Dan Hays
1966 Born in London.
1987-90 BA Fine Art, Goldsmith’s College, London.
Lives and works in London.
Solo Exhibitions
2009
Failing Light, Zürcher Studio, New York
2007
Across the Water, The Nunnery, London.
Deliverance, Void Gallery, Derry.
2006
Impressions of Colorado, Manchester Art Gallery, Southampton City Art Gallery, Djanogly Gallery, Nottingham.
Twilight in the Wilderness, Platform, London.
2004
Colorado Pioneers, Galerie Zürcher, Paris, France.
2002
Colorado, Entwistle Gallery, London.
2001
Junge Kunst e.V. Wolfsburg, Germany.
2000
Entwistle Gallery, London.
Project (No.2), slide installation, CSKX, London.
1999
Galerie Zürcher, Paris, France.
1998
30 Underwood Street, London.
1996
Laure Genillard Gallery, London.
1992
Flock, Alternative Art Gallery, Soho, London.
1991
Silent Partner, The Coffee Shak, Lewisham, London.
Abandon, The Arched Space, Clapham, London.
Group Exhibitions
2010
A Bright and Guilty Place, Payne Shurvell Gallery, London
2009
Parallel Lines, with Marie Søndergaard Lolk & Allan Otte, Galleri Tom Christoffersen, Copenhagen.
Compendium, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin.
2008
Personalised Surface: work in progress, Camberwell College of Art Gallery, London
Close to the Surface: Digital Presence, ICA, London.
Embedded, Gimpel Fils, London.
Garden of the Sleep of Love, Five Years, London.
Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks, Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen.
End Game — British Contemporary Art from the Chaney Family Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA.
2007
In Monet’s Garden – The Lure of Giverny, Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio,
USA; Musée Marmottan, Paris.
Still-Life, Still, T1+2 Gallery, London.
2006
Wandering Star, Gana Art Gallery, Seoul, S. Korea.
2005
Panorama de la peinture, Centre d’art contemporain, Meymac, France.
2004
Kunming Residents, with Diego Ferrari, Up River Loft, Kunming, China.
Forest, Wolverhampton City Gallery, UK.
Open Range, Artemis Greenberg Van Doren, New York, USA.
Blow Up, St. Pauls Gallery, Birmingham, UK.
2003
Primary Colours, The City Gallery, Leicester, UK.
The Human Zoo, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle, UK.
Portal, Studio J, Osaka, Japan.
Yes! I am a long way from home, The Nunnery, London; Kent institute of
Art and Design, touring to other UK venues.
Exploring Landscape: Eight Views from Britain, Andrea Rosen, New York.
2002
Post-Digital Painting, Cranbrook Art Museum, Michigan, USA.
Unscene, Gasworks Gallery, Vauxhall, London.
Land.escape, VTO, London, UK.
View Finder, Arnolfini, Bristol.
2001
Multiplication, British Council exhibition, touring to National Museum
of Art, Bucharest, Miroslav Kraljevic Gallery, Zagreb, Awagarda Gallery, Warsaw, Czech Museum of Fine Art, Prague.
Happy The World So Made, The Nunnery, London.
Uber die Zersetzung der fotografie, NGBK, Berlin, Germany.
The End Is Nigh, CSKX, London.
Quotidien Aide (Les Locataires), Ecole Superieure Des Beaux-Arts De
Tours, Tours, France.
Multiple Store travelling exhibition, New Art Centre, Roche Court, Hampshire, and The Whitechapel Gallery, London, etc.
Patterns - Between Object and the Arabesque, Kunsthallen Brandt Klaedefabrik, Odense, Denmark.
Light Box project, Hoxton Boutique, London.
The Difference Between You And Us, Five Years, London.
Tradition and Innovation, City Art Gallery, York.
2000
Serial Killers, Platform, London.
Cereal Killers, Chris Cutts Gallery, Toronto, Canada.
Fakescape, Mellow Birds, London.
1999
Untitled Painting Show, Lux Gallery, London.
Painting Lab, Entwistle Gallery, London.
Un Ecran, Le Tableau, Centre D’Art Contemporain, Parc Saint Leger,
Pougues-les-Eaux, France.
1998
Welcome, Ex Manifattura, tabacchi, Citta S.Angelo, Pescare, Italy
Ark, The Travelling Gallery, City Art Centre, Edinburgh.
Enough, The Tannery, London.
Soon, Het Consortium, Amsterdam, Holland.
Puppylove, Ikon Touring, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham.
Kettle Blue, Gallerie Beaumont, Luxembourg.
Dimension Jump, Trafo Gallery, Budapest, Hungary.
Close up on pattern, Laure Genillard Gallery, London.
Dumbpop, Jerwood Gallery, London.
1997
Mystral, Laure Genillard Gallery, London.
False Impressions, The British School at Rome, Italy.
Mellow Birds, The Bean Cafe, Shoreditch, London.
Visitor, Staffordshire University, Stoke-on-Trent.
Enough, Duende, Rotterdam, Holland.
20th John Moores Liverpool Exhibition, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool.
1996
Ace!, Arts Council Collection new purchases, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle, Hayward Gallery, London, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, etc.
Fifty Quid, Derbyshire Street Studios, London.
Soon, 30 Underwood Street, london.
1995
Damien Duffy, Dan Hays, Curtain Road Arts, London.
Alternative Art Market, Spitalfields, London.
220volt Message, Hooghuis, Arnhem, Holland.
Multiple Orgasm, Lost In Space, Stockwell, London.
Melange D’Aout, Laure Genillard Gallery, London.
Sick, 152c Brick Lane, Shoreditch, London.
Ventilation, with Greg Lewis, Powis Terrace, Notting Hill, London.
Blind Field, Coventry Gallery, Shoreditch, London.
1994
Miniatures, The Agency, Shoreditch, London.
Collections
Tate Gallery.
Arts Council Collection.
Southampton City Gallery.
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool.
Saatchi Collection.
Frac Île-de-France
Awards, Prizes & Residencies
2004
Residency in Kunming, China, supported by the Triangle Arts Trust and
the Arts Council of England.
1997
Winner of the 20th John Moores Liverpool exhibition.
London Arts Board award to individual artists.
Studio exchange, In and out of touch, Budapest.
Publications
2009
Failing Light, exhibition catalogue with text by Bernard Zürcher
2008
Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks, exhibition catalogue.
End Game – British Art from the Chaney Family Collection, exhibition catalogue.
2007
In Monet’s Garden – the Lure of Giverny, exhibition catalogue.
2006
Impressions of Colorado, exhibition catalogue, Southampton City Art Gallery.
Essay by Richard Dyer and interview with Ben Tufnell.
2004
Forest, exhibition catalogue, Wolverhampton City Gallery.
Speaking & Listening 3, Sheffield Hallam University / Site Gallery.
2003
Post-Digital painting, exhibition catalogue, Cranbrook Art Museum, USA.
Vitamin P, Phaidon Press.
2002
Shimmering Substance/View Finder, exhibition catalogue, Arnolfini,
Bristol.
2001
Dan Hays, Kunstverein, Wolfsburg, Germany, exhibition catalogue.
Ex Machina, Uber die Zersetzung der fotografie, NGBK, Berlin.
Patterns: Between Object and Arabesque, Kunsthallen Brandts
Klædefabrik, Odense, Denmark.
2000
Dan Hays, catalogue, Entwistle, London.
1999
Un Ecran, Le Tableau, exhibition catalogue.
Dan Hays, exhibition catalogue, Gallerie Zurcher, Paris.
1998
Soon catalogue, London.
New Neurotic Realism, published by the Saatchi Gallery.
1997
False Impressions catalogue, published by The British School at Rome.
Visitor brochure, published by Staffordshire University.
John Moores Catalogue, published by the Walker Art Gallery.
Published Writing, Features and Reviews
2010
Text and images in Apparatur 20, Denmark, with introduction by June Maestri Ditlevsen.
2008
Roderick Harris: From the Corner of the Living Room by Dan Hays, Turps Banana, issue 5.
Far Away So Close: Marc Hulson Discusses Dan Hays’ Work, Turps Banana, issue 5.
Reassurance of Atmospherics, Journal of the New Media Caucus, vol. 4
Across the Water, /Seconds, issue 9.
2007
Painting in the Light of Digital Reproduction, Culture Machine, vol. 9
2006
Dan Hays on Joseph Wright of Derby’s Vesuvius in Eruption, with a View
over the Islands in the Bay of Naples, Tate Etc. Issue 8. (www.tate.org.uk/tateetc/issue8/microtate.htm)
Research
2010
Present Technology, Symposium organised with Emma Hart, hosted by the Contemporary Art Research Centre, Kingston University.
2008-11
PhD at the Centre for Useless Splendour, Kingston University.
2008-09
Artist case study, FADE – Fine Art Digital Environment, University of
the Arts, London.
Teaching and academic involvement
1999-now
Slide talks with tutorials:
BA Fine Art at Coventry, Reading, Bath, Bristol, Wimbledon, Hull, Winchester, Cheltenham, London Metropolitan, City and Guilds, Lincoln, Bournemouth, Middlesex, Leeds and Derby art colleges.
MA Printmaking Royal College of Art.
Royal Danish Academy of Art, Copenhagen, Denmark.
1999–01
Visiting tutor: MA Fine Art, Goldsmith’s College and MA Painting, Royal College of Art.
2002–04
Visiting tutor: BA Fine Art, Goldsmith’s College, London.
2004
Lecture tour: Yunnan Art College, Kunming, Chengdu Art College and Chongqing Art College, Sichuan, China.
Speaking & Listening 3, Lecture at Sheffield Hallam University.
Painting In The Digital Age, lecture as invited speaker at the
Pixelraiders symposium, Sheffield Hallam University.
2006
Painting Photographs/Photographing Paintings, symposium at Derby
College of Art and Design. Invited speaker.
2007-now
Visiting tutor: BA Fine Art, Central St. Martins College, London
The Personalised Surface in Fine Art Digital Printmaking, conference at the V&A, 3rd April 2009