Education
1958 | A.A. in Art, Ventura College, Ventura, CA |
1960 | B.A. Art/Design, UCLA , Los Angeles, CA |
1964 | M.A. Art/Photography and Design, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA |
Solo
2010 | "The Daily Dose" dnj Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
2003 | "All About Doris" Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, CA |
2002 | "All about Doris" Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, KY |
2001 | "Darryl Curran: Recent Work" William Marten Gallery, Rochester, NY |
2000 | "Darryl Curran: Scanograms" Ellen Kim Murphy Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA |
1997 | "Scanograms by Darryl Curran" Michael Lloyd Gallery, Santa Ana, CA "Thirty Years of Photographic Vision; 1967-97" Irvine Valley College, Irvine, CA "Allusion/Illusion: Digital Scanograms" Texas Woman's University, Denton, TX |
1993 | "Image/Object: photo deconstructions" Cypress College Photography Gallery, Cypress, CA |
1992 | "Themes and Variations" New Image Gallery, James Madison University, Harrisonberg, VA "Deconstructin' the Blues and other Photographic Fables" Cuesta College, San Louis Obispo, CA |
1984 | "A Moment in Photo History" Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies, Los Angeles, CA |
1983 | "Darryl Curran: Non-Silver Images and American Rituals" Portland School of Art, Portland, ME |
1982 | "Darryl Curran Photographs, 1967-81" Wignall Museum, Chaffey College, Alta Loma, CA (catalog) "Darryl Curran Photographs, 1967-81" Grossmont College Art Gallery, Grossmont College, El Cajon, CA |
1981 | "Dye Transfer Prints: Decisive Hour Series" G. Ray Hawkins Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
1979 | "Photographs, Photolithographs, Cyanotypes" Art Space, Los Angeles, CA |
1975 | "Photographs by Darryl Curran" University of Rhode Island, RI "Non-Silver Alternatives" Midway Studios, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
1974 | "Non-Silver Photographs/Darryl Curran" Focus Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
1972 | "Photographs by Darryl Curran" Center of the Eye, Aspen, CO |
Group Exhibitions
2007 | "The Seventies Revisited" DNJ Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
2007 | "Advancing the Moment: Recent Work by California Photographers" Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena, CA "The Collectible Moment: Photographs in the Norton Simon Museum" Pasadena, CA |
2006 | "A Fine Experiment: a Tribute to Robert Heinecken" Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA |
2005 | "Blooming" Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, OH |
2001 | "Zeroes and Ones: Digital and Photo-based Works" University of St. Francis, Joliet, IL "Darkroom and Digital" John Wayne Airport, Orange County, CA |
2000 | "Made in California: Art, Image and Identity, 1900-2000" Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
1999 | "Photographs from the Grunwald Center" UCLA Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA |
1999 | "Digital Frontiers: Photography?s Future at Nash Editions" International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, Rochester, NY |
1996 | "Salon I: Vintage Color Photographs" G. Ray Hawkins Gallery, Santa Monica, CA "BCXXIII: Committed to the Light, Part I" BC Space, Laguna Beach, CA "Photographing the L.A. Art Scene: 1955-1975" Craig Krull Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA "Nash's Greatest Hits" The Photographers' Gallery; London, England "Still Life...Still Here" Hunsaker-Schlesinger Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA |
1995 | "P.L.A.N.:Photography Los Angeles Now" Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA "New Visions:Los Angeles Art in the 90's" UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA "Photography Group Show" Jan Abrams Gallery, West Hollywood, CA "Contemporary Photography: The California Focus" Gallery at the Hammer Museum; Los Angeles, CA |
1994 | "Empowered Images, a cultural presentation of the United States of America" United States Information Agency, (traveling): Centre d' Art Santa Monica; Barcelona, Spain; Brussels American Cultural Center, Brussels, Belgium 1994-1995 |
1993 | Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ Nelson Fine Arts Center, Tempe, AZ Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, FL The Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA |
1992 | Texas Women's University Art Gallery, Denton, TX Washington Center for Photography, Washington, D.C. San Francisco Camerawork, San Francisco, CA Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX |
1989 | "Pin Hole Camera Obscura," installation, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA "Photomontage/Photocollage: the Changing Picture, 1920-1989", Jan Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
1988 | "Lost and Found in California: Four Decades of Assemblage Art" G. Ray Hawkins Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
1986 | "Out of L.A.: UCLA Photography MFA's" Allied Arts Council, Las Vegas, Nevada |
1985 | "Extending the Perimeters of Twentieth Century Photography" San Francisco, Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA |
1984 | "Photography in California: 1945-1980" San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA (catalog) |
1981 | "Perceptions on Paper: a Visual Dialog" Long Beach Gallery, Long Beach, CA |
1980 | "Contemporary Photography" A Gallery for Fine Photography, New Orleans, LA |
1978 | "Mirrors and Windows: American Photography since 1960" Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (catalog) |
1977 | "New Blues" Arizona Commission for Arts and Humanities (catalog) |
1976 | "Exposing: Photographic Definitions" Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA (catalog) |
1974 | "Light and Substance" University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM (catalog) |
1972 | "Photography Into Art" British Arts Council, Bath, England |
1970 | "Photography into Sculpture" Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY |
1969 | "The Adventuresome Eye" San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA |
1968 | "Young Photographers '68" Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN (catalog) |
Awards
1996 | Honored Educator, Society for Photographic Education |
1986 | California Museum of Photography Members' Award for Career Achievement |
1980 | National Endowment for the Arts Photographers Fellowship |
1971 | John D. Phelan Awards in Literature and Art, San Francisco, CA |
Publications
2007 | Nash Editions, Photography and the Art of Digital Printing, New Riders |
2006 | The Collectible Moment, a Catalog of Photographs in the Norton Simon Museum, Yale University Press |
2001 | 7th Edition of Photography by London, Kobre and Brill, Prentice Hall/Pearson Education, page 222, reproduction "Carotid Scan" Darkroom & Digital, catalog to the exhibition, Introduction and Essays by Clayton Spada |
2000 | The California Pop Up Book, Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Universe Publishing |
1999 | American Photography: A Century of Images, Goldberg-Silberman, Chronicle Books |
1998 | Fine Art and Digital Printing, by Jennifer Hadden, Digital Graphics Magazine, January-February |
1996 | Digital Image Creation: Insights into the New Photography, Peach Pit Photography in Focus, 5th Edition; National Textbook Company Make Your Scanner a Great Design & Production Tool, Michael J. Sullivan, North Light Books, pg. 108-109 |
1991 | "Frame-Work: Southern California Portfolio," Journal of the Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies |
1987 | Art in America Review, "Photography and Art: Interactions since 1946," September Issue |
1985 | "Gumming up Their Work," by Henry Horenstein American Photographer "Revision," by Robert Heinecken San Francisco Camerawork Quarterly |
1981 | "Album," International Review of Food Design |