Bill Daniel, Hobo Filmmaker

 
 
 

Bill Daniel
1212 Maple Way
Braddock PA 15104

Education

University of Texas, Austin, 1977-1980, Marketing, Photography

Awards

2008        Guggenheim Fellow
2007,05   Rockefeller Nominee
2005        Creative Capital
2003-4     Wattis Foundation, Artist in Residence, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
2003        The R & B Feder Charitable Foundation for the Beaux Arts
1999        Headlands Center for the Arts, Artist in Residence
1995        Austin Film Society, Film Grant
                Texas Commission on the Arts, Film Grant
1993        Pioneer Fund, Film Grant
1991        Western States Media Alliance, Film Grant
1990        Film Arts Foundation, Film Grant

Installation Work

2006-8    Sunset Scavenger, mobile video installation touring to various outdoor sites (on-going)
2007    Life Raft, sculpture/video/photo, University of the South
2004    Ponder Yonder, mixed media installation, video, Headlands Center for the Arts (also showed as part of the Heart Attack Island Film Tour, see screenings 2004)
    Seadrift, Texas, video and wheatpaste installation, Tollbooth Gallery, Tacoma, WA
    Sunset Scavenger, mixed media installation, Other Cinema, San Francisco, CA
2003    Souls Harbor, mixed media installation, video, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
Free Ride Prototype, installation, Belmont Factory, Core Sample, Portland, OR
2002-3    The Girl on the Train in the Moon, 2-projector, non-linear, documentary video installation, presented in 60    cities in the US and Canada as part of the Lucky Bum Film Tour, with Vanessa Renwick. Self-booked and     produced tour included shows at: (selected venues listed)
    Center for Documentary Studies, Durham NC; Space 1026, Philadelphia PA; Taos Talking Pictures Film     Festival; Northwest Film Forum, Seattle; Olympia Theater, Olympia WA; The Blinding Light, Vancouver BC;     The Luggage Store/509 Cultural Center, San Francisco; Anno Domini Gallery, San Jose CA; Basement     Films, Albuquerque NM; Warehouse 21, Santa Fe NM; Aurora Picture Show, Houston TX; Mini-Cine,     Shreveport, LA; Soap Factory, Minneapolis MN; Dirt Gallery, Kansas City; Oni Gallery, Boston; Virginia Film     Festival; Ragtag, Columbia MO; Squeaky Wheel, Buffalo NY; Cinecycle, Toronto ONT; G Spot, Baltimore     MD; Flywheel, East Hampton MA; Trasa Urban Arts Collective, Salt Lake City UT, Congress Hotel, Tucson     AZ, Modified Arts, Phoenix AZ; Jefferson Presents, Pittsburg PA; Univ. of Tenn. Knoxville TN; Antioch     College, Yellow Springs OH; Hi Hat, Milwaukee WI; The Pickford, Bellingham WA; Liberty Hall, Portland OR.

2002    Rubber Tramp, Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA, video/sculpture. A swap meet guitar player's camper van.

2000    Widely Unknown, The Girl on the Train in the Moon, Dietch Projects, New York, installation, group show.

The Anchor Outs, outdoor film installation, exhibited on multi-venue tour through the Southwest.

1999    Trespassing Sign, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA. Film, slides, audio, painting. Collaboration     with painter Margaret Kilgallen.

untitled, Dietch Projects, New York, multi-projector installation for painting show by Margaret Kilgallen.

Hullo darlin, Other Cinema, San Francisco, CA, collaboration with painter Alicia McCarthy.

1997    untitled, Circa 98, Austin, TX, film installation, group show of design and architecture.

1994    City of Song, Victoria Room Gallery, San Francisco, CA, urban out-door film installation.

Still Photography Exhibition

2008    "After Nature", New Museum, NY NY, group show
"In the Fullness of Time", Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA, group show
    "Sunset Scavenger", Get This Gallery, Atlanta, GA, and Union Docs, Brooklyn, NY, solo show.
    "Wheelchair Epidemic", Gallery Lombardi", Austin TX, group show.
"There is a House", abandoned house, Braddock, PA
2007    "Sunset Scavenger" mural photoprints from Sausalito and NOLA, Rayko Photo Center, solo show
2006    "Punk Pix" Needles and Pens, SF solo show
2005    "Elevation"  Needles and Pens, SF, group show
2004    "The Western Roundup", Reading Frenzy, Portland, OR
2003    "Hay Days", Beulahland Bar, Portland. one-person show.
    "Canvas", Dept. of Skateboarding, Portland, art on skate decks, group show.
2001    "Residual Image", Studio Z Gallery, San Francisco, group show.
1998    "Texas Skatepunk Scrapbook", Diverse Works, Houston,TX, one-person show.
1999    "Corpus Opticus", Crucible Steel Gallery, San Francisco, three person show.
"Bay Area Disfigurative", Ajax Warehouse, San Francisco, group show.
1996    "Frenzy". The Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, group show.
1996    "Boxcar Pictures", Webb Gallery, Waxahachie, TX, two-person show with William S. Burroughs.
1992    "The Secret Jungle", Refusalon, San Francisco, one-person photo/installation.
1982-85    Various group shows, 500X, Dallas, Allen Street Gallery, Dallas, The California Hotel, Austin, TX.

Selected Film Screenings
(2004-8, too many! try later)
2003    Robert Beck Memorial Cinema, New York
My House, Eugene, OR
2002    The Invitationals, PDX Film Festival, Portland, OR
Come Forward, Dallas Museum of Art
2001    Anthology Film Archives, New York
Peripheral Produce, Portland, OR
Cinematheque, San Francisco, CA
Sidestreet Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Dallas Video Association, Dallas, TX
Cinemaker Coop, Austin TX
Mini-Cine, Shreveport, LA
Warehouse 21, Santa Fe, NM
Basement Films, Albuquerque, NM
Thought Crimes, Phoenix, AZ
MOCA, Tucson, AZ
2001    Fine Arts Cinema, Berkeley, CA
1999    Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
1998    The Independent Film Channel, national broadcast
Other Cinema, San Francisco, CA
Aurora Picture Show, Houston, TX
2000    CinemaTexas Festival, Austin, TX
1997    Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Zeitgeist, New Orleans, LA
1995    Film Forum, Los Angeles, CA
REV Tour, Australia
1994    PS 122, New York, NY
Dallas Video Festival, Dallas, TX
1992    Cinematheque, San Francisco, CA
Environmental Film Festival, Denver, CO
1986    Heart of Texas Film Festival, Austin, TX

Selected Bibliography

"Writing on the Rails", Brad Tyre, The Texas Observer, July, 2008
Art Papers, review, Nov/Dec, 2007
"Man of Many Marks" Johnny Ray Huston,, SF Bay Guardian, Sept 28, 2005
"Band of Outsiders", Adam Hart, Res Magazine, Jan/Feb 2005
"I got an Itch", Jennifer Flowers, Shreveport Times, March 1, 2005
"Heart Attcak Island Film Tour looks at survival", Julie Sabatier, Portland Alliance, Sept. 2004
"Uncharted Water, Bill Daniel navigates fringes of society", Rick Polito, Marin Independent Journal, May 4,2004
""Bill of Righs", Marin Preske, 7X7, Dec 2003
"Two for the Road", Camela Raymond, The Organ Review of Arts, Nov-Dec 2003
"King of Film", Ken Miller, Tokion,Nov/Dec 2002
"Videos Offer", Joseph Gallivan, Portland Tribune, Dec. 6, 2002
"Big Wheels Turning", D.K. Row, Oregonian, Dec. 6, 2002
"Bum's Rush", Eric Allen Hatch, Baltimore City Paper, Oct. 2, 2002
"Vanessa Renwick and Bill Daniel", Roxanne Bogucka, (interview, online) hybridmagazine.com
"Widely Unknown", Roberta Smith, New York Times, Dec. 14, 2001
"Widely Unknown", Michael Wilson, Artforum (online)
"Motion Subculture", Katia Dunn, Portland Mercury, Feb.1, 2001
"Someplace for Pictures", Jessica Peterson, Houston Press, Dec. 1999.
"Funhouse Cinema: Exhibition Alternative", Jerry Johnson, Austin Chronicle, Nov.  1997.
"Cinematic Scrapbook", Ann Hornaday, Austin American Statesman, Sept. 1997
"Bill Daniel Runs The Hobo Down", Andrew Hulktrans, Stim, fall 1996
"He's Got A Train To Catch", Jane Sumner, Dallas Morning News, Aug, 1995