Famous People with Name Dan

Dan Heisman            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Dan Heisman: is a United States Chess Federation National Master and author. He is the two-time Open chess champion of Philadelphia (1973 and 1976), and the Philadelphia Invitational Chess Champion (1973) His Penn State team won the U.S. Amateur Team Championship in 1972. Although rated over 2200 by both the United States Chess Federation and FIDE, he is currently inactive as a tournament player. Heisman is a member of the International Computer Games Association and worked at both Deep Blue versus Garry Kasparov matches (1996 and 1997).

Dan Flavin            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Dan Flavin: was an American minimalist artist famous for creating sculptural objects and installations from commercially-available fluorescent light fixtures.The "Diagonal of Personal Ecstasy (the Diagonal of May 25, 1963)," completed in 1963, was Flavin's first mature work; it marks the beginning of the artist's exclusive use of fluorescent light as a medium. In the decades that followed, he continued to use fluorescent structures to explore color, light and sculptural space, in works that filled gallery interiors. These structures cast both light and an eerily-colored shade,

Dan Christensen            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Dan Christensen: He is best known for paintings that relate to Lyrical Abstraction,[1] Color field painting and Abstract expressionism.His early work from 1965-1966 was related to Minimalism. A graduate of the Kansas City Art Institute, class of 1964, Dan Christensen moved to New York City from the Mid-West during the late summer of 1965. Christensen was represented by several influential galleries including the Andre Emmerich Gallery, the Salander/O'Reilly Gallery and several others throughout the USA and Europe. He is the veteran of more than seventy-five solo exhibitions and hundreds of group exhibitions. His paintings are in important museum collections throughout the United States and Europe.

Dan Graham            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Dan Graham: a conceptual artist now working out of New York City. He is an influential figure in the field of contemporary art, both a practitioner of conceptual art and an art critic and theorist. His art career began in 1964 when he moved to New York and opened the John Daniels Gallery. Graham’s artistic talents have wide variety. His artistic fields consist of film, video, performance, photography, architectural models, and glass and mirror structure. Graham especially focuses on the relationship between his artwork and the viewer in his pieces. Graham made a name for himself in the 1980’s as an architect of conceptual glass and mirrored pavilions.

Dan Mazur            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Dan Mazur: is an American mountain climber, most widely known for the rescue of Lincoln Hall, an Australian climber on Mount Everest on May 25, 2006. Lincoln Hall had been 'left for dead' by another expedition team the previous day at around 8,700 meters on Everest