Dan Walsh

Since the early 1990s, Dan Walsh has developed painted artworks that etch the fragility of movement in a modernist and geometric vein. His compositions are free hand paintings that transgress the objective purity of minimalism. His paintings forms, colors, and even the manner they’re hung, are often atmospheric in nature. Situated behind an arrangement of colored stones forming curved lines and round angles, his paintings produce a sensation of floating and a strange delicateness. Through the abstraction and the simplification of forms, each painting corresponds to a certain resonance or a table of potential elements, similar to the Tibetan Mandalas: this allows the painting to snatch the spectator’s attention and influence his reflection. For Dan Walsh, painting is a pertinent medium, “as long as it is a means for an individual to make sense of the world, and the commitment it requires is shared with the public.” Therefore the painting is not simply a critical tool. Above all else, it symbolizes the place where we can explore and question mechanisms of perception.

Artworks

*Retreat*

Dan Walsh
Acrylic on canvas
140 x 140
2009

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Art Brussels 2019

25 April 2019 – 28 April 2019 25.04.2019 – 28.04.2019

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Dan Walsh

dialogues #1 Baronian Xippas Brussels

8 June 2019 – 27 July 2019 08.06.2019 – 27.07.2019

dialogues #1 Baronian Xippas Brussels, Xippas Paris, Paris (FR)

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Dan Walsh

Pressing Matter - curated by Paula van den Bosch

25 January 2019 – 12 January 2020 25.01.2019 – 12.01.2020

Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht (NL)

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Dan Walsh

9 January 2020 – 22 February 2020 09.01.2020 – 22.02.2020

Paula Cooper, New York (US)

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Dan Walsh

29 April 2020 – 6 June 2020 29.04.2020 – 06.06.2020

Almine Rech, London (US)

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Artists

Biography

Born in 1960 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Lives and works in New York.

EDUCATION

Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Hunter College, New York, New York

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2019

Pressing Matter: Dan Walsh, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, NL

2016

Both Sides : Lexa and Dan Walsh, w/Lexa Walsh, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, USA

2015

Dan Walsh, Galerie Xippas, Paris, France (November 21, 2015 – January 16, 2016)
Dan Walsh, Galerie Tschudi, Zuoz, Switzerland (July 25 – September 19)
Grandstand, dolceacqua arte contemporanea, Dolceacqua, Iltaly ( July 18 – August 08) Dan Walsh Prints, Pace Prints, New York, NY ( May – June 27)
Dan Walsh, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY (January 7 – February 14)

2014

Dan Walsh, Works on Paper, Galerie Slewe, Amsterdam, Netherlands Dan Walsh, Pace Prints, New York, NY
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, USA
Dan Walsh, Xippas Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland

2013

Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, USA
Dan Walsh, Galerie Xippas, Paris, France
Galeria Elvira Gonzalez, Madrid, Spain
Table of contents, Fondation Speerstra, Apples, Switzerland

2012

Time Trials, galerie Christophe Daviet-Thery, Artists Book and editions, Paris Dan Walsh, Galerie Tschudi, Zuoz, Switzerland
Dan Walsh: UnCommon Ground, Museum of Art, Rhode Island school of Design, USA Dan Walsh, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, USA
Dan Walsh, Gallery SEOMI, Seoul, Corée du Sud

2011

Time Trials, Slewe Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Books and artist edition, Paris and Tschudi Gallery, Glarus Dan Walsh, Haverford School, Haverford, PA

2010

Dan Walsh, Galerie Xippas, Paris, France
Catalog – a Dan Walsh Survey, Christophe Daviet-Thery, Paris, France Days and Nights, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, USA

2009

Dan Walsh, Galerie Tschudi, Zuoz, Switzerland
Recent Paintings, Galerie Patrick de Brock, Knokke, Belgique
Dan Walsh, Llibres and Obras Sobre Paper, Raina Lupa Galeria, Barcelone, Espagne
“Print Publishers Spotlight: Pace Prints’ publication with Dan Walsh,” Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, USA

2008

Dan Walsh, Paula Cooper, Gallery New York, USA Slewe Galerie, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Dan Walsh, Lars Wolter, The Suburban, Chicago, Il, USA Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, USA
Pace Prints, New York, USA

2007

Galerie Xippas, Paris, France
Galeria Elvira Gonzalez, Madrid, Spain

2006

Dan Walsh Recent Paintings, Patrick de Brock gallery, Knokke, Belgium Slewe Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Galerie Tschudi, Zuoz, Switzerland
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, USA

2005

Sentence, Mario Diacono at ARS Libri, Boston, MA, USA 2004 Galerie Xippas, Paris, France
Paolo Curti / Annamaria Gambuzzi & Co, Milano, Italy
Prints and Books, 192 Books, New York, USA

2003

La Synagogue de Delme, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Delme, France
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, USA
Slewe Galerie, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Chac Mool Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA Galerie Tschudi, Glarus, Switzerland
Neue Bilder, Galerie S65, Cologne, Germany

2002

Recycling, livres et estampes 1995–2002, Cabinet des estampes du Musée d’art et d’histoire/Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
Dan Walsh & Peter Young, Hazmat Gallery, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tuscon, Etats-Unis 2001 Forefront Gallery, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
New Paintings and Wallwork, Galerie Tschudi, Glarus, Switzerland 2000 Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, USA

1999

Chac Mool Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA
Petra Bungert Projects, Brussels, Belgium Project / Event, Rampe 003, Berlin, Germany Barbara Flynn Gallery, Australia

1998

Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, USA 1997 Petra Bungert Gallery, New York, USA
Post Production – Dan Walsh & Editions Forde, Forde, Geneva, Switzerland 1996 Galerie Béla Jarzyk, Cologne, Germany

1995

Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, USA

1994

Art & Public, Geneva, Switzerland

1993

Galerie Ludwig, Krefeld, Germany

1992

Rubenstein / Diacono, New York, USA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2017

Pattern Recognition Galerie Xippas, Paris, France (January 27- March 18)

2014

Das Optische Unbewusste, Kunst(Zeug)Haus, Rapperswil-Jona, Switzerland (June 6 – August 10)
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New-York (March 7– May 25)
Post-Op, Perceptual Gone Painterly/ du perceptuel au pictural, 1958-2014, cur. Matthieu Poirier, Emmanuel Perrotin Gallery, Paris, March – April

2013

Abstract Generation: Now in Print, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, USA The Banquet, MAMCO, Geneva, Switzerland

2012

It’s Always Summer on the Inside, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, USA Tell The Children, La Salle de Bains, Lyon, France
Print/Out, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA
30/30, image archive project, CCNOA, traveling exhibition
Painting as Radical Form, Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy
Erased, Ventana 244, Brooklyn, New York, USA
The Old, The New, The Different, Kunstalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Colorific, CCNOA, Arts school of Braine-L’Alleud, Belgium
The Indiscipline of Painting, Tate St. Ives, Cornwall, traveling exhibition : Mead Gallery, Warwick, UK

2011

Bridgehampton Biennial, curator : Bob Nickas, Bridgehampton, NY
One Dozen Paintings, The Journal, New York, NY, USA
Why Patterns?, Slewe Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Situation New York 1986, Art & Public, Geneva, Switzerland
Look, Xippas Art Contemporain Geneva, Switzerland
Bodybraingame, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA
Grounded, curated by Stephen Felton, 88 Eldridge Street, New York, NY, USA (Darling) You Send Me, b9 Galerie, Vienna, Austria
Alumni Show – Haverford School; Dan Walsh & Michael Scott, Haverford, PA, USA
Two Colors, Two Colors, curated by Clay Hapaz, Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts & Elisabeth
Ivers Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Looking Back: The Fifth White Columns Annual - selected by Bob Nickas, White Columns, New York, NY, USA
Group Show, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY, USA

2010

Peinture et Livre, Livres et Peintures, La Galerie Guy Ledune, Brussels, Belgium
Revolver, Xippas Arte Contemporaneo, Montevideo, Uruguay
New Editions, with Tara Donovan, Robert Ryman, Robert Mangold and Dan Walsh, Pace
Prints, New York, USA
Once Removed, The Apartment, Athens, Greece
Wait For Me at the bottom of the Pool, Martos Gallery, Summer exhibition, Sagaponack, New York, USA
25 Jahre Galerie Tschudi, Galerie Tschudi, Zuoz, Switzerland No Barrier Fun, Lisa Cooley, New York, USA
With Your Eyes Only, CCNOA at YUM, Brussels, Belgium Abstract Vision Now, Art + Art Gallery, Moscow, Russia
If My Soul Had a Shape, Galerie Paula Cooper, New York, USA Composite Visions, Centre d’ Art Neufchatel, Switzerland Electro Geo, Frac Limousin, Limoges, France

2009

Portrait de l’artiste en motocycliste, homage to Olivier Mosset, Magasin, CNAC Grenoble, France Spatial Dimensions, Patrick de Brock Gallery, Knokke, Belgium
With Your Eyes Only, Kunstverein Medienturm, Graz, Austria
Cave Painting (installment #2), organized by Bob Nickas
Why Painting Now , Blondeau Fine Arts Services, Geneva, Switzerland
Stripes / Solids, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, USA
Blue, James Graham & Sons, New York, USA
Abstract America: New Painting and Sculpture, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK Transitions: Painting at the (other) end of art, Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia Italy

2008

Revisited, La Salle de bains, Lyon, France
Four New Projects, The Suburban, Chicago, Il, USA
Weight Watchers, Galerie Xippas, Paris, France
Counterpoints, Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO, USA
My eyes keep me in Trouble, The Physics Room, Christchurch, New Zealand & Sydney College of the Arts Gallery, Sydney, Australia
What time is it, Hedah, Maastricht, The Netherlands
Deformalisemes, Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Berlin, Germany

2007

pas de soucis, CM6 Collective Monochrome project by Billy Gruner, La Barralière, Tulette, FR
Half Square, Half Crazy-A moitié carré à moitié fou, cur. : Vincent Pécoil, Lili Reynaud-Dewar and Élisabeth Wetterwald, Villa Arson, Nice, France
Painting as Fact – Fact as Fiction, organized by Bob NIckas, de Pury & Luxembourg, Zurich, CH Minimalpop, Arti en Amicitiae, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Very Abstract and Hyper Figurative, curated by Jens Hoffmann, Thomas Dane Gallery, London

2006

USA Today, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
Getting it ‘Right, The Open Studios Press, Boston, MA, USA
An Ongoing Low-Grade Mystery, curated by Bob Nickas, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, USA
2 Step, organized by Petra Bungert, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo; traveling to UH Galleries, Art & Design Gallery, Hatfield, UK

2005

Spectrum, organized by Kate Shepherd, Galerie Lelong, New York, USA
The Painted World, organized by Bob Nickas, P.S.1 Center for Contemporary Art, Long Island City, NY, USA Private View, Collection Pierre Huber 1980-2000, Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne
Minimalpop, organized by Petra Bungert, Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire, Paris, France and Brussels, Belgium

2004

La lettre volée, F. R. A. C. Franche Comté, Musée des Beaux Arts, Dole, France 2003 It happened tomorrow, Biennale d’Art Contemporain de Lyon 2003, Lyon, France
On, inaugural group show, Xippas Gallery, Athens, Greece
Contra / Post, JG Contemporary, New York, USA
Ljubljiana Biennial, organized by Christophe Cherix, Ljubljana, Slovenia 2002 7 Grays, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, USA
Abstract Redux, Danese Gallery, New York, USA
From the Observatory, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, USA
Paul Morrison, Dan Walsh, Art & Public, Geneva, Switzerland
Oliver Mosset, Dan Walsh, Sol Lewitt, CCNOA (art x architecture), Brussels, Belgium New York, New Work, Now, Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, UK
Hungry Eyes, Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, UK

2001

New Paintings, Wayne Gonzales, Jacqueline Humphries, Jonathan Lasker, Blake Rayne, Dan Walsh, Kevin Bruk Gallery, Miami, USA
WOP (Works on Paper), curator: Petra Bungert, PS Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2000

Group Exhibition : Wayne Gonzales, Robert Grosvenor, Roy Lichtenstein, Rita McBride, Dan Walsh, Paula
Cooper Gallery, New York, USA
Architecture & Memory, Lawrence Rubin Greenberg Van Doren Fine Art, NY, USA Drawing Spaces, curated by Susan Harris, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, USA
Points, Lines, Plans, curated by Eric de Chassey, Filles du Calvaire, Paris, France The Significant Pursuit : Form and Geometry, Smack Mellon Studios, Brooklyn, USA

1999

Larry Clark Portfolios, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany
Correspondance(s), L’espace lausannois d’art contemporain, Lausanne, Switzerland
Editions de l’Ecole cantonale d’art de Lausanne 1995-1999, Galerie Mollat, Bordeaux, France Objects in the rear view mirror are closer than they appear, Max Hetzler
Gallery, Berlin, DE Pencils of Nature : A Dialogue, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York, USA
Works on paper, Galerie Tanya Rumpff, Haarlem, The Netherlands

1998

In Vitro e Altro, Cabinet des estampes du Musée d’art et d’histoire, Geneva, Switzerland In Vitro, Glassbox Open, Paris, France
Drawings & Prints from the Paula Cooper Gallery, Visual Arts Gallery University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
9 +1, Petra Bungert Projects, Brussels, Belgium

1997

Normotic, One Great Jones, New York, USA
Dan Walsh et éditions Forde 1996-1997, L’usine, Geneva, Switzerland

1996

Squares or Lines, Art & Public, Geneva, Switzerland Group Show, Sandra Gering Gallery, New York, USA Ab Fab, Feature Inc., New York, USA
Group Show, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, USA

1995

Painting Architecture, Galerie Sophia Ungers, Cologne, Germany
Pittura - Immedia, Neue Galerie and Kunstlerhaus, Graz, Austria
Peter Halley / Dan Walsh - Reading Room, Schmidt Contemporary Art, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
New York: Positions in Abstract Painting, Kunstverein Museum, Germany
Altered States : American Art in the 90s, Forum for Contemporary Art, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Notes on Print : With and After Robert Morris, Cabinet des estampes du Musée d’art et d’histoire, Geneva, Switzerland
Human Nature, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, USA

1994

Jessica Diamond, Oliver Herring, Hunter Reynolds, Dan Walsh, Paula Cooper Gallery, NY, USA
Benefit Exhibition, White Columns, New York, USA
Pamela Golden, Darryl Zeltzer, John Zinsser, Dan Walsh, Gallery S 65, Aalst, Belgium Who Chooses Who?, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, USA
Dysfunction U.S.A., Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Gramercy International Contemporary Art Exhibition, The Gramercy Park Hotel, NY, USA Adieu, les Frontières!, Van Orsouw Galerie, Zürich, Switzerland
Holiday Exhibition, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, USA

1993

Painting as Paradigm, Stark Gallery, New York, USA
Live In Your Head / Liebe in Deinem Kopf, Heligen Kreuzerhof Hochschule fur Angewandte Kunst in Wein, Vienna, Austria
Friendly, Dooley Le Cappelaine Gallery, New York, USA
Suzanne McClelland, Rudolf Stingel, Dan Walsh, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, USA
BOMB Magazine Benefit, Fawbush Gallery, New York, USA

1992

Off Balance, Jason Rubell Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida, USA
Painting Today / Peinture Aujourd’hui, Galerie Pierre Huber, Basel Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland And What Do You Represent? Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London, UK
7 Rooms / 7 Shows, P.S.1, New York, USA

1991

Ten Years : The First Decade of the MFA Program, Hunter College Gallery, Hunter College, USA Project Room, Daniel Newberg Gallery, New York, USA

1990

Group Show, Daniel Newberg Gallery, New York, USA

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA Wadsworth Athaneum, Hartford, CT, USA
Jumex Collection, Mexico City, Mexico
New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA
Cabinet des Estampes, Geneva, Switzerland
Yale University Library, New Haven, CT, USA
Center for Contemporary Non-Objective Art, Belgium
Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, France
Collezione Maramotti, Italy
The Saatchi Gallery, UK

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Dan Walsh

Artworks

Exhibitions

Art Brussels 2019

25 April 2019 – 28 April 2019 25.04.2019 – 28.04.2019

Tour & Taxis

News

Dan Walsh

dialogues #1 Baronian Xippas Brussels

8 June 2019 – 27 July 2019 08.06.2019 – 27.07.2019

dialogues #1 Baronian Xippas Brussels, Xippas Paris, Paris (FR)

Dan Walsh

Pressing Matter - curated by Paula van den Bosch

25 January 2019 – 12 January 2020 25.01.2019 – 12.01.2020

Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht (NL)

Dan Walsh

9 January 2020 – 22 February 2020 09.01.2020 – 22.02.2020

Paula Cooper, New York (US)

Dan Walsh

29 April 2020 – 6 June 2020 29.04.2020 – 06.06.2020

Almine Rech, London (US)

Artists

Biography

EDUCATION

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS