Dan Cameron graduated from Hudson Falls High School in 1974, attended Syracuse University, and received a B.A. degree with a major in Philosophy from Bennington College in 1979. He moved to New York City later that year and has lived there ever since.
Dan began working as an independent curator of contemporary art in 1981, and has organized more than fifty exhibitions to date, including retrospectives of several internationally renowned artists, and survey exhibitions of emerging artists from all over the world. Since 1995, he has held the position of Senior Curator at the prestigious New Museum of Contemporary Art in Soho, where about half of these exhibitions have taken place. As an independent curator, he has also organized exhibitions in countries such as Spain, Italy, Portugal, Greece, Russia, Austria, Sweden and Mexico, and currently serves as Artistic Director for the 8th Istanbul Biennial, which opened on September 19 of this year.
Since 1983, Dan has published more than two hundred book texts, museum and gallery catalogs, and magazine articles on contemporary art, and has lectured widely in museums and universities in every corner of the globe. He also serves on advisory boards for numerous foundations, collections and exhibition committees including the Human Rights Campaign in Washington, D.C., “la Caixa’ Foundation in Barcelona, the 2001 Yokohama Triennial in Japan, and the Cintas Foundation in New York and Miami.
In 2001, Dan was invited to join the MFA faculty of Columbia University School of the Arts, where he teaches a semester-long symposium on critical theory for artists.