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DANIEL TRAUB

DANIEL TRAUB
Biography

Daniel Traub is a visual artist, photographer and filmmaker.


His photographic work looks at the ways in which historical and geopolitical strains and divisions manifest themselves in the urban landscape.

His projects, often on the peripheries and interstices of cities, have brought him to sites throughout the world. Some of these include Little North Road, a document of the activities on a pedestrian bridge in the southern Chinese coastal metropolis of Guangzhou; Nablus, a study of the West Bank Palestinian town; and North Philadelphia, a body of work which looks at the largely African American section of Philadelphia. 

Traub has produced two monographs published by Kehrer Verlag: North Philadelphia and Little North Road. Currently, together with editor Robert Pledge, he is compiling a book of his photographs made in China where he lived and worked from 1998-2007.

His photographs have been shown internationally, including exhibitions at the Catherine Edelman Gallery in Chicago, Slought Foundation in Philadelphia, the Weltkulturen Museum in Frankfurt, Germany and the Shanghai Center for Photography (SCoP). His work can be found in public collections, such as the Margulies Collection at the WAREhOUSE, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Traub’s films, both short and feature-length documentaries, explore how societal and familial tensions impact the individual. These include Into Her Own, a biography of the artist Ursula von Rydingsvard; Xu Bing: Phoenix, which follows the creation of two monumental sculptures built from Beijing construction debris; and Barefoot Artist which follows the work of his mother Lily Yeh and her collaborative art projects in marginalized communities.

Additionally, both as a photographer and filmmaker, Traub has been entrusted with commissions from major publications, media organizations and institutions. As a photographer, these have included Time, Newsweek, New York Times Magazine and M, le magazine du Monde. As a filmmaker and cinematographer, he has worked with networks including PBS, German Television ZDF, Arte; and, more recently, with various arts and cultural institutions.


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Born 1971, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Lives and works in Philadelphia and New York City
Education
MFA, Photography, Video and Related Media, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, 1998
BA, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY, 1994
Sight and Sound film production course, New York University, New York, NY, 1993
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 1989–1991
Selected Solo Exhibition
In-East Institute, Duisberg, Germany, 2019
Slought Foundation, Philadelphia, PA, 2015
Bluesky Gallery, Portland, OR, 2012
Print Center, Philadelphia, PA, 2010
Art Institute of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, 2009
Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2008
Two & Three-Person Exhibitions
Yearbook, Philadelphia Photo Art Center, Philadelphia, PA, 2018
Here’s Looking at You!, Shanghai Center of Photography (SCoP), Shanghai, China, 2017
Retrieved, San Francisco Camerawork and Chinese Culture Center, San Francisco, CA, 2016
China in Transition: A Closer Look, FotoFest, Houston, TX, 2008
Suburban Developments, Belfast Exposed, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 2007
 
Selected Group Exhibition
2021
New Grit: Art & Philly Now, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
2020
China Imagined, Breda Photo Festival, Breda, Netherlands

2019
Narrating Migration, Weltulturen Museum, Frankfurt, Germany

2017  
Simultaneous Eidos, Guangzhou Image Triennial, Guangzhou, China
Your Selfie Stick and You, Lianzhou Foto Festival, Lianzhou, China
Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation Photobook 2016 – Traveling Exhibition

2016  
Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation Photobook 2016 – Traveling Exhibition
Tête-à-Tête: Conversations in Photography, James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, PA
 
2015  
Looking Askance, GallerySKE and University of Chicago Delhi Center, New Delhi, India
Future Tense, UNM Art Museum/516 Arts, Albuquerque, NM
        
2014 
Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, PA

2013 
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR  
CFEVA Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2012 
A Discourse on Plants, RH Gallery, New York, NY
Photography from the Archive, The Margulies Collection at the Warehouse, Miami, FL

2011  
Documentary PIX: Philadelphia, A Century of Change, Free Library of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Toward the Social Landscape, Lianzhou Foto Festival, Lianzhou, China
Across the Divide: Critical Mass 2010, Photo Center NW, Seattle, WA and New Space Center for Photography, Portland, OR

2010 
Chinescape, Times Museum, Guangzhou, China  
Vestiges, CFEVA Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Studio Theater Gallery, Middlesex County College, NJ

2009  
Photography Now: China, Japan, Korea, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Woodmere Triennial, Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA
24th Festival International de Mode et de Photographie à Hyères, Villa Noailles, Hyères, France
Seen in China, Emily Davis Gallery, University of Akron, Myers School of Art
Introductions 09’, Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, PA 
Next: Emerging Philadelphia Photographers, Philadelphia Photo Arts Center, Philadelphia, PA 
The Photo Review, Gallery 1401, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA

2008  
82nd Annual International Competition: Photography, Print Center, Philadelphia, PA         
New Faces of Photography: 2008 PDN30, New York, NY

2007  
Document/Portrait, M97 Gallery, Shanghai, China  
Migrations, Fotofestiwal 2007, Lodz, Poland
Sinocities, Shanghai Sculpture Garden, Shanghai, China
HHS Spring 07, Jen Bekman Gallery, New York, NY
HCP Fellowship Exhibition,Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX
Among Us and Curious, Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle, WA 
Up and Now! Newspace Center for Photography, Portland OR
Twenty First Century, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO

2006
Annual, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO 
Twenty First Century, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO

2005  
Urban Landscapes, Lianzhou International Photo Festival, Lianzhou, China
Border Crossing, Taipei Artist Village and Tainan University of the Arts, Taiwan
Simplified Characters, Shanghai High Noon Culture Centre, Shanghai, China

1998  
John Ehrenclou, Keith Miller, Daniel Traub, SVA MFA Photography & Related Media Thesis Exhibition, Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY  

1995  
Ancestors, Asian American Arts Center and Kenkeleba Gallery, New York, NY
Selected Public Collections
Free Library of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Margulies Collection at the Warehouse, Miami, FL
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA