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 archival representations and mis-representations of Blackness, experimenting with strategies of withholding and interpretation to question not only what is shown, but what remains unseen.
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, where he is 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
12 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