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About Blake Daniels

Blake Daniels (b. 1990, Cincinnati, USA) is currently living and working between New York, USA and Johannesburg, ZA. He is the recipient of the Edward L. Ryerson Fellowship from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and received his Masters in...More

Blake Daniels (b. 1990, Cincinnati, USA) is currently living and working between New York, USA and Johannesburg, ZA. He is the recipient of the Edward L. Ryerson Fellowship from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and received his Masters in Fine Arts through the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. His paintings visualize moments of intimacy with history, both lived and remembered, depicting bodies and landscapes which are constantly being altered, dislocated and fragmented through their internalization of the socially built histories they experience. Reconfiguring figure and ground relationships, Daniels weaves tales of love remembered and times forgotten, never allowing a definitive line to be established between abstraction and figuration. Daniels was included in the critical survey 100 Painters of Tomorrow published through Thames & Hudson and has exhibitied internationally at Beers London, London, UK; Room, Johannesburg, ZA; Blank Projects, Cape Town, ZA; Canwood Gallery, Herefordshire, UK; Sullivan Gallery, Chicago, USA; Ne Na Arts Center, Chiang Mai, THA; Challery, Vienna, AUT; Fresh Exhibitions, Savannah, USA and the Wits Museum of Art, Johannesburg, ZA.
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Gallery MOMO
- Projects & Press Manager
- Curatorial / Projects
- January 2017 to April 2018
University of the Witwatersrand
- Adjunct Lecturer
- Wits School of Arts
- June 2015 to December 2016
Savannah College of Art & Design
- Exhibitions Preparator
- Exhibitions
- September 2013 to July 2014
Savannah College of Art & Design
- Exhibitions Preparator
- Exhibitions
- September 2013 to July 2014
ARC the Magazine
- Assistant Editor & Writer
- Editorial
- March 2011 to September 2015

University of the Witwatersrand
- Masters of Fine Arts
- February 2015 to April 2017
Degree by Research in Drawing and Painting, Johannesburg, ZA
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
- Bachelor of Fine Arts
- August 2010 to May 2013
Emphasis in Painting and Drawing (Advanced Studio) with Visual Communications Distinction, Chicago, IL, USA