Biography

CV

BORN 

1985, Johannesburg, South Africa 

 

SELECTED SOLO + TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2021

Window Pains, Marvin Gardens, Queens, NY, USA

My Life is Small, Galleri Tom Christoffersen, Copenhagen, Denmark

 

2019

Mostly Paper and a Ham, Room Art Space , Brooklyn, NY, USA

Dearly Beloved, Two person exhibition with Anna Illsley, Galleri Tom Christoffersen, Copenhagen, Denmark

 

2018

Paintings of Horses and Other Things Also, Marvin Gardens, Queens, NY, USA

 

2017

Naked Pictures, Galleri Tom Christoffersen, Copenhagen, Denmark

 

2016

Where do we Dump the Bodies?, Mike Weiss Gallery, New York, NY, USA

 

2014

New Paintings, Galleri Brandstrup, Oslo, Norway

 

2013 

Galleri Tom Christoffersen, Copenhagen, Denmark

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022

David and Goliath, Galerie Zink, Seubersdorf, Germany

Looking Through the Window With Only Socks, L21 Gallery, Mallorca, Spain

Lichtung, Gaa Gallery, Ibiza, Spain

And So Did Pleasure Take the Hand of Sorrow and They Wandered Through the Land of Joy, Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, ME, USA

Painters Guild, 11 Newel Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, USA

Smart Idiots, Woaw Gallery, Hong Kong, China

 

2021

Humans, Deli-Grocery Gallery, Queens, NY, USA

 

2020

Pungent Utopia, Freight and Volume, New York, NY, USA

 

2018

Sieben, Ober Gallery, Kent, CT, USA

The Capital has gone, Kammgarn West (ehemalige Hallen für neue Kunst), Schaffhausen, Switzerland

 

2017

Heart Break Hotel, Invisible Exports, New York, NY, USA

 

2016

Paper Peddling, Marvin Gardens, Queens, NY, USA

 

2015

Brask Collection at Munkerphus, Hornbaek, Denmark 

 

2012

It Happened in the Woods, Hans Alf Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark

 

AWARDS + RESIDENCIES

2011 Kunstlerresidenz Chretzeturm, Stein Am Rhein, Switzerland

2010 Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, Woodstock, New York Milton Avery Grant 

 

EDUCATION

Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA - MFA, 2010

SUNY Purchase College, Bachelor of Fine Arts, Purchase, NY, USA - BFA, 2006

 

SELECTED PRESS + PUBLICATIONS + WORKS CITED

2022

Batycka, Dorian, “‘Our Idea Here in Ibiza Is to Mix Business and Pleasure’: A New Island Art Fair Woos Visitors With Evening Hours and a Resident D.J.”, Artnet News, July 19

“WOAW Gallery Presents ‘SMART IDIOTS’ Group Exhibition,” Shawn Ghassemitari, Hypeart, December 15

2016

“Dan Schein’s Mountain Men Mock the Macho,” Open House, October 10

 

2013

“Two Exhibitions That Can Make Your Weekend a Little Less Comfortable,” Politiken, October 7

“Galleri Tom Chrisoffersen: Dan Schein: I Believe in Psychopaths,” re-title.com, September 27 

 

2009

M.F.A issue 87, New American Paintings