Dan Rees
Selected Works
The introverted thought architect dwells behind the moon that is taken over by extroverted technicians
2023marbling ink on linen
180 × 130 cm (70 7/8 × 51 1/8 inches)
The introverted thought architect dwells behind the moon that is taken over by extroverted technicians
2023marbling ink on linen
180 × 130 cm (70 7/8 × 51 1/8 inches)
Art Now More Than Ever
2023marbling ink on linen
200 × 150 cm (78 3/4 × 59 inches)
Artex
2018oil on canvas
90 × 90 cm (35 ⅜ × 35 ⅜ inches)
Artex
2018oil on canvas
110 × 110 cm (43 ¼ × 43 ¼ inches)
Artex
2018oil on canvas
120 × 120 cm (47 ¼ × 47 ¼ inches)
Artex Painting
2017oil on canvas
180 × 160 cm (70 ⅞ × 63 inches)
Untitled
2017plasticine on wood
200 × 300 cm (78 ¾ × 118 ⅛ inches)
Gravel Master
2017Oil and pebbles on canvas
200 × 150 cm (78 ¾ × 59 inches)
Artex painting
2016oil on canvas
200 × 150 cm (78 ¾ × 59 inches)
Untitled
2016sand, clay aggregate, lime, pigment
116 × 110 × 12.5 cm (45 ⅝ × 43 ¼ × 4 ⅞ inches) with plinth: 156.5 × 134 × 36 cm (61 ⅝ × 52 ¾ × 14 ⅛ inches)
Untitled
2016sand, clay aggregate, lime, pigment
102 × 100.5 × 12.5 cm (40 ⅛ × 39 ⅝ × 4 ⅞ inches) with plinth: 142.5 × 124 × 36 cm (56 ⅛ × 48 ⅞ × 14 ⅛ inches)
Untitled
2016sand, clay aggregate, lime, pigment
129 × 124 × 36 cm88.5 × 100.5 × 12 cm (34 ⅞ × 39 ⅝ × 4 ¾ inches) with plinth: 129 × 124 × 36 cm (50 ¾ × 48 ⅞ × 14 ⅛ inches)
Artex painting
2015oil on canvas
200 × 200 cm (78 ¾ × 78 ¾ inches)
Artex Painting
2015oil on canvas
240 × 300 cm (94 ½ × 118 ⅛ inches)
Artex Painting
2014oil on canvas
240 × 240 cm (94 ½ × 94 ½ inches)
Space Invader (Chartist Mural)
201340 framed inket prints
330 × 210 cm (129 ⅞ × 82 ⅝ inches) (each): 30 × 30 cm (11 ¾ × 11 ¾ inches)
Untitled (Plasticine)
2011plasticine, frame
190 × 140 cm (74 ¾ × 55 ⅛ inches)
Untitled (Plasticine)
2011plasticine, frame
170 × 130 cm (66 ⅞ × 51 ⅛ inches)
Artex painting
2012oil on canvas
200 × 150 cm (78 ¾ × 59 inches)
Biography
Gallery Exhibitions
Other Venues
Selected Press
CV
2001 – 2004
Camberwell College Of Arts, London Institute
2007 – 2009
Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste Städelschule, Frankfurt
2023
Tanya Leighton, Berlin (forthcoming)
2021
‘World Art Trends 1982’, Galeria Nuno Centeno, Porto, Portugal
2018
‘Attachment’, T293, Rome
‘Disguised as a Dog’, Assembly Point, London
2016
‘Ruins of the Cambrian Age’, Tanya Leighton Gallery, Berlin
‘Depressed Earth’, Múrias | Centeno, Lisbon
‘Road Back To Relevance’, Nomas Foundation, Rome
2015
‘Think Local, Act Global’, MOT International, Brussels
‘Stimulate Surprise’, Tanya Leighton, Berlin
2013
‘Top Heavy’, T293, Rome
‘Kelp’, MOSTYN, Wales
‘Space Invaders 2’, Tanya Leighton, Berlin
‘High Tea’, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago
‘Kelp’, The National Museum of Wales, Cardiff
‘Gravel Master’, The Goss-Michael Foundation, Dallas
‘Dan Rees’, Tanya Leighton, Berlin
‘Civic Pride’, Nuno Centeno, Porto
2012
‘Ogni cosa a suo tempo | Capitolo V’, Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore, Bergamo
‘In the ghetto it gets cold but we’ve got something to warm our soles’, Baronian Francey, Brussels
‘Merthyr Rising’ New Galerie, Paris
2011
‘Cryogenic Blue’, T293, Rome
‘Philanthropy’, Jonathan Viner, London
‘Ventricles’, Galerie Andreas Huber, Wien
‘Green Room: Dan Rees’, Museum der Weltkulturen, Frankfurt
2010
‘Shakin’ Peg Rails (And The Sunsets)’, Wallspace, New York
‘French Cricket’, Tanya Leighton, Berlin
‘I Cocked It Up Trying To Get Loud’, Zingerpresents, Amsterdam
‘Medina Warfare’, Sandy Brown, Berlin (with Nicolas Ceccaldi)
2009
‘They Don’t Make Them Like This Anymore’, T293, Naples
‘Present Future’, Artissima 16, Turin (with Tanya Leighton Gallery)
‘Shelf paintings (Pottery in October)’, Standard (Olso), Oslo (with Fredrik Vaerslev)
‘Junk On a Thing’, Johan Berggren Gallery, Malmö
‘Landings/3’, Landings, Vestfossen
‘Somewhere Near The Black Mountain Hills’, Tanya Leighton, Berlin
‘Art Statements’, Art 40 Basel (with T293, Naples)
‘If It Looks Like It and Feels Like It’, Galerie Andreas Huber, Wien
‘Songs For The North Atlantic: Lost At Sea’, Krabbesholm HØJSKOLE, Krabbesholm
2008
‘Holiday Work’, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh
‘Something Completely Separate And Totally Unrelated’, Ten Till Ten, Glasgow
‘Alan Brooks and Dan Rees’, Mot International, London
2007
‘Something To Fill That Empty Feeling’, T293, Naples
‘Things I Did When I Was A Young Man’, Mission Gallery, Swansea
‘Three Works In September’, Parade Gallery, London
2006
‘Music to my Years’, Galerie Mille D’Air, Berlin
‘Variable Peace’, Mission Gallery, Swansea
2022
‘The Beauty of Early Life. Traces of Early Life’, ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe
2018
EVA International, Ireland’s Biennal, Limerick
2017
‘Navigation – Art as Research’, Oriel Davies Gallery, The Park, Newton, Powys
2016
‘Bozar’, Brussels
‘Atlante delle immagini e delle forme’, GAMeC – Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo, Bergamo, Italy
‘WATER.WAR’, Budafabriek, Dam, Kortrijk, Belgium
‘FOOD – Ecologies of the Everyday’, 13th Triennial of Small-Scale Sculpture, Fellbach
‘… ma l’amor mio non muore. Opere dalla Collezione Alloggia’, Casa Museo Ivan Bruschi, Arezzo
‘Between the Lines’, Ma Galerie, Paris
‘T293-in-residence’, Via Gabba 1, Milan
2015
‘By Boat (farewell)’, Joségarcía, Mexico City
‘I Never Lied To You’, Camberwell College of Arts, London
‘Bail Bond’, MOT International, London
‘Un Nouveau festival / Extension du domaine du jeu’, Espace 315 – Centre Pompidou, Paris
2014
‘THE GO-BETWEEN. A selection of emerging international artists from the Ernesto
Esposito Collection, Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte, Naples
‘BORDERS’, Artuner (online curated exhibition)
‘LIFE’, Curated by The Journal Gallery, Venus Over Manhattan, New York
‘Postcodes’, Casa do Povo, São Paulo
‘Home Again, Again II’, The Journal Gallery, New York
‘Airports for Shadows and Dust’, Artuner (online curated exhibition)
‘New Order II: British Art Today’, Saatchi Gallery, London
‘Morning And Evening Asylum’, Tanya Leighton, Berlin and Off Vendome, Düsseldorf
2013
‘Time Machine’, M-ARCO Foundation, Marseille
‘Visions from Beyond: A Foray into Metaphysics and Materiality’, Galerie Isa, Mumbai
‘For no apparent reason’, Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid
‘Gisèle Freund 2013’, New York Gallery, New York
‘The Glass Show’, Jonathan Viner, London
2012
‘CARA DOMANI opere dalla Collezione Ernesto Esposito’, MAMbo, Bologna
‘Without (Jonathan Monk)’, Meessen De Clercq, Brussels
‘Accidentally on Purpose’, QUAD Gallery, Derby
‘Paul Cowan, Brendan Fowler, Chadwick Rantanen, Dan Rees’, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago
‘Port’, Galeria Nuno Centeno, Porto
‘You are right, it flows much better this way’, Galerie Andreas Huber, Vienna
‘Mise-en-scène’, Young Art, Los Angeles
‘An Incomplete History of Incomplete Works of Art’, Francesca Minini, Milan
‘Prowizorka / Makeshift’, Galerie Miejska Arsenal, Poznan; Galeria Sztuki Wspótczesnej BWA, Katowice
‘Surface to Surface’, Jonathan Viner, London
‘Young British Art II’, Dienstgebäeude, Zürich
‘D’après Giorgio’, Fondazione Giorgio e Isa de Chirico, Rome
‘Painting, is a painting, is a painting’, Cul de Sac, London
2011
‘Painting Show’, Eastside Projects, Birmingham
‘Chopped & Screwed’, MKG127, Toronto
‘Somewhere Else’, Nogueras Blanchard, Barcelona
‘Segalega’, Giò Marconi and Zero…, Milan
‘The confidence man’, Tanya Leighton, Berlin
‘Young British Art’, Limoncello Gallery, London
‘Keep Floors and Passages Clear’, White Columns, New York
‘Just Photography’, Martos Gallery, New York
‘Anti-Photography’, Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea
2010
‘État de Choses’, Darsa Comfort, Zurich
‘Exhibition, Exhibition’, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli (To)
‘Brand New You´re Retro’, Galerie Andreas Huber, Vienna
‘Before and After’, Galerie Balice Hertling, Paris
‘A Simple Catastrophe’, Supplement, London
‘Die Dritte Dimension’, New Galerie de France, Paris
‘Freischuss’, Kleine Humboldt Galerie, Berlin
‘Gallery, Galerie, Galleria’, Norma Mangione, Turin
‘A very, very long cat’, Wallspace, New York
2009
‘Not Created By A Human Hand’, Wildfried Lentz, Rotterdam
‘Berlin, Los Angeles, A Tale Of Two (Other) Cities’, Massimo De Carlo, Milan
‘Collaboration’, Autocenter, Berlin
‘First view’, Johan Berggren Gallery, Malmö
‘0.08014440536499023 WL – 51.52841035161011 NB’, Zinger Presents, London
‘Richard Prince and the revolution’, ProjecteSD, Barcelona
Grey Matter’, Talbort Rice Gallery, Edinburgh
‘At Five To Ten by the Old Bridge’, My Sweetheart, Neue Alte Bruecke, Frankfurt
2008
‘Sink the boat before it sails’, Basis, Frankfurt
‘What is my name?’, Hisk Higher Institute For Fine Arts, Gent
‘September Show’, Tanya Leighton, Berlin
‘Playtime’, Bétonsalon, Paris
‘Library’, Uovo Open Office, Berlin
‘18’, Center, Berlin
‘Weißes Lächeln’, Croy Nielsen, Berlin
‘The Store’, Tulips & Roses, Vilnius
‘The World Is Flat’, Overgaden Institute of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen
‘Freunde und Bekannte‘, Sparwasser HQ, Berlin
2007
‘Rundgang, Städelschule’, Frankfurt
‘Without’, Yvon Lambert, Paris
‘The Moment You Realise You Are Lost’, Johann König, Berlin
‘Some Time Waiting’, Kadist Art Foundation, Paris
2006
‘For One Day Only’, Kadist Art Foundation, Paris
‘Beasts of Burden’, General Public, Berlin
‘Today Is A Beautiful Day’, Nog Gallery, London
‘The Known and the Unknown’, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen