b. 1971 Lives and works in New York City Education M.F.A., Yale School of Art, Connecticut, 1997 B.A., Harvard University, Massachusetts, 1994 Solo Exhibitions 2011 "80WSE Presents", 80WSE Gallery, New York, NY “Climate” (screening), ArtProjx Cinema, SVA Theater, New York, NY 2010 “Virtual Bowery” (lecture/installation), Passing Time, 80WSE Gallery, New York, NY “Seven Summits” (lecture), Mount Tremper Arts, Mount Tremper, NY “The Breezy Pines” (performance), Royal Lace Paper Works, Mabou Mines, NY "Skydiving," Derek Eller Gallery, New York 2009 ColLABoration, Teachers College, New York, NY 2007 "Snowbound," Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY (project room) 2005 "Estimated Landscapes", Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY 2003 The Club in the Shadows, Kenny Schachter Gallery, New York, NY 2002 “Lost Domain”, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY 2001 “Landscapes”, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY 1999 Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY Selected Group Exhibitions 2011 "Channel to the New Image," Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, NY 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 "SCANZ," Govett-Brewster, New Plymouth, New Zealand 2008 "Cosmological Embeddedness OR The Flying Spaghetti Monster," Higher Pictures Gallery, New York, NY "Double Take," Eyebeam, New York 2007 "Virtual Unreality," The Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA "String Show," Greene Naftali, New York "...a landscape show," Samson Projects, Boston, MA "Play," Proteus Gowanus, Brooklyn, NY "NeoIntegrity," curated by Keith Mayerson, Derek Eller Gallery, New York “An Orchid in the Land of Technology,” curated by Joseph R. Wolin, OH+T Gallery, Boston, MA “Landescapism,” curated by Joseph R. Wolin, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY 2006 “Think Twice, Young American Photography,” TH Inside, Milan, Italy “Screened and Selected: Contemporary Photography and Video Acquisitions 1999-2005,” Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, VT “Inaugural Group Exhibition,” Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY 2005 "Weather Gallery," Fairbanks Museum, St. Johnsbury, VT "There's a City in My Mind," Southfirst Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2004 "#12 - Escapism: A Viable Political Alternative," A Fia Backström Projet, Champion Fine Art, Brooklyn, NY "Axxxpresssunizm," Vilma Gold, London, UK "#13 - Pictures With People," curated by Roe Ethridge, Champion Fine Art, Brooklyn, NY "The Baxters," Robert Beck Memorial Cinema, New York, NY 2003 "Game Engine," curated by Ze Frank, Graham Leggat, and Katie Salen, New York Video Festival, Walter Reade Theater, New York, NY "Focus-Pocus: Fact & Fiction," Beaker Gallery, Tampa, FL, curated by A. A. Rucci "Faking Real," curated by Stephen Hilger, Leroy Nieman Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY 2002 "<ALT> DigitalMedia," curated by Carl Goodman, American Museum of the Moving Image, Astoria, NY “Phenomena,” Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA "Graphic," Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY "seduire/seduce," Sotheby's, New York, NY "Landscape," Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY 2001 "Synth," White Columns, New York, NY 2000 Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY "Unbottled," Hammond Museum and Japanese Stroll Garden, North Salem, NY "Pogo Stick," Contemporary Arts Collective Gallery, Las Vegas, NV 1999 "Game Show," Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA "Mr. Fascination," Thread Waxing Space, New York "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, NY Curated Exhibitions 2006 “A Rabbit as King of the Ghosts,” curated with Justine Kurland, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, NY 2004 "Reading Room," Southfirst Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2002 "I Just Can't Pretend," Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY Selected Bibliography 2011 “Paper Trail”, Bookforum.com, May 6. “Tahoe Passage”, Triple Canopy, issue 12 (May 5) 2010 Pulitzer, Sam, “Critics’ Picks: Dan Torop”, Artforum.com, December 15. Schwendener, Martha, “Focus Here! A Round-up of Current Photography Exhibits”, The Village Voice, December 1, 33. Skydiving A-Jump Books Murison, Jason, "Black Bleeds Red," Paper Monument, Issue Three and Web "TC- Compose Versify, 2009" and "The Audio Show, Part 1," Triple Canopy, podcasts 2009 Wolf, Alexander, "The Audio Show, " Modern Painters, November "Virtual Bowery," Triple Canopy, Issue 6 Spoonbill & Sugartown, This is my book, This is your book, Near Fine Press Jennings, Susan (editor), This: A Collection of Artists' Writings "The Blue Room, " Modern Painters, February 2008 Pollack Barbara, "Faces of Photography Now: Eight Under 40," Departures, Nov/Dec Rosenberg, Karen, "Rough-Hewn Images for Rough-Hewn Times, The New York Times, Sepetmber 18 Juarez, Jerry, "Code for the End of the World," Simple Mechanisms aka Chocolate Robot, June "Wingward View," A Series of Flight Postcards, Projectile Press "Street View: A Selection," Triple Canopy, Issue 2 2007 Zamudio, Raul, "Dan Torop," Flash Art, October, p. 124 Parsons, Kimberly King (editor), Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art, issue 45. Petrovich, Dushko and White, Roger (editors), Paper Monument, issue one. Russell, John (editor), Frozen Tears I I I, ARTicle Press. Wolin, Joseph. “Dan Torop,” Time Out New York, Art Reviews, July 5-11 Schwendener, Martha.”Snowbound,” The New York Times, Art Review, June 29 Genocchio, Benjamin, “New World Ordering,” The New York Times, Art Review, March 11 2006 Bloom, Philip E. and Donadio, Emmie, “Screened and Selected Contemporary Photography and Video Acquisitions 1999-2005”, Middlebury College Museum of Art Fry, Naomi. “A Rabbit as King of the Ghosts”, Artforum.com, July. Goings on About Town, “A Rabbit as King of the Ghosts”, The New Yorker, July 31. Grosz, David. “Haunted by Ghosts, And by the Art World”, The New York Sun, August 3. Kazakina, Katya. “Spiritual Photography”, Bloomberg News, July 12. Lichtenstein, Miranda, in “The Artist’s Artists”, Art Forum International, December, 111 Maerkle, Andrew. “Photography: A Rabbit as King of the Ghosts”, Flavorpill NYC, issue 320 (July 25).  Neil, Jonathan T.D. “A Rabbit as King of the Ghosts”, Modern Painters, September, 101.. Rosenberg, Karen, “The Best of the Summer Art Shows in Chelsea,” New York, July 17 Ross, Lauren. “A Rabbit as King of the Ghosts”, The Brooklyn Rail, September, 38. Schmerler, Sarah. “A Rabbit as King of the Ghosts”, Art on Paper, September. Schmidt, Jason. “Work In Progress: Weird Science”, V Magazine, 43 (Fall): 145. Schwendener, Martha, “A Rabbit as King of the Ghosts”, Time Out New York, August 10-16. Smith, Roberta. “Critic’s Notebook: Chelsea Is a Battle&Mac222;eld: Galleries Muster Groups”, The New York  Times, July 28. 2005 Murison, Jason, “Dan Torop Estimated Landscapes,” The Brooklyn Rail, October, p. 24 “Don't Miss!”, Time Out New York, October 6-12, p. 78. Keegan, Matt (editor), North Drive Press #2, June "Artist Project: Ocean Photographs," Cabinet, issue 16 2004 Tuchman, Phyllis, "Mark Wyse at Wallspace," Art in America, April Russell, John (editor), "Frozen Tears II," ARTicle Press 2003 Gunn, Angela, "The Personal Touch," Time Out, January 9-16 Torop, Dan and Margolin, Reuben, Labrador: 1995. Putnam, Adam (editor), "Into The Abyss," 2003 2002 Mahoney, Robert. “Landscape”, Time Out New York, February 21-28, 51. Newhall, Edith. "The Drifters," New York, December 2, p.100. Takahashi, Corey. “Exhibiting A Potential For Digital Art”, Newsday, December 8. 2001 Griffin, Tim. "Synth," Time Out New York, July 5-12, p. 60. Goings on About Town, "Dan Torop," The New Yorker, May 14, p. 27. Fabry, Alexis, Céline Fribourg, and Grégory Leroy, eds., Seduire/Seduce, Paris: Coromandel Press "New Jersey Portfolio," Purple Magazine, issue 7 Hibino, Yasuyo. “Chelsea”, Esquire Magazine Japan, Vol. 15, No. 11 (November): 82. Wilson, Michael. “New York roundup”, Art Monthly, no. 247 (June): 43-45. 1999 Gangitano, Lia. "Mr. Fascination," Trans, Volume 6, pp.16-25 Hall, Emily. "The Art of Play," The Stranger, December 16-22 Lombardi, D. Dominick. "A Show That Shapes Perception of Animals," The New York Times, December 5 Bernheimer, Alan. "Billionesque" (cover), The Figures 1998 Cotter, Holland. “Art in Review: Blind Faith”, The New York Times, January 9. Go to top