Daniel Mihalyo
Arts/Industry: Pottery, 2013
Korean born Annie Han and US born Daniel Mihalyo have been collaborating as Lead Pencil Studio since 2002, working in the area of installation art and sculpture at the architectural scale. Their work ranges widely in artistic mediums, materials, scales, and disciplines, but is always linked back to a pervading interest in architectural space and its influence on human behavior.
Han and Mihalyo each earned a professional degree in architecture from University of Oregon. Their artwork installations have been exhibited at the UT Austin Visual Art Center, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, MassArt Boston, Henry Art Museum, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Boise Art Museum, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Temple University Gallery, Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design (BC), Exploratorium Museum, American Academy in Rome, Center on Contemporary Art, Aichi Triennial and Prague Quadrennial.
They are recipients of the Founder’s Rome Prize for Architecture, Architecture League of NY Emerging Voice and Van Alen Institute New York Prize. Past awards and residencies include the Creative Capital Foundation, Artist Trust Fellowship, Genius Award (the Stranger), City Artist Award, MacDowell Colony, Headlands Center for the Arts and Center for Land Use Interpretation.
Annie and Daniel live and work out of Seattle, Washington.
