DAN THOMPSON New York City, b. 1972 SOLO SHOWS 1999 Studio One, Gray, LA GROUP SHOWS 2006 The Water Street Atelier,John Pence Gallery, San Francisco, CA Studio Incamminati Artists Auction benefiting the Abraham Lincoln Foundation, The Union League of Philadelphia, PA Interiors, John Pence Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2005 The Next Generation of Realists, The Forbes Galleries, New York, NY Regional Realists, Cetury Gallery, Alexandria, VA Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Valentines, John Pence Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2004 Realism Today, Apex Gallery, Washington, DC Faculty Exhibition, New York Academy of Art Allegories, John Pence Gallery Summer Exhibition, Arcadia Gallery, New York, NY The Figure and the Cast, Century Gallery, Alexandria, VA 2003 Exposed, The Nude, John Pence Gallery, San Francisco, CA 93rd Annual Gold Medal Juried Exhibition, Pasadena Museum of Art, CA Self Portraits, John Pence Gallery, San Francisco, CA The Figure in American Art, Eleanor Ettinger Gallery, New York, NY SouthwestArt Selects Artists to Watch, Steamboat Springs, CO, Denver Int'l Airport, CO Views of Balleroy, The Forbes Galleries, New York, NY Summer Invitational, Arcadia Gallery, New York, NY 9th Annual California Art Club Plein Air Painting Event at Historic Mission San Juan         Capistrano, San Juan Capistrano, CA Chemers Gallery, Tustin, CA 2002 Two Man Exhibition, Eleanor Ettinger Gallery, New York, NY Nude: A Celebration of the Human Form, Morseburg Galleries, LA, CA The Figure in American Art, Eleanor Ettinger Gallery, New York, NY The Draughtsman's Eye, Annual Exhibition of Works on Paper, Morseburg Galleries,         Los Angles, CA 2001 The Art Students League of New York, New York, NY Summer Salon, Eleanor Ettinger Gallery, New York, NY The Draughtsman's Eye, Annual Exhibition of Works on Paper,Morseburg Galleries,         Los Angles, CA The Studio Gallery, Alexandria, VA 2000 Sketches of Spain, Grenning Gallery, Sag Harbour, NY Portrait Society of America, Washington, DC 1999 Dahesh Museum of Art, New York, NY Drawings, John Pence Gallery, San Francisco, CA The Water Street Atelier, Meredith Long & Company, Houston, TX Diploma Show The New York Academy of Art 1998 Take Home a Nude, The New York Academy of Art Corcoran Museum of Art 1994 Dan Thompson: Recent Portraits, Corcoran Gallery of Art 1992 Two Man Exhibition, Corcoran School of Art, White Walls Gallery 1990 An Artistic Discovery, United States Capitol Building, Washington, DC Mary Washington College, Fredericksburg, VA University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA SELECTED PORTRAIT COMMISSIONS Michelle Marie Aaserod, Captain Charles W. Shilling, Officer Charles W. Hill, The Von Bertrab Family, G. Gordon Liddy, Dr. William J. Kinnard Jr, Professor Burt Wilson, Professor William Newman, The Meltzer Family, Century Gallery Permanent Collection AWARDS AND GRANTS 2006 2006 Second Place in the Figurative Category in the Art Renewal Center's International ARC SalonTM 2005 Ethel Lorraine Bernstein Memorial Award, Corcoran College of Art and Design 2003 Best of Show, Southwest Art Magazine's Artists to Watch Exhibition, CO 2001 Grand Prize for Best of Show, American Society of Portrait Artist's International Portrait Competition, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art 2000 Honors Award, Portrait Society of America, National Conference, Washington, D.C 1999 Stobart Foundation Grant 1998 Leslie T. Posey Foundation Scholar, Sarasota, FL 1997 Ethel Lorraine Bernstein Memorial Award for Excellence in Painting, Corcoran School of Art 1992 William A. Newman Award for Painting Nancy R. Wolf Award for Painting 1991 Foundation Award for Drawing COLLECTIONS Forbes Magazine University of Maryland The Orkand Corporation, Washington, DC Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society, Kensington MD Eileen Guggenheim, Ph.D Stephen Foster City of Alexandria, Virginia Lynn Brown, Houston, TX Armando Papi, New Orleans, LA John Pence, San Francisco, CA Portrait Society of Canada, Toronto EDUCATION 1999 MFA, Magna cum laude graduate and Erlebacher Award for highest G.P.A (3.99), The Graduate School of Figurative Art of the New York Academy of Art 1998- 2000 The Water Street Atelier, Brooklyn, NY 1994 BFA, Graduated with Honors, The Corcoran School of Art 1995- 1997 Egeli Portrait Workshops, Edgewater, MD 1997- 2000 Art Students League of New York 1996 Barnstone Studios, Coplay, PA 1995- 2002 Private studies and studio apprenticeships with colorists and sculptors from the eastern and southern United States TEACHING Founder, Grand Central Academy of Art Studio 126, New York, NY Water Street Atelier, Brooklyn, NY Studio Incamminati, Philadelphia, PA Portrait Society of Canada International Portrait Arts Festival, Lecturer and Demonstrator Portrait Society of Canada Master's workshop in the Arts and Letters Club of Toronto New Orleans Art Association, Lousiana Los Angeles Academy of Figurative Art, Los Angeles, CA Dahesh Museum of Art, Lecturer Part Time Professor: 1/2004-12/2006, Parsons The New School of Design, NY, teaching Drawing Fundamentals I and II, and Drawing Studio I Adjunct Professor of Drawing and Painting: 9/2001-12/2006, The Graduate School of Figurative Art, The New York Academy of Art, teaching Drawing I, Drawing II, Painting I, Painting II, Structural Drawing SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 2006 M. Stephen Doherty, "Dan Thompson: Back to the Basics," American Artist Workshop, Winter Edition, pp. 18-29 2005 M. Stephen Doherty, "The Next Generation of Realists," American Artist, January, pp. 19-31 2004 Mark Jenkins, "Realism Reimagined," The Washington Post Weekend, Sunday, May 21, p. 39 2004 "On the Rise, The Artist's Magazine, January, pp. 52-62 2003 Trish Hall, "Designing With the Idea That More Is Better," The New York Times, Sunday, March 30, Habitats Section 2002 Vanessa Silberman, "Portraiture Continues to Turn Heads in the Art Market," Art Business News, June, pp. 52-70 2002 Dan Thompson, "The Language of Light," The Artist's Magazine, March, pp. 36-39 2002 Bonnie Gangelhoff, "Artists to Watch", Southwest Art Magazine, September, pp. 98-148 2001 "A Portfolio of Student Drawings" American Artist Magazine, November, pp. 64-69 2001 "Advancing the Portrait Tradition", Molly Siple, California Art Clubs Newsletter, October 2001 The Portrait Signature, A.S.O.P.A. Festival Review 2000 International Artist Magazine, October/November 2000 The Art of the Portrait, December 1999/January 1999 E. Lynne Moss, "Academics Steal the Show," American Artist Magazine, Dec. SELECTED EXHIBITION CATALOGS Allegories, John Pence Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2004 Self Portraits, John Pence Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2003 Exposed: The Nude, John Pence Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2003 Richard Piloco, Dan Thompson, Eleanor Ettinger Gallery, New York, NY 2002 The Water Street Atelier, Meredith Long Gallery, TX, 2000 The Water Street Atelier, Meredith Long Gallery, TX, 1999 Drawings, John Pence Gallery, 1999