| 1974 | Born in Welwyn Garden City, England, UK | |
| Education | ||
| 1998 | BA Hons Photography, London College of Printing, University of The Arts London, UK | |
| Public Collections | ||
| Tate Gallery, London | ||
| Pompidou Centre Collection, Paris | ||
| Victoria & Albert Museum Collection, London | ||
| The Government Art Collection, London | ||
| DG Bank Collection, Munich | ||
| Worchester City Art Gallery, UK | ||
| The Saatchi Collection, London | ||
| UBS Art Collection, London | ||
| Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art Collection, UK | ||
| University of the Arts Collection, London | ||
| Hackney Museum, London | ||
| British Airways Art Collection, UK | ||
| Artist Pension Trust Collection, London | ||
| The Northern Canon Collection, UK | ||
| The Goetz Collection, Munich | ||
| The Arts Council Collection, UK | ||
| The Progressive Art Collection, USA | ||
| Awards and Fellowships | ||
| 2008 | Visiting Fellowship, The European Centre for Photographic Research, Newport, University of Wales | |
| 2007 | Short listed for the Northern Art Prize, Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds, UK | |
| 2006 | Arts Council of England Award, UK | |
| 2002 | Arts Council of England Award, UK | |
| 2001 | Short listed for Beck’s Future’s Prize, ICA, London | |
| Solo Exhibitions | ||
| 2011 | Blackout, Nordin Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden | |
| Blackout, PF Gallery, Poznan, Poland | ||
| 2010 | Blackout, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK | |
| Blackout, Patricia Low Contemporary, Geneva, Switzerland | ||
| 2007 | Ultravisitor, Patricia Low Contemporary, Gstaad, Switzerland | |
| Geographics, Dan Holdsworth + Paul Shepheard, MIMA, UK | ||
| White Noise, Store Gallery, London | ||
| At The Edge of Space, Parts 1-3, Stills Gallery, Edinburgh, UK | ||
| 2006 | At The Edge of Space, Parts 1-3, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, UK | |
| 2005 | The Gregorian, Store Gallery, London, UK | |
| 2003 | Dan Holdsworth, The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall, UK | |
| 2002 | Black Mountains, Entwistle Gallery, London, UK | |
| Dan Holdsworth, Chelsea Kunstraum, Cologne, Germany | ||
| 2001 | The World in Itself, Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK | |
| Dan Holdsworth, Kohji Ogura Gallery, Nagoya, Japan | ||
| Dan Holdsworth, Entwistle Gallery, London, UK | ||
| Group Exhibitions | ||
| 2011 | Shifting Realities: Dan Holdsworth - Michael Reisch, Scheublein Fine Art, Schloss Sihlberg, Zurich, Switzerland | |
| 2010 | Questions of Belonging, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, UK | |
| 5th Anniversary Exhibition, Patricia Low Contemporary, Geneva, Switzerland | ||
| Nuit Blanche, Patricia Low Contemporary, Geneva, Switzerland | ||
| CRASH, Homage to JG Ballard, Gagosian Gallery, London, UK | ||
| Photo 50, The London Art Fair, London, UK | ||
| 2009 | A Picture of Us? Identity in British Art, Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield, UK | |
| Space Invader, Aicon Gallery, London, UK | ||
| Sound Escapes, curated by Angus Carlyle, Space Studios, London, UK | ||
| The Little shop on Hoxton Street, Limoncello Gallery, London, UK | ||
| 2008 | Time to Play?, APT Web Gallery, Artist Pension Trust, Participant Inc. New York | |
| From Dusk Till Dawn, Darkness dreams and drama, The Arts Gallery, University of the Arts, London, UK | ||
| Material Culture, Recently Gifted Works, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, UK | ||
| Night: A Time Between, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, UK | ||
| 2007 | Northern Art Prize, Leeds Art Gallery, UK | |
| Bienal de Lanzarote (Islas Canarias) organizada por el MIAC-Museo Internacional de Arte Contemporaneo de Lanzarote. Spain | ||
| Weather Report, Climate Change and Visual Artists, CAAM, Centro Atlantico de Arte Modern, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain | ||
| Spectacular City, NRW Forum Dusseldorf, Germany | ||
| All Tomorrow’s Pictures, ICA, The Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK | ||
| How We Are: Photographing Britain, Tate Britain, UK | ||
| 2006 | Modern-Life Painter,s Photography Collection, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France | |
| Spectacular City, The Netherlands Architecture Institute, Rotterdam, Netherlands | ||
| 2005 | Photography 2005, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK | |
| Temporal Landscapes, Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston, UK | ||
| 2004 | Aspects of Architecture: Photographs from the Victoria + Albert Museum, at the Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield, UK | |
| 2003 | Consuming Nature + Man, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, USA | |
| A Bigger Splash: British Art from Tate 1960-2003, Pavilhao Luca Nogueira Garcez, Sao Paulo/Paco Imperial/Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | ||
| Art Now Lightbox, Tate Britain, London, UK | ||
| Primary Colours, The City Gallery, Leicester, UK | ||
| 2002 | TRADE, Netherlands Photo Institute, Rotterdam, Netherlands | |
| 2001 | Looking With/Out, East Wing Collection No. 5, Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, London, UK | |
| Horizon, Arts Agents Gallery, Hamburg, Germany | ||
| UK/NY, Asprey Garrard Gallery, New York, USA | ||
| Andrew Cross and Dan Holdsworth, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, UK | ||
| Antarctica, Entwistle, London, UK | ||
| Neue Welt, Frankfurt Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany | ||
| TRADE, Fotomuseum, Winterthur, Switzerland | ||
| Department, Changing Rooms, Stirling, Scotland, UK | ||
| Becks Futures 2, ICA, London, UK; Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, UK; Sotheby’s, New York, USA | ||
| 2000 | Photospin, Photographer’s Gallery, London, UK | |
| What We Call Progress, Gasworks, London, UK | ||
| 1999 | School Reunion, Wilkinson Gallery, London, UK | |
| Later, Focal Point Gallery, Southend, UK | ||
| Department, Victoria Plaza, Southend, UK | ||
| Dub Housing, Camera Austria Gallery, Steirischer Herbst 99, Graz, Austria | ||
| Path, Chisenhale Gallery, London, UK | ||
| Signs, Atlantis Gallery, London, UK | ||
| Monographs | ||
| 2005 | Dan Holdsworth, published by Steidl | |
| Selected Publications | ||
| 2010 | CRASH, Homage to JG Ballard, Gagosian Gallery | |
| Alaska, Edition 03 | ||
| 2008 | Andreas Gursky, Architecture, p.19–20, published by Hanje Cantz, Germany | |
| Night: A Time Between, catalogue, The Royal West of England Academy, Bristol. UK | ||
| 2007 | V+A 150th Anniversary book, published by The Victoria + Albert Museum, UK | |
| Weather Report, Climate Change and Visual Arts. Catalogue, CAAM (Centro Atlantico De Arte Moderno, Spain | ||
| All Tomorrow’s Pictures, ICA Publishing, London, UK | ||
| Autumn Leaves, Sound and the Environment in Artistic Practice, Edited by Angus Carlyle, Double Entendre Publishing, UK | ||
| How We Are: Photographing Britain, Tate publishing. Edited by Susan Bright and Val Williams. London, UK | ||
| SOStainability: Re-Writing The Future, Acciona Publishing, Spain | ||
| 2006 | Spectacular City, NAi publishing. Netherlands | |
| Art Photography Now, by Susan Bright, published by Thames and Hudson. UK | ||
| New Art on View, The Contemporary Art Society and The New Art Gallery Walsall,SCALA Publishers. UK | ||
| 2004 | The Photograph as Contemporary Art, by Charlotte Cotton, published by Thames and Hudson. UK | |
| Now and Then, Art Now at Tate Britain, with texts by Judith Nesbitt and Martin Herbert, Tate Publishing, London, UK | ||
| 2003 | A Bigger Splash: British Art from Tate 1960-2003, published by Tate, London, UK | |
| 2001 | Beck’s Futures 2, catalogue, ICA, London, UK | |
| Trade, Fotomuseum Winterthur.Published by Steidl, Germany | ||
| Neue Welt, catalogue, Frankfurt Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany | ||
| Selected Bibliography | ||
| 2011 | EXIT Magazine, Issue 43, p. 54 - p. 57 | |
| Marc Valli, Elephant Magazine, Issue 7, p. 110 - p. 127 | ||
| Philipp Meier, Neue Zurcher Zeitung, Zurcher Zultur, 28th May, p.25 | ||
| Joanna Persman, SvD, Arts Section, 25th March | ||
| Clemens Poellinger, SvD, Arts Section, 18th March, p.18 | ||
| Jacquelyn Davis, Art Slant, 17th March, http://ny.artslant.com/ew/articles/show/22311 | ||
| The Atlantic Magazine, March Issue, p.52 | ||
| Paul Usherwood, Art Monthly, Feb Issue, p.25-p.26 | ||
| Critics Pick of the week, The Guardian Guide, 22nd Jan, 5th Feb, 12th Feb | ||
| Daily Universal Register, The Times, p.22, 3rd Jan | ||
| 2010 | Mark Rappolt, Art Review, December, Issue 46, p.101 - p.107 | |
| Critics Pick of the week, The Guardian Guide, 20th Nov, 27th Nov, 4th Dec | ||
| James Pallister, The Architects' Journal, 11th November | ||
| Robert Clark, The Guardian Guide, 13th November, p.39 | ||
| Narinder Purba, Narc. Magazine, November Issue, p. 14 | ||
| Ari Stein, Nuit Blanche Comes To Geneva, Electronic Beats.Net, 17th March | ||
| Peter Campbell, At the Gagosian, London Review of Books, 11th March, Vol. 32, No.5, p.26 | ||
| Ekow Eshun, Photo 50, The London Art Fair guide, p.43/p.44 | ||
| Brian Sewell, Where’s the fun of the fair, London Evening Standard, January 19th | ||
| 2009 | Skye Sherwin, Exhibitionist: The best shows to see this week, The Guardian, August 21st | |
| Sally O’Reilly, Time Out London, Sound Escapes, p.44, August 6th | ||
| Ken Hollings, WIRE, Sound Escapes, p.83, October Issue | ||
| Lisa Le Feuvre, ‘Photography, Time and Chance’, London Art Fair Guide, p.38–p.39 | ||
| 2008 | Brodie Lyon, Art Review ‘Night: A Time Between’, Metro Life Bristol, p.28. 31st March | |
| Godfrey Worsdale, Best In Show, Museums Journal, p.70, January 2008 Issue | ||
| 2007 | Banking On Success, Art Review, Issue 17, December 2007 | |
| Robert Clark, The Guardian Guide, 24th November, p.37 | ||
| Rachel Campbell-Johnston, Top 5 Galleries, The Times (Northern Edition), The Knowledge Section, 24th Nov. | ||
| Richard Clayton, All The Fun of The Fair, The Sunday Times, Culture, p.7.Oct. 7th. | ||
| Simon de Burton, Eight That Could Shake The World, Financial Times, Saturday 29th | ||
| Sept, p.2, Collecting Supplement. | ||
| Toyoko Ito, Photographica Magazine Japan, p.116-121. Issue 08 2007 | ||
| Hepzibah Anderson, Critics Choice, Evening Standard. 24th May. | ||
| Jessica Lack, The Guardian, The Guide, p.36. 26th May. | ||
| Sue Steward, Evening Standard, p.38. 22nd May. | ||
| Peaches Geldof, The Observer Magazine, p.37. 29th April. | ||
| 2006 | Chris Hatherill, S3 Magazine. Issue_1. P.25-30. | |
| Martin Herbert, Time Out, p.38, 30th Aug. | ||
| Fiona Macdonald, Metro, p.26, 13th June. | ||
| Sham Sandhu, The Times, 17th June | ||
| Gonzague Dupleix, Numero, Issue 71, pg140-142 | ||
| 2005 | Euginia Bell, London Critics Picks, Artforum on-line, July | |
| Sally O’Reilly, Time Out, June 22nd. | ||
| Sue Stewerd, 'A focus on six of the best' Photography | ||
| Evening Standard, 19th Jan. | ||
| Brian Dillon, Modern Painters, Photography 2005, March. | ||
| Fisun Guner, Much ado about nothingness, Metro, 18th Jan | ||
| 2004 | Helen Sumpter, Contemporary 21, issue 67. | |
| Raphaelle Stoppin, Utopia, Vogue Hommes International, Issue no16. | ||
| 2003 | ‘Technopolis’, Numero, France, September | |
| Verhagan, Marcus, ‘Picture Plane’, Contemporary, UK, May. | ||
| Creative Review, May. | ||
| 2002 | Coomer, Martin. Time Out (London), December 4–11. | |
| Ratnam, Niru. i-D, UK, December. | ||
| Pinsent, Richard. The Art Newspaper, UK, December. | ||
| Le Feuvre, Lisa. ‘Doug Aitkin and Dan Holdsworth.’ Katalog, January-February. | ||
| 2001 | Wood, Catherine. ‘Techno: Sublime.’ Untitled (London), Autumn/Winter. | |
| Spriggs, Lucy. ‘Beck’s Futures.’ Art Review (London), April. | ||
| ‘Profile: Beck’s Futures.’ Dazed and Confused, April. | ||
| Searle, Adrian. ‘Review: ‘Beck’s Futures.’ The Guardian, April 3. | ||
| Coomer, Martin. ‘Preview: Beck’s Futures.’ Time Out (London), March 28–4 April. | ||
| Cumming, Laura. ‘Review: Beck’s Futures.’ The Observer, April 1. | ||
| Dorment, Richard. ‘Review: Beck’s Futures.’ Daily Telegraph, April 4. | ||
| Hackworth, Nick. Review, ‘Beck’s Futures.’ Evening Standard, April 5. | ||
| ‘Forum.’ Camera Austria, issue 73. | ||
| Herbert, Martin. ‘Profile’, Art Review (London), March. | ||
| Sumpter, Helen. ‘Stars of 2001.’ Evening Standard (Hot Tickets), January 5. | ||
| Patrick, Keith, ‘Contemporary Land’. Contemporary Visual Arts, issue 32, January. | ||
| 2000 | Carlyle, Angus, Themepark. Nature issue 2, December. | |
| Kent, Sarah, Time Out (London), 22-29 November. | ||
| Muir, Robin, The Independent on Saturday Magazine, 4 November. | ||
| Ratnam, Niru S. The Face, November. | ||
| Viewpoint, Amsterdam, November. | ||
| Wilson, Andrew. ’What We Call Progress?’ Art Monthly, July-August. | ||
| Glover, Izi. ‘What We Call Progress.’ Time Out (London), 21-28 June. | ||
| Evans, Jason. i-D Magazine, May. | ||
| Bolton, Bolton. ‘Later.’ Artists Newsletter, January. | ||
| Evans, Jason. ‘Review.’ Viewpoint Magazine. | ||
| 1999 | Beale, Steve. Sleaze Nation, February. | |
| Currah, Mark. ‘Path.’ Time Out (London), 26 May. | ||
| Mikhail, Kate. ‘Signs.’ The Independent, 19 February | ||
| 1998 | Portfolio: catalogue of contemporary photography in Britain, London. | |
| Television | ||
| 2006 | BBC, Simon Schama’s Power of Art, Ekow Eshun, Inspired by... Turner, Dan Holdsworth | |