Working with an array of objects commonly found in home-improvement centers, Daniel Nevers creates site-specific installations filled with humor, irony and painterly abstraction.  His work merges sculpture, architecture, and interior decoration to reflect and comment upon consumerism, self-help and DIY trends in 21st century urban life. 

E D U C A T I O N

2008          MFA Sculpture, Mills College, Oakland, CA

2004/06     Studio Art, California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA

1993          Bachelor of Journalism, University of Texas at Austin

A W A R D S,   G R A N T S   &   R E S I D E N C I E S

• Southern Exposure Residency Program, 2008
• Headlands Center for the Arts MFA Studio Award nominee, 2008
• Graduate Research Opportunity Grant, Mills College, 2008
• Nell Sinton Scholarship Award, Mills College, 2007
• All-College Honors, First-Year Program, Honorable Mention, California College of the Arts, 2005

EXHIBITIONS 

2009

• Urban Matrix, Chandra Cerrito Contemporary, Oakland, California
• Unconstruction, mg Gallery, Oakland, California

2008

• Laughing on the Inside, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, California
• Extended, Rhythmix Gallery, Alameda, California
• Art and Soul Festival, Pro Arts, Oakland, California
• MFA Exhibition, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, California

2007

• Grounded?, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, California, curated by Kristan Kennedy

2006

• Hey, Gay Eric!: Apply to be my Boyfriend, www.heygayeric.com
• Asphalt Modernism: Sidewalk Paintings, Oakland/San Francisco, California
• Artifice, North/South Gallery, Oakland, California, curated by Artists for Social and Political Awareness

2005

• Street Confession, Fern Alley, San Francisco, California
• All-College Honors & Scholarship Awards Exhibition, California College of the Arts, Oliver Art Center, Oakland, California

P U B L I C A T I O N S

Television news interview, CBS News on LOGO, April 25, 2006

Adams, Cecil, "Weird Earl of the Week," The Straight Dope, April 18, 2006

Bajko, Matthew S., "Gay Man Seeks BF - Only Erics Need Apply," Bay Area Reporter, April 13, 2006