DANIEL GERHARD KANIESS
(1955 – 2012)
EDUCATION
1978 | University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, BFA |
AWARDS
1984 | First Place Award, Art Center of Minnesota, Juried Exhibition |
1989-90 | McKnight Foundation Fellowship |
1991 | Walker Art Center Open Studio Day Participant |
Minnesota State Arts Board Fellowship | |
First Place Award, Artifex Alternative Arts Museum, Juried Exhibition | |
1994 | Bush Fellowship |
1996-97 | McKnight Foundation Fellowship |
2004 | Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grant |
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
1974-78 | Various Student Shows, Milwaukee, WI |
1978 | Union Gallery, Milwaukee, WI |
1979 | Bergstrom Art Center, Neenah, WI |
1980 | Wisconsin Lutheran College, Milwaukee, WI |
Minnesota Museum of Art, St. Paul, MN | |
Minneapolis Institute of Art, “Foot In the Door”, Minneapolis, MN | |
Minnesota State Fair Art Center, Group Exhibition | |
West ’80 Art and the Law, St Paul, MN | |
1981 | Wisconsin Lutheran College, Milwaukee, WI |
Katherine E. Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN | |
Minnesota Museum of Art, St. Paul, MN | |
Art on Location, Town Square, St. Paul, MN | |
Perihelion Gallery, Milwaukee, WI | |
West ’81 Art and the Law, St Paul, MN | |
1982 | Northrop Gallery, Minneapolis, MN |
Minnesota State Fair Art Center, Group Exhibition | |
1983 | Dr. Martin Luther College, New Ulm, MN |
Walker-Winfield Gallery, Group Exhibition, Minneapolis, MN | |
1984 | Art Center of Minnesota, Minnetonka, MN |
Lakewood Community College, White Bear Lake, MN | |
Minnesota State Fair Art Center, Group Exhibition | |
Pig Iron Mail Art Show, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN | |
1985 | Art Center of Minnesota, Minnetonka, MN |
Lakewood Community College, White Bear Lake, MN | |
1986 | Wisconsin Lutheran College, Group Exhibition, Milwaukee, WI |
Minnesota State Fair Art Center, Group Exhibition | |
1987 | Leo Feldman Gallery, Milwaukee, WI |
1988 | Speedboat Gallery, St. Paul, MN |
1989 | Speedboat Gallery, St. Paul, MN |
1990 | Rochester Art Center, Rochester, MN |
Carleton College, Northfield, MN | |
8 McKnight Artists, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN | |
Minnesota Museum of Art, St. Paul, MN | |
Minneapolis Institute of Art, “Foot in the Door,” Minneapolis, MN | |
Speedboat Gallery/Lollapalooza, St. Paul, MN | |
Owatonna Arts Center, Owatonna, MN | |
1991 | Forum Gallery, Minneapolis, MN |
Artifex Alternative Arts Museum, Minneapolis, MN | |
St. Paul Companies, Group Exhibit, St. Paul, MN | |
Speedboat Gallery, St. Paul, MN | |
1992 | Thomson Gallery, Minneapolis, MN |
Artifex Alternative Arts Museum, “Unity in Diversity,” Minneapolis, MN | |
Katherine E. Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota, “Painting at the Nash”, Minneapolis, MN | |
pARTS Alternative Art Space, “Views by Artists of the Columbus Quincentennial,” Minneapolis, MN | |
Speedboat Gallery, “PDGK”, St. Paul, MN | |
1993 | Speedboat Gallery, St. Paul, MN |
No-Bar Cafe and Gallery, New York, NY | |
Rossmor Gallery, “New Works”, St. Paul, MN | |
Red Eye, “Where The Art Is”, Minneapolis, MN | |
1994 | Thomson Gallery, Minneapolis, MN |
Southern Theater, Minneapolis, MN | |
Minneapolis College of Art and Design, “Associates”, Minneapolis, MN | |
Hamline University, Group Show of Drawing, St. Paul, MN | |
Thomson Gallery “Selected Works” Minneapolis, MN | |
1995 | “Experimental Book Art Show,” Group Show, St. Paul, MN |
Thomson Gallery, “Summer Group Show,” Minneapolis, MN | |
Benedicta Arts Center, College of Saint Benedict, “Progress,”St. Joseph, MN | |
Haystack-Transformative Print Show, Carleton College, Northfield, MN | |
1996 | Hermetic Gallery, Milwaukee, WI |
Thomson Gallery, Minneapolis, MN | |
Rochester Art Center, “50th Anniversary Celebration”, Group Show, Rochester, MN | |
Northern National Art Competition, Nicolet College L.R.C. Gallery, Rhinelander, WI | |
New Work ‘96, ARTSPACE, New Haven, CT | |
Hermetic Gallery, “Nerve,” Group Show, Milwaukee, WI | |
Midwest Drawing Show, Landmark Center, St. Paul, MN | |
Thomson Gallery, “Winter Group Show,” Minneapolis, MN | |
Studio 125 Focus Group, Group Show, St. Paul, MN | |
Minnesota Museum of American Art, “Where Do You Draw The Line”, Group Exhibition, St. Paul, MN | |
1997 | Carleton College, Northfield, MN |
Furlong Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Stout, Menominee, Wisconsin | |
Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, Ohio | |
6 McKnight Artists, Minneapolis of College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN | |
Soap Factory, “Material/Immaterial”, Group Show, Minneapolis, MN | |
Montgomery Glasoe Fine Art, “Young Painters,” Group Show, Minneapolis, MN | |
1998 | Montgomery Glasoe Fine Art, “Recent Paintings” Minneapolis, MN |
Gus Lucky Gallery, Group Show, Minneapolis, MN | |
College of Visual Arts, “Consider the Twig”, St. Paul, MN | |
General Mills, “Image/Text”, Group Show, Minneapolis, MN | |
Art-A-Whirl, Group Show/Event, Minneapolis, MN | |
College of Visual Arts, Faculty Exhibition, St. Paul, MN | |
1999 | Gus Lucky Gallery, “Salon 500”, Group Show, Minneapolis, MN |
Speedboat Gallery, “One Hit Wonder”, St. Paul, MN | |
2000 | KM Art Gallery, Milwaukee, WI |
Rochester Art Center, “Big Bang”, “Fish Tales” Group Shows, Rochester, MN | |
Gus Lucky Gallery, Minneapolis, MN | |
Minneapolis Institute of Art, ”Foot in the Door”, Minneapolis, MN | |
2001 | Montgomery Fine Art / Betz Design, Minneapolis, MN |
2002 | Plains Art Museum, “Art on the Plains”, Juried Exhibition, Fargo, North Dakota |
Rochester Art Center, 9-11, Invitational Group Show, Rochester, MN | |
2003 | Frank Stone Gallery, “Holiday Exhibition” Minneapolis, MN |
Image Dump Gallery “What About Aesthetics?” Minneapolis, MN | |
Frank Stone Gallery, Minneapolis, MN | |
2004 | Plains Art Museum, “Identity & Vision” Juried Exhibition, Fargo,North Dakota |
Minnesota State Arts Board, Invitational Group Show, St Paul, MN | |
Speedboat Gallery, “Art Conspiracy”, St. Paul, MN | |
Jon Oulman Gallery, Group Show, Minneapolis, MN | |
Rochester Art Center, “MOVE” Invitational Group Show, Rochester, MN | |
2005 | Minnesota Museum of American Art, “Arts Advocacy” Invitational Group Show, St. Paul, MN |
Image Dump Gallery “U C Differently” Minneapolis, MN | |
2006 | Minneapolis Institute of Arts, “Energy Palimpsest”, Minnesota Artists Exhibition Program, Minneapolis, MN |
Electrolift Artworks, “Recent Paintings”, Minneapolis, MN | |
Peck Institute of Visual Arts, “Continuum”, Milwaukee, WI | |
2007 | Obsidian Gallery/Shoebox Gallery, “Segrelicious” Invitational Exhibition, Minneapolis, MN |
2008 | Plains Art Museum, “Art on the Plains”, Juried Exhibition, Fargo, North Dakota |
West End Arts, “Seen and be Seen”, Juried Exhibition, Saint Paul, MN | |
Dale Studio Gallery, “Art-A-Whirl”, Minneapolis, MN | |
2009 | Blown Derivatives project, McMurdo Base, Antarctica |
Barbette Restaurant, Minneapolis, MN | |
Shoebox Gallery, Minneapolis, MN | |
Priska Juschka Fine Art, “Benefit For Nicole”, NY | |
Broad Cast Exhibitions, “Open Sky”, Minneapolis, MN | |
2010 | Blown Derivatives project, SeLa Mountain, Tibet |
Blown Derivatives project, Jiuduansha Island, China | |
Blown Derivatives project, Skagaströnd, Iceland | |
Martin Luther College, “Solus Christus”, New Ulm, MN | |
Gloria Dei Lutheran Church, Group Show, St. Paul, MN | |
2011 | Blown Derivatives project, Karbala, Iraq |
St John’s Lutheran Church Gallery, “Art-A-Whirl”, Minneapolis, MN | |
2012 | OZ’Art Galerie, Tours, France |
“A Punker’s Revenge: A Celebration of Speedboat Gallery”, COExhibitions, Minneapolis, MN | |
“Daniel Kaniess: Smiles and Rage, A Retrospective”, Minneapolis, MN | |
2013 | St John’s Lutheran Church Gallery, “Art-A-Whirl”, Minneapolis, MN |
2014 | St John’s Lutheran Church Gallery, “Art-A-Whirl”, Minneapolis, MN |
“The Automatic Message”, Instinct Art Gallery, Minneapolis, MN Shoebox Gallery Final Show, Minneapolis, MN |
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2015 | St John’s Lutheran Church Gallery, “Art-A-Whirl”, Minneapolis, MN |
Winter the Winter Suite, Fallout Artist Initiative, Minneapolis, MN | |
2016 | “WORK HARD, Daniel Kaniess 1955-2012 – Mixed Media”, Bethany Lutheran College, Mankato, MN |
St John’s Lutheran Church Gallery, “Art-A-Whirl”, Minneapolis, MN | |
2019 | “SLAM DANCE”, Q.arma Building, Minneapolis, MN |
2021 | Revere Auction |
2022 | Revere Auction |
2023 | Revere Auction |
Solidarity Street Gallery, “Faces of Our Community”, St. Paul, MN | |
EXISTENCE, Daniel Kaniess 1955-2012 – madebyhuman, Art@967 Payne, St Paul, MN |
COLLECTIONS
Walker Art Center
Travelers Insurance
Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi LLP
RBC Wealth Management
Hazelden Foundation
Dayton’s Corporation
Dain Bosworth Incorporated
Honeywell Incorporated
St. Paul Companies
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Stoddard, Leah, “Daniel Kaniess, Springfield Museum of Art,”, New Art Examiner, September 1997, pp. 65
Silberman, Rob, “Daniel Kaniess at Thomson,” Art in America, July 1995, pp. 91-92
PUBLISHED WORKS
“Circus of Stab,” Book of words and drawings, published by Sub-Genre Ink, 1996
PUBLISHED DRAWINGS
Jack Mackeral Magazine
Taddy Wampus Magazine
Inner/Urban Magazine
Graphica Magazine
OP Magazine
Modern Design Magazine
Lowertown Crier
Lowertown Business News
“Be Prepared to Answer”, Book Cover, NWPH
ILLUSTRATION / DESIGN
Logo Catacombs Records, 1991
Record Album Cover “House of Nerves”, 2i, 1985
7 inch Single Cover “Mercy, Tsunami / Cindy Shrman, Deuteronomy”, Frances Gumm, 1988
CD Covers “2i”, 2i, 2000
“Now<<and>>Then”, GST, 2010
“Screech Owl Conflab”, Greg Schaefer, 2010
Cassette Covers “Who Hears?”, 2i, 1982
“Boo!”, 2i, 1983
“Never Pet a Burning Dog”, 2i, 1984