Dan Guthrie is an artist and writer whose practice explores representations and mis-representations of Blackness, questioning not only what is shown, but what remains unseen. His moving image work has employed strategies such as refusal, erasure and concealment to discuss and dissect subjects without directly showing them on screen, and he has an ongoing interest in the use of audiovisual access materials as a site for experimenting with image interpretation. 

His latest project, Empty Alcove / Rotting Figure, was co-commissioned by Spike Island, Bristol and Chisenhale Gallery, London, and toured both venues in 2025, with the accompanying online platform earf.info publishing new writing by Guthrie and invited contributors throughout the year. His earlier work has been screened widely across the UK as well as internationally at film festivals including IFFR, Prismatic Ground and Berlinale. From 2026 to 2027 he will be a resident artist at Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam.

dan@danguthrie.net | instagram.com/danglefree

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2026 ● DINAMO: Obscurity, IFFR, Rotterdam
2025 ● Toward the Forest, Forma, London
2025 ● CIRCA PRIZE 2025, CIRCA, London
2024 ● Absent Forces, Open City Documentary Festival, London
2023 – 2024 ● Spirit Messages international screening tour, aemi
2023 ● Selected 13 UK screening tour, FLAMIN / videoclub
2023 ● Year 3, Prismatic Ground, New York
2023 ● 18th Forum Expanded, Berlinale
2023 ● Right of Way exhibition, LUX, London

Selected press

2025 ● Empty Alcove / Rotting Figure review, The White Pube
2025 ● Empty Alcove / Rotting Figure review, Frieze
2025 ● Empty Alcove / Rotting Figure review, Art Monthly
2025 ● Empty Alcove / Rotting Figure feature, Plaster
2025 ● Empty Alcove / Rotting Figure feature, The Guardian
2023 ● Right of Way review, ArtReview
2022 ● Right of Way review, The Guardian
2021 ● Is time up for the ‘Blackboy clock’?, The Guardian

Selected writing

2025 ● Tour Diary I – V, earf.info
2024 ● How to Sleep Faster 15 contributor, Arcadia Missa
2023 ● Programme notes, 18th Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival
2023 ● Right of Way opinion piece, The Guardian
 2023 ● Going on a Bear Hunt, Art Monthly

Selected talks

2025 ● In Conversation with Olamiju Fajemisin, Chisenhale Gallery, London
2025 ● In Conversation with Layla Gatens, The Goods Shed, Stroud
2025 ● Contested Heritage: A Discussion, St Cross College, Oxford
2025 ● In Conversation with Cleo Lake and Bolanle Tajudeen, Spike Island, Bristol
2024 ● Let’s talk public art, in the pub, Care Contractors, Basildon
2024 ● Occupied City Q&A with Steve McQueen, ICA, London

Residencies and programmes

2026 – 2027 ● Resident Artist, Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam
2024 ● Arts Foundation residency, Hawkwood, Stroud
2023 ● Interdisciplinary residency, Hospitalfield, Arbroath
2023 ● Statues for Memory Summer School, Cast in Stone, Paris
2021 – 2022 ● Day School alternative art education programme, Bristol
2019 + 2022 ● Amplify residency, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridgeshire

Awards and bursaries

2024 ● Visual Arts Award Shortlist, The Arts Foundation
2023 ● Artist Grant, DRABL
2023 ● Joanna Drew Travel Bursary, The Elephant Trust
2022 ● Michael O’Pray Prize, FVU / Art Monthly
2021 ● November Grantee, Grand Plan
 2021 ● Time Space Money, a-n
 2021 ● Artist Development Bursary, The Box Plymouth

Project assistance

2025 ● Edward George: Black Atlas, The Warburg Institute, London

Teaching and facilitation

2025 ● Tutorials, TOMA, Southend-on-Sea
2025 ● Guest Lecturer, UWE, Bristol
2025 ● Guest Lecturer, Bath Spa University, Bath
2024 + 2025 ● Guest Lecturer, Day School, Bristol
2023 ● Guest Lecturer, National Film and Television School, Beaconsfield
2022 ● Guest Lecturer, Bristol School of Art, London
2022 – 2023 ● Co-instigator, LUX South West Critical Forum, online
2022 ● PILOT III - Rights, Care and Future, Autograph, London

Film programming

2022 – 2023 ● Associate Programmer, Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival
2021 – 2022 ● Submissions Viewer, Glasgow Short Film Festival
2019 – 2021 ● UK Selection Committee, London Short Film Festival
2020 ● No Fact of Blackness, London Short Film Festival

Boards and juries

2025 ● Independent Judge, Grand Plan
2022 – 2023 ● Community Taskforce Member, Stroud District Council
2022 ● International Jury, Encounters Film Festival
2022 – 2023 ● Trustee, Stroud Valleys Artspace
2021 – 2022 ● Contested Heritage Review Panel Member, Stroud District Council