Student Lecture Series: Daniel Gordon

Thursday, April 14, 2016, 6:30 - 6:30pm

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This event is open only to current Cooper Union students, faculty, and staff.

Daniel Gordon (b. 1980 Boston, MA; raised in San Francisco, California, USA) earned a Bachelor of Arts from Bard College in 2004, and a Master of Fine Arts from the Yale School of Art in 2006. His notable group exhibitions include New Photography 2009 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and Greater New York 2010 at MoMA PS1. He is the Author of Still Lifes, Portraits, and Parts (Mörel, 2013), Flowers and Shadows (Onestar Press, 2011) and Flying Pictures (powerHouse Books, 2009). He is the winner of the 2014 Foam Paul Huf award, and exhibited his work in a solo exhibition at the museum in 2014. Gordon has been a critic in photography at the Yale School of Art. He lives and works in Brooklyn.

The School of Architecture Student Lecture Series is made possible through a generous contribution to the School of Architecture Dean’s Circle by Elsie Jaffe and Jeffrey Brown.

Lecture in room 315F at 6:30PM

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