Dan Graham – Homage to Cedric Price

Born in Urbana, Illinois in 1942, DAN GRAHAM grew up in New Jersey and lives and works in New York.

In 1964 he began directing the John Daniels Gallery in New York, where he put on Sol LeWitt’s first one-man show, and in group shows, exhibited works of Donald Judd, Dan Flavin, and Robert Smithson. Like these artists, Graham considered himself a writer–art- ist, publishing essays and reviews on rock music, Eisenhower’s paintings, and Dean Martin’s television show. His earliest work dealt with the magazine page, predating but often associated with Conceptual art. His work often focuses on cultural phenomena, and incorporates photography, video, performance, glass, and mirror structures.

He has exhibited and realized commissions all around the world, including participation at numerous international group exhibitions such as the Venice Biennale (1976, 2003, 2004 and 2005) and documenta V, VI, VII, IX and X (1972, 1977, 1982, 1992, and 1997). Major retrospectives of his oeuvre have been staged in Europe (2001–02) and in the US (2009), showing at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.