Image description: The name Dan Guthrie in thick black capital letters on a bright white background lights up Piccadilly Circus, filling the entirety of the large curved screen that’s normally covered with 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.

Selected exhibitions and screenings include: 55th Edition, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam, 2026; Toward the Forest, Forma, London, 2025; CIRCA PRIZE 2025, CIRCA, London, 2025; Empty Alcove / Rotting Figure (solo), Spike Island, Bristol and Chisenhale Gallery, London, 2025; Absent Forces, Open City Documentary Festival, London, 2024; Two Films (solo), Devonshire Collective, Eastbourne, 2023; 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.

From 2026 to 2027 he will be a resident artist at Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam.

Contact: dan@danguthrie.net
Follow: instagram.com/danglefree
Support: ko-fi.com/danguthrie

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2026 ● 55th Edition, International Film Festival 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 writing

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 – 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
2019 + 2022 ● Amplify residency, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridgeshire
2021 – 2022 ● Day School, Bristol
2020 ● IFFR Sessions, International Film Festival Rotterdam

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 talks

2025 ● In Conversation with Olamiju Fajemisin, Chisenhale Gallery
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
2024 ● Let’s talk public art, in the pub, Care Contractors
2024 ● Occupied City Q&A with Steve McQueen, ICA

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

Teaching and facilitation

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

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

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