Dan Attoe

Dan Attoe is a painter, sculptor, bullfighter and founder of art group Paintallica. He was born in 1975 and is represented by Peres Projects in LA and Berlin. Attoe was born in Bremerton, Washington in 1975 and moved through Idaho, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Iowa before choosing his current location near Portland, Oregon. Attoe attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he first studied psychology, and later art. He earned his first and final bachelor's degree credits at the University of Wisconsin-Marathon County before earning his M.F.A. at the University of Iowa in Iowa City.

Attoe's work often touches on the grittier parts of both rural and urban life colored with a mystical form of existentialism.

Recent and upcoming solo exhibitions

• "American Dreams," curated by Tania Pardo, MUSAC, Leon, Spain
• Group Exhibition, "Shape of Things to Come," Saatchi Gallery, London
• Group Exhibition, Contemporary Northwest Art Awards, Portland Art Museum, Portland
• "Simple Thoughts and Complicated Animals," Peres Projects Berlin, Germany
• "Several Landscapes," Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL
• "Loaded, Nailed, and short on Cash," Peres Projects, Los Angeles, CA
• "You have more freedom than you are using," Peres Projects, Berlin, Germany
• "Vilma Gold," London, UK 404 Arte Contemporanea, Naples, Italy
• "Some of the best things I know," Peres Projects, Los Angeles, CA
• "New Figuration," Galleri Christina Wilson, Copenhagen, Denmark
• "Some of the Best Things I know," Peres Projects, Los Angeles, CA

Recent group exhibitions

• "Gravity's Rainbow" October 20 - November 24, 2007 Athens, Greece
• "8th Northwest Biennial," Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, Washington
• "Phantasmania," Kemper Museum of Contemporart Art, Kansas City, Missouri
• "1627-2007," artnews projects, Berlin, Germany
• "Let's go camping," John Connelly Presents, New York City, NY
• "There's no fooling you (the classics)," Peres Projects, Los Angeles, CA
• "Montezuma's Revenge," Nicole Klagsbrun, New York City, NY
• "The Zine UnBound: Kults, Werewolves and Sarcastic Hippies," Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
• "Growing Up Absurd," Hebert Read Gallery, Kent, England
• 2011: Geheimgesellschaften. Wissen Wagen Wollen, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Education

• 1998 BFA, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI
• 2004 MFA, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA

External links

• http://www.vilmagold.com/newpages/previous/dan1.htm
• http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/dan_attoe.htm
• http://beautifuldecay.com/2010/06/28/interview-dan-attoe/
• http://www.paintallica.com