Daniel Sturgis

Daniel Sturgis (born 1966) is a British painter living and working in London, England. 
Life and work.
Daniel Sturgis was born in London, and studied art at the London College of Printing, Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts before going to Goldsmiths College, where he graduated with a Master of Arts in 1994. He was a Rome Scholar at the British School at Rome (1999).
He is represented by at Luca Tommasi gallery in Milan and was artist in residence at the Josef and Anni Albers FoundationBethany, Connecticut (2016) and Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas (2007). He had his first major solo show at Camden Arts Centre in 1997. Since then, he has shown extensively in Europe and the USA. 
Sturgis's paintings are seen to be at the forefront of a contemporary critical evaluation in abstract art as shown in publications such as "Painting Today", or his participation in symposia such as "Contemporary Painting and History" Tate 2009.   
Sturgis has curated a number of exhibitions looking at aspects of contemporary painting and its historic legacy. These include, "Bauhaus Utopia in Crisis" Camberwell Space and Bauhaus-Universität Weimar (2020/21), "The Indiscipline of Painting" Tate St Ives and Warwick Art Centre (2011/12), "Daniel Buren Voile Toile/Toile Voile" Wordsworth Trust Grasmere (2005) and "Jeremy Moon - a retrospective" (2001) a UK touring exhibition. He is a founding associate editor of the Journal for Contemporary Painting, a specialist selector and chapter author for Phaidon’s painting anthology "Vitamin P3' and he has written for Tate Papers, Burlington Magazine and Texte zur Kunst.
Sturgis is Professor of Painting at the University of the Arts London. 