Pittsburgh Artist Registry

Daniel Luchman
 

Daniel Luchman

Artistic Category artist
Career Level Emerging
Experienced With Collaboration, Leading workshops, Lectures, Public art, Speaking engagements

Through my work I actively merge rational and intuitive forms of thinking, research and investigation with a fluid practice that builds upon itself in continual layers.  Many projects exist as open-ended situations, as structures with a void of undefined potential content, in the form of collections, constructions, performative processes and episodic narratives.  Gradually, and overtime, I fill that void by continually leaping into it, and observing what happens.  This is a universal inquiry, the pursuit of the unknown, it is a fundamental drive, and I trust in this pursuit. 

 I was born in 1982 to a family of shepherds in rural Iowa.  I spent my childhood breeding and selling rabbits.  I moved to Iowa City in 2000 and joined a punk rock collective, we ran a pirate radio station and hosted touring national and international performances.  My brother and I produced hip-hop music from 2001-2007 and performed throughout the midwest.  I attended the University of Iowa 2004-2007 where I studied video art, philosophy and cultural anthropology.  I received a BFA in 2007, and completed an honors research project titled The Pantheon of Minor & Lesser Known Deities, a collective exercise in pantheism with over 200 contributors.  I was a member of the Moving Crew Artist Collective (2007-2010), we did large scale public installation at the Bemis Center in Omaha Nebraska, UICA in Grand Rapids Michigan and Molekula Arts Space in Rijeka Croatia.  I moved to Pittsburgh in 2008 to attend graduate school at Carnegie Mellon University.  While in school I moved away from the collaborative and video based work of my earlier days and began working as a sculptor.  In 2010 I was awarded the International Sculpture Center student achievement award and featured in Sculpture magazine.  I received my MFA in 2011 and completed my thesis project titled The 2,562,011th Anniversary of the Machine, which was a merger of my video and sculptural practices.  I was subsequently awarded the Joan Mitchell Foundation Post MFA Fellowship.

Contact


Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15232
319-325-5948
Email
Download Resumé

Genres

Keywords