Dan Graham was born in 1942, in Urbana, Illinois. He currently lives and works in New York.
Dan Graham has had retrospective exhibitions at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2009), Museu Serralves, Porto, Portugal (2001), The Renaissance Society, University of Chicago (1981); Kunsthalle Berne (1983); the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth (1985), Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (1993); and Museum of Modern Art, Oxford (1997). Graham’s work has appeared in numerous international exhibitions. He has exhibited recently at the Center for Contemporary Art, CCA Kitakyushu, Kitakyushu (2010), the Espace d’Art Contemporain et Musee des Beaux-Arts, La Rochelle, France (2011), and the Turner Contemporary, Kent, United Kingdom (2013). He has participated in Documenta V (1972), VI (1977), VII (1982), IX (1992), and X (1997). He has been the recipient of numerous awards including the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York (2010), the French Vermeil Medal, Paris (2001), and the Coutts Contemporary Art Foundation Award (1992).
Courtesy Marian Goodman Gallery



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