Dan Guthrie is an artist whose work explores representations and mis-representations of Black Britishness.

Selected exhibitions and screenings include: Empty Alcove / Rotting Figure, Spike Island, Bristol and Chisenhale Gallery, London, both 2025 (solo); Absent Forces, Open City Documentary Festival, London, 2024; Two Films, Devonshire Collective, Eastbourne, 2023 (solo); Spirit Messages international touring programme, aemi, 2023–2024; Selected 13 UK touring programme, FLAMIN and videoclub, 2023; wave 4, Prismatic Ground, New York, 2023; Forum Expanded, Berlinale, Berlin, 2023; Right of Way, LUX, London, 2023; and Short Film Programme, Whitstable Biennale, Whitstable, 2022.

In 2024, Guthrie was shortlisted for The Arts Foundation Visual Arts Award and awarded a DRABL Artist Grant. From 2026, he will be a resident artist at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam.

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2024 ● Absent Forces, Open City Documentary Festival
2023 – 2024 ● Spirit Messages screening tour, aemi
2023 ● Selected 13 screening tour, FLAMIN / videoclub
2023 ● wave 4 @ Light Industry, Prismatic Ground
2023 ● Forum Expanded, Berlinale
2023 ● Right of Way exhibition, LUX
2022 – 2023 ● Right of Way tour, Independent Cinema Office

Selected writing and conversations
2025 ● Tour Diary I – V, earf.info
2024 ● How to Sleep Faster 15, 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

Residencies and programmes

2026 – 2028 ● Resident Artist, Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten
2024 ● Arts Foundation residency, Hawkwood
2023 ● Interdisciplinary residency, Hospitalfield
2023 ● Statues for Memory? Summer School, Cast in Stone 
2019 + 2022 ● Amplify Residency IV, Wysing Arts Centre
2021 – 2022 ● Day School, East Bristol Contemporary
2020 ● IFFR Sessions, International Film Festival Rotterdam

Selected talks and workshops
2025 ● Contested Heritage: A Discussion, St Cross College
2024 ● Let’s talk public art, in the pub, Care Contractors
2024 ● Occupied City Q&A with Steve McQueen, ICA
2022 – 2023 ● Co-instigator, LUX South West Critical Forum
2022 ● PILOT III - Rights, Care and Future, Autograph

Teaching
2025 ● Tutorials, TOMA
2025 ● Guest Lecturer, UWE
2025 ● Guest Lecturer, Bath Spa University
2024 + 2025 ● Guest Lecturer, Day School
2023 ● Guest Lecturer, National Film and Television School
2022 ● Guest Lecturer, Bristol School of Art

Selected press

2025 ● Empty Alcove / Rotting Figure, The White Pube
2025 ● Danielle Dean and Dan Guthrie’s Filmic Counter-Narratives, Frieze
2025 ● Empty Alcove / Rotting Figure review, Art Monthly
2025 ● The death of Stroud’s racist clock, Plaster
2025 ● ‘Let it rot’: artist says Stroud’s ‘racist’ blackboy clock should be destroyed, 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

Film programming

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

Boards and juries
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

Awards and bursaries

2024 ● Artist Grant, DRABL
 2024 ● Visual Arts Award Shortlist, The Arts Foundation
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