daniel rossi,
Trained as an illustrator and graphic artist, Daniel started his career designing for various publishing houses in Italy. Upon graduating from the International School of Comics in Rome, Daniel teamed up with the leading producer of stop motion animation in Italy, Crayons Pictures. While creating storyboards and cartoon characters for feature films and short films, Daniel taught storyboard classes in Umbria Province Centers.

In 1998, Daniel co-founded the Italian-based comics publishing house, Lexy Division Press. As Artistic Director he led the selection and publishing of US comics for the Italian marketplace. Clients included Dark Horse, Image and Checker Book Publishing among others.

In partnership with the Lodz Film School of Poland, Daniel co-directed a b&w feature film in 1999, Kairos and Kronos. The film was shot in Arezzo, San Giovanni Valdarno, Terni and Milan; and featured popular Italian singers from the 80s such as Ivan Cattaneo and Johnson Righeira.

In 2003, the Florence International School of Comics invited Daniel as consultant/specialist for the examination board. This same year, he exhibited a series of large-scale, mixed media masks in Orvieto entitled “Mask il passato presente.”

In 2004, Daniel shifted his focus to painting and held his first US exhibit in Washington, DC with the Inter-American Development Bank.

In Washington, DC he held numerous exhibits before starting a 4-month public art project in Guatemala City. In collaboration with SCREAM [Supporting Children's Rights through Education, the Arts and the Media] and local NGOs, Daniel executed two large-scale public murals in Guatemala City aiming at bringing environmental awareness and promoting child rights.

In 2005 he exhibited with Agora Gallery in New York City. For the next 6 years Daniel made New York his main base collaborating and exhibiting throughout the city and boroughs. He established the light fixture design studio, Organic Light Sculptures, featured in the New York Times; and worked as Instructor of Sculpture and Fabrication at 3rd Ward in Brooklyn, NY.

In 2011, Daniel embarked on a one-year travel experience in Brazil, leading to a series of murals, works on paper and sculptures.

Daniel’s art production spans from canvas and light sculptures to murals and illustrations. In October 2012, he organized a group show in Staunton, Virginia. The artist-organized installation, CONCATENATION, explored how the public encounters the arts through unconventional spaces.

Complete Artist CV
Past exhibitions at Brooklyn Arts Council; Agora Gallery, New York, NY; Space 37, Jackson Heights, NY; 3rd Ward, Brooklyn, NY; Brooklyn Public Library, NY; Capricorno Gallery, Washington, D.C.; Italian Cultural Institute, Guatemala City; Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, D.C., Villa Fidelia di Spello, Perugia, Italy

Ongoing collaboration with Graziano Origa
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PRESS.
11.8.12 RVA Mag
CONCATENATION: An Exhibit by Daniel Rossi & Dymphna de Wild
10.24.2012 Cville Niche
Concatenation at Cobble Hill Farm
7.18.12 guilty people
Psychiatric Hospital Records Sketches
8.28.10 NY Times
Nightwood's Pop-Up Store Opens in Brooklyn
12.6.10. South Brooklyn Post
Nightwood Design Fair
11.23.06 Canarsie Courier
Mask: A Present Past
9.7.05. Muniguate
Niños rescatados del vertedero, pintan con colores más brillantes su futuro
7.28.05. Muniguate
Un mural que cambiará vidas
8.04 Washington Hispanic
Direct from Italy
7.18.05. Prensa Libre
Pinturas de Daniel Rossi