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About Dan Thompson
Dan Thompson was born in Alexandria, Virginia, and graduated from the Corcoran School of
Art in Washington, DC. He earned his MFA from the Graduate School of Figurative Art of the
New York Academy of Art, and supplemented his training with several additional years of
private study and studio apprenticeships along the east coast of the United States.
He has been awarded two grants from the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation and has twice
received the Ethel Lorraine Bernstein Memorial Award for Excellence in Painting from the
Corcoran College of Art and Design. In 2001, Thompson won Best of Show in the American
Society of Portrait Artist’s International Portrait Competition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
in New York.
In 2006 Dan Thompson co-founded the Grand Central Academy of Art in New York. In 2008, he
co-founded the Janus Collaborative School of Art in New York. Dan Thompson has also
instructed privately at Studio 126 in New York, The Art Students League of New York, The
National Academy School, and Parsons the New School for Design.
He has been exhibited in public and private collections throughout the world, including the
Eleanor Ettinger Gallery, John Pence Gallery, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Corcoran Gallery
of Art, the National Arts Club, the United States Capitol and Beijing’s World Art Museum
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