Dan Holdsworth

Dan Holdsworth (born in 1974 in Welwyn Garden City, England) is a British photographer who creates large-scale photographs and digital art characterized by the use of traditional techniques and unusually long exposure times, and by radical abstractions of geography. He has exhibited internationally including solo shows at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, and Barbican Art Gallery, London; and group shows at Tate Britain, London, and Centre Pompidou, Paris. His work is held in collections including the Tate Collection, Saatchi Collection, and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. He lives and works in Newcastle upon Tyne and London.

Education Holdsworth studied photography and earned a BA (hons) in photography at the London College of Communication, University of the Arts London, UK.

Transmission: New Remote Earth Views Holdsworth's 2012 series Transmission: New Remote Earth Views uses topographical data to present the American West in an entirely new way. Locations included are the Grand Canyon, Yosemite, Mount Shasta, Mount St. Helens, Salt Lake City, and Park City, Utah. The series was first presented in an exhibition at Brancolini Grimaldi, London, UK, in March 2012.

Public collections Tate Gallery, London Pompidou Centre Collection, Paris Museum of Modern Art Vienna Collection, Vienna Victoria & Albert Museum Collection, London The Government Art Collection, London DG Bank Collection, Munich Worcester City Art Gallery, UK The Saatchi Collection, London UBS Art Collection, London Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art Collection, UK University of the Arts Collection, London Hackney Museum, London Sheffield Museums Trust, UK British Airways Art Collection, UK Artist Pension Trust Collection, London The Northern Canon Collection, UK The Goetz Collection, Munich The Arts Council Collection, UK The Laing Art Gallery Collection, UK The Progressive Art Collection, USA

Awards and fellowships 2008 Visiting Fellowship, The European Centre for Photographic Research, Newport, University of Wales 2007 Short listed for the Northern Art Prize, Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds, UK 2006 Arts Council of England Award, UK 2002 Arts Council of England Award, UK 2001 Short listed for Beck's Future's Prize, ICA, London

Exhibitions

Selected recent solo exhibitions Spatial Objects, Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton, UK, 2015 Mirrors, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London, UK, 2014 Transmission: New Remote Earth Views, National Glass Centre, Sunderland, UK, 2012 Transmission: New Remote Earth Views, Brancolini Grimaldi, London, UK, 2012

Selected recent group exhibitions Monuments, Scheublein+Bak, Zurich, Switzerland, 2013 Landmark: The Fields of Photography, Summerset House, London, UK, 2013 Looking at the View, Tate Britain, London, UK, 2012 Shifting Realities, Scheublein Fine Art, Zurich, Switzerland, 2012

Monographs and artist books Forms FTP and Mirrors FTP. Published by Dan Holdsworth Studio, 2014. Essays by Emma Lewis and Joshua Wilson. Blackout. Published by Steidl BG, March 2012. Essay by British science writer and author, Oliver Morton. Dan Holdsworth. Published by Steidl, September 2005. Essays by Angus Carlyle and David Chandler and an interview by Charlotte Cotton.