Daniel Canogar Spain, b. 1964

Daniel Canogar was born in 1964 in Madrid, Spain, to a Spanish father and an American mother, and his life and career have consistently bridged Spain and the United States. He received his MA from New York University at the International Center of Photography in 1990, with photography as his earliest medium of choice. He soon became drawn to the possibilities of the projected image and installation art, a shift that would define the trajectory of his practice. From the moment he first stepped into a dark room as a teenager, the interplay of light and shadow has remained a pulse running through his work, even as the technologies he employs have grown increasingly complex and expansive.

Canogar's practice strives to understand the immense impact of technology on society, culture, and the human psyche. Whether working with fibre optics, scanning heaps of discarded consumer electronics, or weaving generative algorithms into visual tapestries, he probes the intersection of photography, technology, and installation art. His work has taken him to unexpected places: studying ancient Peruvian textiles in Lima's Amano Collection, collaborating with scientists in cosmology and biology, and exhibiting in a Portuguese salt mine and a panoptic prison in Montevideo. Data is both his raw material and his subject: he draws on real-time streams from natural phenomena, the lifespan of obsolete hardware, and the flow of collective consciousness online to build works that ask how we consume, process, and are shaped by the digital world. Key works include Wayward (2022), a 4K generative video work; Tendril (2017), a permanent public installation at Tampa International Airport; Pulsation (2021), the first outdoor digital artwork created for the Serena Williams Building at Nike's World Headquarters in Oregon; and Dynamo (2021), a site-specific audiovisual project for the Spanish Pavilion at Expo Dubai, produced in collaboration with composer Francisco López.

Canogar's works are held in the permanent collections of LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art), the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid, and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. He has exhibited widely at major institutions worldwide, including The Prado Museum in Madrid, The Phillips Collection in Washington D.C., the ZKM Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, the Hamburger Bahnhof Museum in Berlin, the Borusan Contemporary Museum in Istanbul, the American Museum of Natural History in New York, the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, the Mattress Factory Museum in Pittsburgh, the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio, and the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in Düsseldorf.

Beyond his artistic practice, Canogar is a committed educator. Since 2010 he has been an associate professor in the Architecture Program at IE University in Madrid, and he teaches in the Curatorial Studies Program at the University of Navarra in Pamplona. In 2024 he was appointed as a permanent Academic Member of the San Fernando Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid. KORNFELD Galerie Berlin presented Daniel Canogar in the solo exhibition Reverberations, organised in collaboration with Galerie Anita Beckers, Frankfurt, in 2021, and has since presented his work at Art Dubai and ARCO Madrid.