News: Recent and Upcoming

UPCOMING AND RECENT ACTIVITIES:

Solo exhibition. Southern Ohio Museum. Portsmouth, Ohio. December 2027 [in development]

Two experimental alphabet artworks, "Declaration of Independence with Red Shadow" and "Declaration of Independence with Pink Haze" on display at Dayton Art Institute -- in time for July 4, 1776 - July 4, 2026 250th anniversary of signing of U.S. Declaration of Independence.

Starting summer 2026, A selection of my drawings and paintings chosen for display in the Wells Library on the campus of Indiana University - Bloomington: including "Cat with Lamp" !!!!

Enchantment: the Magical World of Craig McDaniel. Solo exhibit at RJD Gallery, Romeo, Michigan. November, 2024.

Winter Becomes Spring. Solo exhibit. Award for Best of Show (entry in professional division. Indianapolis Arts Center. March-May 2025

Creative Renewal Fellowship, 2021, for visual arts, award for visual art/experimental visual writing, Indianapolis Arts Council, sponsored by Lilly Endowment.

UPCOMING AND RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

Rethinking Magritte, The Montreal Review [2026, winter]

Story about my RJD Gallery show, in American Art Collector, November 2024.

"Hand with Head," essay on paintings (Giotto, Caravaggio, Picasso); On the Seawall, 2024.

Themes of Contemporary Art: Visual Art after 1980, Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford. Co-author with Jean Robertson; with contributions by Scott Contreras-Koterbay. 5th Edition, 2022.
Korean translation of 5th edition: 2023.

Poems from series, "Love Poems of Alice B. Toklas," Red Noise Collective. Fall 2023.

Craig McDaniel, "Founding Documents: Restaged," in Fractured Union: American Democracy on the Brink, special issue, Michigan Quarterly Review [Ann Arbor: University of Michigan], guest editor: Davan Maharaj, Fall 2022.