Daniel Tucker (He/Him/His) helps artists, activists and organizations to create impactful work. He has done this through creating independent publications, academic programs, dynamic gatherings and critical exhibitions. He develops projects inspired by his interest in social movements and the people and places from which they emerge. His writings and lectures on the intersections of art and politics and his collaborative art projects have been published and presented widely and are documented on the archive miscprojects.com.
Current Projects: An avid collaborator, he is currently developing projects with KADIST, The Sachs Program for Arts Innovation, The Center for Experimental Ethnography, Public Trust, Wagner Foundation, Haverford College’s Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Rowan University Art Gallery, Mural Arts Philadelphia, The Library Company, Swarthmore College’s Engaged Humanities Studio (with Paloma Checa-Gismero) and the Arts In Society Research Network as conference chair and editor of The International Journal of the Arts in Society.
Background:
Between 2005-2010 he founded and edited the publication AREA Chicago and from 2010-2015 he collaborated with Rebecca Zorach on the archiving and curatorial project Never The Same. In 2016 he curated the exhibition and event series Organize Your Own: The Politics and Poetics of Self-Determination Movements which toured to 9 venues between 2016-2019. From 2019-2020 he was a Curator in Residence with Mural Arts Philadelphia where he developed Power Map: Historic Mural Activations. And in 2022 Tucker released a co-edited book and accompanying exhibition Lastgaspism: Art and Survival in the Age of Pandemic with Anthony Romero and Dan S. Wang which was selected by Hyperallergic as one of the best art books of the year. His current project is the Eco-Social Salon, Site-Seeing, and Screening Series (2023 – Ongoing) which builds on his longstanding interest in food and ecology that has included exhibitions and books such as Farm Together Now (Chronicle Books, 2010) and Immersive Life Practices (SAIC, 2014).
He has had a deep engagement with the museum field as a curator and convenor, hosting such programs as Inclusive Museums, the Grassroots Archiving Symposium, the UArts Museums Forum and the Curating Engagement project which includes a retreat and several publications with the International Journal of Arts In Society, Wagner Foundation and Public Trust. Tucker has organized exhibitions, publications and events for national organizations such as Creative Time, Alliance of Media Arts and Culture, Common Field, University of California Institute for Research in the Arts, A Blade of Grass, Artist Communities Alliance, Leeway Foundation and numerous community and university art centers, galleries and museums. He is a regular consultant and advisor to arts organizations concerned with their public engagement strategy.
As an artist his videos, printed matter and collaborative projects have been exhibited/screened widely at over 100 organizations and institutions including at Commonwealth & Council gallery (Los Angeles, CA), Charlotte Street Foundation (Kansas City, MO), Albuquerque Museum (Albuquerque, NM), Mass MoCA (North Adams, MA), Gene Siskel Film Center and Hyde Park Art Center (Chicago, IL), Art In General and the Park Avenue Armory (New York City, NY), Slought (Philadelphia), Werkleitz Biennial 6 (Germany), Centro José Guerrero (Spain), the 4th Athens Biennale (Greece) as well as streets, protests, front yards, bus tours and rooftops. His first artist book “We Are All…Now” was published by the Dutch publisher Set Margins in 2022.
He is a graduate of the Rockwood Leadership Institute’s Art of Leadership program (2018), the Citizen’s Planning Institute (2024) and received his MFA from University of Illinois at Chicago (2013) as a University Fellow and Dean’s Fellow and BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2005). Tucker has taught previously at University of Chicago (2013), School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2014), Ox-Bow School of Art (2018), Moore College of Art & Design (2014-2023), and University of the Arts in Philadelphia where he was an Associate Professor and Director of the Museum Studies MA program until the school abruptly closed. Beginning in the Summer of 2023 he became the Research Network Chair for Arts In Society and has edited journals and organized conferences for the network.
Tucker and his wife Emily Bunker live in West Philadelphia with their son and dog.
Contact dt@miscprojects.com or check out his CV.
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