Dan Guthrie is an artist, researcher and writer whose practice explores representations and mis-representations of Blackness, experimenting with strategies of interpretation and withholding to question not only what is shown, but what remains unseen.

Selected exhibitions and screenings include: Open Studios 2026, Rijksakademie, Amsterdam, 2026; 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 – 2024 (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 the Rijksakademie.

dan@danguthrie.net / @danglefree

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Current / Upcoming

Blackground : murmures des mornes
CAPC, Bordeaux
12 June 2026 – 28 March 2027


Glued and Screwed #33
wysiwyg, Den Haag
28 October 2026

Open Studios 2026
Rijksakademie, Amsterdam
19 – 22 November 2026


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2021    Coaley Peak (A Fragment)