Dan Ferro · Exhibitions
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Permanent Collections
· EMC Insurance Companies, Des Moines, Iowa
· Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa
· Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Illinois
· Private collectors


Selected Exhibitions
2020

"What Does Democracy Look Like?", Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Illinois. October 1 through December 23.
"MoCP invited seven Columbia College Chicago professors from various departments to use the museum's permanent collection to respond to the questions of what democracy means to them, while considering photography's relationship to current and historical events." marks from the cooked series was used in this exhibition.
2009
Midwest Photographers Project, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Illinois.
"Serving as a postscript to the MP3, Volume Two exhibition, the works exhibited here ... remind us that while photographs may function as visual traces of the world around us, they are also products of the photographer's subjective eye and allow for a wide range of individual interpretations."
2007
Solo: new work, Phoenix Café & Inn, Grinnell, Iowa

2006
Solo: string series, Phoenix Café & Inn, Grinnell, Iowa

Midwest Photographers Project - subtext series, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Illinois
"The torn paper's jagged edges and veins of color sometimes resemble cave paintings, sometimes mountain peaks, breaking waves, or dancing flames. While hard lines and soft textures build formal interest, angled perspectives give depth to the planar surface, further shifting the layered strips from their original context."

Kendra Greene
Manager of Collections
Museum of Contemporary Photography
Solo: salvage series, Phoenix Café & Inn, Grinnell, Iowa

Real People, Real Time: A Search for Truth in America, Simpson College Farnham Gallery, Indianola, Iowa

8th Annual All Media Exhibition, Touchstone Gallery, Washington D.C.

2005
Footcandles: History & Process in Contemporary Photography, Indiana State University Art Gallery, Terre Haute, Indiana

Color III International Exhibition, Period Gallery, Omaha, Nebraska

Place(meant): Recent Photography from the Midwest, Central Michigan University Art Gallery, Mount Pleasant, Michigan

Image International 2004, Photo Life Magazine, Toronto, Ontario Canada

7th Annual All Media Juried Exhibition, Touchstone Gallery, Washington D.C.

Solo: subtext series, Grinnell Regional Medical Center, Grinnell, Iowa

Photographic Process VII International Exhibition, Period Gallery, Omaha, Nebraska

2004
cookedCafé series, Phoenix Café & Inn, Grinnell, Iowa

Beyond the Obvious, Stepping Stone Gallery, Huntington, New York

Year of the Arts & Humanities, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa

Abstraction VII International Exhibition, Period Gallery, Omaha, Nebraska

graffito series, Phoenix Café & Inn, Grinnell, Iowa

6th Annual All Media Juried Exhibition, Touchstone Gallery, Washington D.C.

2003
The Altered Image: Digital Photography in the Midwest, Custom Surfaces Gallery, West Branch, Iowa

Midwest Photographers Project - "cooked" series, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Illinois

Solo: thickPaint & cooked series, Grinnell Community Art Gallery, Grinnell, Iowa

Color I International Exhibition, Period Gallery, Omaha, Nebraska

Digitized Computer Art Show, Fulton Street Gallery, Troy, New York

Photographic Processes V International Exhibition, Period Gallery, Omaha, Nebraska

2002
Solo: subtext series, Phoenix Café & Inn, Grinnell, Iowa


Awards
· Honorable Mention, Image International, Photo Life Magazine, Toronto, Ontario Canada
· Special Recognition, Contemporary VI International Exhibition, Period Gallery, Omaha, Nebraska
· Special Recognition, Photographic Process VI International Exhibition, Period Gallery, Omaha, Nebraska
· Special Recognition, Abstraction VI International Exhibition, Period Gallery, Omaha, Nebraska
· Special Recognition, Realism V International Exhibition, Period Gallery, Omaha, Nebraska