Daniel Farnum was born in the blue-collar town of Saginaw, Michigan. His photographs, “which address the American experience, landscape and culture,” have been showcased nationally in several exhibitions and galleries, including in San Francisco, Philadelphia, Ann Arbor, Milwaukee, St. Louis, Berkeley, Los Angeles and New York.
He is the recipient of many notable awards, including the Aperture Award from The Print Center in Philadelphia; two prizes from the Paul Sack Architectural Photography Contest; Grand Prize Winner of the Missouri Top 50 contest; the Juror’s Selection Award, given by Christopher Rauschenberg at the Center for Fine Art Photography; and an award from William Jenkins, who was responsible for the seminal New Topographics exhibition at the George Eastman House.
Daniel’s prints have previously been exhibited at the Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Worth Ryder Gallery at UC Berkeley, Photo SF, Focus Gallery San Francisco, Sea and Space Explorations in Los Angeles, the Center for Fine Art Photography in Colorado and the Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies in NYC. Additionally, his photographs were published in Issue 4 of The Exposure Project Book, concerning contemporary photography, and displayed in solo exhibitions at the Landon Gallery in Kansas City, Center Gallery in Wichita and at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design.
