DANIEL WHEELER

  Multi-Media Artist, University Art Museum   Advisory Board Member

Wheeler, a Los Angeles based artist has been called a “freeform cultural anthropologist.” He is known for meticulously crafting found and fabricated objects into art, and fostering new interpretations of the world around us. For the last 20 years, Daniel Wheeler has produced installations, drawings, photographs, performances and sculptures using the Los Angeles landscape as his muse and
the body as his basic element. Exhibited nationally and internationally, Wheeler has work in notable private and public collections across the U.S including LACMA, The Addison Gallery of American Art, The Henry Art Gallery in Seattle and the Laguna Art Museum and was awarded a City of LA Cultural Awards Grant in 2002. As set designer for Diavolo Dance Theater, he has created large dynamic set/objects which engage both the performers and the audience, and for which he has won several Lester Horton Awards. As an art collection registrar and curator, he has managed diverse private and public art collections and overseen elaborate installations across the US and Europe. Wheeler is a graduate of Brown University.