Daniel Terna

EDUCATION
2015   MFA International Center of Photography-Bard College, New York, NY
2009   BA Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson NY
2007   Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, Israel (Fall Semester)

SOLO TO THREE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2024 The Terrain, Jack Barrett, New York, NY
2023 A Memorial to Commemoration, Told Through Film Stills, St. Ottilien Archabbey, Eresing, Bavaria, DE
2022   New Power Feeling, Jack Barrett, New York, NY
2020   Fred and Rebecca, Guertin’s Graphics, Red Hook, NY
2019   Daniel Terna & Evan Whale, LY Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2019   Place/Image/Object, Anna Plesset, Fred Terna, and Daniel Terna, Jack Barrett, New York, NY
2015   Annual Juried Competition and Exhibition, Rehan Miskci, Joseph Desler-Costa, and Daniel Terna, Baxter St. at CCNY, New York, NY
2015   We Buy Gold, Home Movies, and Other Pictures, ICP-Bard MFA Studios, Queens, NY
2014   Kidding, The Wild Project, New York, NY
2012   Shadowline, Mekko Harjo and Daniel Terna, 321 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2009   I’ll See You on the Beach, Woods Gallery, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025   The Outwin 2025: American Portraiture Today, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Museum, Washington, D.C.
2024   Means of Production, Sheerly Touch-Ya and Shisanwu warehouse, organized by Lunch Hour Collective, Glendale, NY
2023   health/care, Beard and Weil Galleries, Wheaton College, Wheaton, MA
2023   Wishing Well, Parker Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2023   Material/Inheritance, Jewish Museum of Maryland, curated by Leora Fridman, Baltimore, MD
2021   Transitions: Festival of Contemporary Jewish Arts, Organized by Dagesh, Berlin, DE
2020   The House That Jack Built, curated by Anna Hugo and Roxanne Yamins, Amagansett, Long Island
2019   Summer Group Show (Pop Up), New Jewish Culture Fellowship, Soloway Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2018   Crane Game, Cul de Sac, Brooklyn, NY
2018   Salon ACME, Mexico City, MX
2018   Progeny!, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY
2017   Notas al Futuro, Galeria Breve, Mexico City, MX
2017   Known Unknowns, 86 Orchard St, New York, NY
2017   Beach Sessions Fundraiser, Black and White Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2016   High Summer, Foley Gallery, New York, NY
2015   Camera Club of New York’s Annual Benefit Auction, Affirmation Arts Gallery, New York, NY
2015   We Got Divorced, 156 Freeman Street, Brooklyn, NY
2015   Advanced Master Remix, Baxter St. at the Camera Club of NY, New York, NY
2015   This One’s For You, International Center of Photography, New York, NY
2014   New Wight Biennial, UCLA New Wight Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2014   Camera Club of New York’s Annual Benefit Auction, Affirmation Arts Gallery, New York, NY
2014   BRIC Biennial, BRIC Arts Media, Brooklyn, NY
2014   Call + Response + Response, Photoville, Brooklyn, NY
2014   The American South, Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, GA
2014   Living Los Sures, Ildiko Butler Gallery, Fordham University, New York, NY
2014   Feast Day, ICP-Bard MFA Studios, Queens, NY
2014   9/50 Summit, Atlanta Contemporary Arts Center, Atlanta, GA
2014   We Got Married, 145 Sackett Street, Brooklyn, NY
2014   Inaugural, 321 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2013   Fishing in the Dark, Violet’s Café, Brooklyn, NY
2013   Table Dive, Side Effects Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2013   Looking In/Looking Out, Bronx Art Space, Bronx, NY
2013   Rising Waters: Photographs of Sandy, Museum of the City of New York, New York, NY
2012   Flat Out, Art Currents Institute, New York, NY
2011   Summer Salon, Rabbithole Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2011   Almost Down, Gallery Tayuta, Tokyo, JP
2011   UnionDocs Collaborative Group Show, Brooklyn, NY

SOLO AND GROUP SCREENINGS
2023   First Hand: The Art of Documenting Holocaust Survivors, Greenpoint Shul, Brooklyn, NY
2023 Three Short Films by Daniel Terna, Ellie Lobovits, and Adam Golfer, screening by the New Jewish Culture Fellowship, Union Temple House, Brooklyn, NY
2022   Spring Salon, The Workshop, Jewish Theological Seminary, New York, NY
2020   Home Movies and My First Wife Stella, Screening, Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles, CA
2016   Greater New York, MoMA PS1, Queens, NY
2015   UnionDocs Collaborative Projects, Spectacle Theater, Brooklyn, NY
2015   CKTV, Red Bull Studios, New York, NY
2015   Slideluck LA VII, The Space, Los Angeles, CA
2014   Convergence, New York Film Festival, New York, NY
2014   Slideluck NYC XVIII, Photoville, Brooklyn, NY
2013   Aberrations of Time, 14 Lilienblum Street, Tel Aviv, IL
2013   7th Annual Red Hook Film Festival, Brooklyn Waterfront Artist’s Coalition, Brooklyn, NY
2013   Distrital 2013, District Film Festival, Mexico City, MX
2013   Video Dumbo, Eyebeam, New York, NY
2012   ExDox, Cologne Art and Moving Image Awards, Cologne, DE
2012   Endless Plain, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
2012   Our Haus, Austrian Cultural Forum, New York, NY
2012   End Tymes Fest, Outpost Artist Resources, Brooklyn, NY
2012   Videorover: Season 3, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
2012   Videorover: Season 3, Manhattan Neighborhood Network, New York, NY
2012   Videorover: Season 3, Nurture Art Gallery at IndieScreen Cine Club, Brooklyn, NY
2011   UnionDocs’ Looking at Los Sures, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridge, MA
2011   Visible Evidence, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, New York, NY

BOOKS
2018   From Several Angles Over Several Days, Published by ROMAN NVMERALS
2016   Bedstuy Gates, Zine with Flamingo Publications
2014   Before After, by Michael Kugler and Daniel Terna, Self-Published
2014   Yearbook, Self-Published
2014   Climbing Things, Self-Published
2014   Pictures Not Used, Artist Book
2012   Help Yourself to Feel at Home, Self-Published
2009   I’ll See You on the Beach, Self-Published 

BOOK FAIRS
2024   Printed Matter’s New York Art Book Fair, New York, NY
2023   Notas al Futuro, Artist’s Book Section, International Art Fair of Bogotá, (ArtBo), CO
2022   ICP Photobook Fest, International Center of Photography, New York, NY
2019   Notas al Futuro, Macizo Book Fair, Espacio El Dorado, Bogotá, CO
2019 Notas al Futuro, “REFLEXIÓN Y REFRACCIÓN,” ArtBo, curated by Relámpago, Colferias, Bogotá, CO
2019   Printed Matter’s New York Art Book Fair, MoMA PS1, Queens, NY
2019   Notas al Futuro, Libros Unidos at ArtBo, organized by NADA (Colombia), Bogotá, CO
2018   Notas al Futuro, Macizo Book Fair, Espacio El Dorado, Bogotá, CO
2018   Odds and Ends Book Fair, Yale University, New Haven, CT
2018   Lower East Side Book Fair, Foley Gallery, New York, NY
2018   Printed Matter’s New York Art Book Fair, MoMA PS1, Queens, NY
2017   Cultural Fair, Hester Street Market, New York, NY
2017   Printed Matter’s New York Art Book Fair, MoMA PS1, Queens, NY
2016   Printed Matter’s New York Art Book Fair, MoMA PS1, Queens, NY
2015   Printed Matter’s New York Art Book Fair, MoMA PS1, Queens, NY
2014   Printed Matter’s New York Art Book Fair, MoMA PS1, Queens, NY

RESIDENCIES
2023 Freedom, Tolerance, and Truth Artist Residency, the Bavarian Benedictine Archabbey of St. Ottlien, Eresing, Bavaria, DE
2018 Asylum Arts, Artist Retreat, The Garrison Institute, Garrison, NY
2013   Cuts and Burns Residency, Outpost Artist Resources, Ridgewood, NY
2011   UnionDocs Collaborative Residency, Brooklyn

AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
2024 The Workshop, Alumni Cohort, New York, NY
2021 The Workshop, Jewish Theological Seminary, New York, NY
2019 Asylum Arts Small Grant Recipient
2019 LensCulture Portrait Awards, Finalist
2018 The New Jewish Cultural Fellowship, Brooklyn, NY
2015   Annual Juried Competition Winner, Baxter St. at the Camera Club of NY
2014   Camera Club of NY, Honorable Mention
2013   Director’s Fellowship, ICP-Bard
2011   OK. Video Flesh, National Gallery of Indonesia, 5th Jakarta Int’l Video Festival, Shortlist

TEACHING ENGAGEMENTS AND LECTURES
2024 Artist Lecture and Studio Visit, Summer Institute Internship Program, Jewish Museum, New York, NY
2023 Walkthrough of Stéphane Mandelbaum Exhibition with Laura Hoptman, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
2023 Visiting Assistant Professor, Pratt BFA Photography, Brooklyn, NY, Fall Semester
2023 Artist Lecture, Virtual Summer Institute, Jewish Museum, New York, NY
2023 Visiting Artist, Two-Day Photo Workshop, Bronfman Fellowship, Pearlstone Retreat Center, Reisterstown, MD
2023 Visiting Assistant Professor, Pratt BFA Photography, Brooklyn, NY, Spring Semester
2023 Artist Lecture, School of Visual Arts, Instructor: Joseph Desler Costa, New York, NY
2022 Artist Lecture, Virtual Summer Institute, Jewish Museum, New York, NY
2022 Guest Critic, Fashion Institute of Technology, Instructor: Lia Lowenthal, Brooklyn, NY
2021 Guest Critic, Fashion Institute of Technology, Instructor: Lia Lowenthal, Brooklyn, NY
2020 Artist Lecture, Pratt Institute, Instructor: Carissa Rodriguez, Brooklyn, NY
2020 Gallerist Lecture, Pratt Institute, Instructor: Maria Baker, Brooklyn, NY
2020 Artist Lecture with Fred Terna, Museum of Jewish Heritage, New York, NY
2019 Artist Lecture, Stern College, Yeshiva University, Instructor: Kat Shannon, New York, NY
2019 Gallerist Lecture, Pratt Institute, Instructor: Miranda Lichtenstein, Brooklyn, NY
2019 Artist Lecture, “Monuments,” Parlor Talks, Brooklyn, NY
2018 Gallerist Lecture, Pratt Institute, Instructor: Matt Leifheit, Brooklyn, NY
2018 Artist Lecture, Nomadique Artist Workshop Dinner, Brooklyn, NY
2017 Artist Lecture, Marble Hill Camera Club, Gotscheer Hall, Ridgewood, NY
2016 Artist Lecture, School of Visual Arts Undergrad Photography Department, Instructor: Jordan Schaps, New York, NY
2016 Gallerist Lecture, Pratt MFA Photography, Instructor: Allen Frame, Brooklyn, NY
2015 Gallerist Lecture, Pratt MFA Photography, Instructor: Allen Frame Brooklyn, NY
2015 Artist Lecture and Critic, ICP General Certificate Program, Instructor: Josh Lutz, New York, NY
2015 Artist Lecture with Fred Terna, moderated by Theresia Enzensberger, Berlin, DE

INTERVIEWS
2022 Artists’ Voices: Theresienstadt and Creative Resistance, produced by The Jewish Museum, October
2020 Interview by Judit Flora Schuller, Punkt Magazine, June
2019   321 Gallery, by Michael Bullock, Apartamento Magazine, Issue 24, November
2018 Things We Can Relate To, Interview by Cat Lachowskyj, LensCulture, September
2018 Museum of Non-Visible Art, by Brainard Carey, Yale University Radio WYBCX
2017   From Several Angles, Over Several Days, by Laura Braverman, Still Magazine, November
2017 36 Under 36: Preserving Memory and a Father’s Legacy, by Tova Ross, The New York Jewish Week, May 25
2017 Holocaust Survivor & His Son Bridge their Generations, and Create Political Art, by Ro Johnson, BRIC TV, February 17
2016   Daniel Terna, by Groana Melendez and Martha Naranjo Sandoval, Baxter St. at CCNY Blog, December
2015   The Case of the Missing Jewels, by John Leland, The New York Times, September
2013 My First Wife Stella, by The Ripple Project, January
2010   Daniel Terna, by Romke Hoogwaerts, Mossless Magazine Blog, February

FEATURES AND REVIEWS (PRINT)
2024  “Provenance Research,” prompt:, edited by Nicole Kaack and Mira Dayal
2024   “Neigh-Sayers,” Oranbeg Press
2023  Romi Löbhard, Landsberger Tagblatt, “What a photographer from Brooklyn experienced in St. Ottilien,” August 28
2022   Spotz and Racquet Magazine, “Tennis in NYC,” Zine, August
2019   Spotz Magazine, Pix Portfolio issue 008: Eugene Atget, November
2019 Will Heinrich, "What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week," New York Times, January 30
2017   Still Magazine, Issue 5, July
2016   Unseen Magazine, Amsterdam’s Unseen Photo Fair & Festival, Issue 3, August
2015   Time Travel, Issue 7, Conveyor Magazine, September
2015   John Leland, The Case of the Missing Jewels, The New York Times, September
2015   Shift 10, International Center of Photography
2015   BIAS Journal of Dress Practice, Issue 3
2014   Interleaves II, Oranbeg Press
2014   From Here On, Aint Bad Editions, March
2014   AM SCHMIDT: Fierce (Untitled), Essay by Daniel Terna
2014   My First Wife Stella, Block Magazine, Issue 1
2013   My First Wife Stella, Big Big Wednesday, Issue 1
2012   Open to Interpretation: Intimate Landscapes

FEATURES AND REVIEWS (ONLINE)
2024   “Inventory Shots, 2019-2023,” Pearl Press, Issue 21: Self-Portrait 2, edited by Delilah Twersky, June
2022   “Isaac and Abraham,” Pearl Press, Issue 14: Self-Portrait 1, edited by Delilah Twersky, December
2021   “Inauguration,” Aint Bad Magazine, March
2021   “Fred,” Ayin Press, Issue 1: Tardema, February
2021   “Crates,” Pearl Press, Issue 3: High Seas, edited by Delilah Twersky, January
2019 “Sci-Fi Mosquitos & Smoke: 7 Cinematic Exhibitions Around the Globe,” Cultured Magazine, February 22
2019 Louis Block, “The Past Pushes Forward in an Exhibition About Memory,” Hyperallergic, February 13
2019 Will Heinrich, "What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week," New York Times, January 30
2018 Cat Lachowskyj, “Things We Can Relate To,” LensCulture, September
2017   Jeff Rich, “The Instillation of Nationalism,” Oxford American Magazine, February
2017   “Inauguration Day,” Aint Bad Magazine, February
2016   Buffalo Zine #4, Dazed Digital, November
2016   Buffalo Zine #4, Magculture.com, October
2016   jpg-jpg-jpg.com, July
2016   Artist Feature and Guest Blogger, Der Greif Online, February
2015   John Leland, “The Case of the Missing Jewels,” The New York Times, September
2015   Photographer of the Week #100, Capricious Blog, September
2015   Landscape Stories #21: Crime, Online, September
2015   “51 Uncanny Photographers to Follow on Instagram,” Humble Arts Foundation Blog, July
2015   Advanced Master Remix at CCNY, Musee Magazine, Online, July
2015   Jon Feinstein, “Six Promising MFA Photography Grads,” Humble Arts Foundation Blog, June
2015   Jeremy Haik, “Oranbeg Press: DIY Done Right,” Baxter St. Blog, April
2015   “My First Wife Stella,” Mutantspace.com, February
2015   Der Greif, Guest Curator: Ingo Taubhorn, January 21
2014   Bomb Shelters, Israel, Il Post
2014   Jordan G. Teicher, “The Surprising Calm of Israel’s Many Bomb Shelters,” Slate.com
2014   Elena Vaninetti, “My First Wife Stella,” Yet Magazine Online
2014   Bastards!, Oranbeg Press, Online
2014   The American South, Aint Bad Magazine, Online, August
2013   Jacob Schraer, My First Wife Stella in Big Big Wednesday, Portland Mercury, July
2012   Jessie Wender, Open House: Inside Brooklyn’s Photo Studios, New Yorker Photo Blog, August


NEW YORK TIMES EDITORIALS AND COMMISSIONS
2023 Reggie Nadelson, “The Luncheonette Serving New York’s Best Egg Creams” New York Times Style Magazine, November
2023 Juan A. Ramírez, “Danielle Brooks and Sam Jay on Confidence and ‘The Color Purple’” New York Times Style Magazine, November
2023 Evan Moffitt, “What Happens When an Artist’s Technology Becomes Obsolete?” New York Times Style Magazine, October
2023 Christopher Kuo, “Inside New York’s Least Competitive Bowling League,” New York Times Style Magazine, October
2023 Lauren Joseph, “Caviar Gets Even More Refined,” New York Times Style Magazine, August
2023 Juan A. Ramírez, “Willy Chavarria and Omar Apollo on Faith and Heartbreak,” New York Times Style Magazine, May
2023 Reggie Nadelson, “The Sweets Shop in Queens That Evokes an Old-World Confectionery,” New York Times Style Magazine, April
2023   Alice Newell-Hanson, “The Italian Designers Who Reinvented the Sofa Are Still Sitting on Top,” New York Times Style Magazine, February
2023 Robin Pogrebin, “A Curator Unbound,” The New York Times, January
2023   Kate Guadagnino, “A Dinner Party With Soap-Shaped Chocolate Bars for Dessert,” New York Times Style Magazine, January
2022   Reggie Nadelson, “The New York Bakery Where Frank Sinatra Liked to Buy Pastries,” New York Times Style Magazine, December
2022   Gillian Brassil, “A Brooklyn Artist Crafting Perforated Furniture,” New York Times Style Magazine, October
2022 Alexandra Horowitz, “When Your Dog Is a Teenager,” New York Times Opinion, September
2022   Juan A. Ramírez, “The First and Only Grocery Store in Fire Island Pines,” New York Times Style Magazine, July
2022   Nick Haramis, “In All That He Does, Gaetano Pesce Looks to Counteract Sameness,” New York Times Style Magazine, Travel Issue, May
2022   Michael Snyder, “A New Wave of Plant-Based Mexican Cooking,” New York Times Style Magazine, Men’s Fashion Spring Issue, March
2022   Reggie Nadelson, “Where New York’s Pasta Lovers Go to Stock Their Cupboards,” New York Times Style Magazine, January
2021   Op-Ed, “When I will be Old, Maybe. But Now, I Feel Myself Young,” New York Times Opinion, December
2021   Dan Piepenbring, Kurt Soller, Amiel Stanek, Korsha Wilson, “The 25 Essential Dishes to Eat in New York City,” New York Times Style Magazine, December
2021   Reggie Nadelson, “An Ice-Cream Parlor Where Time Stands Still,” New York Times Style Magazine, October
2021 Megan Conway, “At Coach, an Eclectic Paean to New York Cool,” New York Times Style Magazine, September
2021 Reggie Nadelson, “The Eternal Charm of Nathan’s Famous Hot-Dog Stand,” New York Times Style Magazine, August
2021 Reggie Nadelson, “The New Yorker’s Go-To for Spices and So Much More,” New York Times Style Magazine, July
2015   John Leland, The Case of the Missing Jewels, The New York Times, September


EDITORIALS AND COMMISSIONS
2022   Tim Groen, “Sebastian ErraZuriz’ Expression of Ideas,” NUVO Magazine, Issue 94, Autumn
2022   “Truth in Gay Clothes, or Gagarin’s Space Suit,” Ayin Press, Issue 2: The Holy Fool, May
2022   Marko Gluhaich, “Rose Salane’s Glittering Investigation of NYC Bus Riders,” Frieze Magazine, Issue 227, May
2020   Jesse Dorris, “Hot Spots,” Pin-UP Magazine, Issue 29, Fall/Winter
2019 Emily Segal, “Rich Aybar Makes Furniture and Documentary,” Pin-Up Magazine, December
2019   Michael Bullock, “321 Gallery,” Apartamento Magazine, Issue 24, November
2019   Andrew Pasquier, “Nightlife Architecture,” Pin-Up Magazine, Issue 27, Fall/Winter
2019   “Nicotine Likes,” Nicotine Magazine, Issue 5, November
2019 Maxwell Williams, “New Kids on the Blocks,” Cultured Magazine, July
2018   Cover Photo, Jewish Currents, Fall Issue
2018   The World of Apartamento, by Nacho Alegre, Omar Sosa, and Marco Velardi, Published by Abrams Books
2017   Dan Fox, “Whitney Biennial 2017,” Frieze Magazine, Issue 187, May
2017   Leah Singer, “Barbara Neesim,” Apartamento Magazine, Issue 19, April
2017 Jack Hitt, “The Circle Is Now Complete,” Virginia Quarterly Review, January
2016   Buffalo Zine, Issue 4, October
2016 Liz Arnold, “Inside Nomia Designer, Yara Flinn’s Brooklyn Home,” Nylon Magazine, September
2016   Michael Bullock, “The Spectrum,” Apartamento Magazine, Issue 17, May
2015   Beach Sessions, Rockaway Beach Dance Series, September
2015   Doubling, Rockaway Summer, Online, August

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DANIEL TERNA
Lives in Brooklyn, New York
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