Daniel Turner

Turner studied painting and printmaking at Norfolk State University and received a B.F.A. from San Francisco Art Institute. Turner worked in construction and demolition before being employed as a security guard at The New Museum in New York City. He was hospitalized several times for psychosis resulting in an action titled, Burning an Entire Body of Work (2006) in which he burned all previous paintings to date. Turner now works primarily in sculpture often involving the creation or transformation of materials, objects and environments into architectural or ephemeral forms. His sculptures are often characterized by a specific response to site under a controlled set of processes. These elements are present in works where an entire waiting room is cast into a series of solid bars, a former psychiatric facility burnished to a darkened stain against a wall, or a cafeteria dissolved across the expanse of a floor. In 2017, Daniel Turner completed EMP Step a site responsive sculpture for the restaurant Eleven Madison Park, in New York City. The contents of the restaurant's kitchen were melted down and cast into a monolithic step that sits at the entrance of the restaurant.

Daniel Turner (born July 22, 1983, Portsmouth, Virginia) is an American artist based in New York City. His media include sculpture, photography, video and drawing.