Dan Webb has won numerous awards including a Pollock-Krasner award, the Betty Bowen Award, and an Artist Trust/Washington State Arts Commission Fellowship. His work is part of the permanent collection of the Smithsonian Museum at the Renwick, DC; Seattle Art Museum, WA; Tacoma Art Museum, WA; Crystal Bridges Museum, Bentonville, AR; and the Altoids Curiously Strong Collection of Contemporary Art at the New Museum, NY. He has also been commissioned to create public art works for the cities of Seattle, Bellevue, and Burien, Pike Place Market and soon to be installed stone sculptures at Sound Transit’s Redmond Technology Station. Dan received his BFA in 1991 from Cornish College of the Arts. He lives and works in Seattle, WA.

Born 1965 in East Lansing, MI; lives and works in Seattle, WA

EDUCATION

1991 BFA, Magna Cum Laude, Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, WA

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2017

The Visitor, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA

2015

Break it Down, Seattle Art Museum, Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle, WA

2014

Fragile Fortress: The Art of Dan Webb, Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, WA

2012

Destroyer, Greg Kucera Gallery, WA

2010

Unring the Bell, Cornish Art Gallery, Seattle, WA

Stones and Flowers, Greg Kucera Gallery, WA

2008

Dandelion, Acuna-Hansen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2006

Never Always, Howard House, Seattle, WA

2003

Insomnia Machine, Howard House, Seattle, WA

2002

Cover Songs, Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery, Portland, OR

2000

Blindspot, Howard House, Seattle, WA

1998

Exformation, Howard House, Seattle, WA

1997

Codswallop, Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, WA

1995

Without a Sound, Linda Farris Gallery, Seattle, WA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2017

Fun/No Fun (with Kraft Duntz), The Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA

2016

Connection, Smithsonian Museum at The Renwick, Washington D.C.

2014

State of the Art Discovering American Art Now, Crystal Bridges, Bentonville, AR

New Acquisitions, Portland Art Museum, Portland OR

Optic Nerve: The Art Of Perception, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma WA

2013

Sitting for History, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA

2012

Devouring Time, Western Bridge, Seattle, WA

2011

Reclaimed: Nature and Place Through Contemporary Eyes, Seattle Art Museum

2010

New Acquisitions, Seattle Art Museum

2009

From Whence The Rainbow Came, Ambach and Rice, Seattle, WA

2008

ÜberPortrait, Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, WA

GIMME: From Inspiration to Appropriation, Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, WA (curated by Suzanne Beal)

Heads (dis)Embodied, Kirkland Arts Center, Kirkland, WA

2007

Insubstantial Pageant Faded, Western Bridge, Seattle, WA

2006

Paper Trails, Howard House, Seattle, WA

2005

Captain Ill, Acuna-Hansen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (two person show with Joe Biel)

Manifesto Ambrosino Gallery, Miami, FL

2002

Paralax, Consolidated Works, Seattle, WA Lava, Noodleworks, Seattle, WA

Fourth Annual Altoids Curiously Strong Collection, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY

2001

Luminous, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA

2000

Bemis Residence: Past and Present, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE

1999

Air Hockey, Howard House, Seattle, WA

Ex-Cherubs, The Art Gym, Marylhurst University, Marylhurst, OR

1998

Betty Bowen Award, Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition, Washington State Convention and Trade Center, Seattle, WA

1997

Introduction, Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery, Portland, OR

1996

Recent Acquisitions, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA

AWARDS

2012

Innovator Award Finalist

2010

Seattle Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs 2006

Commission for City of Bellevue, Bellevue, WA

Commission for City of Burien, Burien, WA

Commission for Equity Office Properties

2005

Commission for Equity Office Properties

2004

Commission for Christopher and Jenny Roberts

Artist Trust/Washington State Arts Commission Fellowship, Seattle, WA

2003

Betty Bowen Award, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA

2000

Gap Award, Artist Trust, Seattle, WA

1999

Pollock-Krasner Award

1996

Purchase for permanent collection, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA

1995

Recognition Award, Betty Bowen Awards, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA

Seattle Arts Commission Grant, Seattle, WA

COLLECTIONS

Altoids Curiously Strong Collection of Contemporary Art

Commission for City of Bellevue, Bellevue, WA

Commission for City of Burien, Burien, WA

Commission for Equity Office Properties

The New Museum, New York, NY

King County, WA

Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA

April 4, 2022
Seattle Refined
'We need art': Dan Webb sculpts wood and stone into the unexpected
by Jenise Silva

Dec. 15, 2022
The Seattle Times - Pacific NW Magazine
A Seattle artist’s perspective on why — and when — we like public art
by Brendan Kiley

February 10, 2020
Cascade PBS
An artist at the intersection of middle age and mass transit
by Katie Kurtz

July 8, 2015

The Stranger
The Tree Is Just a Context
See Sculptor Dan Webb Reduce a Doug Fir to Sawdust Before Your Very Eyes in Break It Down
by Jen Graves

May 14, 2014
International Sculpture Center
Fragile Fortress: The Art of Dan Webb
by Suzanne Beal

March 30, 2014
The Seattle Times, Review of Dan Webb's exhibition at BAM
Brilliant Dan Webb, Kathy Venter shows at BAM
by Michael Upchurch

August 2012
Seattle Magazine
Dan Webb's Chiseled Features
A Seattle sculptor cuts to the core of what people desire in spectacular wood carvings.
by Brangien Davis

September 7, 2012
The Seattle Times
At Kucera: Photographer Daniel Carrillo, sculptor Dan Webb play with their media
by Michael Upchurch

Seattle Weekly
"Dan Webb: Stones and Flowers Though dandelions only sprout for a summer, Dan Webb has rendered them with bronze and redwood."
by Brian Miller

February 25, 2010

Arts Journal
"Dan Webb - inanimate objects with a pulse"
by Regina Hackett

February 2010
The Seattle Times
Review: Webb, Shimomura works illuminate concept and creation
by Nancy Worssam

Summer 2010
ARTWORKS A Voice for the Arts
Wood You Believe Me
by Kiera Scholten

September 2009
Sculpture Magazine
Tongue-in-Cheek Eloquence
by Suzanne Beal