Ocula Report Havana Biennial 2019: Constructing the Possible 17 Apr 2019 : Federica Bueti for Ocula I first visited Havana in November 2016, a few days after Fidel Castro died, and just under a year before Hurricane Irma hit Cuba in September 2017. Since then, much has changed, including the hand-painted signs that punctuate the journey from the airport to the city centre, which today do not celebrate the revolution so much as the 'Unidad y...
Ocula Conversation Andrew Stahl and Guo Xiaohui The exhibition Beyond Boundaries at Somerset House in London (12 March–2 April 2019) marked the historic contributions of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing (CAFA) and the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, on the occasion of their 100th and 150th anniversaries, respectively. Spread across several rooms of Somerset House's...
Ocula Report The National 2019: New Australian Art 13 Apr 2019 : Elyse Goldfinch for Ocula The National 2019: New Australian Art features work by 70 contemporary Australia-based artists split across three venues: the Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW), Carriageworks, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA) (29 March–21 July 2019), as curated by Isobel Parker Philip, curator of photographs at AGNSW; Daniel Mudie Cunningham,...
Born in 1980 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Lives and works in New York and Miami, USA
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Ocula Conversation Daniel Arsham Artist, USA Daniel Arsham arrives in Hong Kong from New York in time to enjoy the last four hours of his birthday, although with his new show, Fictional Archeology, about to open at Galerie Perrotin in Hong Kong, there is little time for celebration. In fact, with exhibitions on three different continents in the next month, he may have to put the...
Related Press Daniel Arsham - The Time Traveler MAEKAN : 21 January 2017 Daniel Arsham is an artist unencumbered by the conventions of a particular place or period. Indeed, the very nature of his work and his audience's connection to it suggest that the lines of what constitute 'proper' art and even time itself seem to bend around him. From the comfort of his New York-based studio, he shares about his extensive use of...
Related Press 'Lexus Art Series' kicks off in Miami with Daniel Arsham on VR Whitewall Magazine : 2 December 2016 This first discussion, Virtual Reality: How Will It Influence Art & Design? revolved around the content, narratives, and technology that makes up virtual and augmented reality, and offered insight into our technologically-manipulated surroundings through Arsham’s creative lens.'My interest has been in where this technology...
Related Press Jenny Holzer & Mapplethorpe works go on show in a hospital Dazed Digital : 17 October 2016 An immersive, site-specific exhibition titled Human Condition is currently taking up residency at a former hospital in West Adams, Los Angeles – once known as Los Angeles Metropolitan Medical Center. Opening in 1971, it was the first Black-owned hospital in the California city, running until the neighbourhood’s decline and revelations...
Related Press Eye openers: corrective lenses have lent colour to artist Daniel Arsham's monochromatic output Wallpaper* : 19 September 2016 Glimpses of a ghostly, monochrome world are what mark out Daniel Arsham. The New York-based artist, and co-founder of experimental design and architecture practice Snarkitecture, has long been moulding his own blend of art, performance and architecture in a hypnotic greyscale palette, which has never veered off-course – that is, until...
Related Video & Audio Daniel Arsham '3018', Perrotin New York Perrotin : 7 December 2018 Video of the exhibition 3018 by Daniel Arsham at Perrotin New York September 8–October 21, 2018. Video: Guillaume Ziccarelli © 2018
Related Video & Audio Daniel Arsham 'The Angle of Repose', Perrotin Paris Perrotin : 12 January 2018 Interview of Daniel Arsham on the occasion of his exhibition The Angle of Repose at Perrotin Paris, October–December 2017
Related Video & Audio Talk Daniel Arsham & Paul Ardenne Perrotin : 14 October 2017 Conversation between Daniel Arsham & Paul Ardenne.On the occasion of the exhibition The angle of ReposeSaturday October 14, 2017
Related Video & Audio Lexus Art & Innovation Series Video: Daniel Arsham on Virtual Reality Whitewall : 4 January 2017 During the week of Art Basel in Miami Beach earlier this month, Whitewall partnered with Lexus to host two days of talks at the Faena Hotel. The conversations, titled Lexus Art Series: Art & Innovation Talks by Whitewall, focused on a range of topics concerning the art world, from virtual reality to online auctions, and from new kinds of art...
