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CRAIG McDANIEL

current: Contributing Editor, The Montreal Review

PUBLICATIONS (selected)

BOOKS:

Jean Robertson and Craig McDaniel, with contributions by Scott Contreras-Koterbay, Themes of Contemporary Art: Visual Art After 1980 (Oxford University Press, New York and London). Fifth Edition (June, 2022).
Korean translation of Themes of Contemporary Art 5th edition. Forthcoming: 2023.
Korean translation of Themes of Contemporary Art: Visual Art after 1980 published by Doosung Publishing Co. Ltd. in arrangement with Oxford University Press (2011).
Chinese translation of Themes of Contemporary Art: Visual Art after 1980 (Jiangsu Fine Art Publishing House (Nanjing/Jiangsu Province, China).

Craig McDaniel and Jean Robertson, Spellbound: Rethinking the Alphabet, Intellect (Bristol, England)/ University of Chicago Press (USA) (2016).

Jean Robertson and Craig McDaniel, Painting as a Language: Materials, Techniques, Form, Content, (Fort Worth, Texas: Harcourt Brace, 2000, now distributed by Cengage).
Chinese translation of Painting As a Language: Materials, Techniques, Form, Content, Jiangsu Fine Art Publishing House (Nanjing/Jiangsu Province, China) (2012).


EXHIBITIONS (selected)

2027. Solo exhibit, Southern Ohio Museum, Portsmouth, OH. [in development]
2025 Solo exhibit, Winter Becomes Spring, Indianapolis Arts Center. Spring 2025.
2024 Solo exhibit, Enchantment: the Magical World of Craig McDaniel, RJD Gallery, Romeo, Michigan.
2024 December Group exhibit, Edington Gallery, Indianapolis.
2022 Selections from Permanent Collection,Southern Ohio Museum, Portsmouth, Ohio.
2022 Creative Renewal Fellows, 924 Gallery, Indianapolis Arts Council, June - July 2022.
2021 "Dreams of Joy," Indianapolis Art Center, solo exhibit, Sarah M Hurt Gallery, 11/1/21 - 12/17/21.
2021 Indianapolis Arts Center, group exhibition.
2019 Southern Ohio Museum, group exhibition, Portsmouth, Ohio.
2017 "Close Reading," 2-person exhibit, Basile Gallery, Herron School of Art + Design|IUPUI.
2018, 2016, 2014, 2012, 2010, 2008, 2007 Faculty exhibitions, Indiana University, Herron School of Art and Design|IUPUI.
2014 The Story of E and Other Love Letters, solo exhibit, Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute, IN.
2011 Three-person exhibit, Marsh Gallery, Herron School of Art and Design, IUPUI Indianapolis.
2010 Winter Wear, solo exhibit, Studio San Giuseppe Art Gallery, College of Mount St. Joseph, Cincinnati.
2009 Heart Sick and Other Matters, solo exhibit, Bluffton University, Bluffton, Ohio.
2006 Group exhibit, Aegean Center for the Arts, Paros, Greece.
2003 One Night in the Forest, solo exhibit, Art Gallery, Western Michigan State University, Kalamazoo, Michigan.
2002 “The Figure”, group exhibit, University of Indianapolis.
2002 “2002 Biennial”, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, regional juried exhibit.
2002 “Drawing from Perception”, national juried exhibit, Wright State University Art Galleries, Dayton, Ohio.
2001 Indianapolis Museum of Art, featured artist, “In Indiana” series.
2001 Group exhibit, Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago.
2000 “The Object Considered: Contemporary Still Life in Ohio, Illinois, and Indiana”, Columbus College of Art and Design (Columbus, Ohio), and traveled.
1999 Jan Cicero Gallery, solo exhibit, Chicago.
1999 Ft. Wayne Museum of Art, solo exhibit, Ft. Wayne, Indiana.
1998 “The Immovable Object,” Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago.
1997 Indiana University School of Fine Arts Gallery, solo exhibit, Bloomington, Indiana.
1997 “Flora and Fauna,” Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago.
1996 Group exhibition, Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago.
1995 Group exhibition, Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago.
1995 Jan Cicero Gallery, two-person exhibit, Chicago.
1995 Southern Ohio Museum, solo exhibit, Portsmouth, Ohio.
1995 Indianapolis Museum of Art, featured artist, “In Indiana” series.
1995 Bicentennial Art Center, solo exhibit, Paris, Illinois.
1994 Reversals, solo exhibit, Sheldon Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute, IN.
1994 Purdue University Art Gallery, solo exhibit, West Lafayette, Indiana.
1994 Group exhibition, Zephyr Gallery, Louisville, Kentucky.
1994 Juried exhibit, Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute, Indiana.
1993 Artswatch, solo exhibit, paintings formed as flags, Louisville, Kentucky.
1993 South Bend Art Museum, two-person exhibit, South Bend, Indiana.
1993 New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art, two-person exhibit, New Harmony, Indiana.
1993 “Irony as Defense,” Midwest regional juried exhibit, Indianapolis Art Center
1992 “Town,” group exhibit, Mansfield Art Center, Mansfield, Ohio
1991 Juried regional exhibit, Greater Lafayette Museum of Art, Lafayette, Indiana
1991 Juried exhibit, Louisville Visual Arts Association, Louisville, Kentucky
1991 Indiana Arts Commission, two-person exhibit, Indianapolis, Indiana.
1991 Indianapolis Museum of Art, featured artist, “In Indiana” series.
1989 Juried exhibit, Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute, Indiana
1987 Curated exhibit, Fort Hayes Center Gallery, Columbus, Ohio
1987 Governor of Ohio State Residence, solo exhibit, of drawings, organized by the Ohio Arts Council.
1986 Ohio State University, solo exhibition, M.F.A. exhibition, Columbus, Ohio. Three-dimensional paintings with sound.
1984 Kent State University Art Gallery, 4-person exhibit, Kent, Ohio. Three-dimensional paintings.
1984 Juried exhibit, Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, West Virginia
1983 Ohio Selections, Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, Ohio.
1982 Contemporary Arts Center, Ohio Arts Council Visual Arts award winners 1977-1982 (6-person exhibit, Cincinnati, Ohio. (exhibit toured). I showed suspended three-dimensional paintings.
1981 Invitational exhibit, Lima Art Association, Lima, Ohio.
1980 Juried exhibit, Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, West
Virginia.


HONORS & GRANTS (selected)

2023 Best of Show award (entry: Professional Division), Indianapolis Arts Center, group exhibition (art center participants).
2020/2021 Indianapolis Arts Council, Creative Renewal Fellowship.
2020 Best of Show award (entry: Professional Division), Indianapolis Arts Center, group exhibition (art center participants).
2019 “The Last Lecture,” delivered Nov. 1, 2019, with Jean Robertson, award and event sponsored by IUPUI Senior Academy, IU Foundation, and Office of Academic Affairs.
2018-19 IUPUI, Indiana Arts and Humanities Institute, award. Project
for contemporary visual art/experimental writing.
2018-19 Frank C. Springer Award for Research, Herron School of Art and Design.
2017 Commission, for 3 large-scale experimental language/image artworks for Eli Lilly Corporation, installation in new research facility at Lilly.
2016 Sabbatical leave for Research. Jan. 1 – Dec. 30, 2016.
2014 Indiana University, New Frontiers in the Arts and Humanities,
Research Fellowship, with Jean Robertson, “Rethinking Painting in the 21st Century.”
2014 Summer, and Fall. Faculty researcher, two ITEC Summer Team
Projects, working with IUPUI graduate students. Developing computer prototypes, variations on Experimental Alphabet art project.
2012 Indiana University, New Frontiers Travel Fellowship (sponsored research trip: Germany and Paris.)
2010 Indiana Arts and Humanities Institute, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, IAHI award, contemporary commingling of poetry and visual art.
2009-10 Sabbatical (leave) for research.
2008 Indiana University, New Frontiers in the Arts and Humanities,
Research Fellowship, co-Primary investigator with Jean Robertson,
“Art (Re)Views Science”.
2006 Indiana University, New Frontiers Travel Fellowship, sponsored research in visual art, London.
2001 - 02 Indiana Arts Commission, Individual Artist Project Grant. (video)
2001 Clowes Fellowship, residency (in painting) at the Vermont Studio Center.
1994 Artist residency, Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, New York.
1993 Indiana Arts Commission, project grant, visual art panel.
1993 Award of Excellence (for painting), Artforms ’93 exhibit, Greater Lafayette Museum of Art, Lafayette, Indiana (juror: Dennis Adrian).
1992 Excellence and Alliance Award (Best of Show, purchase award— for painting), Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute, Indiana, 48thAnnual Wabash Valley Exhibit, juror: Brett Waller.
1991-1992 Visual Artist Fellowship, Indiana Arts Commission
1992 Indiana Arts Commission, project grant, visual art panel.
1991 - 92 Visual Artist Fellowship (for painting), Indiana Arts Commission.
1991 Indiana Arts Commission, project grant, visual art panel.
1999-00 University Arts Endowment grant, Indiana State University
1990 Indiana Arts Commission, project grant, visual art panel.
1989 Indiana Arts Commission, project grant, visual art panel.
1984-85 University Fellowship, Ohio State University
1982 National Endowment for the Arts, curatorial project.
1981 Visual artists award, Ohio Arts Council
1980 Ohio Humanities Council, curatorial project.
1976 National Endowment for the Arts, arts management internship/fellowship


INVITED PRESENTATIONS (selected)

2021 Visiting author/artist, Department of Art, East Tennessee State University
2020 Visiting artist/author, Department of Art, University of Iceland
2019 Visiting artist/author, University of Wyoming Department of Art
2017 Co-Author/Presenter, “The First Manifesto of Surrealism and Other Re-stagings,” College Art Association Annual Conference, New York City.
2012 Co-chair, panel, “No Talking Allowed”, College Art Association Annual Conference, Los Angeles, February 2012.
2010 Visiting artist, Mt. St. Joseph’s College, Cincinnati.
2009 Visiting artist, Bluffton University, Bluffton, Ohio.
2007 Co-chair, panel, “Best Practices in International Programs,” College Art Association Annual Conference, New York City, February 2007.
2005 Roundtable Discussion, “Rethinking Graduate Art Education”, organized by Art Journal at College Art Association Annual Conference, Atlanta, Georgia.
2003 Visiting Artist, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo.
2003 Co-Chair, Contemporary Issues/Studio Art session “Drawn to Maps: Cartography and Contemporary Art", College Art Association Annual Conference, New York City.
2001 Presenter, co-author of essay “Contemporary U.S. Artists Use of Cartographic Imagery,” “Science and Art -- International Academic Seminar”, Academy of Art & Design, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
2000 Visiting artist lecture, “Word and Image in American and Chinese Contemporary Art”, Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
1999 Visiting artist lecture, “The Human Figure in Contemporary American Painting,” Shanghai Teachers University, Shanghai, China.
2000 Panelist, “Art in the Midwest”, Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, Ohio.
2000 Visiting artist lecture, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana.
1999 Visiting artist lecture, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN.
1999 Co-Chair, panel, “Old Technology/ New Ideas: The Place of Painting Today,” College Art Association, Annual conference, Los Angeles, California.
1998 Visiting artist/critic, Beloit College, Beloit, Wisconsin.
1998 Panelist, “Art & the Healing Process,” College Art Association annual conference, Toronto.
1997 Panelist, Multiculturalism and/Postmodernism, Midwest Art History Society annual conference, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas.
1996 Participant, reading of selected writers, Indiana Governor’s State Residence.
1995 Visiting artist (lecture), DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana.
1995 Panelist, Visual Artists Review, Indiana Arts Commission.
1994 Visiting artist (lecture), Purdue University.
1994 Presentation of paper, “Translucency and Spatiality in Word/Image Art,” at College Art Association Annual Conference, New York.
1993 Presentation of paper, “Artists Explore the Map: 1950 to 1993,” XVth International Conference on the History of Cartography, Newberry Library, Chicago (co-author).
1993 One of two featured poets selected for a reading at the Indianapolis Museum of Art in conjunction with an exhibit of Richard Tuttle sculptures. Event organized by IMA and the Indianapolis Writers Center.
1992 Visiting artist, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio.
1992 Member, Ohio Arts Council, Visual Artists Fellowship Panel.
1992 Juror, Showcase Regional Exhibit, Louisville (KY) Visual Arts Association.

ARTICLES, assorted publications (selected):

Craig McDaniel, In the Studio, The Montreal Review, May 2025

Craig McDaniel, "Paulina Olowska on Patrol," essay, The Montreal Review, September 2024.

Craig McDaniel, "Hand with Head," essay [pictorial concoctions in Giotto, Caravaggio, Picasso], On the Seawall, July-August 2024.

Craig McDaniel, Holding a Glass Vase, illustration in Grist: A Journal of the Literary Arts, University of Tennessee, Knoxville. 2024

Craig McDaniel, "Why are There So Many Great Paintings of Women by Women Right Now? (A Case Study)", essay (on Jocelyn Hobbie and others) in The Montreal Review, Spring 2024.

Craig McDaniel, "Lessons in Looking: Rethinking 'Washington Crossing the Delaware'", essay in The Montreal Review, Winter 2024.

Craig McDaniel, "Lessons in Looking: Manet + Degas," essay in The Montreal Review, November 2023.

Craig McDaniel, three poems from series "Love Poems of Alice B. Toklas,"in Red Noise Collective. Fall 2023.

Craig McDaniel, "Lessons in Looking: Rethinking 'Watson and the Shark'", essay in The Montreal Review, 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.

Craig McDaniel, “Rethinking James Wright,” in DIAGRAM journal.(indexed by The American Humanities Index; DIAGRAM/ New Michigan Press, Dept. of English, PO Box 210067, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ), editor: Ander Monson. 2022.

Craig McDaniel, “Rethinking Paris Street, Rainy Day: Accordion Space”, The Midwest Quarterly: Journal of Contemporary Thought, (Pittsburg, Kansas). Winter 2019 issue. Pp. 160-171.

Craig McDaniel, “Nature’s Ephemera: David Morrison,” short essay published on Garvey|Simon gallery (NYC) website in conjunction with exhibition of the same title, Nov.-Dec. 2018, and excerpt on exhibition announcement brochure.

Craig McDaniel, “Rethinking Balthus: Topsy Turvy,” in DIAGRAM, electronic journal of text and art (ISSN: 1543-5784, indexed by The American Humanities Index; DIAGRAM/ New Michigan Press, Dept. of English, PO Box 210067, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ), editor: Ander Monson. January 2018.

Craig McDaniel, “Play Acting,” experimental literature fiction, selected from national competition, in Very Angry Baby, anthology, Acre Books, from Cincinnati Review. 2017. https://acre-books.com/books/a-very-angry-baby-the-anthology/

Craig McDaniel, “Unwanted Attention” and “Love Songs for the Accordion,” experimental visual literature, in American Journal of Poetry, national online biannual, July 2017. https://theamericanjournalofpoetry.com/v3-mcdaniel.html

Craig McDaniel and Jean Robertson, “Extreme Painting: Eyeballing,” Michigan Quarterly Review [Ann Arbor: University of Michigan]; Summer 2017.

Lori Waxman, “It was a dark and stormy night”, review of artworks: https://60wrdmin.org/artwork/4567397_Craig_McDaniel.html
In Waxman’s ongoing 60-wd-minute critic performance.

Craig McDaniel and Jean Robertson, “Painting: Forever Young,” The Midwest Quarterly: Journal of Contemporary Thought, (Pittsburg, Kansas: Pittsburg State University). Summer, 2017.

Jean Robertson and Craig McDaniel, “Spirituality and Art,” Grove Art Online (New York: Oxford University Press), January, 2006; update written: Fall 2016, ongoing online publication.

Craig McDaniel and Jean Robertson, “The Alphabet is the Message,” The Midwest Quarterly: Journal of Contemporary Thought, (Pittsburg, Kansas: Pittsburg State University). Winter 2016

Craig McDaniel, “Palimpsest Lovemaking and More!”, Word Riot, 2016.

Craig McDaniel, “Rethinking Rembrandt: Explorations in Pictorial Concoctions,” The Midwest Quarterly: Journal of Contemporary Thought, (Pittsburg, Kansas: Pittsburg State University). Fall 2015 issue, pp. 109-123.

Craig McDaniel, “Rethinking Bonnard: The Nude at her Toilette,” Michigan Quarterly Review (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan), Fall 2012 issue, pp. 482-497.

Craig McDaniel, “Rethinking Rousseau,” a reassessment of painter Henri Rousseau, The Midwest Quarterly: Journal of Contemporary Thought, (Pittsburg, Kansas: Pittsburg State University). Spring 2012 issue, pp. 215-236.

Jean Robertson and Craig McDaniel, “Spirituality and American Art,” Encyclopedia of American Art (New York: Oxford University Press, Grove Art), 2011.

Jean Robertson and Craig McDaniel, “Science and Contemporary Art,” Grove Art Online (New York: Oxford University Press), January, 2006.

Jean Robertson and Craig McDaniel, “Contemporary Visual Art and the Science of Cartography,” Art and Science (Beijing, China: Tsinghua University and Hubei Fine Arts, 2002), pp.120-125.

Craig McDaniel, “James Tate’s Secret Co-Pilot”, author, essay, New England Review (Middlebury, Vermont: Middlebury College). Spring 2002 issue, pp. 55-72. (Essay reprinted in Poetry Criticism, Cengage, 2012.)

Jean Robertson and Craig McDaniel, “Locating the Heart of Tommy Simpson”, introductory essay in exhibit catalog for sculptural installation, Tommy Simpson--Garden of the Heart (New York: American Craft Museum, 2000).

Jean Robertson and Craig McDaniel, “Resuscitating Painting”, Art Journal, College Art Association, New York, Spring 1999, pp. 27-31.

Jean Robertson and Craig McDaniel, “Facing Up to Nancy Burson”, New Art Examiner, Chicago, Dec. 1997/Jan. 1998 issue. (Cover article)

Jean Robertson and Craig McDaniel, “Tommy Simpson: Function, Time, and Memory”, Sculpture, International Sculpture Center, Washington, D.C., Feb. 1998.

Jean Robertson and Craig McDaniel, “Studio View: Carl Pope/Not the King James Version,” New Art Examiner, Chicago, Oct. 1996.

“Craig McDaniel: Paintings,” suite of paintings illustrated, The Gettysburg Review, Spring 1996.

Craig McDaniel, “Heartlanders,” review of exhibit of Tommy Simpson, Robert Eagerton, and Klindt Houlberg, New Art Examiner, Chicago, Dec. 1996/Jan. 1997.

Jean Robertson and Craig McDaniel, “Emerging Sculptor: Truman Lowe”, Sculpture, International Sculpture Center, Washington, D.C., September 1996, pp. 14-15.

Jean Robertson and Craig McDaniel, “Artists Explore the Map: 1960 to 1993,” Midwest Quarterly: Journal of Contemporary Thought, Spring 1996 issue, Pittsburgh State University, Pittsburgh, Kansas, pp. 302-315.

Craig McDaniel, New American Paintings, suite of 4 illustrations, Midwest volume, juried competition, The Open ‘Studio Press, Needham, Massachusetts, 1995.

Craig McDaniel: Featured artist in “Portfolio” section of Arts Indiana magazine, Indianapolis, September 1995. Text by Leah Stoddard.

Craig McDaniel, Matthew Brennan and Renee Ramsey, Is Poetry a Visual Art? Exhibition catalogue. Terre Haute: Indiana State University, Turman Art Gallery, 1993.

Jean Robertson/Craig McDaniel, Exploring Maps, exhibition catalogue. Terre Haute: Indiana State University, Turman Art Gallery, 1992.

CURATORIAL ACTIVITIES (partial listing)
Rx: An Art Exhibition. Exhibit on aspects of health. Emison Art Center, DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana. Guest curator with Jean Robertson. October 1999.

Native Streams. Exhibit featuring artworks by 19 contemporary Native American artists. Exhibit organized by Jan Cicero and Craig McDaniel for Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago and Turman Art Gallery, Indiana State University, Terre Haute. Exhibit also toured to Holter Museum of Art (Helena, Montana), Dahl Fine Art Center (Rapid City, South Dakota), Southern Ohio Museum (Portsmouth, Ohio), South Bend Museum of Art (South Bend, Indiana), and Emison Art Center (DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana). 1996-97.

Grants for curatorial activities: [1978 - 2003) Served as Project director for multiple curatorial projects supported by grants from Indiana Arts Commission, National Endowment for the Arts, Ohio Arts Council, and National Endowment for the Humanities.

PUBLIC AND CORPORATE COLLECTIONS

Sheldon Swope Art Museum
Dayton Art Institute
Ft. Wayne Museum of Art
Eli Lilly Corporation
Indiana State University Permanent Art Collection
Southern Ohio Museum
Indiana University Public Art Collection: Wells Library, Indiana University-Bloomington
Indiana University: School of Medicine Art Collection
Indiana University: Law School (Indianapolis) Art Collection


EDUCATION

The Ohio State University, MFA, painting/drawing
University of Montana, MFA, English/creative writing
Drexel University, MS, urban arts
University of Pennsylvania, BS, economics


TEACHING/UNIVERSITY

Indiana University, Herron School of Art and Design – IU-I
Indianapolis, IN:
Professor Emeritus of Fine Art, 2020 - current.
Professor of Fine Art, 2003-2019;
Associate Dean, 2005 – 2018;
Director of Graduate Programs, 2008-2013;
Interim Chair, Department of Visual Communication Design,
2010-2011;
Chair, Department of Fine Arts, 2003-2005.

Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN. Professor of Fine Art, 1988 - 2003.

OTHER PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
Director of Programs Dept., Columbus (Ohio) Museum of Art. 1984-1986.

Founding Director (with Jean Robertson), Southern Ohio Museum. Portsmouth, Ohio. 1978-1984.

Curator of Performing Arts, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin. 1976-1977.