POSTHUMOUS VITAE
Archives
Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Historical Society
P.O. Box 424280
San Francisco, California 94142
415-777-5455
info@glbthistory.org
www.glbthistory.org
Visual AIDS
526 West 26th Street #510
NYC, NY 10001
212-627-9815
info@visualAIDS.org
www.visualAIDS.org
Collections
Whitney Museum of Art, New York City, New York
University of California, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, California
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transexual Historical Society, San Francisco
Exhibitions
Group Show, curated by Dr. Frank Spinelli,Visual AIDS Web Gallery, Aug.2008
Visual AIDS 10th Annual Postcards from the Edge Benefit Exhibition, James Cohan Gallery, NYC, Dec. 2007
David Cannon Dashiell and Jerome Caja, curated by Arnold Kemp,Visual Aids Web Gallery, Aug.2007
Visual Aid at Sixteen with David Dashiell’s Queer Mysteries, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 2005
R&D: Twenty Years/Twenty Artists at the Lab , San Francisco, 2003
Icon 2002, Fourth Annual Art Auction & Gala GLBTHS, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts:Forum Room, San Francisco 2002
System Aesthetics: Works from the Permanent Collection, (Queer Mysteries)San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1996
Solo Exhibition, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 1996
In a Different Light, University of California, Berkeley Art Museum, Curated by Naland Blake and Larry Rinder. 1995
Presence: Recent Work by Visual Aid Grantees, Opts Art Gallery, San Francisco March, 1994
Visual Aid Exhibition, SFMOMA Rental Gallery, Curated by the late John Caldwell, 1993
Publications
Love Among the Ruins: David Cannon Dashiell’s Queer Mysteries, CAC Art Journal, Alison Winter Syme, 2005
California Art: 450 Years of painting and other media, Nancy Dustin Wall Moure, 1998
Websites
Archives
Stretcher.org, Master of Queer Mysteries
Queer Cultural Center
Visual Aids Web Gallery
VA Curator Arnold Kemp’s Statement
The Virtual Collection
Estate Project for Artists Living with AIDS
GLBT Historical Society
Articles
Love Among the Ruins:David Cannon Dashiell’s, Queer Mysteries, by Alison Winter Syme, CAC Art Journal, 2005
David Dashiell, by Maria Porges, ArtForum, October, 1993
David Cannon Dashiell’s Queer Mysteries at Visual AIDs Show, by Jenifer E. Mullen, San Francisco Bay Times, April, 2005
BD VITAE
Education
MFA, School of Art, College Institute of the Arts, 1976
BFA, School of Art, College Institute of the Arts, 1974
University Film Study Center, Amherst College, Amherst, MA, 1974
Exhibitions, Installations and Performances
Adeline Kent Award Exhibition, Walter/McBean Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1993
The Pentocrator’s Circus, Parker Zanic Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1991
Philosopher’s Stone, New Langton Arts (La Musee of Honeur Miniscule), San Francisco, CA 1991
The Pantocrators Circus, Artspace, San Francisco, CA 1990
Olympian Cowboys, The Lab, San Francisco
Invert, Oracle, Pro Arts, Oakland, CA 1988
A Lover’s Discourse, NWAW, Portland, OR 1987
A Lover’s Discourse, Southern Exposure Gallery, Project Artaud, San Francisco 1987
Selected Group Exhibitions
Visual AID Exhibition, SFMOMA Rental Gallery, curated by John Caldwell, 1993
Selections from the San Francisco/Bay Area, The Drawing Center, NYC 1991
Situation, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, 1991
Phenom/Phenotype, Terrain, San Francisco, 1991
Les Fleurs, Parker/Zanic Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1991
Introductions, Parker/Zanic Gallery, Los Angeles 1990
Flag, Walter/McBean Gallery, San Francisco, 1990
Free Speech Monument Proposals, University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, 1990
Bay Area Conceptualism-Two Generations, Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY 1989
Slugfest (film Exhibition), San Francisco Cinematheque, San Francisco Art Institute, 1989
Pro Arts Annual, Oakland, CA 1988
X the Uknown, curated by Michelle Ellis, 1160 Bryant Sreet, San Francisco,1987
Art against AIDS, SPARC Gallery, Venice, CA, 1986
Berkeley Art Center Annual, Berkeley, CA 1986
Publications
Situation (exhibition catalog), New Langton Arts, 1991
City Lights Review(curated by Rebecca Solinit), No. 5, Winter 1991
Five Fingers Review, (curated by Jon Winet) No.10, Summer, 1991
Flag, (ehibition catalog), San Francisco Art Institute, 1990
Headlands Journal, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA, 1990
Bay Area Conceptualism-Two Generations (exhibition catalog), Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY, 1989
Invert, Oracle (artist’s book), Ethan Wagner, Publisher, San Francisco, 1989
AIDS-The Artist’s Response (exhibition catalog), Wexner Center for the Visual Arts, Ohio State University, 1989
Awards
Adeline Kent Award, San Francisco Art Institute, 1993
Visual Arts Award, Art Matter, Inc., NYC, 1992
Visual Aid Support Grant, 1991
Artspace Painting Support Grant, Artspace, San Francisco (currently relocated in NYC), 1990
Performance/Installation Residency, New Langton Arts, San Fanscisco, 1989
Artspace Painting Support Grant, Artspace, San Francisco (currently relocated in NYC), 1988
Associate Artist Residency, Headlands Center for the Arts, 1988
Pro Arts Annual Award, Pro Arts, Oakland, CA 1988
NEA Regional Fellowship, NEA/Fleishacker Foundation, 1987
Selected Articles
Situation, by Naland Blake, Pam Gregg, Richard Meyer, Outlook, Issue 14, Fall, 1991
David Dashiell, by David Pagel, Art Issues, September 1991
David Dashiell, by Collette Chattopachyay, Artweek, July 18, 1991
In Search of the Gay Sensibility, by David Bonetti, San Francisco Examiner, June 25, 1991
Les Fleurs Snipes at Flowery Tradition, by Cathy Curtis, Los Angeles Times, May 17, 1991
David Dashiell, interview by Nayland Blake, Shift, No.8
Letter from San Francisco, by Maria Porges, Contemporanea, January, 1991
David Cannon Dashiell, by Peter Beckman, Venice, January 1991
Night & Day, by Glen Helfand, SF Weekly, September 12, 1990
Alternative Spaces: Hallwalls, Buffalo, Art in America, August 1990
Of Poetry and Farce, by Anthony Aziz, Artweek, July 19, 1990
3 Award Winners of Artspace Exhibition, by Kenneth Baker, San Francisco Chronicle, June 30, 1990
Saying Everything and Nothing, by Jim Paul, Artweek, October 15, 1988
Dashiell and Sapien, by Kenneth Baker, San francisco Chronicle, September 12, 1987
X the Unknown, by Mark Van Proyen, Artweek, June 27, 1987