Daniel Hojnacki | b.1989
Lives & Works in Chicago, IL | Dhojnacki@gmail.com
MFA University of New Mexico 2023
BA Columbia College Chicago, IL 2011
TWO PERSON & SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 | Every Rock Turns, Each Stick Breaks, Useable Space, Milwaukee, WI.
Moving Fast, Staying Still, Weitman Gallery, Sam Fox inst. of A&D, St. Louis, MO.
2022 | No Solid Body is Lighter Than Air, birds + Richard Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
2017 | Where House Used to Be, Comfort Station Logan Square, Chicago, IL
2017 | Vesseling, in Collaboration with Chris Zain Neumann, Elastic Arts Center Chicago, IL
2016 | Where House Used to Be , ‘Untitled’ Art Space, Vancouver, Canada
2014 | Florecer/Flourish , Tormenta Gallery La Plata, Argentina
2013 | Don’t Let Go , Vertical Gallery Chicago, IL An Idle Procession
The Coat Check Gallery @ David Weinberg Gallery, Chicago IL
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 | Under a Rock, Along the Shore, Form & Concept, Santa Fe, NM.
Non-Objective / Taos, 203 Fine Art in partnership with the Harwood Museum, Taos, NM.
Against the Grain, Strata Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Not Yet and Yet, UNM Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM
2021 | Members Exhibition, Foto Forum, Santa Fe, NM.
Sun Prints, New Orleans Photo Alliance, New Orleans, LA.
2020 | RESET Birds & Richards, Albuquerque, NM.
2019 | At First Sight CFA Downtown Gallery, Albuquerque, NM.
Furtive The Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
Stay this way facing the light, Apparatus Projects, Chicago, IL
2018 | Pushed Process, Hokin Gallery Chicago, IL
Under the Influence , Ralph Arnold Gallery Chicago, IL
Artificial Paradise Chicago Artist Coalition, Chicago, IL
The Annual: Mixtapes for the Next Millenia! Chicago Artist Coalition, Chicago, IL
2017 | In Your Head , Chicago Artist Coalition Chicago IL
One, Cleve Carney Gallery, College of Dupage, IL.
Dock 6 Design & Art 10 , Chicago, IL
Home Structures , Collabo, Chicago, IL.
2016 | This is The End, The Franklin, Chicago IL
MaterialFlex, JohallaProjects,ChicagoIL
Conceptualize/Realize, Marwen Institute, Chicago IL.
Dude...Heavy, South of the Tracks Gallery, Chicago IL
2015 | Scaped A&D Gallery, Chicago IL
2013 | Surface Tension, Schneider Gallery, Chicago IL
Chicago Style , David Weinberg Gallery, Chicago, IL
Process of Subtraction, Chicago Art Department, Chicago IL.
TheYoung and The Restless, VerticalGallery, Chicago, IL.
2012 | The Limits of Photography, The Museum of Contemporary Photography (MOCP), Chicago IL
The Arcade / Collected: DEPS Permanent Collection Exhibition , Arcade Gallery, Chicago IL
2011 | The Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, China
Chicago: A Resource of Young Artists, Art Museo Intercontinental Hotel,
Chicago Manifest BA/BFA Photography Exhibition , Columbia College, Chicago IL
Art Xposium, Gallery 200 West, Chicago IL Contact ,
Living Room Gallery, Chicago IL
2010 | Needless Suffering , Drawing Room Gallery, Chicago IL
Art Restores, Anode Gallery Chicago, IL.
AWARDS & RESIDENCIES
2022 | Penumbra Workspace AIR Program NYC, NY
Patrick Nagatani Scholarship, Phyllis Muth Fine arts Award
2016-2017 | HATCH Resident, Chicago Artist Coalition
2014 | ‘Residencia Corazon’_Buenos Aires, Argentina AIR
2012 | Cumberland Gap National Historical Park AIR
2011 | Albert P. Weisman Award
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
University of New Mexico | Teaching Artist (Intro to Photo, B&W Darkroom Photography, Visualizing Ideas), 2019-present
ChiArts: The Chicago High School for the Arts | Instructor for experimental photography classes, 2018-2019
After School Matters | Photography Instructor for a non-profit organization that provides Chicago high school teens with after-school and summer opportunities, B&W Darkroom Photography, Studio Lighting, Collaborations and Workshops with local garden communities and visiting artists, 2016-2019
Marwen | Teaching Artist, 2012-2018 | Designed photography courses and programs for Chicago’s young people from under-resourced communities and schools in middle through high school.
WORKSHOPS/LECTURES
2019 | Waubonsee State College Visiting Artist Lecture, Waubonsee, IL.
Chicago Cultural Center, Lecture/Workshops in response to the exhibition “Furtive”, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
2018 | Workshop/Artist Talk “Muralla Alta/High Wall” Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, IL “Discourse” Visiting Artist Lecture, Lillstreet Art Center
2016 | Artist Talk on “Carpool Route 3” Institute of Art & Design Milwaukee, WI
2015 | Lecturer “Life Studies” Smart Museum of Art Chicago, IL
PRESS / PUBLICATION
“Inhale / Exhale” Southwest Contemporary Magazine
https://southwestcontemporary.com/category/vol-3-inhale-exhale/
Aint-Bad Magazine
https://www.aint-bad.com/interview/2020/03/18/in-conversation-daniel-hojnacki
Wave pool, Interview with Kyle Seis
Specimen Magazine “Construcions De L’Amateur”
Hyperallergic Magazine “Sculpting The Shapes of a Monochromatic Landscape”
Smart Museum Gallery X “Life Studies Lecture Series”
LVL3 Gallery “Artist of The Week”
The Coat Check Gallery by Micheal Weinstein