Dan Thompson (b. 1972)

www.danthompsonart.com

Night Class - Theoretical Structure in Figure Drawing

SOLO SHOWS

1999 Studio One, Gray, LA

GROUP SHOWS

2005
The Next Generation of Realists,The Forbes Galleries, New York, NY
Regional Realists, Cetury Gallery, Alexandria, VA
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Valentines, John Pence Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2004
Realism Today, Apex Gallery, Washington, DC
Faculty Exhibition, New York Academy of Art
Allegories, John Pence Gallery
Summer Exhibition, Arcadia Gallery, New York, NY
The Figure and the Cast, Century Gallery, Alexandria, VA

2003
Exposed, The Nude, John Pence Gallery, San Francisco, CA
93rd Annual Gold Medal Juried Exhibition, Pasadena Museum of Art, CA
Self Portraits, John Pence Gallery, San Francisco, CA
The Figure in American Art, Eleanor Ettinger Gallery, New York, NY
SouthwestArt Selects Artists to Watch, Steamboat Springs, CO, Denver Int'l Airport, CO
Views of Balleroy, The Forbes Galleries, New York, NY
Summer Invitational, Arcadia Gallery, New York, NY
9th Annual California Art Club Plein Air Painting Event at Historic Mission San Juan Capistrano, San Juan Capistrano, CA
Chemers Gallery, Tustin, CA

2002
Two Man Exhibition, Eleanor Ettinger Gallery, New York, NY
Nude: A Celebration of the Human Form, Morseburg Galleries, LA, CA
The Figure in American Art, Eleanor Ettinger Gallery, New York, NY
The Draughtsman's Eye, Annual Exhibition of Works on Paper, Morseburg Galleries,
Los Angles, CA

2001
The Art Students League of New York, New York, NY
Summer Salon, Eleanor Ettinger Gallery, New York, NY
The Draughtsman's Eye, Annual Exhibition of Works on Paper,Morseburg Galleries,
Los Angles, CA
The Studio Gallery, Alexandria, VA

2000
Sketches of Spain, Grenning Gallery, Sag Harbour, NY
Portrait Society of America, Washington, DC

1999
Dahesh Museum of Art, New York, NY
Drawings, John Pence Gallery, San Francisco, CA
The Water Street Atelier, Meredith Long & Company, Houston, TX
Diploma Show The New York Academy of Art

1998
Take Home a Nude, The New York Academy of Art
Corcoran Museum of Art

1994
Dan Thompson: Recent Portraits, Corcoran Gallery of Art

1992
Two Man Exhibition, Corcoran School of Art, White Walls Gallery

1990
An Artistic Discovery, United States Capitol Building, Washington, DC
Mary Washington College, Fredericksburg, VA
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA

SELECTED PORTRAIT COMMISSIONS

Michelle Marie Aaserod, Captain Charles W. Shilling, Officer Charles W. Hill,
The Von Bertrab Family, G. Gordon Liddy, Dr. William J. Kinnard Jr, Professor Burt Wilson, Professor William Newman, The Meltzer Family, Century Gallery Permanent Collection

AWARDS AND GRANTS

2005 Ethel Lorraine Bernstein Memorial Award, Corcoran College of Art and Design

2003 Best of Show, Southwest Art Magazine's Artists to Watch Exhibition, CO

2001 Grand Prize for Best of Show, American Society of Portrait Artist's
International Portrait Competition, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

2000 Honors Award, Portrait Society of America, National Conference, Washington, D.C

1999 Stobart Foundation Grant

1998 Leslie T. Posey Foundation Scholar, Sarasota, FL

1997 Ethel Lorraine Bernstein Memorial Award for Excellence in Painting, Corcoran School of Art

1992 William A. Newman Award for Painting
Nancy R. Wolf Award for Painting

1991 Foundation Award for Drawing

COLLECTIONS

Forbes Magazine
University of Maryland
The Orkand Corporation, Washington, DC
Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society, Kensington MD
Eileen Guggenheim, Ph.D
Stephen Foster
City of Alexandria, Virginia
Lynn Brown, Houston, TX
Armando Papi, New Orleans, LA
John Pence, San Francisco, CA
Portrait Society of Canada, Toronto

EDUCATION

1999 MFA, Magna cum laude graduate and Erlebacher Award for highest G.P.A (3.99), The Graduate School of Figurative Art of the New York Academy of Art

1998 - 2000 The Water Street Atelier, Brooklyn, NY

1994 BFA, Graduated with Honors, The Corcoran School of Art

1995 - 1997 Egeli Portrait Workshops, Edgewater, MD

1997 - 2000 Art Students League of New York

1996 Barnstone Studios, Coplay, PA

1995 - 2002 Private studies and studio apprenticeships with colorists and sculptors from the eastern and southern United States

TEACHING

Studio 126, Brooklyn, NY
Incamminati, Philadelphia, PA
Parsons School of Design, NY
Portrait Society of Canada, Lecturer and Demonstrator
New York Academy of Art
Los Angeles Academy of Figurative Art, Los Angeles, CA
Dahesh Museum of Art, Lecturer
Adjunct Professor of Drawing and Painting
The Graduate School of Figurative Art, The New York Academy of Art

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

2005
M. Stephen Doherty, "The Next Generation of Realists," American Artist, January, pp. 19-31

2004
Mark Jenkins, "Realism Reimagined," The Washington Post Weekend, Sunday, May 21, p. 39
"On the Rise, The Artist's Magazine, January, pp. 52-62

2003
Trish Hall, "Designing With the Idea That More Is Better," The New York Times, Sunday, March 30, Habitats Section

2002
Vanessa Silberman, "Portraiture Continues to Turn Heads in the Art Market," Art Business News, June, pp. 52-70
Dan Thompson, "The Language of Light," The Artist's Magazine, March, pp. 36-39

2002
Bonnie Gangelhoff, "Artists to Watch", Southwest Art Magazine, September, pp. 98-148

2001
"A Portfolio of Student Drawings" American Artist Magazine, November, pp. 64 - 69
"Advancing the Portrait Tradition", Molly Siple, California Art Clubs Newsletter, October
The Portrait Signature, A.S.O.P.A. Festival Review

2000
International Artist Magazine, October/November
The Art of the Portrait, December 1999/January

1999
E. Lynne Moss, "Academics Steal the Show," American Artist Magazine, Dec.