Daniel (1982) lives and works in Leiden, The Netherlands. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, with exhibitions in the Museo de la Revolución, Havana; SOHD, Cobra Museum, Amstelveen; El Pez Soluble Gallery, Tequisquiapan; Booth Gallery, New York; The Who Gallery, London; Den Gallery, Kuwait City; Thinkspace, Los Angeles; and a duo show with Phillip Akkerman in The Hague.
Daniel is co-founder of the artist initiative Arthouse which organizes myriad projects and runs two residencies (NL/MEX). In 2019 he co-founded the annual 1606 project that facilitates cross cultural connections between international artists in collaboration with PaintGuide and the University of Leiden among other local partners in The Netherlands and Mexico.
"The action of dropping a series of objects on the ground causes a consequence that in itself already has a clear aesthetic composition, but what then is the artist if not a facilitator of gravity and the work of art the outcome of this simple movement. The clear difference between chance or banality and expression is simply recognition
By Ricardo Diaque
Upcoming exhibitions
T.B.A MAQRO, Museo de Arte de Queretaro, Queretaro, Mexico
T.B.A. Boccara Art, Monterrey, Mexico
Thuis, Museum de Lakenhal, project Roos Tulen, Leiden, The Netherlands
Solo & duo exhibitions
2019 (duo) The Self, The Who Gallery x The Ministry, Hector Trend, London, UK
2019 De oorsprong, Galerie RitsArt, Maassluis, The Netherlands
2018 Forma prima, Galería El Pez Soluble, Tequisquiapan, Mexico
2018 (duo) with Johanna Franco Zapata, All you can art 3, Kunsthal, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2017 View from another angle, Culture Fund, Leiden, The Netherlands
2015 (duo) with Philip Akkerman, Koppen bij elkaar, Sis Josip Galerie, Den Haag, The Netherlands
2014 I never lost you, Kunsthuizen, Leiden, The Netherlands
2013 Enface, Galerie Klooster, Noordwijk, The Netherlands
Group exhibitions & fairs
2019
Sterren op het doek, Cobra Museum, Amstelveen, The Netherlands
RAW (Rome Art Week), Rome, Italy
Thinkspace x Paintguide, Los Angeles, US
FNCV Art Fair, Tequisquiapan, Mexico
Bacanal, Granada Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Habitus, Galerie Sille, Oudewater, The Netherlands
Open Studio, Palazzo Monti, Brescia, Italy
La Tarea Trece, Hercules, Queretaro, Mexico
Drieluik, Pieterskerk, Leiden, The Netherlands
Prefacio, Granada Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Fris, Ars Aemula Naturea, Leiden, The Netherlands
2018
Zebra One Gallery, Identity, London, UK
Swab Art Fair, Granada Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
Bloom, Booth Gallery, New York, US
Spoke art x Paintguide, San Francisco, US
AAF, kunsthuizen, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Micro Art Fair, Holland Art House, Leiderdorp, The Netherlands
Vigour, Den Gallery, Kuwait City, Kuwait
First Art Fair, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
UNEAC, Matanzas, Cuba
Museo de la Revolución, Havana, Cuba
2017
Palazzo Monti, Brescia, Italy
Breaking boundaries, Kunsthuis, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Mijn schrift, LL Gallery, Leiden, The Netherlands
2016
Affordable Art Fair, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Nouveau Theatre, LL Gallery, Leiden, The Netherlands
Kunstroute, Haagweg 4, Leiden, The Netherlands
Faces, van Schaik & van Schaik, Zeist, The Netherlands
2015
Arthunters x 5&33 Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Affordable Art Fair, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
The new season, Gallery Sille, Oudewater, The Netherlands
Kunstroute, Haagweg 4, Leiden, The Netherlands
Face to Face, Firma van drie, Gouda, The Netherlands
No Man’s Art Gallery, Call for artist, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
What do we worship, Slangenpand, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Psycho, LL Gallery, Leiden, The Netherlands
2014
Affordable Art Fair, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Kunstroute, Haagweg 4, Leiden, The Netherlands
Affordable Art Fair, Maastricht, The Netherlands
I never lost you, Kunsthuizen, Leiden, The Netherlands
Scheltema, Birth of Joy, Leiden, The Netherlands
2013
AIR 9, Beurs van Berlage, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Affordable Art Fair, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Kunstroute, Haagweg 4, Leiden, The Netherlands
Enface, Galerie Klooster, Noordwijk, The Netherlands
Museum Naturalis, Nacht van kunst en kennis, Leiden, The Netherlands
Residencies
Arthouse Pani, Mexico, 2020
El Pez Soluble, Mexico, 2018
RuArtPark, Cuba, 2017
Palazzo Monti, Italy, 2017
Publications & articles
Femke van Leeuwen, drie kunstenaars, drie projecten, Online galerij, March 2019
Giulia Gregnanin, New Generation Residencies, FLASH ART, February 2018
Inside a 13th-Century Italian Palazzo-Turned-Art-Residency, AnOther Magazine, October 2017 Bianca Martinelli, Giornale di Brescia, October 2017
Donnia Ghezlane-Lala, Dark Portraits: Paintings Losing Their Identity, Fubiz, May 2016
Benny Thopson, Empty Kingdom, January 2016
Anders Dyhr, Xamou Art, April 2015
Anthony Hagan, Disposal of Human Identity, Stylenochaser, July 2015
Pirita Litmanen, REVS Magazine, October 2014
Red, LOS magazine, November 2014
Emma Willekes, Kunstenaar van de maand, Online galerij, January 2013
Renzo Candido, Kleurmakers, February 2013
Red, LOS magazine, November 2013
Red, LEVEN, March 2013
Awards
Honourable mention, Combat Art Prize, 2017
No Man’s Art Gallery call for artists winner, 2015
Shortlisted, Beers Contemporary Visions V, 2014
ArtSlant Prize, Round 6 winner, 2014