Maker/Artist
Graham, Dan
American installation artist, filmmaker, and writer, 1942-2022
Graham disavowed Conceptual Art as a term, and identified with no movement or creed, though his work with video, installation, photography, architecture, and text may be considered examples of the genre. He exhibited the work of his peers Donald Judd, Sol LeWitt, and Robert Smithson at the John Daniels Gallery in New York, where he was briefly the curator and director, before showing alongside these and many other Minimalists and Conceptualists during the 1960s and 70s. In the 1980s, Graham became an active observer of New York’s punk and experimental music scenes, collaborating with Sonic Youth and befriending Glenn Branca. His book and film essay Rock My Religion of 1983-1984 linked contemporary music groups to the ecstasy of religious communities. His pavilion structures of glass, steel, and mirrors dominated the latter half of his career, from the 1990s.
