Born: London, 1966
 
Education:  
1986-89
Camberwell College of Art, BA Fine Art
1992-94
Goldsmiths College, MA Fine Art
 
Solo Exhibitions:
2007
Don’t Argue, Cynthia Broan Gallery, New York
  Equal Minds,Westbrook Gallery, London
  Everybody Loves Somebody, Chinati Foundation Marfa,Texas
2006
Tough Love, Gallery Hollenbach, Stuttgart, Germany
2005
High Repose, Cynthia Broan Gallery, New York, New York
Abstract Logic, Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere, Cumbria
2004
Daniel Sturgis, the apartment, Athens, Greece
2003
Daniel Sturgis, Buro Empty, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2002
New Painting, Richard Salmon Gallery, London
2001
New Paintings, the apartment, Athens, Greece
  New Paintings, Berwick Gymnasium Gallery, Berwick upon Tweed, Northumberland
1999
The British School at Rome, Italy
1997
Daniel Sturgis, Camden Arts Center, London
 
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2006
Daniel Sturgis & Nina Bovasso, the apartment, Athens, Greece
  The Anniversary Show, the apartment, Athens, Greece
  Abstract Modes, Rivington Street, London
  Sweetness and Light, Marksman Gallery, Reading
  Fresh, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, Oregon
  De Geur Van Licht, Fokke Simonzstraat 29, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
2005
About Painting 2, Gallery Hollenbach, Stuttgart, Germany
Painting: London, Gallery Holly Snapp, Venice, Italy
2004
New Paintings, Galerie Hollenbach, Zurich, Switzerland
  Summer Breeze, the apartment, Athens, Greece
  Arbeiten Auf Papier, Galerie Hollenbach, Stuttgart, Germany
  Transmission Portfolio, Site Gallery, Sheffield: domo Baal Contemporary Art, London; Haus am Lutzoplatz, Berlin, Germany (2005)
2003
About Painting, Gallerie Hollenbach, Stuttgart, Germany
  Memory and Forgetting, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle; Arts Sway; New Forrest; Angel Row, Nottingham
2002
Daniel Sturgis & Richard Kirwan, Galerie Hollenbach, Stuttgart, Germany
Mathematique, Daniel Arnaud, London
  Painting as a Foreign Language, Cultura Inglesa, S. Paulo, Brazil
2001
Vivid, Richard Salmon Gallery, London; Mead Gallery; Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry; Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland
  Surface Tension, New British Painting, Gallery Holly Snapp, Venice, Italy
  Complementary Studies - Recent Abstract Painting, Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston
  All of My Heart, Gallery Hotel Art, Florence, Italy
2000
Perfidy, surviving modernism,  La Tourette, nr Lyon, France
  Versailles, Trinity Gardens, London
1999
Villa Crispi, Naples, Italy
1998
Dumbpop, Jerwood Space, London. Also at Leeds Metropolitan Gallery, Leeds
  Close up on Pattern, Laure Genillard Gallery, London
  British Painters in the 90's, Galerie Hollenbach, Stuttgart, Germany
  Liz Arnold, Jane Simpson, Daniel Sturgis, The Approach, London
 
Awards and Fellowships:
2004-05
Artist-in-residence, Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere
2004
Research Award, Goldsmiths College
  Research Award, University of the Arts, London
2002-03
Memory & Forgetting, Sci Arts Award, Northern Arts
  Present/Future, Artissima, Turin, Italy
2001
Research Award, Goldsmiths College
2000-01
Berwick Gymnasium Fellowship, Berwick upon Tweed, Northumberland
1999
Rome Scholarship in Fine Art, Britsih School at Rome, Italy
1997
Artist-in-residence, Camden Arts Centre, London
 
Collections:
  Bang & Olufon
  British Land
  BZW
  Government Art Collection
  Paisley Museum and Art Gallery
  Progressive Insurance
  Saatchi Collection
  University of Warwick
  Wordsworth Trust
  and private collections in Europe and America
 
Catalogs and Publications:
  Terry R Myers, Divide We Unite: The Paintings of Daniel Sturgis, New York: Cynthia Broan Gallery, 2005
  Matthew Collings, Kathy Kubiki, Abstract Logic, Grasmere: The Wordsworth Trust, 2005
  Sharon Kivland & Lesley Sanderson (Eds.), Transmission Speaking and Listening Sheffield: Sheffield Hallam University, 2004
  Barry Schwabsky, Daniel Sturgis - New works, Athens: the apartment, 2004
  Tom Shakespeare, Broadening minds with the art of memory, Newcastle: Hatton Gallery, 2003
  Supernatural: print on demand (curated by Tom Dixon) London: Habitat, 2003
  Present/Future, Turin: Artissima, 2002
  Suhail Malik, Painting as a Foreign Language, Brazil: Edificio Cultura Inglesa, 2002
  David Ryan, Vivid, London: Richard Salmon Gallery, 2001
  Suhail Malik, Surface Tension- New British Painting Venice: Gallery Holly Snapp, 2002
  Edgar Schmitz, Daniel Sturgis: Fill of Beauty, Berwick upon Tweed: Berwick Gymnasium Gallery, 2002
  Martin Herbert Complimentary Studies - recent abstract painting, Preston: Harris Museum, 2002
  Simon Groom Perfidy - surviving modernism, Cambridge: Kettles Yard, 2002
  Stephen Hepworth, All of My Heart, Florence: Gallery Hotel Art, 2001
  Sarah Kent, Dick Price, Richard Cork, Young British Art: The Saatchi Decade, London: Booth-Clibborn Editions, 1999
  Paolo Balmas 'Daniel Sturgis' The British School at Rome, Fine Arts 1999, Rome: The Brittish School at Rome, 1999
  David Barrett Dumbpop, London: Jerwood Space, London, 1998
  Stuart Morgan Out of Order London: Independent Art Space, 1996
 
Reviews and Articles:
  Jason Oddy “View from Grasmere”, Modern Painters p59, Oct 2005
  Dionyssis Kardaris "Did you say abstraction? Sorry I got distracted - Sue Williams and Daniel Sturgis', artime: Greece p114 No.2 2005
  'Feature: Daniel Sturgis', Time Out Athens p67 Oct 7 2004
  Margarita Kataga 'Daniel Sturgis at the apartment interview' Art-Omma: www.art-omma.org/issue6/feature.htm
  Tom Lubbock The Information, Independent Newspaper June 8 2001
  Peter Chapman ‘Daniel Sturgis – Berwick Barracks’ The Information The Independent June 30 2001
  Kirsty Walker ‘Daniel Sturgis: New Paintings’ a-n Magazine August 2001
  'Gallery' Modern Painters, Summer 2001
  Sotiris Kyriacou 'Perfidy' Contemporary Visual Arts, issue 31 2000
  Martyn Simpson 'Quietness, plainness and persistence', Encounters The Architecture Foundation, March 2001
  Jason Oddy 'Perfidy' The Independent, Sept 27 2000
  David Gleeson 'Versailles' Time Out, Nov 8 2000
  'Gallery' Modern Painters, Autumn 2000
  Jojo Moyes, The Independent, p6 Sept 6 2000
  'Preview' Contemporary Visual Arts, issue 30 2000
   
Curating:
2005
Daniel Buren, Voile Toile/Toile Voile Wordsworth Trust Grasmere.
2004/5
Between letters and abstraction. Wordsworth Trust Grasmere.
2001/2
Jeremy Moon - a retrospective. Harris Museum Preston, Nunnery London, Kettle's Yard Cambridge, Graves Gallery, Sheffield.
2000/1
Perfidy. Sante Marie de la Tourette nr. Lyon France, Kettle’s Yard Cambridge.
1998
Relative Values - Contemporary and Historic Portrait Art, Harris Museum Preston, Rangers House London. Curator
1997
Plastic Domestic. Tannery, London. Curator