Dan ATTOE
Born 1975, Bremerton, Washington, US Lives and works in Portland, Oregon, US
Education
2004 MFA University of Iowa, Iowa City, US
1998 BFA University of Wisconsin, Madison, US
Current Group Exhibitions
Horses, Eighteen and V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, DK
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2016 Natural Selections, Peres Projects, Berlin, DE New Drawings, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, US Recent Landscapes, Half Gallery, New York, US Dan Attoe, Western Exhibitions, Chicago, US
2014 Landscapes with Water, Peres Projects, Berlin, DE Dan Attoe, Fourteen30 Contemporary, Portland, Oregon, US
2011 Lights Flickering in the Dark, Peres Projects, Berlin, DE
2009 Dan Attoe, Western Exhibitions, Chicago, US I’m done worryin’ about shit, Peres Projects, Los Angeles, US 2008 American Dreams, curated by Tania Pardo, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y Leon, Leon, ES Simple Thoughts and Complicated Animals, Peres Projects, Berlin, DE
2006 Loaded, Nailed, short on Cash, Peres Projects, Los Angeles, US You have more freedom than you are using, Peres Projects, Berlin, DE
2005 You Get What You Deserve, Vilma Gold, London, UK New Paintings, 404 Arte Contemporanea, Naples, IT
2004 Some of the best things I know, Peres Projects, Los Angeles, US
2003 Paintings and Tents, Western Exhibitions, Chicago, US Dan Attoe: Tents and Paintings, curated by Chris Cook CSPS/Legion Arts, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, US
Selected Group Exhibitions
2016 Wild Style: Exhibition of Figurative Art, Peres Projects, Berlin, DE Go Figure! - Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, US Landscapes After Ruskin: Redefining The Sublime, Hall Art Foundation, Vermont, US
2015 Love Story – Works from Erling Kagge’s Collection, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, NO
2014 Somos Libres II, Pinacoteca Gianni e Marella Agnelli, Turin, IT The Crime was Almost Perfect, Witte De With, Rotterdam, NL The Crime was Almost Perfect, PAC, Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan, ES We do what we like and we like what we do, Western Exhibitions, Chicago, US Head, Western Exhibitions, Chicago, US 2013 EXPO 1, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, NY The System of Objects – The Dakis Joannou Collection reloaded by Andreas Angelidakis, DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens, GR H. C. Westermann & Dan Attoe, Franklin Parrash Gallery, New York, US Chicken or beef?, curated by Jesper Elg, The Hole, New York, US
2012 Secret Societies, Musée d’art Contemporain de Bordeaux-CAPC, Bordeaux, FR (Touring exhibition) WONDERS – Masterpieces from Private Collections in Denmark, KUNSTEN Museum of Modern Art Aalborg, Aalborg, DK
2011 Secret Societies, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, DE Sight Unseen, Mark Wolfe Contemporary, San Francisco, US BigMinis, CAPC Musée d’art Contemporain, Bordeaux, FR
2010 Vivere Country, curated by Nonna Bruna, Grimmuseum, Berlin, DE Point to the end, which is always present, Small A Projects, New York, US
2009 All Creatures Great and Small, curated by Maria Brewińska, Zacheta National Gallery, Warsaw, PL Le Petit Objet, Royale Projects, Indian Wells, US PAINTALLICA, Country Club, Los Angeles, US Access All Areas, curated by Tanja Wagner and Arturo Herrera, Max Hetzler, Berlin, DE Minneapolis, Peres Projects Los Angeles, US Breakfast of Champions, curated by Chloe Vaitsou, Yinka Shonibare Space, London, UK Until the End of the Worlds, curated by Max Henry, AMP, Athens, EL Reality Sandwiches, curated by Margherita Belaief, Artnews Projects, Berlin, DE Rock Opera, CAPC, Museum of Contemporary Art, Bordeaux, FR Play, Galleria Maria De Cardenas, Milan, IT A Fragile Reality, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, US The Gainsborough Packet, &c, 176 / Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK 2008 War Party, TBA Fest, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, US The Unforgiven, Stellan Holm Gallery, New York, US OPEN: Neon as a medium, Royale Projects, Indian Wells, US Lightness of Being, Initial Access, Wolverhampton, US Discover the Landscape, Orangery Museum, Gera, DE Several Landscapes, Western Exhibitions, Chicago, Illinois, US Important If True (Hootenanny in E.), Burnet Art Gallery at Chambers, the Luxury Art Hotel, Minneapolis, US Contemporary Northwest Art Awards, Portland Art Museum, Portland, US Shape of Things to Come, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK Legend, curated by Alexis Vaillant, Domaine Departemental de Chamarande, FR 2007 Gravity’s Rainbow, Peres Projects, Athens, EL 8th Northwest Biennial, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, US
2006 Demolition Crew, Western Exhibitions, Chicago, US Phantasmania, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, US 1627 – 2007, Artnews Projects, Berlin, DE Let’s go camping, John Connelly Presents, New York, US There’s no fooling you (the classics), Peres Projects, Los Angeles, US Eigenheim, everything but the kitchen sink, Kunstverein Goettingen, DE The Classics: Dan Attoe, Elliott Hundley, Raqib Shaw, Peres Projects, Los Angeles, US Montezuma’s Revenge, Nicole Klagsbrun, New York, US
2005 New Monastery, St. Paul’s Church Gallery, London, UK The Zine UnBound: Kults, Werewolves and Sarcastic Hippies, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, US Fast Forward: A Passion for the New, House of Campari, Venice, US Growing Up Absurd, Hebert Read Gallery, Kent, US Sunset in Athens, Vamiali’s, EL The Common Room, Wilkinson Gallery, London, UK New Figuration, Galleri Christina Wilson, Copenhagen, DK Growing Up Absurd, curated by Alun Rowlands & Matt Williams, Kent Institute of Art & Design, Kent, UK 2004 Axxxpresssunizm, Vilma Gold, London, UK Young Americans, Galerie Hof & Huyser, Amsterdam, NL Fictional Wonders / Real Hallucinations: Works by Dan Attoe and Tammy Mercure, curated by Chris Cook, Sioux City Art Center, Iowa, US Cave Canem, John Connelly Presents, New York, US New Space: figurative, abstract, and literal (two-person exhibition with Jered Sprecher), Wendy Cooper Gallery, Chicago, US
2003 Rules Everyone Will Follow From This Day Forth, Peres Projects, Los Angeles, US Today’s Man, Hiromi Yoshii Gallery, Tokyo, JP Today’s Man, John Connelly Presents, New York, US Summer Jam, Peres Projects, Los Angeles, US
2002 Iowa Artists 2002, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, US Pretending I’m In the Forest, Eve Drewelowe Gallery, University of Iowa, Iowa City, US
2001 Glad to Be Here, Byron Burford Gallery, Iowa City, US Mixed Bag, Wendy Cooper Gallery, Madison, US
1999 Secrets of Goo, catalogue, Commonwealth Gallery, Madison, US The Walker Valise, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, US
1998 Appel Artist of the Year Show, catalogue, Wausau, US
Publications
2012 ORSKON, Gitte and STAMPE, Jeanett. ‘WONDERS – Masterpieces from Private Collections in Denmark’, KUNSTEN Museum of Modern Art Aalborg, Aalborg. September 2012
2006 ‘You have more freedom than you’re using’, Catalogue in conjunction with Peres Projects exhibition, 2006 2003 COOK, Chris. ‘Fictional Wonders/Real Hallucinations’, Catalogue, Sioux City Art Center, Iowa, 2003
Selected Bibliography
2017 BENSCHOP, Jurriaan. ‘Dan Attoe, Peres Projects’, Artforum, April 2017. QUIN, John. ‘Dan Attoe, Natural Selections’, Art Review, March 2017. FINEL HONIGMAN, Ana. ‘The strange disappearance of civic America’, Texte zur Kunst, March 2017. Editor. ‘Dan Attoe at Peres Projects’, Contemporary Art Daily, February 2017. SEATON, Brit. ‘Dan Attoe at Peres Projects’, Berlin Art Link, January 2017. Editor. ‘Dan Attoe at Peres Projects, Berlin’, Cura, January 2017. Editor. ‘Dan Attoe’, Tique, January 2017.
2016 BECK, Eva. ‘Berliner Kunstgriff’, Gallerytalk.net, December 2016. MICHALAROU, Efi. ‘Art Cities, Berlin - Dan Attoe’, Dream Idea Machine, December 2016. SCHNEIDER, Hans. ‘Dan Attoe’s ‘Natural Selections’ at Peres Projects, Berlin’, Blouin Artinfo, December 2016. INDRISEK, Scott. ‘Beauty and Awkwardness: Dan Attoe’s Landscapes’, Blouin Artinfo, March 2016. INDRISEK, Scott. ‘Dan Attoe: Beauty and Clumsiness’, Blouin Artinfo, July 2016. Editor. ‘Dan Attoe’s ‘Natural Selections’ at Peres Projects, Berlin’, Blouin Artinfo, December 2016. ABRAMS, Amah-Rose. ‘Gallery Hopping: Winter Dreaming with Dan Attoe at Peres Projects’, Artnet News, December 2016 SAYEJ, Nadja. ‘The Artist Painting America’s Pacific Northwest’, Amuse, December 2016.
2014 MOTLEY, John. ‘Artist blends the real, ideal in his ‘Landscapes’, The Oregonian, June 13, 2014. Editor. ‘Dan Attoe plus David Ostrowski at Peres Projects, Double Vision’ Sugarhigh, February 2014. Editor. ‘Dan Attoe - Landscapes with Water’, Monopol, March 2014. FINEL HONIGMAN, Ana. ‘Dan Attoe’, Frieze, April 2014. Editor. Front Cover, Damn Magazine, March 2014. Editor. ‘Dan Attoe’s Landscapes with Water at Peres Projects, Berlin’, Art Circus, March 2014. TAYLOR, Sue. ‘Dan Attoe, Fourteen30 Contemporary’, Art in America, October 2014. Editor. ‘Surferes on Still Water- Dan Attoe’, Art Daily, March 2014.
2011 BOOSIN, Lisa. ‘TenOverSix’s Arty Turn’, Racked, May 2011 WILSON, Helen. ‘The Shape We’re In - Camden’, Where Art You, February 2011
2008 POLITI, Giancarlo. ‘Focus: Painting, Dead Language or Cultural Terrorism?’, Flash Art, December 2008 HONIGMAN, Ana Finel. ‘Dan Attoe: Peres Projects Berlin’, Artforum, 2008
2007 CAMPBELL, Clayton. ‘Los Angeles: Peres Projects Dan Attoe: Loaded, Nailed, and Short on Cash’. Contemporary, 2007. No. 90
2006 PAGEL, David. ‘Dan Attoe’s neon sculptures at Peres Projects’, LA Times, November 24, 2006 GARCÍA, Kathryn. ‘Dan Attoe’, Artforum, November, 2006 GRAY, Emma. ‘Knight Rider: Dan Attoe’, Art Review, November, 2006
2005 DRAKE, Cathryn. Dan Attoe/404 Contemporanea/Naples, Art Forum, Summer 2005
2004 MAGNUSON, Ann. ‘L.A. Woman: I went for the scene but stayed for the art’, Paper, June-July, 2004 NELSON, Arty. ‘Hunters and Gatherers’, LA Weekly, May-June 2004
2003 COTTE, Holland. ‘By and About Men, and They’re Running With It’, New York Times, August 8, 2003