Daniel Turner

Daniel Turner (born 1983, Portsmouth Virginia) is an American artist based in New York City. His media include sculpture, photography, video and drawing.

Turner studied painting and printmaking at Norfolk State University and received a B.F.A. from San Francisco Art Institute. Turner worked in construction and demolition before being employed as a security guard at The New Museum in New York City. He was hospitalized several times for psychosis resulting in an action titled, Burning an Entire Body of Work (2006) in which he burned all previous paintings to date. Turner now works primarily in sculpture often involving the creation or transformation of materials, objects and environments into architectural or ephemeral forms. His sculptures are often characterized by a specific response to site under a controlled set of processes. These elements are present in works where an entire waiting room is cast into a series of solid bars, a former psychiatric facility burnished to a darkened stain against a wall, or a cafeteria dissolved across the expanse of a floor. In 2017, Daniel Turner completed EMP Step a site responsive sculpture for the restaurant Eleven Madison Park, in New York City. The contents of the restaurant's kitchen were melted down and cast into a monolithic step that sits at the entrance of the restaurant.

• The Future Generation Art Prize Award, (shortlist) 2019.
• The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award 2018-2019.
• The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship Award 2009.
• The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship Award 2005.
• The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship Award 2004.

Turner has participated in artist residencies including Hauser & Wirth, Bruton, England, Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers, France, Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas, and The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York, NY.. Turner served as a guest scholar at New York University, The Syracuse University School of Art, The Maryland Institute College of Art, The San Francisco Art Institute and The Old Dominion Fine art University.

• The Extreme Present, (2019) Gagosian Gallery, The Moore Building, Miami, Florida
• [Les Abeilles de l'Invisible, (2019), Musée des Arts Contemporains Grand Hornu, Honru, Belgium
• Parcours, (2019), Art Basel, Basel Switzerland
• Future Generation Art Prize, (2019), Pinchuk Art Center, Kiev Ukraine
• Anne Truitt / Daniel Turner, (2018), Parrasch Heijnen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
• Daniel Turner, (2018), König Galerie, London UK
• IPN (2018), Confort Moderne, Poitiers, France
• Daniel Turner, (2018), Galerie Allen, Paris France
• EMP Step, Eleven Madison Park (2017), New York, NY
• Particle Processed Cafeteria, (2016), König Galerie, St. Agnes Nave, Berlin, Germany
• 110/ 120, (2016), Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY
• Daniel Turner, (2016), Parrasch Heijnen Gallery, Los Angeles
• Pilage / Fold, (2014), Gagosian Gallery, Paris, France
• Clear (2014), Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
• Freezer Burn,(2014), Hauser & Wirth, New York, NY
• PM, (2014), Team Gallery, New York, NY
• 2 220,(2014), Objectif Exhibitions, Antwerp, Belgium
• John McCracken / Daniel Turner, (2012), Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY
• Daniel Turner, (2012), White Cube, London, UK
• Daniel Turner, (2012), The Journal Gallery, Brooklyn NY
• Perfect Man II, (2011), White Columns, New York, NY

• Three Movements (Bronze), published by Karma Books
• 5150, published by AMERICAN ART CATALOGUES
• MARJORIE, published by Etudes Books
• 2 220, published by Karma Books
• Daniel Turner, published by White Cube Gallery
• Daniel Turner, published by Franklin Parrasch Gallery

Turner is married to fellow artist Rita Ackermann.