DAN THOMPSON

 
  BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

Born:
1972 in Virginia

Education:
MFA–The Graduate School of Figurative Art of the New York Academy of Art;
BFA–Corcoran School of Art Washington, DC

EXHIBITIONS

Eleanor Ettinger Gallery
Morseburg Galleries, West Hollywood, CA
Century Gallery, Alexandria, VA
Portrait Society of America
National Conference; Reston, VA.
Art Students League of New York
Meredith Long & Co. Galleries; Houston, TX.
Studio Gallery; Alexandria, VA.
John Pence Gallery; San Francisco, CA.
Grenning Gallery; Sag Harbor, NY.
The Dahesh Museum; New York, NY.
Studio One; Gray, LA.
The New York Academy of Art; New York, NY.
The United States Capitol building, Cannon Caucus room; Washington, DC.
The Corcoran Gallery of Art; Washington, DC.
The University of Virginia; Charlottesville, VA.


AWARDS

2001 Grand Prize for Best of Show - International Portrait Competition, American Society of Portrait Artists Foundation (ASOPAF). Held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

2000 Honors Award - Portrait Society of America National Conference

1999 Stobart Foundation Grant
Walter Erlebacher Award - New York Academy

1998 Posey Scholar, Leslie T. Posey Foundation - Sarasota, FL

1997 Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation grant - Montreal Quebec, Canada
Ethel Lorraine Bernstein Memorial Alumni Award for Excellence in Painting - Corcoran School of Art

1992 Nancy R. Wolf Award for Painting -Corcoran School of Art
William A. Newman Award for Painting - Corcoran School of Art

1991 Foundation Award for Drawing - Corcoran School of Art

  ARTICLES AND PUBLICATIONS

2002 - Art Business News
(June issue)
"Portraiture Continues to Turn Heads in the Art Market"

The Artist's Magazine
(March issue)
"The Language of Light"

Southwest Art
(April issue)
"Artist to Watch"

2001 - American Artist
(November issue)

American Impressionist Society Newsletter
(April issue)

The Portrait Signature
Festival Review

2000 - International Artist Magazine
(October/November issue)
The Art of the Portrait, newsletter of Portrait Society of America (December '99/January '00 issue)

1999 - American Artist Magazine (December issue)

EXPERIENCE

Instructor - New York Academy of Art, 2001 - present

Special Guest Artist Instructor; Painting in Provence, France, 2001.

Instructor, Anatomical drawing; Water Street Atelier; 2000-2001.

Portrait drawing workshops; Morgan City, LA. 2000.

Co-teacher, Intermediate to advanced representational painting; Corcoran School of Art, 1993-1994.

The National Portrait Seminar; Atlanta, GA. 1993.

United States Navy Memorial Foundation; 1991

 
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