Born: 1969
Lives
and Works: Brooklyn,
New York
Solo Exhibitions:
Dan Estabrook: Forever & Never, Art Institute of Boston University Hall Gallery,
Cambridge, MA, 2010
Nine Symptoms / At Sea, Gallery 291, San Francisco, CA, 2010
At Sea, Daniel Cooney Fine Art, New York, NY, 2010
Dan Estabrook: Forever & Never, Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville, FL, 2010
Museum,Daniel Cooney Fine Art, New York, NY, 2007
Night & Day, Marianne Courville Gallery, Hudson, NY, 2006
Sleep and Nine Symptoms, Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2005
Pathetica, and other stories, Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, GA, 2003
Pathetica, Sarah Morthland Gallery, New York, NY, 2002
First Photographs, Sarah Morthland Gallery, New York, NY, 2000
Inherent Vice, Sarah Morthland Gallery, New York, NY, 1999
Interior Views, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX, 1996
Photographs and Other Objects, I-Space Gallery, Chicago, IL, 1994
Selected Group Exhibitions:
Going Forward, Looking Back - Practicing Historic Photographic Processes in the 21st Century, University of New England Gallery, Portland, ME (traveling show), 2009
First Impression,The Camera Club of New York, NY, 2009
The Crack Up, Khastoo Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 2008
AKA: Object and Image, Brookfield Craft Center, Brookfield, CT, 2008
The View From Here, Daniel Cooney Fine Art, New York, NY, 2008
Gut of the Quantifier, Lisa Cooley Gallery, New York, NY, 2008
Tools of Survival: Contemporary Photographers using 19th-Century Processes, McNamara Gallery, Wanganui, New Zealand, 2008
Out of Darkness: The Contemporary Revival of Early Photography, University of Central Florida Art Gallery, Orlando, FL, 2006
Immaterial World, Stephen Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 2006
It’s Very Difficult to Keep the Line between the Past and the Present, Clamp Art, New York, NY, 2006
Drawing on the Wrong Side of the Brain, Haim Chanin Fine Arts, New York, NY, 2006
Casting A New Light, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA (traveling show, through 2006), 2005
Authenticity of Memory: Alternative Processes, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX, 2005
WetLab: The New Nexus Between Art and Science, The Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT, 2005
Alchemy, Penland Gallery, Penland School of Crafts, NC, 2004
From Penland, Rebus Works, Raleigh, NC, 2004
The Camera Obscured IV: Mixed-Media Photography, Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2002
The Antiquarian Avant-Garde, Sarah Morthland Gallery, New York, NY, 2002
Sun Works: Contemporary Alternative Photography, Art Institute of Boston, MA, 2001
Re-Thought, Re-Seen: 21st-Century Photographers Using 19th-Century Processes, UMKC Gallery of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2001
The Crafted Image: Nineteenth-Century Techniques in Contemporary Photography, Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, MA, 2001
The Camera Obscured III: Mixed-Media Photography, Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2000
The Exquisite Corpse, Printworks Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2000
Old and New - Recent Acquisitions in Photography, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 1999
Summer Reading: Photographs of Books, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY, 1999
Female, Wessel + O’Connor Gallery, New York, NY, 1999
The Camera Obscured II: Mixed-Media Photography, Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, IL, 1998
Cross Currents: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign / Glasgow School of Art Exchange Exhibition, I-Space Gallery, Chicago, IL, and The Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland, 1998
Inventors & Alchemists, Sarah Morthland Gallery, New York, NY, 1998
PHOTIC, Eyewash Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 1998
Still Life: Prints and Photographs, Marlborough Gallery, New York,NY, 1998
Celebrating 10 Years, Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, IL, 1998
Time Zero: Artists and Polaroids, ESP Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 1997
Glorious Gardens, Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, NY, 1997
Waking Dreams, Photo Americas, Tulsa, OK, 1997
Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 1996
The Camera Obscured, Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, IL, 1996
Moveable Feast, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA, 1996
Light Let Loose (curator’s award), Columbia College Center for Book and Paper Arts, Chicago, IL, 1996
From Silver to Cyber, Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA, 1995
Eleven Boston Artists, Smoking Gallery, Boston, MA, 1995
New England / New Talent, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA, 1994
Emulsion Media: Pushing the Limits of Photography, Martin Schweig Gallery, St. Louis, MO, 1993
New Degenerates, World Tattoo Gallery, Chicago, IL, 1992
NEFA/NEA Photography Fellowship Show, Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA, 1992
Awards and Grants:
Henry Buhl Foundation Photography Fellowship, 2000
Visual Artist’s Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts, 1994
Kate Neal Kinley Memorial Fellowship for the Arts, UIUC, 1993
New England Foundation for the Arts Photography Fellowship, 1991
Selected Bibliography:
Hirsch, Robert. Photographic Possibilities, Third Edition: The Expressive Use of Equipment, Ideas, Materials, and Processes, Focal Press, 2008
Seguin, Andrew. “Masters of the Tactile,” Columbia: A Journal, Spring 2005
Rexer, Lyle. Exhibition review, Art on Paper, May/June 2005
Keats, Jonathon. “Through the Lens of History,” Art & Auction, March 2003
Dykstra, Jean. “Focus On: Dan Estabrook,” Art on Paper, December 2002
Rexer, Lyle. Photography’s Antiquarian Avant-Garde, The New Wave in Old-Process Photography, Abrams, Spring 2002
James, Christopher. The Book of Alternative Photographic Processes, Delmar Cengage Learning, 2001
Luciana, James and Judith Watts. The Art of Enhanced Photography: From Cyanotype to Digital, Rockport Publishers, 1999
Rexer, Lyle. “The Antiquarian Avant-Garde," Graphis, March 1999
“Photographers Move Foward into the Past,” New York Times, September 27, 1998
Bennette, John. “Zooming Backward into the Future: Photo-alchemy in the Latter Part of the Twentieth Century,” 21st, The Journal of Contemporary Photography, Volume One, 1998
Education:
M.F.A., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1993
B.A., magna cum laude, Harvard University
1990