Dan Guthrie is an artist who often works with words and the moving image to explore representations and mis-representations of Black Britishness. Selected exhibitions and screenings include: Empty Alcove / Rotting Figure, Spike Island and Chisenhale Gallery, 2025 (solo); Absent Forces, Open City Documentary Festival, 2024; Two Films, Devonshire Collective, Eastbourne, 2023 (solo); Spirit Messages touring programme, aemi, 2023–2024; Selected 13 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.

2024 / Absent Forces, Open City Documentary Festival
2023 - 2024 / Spirit Messages tour, aemi
2023 / Selected 13 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, earf.info
2024 / How to Sleep Faster 15 Contributor, Arcadia Missa
2024 / Memory Stone text and Q&A with Nikta Mohammadi, The Lowry
 2024 / Occupied City Q&A with Steve McQueen, ICA
2023 / Programme notes, 18th Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival
2023 / Right of Way opinion piece, The Guardian
 2023 / Filmmakers on the Voiceover, Forum Expanded Supplément
2023 / Going on a Bear Hunt, Art Monthly

Residencies and programmes

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
 2025 / Panel Discussion: Bristol Legacy Foundation, Spike Island
2025 / Guest Lecturer, UWE
2025 / Guest Lecturer, Bath Spa University
2024 / Let’s talk public art, in the pub, Care Contractors
2024 + 2025 / Guest Lecturer, EBC Day School
2023 / Guest Lecturer, National Film and Television School
2022 - 2023 / Co-instigator, LUX South West Critical Forum
2022 / PILOT III - Rights, Care and Future, Autograph
2022 / NOT SCHOOL, Conway and Young
2022 / Guest Lecturer, Bristol School of Art

Interviews and reviews

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
2023 / Dan Guthrie Interview, Young Artists in Conversation
2022 / Right of Way review, The Guardian
2021 / Is time up for the ‘Blackboy clock’?, The Guardian
2020 / My Albion: New Myths, BBC Radio 4

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

2022 / Inclusivity & Diversity Award, Stroud Town Council
2021 / November Grantee, Grand Plan
 2021 / Time Space Money, a-n
 2021 / Artist Development Bursary, The Box Plymouth