EDUCATION
BA Fine Arts, Brown University, 1984
EXHIBITIONS & PERFORMANCES (Solo)
2004
You are here, at Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
Autopsis, performance with Liz Young at Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
2003
Ground, at Hunsaker/Schlesinger, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA
2001
Bird Hub, Public Commission in three parts (commissioned by The Lux Art Institute) San Elijo Lagoon, Encinitas, CA
1999
Welcome to Weyoume World, Installation at Hunsaker/Schlesinger, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA
1996
Mascaron de Proa, Installation/performance, Arizona State University Art Museum, Mathews Art Center, Tempe AZ
1995
chamber box, Installation/performance at Gramercy Art Fair at
Hotel Chateau Marmont, L.A., CA
You Are Here, Cal State University, Fullerton Main Art Gallery (catalogue)
Autopsis, performance/procedure at Cal State University, Fullerton Main Art Gallery
pseudesthesia & synecdoche, Griffin Fine Art, Costa Mesa, CA
1992
frontier, Newspace, Los Angeles
Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago
1990
Newspace, Los Angeles
1989
Gallery + 1, Tokyo, Japan
1988
Newspace, Los Angeles
SET DESIGN
1999
Trajectoire, Set/object for Diavolo Dance Theater, premiered at El Camino College Performing Arts Center, Torrance, CA
1996
Equilibre, Set/object for Diavolo Dance Theater, premiered at Highways, Santa Monica, CA
D2R (b), Set/object for Diavolo Dance Theater, premiered at Highways, Santa Monica, CA
Manmade, Set/object for Diavolo Dance Theater, premiered at Occidental College, L.A., CA
1995
D2R (a), Set/object for Diavolo Dance Theater, premiered at
Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Scotland, 1985
Design and installations for Butoh, Space O, Tokyo, Japan
EXHIBITIONS (Selected group)
2004
Bio-Ballistic Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2002
Out of True University of California Santa Barbara Art Museum, Santa Barbara, CA
COLA 2002 Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2000
Made in California: Art, Image and Identity, 1900-2000 Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Representing LA Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA and South Texas Institute of Art, Corpus Christi, TX
More and Less Les Ateliers Nadar, Marseilles, France
ReCharge: LA Art of the Early 90'sLaguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
Eccentric VisionsHunsaker/Schlesinger, Santa Monica, CA
1999
Out of the Closet: Clothing as Imagery in Contemporary Art Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City, Utah
More And Less The Brewery, Los Angeles, CA
Escondido Phoenix 1999 Malibu, CA
1998
Renovations The Brewery, Los Angeles, CA
Baechler, Colson, Martinez-Celaya, Wheeler Griffin Contemporary Exhibitions, Venice, CA
Chair Santa Ana College, Santa Ana, CA
1996
Shirts and Skins: Absence and Presence in Contemporary Art, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI
Vessels, The Armory Center, Pasadena, CA
Skin and Bone, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park
Open House, Williamson Gallery, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA (catalogue)
The Caligraphic Mark, Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, CA (catalogue)
Absence, Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, Orange, CA
Masculine Measures, John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI (catalogue)
1995
Machine, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA
California in Three Dimensions, California Center for the Arts,Escondido, CA (catalogue)
1994
Four Sculptors, Jose Drudis-Biada Art Gallery, Mt. St. Mary's College, Los Angeles
1993
Objects: Sixteen Sculptors. Williamson Gallery, Art Center College of Design
and The Armory Center, Pasadena
The Elegant, the Irreverent, and the Obsessive: Drawing in
Southern California. CalState Fullerton, Main Gallery
The Next Generation, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA
Body and Soul: Conceptual Sculpture, Mandeville Gallery,
University of California, San Diego (three person)
1992
Oddly: Works by Four Los Angeles Artists, The Oakland Museum, Oakland
Drawings II, Koplin Gallery, Santa Monica
Instruments of Sound, Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine
1991
Expedition, CalState University Fullerton (three person)
The Store Show, Richard Bennett Gallery, Los Angeles
1990
Michael Kohn Gallery, Santa Monica (three person)
Glenn Dash Gallery, Los Angeles (three person)
1989
Pacific Rim Exhibition: Junko Chodos, Minoru Ohira, Daniel Wheeler;
L.A.Artcore, Los Angeles
Mailart '89, Nakasawa Gallery, Ginza, Tokyo, Japan; traveling exhibition: Ministry
of Post and Communication, Tokyo;
Nagoya City Central Park Event Court, Nagoya, Japan
BIBLIOGRAPHY (selected)
2004
Tommy Freeman, "Daniel Wheeler at Otis College of Art + Design", Artweek June
Peter Frank, "Pick of the Week", LA Weekly April 16-22
Holly Myers, "Unsettling, Persuasive Architectural Fiction", Los Angeles Times March 26
2003
Christopher Miles, "Daniel Wheeler", Artforum.com May
2002
David Pagel, "Pop: The Next Wave", Los Angeles Times June 8
Jeanne Schinto, "Ducks Need Long Runways", San Diego Union Tribune February 4
2001
Robert Pincus, "Taking Wing", San Diego Union Tribune February 4
Robert Pincus, "Artist Works Hard to Meet the Challenge", North County Reader February 28
1999
Collette Chattopadhyay, Escondido Phoenix 1999", Sculpture October
Jody Zellen, "Daniel Wheeler at Hunsaker Schlesinger", Art Papers, September
Brad Spence, " Daniel Wheeler at Hunsaker Schlesinger", Artweek June
1998
Daniel Wheeler, "Re-collected:Weyoume at Lot 9180", ArtsMedia, November
1997
Marcia Morse, "Shirts and Skins at The Contemporary Museum", Artweek, February
Charlene Roth, "Skin and Bone at Municipal Gallery", Artweek, February
1996
John O'Brien, "Open House" exhibition catalog, Art Center College of Design
Cathy Curtis, "Filling the Absence", Los Angeles Times (OC Edition),April 4
James Auer, "Visions of Masculinity", Milwaukee Journal Sentinal, February 29
1995
Robert Pincus, "California Sculpture Proves Novel..", San Diego Union Tribune June 18
Christopher Miles, "Daniel Wheeler", Artweek, April
Lauri Mendenhall, "Constant Craving; a Daniel Wheeler Wonderland at Griffin Fine Art ", Daily Pilot, March 23
Cathy Curtis, "From Basement Blasts to 'Here'", Los Angeles Times (OC Edition), March 7
Todd Baron, "Daniel Wheeler", Artscene, March
Daniella Walsh, "A Sculptor Who Makes Thinking Art", Orange County Register, March 5
Cathy Curtis, "Freeing the Prisoner Within Your Skin" Los Angeles Times (OC Edition), February 28
Howard Fox, Susan Kandel, Mike McGee, "You Are Here" exhibition catalog, Cal State Fullerton.
1994
David French, "Four Sculptors", Artscene, February, illus, cover
1993
Peter Frank, "Pick of the Week", LA Weekly, December 17
William Wilson, Los Angeles Times, November 11
David DiMichele, "Hand, Eye and Brain", Artweek, July 8
Robert Pincus, San Diego Union-Tribune, Feb. 18
Amelia Jones, Artforum, January 1993
1992
James Scarborough, "Bewonderment", Artweek, Dec. 3
Susan Kandel, Los Angeles Times, Oct. 29
Ramsey Bell Breslin, "Invasion of the Odd Bodies", Oakland Express, July 3
Irvin Muchnik, "The Odd Squad", California Museum Magazine, Spring
Kenneth Baker, "Just Odd Enough", San Francisco Chronicle (Datebook), June 14
Carol Fowler, "Oddly Art Makes Points That Can Hurt", Contra Costa Times
Catherine Maclay, "Ambiguity & Amusement from Four Los Angelenos,"
Mercury News, May 22
David Bonetti, "Sculptors, Who Attract Oddly Enough", San Francisco Examiner, June 11
Barrett Watten, "In the In Between", Artweek, June 18
1991
Cathy Curtis, "Reliving the Painful Search for One's Identity", Los Angeles Times , Orange County Edition, Sept. 16
1990
Susan Kandel, Arts Magazine, November
William Wilson, Los Angeles Times, March 30
John O'Brien, "Uncanny Appropriations: Daniel Wheeler at Newspace", Artweek, April 12
Todd Baron, Art Issues, May
Suvan Geer, Los Angeles Times, Feb. 9
1989
Arturo Silva, "Bravo Los Angeles", Daily Yomiuri, (english version)
Asahi Shinbun, (Tokyo newspaper), Feb. 21
AN.AN, (Tokyo), Feb 3
1988
Marlena Donohue, "Galleries", Los Angeles Times, Sept. 30
AWARDS and GRANTS
2004
Durfee Completion Grant, Durfee Foundation
2001
COLA Award, City of Los Angeles Cultural Awards grant
Lester Horton Award for set design, Los Angeles
2000
Lester Horton Award for set design, Los Angeles
1990
Art Here and Now, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
1984
Albin Polasek Award for Innovation in Sculpture, Brown University, Providence, RI
COLLECTIONS (public)
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
Lux Institute, Rancho Santa Fe, CA
Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
Addison Gallery of American Art Andover, MA
Peter and Eileen Norton Family Foundation, Santa Monica, CA
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
Dazal Inc, Nashville, TN
TEACHING
2003
Visiting Instructor, Brown University, Providence, RI
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