DAN PAZ — CV (preview)

Curriculum Vitae

Education

Ph.D. Candidate, Cultural Studies

University of California, Davis

Emphasis in Science & Technology Studies and Feminist Theory and Research

Pre-Dissertation Fellowship

University of California, Davis

M.F.A., Visual Arts

The University of Chicago

Interdisciplinary Studies in Art Theory and Practice

B.F.A., Video

The Atlanta College of Art, now part of SCAD

Minors in Photography and Art History

Grants, Awards & Residencies

2026

L’AiR Arts Residency | Paris, France

Marxist Institute of Research Summer Seminar, MIR | UC Natural Resources Center, Truckee, CA

Global Leadership Grant | University of California, Davis

Academic Freedom from Below, Sawyer Seminar Graduate Fellow | University of California, Davis

2025

Leslie Lohman Museum of Art, Artist Fellowship | New York, NY

Trans Studies at the Commons, Community Grant, Trans Studies Initiative | Lawrence, KS

Beyond the Barriers Research Fellow | University of California, Davis, CA

2024

Djerassi Resident Artists Program | Woodside, CA

Stove Works Artist Residency | Chattanooga, TN

2023

Public Scholars for the Future Fellow, University of California, Davis | Davis, CA

2022

QSIDE Institute Data4Justice Accelerator Program | Williams College, MA

Digital Scholarship Incubator Program, Michigan State University | Lansing, MI

Artist-in-Residence in Critical Race Studies, Michigan State University | Lansing, MI

2019

Visiting Artist, Sierra Nevada College Lo-Res MFA Program | Incline Village, NV

Multnomah County Cultural Coalition Grant, Oregon Cultural Trust | Portland, OR

2018

High-Resolution Media Arts Residency, Lee Center for the Arts, Seattle University | Seattle, WA

Heimelijkhaus Media Arts Residency | Amsterdam, NL

2017

Wyckoff Milliman Endowment Grant, The University of Washington | Seattle, WA

2016

Wyckoff Milliman Endowment Grant, The University of Washington | Seattle, WA

Studios of Key West Artist Residency | Key West, FL

2015

Artist as Activist Residency, The Luminary | St. Louis, MO

Hatch Artist Residency, partially funded by the Warhol Foundation | Chicago, IL

2014

Guest Artist, El Centro Desarollo de Artes Visuales | Havana, Cuba

Hatch Artist Residency, Chicago Artists Coalition | Chicago, IL

2013

ACRE Artist Residency and Cooperative Exhibition | Steuben, WI

2012

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation’s Connections Fund Grant

8550 OHIO Artist Residency | Chesterhill, OH

Department of Visual Arts Grant, The University of Chicago | Chicago, IL

The Open Practice Committee Grant, University of Chicago | Chicago, IL

2011

The Claire Kantor Foundation Grant | Miami, FL

Ann Metzger Memorial National Media Print Award | St. Louis, MO

Links Hall Artistic Associates Residency and Grant | Chicago, IL

Festival of the Arts Grant, University of Chicago Arts Council | Chicago, IL

Solo & Two-Person Exhibitions

2023

things that stayed, with alejandro t. acierto, SOIL Gallery | Seattle, WA

2022

Broken on a Wheel, ENTRE Gallery | Vienna, Austria

hammer without a nail, Michigan State University | East Lansing, MI

the seeing machine, with Ava Aviva Avnisan, Design Innovation Gallery, Kent State University | Kent, OH

2021

The sun never knew, Youth Advocacy Mapping Series (online)

2019

The sun never knew how great it was until it struck the side of a building, Lee Center for the Arts, Seattle University | Seattle, WA

The sun never knew how great it was until it struck the side of a building, curated by Yaelle Amir, Holding Contemporary | Portland, OR

2018

Monument a Surface, Ditch Projects | Springfield, OR

2017

Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, Submission Gallery | Chicago, IL

Screen Share, Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts | Chicago, IL

Studio Visit Performance, Seattle Office of Arts and Culture | Seattle, WA

2016

Lunch Poems, Roots and Culture Contemporary | Chicago, IL

On the Screen, The Franklin | Chicago, IL

2013

Fiction Outside, PSA Projects | Chicago, IL

Group Exhibitions

2026

Bath/House, curated by Dr. Thea Quiray Tagle, Bell Gallery, Brown University | Providence, RI

of sight, of mind, organized by alejandro t. acierto, Vulpes Bastille | Kansas City, MO

2024

Cosmic Connections, curated by Josiah Golson, Stove Works | Chattanooga, TN

Letters, curated by David Josue Cordero, Space & Time Gallery | Chicago, IL

2023

Behind the Cloud: Interrogating Digital Technologies, curated by Marissa Del Toro & Alex Santana, Latinx Project at NYU | New York, NY

2022

this exists inside this frame but it also exists inside this other frame, curated by alejandro t. acierto, Stove Works | Chattanooga, TN

2021

Lux Aeterna, The Jacob Lawrence Gallery, University of Washington | Seattle, WA

2020

Deliberate Acts: Art & Incarceration, curated by alejandro t. acierto, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, TN

If a Tree Falls…, Holding Contemporary | Portland, OR

Unsettling Time, curated by alejandro t. acierto, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, TN

Ritualistic Technology II, curated by Marilyn Volkman | Amsterdam, NL

2019

Ritualistic Technology, Noda Estudio | Havana, CU

Up from the Table, with Creative Justice, Hedreen Gallery, Lee Center for the Arts | Seattle, WA

Experiments in Resistance: Media in the Age of Mass Incarceration, NW Film Forum | Seattle, WA

2018

We have something to say, 24-hour radio transmission, Sandberg Instituut, De School | Amsterdam, NL

in a split second (it happened.), Hedreen Gallery, Lee Center for the Arts, Seattle University | Seattle, WA

Trans & Queer Video Series | Brooklyn, NY

1,500,000,000,000, Triumph Gallery | Chicago, IL

2017

The Dangerous Professors, curated by Ruslana Lichtzier, Triumph Gallery | Chicago, IL

The One Minute, Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision | Amsterdam, NL

Out of Sight, curated by S. Surface, Seattle Art Fair | Seattle, WA

Untold Passages, curated by Emily Zimmerman, The Jacob Lawrence Gallery | Seattle, WA

Screen Share Festival, Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts | Chicago, IL

2016

Your body is a battleground, Weinberg/Newton Gallery | Chicago, IL

Transmissions, curated by Sharmyn Rivera Cruz, The Franklin | Chicago, IL

2015

Art Present, Fábrica de Arte Cubano, 12th Havana Biennial | Havana, CU

Interlocking Single-Mode 21-Strand Fiber Optic Cable, ART EXPO | Chicago, IL

Making Chances, Gallery 400, curated by Lorelei Stewart and John Neff | Chicago, IL

Cage Unrequited by William Pope.L, reader, Museum of Contemporary Art | Chicago, IL

Lunch Poems, Roots and Culture Contemporary | Chicago, IL

In a Brown Paper Wrapper, Richard and Mary L. Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry | Chicago, IL

Elementary Reading, curated by Ruslana Lichtzier, Co-Prosperity Sphere | Chicago, IL

Finocchio, curated by Scott Hunter, The Franklin | Chicago, IL

Modi Operandi, curated by Alexandria Eregbu, Chicago Artists Coalition | Chicago, IL

2014

Perch, ACRE Artist Residency and Cooperative Exhibition | Chicago, IL

Square Root of Pi(e), curated by Alexandria Eregbu, Chicago Artists Coalition | Chicago, IL

22nd Evanston Biennial, curated by Allison Peters Quinn and Sergio Gomez | Evanston, IL

Bare Bones, The Franklin | Chicago, IL

Renaissance Revisited, South Side Community Arts Center | Chicago, IL

2013

Summoning a New Queer Reality, Museum of Contemporary Art | Chicago, IL

Loneliness Chapel, curated by Danny Volk, Logan Center for the Arts | Chicago, IL

Archetype Drift, curated by Jason Lazarus, Johalla Projects | Chicago, IL

2012

I’m with you, Hayward Gallery, curated by Fritz Haeg and Dr. Ben Campkin | London, UK

4th International Video-Art Festival | Camagüey, CU

The Great Refusal: Videos on New Queer Aesthetics, Gene Siskel Film Center | Chicago, IL

24HRS/25DAYS Exhibition, New Capital | Chicago, IL

ARTE NO ES FÁCIL: Links Hall Performance Series | Chicago, IL

Immigrant/Emigrant, Angels Gate Cultural Center, curated by Lara Bullock | San Pedro, CA

Public Presentations

2026

Panelist, “Coalitional Aesthetics: Sensorial Political Tactics Across Incongruousness,” ASAP17 Conference

Artist talk, “Critical Curating,” Rhode Island School of Design | Providence, RI

2025

Switchboard Collective, Trans Studies at the Commons, University of Kansas | Lawrence, KS

“A Queer, Anticolonial, Abolitionist Slideshow,” American Studies Association | San Juan, PR

“On Soft Protopias and Analog Temporalities,” Cultural Studies Association | Valencia, CA

Artist Lecture, Wayne State University | Detroit, MI

2024

“Luxuriating in the Goopiness: Brain Fog as Making/Knowing,” ASAP15 Conference | New York, NY

“Queer Abolition, the Aesthetics of Unsame Solidarities,” ASAP15 Conference | New York, NY

“Designing Switchboard,” Oral History Symposium, Ohio University | Cincinnati, OH

“Double Exposing the Spectral & Their Haunts,” Feminist Theory Symposium, UC Davis | Davis, CA

2023

Invited Discussant, “Risk Work: Thinking Through Artists’ Punitive Literacy,” ASAP14 (online)

“Care and Solidarity as Institutional Critique,” American Studies Association Conference

2022

Artist Talk, Museum Studies Program, University of Kansas | Lawrence, KS

“On the Edges of Racial Containment: Photography, Land, and the Ethnographic Gaze,” ASAP13

Artist Lecture, Vienna MA in Applied Human Rights, die Angewandte | Vienna, AUT

Panel Discussion, Vienna MA in Applied Human Rights, die Angewandte | Vienna, AUT

2021

Artist Lecture, Stanley & Selma Hollander Visiting Artist, Designer, and Scholar Lecture Series, Michigan State University | Lansing, MI

Invited discussant, After Touch, with Marcel Pardo Ariza, Ochi Projects LA & ONE Archives

Moderator, “Shifting Curatorial Ethics: On Pedagogy, Relation, and Publics,” ASAP/12 (online)

Artist Lecture & Mapping Workshop, Vienna MA in Applied Human Rights, die Angewandte | Vienna, AUT

Artist Lecture, Arizona State University | Tempe, AZ

Artist Lecture, Studio Arts (Photography), California State University | Los Angeles, CA

2020

Artist Lecture, School of Emerging Media & Technology, Kent State University | Kent, OH

The Sun, Community Mapping Workshop Series, Deliberate Acts: Art and Incarceration, Vanderbilt University | Nashville, TN

Mapping Workshop, University of Colorado Boulder | Boulder, CO

Bugs and Beasts Before the Law Colloquium, invited panelist, The Henry Gallery | Seattle, WA

Invited respondent, Viewpoints, Henry Art Gallery | Seattle, WA

Artist Lecture, Concordia University | Montréal, QC

Artist Lecture, Cranbrook Academy of Art | Bloomfield Hills, MI

In conversation with curator Ashley Stull Meyers, Sierra Nevada University | Incline Village, NV

“Decarceration & Commuted Sentences in COVID,” Holding Contemporary | Portland, OR

Guest Critic, Photography Studio, Seattle University | Seattle, WA

“Longevity: Art Practices for Queer Education,” Queer Caucus for Art, CAA & Latitude | Chicago, IL

“In the Teeth of Empire: Making a Mess & Other Queer Orientations,” QTCA, CAA | Chicago, IL

ACES: Artists of Color Expo & Symposium, invited panelist, The Armory at Seattle Center | Seattle, WA

2019

Artist Lecture, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University | New Brunswick, NJ

Artist Lecture / Performance, Noda Estudio | Havana, Cuba

Artist Lecture, Department of Comparative History of Ideas, University of Washington | Seattle, WA

Organizer, Queer Caucus for Art, Queen’s Council honoring Fierce Pussy, Leslie-Lohman Museum | New York, NY

In conversation with Carmen Denison, The sun never knew…, moderated by Yaelle Amir, Holding Contemporary | Portland, OR

Artist Lecture, Visiting Artist Program, Cornish College of the Arts | Seattle, WA

Artist Lecture, Vachon Gallery, Seattle University | Seattle, WA

Artist Lecture, Sierra Nevada College, Low Residency MFA | Incline Village, NV

SUVAIR, Seattle University Artist in Residence Lecture | Seattle, WA

2018

Invited Moderator, “Picnic with Sharon Lockhart,” Henry Art Gallery | Seattle, WA

Guest Critic, Cornish College of the Arts | Seattle, WA

Artist Lecture, North Seattle College | Seattle, WA

Host, Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon: Latin American and Caribbean Womxn Artists, The Jacob Lawrence Gallery | Seattle, WA

Artist Lecture, Pigott Lecture Series, Hedreen Gallery, Seattle University | Seattle, WA

Artist Lecture, School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences, University of Washington Bothell | Bothell, WA

Co-chair, Queer Caucus for Art, College Art Association

2017

Artist talks: School of the Art Institute of Chicago | Chicago, IL; Evergreen State College | Olympia, WA; The Jacob Lawrence Gallery | Seattle, WA; Out of Sight | Seattle, WA

Guest critic: School of the Art Institute of Chicago | Chicago, IL; University of Oregon | Eugene, OR

Guest juror, PICA’s Precipice Fund | Portland, OR

Invited Presenter, “Other Media: Decolonizing Practices and Cyborg Ontologies,” New Media Caucus, CAA | New York, NY

Organizer, “Finding a Public: Latinx Cultural Production,” The Alice Gallery | Seattle, WA

2016

Public Convo Symposium, Latitude | Chicago, IL

Guest artist, Curatorial Practice, School of the Art Institute of Chicago | Chicago, IL

Guest artist, Intro to Art Practice, University of Washington | Seattle, WA

2015

Artist Talks: The School of the Art Institute, University of Illinois–Chicago, and Smart Museum | Chicago, IL

Feminism & Photography Panel Discussion, Museum of Contemporary Art | Chicago, IL

2014

“Gender Inside of Photography,” Post-Modern Photography Symposium, Society for Photographic Education, Purdue University | West Lafayette, IN

Juror, Reeling LGBT International Film Festival | Chicago, IL

2013

Guest Artist, The School of the Art Institute: Permeable Membranes | Chicago, IL

2012

Artist Talks, 65Grand & Links Hall | Chicago, IL

Panel discussant, ARTE NO ES FÁCIL, Associated Colleges of the Midwest | Chicago, IL

Publications, Catalog Essays & Reviews

2025

“Slow Technology of Abolition.” Leonardo, vol. 58, no. 3, MIT Press.

2023

Review of Trans Care by Hil Malatino. Theatre Journal (Project Muse).

“28-minute exposure, 3:30 pm.” Foam Magazine, #64: EXTREMES, The Environmental Issue.

2022

“Exposing the Hero.” Portable Gray, Gray Center for Arts & Inquiry, University of Chicago Press Journals, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 49–65.

Catalog essay: Tagle, Thea Quiray. Hammer Without a Nail. Michigan State University.

Review: Pothast, Emily. “The Faces of the Accused and the Dead.” Medium, Form & Resonance.

2021

Guest Editor. A New Nothing and Sleeper Studio (print publication).

2020

Interview with Aaron Counts, Creative Justice. The Henry Gallery | Seattle, WA.

2019

Interview with curators of the 2019 Portland Biennial. ASAP/Journal.

Review: Knowlton, James. The sun never knew…. Art Practical.

Interview with Praxis Magazine, Yale Radio, with Brainard Carey.

Catalog essay: Mac, Molly. The sun never knew…. Lee Center for the Arts, Seattle University.

2018

Catalog essay: Mac, Molly. In a Second (It Happened). The Hedreen Gallery | Seattle, WA.

Exhibition essay: Wilson, Leslie. In Silence Back. Ditch Projects | Springfield, OR.

Exhibition essay: Keogh Serrano, Ximena. Thru the Roof. The Alice Gallery | Seattle, WA.

Exhibition essay: Zimmerman, Emily. Untold Passages. The Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Gamma Poetry Press.

New Media Caucus. “Other Media: Decolonizing Practices and Cyborg Ontologies.”

2017

Review: Sierzputowski, Kate. “The Dangerous Professors.” Chicago Reader.

Catalog: Lichtzier, Ruslana. The Dangerous Professors.

Catalog: Preston-Myint, Aay, ed. Platforms: Ten Years of Chances.

2016

Rodriguez, Oli, ed. The Great Refusal: Taking on New Queer Aesthetics. SAIC.

Interview: Romagoza, Yali. “Interviews with Marilyn Volkman and Dan Paz.” Contemporary Art Seminar.

“Interview with Tania Bruguera.” Shifter Magazine, issue 20: What We Can Knot.

Curatorial

2020

in the teeth of empire, FLXST Contemporary | Chicago, IL

2018

Thru the Roof (group exhibition), The Alice Gallery | Seattle, WA

2017

The Alice Gallery, Curatorial Collective | Seattle, WA

2015

Arte no es Fácil Symposium, Fábrica de Arte Cubano, 12th Havana Biennial | Havana, CU

Gift Economies, Inversion, Frontier, Sometimes Art Space, Vedado | Havana, CU

2012

Arte no es Fácil, Links Hall | Chicago, IL

Collections & Commissions

2021

The Jacob Lawrence Gallery, University of Washington, Lux Aeterna | Seattle, WA

2020

4Culture | Seattle, WA

The Jacob Lawrence Gallery, University of Washington | Seattle, WA

2019

Hedreen Gallery, Lee Center for the Arts, Seattle University | Seattle, WA

2013

Roots and Culture Contemporary Art Center, Eyeball Witness Compilation | Chicago, IL