Daniel Reeves (born 1948 in Washington DC) is an American video artist, poet, and sculptor. He has won three Emmy Awards for his work.
Daniel Reeves | |
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| Born | 1948  Washington, D.C. |
| Occupation | Visual artist, video artist |
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During the Vietnam War, Reeves served as a Marine who was stationed at the Demilitarized Zone between North and South Vietnam. He was critically injured in 1968 during an ambush of his platoon. This event has been one of the key influences in his work as an artist.[1]
Education
editReeves received a Bachelor of Art degree and an Associate in Science degree from Ithaca College.[2]
Selected exhibitions
editReeves' work has been exhibited at the Louvre Museum, Paris, the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, the Tate Gallery, London, Documenta 7, Kassel, Germany, among other venues.[2]
His work is represented by Electronic Arts Intermix,[2] and Video Data Bank.[3]
Awards and honors
editReeves has received six grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a United States/Japan Exchange Fellowship, as well as three grants from the New York State Council on the Arts.[2] He receive a Rockefeller Inter-cultural Fellowship in Video in 1995.[4] Reeves has won three Emmy Awards for his 1981 video Smothering Dreams, based on various realities and myths about warfare as well as his own direct experiences in Vietnam.[4]
Collections
editHis work is held in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art,[5] San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,[6] the Fralin Museum of Art,[7] the University of the Arts, London,[8] the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam,[9] ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe[10] among others.
References
edit- ^ Seid, Steve (2 October 2013). "The Way Forward: Steve Seid on Daniel Reeves". Beyond Belief: 100 Years of the Spiritual in Modern Art. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 19 April 2024.
- ^ a b c d "Daniel Reeves". Daniel Reeves. Retrieved 19 April 2024.
- ^ "Daniel Reeves". Video Data Bank. Retrieved 19 April 2024.
- ^ a b "Dan Reeves". Video History Project. 17 June 2011.
- ^ "Daniel Reeves American, born 1948". Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 19 April 2024.
- ^ "Daniel Reeves American 1948, Washington, D.C., United States". San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 19 April 2024.
- ^ "Daniel Reeves". The Fralin Museum of Art. Retrieved 19 April 2024.
- ^ "Daniel Reeves - Ongoing Obsessions". University of the Arts, London.
- ^ "Smothering Dreams: Daniel Reeves". Stedelijk Museum. Retrieved 20 April 2024.
- ^ "Daniel Reeves". ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe. Retrieved 20 April 2024.