DAN PAZ — CV (preview)

Curriculum Vitae

Education

Ph.D. Candidate, Cultural Studies

Emphasis in Science & Technology Studies and Feminist Theory & Research

The University of California, Davis

M.F.A., Visual Arts/Interdisciplinary Studies in Art Theory and Practice

The University of Chicago

B.F.A., Video

Minors in Photography and Art History

The Atlanta College of Art (SCAD)

Grants, Awards & Residencies

2026

Dissertation Year Fellowship | University of California, Davis

Marxist Institute of Research Graduate Fellow, MIR | UC Natural Resources Center, Truckee, CA

Global Leadership Grant | University of California, Davis

Mellon Foundation, 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