Dan Graham

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Dan Graham (born 1942) is a New York based U.S. artist. He is an influential figure in the field of contemporary art, both a practitioner of conceptual art and a well-versed art critic and theorist.

He was born in Urbana, Illinois, but moved to Winfield Park, New Jersey at age 3, and then to Westfield, NJ at age 13. Dan's early childhood experience of New Jersey informed some of his early minimal art pieces. Dan and Robert Smithson photographed New Jersey together during the mid to late sixties. Dan was romantically linked to artist Lee Lozano, rock artist Laurie Anderson, and artist Judith Barry among others. Dan has served as a visiting teacher internationally, and was especially influential in Halifax (at NSCAD) and Vancouver.

Dan Graham has been identified as a minimal artist, conceptual artist, performance artist, rock music writer, art critic, architecture critic and writer, pop culture critic, educator, sculptor, and collaborator with architects and other artists. While widely appreciated in Europe and Japan, Dan has received less recognition in the United States than his contemporaries and friends, who include Robert Smithson, Gordon Matta-Clark, Vito Acconci, Sol Lewitt, Carl Andre, Dan Flavin, and many others.

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Rock My Religion: Writings and Projects 1965-1990 by Dan Graham, edited by Brian Wallis; (MIT Press 1994) ISBN 0-262-57106-4
Dan Graham Interviews by Dan Graham; (Hatje Cantz 1995) ISBN 3-89322-318-5
Dan Graham - Models to Projects by Dan Graham and Alexander Alberro; (Marian Goodman Gallery 1998) ISBN 0-944219-13-6
Two-Way Mirror Power: Selected Writings by Dan Graham on His Art

by Dan Graham, edited by Alexander Alberro; (MIT Press 1999) ISBN 0-262-57130-7

Dan Graham: Catalogue Raisonne by Dan Graham, Eric de Bruyn, Benjamin Buchloh, Markus Muller, Marianne Brouwer, and Corinne Diserens; (Richter Verlag 2001) ISBN 3-933807-31-X
Dan Graham: Half Square Half Crazy by Dan Graham, Adachiara Zevi, and Pietro Valle; (Charta 2005) ISBN 88-8158-520-0