About danhays.net
This website showcases print editions based on my paintings. Created in March 2025, it is responding to an accelerating stream of enquiries about prints from people who have possibly encountered my work in galleries and (more probably) online through various platforms like Instagram.
danhays.org is my main website. It was established in 2008 as I commenced my PhD in Fine Art at Kingston University. The design remains defiantly anachronistic - unchanged from when I constructed it without a readymade template. Viewing it on a phone is possibly an unfamiliar or frustrating experience as it doesn’t respond to different screen sizes. For now I am keeping it running, fond of its old-fangled style (which it embraced from the outset, using the old Courier font). Works and projects stretching back to the 1990s are profiled, along with various commentaries, biographical details and my PhD publication Screen as Landscape. Happily, it’s a bit of a sprawling mess. However, this is unlikely to imbue confidence in its functionality as a sales platform.
This new print editions venture is something I have sometimes thought about, but resisted doing. Surely, my main job should be painting - not spending time producing archival prints and designing a new website?!
I have made several print editions over the years, such as screen prints and lenticulars, yet these were art works in their own right - not simply photographic reproductions of paintings. But then, as I have discovered, producing digital ‘copies’ is a complex process, involving decisions about size and supposed truth to the original painting, especially when translating a large painting to a smaller scale. To make them work as prints, fine adjustments of lighting, tone and colour are necessary. Also, the process encourages me to write more about the old paintings, reminding me of past experiments that might harbour forgotten possibilities.
Each edition will only be available in one size, and - if possible - formatted to standard picture frame sizes to help reduce additional costs to the purchaser. Edition numbers will be relatively large to increase affordability and reduce exclusivity - a sadly unavoidable property of paintings.*
danhays.net is at the trial stage, so I’m starting with just one print edition to see how it goes. The prints are expertly produced by theprintspace who faciltate payments, packing and shipping through their creativehub, which is linked to this website on Squarespace.
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Please give feedback on your ‘customer experience’ - good or bad. It’s weird not being in control of everything!
Dan
*To be clear: this sales platform is not for paintings or other unique artworks. These sales are made through exhibiting galleries. Direct studio sales are not entertained - likewise, commissions - unless they’re too creatively interesting to ignore.
Dan Hays
1966 Born in London.
1987-90 BA Fine Art, Goldsmith’s College, London.
2008-12 PhD in Fine Art, Kingston University.
Lives and works in London.
Solo Exhibitions
2022
Paysages Fugitifs/Fugitive Landscapes, Galerie Richard, Paris.
2017
The Walk to the Paradise Garden, Broadway Studio & Gallery, Letchworth Garden City.
2015
Interstate, Christine Park Gallery, London.
2011
Screen as Landscape, Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston University.
2009
Failing Light, Zürcher Studio, New York.
2007
Across the Water, The Nunnery, London.
Deliverance, Void Gallery, Derry.
2006
Impressions of Colorado, Manchester Art Gallery, Southampton City Art Gallery, Djanogly Gallery, Nottingham.
Twilight in the Wilderness, Platform, London.
2004
Colorado Pioneers, Galerie Zürcher, Paris, France.
2002
Colorado, Entwistle Gallery, London.
2001
Junge Kunst e.V. Wolfsburg, Germany.
2000
Entwistle Gallery, London.
Project (No.2), slide installation, CSKX, London.
1999
Galerie Zürcher, Paris, France.
1998
30 Underwood Street, London.
1996
Laure Genillard Gallery, London.
1992
Flock, Alternative Art Gallery, Soho, London.
1991
Silent Partner, The Coffee Shak, Lewisham, London.
Abandon, The Arched Space, Clapham, London.
Group Exhibitions
2025
Flowers - Flora in Contemprary Art & Culture, Saatchi Gallery, London.
2023
Arcadia for All, Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery, University of Leeds. Touring to Attenborough Arts Centre, University of Leicester.
The Subversive Landscape, Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens, Cornwall.
2022
Peinture : obsolescence déprogrammée. Licences libres. Musée de l’Hospice Saint-Roch, Issoudun, France.
2021
Peinture: obsolescence déprogrammée, Le musée d'art moderne et contemporain des Sables d'Olonne, France.
The Long Echo, Terrace Gallery, London.
In Bloom, Saatchi Gallery, London.
2020 Arcadia, Peter von Kant, London.
Then & Now, Terrace Gallery, London.
It's Gonna Rain, Coombs Contemporary, London.
Tell me the story of all these things, Firstsite, Colchester.
2019
It's Gonna Rain, Coombs Contemporary, London.
Zombies, Peter von Kant, London.
Fully Awake, Edinburgh College of Art.
There's Something About Painting, Tatjana Pieters Gallery, Ghent, Belgium.
2018
In the Future, Collyer Bristow Gallery, London.
"Is This Planet Earth?". Tŷ Pawb, Wrexham, Wales. Touring to Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Wales, and Ferens Art Gallery, Hull in 2019.
BiblioTECH: from bookshelf to big data. The Portico Library, Manchester.
Pattern and Decoration. Ornament as Promise. Ludvig Forum Aachen, Germany.
2017
Painting, Drawing and the Digital. Syposium and exhibition, University of Northampton.
2016
The Kennington Residency, London.
The Arborealsists, St Barbe Museum & Art Gallery, Lymington.
Seeing Round Corners, Turner Contmeporary, Margate.
A Lot of Things Have Happened, Malaspina Printmakers, Vancouver, Canada.
2015
Borderlands, Albus 3 Arts, Northampton.
Winterreise, Christine Park Gallery, London.
Immediacy of Paint: The Role of painting in the Digital Age. Symposium and group exhibition, Waterfront Gallery, University Campus Suffolk, Ipswich.
The Places We Go, APT Gallery, London.
2014
Arboretum: The Art of Trees; the Arborealists and other Artists, The Royal West of England Academy, Bristol.
/seconds, Sharja Art Foundation, United Arab Emirates.
Enclosure, Danielle Arnaud, London.
Painting the Pixel, Gallery North, Northumbria University, Newcastle.
Ghost on the Wire, Bermondsey Project Space, London.
Under the Greenwood: Picturing British Trees, Gerald Moore Gallery, London.
(detail), H-Project Space, Bangkok, Thailand. Touring to Transition Gallery, London and Usher Gallery, Lincoln.
Romantic Possibilities in Modern Flats, Exhibition 17, Glasgow Open House Art Festival.
2013
A Machine Aesthetic, Gallery North, Northumbria University, Newcastle.
Under the Greenwood: Picturing British Trees, St. Barbe Museum and Art Gallery, Lymington.
Digital Sensation, Baltic 39, Newcastle.
Summer Saloon Show, Lion & Lamb, London.
Viewfinder, Tim Sheward Projects, London.
Beasts of England, Beasts of Ireland, Visual Centre for Contemporary Art, Carlow, Ireland.
Dirty Pop, & Model, Leeds.
Witnessing the Wilderness, Wimbledon Space, Wimbledon Art College.
2012
Film in Space, Camden Arts Centre, London.
Untitled Repetition, curated by Fieldgate, Angus Hughes Gallery, London.
Ha Ha - What Does This Represent? Standpoint Gallery, London.
Techno Nature, Zürcher Studio, New York.
Viewfinder, Carter Presents, London.
Minderwertig Gemälde, Galeria Cadaqés, Spain.
2011
Like Paint, with Peter Klare, LoBe, Berlin.
2010
Super Natural, Charlie Dutton Gallery, London.
A Bright and Guilty Place, Payne Shurvell Gallery, London.
2009
Parallel Lines, with Marie Søndergaard Lolk & Allan Otte, Galleri Tom Christoffersen, Copenhagen.
Compendium, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin.
2008
Personalised Surface: work in progress, Camberwell College of Art Gallery, London
Close to the Surface: Digital Presence, ICA, London.
Embedded, Gimpel Fils, London.
Garden of the Sleep of Love, Five Years, London.
Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks, Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen.
End Game — British Contemporary Art from the Chaney Family Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA.
2007
In Monet’s Garden – The Lure of Giverny, Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio, USA; Musée Marmottan, Paris.
Still-Life, Still, T1+2 Gallery, London.
2006
Wandering Star, Gana Art Gallery, Seoul, S. Korea.
2005
Panorama de la peinture, Centre d’art contemporain, Meymac, France.
2004
Kunming Residents, with Diego Ferrari, Up River Loft, Kunming, China.
Forest, Wolverhampton City Gallery, UK.
Open Range, Artemis Greenberg Van Doren, New York, USA.
Blow Up, St. Pauls Gallery, Birmingham, UK.
2003
Primary Colours, The City Gallery, Leicester, UK.
The Human Zoo, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle, UK.
Portal, Studio J, Osaka, Japan.
Yes! I am a long way from home, The Nunnery, London; Kent institute of
Art and Design, touring to other UK venues.
Exploring Landscape: Eight Views from Britain, Andrea Rosen, New York.
2002
Post-Digital Painting, Cranbrook Art Museum, Michigan, USA.
Unscene, Gasworks Gallery, Vauxhall, London.
Land.escape, VTO, London, UK.
View Finder, Arnolfini, Bristol.
2001
Multiplication, British Council exhibition, touring to National Museum of Art, Bucharest, Miroslav Kraljevic Gallery, Zagreb, Awagarda Gallery, Warsaw, Czech Museum of Fine Art, Prague.
Happy The World So Made, The Nunnery, London.
Uber die Zersetzung der fotografie, NGBK, Berlin, Germany.
The End Is Nigh, CSKX, London.
Quotidien Aide (Les Locataires), Ecole Superieure Des Beaux-Arts De
Tours, Tours, France.
Multiple Store travelling exhibition, New Art Centre, Roche Court, Hampshire, and The Whitechapel Gallery, London, etc.
Patterns - Between Object and the Arabesque, Kunsthallen Brandt Klaedefabrik, Odense, Denmark.
Light Box project, Hoxton Boutique, London.
The Difference Between You And Us, Five Years, London.
Tradition and Innovation, City Art Gallery, York.
2000
Serial Killers, Platform, London.
Cereal Killers, Chris Cutts Gallery, Toronto, Canada.
Fakescape, Mellow Birds, London.
1999
Untitled Painting Show, Lux Gallery, London.
Painting Lab, Entwistle Gallery, London.
Un Ecran, Le Tableau, Centre D’Art Contemporain, Parc Saint Leger, Pougues-les-Eaux, France.
1998
Welcome, Ex Manifattura, tabacchi, Citta S.Angelo, Pescare, Italy
Ark, The Travelling Gallery, City Art Centre, Edinburgh.
Enough, The Tannery, London.
Soon, Het Consortium, Amsterdam, Holland.
Puppylove, Ikon Touring, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham.
Kettle Blue, Gallerie Beaumont, Luxembourg.
Dimension Jump, Trafo Gallery, Budapest, Hungary.
Close up on pattern, Laure Genillard Gallery, London.
Dumbpop, Jerwood Gallery, London.
1997
Mystral, Laure Genillard Gallery, London.
False Impressions, The British School at Rome, Italy.
Mellow Birds, The Bean Cafe, Shoreditch, London.
Visitor, Staffordshire University, Stoke-on-Trent.
Enough, Duende, Rotterdam, Holland.
20th John Moores Liverpool Exhibition, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool.
1996
Ace!, Arts Council Collection new purchases, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle, Hayward Gallery, London, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, etc.
Fifty Quid, Derbyshire Street Studios, London.
Soon, 30 Underwood Street, london.
1995
Damien Duffy, Dan Hays, Curtain Road Arts, London.
Alternative Art Market, Spitalfields, London.
220volt Message, Hooghuis, Arnhem, Holland.
Multiple Orgasm, Lost In Space, Stockwell, London.
Melange D’Aout, Laure Genillard Gallery, London.
Sick, 152c Brick Lane, Shoreditch, London.
Ventilation, with Greg Lewis, Powis Terrace, Notting Hill, London.
Blind Field, Coventry Gallery, Shoreditch, London.
1994
Miniatures, The Agency, Shoreditch, London.
Collections
Tate Gallery
Arts Council Collection
Southampton City Gallery
Walker Art Gallery
Saatchi Collection
Frac Île-de-France
HSBC
Awards, Prizes & Residencies
2004
Residency in Kunming, China, supported by the Triangle Arts Trust and the Arts Council of England.
1997
Winner of the 20th John Moores Liverpool exhibition.
London Arts Board award to individual artists.
Studio exchange, In and out of touch, Budapest.
Publications (selected)
2015
Painting Now. Suzanne Hudson (Thames and Hudson) – featured artist.
2013
After Modernist Painting: The History of a Contemporary Art, by Craig Staff (I.B. Taurus) – featured artist.
2012
Ha Ha What Does This Represent? exhibition catalogue.
2009
The Personalised Surface – New Approaches to Digital Printmaking, V&A conference papers published by FADE, University of the Arts.
2008
Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks, exhibition catalogue.
End Game – British Art from the Chaney Family Collection, exhibition catalogue.
Far Away So Close: Marc Hulson Discusses Dan Hays’ Work, Turps Banana (issue 5).
2007
In Monet’s Garden – the Lure of Giverny, exhibition catalogue.
Painting in the Light of Digital Reproduction, essay for academic web journal Culture Machine.
2006
Impressions of Colorado, exhibition catalogue, Southampton City Art Gallery. Essay by Richard Dyer and interview with Ben Tufnell.
2004
Forest, exhibition catalogue, Wolverhampton City Gallery.
Speaking & Listening 3, Sheffield Hallam University / Site Gallery.
2003
Post-Digital painting, exhibition catalogue, Cranbrook Art Museum, USA.
Vitamin P, Phaidon Press.
2002
Shimmering Substance/View Finder, exhibition catalogue, Arnolfini, Bristol.
2001
Dan Hays, Kunstverein, Wolfsburg, Germany.
Ex Machina, Uber die Zersetzung der fotografie, NGBK, Berlin.
Patterns: Between Object and Arabesque, Kunsthallen Brandts Klædefabrik, Odense, Denmark.
2000
Dan Hays, catalogue, Entwistle, London.
1999
Un Ecran, Le Tableau, exhibition catalogue.
Dan Hays, exhibition catalogue, Gallerie Zurcher, Paris.
1998 Soon catalogue, London.
New Neurotic Realism, published by the Saatchi Gallery.
1997
False Impressions catalogue, published by The British School at Rome.
Visitor brochure, published by Staffordshire University.
John Moores Catalogue, published by the Walker Art Gallery.
Published writing
2022
Painting, Photography, and the Digital: Crossing the Borders of the Mediums. Cambridge Scholars Publishing (ed. Carl Robinson). Anthology contributor.
2016
Pastoral Idyll: Guy Sherwin’s Paper Landscape. Review for Moving Image Review & Art Journal (MIRAJ) (Volume 5 Issue 1-2).
2015
John Timberlake: We Are History, review for the Journal of Contemporary Painting (Volume 1 Number 2).
2014
Painting and Cinema - two short texts for the Journal of Contemporary Painting (Volume 1 Number 1).
2012
Screen as Landscape, PhD thesis, Centre for Useless Splendour, Kingston University.
2009
Colorado Snow Drifts – Experiments with Lenticular Printmaking, in The Personalised Surface – New Approaches to Digital Printmaking, FADE (Fine Art Digital Environment), University of the Arts, London.
2008
Roderick Harris: From the Corner of the Living Room by Dan Hays, Turps Banana (issue 5).
Reassurance of Atmospherics, Journal of the New Media Caucus, vol. 4 no. 2. (www.newmediacaucus.org/journal/)
Across the Water, /Seconds, issue 9. (www.slashseconds.org/)
2007
Painting in the Light of Digital Reproduction, Culture Machine, vol. 9 (www.culturemachine.net/)
2006
Dan Hays on Joseph Wright of Derby’s Vesuvius in Eruption, with a View over the Islands in the Bay of Naples, Tate Etc. Issue 8. (www.tate.org.uk/tateetc/issue8/microtate.htm)
Teaching
1999–01 Visiting tutor: MA Fine Art, Goldsmith’s College, and MA Painting, Royal College of Art.
2002–04 Visiting tutor: BA Fine Art, Goldsmith’s College, London.
2007-now Associate lecturer: BA Fine Art, Central Saint Martins, London.
2013-14 Associate lecturer: BA Fine Art and Art History, Goldsmiths College, London.
2016-now Associate lecturer: BA Fine Art – Painting and Drawing, University of Northampton.
2018-2019 Visiting tutor: MRes Fine Art & Humanities, RCA.
Artsist’s Talks
1999-now Artist’s talks at the following art colleges: Coventry, Reading, Bath, Bristol, Wimbledon, Hull, Winchester, Metropolitain, Guildhall, Byam Shaw, City and Guilds, Lincoln, Bournemouth, Cheltenham, Leeds, Middlesex, Goldsmiths, Camberwell, Canterbury, Westminster, Northampton, DMU Leicester, Norwich, Nottingham, University Campus Suffolk, Flamouth, Anglia Ruskin, Royal College of Art, Glasgow School of Art, Royal Danish Academy of Art, Copehagen, Yunnan Art College, Kunming, Chengdu Art College and Chongqing Art College, Sichuan, China. (Talks were to BA and/or MA Fine Art students. Tutorial teaching often included).
Symposia
2004
Speaking & Listening 3, symposium at Sheffield Hallam University. Invited speaker.
Pixelraiders, conference at Sheffield Hallam University. Invited speaker.
2006
Painting Photographs/Photographing Paintings. Conference at Derby College of Art and Design. Invited speaker.
2010
Present Technology. Two-day symposium at the Contemporary Art Research Centre, Kingston University. Co-organised with Emma Hart.
2013
Urban Encounters: Urban Materialities. Symposium at Tate Britain. Invited speaker.
2014
Dialogues: Place, space and negotiated territories. Symposium at Norwich University of the Arts. Invited speaker.
Painting and Cinema. Speaker at the launch event for the Journal of Contemporary Painting, ICA, London.
2015
Immediacy of Paint: The Role of painting in the Digital Age. Symposium hosted by UCS (University Campus Suffolk). Invited speaker.
2017
Painting, Drawing and the Digital, international symposium and exhibition, Northampton University – invited speaker and exhibitor.
2018
Renouveau Pictural & Esthétique Numérique. Conference at École supérieure d'art et de design TALM-Angers, France. Invited speaker.
2021
DigitalPaintingPhotography. A two-day symposium hosted by the University of Derby.