Creative Activities and Background
Daniel J. King is an artist making lens-based work with a tendency toward the idiosyncratic human relationship to place, geography, and representation from Columbus, Ohio.
King’s professional career encompasses administration, marketing, communications, website management, and teaching in and around the arts for over 20 years. He has served as photographer and graphic designer with major retail, publishing, and ad agency companies, with the United States Air Force, and in higher education.
From a formal education in photographic studio arts to his embrace of quotidian everyday actions (like the commute, looking down, and day-dreaming with found photos), his artistic practice takes the form of print and digital photographs and moving images (film, video, expanded cinema), books, sculptural objects, interactive mail-art projects and writing. King is most interested in exploring the visual and conceptual possibilities that exist in the process of experiencing place in all its complexity.
He currently resides in Lancaster, Ohio with his spouse and youngest children.
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EDUCATION
M.F.A., Ohio University | Athens, OH
B.F.A., Columbus College of Art and Design | Columbus, OH
RECENT SELECT EXHIBITIONS
2024
Living Image, juried show at Halide Project Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2023
Remedies of the Future, group show at SēD, Chauncey, OH
CELEBRATION, group show at Raymond S. Wilkes Gallery at Ohio University Lancaster, OH
Image as Object: Alternatives Biennial, at Ohio University Art Gallery, Athens, OH
2022
From Formation to Murmuration (Veteran Arts Initiative)
Greater Columbus Arts Council, Loanne Crane Gallery, Columbus, OH
2021
DE-MIL-I-TA-RIZE, contributing poet, print and zine portfolio organized by JustSeeds Artists Cooperative and Dissenters
2019
New Old Images (curatorial/conceptual project)
• Exhibited at Majestic Galleries, Nelsonville, OH
• Exhibited at Athens Uncorked, Athens, OH
• Exhibited at Ohio University Alden Library (w/ Undergraduate Art League)
Event: New Old Image Exchange, co-curated symposium with Cassidy Brauner and Courtney Kessel held at Ohio University School of Art + Design
UnPacked Box self-published book featuring work and texts by Ray Klimek, James Luckett, and Rebecca Holbrook-Erhart
2018
Egress From Above, (solo space) Arts + Literature Laboratory, Madison, WI
OH+5 Biennial Exhibition, Dairy Barn Art Center, (Jurors Award), Athens, OH
2017
Narrative.Rest.Stops, solo show at Kresge Gallery, Lyon College, Batesville, AR
2016
Wet Grass Folds, solo show at Station 116, Athens, OH
2015
Divergent Path: King/King/Palmer, Upper Arlington Cultural Arts Center, Columbus, OH
Precarious Places in the Established Order, MFA Thesis solo at Ohio University Art Gallery, Athens, OH
FILM + VIDEO SCREENINGS
- Screen@SAB 2018, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
- Bogota Experimental Film Festival, Bogotá, Colombia
- New Short Film Festival, University of North Carolina Greensboro,
- Split Film Festival, Split, Croatia
- AntiMatter Media Arts Festival, Victoria, BC,
- Athens International Film + Video Festival, Athens, OH
- Moviate Underground Film Festival, Harrisonburg, PA
- Studio 27, Impure Cinema, San Francisco, CA
- Aurora Picture Show, Extreme Shorts 10, Houston, TX
- Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio Film Showcase 2007
- Artists Television Access Film Festival, San Francisco, CA
- Directors Theater, Experimental Vision, University of Arizona
RECENT TEACHING
2018-2021 • Instructor, (Production Photography) School of Theater, College of Fine Arts, Ohio University
2015–2017 • Instructor, (various film and digital photography) Columbus College of Art & Design, Columbus, OH
2013-2014 • Instructor of Record, (various arts coursework) School of Art + Design, Ohio University
MISC ENGAGEMENTS & WORKSHOPS
2023 Global Arts Festival Symposium, talk: “New Old Images: New Narratives with Forgotten Photographs,” and session chair, Ohio University, Athens
2023 Veteran Arts Triennial, Surviving the Long Wars, presented on New Old Images project at the Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
2022 Led a series of creative cyanotype workshops with an Athens area Recovery Community Organization and the Ohio Valley Center for Collaborative Arts, Athens, OH
2019-2020 Summer Podcasting Camp (teens)
Summer Arts, Ohio University College of Fine Arts
WOUB Article (NPR Affiliate interview)(2020) / WOUB Article (2019)
2019 Participated in the Visual Thinking Strategies Workshop led by VTS.org // at the Kennedy Museum of Art (Athens, OH)
2019 Conceptualized and Co-organized the New Old Image eXchange (Symposium), School of Art + Design, Ohio University
— Coordinated with Cassidy Brauner and Courtney Kessel with the support of the Undergraduate Arts League: featuring keynote by Carmen Winant, with readings by Laura Larson, Brian Harnetty, Ray Klimek, Nathan Johnson, Kari Gunter-Seymour and many others. (www.newoldimages.com) (WOUB.ORG Interview)
2019 Member of the 30-Mile Studio Cohort, Ohio Valley Center for Collaborative Arts (Athens, OH)
2019 Read new poems at the Southern Humanities Conference (Asheville, NC)
2018 Read new poems at the Watershed Reading Series, Arts + Lit. Lab (Madison, WI)
2018-2019 Screener, Athens International Film & Video Festival (Athens)
2018 Teaching • Veteran Arts Initiative Workshop, Wylie VA Ambulatory Care Center (Columbus, OH)
2016-2017 Teaching Artist • Decorative Arts Center of Ohio, Lancaster, OH
2016 Visiting Artist Talk, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH
GRANTS & AWARDS
2023 Greater Columbus Arts Council Artist Grant, Columbus, OH
2018 Jurors Award, OH+5 Biennial, Dairy Barn Arts Center, Athens
2013 Stanley Blanchard Graduate Award at Ohio University
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Contributing writer to DE-MIL-I-TA-RIZE, print and zine portfolio organized by JustSeeds Artists Cooperative and Dissenters, 2021
WOUB Digital, Interview “Summer Arts at OU Adds Time Based Media,” July 2019
WOUB Digital, Interview “New Old Images Wants Your Photographs,” January 2019
WOUB Digital, Interview, “Unpacked Box Essence of Discarded Images,” August 2018
WOUB Digital, Interview “Create Your Own Pinhole Camera,” October 2017
“10,000 Touches,” Temporary Art Review, interview by Nancy Zastudil, December 2012
“Blurred But Recognizable,” reflective essay included in “Walter King: Midwest Dialogue
ADMINISTRATIVE & MANAGEMENT
Marketing Communications Manager, 2020 – 2023
College of Fine Arts, University Communications and Marketing, Ohio University
Head of Production Photography, 2017-2021
School of Theater, Ohio University
Marketing Communications (Writer/Photographer)
College of Fine Arts, Ohio University
2015 – 2020
Studio Production Manager
Brand Visual Studio (commercial product photography studio)
Columbus, Ohio
2009-2012
Public Affairs Officer
United States Air Force
2002-2005