EDUCATION
2013 – MFA, Printmedia, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2002 – Bachelors of Music Performance, Augsburg University, Minneapolis, MN
AWARDS, SCHOLARSHIPS, GRANTS
Critical Fierceness Grant Recipient – Chances Dances
Leonore Annenberg Scholarship for the Arts Nominee – School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Merit Scholarship – OxBow, Michigan
MFA Trustee Scholarship (full tuition) – School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Hognander Award (One Year Full Tuition) – Augsburg College
RESIDENCIES
2022 Wedding Cake House Residency, Providence, RI
2021 Stove Works Residency, Chattanooga, TN
2021 In Cahoots, Printmaking Residency, Petaluma, CA
2017 Ox-Bow School of Art, Fall Residency, Saugatuck, MI
2013 ACRE Residency, Steuben, WI
2010 AS220 Artist in Residence, Providence, RI
2009 Jerome Foundation: Highpoint Center for Printmaking, Minneapolis, MN
SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2022 Kidney-Shaped Ear – Parlor and Ramp, Chicago, IL (solo)
2020 RESULTS – Hair and Nails Gallery, Minneapolis, MN (solo)
2018 Actuarial Time – Genesis Gallery, Milwaukee, WI (solo)
2017 Veins Without Surgery – Low Key Arts, Hot Springs, AR (solo)
2016 BINDER – Roman Susan, Chicago, IL (solo)
FOMENT – Indiana University Northwest Contemporary Art Gallery – Gary, IN (solo)
2015 Walls Are Loosening. True, But Gates are Blocked – Comfort Station, Chicago, IL (solo)
Spine, Crack, Transfigure – Daniel Luedtke and Ben Seamons – Roots and Culture, Chicago, IL
2014 Mutual Ruins – Daniel Luedtke and Sarah Mosk – Heaven Gallery, Chicago, IL
Adaptation Arrangement Microsoft Word Document – Spudnik Press, Chicago, IL (solo)
2013 Second Primary: Macon Reed and Daniel Luedtke – 3433 Gallery, Chicago, IL
2012 Mass Portrait: New Work by Daniel Luedtke and Anna Tsantir – X Y and Z Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2010 Fragmented Bodies – Tom of Finland Foundation, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
Expositie van DNML – NP3 Gallery, Groningen, Netherlands (solo)
Look into the Light – No Coast, Chicago, IL
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 Queer Printmaking and Futurity – Backspace Gallery, Madison, WI
Together is Better – Stove Works, Chattanooga, TN
2021 Successful Failures: Thirty Years of Lumpens, Radical Media and Building Communities of the Future – Chicago Cultural Center – Chicago, IL
Brood X – Stove Works – Chattanooga, TN
Tongue in Cheek – Chicago Printmakers Collaborative, Chicago, IL
Celestial-Terrestrial – Southern Graphics International Conference – San Juan, PR
Stove Works Year One – Stove Works Gallery – Chattanooga TN
What It Takes – Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts – Tallahassee, FL
Print+: Sameness and Otherness in Contemporary Printmedia – Hunterdon Art Museum, NJ
2020
Celestial-Terrestrial – Exhibition – Southern Graphics International Conference – San Juan, PR
Study Habits – University of St. Francis, Joliet, IL
2019 Ruffles, Repair and Ritual: The Fine Art of Fixing – Wedding Cake House Project, Providence, RI
ArtCharity – Schwulles Museum, Berlin, DE
Siblings Inaugural Exhibition – Siblings Gallery, Chicago IL
2018 Tyrants – Final Resting Place Gallery, Chicago, IL
ROY G BIV – Aurora Public Art Commission Gallery, Aurora, IL
Extension: Artists’ Books, Prints and Zines – Dixon Museum, Memphis, TN
Gødbottom – Inferno Gallery, New York, NY
Continental Breakfast – The Condo Association, Chicago, IL
You Slayer Me – Rainbo Club, Chicago, IL
The Flat Object – University Art Gallery, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN
Continental Breakfast – The Condo Association – Chicago, IL
2017 Gødbottom – The Condo Association, Chicago, IL
Corporate Lunch – The Condo Association, Chicago, IL
Making Room – Katherine E. Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis MN
2016 Cosmos Pornography and the Flickering Fiction of Place – Art Helix, Brooklyn, NY
Contempo Casuals – Logan Square Gallery, Chicago, IL
Date-Date-Date-Date – Fountainhead, Chicago, IL
Shadow Box – Rainbo, Chicago, IL
Hinged Space – Terrain Exhibitions, Chicago, IL
2015 Edit Road Movie (with Katie Hargrave and Nick Lally) – Transient Gallery, Des Moines, IA
In a Plain Brown Wrapper – Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry, Chicago, IL
Platforms – Gallery 400, Chicago, IL
The Print Shop – Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY
Boundaries Collapse – Lula, Chicago, IL
2014 Body Doubles– Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Light/Bright/Acidic – (with Rusty Shackelford and William J. O’Brien) – Nightwood Exhibitions, Chicago, IL
Edit Road Movie (with Katie Hargrave and Nick Lally) – ACRE Projects, Chicago, IL
Future Sad – Grace Space, New York, NY
Starwalker – Mana Contemporary, Chicago, IL
2013 Tracing Affinities – Sullivan Galleries, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL
A Long Line – Peregrine Program, Chicago, IL
Slippery Slope – Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
Permanent Summer – Citizen Arts, Washington, D.C.
MFA Thesis Exhibition – Sullivan Galleries, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL
2012 Lifestyle Plus Form Bundle – Beige Space, Memphis, TN
The Reading Nook – Narwhal Projects, Toronto, ON
NADA – ACRE Projects: Nada Art Fair, Miami, FL
Material Assumptions: Paper as Dialog – Glass Curtain Gallery, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
I’m Here to Make Friends (with Aay Preston-Myint) – Happy Collaborationists, Chicago, IL
Pulled: Exhibition – Public Works Gallery, Chicago, IL
Remix / Multiple – Carousel Project Space, Minneapolis, MN
2011 Lifestyle Plus Form Bundle – Madame of the Arts, Minneapolis, MN
Pulled: Exhibition – Yes Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
Pulled: Exhibition – Space Gallery, Portland, ME
Pulled: Exhibition – This Los Angeles Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Pulled: Exhibition – 3rd Ward, Brooklyn, NY
No Hard Feelings – Tarnish & Gold Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
Back2Back2Back – Carousel Project Space, Chicago, IL
Multiple Mix – Devening Projects + Editions, Chicago, IL
Into the Neon – Chachama Chelsea Project Space, New York, NY
Unpunished – Sue Scott Gallery, New York, NY (Curator, Nayland Blake)
2010 No World: Screen Prints from a Midwest Wasteland – Minnesota Center for Book Arts,
Minneapolis, MN
Flocked – Casket Arts Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
Printervention: Printing for the Public – Chicago Tourism Center Gallery, Chicago, IL
2009 Big West – Casket Arts Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
All Aboard Future – Secret Project Robot, Brooklyn, NY
Jerome Residency Exhibition 2008-09 – Highpoint Center for Printmaking, Minneapolis, MN
Radar Eyes: A Survey of Hallucinogenic Printmaking – Fardom Gallery, New York, NY
Artist in Residence – AS220 – Providence, RI
Toys in the Attic – Soo Visual Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
2008 Radar Eyes: A Survey of Hallucinogenic Printmaking – Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago, IL
Simultaneous Festival – Soap Factory, Minneapolis, MN
FILM / VIDEO SCREENINGS
2016 Savory Selections – 1-800-BAD-DRUG Gallery, New York, NY
2013 Yes, I’m a Witch: Sex-Magic////Crystal-Video – Archive Kabinett, Berlin, DE
Pleasure Rebel – Bryant Lake Bowl Theater, Minneapolis, MN
With A Voice Like the Lake – Nightingale Theater, Chicago, IL – As part of the Society for Contemporary Media Studies annual conference
24 Hours / 25 Days – New Capital, Chicago, IL
2012 ROOOOOOOM – Madame of the Arts, Minneapolis, MN
Pigeons, Plants and the Clutter of Ghosts – The Nightingale Theater, Chicago, IL
PERFORMANCES
2016 Binder – Closing Reception Performance, Roman Susan, Chicago, IL
2010 Night Parade – In conjunction with Red76 and the Walker Art Center
LECTURES / PRESENTATIONS / WORKSHOPS
2017 “Gender and Institutional Critique” – Workshop – Gender and Culture in American Society – Notre Dame University – Summer Scholars Pre-College Program – June 30
2015 “CMYK Screen Printing Workshop” – ACRE Residency, Steuben WI – July 14
2013 “Slippery Slope Closing” – Lecture, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL, November 12
2009 “A Subjective History of Screen Printing” – Lecture, AS220, Providence, RI – March 15
“Screen Print Monoprinting” – Workshop, AS220, Providence, RI – March 2
CURATORIAL
2018 Masturbating to the Sound of Music – The Condo Association, Chicago, IL
2017 Raw Night – The Condo Association, Chicago, IL
2014 I Understand and I Wish to Continue – Flat Space, Chicago
2011 No World – Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN
Radiance – Madame of the Arts, Minneapolis, MN
COLLECTIONS (selected)
Joan Flasch Artist Book Collection, School of the Art Institute, Chicago, IL
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Tom of Finland Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
PUBLICATION
AUTHORED
Luedtke, Daniel – Random Man Editions, Obituary Star – 2018
Luedtke, Daniel – 1-800-BAD-DRUG distribution, Savory Selections Vol. 1 – 2016
Luedtke, Daniel – No Coast Editions – Sensory Integration Therapy – Season 1 Vol #2 – 2013
Luedtke, Daniel – The Rectum is a Wormhole – Landline Newspaper – Issue #2 – 2012
Luedtke, Daniel – Radiance (Catalog Essay)– Madame of the Arts – 2011
CITATIONS
Alicia Eler – “Twin Cities galleries cautiously open their doors – Star Tribune, August 15, 2020
Davidson, Anya – “Mindkiller: Daniel Luedtke” – Podcast Interview – https://mindkiller.podbean.com/e/daniel-luedtke/ – January 30, 2018
Hall, Gordon – “Object Lessons: Thinking Gender Variance Through Minimalist Sculpture” , Art Journal No. 4 (Winter), College Art Association, Pg. 46 – 2014
Mace, C.J. – “Crafting Encounters: Papermaking and Maker Culture in Contemporary Media”, Paper as Dialogue, Center for Book and Paper Arts, Pg. 10 – 2012
Perry, Mike – “Pulled: A Catalog of Screen Printing” , Princeton Architectural Press Pg. 18-22 – 2011
Williamson, Caspar –The Little Book of Screen Printing, Chronicle Books Pg. 14 – 2012
Tillman, R.L. – “Danimal” (blog post), http://archive.printeresting.org/2010/06/08/danimal/ – 2010
Jensen, Christopher – “A Bright and Colorful Future”, Star Tribune – May 27, 2010
“Night Life: Goings on About Town. June 3-June16, 2009” – New Yorker Article about Gay Beast – 2009
REVIEWS
K.T. Hawbaker – “Unapologetic on North Avenue,” – Chicago Tribune, July 27, 2017 .12
Sierzputowski, Kate – “Spine, Crack, Transfigure” –New City Art, March 30, 2015
Stabler, Bert – “Review: Slippery Slope – Woman Made Gallery” – New City Art, July 30, 2013
Velez, Pedro – “The Good and the Bad of SAIC’s MFA Show 2013” – New City Art, April 15, 2013
Thompson, Courtney R. – “Material Assumptions: Paper as Dialogue” (review), Art in Print, –September/October, 2012
MUSIC
WAGE (Experimental Pop Group, Founding Member with Anastasia Raba-Michelson)
DISCOGRAPHY
Life as Surplus, Fine Prints, 2018
Sex and Risk, Lillerne Tapes, 2015
Gay Beast (Experimental Rock Group, Founding Member with Angela Gerend and Isaac Rotto)
DISCOGRAPHY (selected)
To Smithereens, Skingraft Records, 2011
Charm, Skingraft Records, 2010
Second Wave, Skingraft Records, 2009
Multi-Purpose Anti-Form, Gilgongo Records, 2009
Disrobics, DNT Records, 2007
PERFORMANCES (selected)
To Smithereens Tour, Europe, 18 dates, 2011 To Smithereens Tour, USA, 16 dates, 2010
Second Wave Tour, Europe, 16 dates, 2010 Second Wave Tour, USA, 18 dates, 2009
Multi-Purpose Tour, USA, Canada, 14 dates, 2009
Disrobics Tour, USA, Canada, 33 dates, 200