Image description: The name Dan Guthrie in thick black capital letters on a bright white background lights up Piccadilly Circus at night, filling the entirety of the large curved screen that’s normally covered with a patchwork of adverts.
Image credit: CIRCA Prize 2025, CIRCA, London, 2025
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 work often employs strategies of withholding to discuss and dissect subjects without directly showing them on screen, and he has an ongoing commitment to the use of audiovisual access materials as a site for experimenting with image interpretation.
Selected exhibitions and screenings include: Blackground : murmures des mornes, CAPC, Bordeaux, 2026 – 2027; DINAMO: Obscurity, IFFR, Rotterdam, 2026; Toward the Forest, Forma, London, 2025; CIRCA PRIZE 2025, CIRCA, London, 2025; Empty Alcove / Rotting Figure, Spike Island, Bristol and Chisenhale Gallery, London, 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; Year 3, Prismatic Ground, New York, 2023; 18th Forum Expanded, Berlinale, Berlin, 2023; and Right of Way, LUX, London, 2023.
He is currently based between the UK and the Netherlands, and from 2026 to 2027 will be a resident artist at Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam.
dan@danguthrie.net | instagram.com/danglefree
Upcoming
Open Studios 2026
Rijksakademie, Amsterdam
19 – 22 November 2026
Current
Blackground : murmures des mornes
CAPC, Bordeaux
11 June 2026 – 28 March 2027
Resident Artist
Rijksakademie, Amsterdam
2026 – 2027
Past
Empty Alcove / Rotting Figure
2025
black strangers
2022
Coaley Peak (A Fragment)
2021