About DP

Daniel S. Palmer is chief curator at the SCAD Museum of Art in Savannah, Georgia. Previously he was curator at Public Art Fund, New York, where he organized 20 exhibitions. Prior to this, he served as the Leon Levy Assistant Curator at the Jewish Museum, New York and Curatorial Research Assistant at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Palmer has curated numerous exhibitions independently and has contributed writing to many artist monographs, publications, and journals including ARTnews, The New York Times, Mousse, and Kaleidoscope, among others. He holds a Ph.D. and M.Phil in art history from the CUNY Graduate Center and a B.A. from Rutgers University.

 

Projects

2024

Lecture at The Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing (中央美术学院), March 18, 2024.

Awol Erizku: X, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA

Holly Hendry: Watermarks, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA

Ann Craven: Twelve Moons (Savannah, GA: SCAD University Press, 2024).

2023

Yu Hong: Night Walk, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA

Tyler Mitchell: Domestic Imaginaries, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA

Nevin Aladağ: Refraction, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA

Erwin Wurm: Hot, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA

Chase Hall: The Close of Day (Savannah, GA: SCAD University Press, 2023).

Jean-Marie Appriou (Paris: Les Presses du Reél, 2023).

Ann Craven: Twelve Moons, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA

Chase Hall: The Close of Day, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA

Leung Chi Wo + Sara Wong: Museum of the Lost (Strangers at Home), SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA

Ana Bel Lee Washington: Rejoice!, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA

Wyatt Kahn: Paintings and Sculptures, (Berlin: DCV Books, 2023).

2022

Anna Park: Last Call, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA

Seher Shah and Randhir Singh: Studies in Form, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA

Bharti Kher: Ancestor, Doris C. Freedman Plaza, Public Art Fund, New York

"Bharti Kher's Monumental Intermediaries" in Aveek Sen, ed., Bharti Kher. The Trick is Living (New Delhi: Nature Morte Arts Limited, 2022).

Melvin Edwards: Brighter Days, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA

Daniel S. Palmer Named Chief Curator of SCAD Museum of Art

Wyatt Kahn: Life in the Abstract, City Hall Park, Public Art Fund, New York

Hugh Hayden, Leilah Babirye, Dozie Kanu, Tau Lewis, and Kiyan Williams: Black Atlantic, Brooklyn Bridge Park, Public Art Fund, New York

Global Positioning, Citywide, Public Art Fund, New York

2021

"Strangers," in Greg Lindquist, ed., Ethan Greenbaum (Paris: Galerie Pact, 2021).

Melvin Edwards: Brighter Days, City Hall Park, Public Art Fund, New York

The Pandemic is a Portal, An Online Exhibition for Armory Access: Curated, April 15-25, 2021.

Awol Erizku: New Visions for Iris, 350 sites across New York City and Chicago, Public Art Fund, New York

The Integration of Art, Architecture, and Identity: Alfred Kastner, Louis Kahn, and Ben Shahn at Jersey Homesteads, PhD from CUNY Graduate Center, New York, 2021

2020

"David Hammons’s Poignant Take on the Controversy Surrounding Public Monuments," The New York Times and T: The New York Times Style Magazine, October 9, 2020.

Stan Douglas, Elmgreen & Dragset, Kehinde Wiley: Moynihan Train Hall, Public Art Fund, New York

Carmen Herrera: Estructuras Monumentales, Buffalo Bayou Park, Houston

Sam Moyer: Doors for Doris, Doris C. Freedman Plaza, Public Art Fund, New York

Davina Semo: Reverberation, Brooklyn Bridge Park, Public Art Fund, New York

Art on the Grid, Citywide, Public Art Fund, New York

Jeppe Hein, Sabine Hornig, Laura Owens, Sarah Sze: Terminal B at LaGuardia Airport, Public Art Fund, New York

"Expanded Sculpture in the Field" in Rafael Domenech: Las Palabras son Muros (Pavilion for Astoria), (Socrates Sculpture Park: New York, 2020)

2019

Jean-Marie Appriou: The Horses, Doris C. Freedman Plaza, Public Art Fund, New York

Carmen Herrera: Estructuras Monumentales, City Hall Park, Public Art Fund, New York

"Curator of the City," by Monica Uszerowicz, Cultured Magazine, Summer 2019

Harold Ancart: Subliminal Standard, Cadman Plaza Park, Public Art Fund, New York

"Downturn New York," Guest Critic for The Brooklyn Rail

Selection committee for Rema Hort Mann Foundation Emerging Artist Grants

2018

Tony Oursler: Tear of the Cloud, Riverside Park South, Public Art Fund, New York

"Art in Public Space in the Digital Era," Lecture at Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, August 18, 2018

B. Wurtz: Kitchen Trees, City Hall Park, Public Art Fund, New York

Erwin Wurm: Hot Dog Bus, Brooklyn Bridge Park, Public Art Fund, New York

Juror for Lighthouse Works Public Art Commission, Carla Edwards, If Portals Could Raise a Ruin, Fishers Island, New York

2017

Ai Weiwei: Good Fences Make Good Neighbors, Public Art Fund

Liz Glynn: Open House, Doris C. Freedman Plaza, Public Art Fund

Commercial Break, Citywide Exhibition, Public Art Fund

Lecture at Pace University, April 6, 2017

Lecture at Yale University School of Art MFA Sculpture Department, March 7, 2017

Lecture at New York University Tisch School of the Arts, Curatorial Practices, February 21, 2017

Selection committee for The Lighthouse Works' Fellowship Program

2016

"The Big Picture: A Talk With Douglas Crimp On The Changing Role Of The Curator, The State Of The Art World, And His New Memoir," ArtNews, Winter 2016-17

Conversation with Douglas Melini and Brian Alfred at 11R, November 6, 2016

Pierre Chareau: Modern Architecture and Design, The Jewish Museum, New York

Indigenous New York, Curatorially Speaking, Curatorial Colloquium at Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School, October 15, 2016

Selection committee for Artis' Grant Program

Scarlet Street, Lucien Terras

Profile of Davide Balula, Cura, No. 23

"Public Art Fund Appoints Daniel S. Palmer Associate Curator," Artforum

"Public Art Fund Names Daniel S. Palmer Associate Curator," ARTnews

Martin Creed "The Back Door" Curatorial Talk, Park Avenue Armory, June 18, 2016

"Future Vision: 10 Young Curators to Watch" by Antwaun Sargent, Cultured Magazine, Summer 2016

School of the Visual Arts (SVA) BFA Fine Arts Department 20/20 Catalogue

New York Arts Practicum, conversation with Michael Mandiberg on the hyper-professionalization of the emerging artist, Tuesday June 14, 2016

Conversation with Naama Tsabar, co-hosted by Whitewall Magazine and Thomas Rom, May 5th, 2016

"Nira Pereg in conversation with Daniel S. Palmer" Braverman Gallery at On Stellar Rays, Sunday May 8, 2016

Panel discussion about the current state of the contemporary art world with Daniel S. Palmer, Jamian Juliano-Villani, Diane Simpson, and Jayne Johnson, moderated by ARTnews magazine editor M.H. Miller, at NADA

BABYLONE - U.S.A.: Selected Works by Second-Year Fine Arts MFA Candidates from Pratt Institute, at Pierogi's The Boiler

"Go Pro: The Hyper-Professionalization of the Emerging Artist," ArtNews, Spring 2016

Profile of Julie Bena, Kaleidoscope Magazine, Spring 2016

International Residency Curatorial Committee for Griffin Gallery, London and Residency Unlimited, New York

2015

Unorthodox, The Jewish Museum, New York

"99 Objects: Daniel S. Palmer on The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti by Ben Shahn," Whitney Museum of American Art

"Amy Feldman: Popular Mantra" in Christoph Schreier, ed. New York Painting, (Kunstmuseum Bonn: Hirmer Verlag, 2015)

"Cloud Based Institutional Critique with Mike Pepi, Zachary Kaplan, and Orit Gat with special guests Barry Hoggard, Hannah Stamler, Daniel S. Palmer," at NADA

"Park McArthur: Against Accommodation," Mousse Magazine, no47, February 15, 2015

Repetition and Difference, The Jewish Museum, New York

2014

"Daniel Palmer - Young Curators You Should Know About"

Masterpieces & Curiosities: Diane Arbus's Jewish Giant, The Jewish Museum. New York

Leon Levy Assistant Curator at The Jewish Museum, New York

"Share and Share Alike (Part II): Sharing and Liking and Lacking," The Exhibitionist, February 4, 2014

"Share and Share Alike (Part I): Museums and the Digital Image Explosion," The Exhibitionist, January 6, 2014

2013

"Curating the Curatorial: An International Summit," The Exhibitionist, November 14, 2013

Andrianna Campbell and Daniel S. Palmer, Decenter NY/DC: An Exhibition on the Centenary of the 1913 Armory Show (Washington, D.C.: The George Washington University Press, 2013)

Njideka Akunyili and Doron Langberg: Domestic Experiences / Foreign Interiors, Sensei Exchange

Daniel S. Palmer, Lucas Samaras Pastels (New York: Craig F. Starr Gallery, 2013)

Exhibition text for Fabio Marco Pirovino: FMPFMPFMPFMPFMPFMPFMP, Milieu Galerie, Bern

"A View from the Bridge: Edward Hopper and 'The Architecture of a Painting'" in Carter E. Foster, ed., Hopper Drawing (New York: Yale University Press, 2013). (Recipient of Furthermore Foundation 2014 "The Alice" Award, and AAMC 2013 Award of Excellence for Exhibition Catalogues)

"Jewish Identity in Architecture and the Poetics of Louis Kahn" Review of Gavriel Rosenfeld, Building After Auschwitz: Jewish Architecture and the Memory of the Holocaust, in Journal of Jewish Identities, January 2013

"Non-Jewish Architecture for Jews: the Jersey Homesteads after Auschwitz" on panel Making Inroads, Paving the Way: Postwar Architecture, Design, and the Formation of Jewish American Identity, College Art Association Annual Conference, New York

Decenter: An Exhibition on the Centenary of the 1913 Armory Show at Henry Street Settlement's Abrons Arts Center

2012

Leonard Ross: Photographs of Social Change at Peddie School's Mariboe Gallery

"Hoovervilles: An Architectural and Cultural Analysis of Squatter Housing in the 1930s" Public Lecture at NurtureArt's Lawn School, New York, NY

2011

"Artist Shepherds: New York City Jewish Garment Workers' Flight to Nature" American Art During the Great Depression, South Eastern College Art Conference. Savannah, GA

"Ray and Charles Eames" Public Lecture at Open Air Modern Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

"Norman Rockwell and the Ruckenfigur" Exploring Illustration: Essays in Visual Studies, Rockwell Center for American Visual Studies, March 2011

2010

"'S.O.S. Means Save on Sugar' - The Campaign Against Sugar in the U.S," Exploring Illustration: Essays in Visual Studies, Rockwell Center for American Visual Studies, October 2010

"The Genesis and Impact of New York's 1916 Zoning Resolution" Joint Conference of the National Popular Culture and American Culture Associations, St. Louis, MO

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