Daniel Wheeler
Artist Residency Season:
2007-08
Artist Name:
Daniel Wheeler
Profile:
For the last twenty years, Daniel Wheeler has produced installations, drawings, photographs, performances and sculptures using the Los Angeles landscape as his muse and the body as his base element. Once called a “free-form cultural anthropologist,” he is known for crafting experiences that aim to cajole viewers out of their learned response to the environment into a more sensory experience of it. In his new photographic body of work, GULP, (Generative Urban Landscape Project), Southern California pools become a medium through which the surrounding landscape is interpreted.
Exhibited nationally and internationally, Wheeler has work in private and public collections across the U.S. In 2001, he received a City of LA Cultural Awards Grant.
Works:
Solo Shows
- 2007
- New Photographic Work, Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, Easthampton, NY
- 2004
- You Are Here, Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art, Los Angeles, CA
- 2003
- Ground, Hunsaker/Schlesinger, 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, Hunsaker/Schlesinger, Santa Monica, CA
- Trajectoire, Set/object for Diavolo Dance Theater, premiered at El Camino College Performing Arts Center, Torrance, CA
- 1996
- Mascarón de Proa, Installation/performance, Arizona State University Art Museum, Mathews Art Center, Tempe AZ
- Equilibre, Set/object for Diavolo Dance Theater, premiered at Highways, Santa Monica, CA
- Manmade, Set/object for Diavolo Dance Theater, premiered at Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA
- 1995
- chamber box, Installation/performance at Gramercy Art Fair at Hotel Chateau Marmont, Los Angeles, CA
- D2R, Set/object for Diavolo Dance Theater, premiered at Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Scotland
- You Are Here, California State University, Fullerton Main Art Gallery (catalogue)
- Autopsis, Performance/procedure at California State University, Fullerton Main Art Gallery
- pseudesthesia & synecdoche, Griffin Fine Art, Costa Mesa, CA
- 1992
- frontier, Newspace, Los Angeles, CA
- Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL
- 1990
- Newspace, Los Angeles, CA
- 1989
- Gallery + 1, Tokyo, Japan
- 1988
- Newspace, Los Angeles
- 1985
- Design and installations for dance/performance space, Space O, Tokyo, Japan
Group Shows
- 2007
- Change at Babylon, Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts, New York, NY
- 2005
- Touch Me, Gallery C, Hermosa Beach, CA
- 2004
- Bio Ballistic, Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
- Speculative Terrain, LaBand Art Gallery, Loyola Marymount, 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
- 2001
- Representing LA, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
- 2000
- Made in California: Art, Image and Identity, 1900-2000, LA 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
- New Pollution, Plush Gallery, Dallas, TX
- ReCharge: LA Art of the Early 90’s, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
- Eccentric Visions, Hunsaker/Schlesinger, Santa Monica, CA
- 1999
- Out of the Closet: Clothing as Imagery in Contemporary Art, Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City, UT
- More and Less, Brewery Project, Los Angeles, CA (catalog)
- Escondido Phoenix 1999, Malibu, CA
- 1998
- Renovations, Brewery Project, 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, CA
- Codpiece, Griffin/Linton Contemporary Art, Venice, CA
- The Empowered Object, Hunsaker/Schlesinger, Santa Monica, CA
- 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
- Balls, Newspace, Los Angeles, CA
- Four Sculptors, Jose Drudis-Biada Art Gallery, Mt. St. Mary's College, Los Angeles, CA
- 1993
- Objects: Sixteen Sculptors, Williamson Gallery, Art Center College of Design and The Armory Center, Pasadena, CA
- Substance in Transition Gallery IV, Curated by Minoru Ohira, Los Angeles, CA
- The Elegant, the Irreverent, and the Obsessive: Drawing in Southern California, California State University, Fullerton, Main Gallery
- The Next Generation, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA
- Durable Goods, Newspace, Los Angeles, CA
- 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, CA
- Greatest Hits, Newspace, Los Angeles, CA
- Eyes to See, Ears to Hear & Hands to Touch, Artspace, Woodland Hills, CA
- Drawings II, Koplin Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
- Instruments of Sound, Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, CA
- 1991
- Cross Bred, Newspace, Los Angeles, CA (three person)
- Expedition, California State University, Fullerton (three person)
- The Store Show, Richard Bennett Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
- 1990
- Michael Kohn Gallery, Santa Monica, CA (three person)