampton, NY

2020 Endless State, The Skowhegan Alliance,

https://www.endlessstate.work/

2019 Geometric Heat, GR Gallery, New York, NY

Invisibli, Curated by Donatella Mezzotero, Anna Marra Contemporanea, Rome, Italy

Set for the Sun, Curated by Jenne Grabowski, Lobe Block, Berlin, Germany

#, Curated by Markus Linnenbrink, Cindy Rucker Gallery, New York, NY

2018   In My Room: Artists Paint the Interior, 1950- Now. Fralin Museum of Art, Charlottesville, VA

2017   After the Fall. Peter Blum Gallery, New York, NY

            Urbanopolis. Galerie LJ, Paris, France

2016   Postcard From New York, Curated by Serena Trizzino. Anna Marra Contemporanea, Rome, Italy

           Summer Group Show. Joshua Liner Gallery, New York, NY )

2014   Résonance(s). Maison Particulière, Brussels, Belgium

           Epic Fail 2. Active Space, Brooklyn, NY

2013   October 18, 1977. Gasser Grunert Gallery, New York, curated by Birgit Rathsmann (cat.)

2012   Summer Group Show, Joshua Liner Gallery, New York, NY

            Divergence. Lower East Side Printshop, New York, NY

2011    LANY. Curated by Mario Diacono, Peter Blum Gallery, NY

            Chainletter. Golden Parachute, Berlin/ Samson Projects, Boston.

2009   Rattled by the Rush. Andrew Rafacz Gallery, Chicago, IL

            Slow Photography.  Sunday LES, New York, NY

            Transitions- Painting at the (other) end of art, Maramotti Collection. Reggio Emilia, Italy

2008   Supernova. Art Basel Miami Beach

            A Sorry Kind Of Wisdom. Perry Rubenstein Gallery, New York, NY

2006  Material Matters. Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD

           We Build the Worlds Inside Our Heads. Freight + Volume, New York, NY

2005  Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York, NY

           Skowhegan Projects. Skowhegan State Fair, Skowhegan, ME

2004  Combined Talent. Tallahassee Museum of Fine Art, Tallahassee, FL

           Summer Distillation. Miller Block Gallery, Boston, MA

           Site Specifics. ArtSpace, Malden, MA

           The Sublime is (still) now. Elizabeth Dee Gallery New York, NY. Curated by Joe Wolin.

           Axiom, Gallery 4. Baltimore, MD

           Constellations. Tufts University, Medford, MA (thesis exhibition)  

2003   Properties. The H. Lewis Gallery, Baltimore, MD

           CGR Advisors & Dragon Foundation Scholarship Recipients, Museum of Contemporary Art, Atlanta, GA

           Referencing Perspective. Gallery 100, Atlanta, GA

           Deconstruction and Recomposition. The Art Farm, Atlanta, GA

 

AWARDS

2022 Artist Grant, North Carolina Arts Council

2015   Traveling Scholars Grant, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

2012   NYFA Painting Fellow, New York Foundation for the Arts, New York , NY

2011   Keyholder Residency Award, Lower East Side Printshop, NY.

2010  Marie Walsh Sharpe The Space Program, New York, NY

           Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE

2004  Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME

           Travel Grant, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

2001  Graduate Fellowship, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

           Ben Shute Scholarship for Excellence in Representational Art, Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, GA

           Dragon Foundation Scholarship, Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, GA

 

PUBLIC LECTURES/ VISITING ARTIST

2023 Visiting Artist and Public Lecture, UNC Charlotte, NC

2021 Visiting Artist, The Cooper Union, NY

2013   Visiting Artist and Guest Lecturer, Wellesley College, MA

2012   Visiting Artist and Guest Lecturer, Painting Department, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

2012   Visiting Artist, Pratt Institute, Printmaking Department, Brooklyn, NY

2010   Visiting Artist and Public Lecture, The Art Institute of Chicago, Painting Department, Chicago, IL

2008  Public Lecture, The New School, NY, NY

2004  Colloquium on the Politization of Space, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

           Organized by Barbara Gallucci, Professor of Sculpture, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2024- Present Visiting Artist, University of North Carolina Charlotte

2023- 2024 Lecturer in Painting. Appalachian State University, Boone, NC

2021 - 23 Adjunct Instructor, Painting and Drawing. Appalachian State University, Boone, NC

 

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Yerebakan, Osman Can. 10 Questions With… Painter Daniel Rich, Interior Design Magazine (Online), April 4th, 2024

* Priccio, Evan. Daniel Rich’s Rich Absence in an Exploration of “Parallels”, Juxtapoz Art & Culture Magazine (Online), February 6th, 2024.

* Artnet Gallery Network. “Daniel Rich at Weber Fine Art, Greenwich, CT”. Artnet News (Online), May 5th, 2023.

* The Cortland Review, Issue 91 (Online). Cover Art, February 2023.

* Priccio, Evan. Rich Makes Beauty out of “Flat Earth”. Juxtapoz Art & Culture Magazine (Online), January 19th, 2023.

* Artforum Artguide. Must See: Daniel Rich, Flat Earth at Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, December 2022.

*  Le Petit Voyeur. Vol. 7, Artist Feature, 2021

 Studio Magazine. Issue #19 Frequencies, Artist Feature, 2021

*  Priccio, Evan. Back to the Future: The Building as Artifact in Daniel Rich’s Newest Work, Juxtapoz Art & Culture Magazine (Online), September 10th, 2020.

*  Sarmiento Cruz, Valentina. "Critics' Picks: Daniel Rich", ArtForum (Online), May 5th, 2018.

*  "Never Forever: Daniel Rich's Symbolic Political Landscapes @ Peter Blum Gallery NYC (with Updates)", Juxtapoz Art & Culture Magazine (Online), April 18th, 2018.

*  Fortman, Sven. "Daniel Rich: between the LINES", LoDown Magazine, April 2018.

*  Forty. "DANIEL RICH never forever ARTHAPPENINGS", LoDown Magazine (online), April 11th, 2018.

*  Kotz, Genevieve. "NYC Gallery Scene- Highlights Through April 15th, 2018", Hamptons Art Hub (Online), April 10th, 2018.

*   Victory Journal, "exhibition game", Issue 10 - "Arts & Letters", Winter 2015

*  “La collection Maramotti” , MAD magazine, May

*   Aaron Betsky. “Limbo Architecture: Painters of Modernism” Architectural Review, May 2014

*   Plagens, Peter. “Caught in the Middle of Irony and Tragedy”. The Wall Street Journal. 1 March 2014. P. A22.

*   Ara H. Merjian, “October 18, 1977”, Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert”, ArtForum, June 30, 2013

*   Rosenberg, Karen. “October 18, 1977”, New York Times, 28 June 2013. Section C p. 24

*   Glaser, Brian Christopher. “Platforms of Power: paintings by Daniel Rich at the MFA,” Big Red & Shiny,  October 19, 2012

*   Karen Frascona, “Daniel Rich: Platforms of Power at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Explores the Link Between Architecture, Nationalism, and Politics”, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, October 2, 2012

*  Steve Locke, “Sex and the Painted City Daniel Rich at the MFA Boston”, Art and Everything After, September 30, 2012

*  Diacono, Mario, Archetypes and Historicity. Painting and Other Radical Forms 1995-2007. Silvana Editoriale, 2012.

*  Diacono, Mario, Transitions- Paintings at the (other) end of art, Collezione Maramotti Exhibition Catalogue, May 2009.

*  Siegel, Miranda, Critic's Pick: "Downburst" at Perry Rubenstein, NY Magazine, Dec 22-29, 2008. *Craig, Megan, "Megan Craig in New York"-

   ArtInfo Online Magazine, December 2008.

*  Cyphers Wright, Jeffrey, "The Art of Interpreting Doublespeak", Chelsea Now, January 2nd- 15th 2009, Vol 3

*  Time Out New York, No. 674, August 28-September 3, 2008: 90.

*  Diacono, Mario. "An Art of (dis)Content." Daniel Rich: Bagdad, 2006, exh. 1-30 June, Boston: Mario Diacono at Ars Libri, 2007.

*  Smith, P.C. "Daniel Rich at Sunday." Art in America. no. 2, February 2008: 147.

*  McQuaid, Cate. "Rich's Works Are Far From Brutal." Boston Globe. 27 April 2006.