Daniel Arsham

Daniel Arsham (United States, 1980). Born in Cleveland, Ohio, and raised in Miami, Florida, he studied at The Cooper Union in New York. He lives and works in New York. His practice bridges art, architecture, and performance through sculpture, installation, drawing, film, and architectural intervention.

His work develops the concept of “fictional archaeology” through contemporary objects that have been eroded, crystallized, or transformed into future relics. He uses materials such as sand, selenite, and volcanic ash to explore time, memory, ruin, and the permanence of objects. His installations incorporate weathered walls, staircases leading nowhere, and structures in which nature encroaches upon architecture.

He has exhibited at MoMA PS1, The New Museum, the Athens Biennale, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Miami and Chicago, and Carré d’Art in Nîmes. He has received the Gelman Trust Fellowship Award and the GNMH Award. His work is included in collections such as those of the Centre Pompidou, the Walker Art Center, the Pérez Art Museum Miami, the Musée Guimet, the Blanton Museum of Art, DIOR, and Louis Vuitton. Leer menos