Daniel Callahan
Neighborhood Salon Luminary Co-Curator
Daniel Callahan is an award-winning multidisciplinary artist. His practice merges various disciplines including painting, photography, sound, performance, and motion picture to create immersive experiences that explore aspects of human resilience and mysticism. Best known for his painterly technique of “MassQing,” which uses the human face as a canvas, Daniel is also the writer/director/star of the feature length film Come On In, writer/star of the theatrical one-man-show Come On In - Live, and co-founder/producer of the community arts and culture event MassQ Ball.
A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania School of Design, where he received the Fine Arts Chair Award, and Emerson College, where he received an MFA in film and video through a Graduate Dean’s Fellowship, Daniel is a recipient of the Donor Circle for the Arts award, the NEFA Creative City Grant, the prestigious Brother Thomas Fellowship from the Boston Foundation, and The Transformative Public Art Grant from the City of Boston. He and his work have been featured in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum; ICA Boston; the Queens Museum; the New Orleans Museum of Art; and publications such as the Boston Globe, the Bay State Banner, WBUR, Smithsonian Scholarly Press, and Words Beats & Life: The Global Journal of Hip-Hop Culture.
To know more, visit danielcallahan.com or follow @danielpcallahan on Substack and Instagram.
The Neighborhood Salon is supported in part by the Anne Hawley Fund for Programs, the Polly Thayer Starr Charitable Trust, and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. These programs are funded in part by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, which is supported by the state of Massachusetts and the National Endowment for the Arts.
