Daniel Crooks

Born 1973, Hastings, New Zealand; lives and works in Melbourne. Daniel Crooks completed a Bachelor of Design at the Auckland Institute of Technology, New Zealand, in 1993 and a Postgraduate Diploma of Animation at the Victorian College of the Arts in 1994. Recent solo exhibitions include Everywhere Instantly, Christchurch Art Gallery, New Zealand, 2008; Remapping, Two Rooms Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand, and Anna Schwartz Gallery, Sydney, 2012; Daniel Crooks, Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art, Adelaide, in collaboration with the Adelaide Film Festival, 2013; and A Garden of Parallel Paths, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, 2013. Major recent group exhibitions include Move on Asia, Tate Modern, London, 2010; Marking Time, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; and Parallel Collisions: 2012 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Art Gallery of South Australia. In 2008 Crooks was the recipient of the inaugural Basil Sellers Art Prize, Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne.