Edit of 50 35mm-based Works:
I am a multidisciplinary artist focused on image making. From 2000-2018 I primarily made photographs. In 2016 I reunited with ‘tactile media’ and text, which I pursue alongside my photography practice.
Themes and concepts in this edit include reoccurring dome shapes across deep and shallow time, old growth cedar stumps anthropomorphized into death masks, light-as-image on water’s surface, and class-oriented sociocultural observations.
I pursue the culture and discipline of 35mm photography. Light reveals the surface of our ever-unfolding, ever-available world. By maintaining a relationship with this, we find substance and meaning. Via Sharon Kahanoff, friend, former mentor, and “Conceptual Dramaturge” for the exhibition Mid Double Daffy, I am also influenced by Deluze's theory of ‘Affect’.
By emphasizing photography’s inherent formal and cultural qualities, I address how photographs abstract reality, as a counterpoint to our conditioned perception that photographs duplicate reality. Photographs produce two experiences simultaneously: an indirect, mediated experience via the image; and a direct experience with the art object. I make images with qualities that supersede our habitual viewing expectations in one or both experiences. Each individual image being a relation of parts, I then assemble multiple images to form a new set of relations that expresses itself as a whole.
The photographic interventions in this edit lean in the direction I was headed before recommitting my time to 'tactile media’. They emphasize photography’s formal and affective qualities. [Phantasmagoria, group-show, Presentation House Gallery, 2012, // Mid Double Daffy, solo-show, Gallery 295, 2013]:
· I made assemblages from construction paper and images (my own and found). I made new images from these by ‘documenting’ them under changing natural light conditions. I paired the new images with other 35mm photographs.
· I developed an analogue image manipulation technique and presented these works without publicly disclosing the method.
· I experimented with creating believable scenes through subtle collaging of my own photographs, addressing our culture’s evolving relationship to presenting ‘reality’.
Visit dansiney.com to see how I am developing my photographic practice since 2018. Compilations of digital photographs become material for conceptual projects. (Links to series: "The Broccoli is Delicious Here". In CV: Artistic Services / Other / "Permanent Installation: The Magnet".)
CV
Dan Siney (b. 1979, CA)
BFA ECUAD, 2003
Vancouver, BC
604-215-2272
SELECTED SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2023, Learning to Draw, Learning to Paint [Collaboration with my 20 month old son Leroy]: Burnaby Art Gallery offsite exhibition, Bob Prittie Metrotown Library, Vancouver, BC (solo)
2022, Jessica Buie and Dan Siney: Raunch, Raunch Dance. CSA Space, Vancouver, BC (two-person exhibition with Jessica Buie)
2013, Mid Double Daffy. Gallery 295, Vancouver, BC (Solo)
2011, Strange Weather. Art Gallery of Algoma, Sault Ste. Marie, On (Collaborative work with Andrea Pinheiro)
2011, Dan Siney and Heather Martin, New Works. The LES Gallery, Vancouver, BC (Two person exhibition with Heather Martin)
2010, New Works By Dan Siney. Shudder Gallery, Vancouver, BC (Solo)
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022, Out of Control, Audain Gallery, Whistler, BC
2018, Supernatural: Art, Technology and the Forest, The Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, BC
2018, Serpentine Path, Terminal Creek Contemporary, Bowen Island, BC
2014, Social Circles, Unit Pitt Projects, Vancouver, BC
2012, Phantasmagoria. Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver, BC
2011, Unstable Ground. Unit/Pitt Projects, Vancouver, BC
2008, A Good Summer to Stay Inside. East Van Studios (LES Gallery artists), Vancouver, BC
2008, Moodyville. The Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver, BC
2008, The 1st Annual New York Photography Festival. DUMBO, Brooklyn, NY
2006, The 6th Annual Vice Photo Issue Exhibition. Bruce Silverstein Photography Gallery, New York, NY
2006-’07, Tinyvices (touring group exhibition, curated by Tim Barber):
· 2007, White Flag Projects, Saint Louis, Missouri
· 2007, Proyectos Moncloya Colima, Mexico City, Mexico
· 2007, The Gallery Soho/Clair de Rouen Books, London, England
· 2007, Colette, Paris, France
· 2006, Studio Bee, Tokyo, Japan,
· 2006, The University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, Wisconsin
· 2006, House of Campari, New York, NY
· 2006, Spencer Brownstone, New York, NY
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Texts
“Stump Skulls", Lee Henderson, Moodyville exhibition catalogue: The Capilano Review 3.8, 2008
Selected Books
Hamanaka, Atsushi, 12 Books, Japan (curator); Queen of Tsawwassen, Inventory Magazine Publishing, 2012
Reviews
Mitch Speed: “Phantasmagoria, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver”, Frieze Magazine, issue 150, October 2012, p. 252
"LES Gallery Exhibition Brings Together Dan Siney's Photography and Heather Martin's Textile Art", Robin Laurence, The Georgia Straight, March 22, 2011.
Selected Features
2010
Hunter and Cook Magazine, “Dan Siney”, issue 5, p. 2-3, 78-79
Carousel Magazine, “Dan Siney, Stump Skulls”, issue 25, p. 31, 32
2009
Pyramid Power Magazine, “Dan Siney: A New Body of Work”, issue 6, p. 48-57
Color Magazine, “Dan Siney, Stumps”, Special Edition, p. 87-89
2015
The Malahat Review, issue 192 (Cover)
The Malahat Review, issue 191 (Cover)
2008
Color Magazine, Special Edition (Cover)
Feature: “Found Gaol Portraits, Newcastle England”, p. 18,19; p.166-169
2006
Color Magazine, Vol. 4.2 (Cover)
2004-’06
c magazine, “Big Picture”, issue 86, 2005, inside back cover
Vice Magazine, Photo Issues:
2006 vol 13, #7, p. 40,
2005 vol. 12, #7, p. 31, 56,
2004 vol. 11, #7, p. 19,
AWARD NOMINATIONS:
2013
Aimia, Art Gallery of Ontario Photography Prize
CURATION | DOING&DOING FINE ART
Doing&Doing Fine Art promotes creative expression as fundamental to cultural health, by providing exposure and sales opportunities for artists from across disciplines, creative cultures, backgrounds, geographies, and levels of experience.
2022–
EXHIBITIONS
Flavoured Soup: Doing&Doing’s First Exhibition
July 1 – Aug 1, 2023
Featuring 60 current and former Vancouver-based artists
560 Gallery / Kasko Frame Works
Vancouver, BC
ONLINE
@doing.and.doing | Instagram
doinganddoing.com | Exhibition Works List
INVITED LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS
2024
Speaker "Conversation with Paul Laroque on Professionalism and Social Ventures in the Arts" Arts Umbrella, Vancouver BC
2011
Artist talk, The Waldorf Hotel "UNSTABLE GROUND Exhibition at Unit/Pitt Projects" Vancouver BC
TEACHING
TRAUMA-INFORMED ART PROGRAMS
Vancouver Alternate School System (Vancouver School Board)
Vancouver, BC
Teacher/Coordinator
Programming for students aged 12-19
Funded by ArtStarts / BC Arts Council
2020 - present
Vancouver, BC
Head Teacher
Free, low-barrier art school for local residents of Oppenheimer Park
Founded by Andrew Dadson and Alex Tedlie-Stursberg; publicly and privately funded
2023 - present
CONTRACT TEACHING, OTHER
Malaspina Printmakers Society
Vancouver, BC
Teacher/Facilitator
Digital Printmaking
2011
ARTISTIC SERVICES
SELECTED ARTIST'S ASSISTANT
2020
Jin-Me Yoon: “The Beast”, image from “Untunnelling Vision” (multimedia installation)
- Image Consultant, Technical Assistant
2015
Sharon Kahanoff: “Viewpoints” (multimedia installation)
- Project Consultant, Videographer, Actor
SELECTED VIDEOGRAPHY
2009
Roy Causi, “South, South East” (multimedia installation),
Centre A Gallery, Vancouver, BC
- Documentary Videography
2005
Jeremy Shaw, “Best Minds Part One” (2-channel video installation with original soundtrack, 40 min loop),
MoMa, PS1, NY, NY, 2011
- Fieldwork & Videography on a requested subject
SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY
2017
“Syrinx”, Zoe Kirk-Gushowaty, (15:50, documentary, digital), RVNG International
- Videographer
2010
“Beyond the Black Rainbow”, Panos Cosmatos, (1hr, 50, feature film, 35mm), Chromewood Productions
- Film Stills, Packaging & Promotional Artwork
2007
Corey Adams, “Harvey Spannos” (45:00, short film, 35mm), Zosimos Productions
- Co-Art Director, Film Stills, Prop Master, Promotional Material
SELECTED OTHER
Permanent Installation, The Magnet, 309 West Pender, Vancouver: "Untitled (Racoons)" & "The Broccoli is Delicious Here" (series). Nigel Springthorpe, entrepreneur; Post Projects, commercial design agency.
PHOTOGRAPHY SERVICES
SELECTED EDITORIAL PHOTOGRAPHY
Vancouver House: Westbank Living, Bjarke Ingles Group; photographs for portfolio development, 2014.
Jennifer Papararo: “Catriona Jeffries Interview with Jennifer Paparero”, Hunter and Cook Magazine, issue 10, fall, 2011, p. 16-19
Lee Henderson: “Ken Roux”, Border Crossings, issue 101, March, 2007, p. 46-55
Nicholas Brown: “Corey Adams”, Color Magazine, vol. 4.2, Summer, 2006, p. 80-89
Dan Bejar, Dan Siney: “Diary: Dan Bejar”, Tokion Magazine, issue 52, April/May, 2006, p. 106
[Transworld staff]: “Dong it For the Kids”, Transworld Skateboarding Magazine, June, 2006, p. 76
Brion Paul, “Circle Square: Vancouver Native Creates Moody Shapes From Shoegaze Template”, XLR8R Magazine, issue 78, p.29
SELECTED FASHION PHOTOGRAPHY
“Age of Aquarius”, Color Magazine, issue 6.2, Summer p. 84-91
“Fiction Stunts”, Vice Magazine (DE), vol.2, #4, 2007
SELECTED OTHER
Interim Photography Facilitator
Banff Centre for the Arts
Banff, AL
2012
GRANTS
VISUAL ARTS
The Downtown Eastside Small Arts Grant
2019, '16, '15, '14, '12
TEACHING
BC Arts Council / ArtStarts in Schools; various Trauma-Informed Art Programs in Alternative Public High Schools (VSB/VASS):
2024
Genesis; Vinery
2023
Total Education; Cedar Walk; West(x2)
2022
Cedar Walk; Genesis South; Tupper Nova; Vinery
2021
Cedar Walk; Tupper Nova