September 22- October 10, 2008
DAN FARNUM

Dan Farnum was born in the blue-collar town of Saginaw, Michigan. He received his MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and BFA from the University of Michigan. Dan’s photographs that address the American experience, landscape, and culture have been showcased nationally in several exhibitions and galleries in San Francisco, Philadelphia, Ann Arbor, Saint Louis, and New York.  

In the last couple of years, he has received the Aperture Award from an international exhibition at the Print Center in Philadelphia, a professional award from Keith Davis-curator of photography at the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, and two prizes from the Paul Sack Architectural Photography Contest. Dan’s prints have previously been exhibited at the Gallery Project in Ann Arbor, Worth Ryder Gallery at UC Berkeley, Photo SF, Focus Gallery and Diego Rivera Gallery in San Francisco, the Emerging Bay Area Artists exhibition, and through the Humble Arts Foundation in New York. Additionally, his photographs are being published in an upcoming book titled Another Country. 

Dan is currently a professor of Photography at the University of Missouri and the Gallery Director at the George Caleb Bingham Gallery. www.danielfarnum.com 

Dan Farnum will be showing photographs from his series “Growing Up.”  The recognition of adulthood is connected to the acceptance that childhood has slipped into the past. Memories from the places where we searched for maturity and independence are the residue that is left behind.