CV
b. Traverse City, Michigan (USA).
Lives/works in San Francisco, California (USA).
EDUCATION
2026
Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
Doctoral Candidate, Department of Theater and Performance Studies
PhD Minor, Art and Art History
2007
California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
M.F.A. in Art and in Writing
CalArts Scholarship (2005-07)
2003
The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
B.A. with Honors in Human Development and with Honors in Visual Arts
Halperin Scholar (1999 – 2003), Dean’s List (1999 – 2003), Metcalf Scholar (2001), Foreign Language Acquisition Grant (2002), The Louis Sudler Prize in the Performing and Creative Arts (2003)
AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
2025-26
Public Knowledge Fellow, Stanford Public Humanities
Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI Graduate Fellow
2024-2025
Stanford University Centennial Teaching Award
Mellon Foundation Dissertation Fellow
2023-24
Carl Weber Fellowship, TDR (The Drama Review) Editorial Assistant
Mellon Centering Race Consortium, Teaching Race Fellow
Honorable Mention, “Map Apps: Locative Media and Performance,” Graduate Student Paper Prize, Media, Science and Technology SIG, Society for Cinema and Media Studies
2022-23
Stanford-Leuphana Academy of Media Studies Fellow, Berlin
2021-22
Carl Weber Fellowship, Nitery Experimental Theater
Graduate Research Opportunity Grantee, Stanford University
2020-2024
The Anne Kristen Davis Fellowship, Stanford University
2019-2020
Hume Graduate Fellowship in the Arts, Stanford University
2017
Caution bomb, Official Selection, Grand Rapids Feminist Film Festival
2014
Center for Cultural Innovation – ARC Grantee, Los Angeles
Akademie Schloss Solitude Cooperation Fellow, Stuttgart, Germany
Salem2Salem Fellow, Schloss Salem, Bodensee, Germany
2012-13
Akademie Schloss Solitude Fellow, Video/ Film/ New Media Fellow, Stuttgart, Germany
2011
Creative Capacity Fund Grant, Center for Cultural Innovation, San Francisco
I-Park Foundation, Moving Image/ Performance Fellow, East Haddam, Connecticut
2010
California Community Foundation Visual Arts Fellow
Digital Arts Studios, International Artist-in-Residence, Belfast, Northern Ireland
I-Park Foundation, Moving Image Fellow, East Haddam, Connecticut
2006
Second Place, Decadal Juried Art Show, Dennos Museum of Art, Traverse City, Michigan
ACADEMIC SCHOLARSHIP
2025
“Russell Hunting: The Emergence of the Soundscape,” Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film, 52(2), 226-244. https://doi.org/10.1177/17483727251379110
2026
“The Legend of the Sleeping Bear: A New Awakening” in Performing Wilderness, book anthology edited Michelle Liu Carriger and Eero Laine, Vanderbilt University Press, accepted for publication
ARTIST BOOKS
2019
Caution, bomb, hand-numbered ed. of 50, printed in Berlin
2015
And I Think I Like It., Edition Solitude – Projektiv Series, ed. of 250, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart
2014
On the Rocks, In the Land, featuring interview with curator Ciara Ennis, ed. of 100, Pitzer College Art Galleries, Claremont, California
2011
Some People Are Without Guitar, ed. of 50, The Library of Sacred Technologies, Los Angeles
2009
From JBAD, Lessons Learned, hand-numbered ed. of 100, Les Figues Press, Los Angeles
SELECTED CURATORIAL AND EDITORIAL WORK
2023-2025
Media Studies Colloquium, Organizing Committee, SPICE (Student Projects for Intellectual Community Enhancement) Grant, Stanford
2023
Curator and Photographer, Voices of the Earth – Sound Walks, Stanford Repertory Theater
2022-2023
Dramaturg, Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, Department of Theater and Performance Studies and COLLEGE, Stanford (June 2022 – March 2023)
2021-2022
Co-Artistic Director, Nitery Experimental Theater (NExT), Stanford University
2015-2016
Assistant to Director, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles
2014
Guest Composer, Musikhochschule, Stuttgart
2011-2013
Curatorial Board and Studio Member, Elephant Art Space, Los Angeles (March 2011 – September 2013)
TEACHING
2023-2024
Close Listening: Media, Performance, and Sound, Instructor of Record, self-designed course, Stanford University – cross-listings: Theater and Performance Studies (TAPS 153D)/ Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies (FEMGEN 153D)/ Film and Media Studies (FILMEDIA 153E)/ Music (MUSIC 153D)/ Communications (COMM), high enrollment including four graduate students
Undergraduate Honors Thesis Advisor, Honors in the Arts, Stanford University – advised advanced undergrad on her Honors film project
Writing Tutor, Hume Center, Program in Writing and Rhetoric, Stanford University – help undergrads, grads, and postdocs with their writing
Reality Television and Society (TAPS 169R), Teaching Assistant, Stanford University – evaluated student work, led two course sessions, with course professor conferred course grades
2023
Introduction to Science, Technology, and Society (STS 1), Stanford University – taught two sections of 20 students, generated section curriculum and weekly response questions, graded work, conferred final course grades
Anthropo-Scene: Climate Change and the Arts (TAPS 26N), Teaching Assistant, Stanford University – evaluated student work, led two course sessions, with course professor conferred course grades
“Grant Writing,” TAPS 26N workshop, Stanford University
2022
To Die For — Antigone and Political Dissent (TAPS 12N/ CLASSGEN 17N), Teaching Assistant, Stanford University
2019
Visual Arts Instructor, High School and Intermediate Drawing and Painting, Interlochen Arts Camp, MI
Teaching Artist, Visual Arts and Theater, InterAct, Berlin
2013
Film-video Workshop Instructor, Freie Kunstakademie Baden-Wurttemberg, Fellbach, Germany
Artist Talk, Pitzer College, Claremont, California
Guest Lecturer, Scripps College, Claremont, California
SELECT SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS, PERFORMANCES, AND SCREENINGS
2021
How’s Your Car, Department of Theater and Performance Studies, Stanford University (audio-video performance)
2019
Passing Through: A Talk/Performance with Danielle Adair, Hopscotch Reading Room, Berlin (performance-talk and book launch)
2018
A Steakhouse In Upstate: Danielle Adair, Le Salon/DAS KAPiTAL, Berlin (performance-talk)
2017
FIRST ASSIGNMENT to Inauguration by Danielle Adair, Veggie Cloud, Los Angeles (performance and screening)
2014
Caution Baum, an opera by Danielle Adair, Musikhochschule, Stuttgart (performance)
Danielle Adair – selections from And I Think I Like It., curated by Jeff Cain, UCR Culver Center for the Arts, Culver Digital Mural Jumbotron, Riverside, California (exhibition)
Danielle Adair – And I Think I Like It., Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart (exhibition)
2013
Danielle Adair – On the Rocks, In the Land, Pitzer Art Galleries, Claremont, California (exhibition)
Danielle Adair at KUNST FREITAG, The Kiesel and the KUNST-BUS, Friedrichshafen, Germany (performance and installation)
Danielle Adair & Natalie Häusler, curated by Gladys-Katherina Hernando, Infernoesque, Berlin (exhibition)
Danielle Adair – And I Think I Like It., Human Resources, Los Angeles (performance)
Danielle Adair – Pre-game Sound, guest show, KChung Radio, Los Angeles (Jan 25) (performance)
2012
Danielle Adair with Shekhan in performance, invited by Eve Fowler, to The Artist’s Studio@One Colorado, Pasadena (performance and exhibition)
Danielle Adair – And I Think I Like It., Monte Vista Projects, Los Angeles (performance and exhibition)
Danielle Adair – HEADTalks at Black Box, part of the PST Performance and Public Art Festival, Los Angeles (performance)
Danielle Adair – Don’t Think Once Again on KChung Radio, for Perform Now! Chinatown, Los Angeles (July 21) (performance)
Danielle Adair, Arts District Downtown WinterFest, Los Angeles (performance)
2011
Danielle Adair on Ear Meal, sound art webcast from laARTstream, Los Angeles (performance)
2009
First Assignment, Sea & Space Explorations, Los Angeles (performance and screening)
From JBAD, Lessons Learned, The Velaslavasay Panorama, Los Angeles (performance and book launch)
Coverlands, Work Space, Los Angeles (exhibition)
2008
Danielle Adair and Garrett Caples, Machine Project, Los Angeles (performance)
The Queen Schmooquan “Say My Name” Show with Danielle Adair, BetaLevel, Los Angeles (performance)
2007
“Sex and Rage” and Responsibility and March 17th and “The Documents of 20th Century Art” and Texas Holdem and Art Groupies and Walter Hopps and Tripods and “That’s Hot” and War Protest and Theory, D301 Gallery, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California (exhibition)
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS, PERFORMANCES, AND SCREENINGS
2026
CLAW / BET / BOUNTY, directed and written by Lucas Baisch, Theater and Performance Studies, Stanford University (performer)
2025
“Boxes” for The Unit Operations Here Are Highly Specific, dir. Daniel Jackson, Theater and Performance Studies, Stanford University (audio score and performance)
2020
The Manic Monologues, directed by Elisa Hofmeister and produced by Zach Burton, The Friends of the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, UCLA, Los Angeles (performer)
2018
MANIFESTO: A Modest Proposal, curated by Ciara Ennis, Pitzer College Art Galleries, Claremont, CA
2017
LA Road Concert, Los Angeles
Grand Rapids Feminist Film Festival, Grand Rapids, Michigan
Desert Poetry, organized by Harmony Holiday, Feliz Lucia Molina, Joseph Mosconi, and Ben Segal, Landers Cabin, Landers, California
2016
Modern Arts and Crafts, curated by Astri Swendsrud, Eastside International, Los Angeles
2014
Salem2Salem, Schloss Salem, Bodensee, Germany
Decided Indecisiveness, screening curated by Claudia Gehre, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart
Art Meets Science, curated by Katrin Wolf, Römerstraße Project Space, Stuttgart
“selections from From JBAD, Lessons Learned“ in Heaps of Language, curated by John Berdel, KChung Radio (April 12)
Openaries, a project by Anna Mayer and Laura Aldridge, Glasgow International, Glasgow, UK
2013
SHIPWRECKED, Night Gallery, Los Angeles
Chronicles of Work, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart
Long Night of the Museums, Römerstraße Project Space, Stuttgart
Night of 100 or 80 Flurries: Danielle Adair, Andrew Choate, and Members of the Lunar Light Orchestra, BetaLevel, Los Angeles
The Wood Anniversary, Elephant Art Space, Los Angeles
2012
Contested Territories, curated by Miguel Amado, Dorsky Gallery, New York
GROT-OH performance night, Bruno Glint Gallery, London
In Our Backyard, curated by Marlene Perronet, Bettina Lehmann, and Juliane Beck, Spinnerei, Leipzig
Art Platform and Co/Lab, Infernoesque booth, Los Angeles
The Subterraneans, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, California
Casual Dancing, a project by Bianca D’Amico and Greg Curtis, Elephant Art Space, Los Angeles
Perform Wow, Small Forms Space, Perform Now! Chinatown, Los Angeles
THE SERIES XIII: Summer Solstice, The Standard Rooftop, Los Angeles
Write Thing reading series, Medaille College, Buffalo, New York
4th Annual Homoerotic Valentine’s Day Reading, Five Points Reading Series, Workspace, Los Angeles
Reading: An Installation, Les Figues Authors, Palos Verdes Arts Center, Palos Verdes
2011
Nothing to Declare, Vargas Museum, Manila, Philippines
“I Am Responsible” at Mrs. Porter’s Salon at Occupy Los Angeles, Los Angeles
“Some People Are Without Guitar” with drummer Corey Fogel, as part of the Sunset Blvd LA Road Concert, Los Angeles and New York
30 Under 30: An Anthology of Innovative Fiction, Center for Fiction, New York
Eternal Telethon, BELLYFLOP Gallery, Los Angeles
Chain Letter, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica
Summer Soul Sis, Jaus Gallery, Los Angeles
12:12 Song, Actual Size, Los Angeles
“Two Shoes Many Hats” with project collaborator Jun’ichiro Ishii, Galerie White Project, Paris
Signify, Sanctify, Believe, Public Fiction, Los Angeles
The Open Daybook, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles
2010
“The Way of Progress” in the ArcheTime: Cross-Disciplinary Conference and Festival, EFA Project Space / WIX Lounge / SET Gallery, New York
Chasing Shadows, curated by Vincent Ramos, The Onion, Los Angeles
Eternal Telethon, Machine Project, Los Angeles
“We Are Mired In Clouds” at the Silverlake Jubilee Festival, Los Angeles
The Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here memorial reading, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles
2009
1969, curated by Vincent Ramos, Dan Graham Gallery, Los Angeles
Welcome To Fake Iraq, Angels Gate Cultural Center, Los Angeles
“The Space Between Presidents” as part of the Washington Blvd LA Road Concert, Los Angeles
2008
Interrupt, Intervene! Art as Social Practice Conference, University of California – Santa Cruz, California
Ornament is a Crime, Gallery 1927, Los Angeles
Hollywould, LA Freewaves Festival, Los Angeles
Exchange Rate 2008, Remy’s, Los Angeles
Just How Does A Patriot Act, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana
Cologne OFF Video Festival, Cologne, Germany
Fake Afghanistan Video Night, Sea & Space Explorations, Los Angeles
“For Sale” as part of the San Fernando LA Road Concert, Los Angeles
Future Potentials and Ex-Nons, BetaLevel, Los Angeles
GLARE Quarterly Launch at the Museum of Contemporary Art – PDC, Los Angeles
SoundinSpace, Sea & Space Explorations, Los Angeles
Possible Impossible Dimension, Eagle Rock Center for the Arts, Los Angeles
2007
Late Night Snack, BetaLevel, Los Angeles
TrenchArt: Parapets, Beyond Baroque, Los Angeles
Les Figues at West Hollywood Book Fair, Los Angeles
Les Figues at The Smell, Los Angeles
“Corteania” in Conduction in the Catacombs, Artists’ Television Access and 21 Grand, San Francisco
The Morel Story, Eveningside Drive, Val Verde, California
For Ever, curated by Eungie Joo and Clara Kim, 915 Mateo, Los Angeles
Next Words, REDCAT, Los Angeles
Next Words, High Energy Constructs Gallery, Los Angeles
The Powder Room, Track 16 Gallery, Los Angeles
Lights, Camera, Actions, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles
Exquisite Acts and Everyday Rebellions, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California
The Juice Is Loose, 507 Rose Gallery, Los Angeles
SELECT PUBLIC SCHOLARSHIP
2024
“2024 Carl Weber Memorial Speaker Patricia Ybarra,” Theater and Performance Studies Annual Review, 2023-2024, Stanford University
2023
“Julius Caesar,” Theater and Performance Studies Annual Review, 2022-2023, Stanford University
2022
“Luminous Ground: A Conversation with Ala Ebtekar,” Arcade: Literature, Humanities, and the World, Interview with Ala Ebtekar, by Danielle Adair, Stanford University Press
“NExT’s 2021-22 Season, Open House,” Theater and Performance Studies Annual Review, 2021-2022, Co-authored with Shacon Jones, Stanford University
2019
“How’s Your Car,” Theater and Performance Studies Annual Review, 2020-2021, Stanford University
2016
Interview with Danielle Adair, on The Art World Demystified, Hosted by Brainard Carey, Yale University Radio (September 8)
Interview with Artist Danielle Adair, by James Diaz, for Anti-Heroin Chic (September)
“John Williams,” Richard Telles Fine Art, Gallery Press Release, Los Angeles (June)
“Joanne Greenbaum: New Paintings and Books,” Richard Telles Fine Art, Gallery Press Release, Los Angeles (February)
“Roger Herman,” Richard Telles Fine Art, Gallery Press Release, Los Angeles (January)
2015
“Ginny Bishton: The News Threw Her,” Richard Telles Fine Art, Gallery Press Release, Los Angeles (April)
2014
Danielle Adair on Riffin’ with Max Maslansky, hour-long artist interview, KCHUNG radio (February 17)
2013
Interview with Danielle Adair, by Jacques Derrida, for the OON #0 print publication, [outward from nothingness] (March)
SELECT PUBLICATIONS
2019
“A Steakhouse In Upstate,” in EMERGENCY INDEX: An Annual Document of Performance Practice, Vol. 8, edited by Yelena Gluzman, Sophia Cleary, Zoe Guttenplan, Ugly Duckling Presse, Brooklyn, NY
2016
“168 Hours In Northern Michigan,” by Tod Wodicka, Photography by Danielle Adair, TANK Magazine, Issue 69, London
2015
“Los Angeles” in the Solitude Atlas, Edition Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany
“Haver” in TrenchArt Monographs: Hurry Up Please It’s Time, edited by Teresa Carmody and Vanessa Place, Les Figues Press, Los Angeles
#15 Los Angeles featured on the Akademie Schloss Solitude Blog (May 4)
2014
Artwork for RoToR #13 – Encounters, edited by Esther Salmona, Sarah Tritz, and Anne Kawala, Paris
work featured in Die Lustige Grube, Infernoesque catalogue, Berlin
“Bahnhof” in Because of Solitude, Edition Solitude, Stuttgart
“I Can Feel Your Teeth” featured in It’s My Decision, Flying Object, USA
Nothing to Declare: 2011 Manila, exhibition catalog curated by Flaudette May Datuin, Precious Leano, and Josephine Turalba, Manila, Philippines
2013
“Writing by Vanessa Place and by Danielle Adair,” Public Access #5, a project by Nicholas Grider
2012
“The Way of Progress” in [out of nothing] Edition #0
“Real Concerns” in The People’s Microphony Songbook, a project by Elana Mann, Los Angeles
“Hope May” in Telephone Book, a project by Brian Stefans, Los Angeles
2011
“excerpts from Selma,” in Thirty Under Thirty, Starcherone Books, Buffalo
“What Do You Do” in 03 LIMITS edition, Allotrope Press, Belfast
“APT: Art Performance Text” in Imaginary Syllabi, Palm Press, Los Angeles
“Studio Visits” for The Institute of Wishful Thinking, Momenta Art, New York
2010
“7 SEP” in The Daybook Project organized by David P. Earle, Printed Matter, New York
“I Am Responsible” in Manana por la Manana, designed by Tanya Rubbak, Printed Matter, New York
“Residual-Bonus” in Casebook Series, ValeVeil, Stockholm
2009
“excerpts from Selma,” in You’ve Probably Read This Before: An Alumni Anthology from CalArts MFA Writing Program, Los Angeles
2008
“What does WAR stand for?” in GLARE Quarterly, Portland, Oregon
“No. II, III, V” in Poetry Sz, New Zealand
“Bibliography” in Chronometry, Los Angeles
“The Morel Story” in Eveningside Drive Catalogue, Val Verde, California
Series Cover Artist for the TrenchArt: Parapet Series from Les Figues Press, Los Angeles
2007
“Chen Xiaoyun at MC Gallery” in Afterall Online, Los Angeles
“Art Talk” in Next Words, Los Angeles
“The Haver” in TrenchArt: Parapets, Les Figues Press, Los Angeles