Adam Dant
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Adam Dant is a Jerwood Prize-winning artist (2002). He was born in Cambridge
in 1967 but now lives and works in London
. He has won praise from The Guardian
and Financial Times
for his Hogarthian graphic style. He was educated at the Royal College of Art
, University Faculty of Fine Arts, Abroad, India and the Liverpool School of Art.
Dant subsequently made a reputation as the creator of "mockuments". These are works based on floor plans of the Louvre, the National Gallery and Tate Britain, in which flowcharts lead from image to image to create a psycho-history of the institution being anatomized.
Dant has worked in the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum
, New York’s Museum of Modern Art
, the Musee d’Art Contemporain in Lyons, the Deutsche Bank
and UBS collections, and in many leading private collections including that of Charles, Prince of Wales
. He has exhibited at Tate Modern
, the Hayward Gallery
, and the Institute of Contemporary Arts
. The art writer Anthony Haden-Guest
describes the new work as "witty and richly complex".
Cambridge
The city of Cambridge is a university town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire, England. It lies in East Anglia about north of London. Cambridge is at the heart of the high-technology centre known as Silicon Fen – a play on Silicon Valley and the fens surrounding the...
in 1967 but now lives and works in London
London
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. He has won praise from The Guardian
The Guardian
The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...
and Financial Times
Financial Times
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for his Hogarthian graphic style. He was educated at the Royal College of Art
Royal College of Art
The Royal College of Art is an art school located in London, United Kingdom. It is the world’s only wholly postgraduate university of art and design, offering the degrees of Master of Arts , Master of Philosophy and Doctor of Philosophy...
, University Faculty of Fine Arts, Abroad, India and the Liverpool School of Art.
Career
In 1995, Dant created the Donald Parsnips Daily Journal, an art world pamphlet. It appeared daily for five years.Dant subsequently made a reputation as the creator of "mockuments". These are works based on floor plans of the Louvre, the National Gallery and Tate Britain, in which flowcharts lead from image to image to create a psycho-history of the institution being anatomized.
Dant has worked in the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum
Victoria and Albert Museum
The Victoria and Albert Museum , set in the Brompton district of The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London, England, is the world's largest museum of decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 4.5 million objects...
, New York’s Museum of Modern Art
Museum of Modern Art
The Museum of Modern Art is an art museum in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, on 53rd Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. It has been important in developing and collecting modernist art, and is often identified as the most influential museum of modern art in the world...
, the Musee d’Art Contemporain in Lyons, the Deutsche Bank
Deutsche Bank
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and UBS collections, and in many leading private collections including that of Charles, Prince of Wales
Charles, Prince of Wales
Prince Charles, Prince of Wales is the heir apparent and eldest son of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. Since 1958 his major title has been His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales. In Scotland he is additionally known as The Duke of Rothesay...
. He has exhibited at Tate Modern
Tate Modern
Tate Modern is a modern art gallery located in London, England. It is Britain's national gallery of international modern art and forms part of the Tate group . It is the most-visited modern art gallery in the world, with around 4.7 million visitors per year...
, the Hayward Gallery
Hayward Gallery
The Hayward Gallery is an art gallery within the Southbank Centre, part of an area of major arts venues on the South Bank of the River Thames, in central London, England. It is sited adjacent to the other Southbank Centre buildings and also the Royal National Theatre and British Film Institute...
, and the Institute of Contemporary Arts
Institute of Contemporary Arts
The Institute of Contemporary Arts is an artistic and cultural centre on The Mall in London, just off Trafalgar Square. It is located within Nash House, part of Carlton House Terrace, near the Duke of York Steps and Admiralty Arch...
. The art writer Anthony Haden-Guest
Anthony Haden-Guest
Anthony Haden-Guest is a British-American writer, reporter, cartoonist, art critic, poet, and socialite who lives in New York and London. He is a frequent contributor to major magazines and has had several books published.-Family:...
describes the new work as "witty and richly complex".