ABOUT DAN GOTTLIEB

Dan Gottlieb’s multi-faceted creative journey began with his education in art (painting, printmaking and photography), biology, and environmental design (SUNY Buffalo and San Diego State University) but he is ultimately an autodidact. He worked as a painter and cabinetmaker following college then turned to a career in museum design in 1980 while maintaining his studio practice. Notably he was design director at the North Carolina Museum of Art (1990-2020), where he won numerous national and regional awards for his work reimagining and directing its campus’ transformation. Acknowledgements included the Lifetime Achievement from the College of Design (NCSU), induction as Honorary Member into the American Society of Landscape Architects, as well as recognitions for his leadership in architecture and environmental design.

Gottlieb’s work is included in many private and public collections. In Australia he continued his decades-long experiments with photography as an extension of his breath and body, in tune with the architecture of forests’ ever-changing nature. This exhibition both builds upon Gottlieb’s projects concerning climate-impacted environments and expands his practice toward multi-form poetic pieces with the inclusion of infrared, video, sound, and text.

Museum designer: As the North Carolina Museum of Art’s Director of Planning, Design & Museum Park (1990-2020), I initiated and lead the radical transformation of a former prison site to the creation of the Ann and Jim Goodnight Museum Park; directed the development of its renowned West Building; and have been nationally recognized for opening the Museum to cultural inclusion, environmental sustainability, and aesthetics.

Born in New York City, lives in Durham, NC.