Dan Walsh, born in 1960 in Philadelphia, is a multidisciplinary artist working in painting, printmaking, bookmaking and sculpture. Known for his meditative exploration of abstraction, his work features subtly irregular shapes, inconstant lines, and a distinctive wit. He studied at Philadelphia College of Art and at Hunter College in New York. Walsh has exhibited widely in the U.S. and Europe at institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art and the New Museum in New York; P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center; the Centre national d’art contemporain in Nice; the Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, Providence; the Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva; and the Speerstra Foundation in Lausanne. His prints and limited-edition books were showcased in a solo exhibition at the Cabinet des Estampes in Geneva. Walsh’s work has been featured in major international events, including the Whitney Biennial in 2014, the Ljubljiana Biennial in Slovenia and the Lyon Biennial of Contemporary Art in France. Afterwards in 2016, he collaborated with his sister, Lexa Walsh, on the two-person exhibition Both Sides Now at the Williams College Museum of Art. In 2019, a yearlong retrospective of his work spanning a decade was held at the Bonnefantenmuseum in Maastricht, co-organized with the Jan van Eyck Academie.
