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Dan Torop

  • Assistant Professor
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Academic Research Areas

  • Digital media
  • Interdisciplinary art
  • Photography
Dan Torop is a photographer whose images examine how we shape and imagine the land. Torop is a co-editor of ASMR4, a series of photography monographs. At The Soil Factory (Ithaca, NY), he works on its artist-in-residency program and to support a thriving community of artists and scientists. He has contributed code to Darktable, an open source tool for processing photographs. Triple Canopy, Cabinet, Purple, Modern Painters, Paper Monument, and other periodicals have published his images and writing. MacDowell, The Center for Land Use Interpretation, Lynden Sculpture Garden, and Eyebeam have granted him residencies. His work has been shown nationally and internationally in galleries and museums. His projects have garnered support from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, and other grants. He received an M.F.A. from Yale University and an A.B. from Harvard College.
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Academic Research Areas

  • Digital media
  • Interdisciplinary art
  • Photography

Books

Classes

  • Introduction to Photography

    ART 2601

  • Advanced Practice

    ART 3006

  • Special Topics: Images and Algorithms

    ART 3699/5699

  • Special Topics: Image Work

    ART 3699/5699

  • Senior Seminar

    ART 4100

Selected Awards, Grants, and Fellowships

  • Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts

    Multi-Year Program Support for WEAVE Community
    2024–26

  • Rural Humanities Faculty Grant, Cornell University

    2024–25

  • Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation

    Support for WEAVE Community
    2023–24

  • Research Grants in the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts

    2022–24

  • Creative Project Grant, Mui Ho Center for Cities, Cornell University

    2022–23

Selected Exhibitions and Presentations

  • Falling Water

    Tops Gallery, Memphis, TN, 2023.

  • Three Rainbows

    Tomato Mouse, Brooklyn, NY, 2023.

  • Chapter XVIII

    Exhibit Hall, Room 24, The Center for Land Use Interpretation, Wendover, UT, 2017–18.