Daniel Canogar

Born to an American mother and Spanish father, Daniel Canogar’s life and career have bridged between Spain and the U.S. Photography was his earliest medium of choice, receiving a M.A. from NYU at the International Center of Photography in 1990. He soon became interested in the possibilities of the projected image and installation art.

He has created permanent public art installations with LED screens, including »Pulsation«, the first-ever outdoor digital artwork, created specifically for the Serena Williams Building at Nike‘s World Headquarters (Oregon, 2023); » Brushstrokes«, a permanent LED screen artwork for the new DeKa Bank headquarters‘ lobby (Frankfurt, 2022); »Dynamo«, a site-specific audiovisual project designed for the Spain Pavilion in Expo Dubai 2020 (Dubai, 2021); »Currents«, a suspended artwork in the atrium of the 

renovated Evangelische Bank (Kassel, 2020); »Aqueous«, at The Sobrato Organization (Mountain View, CA, 2019); »Pulse«, at the Zachry Engineering Education Complex in Texas A&M University (College Station, TX, 2018); »Cannula«, »Xylem« and »Gust ll« at the BB VA Bank Headquarters (Madrid, 2018) and »Tendril«, at Tampa International Airport (Tampa, FL, 2017). He has also created public monumental artworks in different media such as »Scrawl«, a generative artwork projected on Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía façade (Madrid, 2023); »Oculus«, a generative animation featured on Novartis Pavillon zero-media façade (Basel, Switzerland, 2022); »Bifurcation«, a multi-laser projection at Noor Riyadh Light & Art Festival (Riyadh, 2021); »Amalgama Phillips« (Washington DC, 2021) and »Amalgama El Prado« (Madrid, 2019), generative videos projected on the façades go the Phillips Collection and the Museo Nacional del Prado, created with the painting collections of both institutions; »Fulgurations«, a project in collaboration with the Spanish National Cancer Research Center (CNIO) (Madrid, 2021); »Constellations«, the largest photo-mosaic in Europe created for two pedestrian bridges over the Manzanares River, in Madrid Rio Park (Madrid, 2010) and »Asalto«, a series of video projections presented on various emblematic monuments, including the Arcos de Lapa (Rio de Janeiro, 2009), the Puerta de Alcalá (Madrid, 2009) and the church of San Pietro in Montorio (Rome, 2009). Also, part of the series is »Storming Times Square«, screened on forty-seven of the LED bill-boards in Times Square (New York, NY, 2014).

His solo shows include »Amalgama Phillips« at The Phillips Collection (Washington DC, 2021); »Liquid Memories« at Sala Kubo-Kutxa (San Sebastian, 2019); »Surge« a temporary installation for the Grand Lobby Wall at Moss Arts Center, Virginia Tech (Blacksburg, VA, 2019); »Echo« at Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum (Lafayette, LA, 2019); »Fluctuations« at Sala Alcalá 31 (Madrid, 2017); »Sikka Ingentium« at Museum Universidad de Navarra (Pamplona, Spain, 2017); »Quadratura” at Espacio Fundación Telefónica (Lima, 2014); »Vórtices« at the Fundación Canal Isabel II (Madrid, 2011); two installations at the Sundance Film Festival (Park City, UT, 2011) and »Synaptic Passage«, an installation commissioned for the exhibition »Brain: The Inside Story« at the American Museum of Natural History (New York, NY, 2010). 

Daniel Canogar has exhibited extensively in major museums and galleries across the world, including Reina Sofia Art Museum, Madrid; Palacio de Velázquez, Madrid; The Phillips Collection, Washington DC; ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe; Max Estrella Gallery, Madrid; bitforms gallery, New York, NY; Wilde Gallery, Geneva and Basel; Galerie Anita Beckers, Frankfurt; Eduardo Secci Contemporary, Florence; Kornfeld Gallery, Berlin; Santa Mónica Art Center, Barcelona; Alejandro Otero Museum, Caracas; Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus OH; Offenes Kulturhaus Center for Contemporary Art, Linz; Kunstsammlung NordrheinWestfalen, Düsseldorf; Hamburger Bahnhof Museum, Berlin; Borusan Contemporary Museum, Istanbul; American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY; Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA and Art Vault at the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation, Santa Fe, NM.