Daniel Giordano (b. 1988, Poughkeepsie, NY) is an artist based in Newburgh, NY. Daniel earned his MFA from the University of Delaware in 2016 and his BBA from Pace University in 2011. He participated in the Millay Arts Core Residency Program in 2024, the AIM Fellowship at the Bronx Museum of the Arts in 2021, and EmergeNYC fellowship in 2015. His work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Fish Island Gallery, Fish Island, CT; The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NY (2024); MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA (2023); Turley Gallery, Hudson, NY (2023); JDJ, New York, NY (2023); Ann Street Gallery, Safe Harbors of the Hudson, Newburgh, NY (2022), among others. Daniel’s work has been included in group exhibitions at High Noon, New York, NY (2024); Grimm, New York, NY (2024); The Bronx Museum of the Arts, The Bronx, NY (2024); Helena Anrather, New York, NY (2023); The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NY (2022); The Dorsky Museum, SUNY New Paltz, NY (2022); Fortnight Institute, New York, NY (2022), among others. He is the recipient of the NYSCA Individual Artist Grant, via The Hyde Collection, New York, NY (2023); the Individual Artist Commission Grant, Arts Mid-Hudson, Kingston, NY (2022); A. Gray Magness Award, University of Delaware, Newark, DE (2015); and The Alan Greenhalgh/Laura Gurton Award, Woodstock Artist Association and Museum, (WAAM) Woodstock, NY (2014). Daniel, his exhibitions, and works have been featured in The New York Times, The Brooklyn Rail, Sculpture Magazine, Cultured Magazine, Upstate Diary, Two Coats of Paint, and White Hot Magazine, among others.
“His sculptures speak of apocalypse and decadence, flushed with the impishness that is vital to surviving chaos, even reveling in it.”
“His work is startling, he negotiates issues of taste with nonchalance, allowing high culture to mix easily with the popular and the mundane.”
“That Giordano confronts us with such a visual no-holds-barred screed of who he is can help us awaken to who we are as human beings.”
“Giordano’s delirious tinkering with the glory and gore of his free-style mashups produces an extravaganza all its own.”
“The details are strangely specific, as in dreams, which is due to the care the artist gives to the long multistage process that each piece demands; casting, varnishing, baking, soaking, drying, plating, gilding, and more. Each step tweaks the whole into a category specific to the artist, while it further nudges the created form towards absurdity, or perhaps the sublime.”