Dan Graham was born in Urbana, Illinois, USA, in 1942. He lives and works in New York. Artist, video maker, writer, curator, art and music critic, Graham is a key figure of Conceptual Art.

Since the mid-1960s, Dan Graham has produced an important body of art and theory that engages in a highly analytical discourse on the historical, social and ideological functions of contemporary cultural systems. Architecture, popular music, video and television are among the focuses of his provocative investigations, which are articulated in essays, performances, installations, videotapes and architectural/sculptural designs. In the 1970s, he created performances, videos and films. His installation and performance works actively engage the viewer in a perceptual and psychological inquiry into public and private, audience and performer, objectivity and subjectivity. Since the 1980s, Graham began creating glass and metal pavilions, that fuse together sculpture, architecture and design, in order to trigger a mode of viewing art that embraces the viewers and locates them at the center of all perceptual experience.

Graham has participated in numerous biennials of Venice (1976, 2003, 2004, 2005), Documenta V, VI , VII, IX , IX and X in Kassel (1972, 1977, 1982, 1992 and 1997), and the Sculpture Project in Münster (1987, 1997) . In 2010, he was honoured by the American Academy of Arts and Letters in New York.