DAN THOMPSON

Dan Thompson was born in Alexandria, Virginia, and graduated from the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, DC.  He earned his MFA from the Graduate School of Figurative Art of the New York Academy of Art (NYAA) and supplemented his training with several additional years of private study and studio apprenticeships along the east coast of the United States.

He has been awarded multiple grants and prestigious awards, including from the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation, the Salmagundi Club and the Corcoran College of Art and Design. In 2001, Thompson won Best of Show in the American Society of Portrait Artist’s International Portrait Competition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

Thompson has co-founded two schools in Manhattan: the Grand Central Academy of Art (2006) and the Janus Collaborative School of Art (2008). He has instructed at Studio 126 in New York, the Art Students League of New York, the National Academy School, and Parsons the New School for Design. Thompson has served as Dean of Fine Arts, Faculty Chair, and Curriculum Specialist. He has designed educational programming by exploring a convergence between art and medicine.

Dan Thompson has been selected an ARC Living Master Artist.

He has been exhibited in public and private collections throughout the world, including the Eleanor Ettinger Gallery, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the University of Pennsylvania, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the John Noble Museum, the Pasadena Museum of California Art, the National Arts Club, the United States Capitol and Beijing’s World Art Museum.