Education:
2018 MFA, University of Delaware, Newark, DE
2011 Chinese Language Program, Guangxi University, Nanning, China
2010 BFA, Ringling College of Art and Design, Sarasota, FL
2005 University of Southern California Summer Program, Wallis Annenberg Scholarship
2004 University of Southern California Summer Program, Wallis Annenberg Scholarship
Solo Exhibitions:
2023 TBD, Gallery Ascend, Hong Kong, China
2022 Let’s Make Slurping Sounds, Steven Zevitas Gallery, Boston, MA
2019 The Influencers Mean No Harm, Zevitas Marcus, Los Angeles, CA
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2022 NYC Crit Club/ Plum Lime Residency Finalists Exhibition, mepaintsme Online Platform
2022 International Residency Exhibition, Shangyuan Art Museum, Beijing, China
2022 Thank you, Peter, The Delaware Contemporary, Wilmington, DE
2021 Cheating Dysfunction, Untitled Space, Shanghai, China
2020 All Dressed Up With Nowhere To Go, Steven Zevitas Gallery, Boston, MA
2018 215|610 Contemporary Juried Exhibit (juried by Jean Shin), Delaware County Community College Art
Gallery, Media, PA
2018 Eight Emerging Artists, Steven Zevitas Gallery, Boston, MA
2018 Cadence, The Delaware Contemporary, Wilmington, DE
2018 Mid Atlantic New Painting 2018, Ridderhof Martin Gallery, Fredericksburg, VA
2016 Common Ground, Taylor Hall Gallery, Newark, DE
2016 Foreign Artists Exhibition, Wanda Center Gallery, Nanjing, China
Residencies & Awards:
2023 International Fashion Grand Award, The 1st ISFS Award of International Folk Gifts Innovative Design
Contest, Shanghai, China
2023 Swatch Art Peace Hotel, Shanghai, China
2022 Shangyuan Art Museum, Beijing, China
2021 Untitled Space Artist-in-Residence, Shanghai, China
2018 Listen and Respond: Delivering Ourselves from the Tonal, Savvy Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
Publications:
2019 Friend of the Artist (juried by Diana Cerezino, Michael Dewberry and Tim Ralston), Volume 10.
2019 Hazani, Joseph. “Review: Zevitas Marcus, Daniel B. Dias.” LA Art Party. 4 May 2019.
2019 Barron, Daniel. “Daniel B. Dias Gets Multicultural, Metaphysical with The Influences mean No Harm.”
Yay LA Mag. 21 April 2019.
2018 Vijayan, Naveena. “Mind games at University of Delaware’s MFA thesis exhibit.” Artblog. 15 May 2018.
2018 Cadence (exhibition catalog), The Delaware Contemporary. Essay by Emily Newman.
2018 New American Paintings (juried by Anne Ellegood), MFA Annual Issue No. 135.