Born: 1970, Los Angeles, CA
Education
1994 BA Film, UC Berkeley, Cum Laude, Regent & Chancellors Scholarship
Selected Residencies
2018
Gazelli Art House, London, August 2018 Gazell.io Resident
Selected Exhibitions
2018
3 Person Show “Electric Abstractions: The Art of Jayne Behman, Robert Chapman and Daniel Leighton”, San Luis Obispo Museum of Art (SLOMA), San Luis Obispo, CA
2 Person Show “Insides Out”, USC Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA
Group Exhibition VR Fest, Las Vegas, NV
2017
Keynote San Luis Obispo Museum of Art (SLOMA) Sustaining Society Luncheon, San Luis Obispo, CA
Keynote Mobile Digital Art and Creativity Summit, Palo Alto, CA
Group Talk “Digital Future: Health, Art and Visibility”, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England
Solo Exhibition M.A.R.S. Festival, Angel City Brewery, Los Angeles, CA
2016
Group Exhibition “Flight Patterns”, Art Share L.A., Los Angeles, CA
Group Exhibition Virtual & Augmented Reality World Conference & Expo 2016, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Group Exhibition Museums and the Web, Broad Museum/Natural History Museum/Millenium-Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles, CA
Group Exhibition 12th Anniversary Exhibit, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art (LACDA), Los Angeles, CA
2015
Solo Exhibition“Permission To Enter”, L.A. Art Association/Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA
Group Exhibition “Side Effects May Include Art” by Patient Experience, The Situation Room, Los Angeles, CA
Group Exhibition “Water Works II”, juried by Juri Koll, Director of the Venice Institute of Contemporary Art, Lisa Casoni and Heather Stobo,Directors of The Porch Gallery, Ojai, Peter Frank, renowned critic and curator, and John Yau, renowned art critic and writer, Porch Gallery, Ojai, CA
Group Exhibition “11th annual LACDA Represented Artists Exhibit”, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art (LACDA), Los Angeles, CA
Solo Exhibition “Threshold”, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art (LACDA), Los Angeles, CA
Group Exhibition “B/W”, juried by Laura Watts, Honor Fraser Gallery, L.A. Art Association/Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA
Solo Exhibition “Daniel Leighton: Exclusive Apple Store Event”, Apple Store, Santa Monica, CA
2014
Group Exhibition “Coagula Video & Performance Lounge”, Curated by Mat Gleason, Coagula Curatorial, Aqua Art Miami, Miami, FL
Group Exhibition “Aurora”, L.A. Art Association/Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA
Group Exhibition “Pain”, curated by Ted Meyer, University of New England, ME
Group Exhibition “Every Angeleno Counts”, curated by Lisa Derrick, Homeboy Industries, Los Angeles, CA
Group Exhibition “Pain”, curated by Ted Meyer, LRC Gallery, The David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Group Exhibition “POP UP”, WAAS Gallery, Dallas, TX
Group Exhibition “Open Call 2014″, L.A. Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Group Exhibition “WAAS West 2”, NRG Recording Studio, North Hollywood, CA
2013
Group Exhibition “Digital Family Reunion”, Skirball Cultural Center Los Angeles, CA
Group Exhibition “Bridge to the Soul”, Art 4 All People at USC Institute of Genetic Medicine Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Solo Exhibition“Connecting to Cure”, Featured artist and speaker, Edge Studios, Los Angeles, CA
Group Exhibition“Cross Creativity”, curated by Michelle Berc, Founder of Create:Fixate, Cross Campus, Santa Monica, CA
Group Exhibition “POP ÜBER ALLES”, juried by Timothy Potts, Director of the J. Paul Getty Museum, LAAA/Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA
Group Exhibition “WAAS West”, NRG Recording Studio, North Hollywood, CA
Solo Exhibition “Daniel Leighton: Opening Up”, WAAS Gallery, Dallas, TX
Solo Exhibition “Painting the World with Daniel Leighton”, Apple Store, Santa Monica, CA
2012
Group Exhibition“Portals”, AY Atelier, Malibu, CA
1995
Group Exhibition “The Berkeley New Wave” (“The Tree of Us”), curated by Jeffrey Skoller and Dušan Makavejev, Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
1994
Group Exhibition “In The Eyes of the Beholder” curated by B. Ruby Rich, Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
1993
Group Exhibition“East Bay Video Festival”, UC Theater, Berkeley, CA
Affiliations
Los Angeles Art Association (LAAA), Member
Los Angeles Center for Digital Art (LACDA), Member
Patient Experience (art collective), Member
Awards and Recognition
First Place Winner, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art (LACDA) 2015 International Juried Competition, juried by Shana Nys Dambrot, art critic and writer for L.A. Weekly, Whitehot Magazine, Huffington Post, Art Ltd.; Leigh Gleason, Curator of Collections, California Museum of Photography, Rex Bruce, Director, LACDA
Winner – Top 3%, “Bush in 30 Seconds”, MoveOn.org
Winner, Comedy, 1993 East Bay Video Festival
Honorable Mention, Documentary, 1993 East Bay Video Festival
Best 8mm Film, 1989 Los Angeles Valley College (LAVC) Film Awards
Publications As Author
Huffington Post, On Trial: Judgment vs. Expression, June 11, 2014
Huffington Post, Art Words: Holding it Together, October 30, 2013
Huffington Post, In the Cave — Going Into Darkness, October 6, 2013
Huffington Post, Tied Up At The Hospital, July 11, 2013
Huffington Post, Opening Up, May 24, 2013
