Daniel Mullen (b. 1985, Glasgow) is an artist based in Amsterdam.
His work explores how perception is shaped—visually, emotionally, and spatially—through relationships between form, color, light, and material. He creates conditions where meaning arises through interaction: between surface and depth, between objects and their environment, between viewer and work. Grounded in a phenomenological approach, his practice attends to how perception is embodied and contingent—how it unfolds in time, shaped by movement, attention, and encounter. The viewer’s presence activates the work, forming a shared field of experience. This interest in co-authorship—where the act of looking becomes part of the construction of meaning—runs throughout his practice.

This approach stems from a persistent need to orient myself—as a way of grappling with the complexities of perception, relation, and attention. These works are not illustrations of those dynamics, but a way of living with them—opening space for dialogue through material, encounter, and the shifting presence of the viewer.

While painting forms the core of his work, Mullen also engages with sculpture and installation to extend these concerns into space. The rectangle recurs as a structuring element, serving both as compositional anchor and as a framework for generating depth beyond the surface. Within this constraint, rhythm and deviation, transparency and interruption, are allowed to unfold. His process is methodical but not rigid—guided by systems yet responsive to nuance, attuned to the presence of the hand, and open to optical instability. Geometry becomes a field for tension, where structure gives way to sensation.

His sculptural works—using mirrored steel, wood, and porcelain—expand the perceptual logic of painting into three dimensions. These works draw the viewer into a shifting relationship with form, reflection, and space, where perception becomes unstable, embodied, and relational.

Across all media, Mullen’s work opens up the conditions for perception to be experienced as dynamic, participatory, and co-constructed—less a matter of representation than of relation.
What happens when seeing becomes a form of relation—something lived, unstable, and shared?

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2025 Nada Isolado- Nothing in isolation, Zipper Galeria Sao Paulo, BR.
2025. Edge of Illusion- A dialogue of colour and geometry, Enlace, Lima, PE.
2024 Book Launch “TRANSFIGURATIONS” and presentation at ART RIO with Zipper Galeria, Sao Paulo, BR.
2024. Primal form, multiple times, FEMA, Cascais, PT
2023 Chromatic Visions, Enlace, Lima, PE.
2022 (IN)VISIBLE WITHIN, Zipper Galeria, Sao Paulo, BR.
2021 EPHEMERAL FIELDS, Gallery Kogan Amaro, Zurich, CH.
2019 IN A REALM OF LUMINESCENCE, Elan Fine Art, Vancouver, CA.
2019 SHIFTING PERCEPTIONS, Marian Cramer Projects, Amsterdam, NL.
2019 COLOUR EQUATION, Kogan Amaro Gallery, São Paulo, BR (Curated by Ana Carolina Ralston)
2018 IN SEARCH OF HIGHER WORLDS, Privateview Gallery, Turin, IT.
2017 FALSE EMPIRE, Appels Gallery, Amsterdam, NL.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024. OUR EYES ADJUST TO THE DARK, Sebastián Beltrán, Federico Cartas, Mariana Con, Roberto Cortázar, Pedro Magaña, Daniel Mullen, Fabián Ugalde, and Ernesto Walker.
Heart Ego, San Pedro Garza Garcia, MX
2024 TEST CASE XXXI, Anja Petersen (DK) Jesus Canuto Iglesias (ES) en Brigitte Louter (NL), Lucas Garvey (IE), Milou van Ham (NL) Marlou Breuls (NL) Elise ‘t Hart (NL)
Koos Buster (NL), Daniel Mullen (UK/SCO), Sigrid Calon (NL) en Anina Major (BH), EKWC (European Ceramic Work Centre), Oisterwijk, NL
2023 ALTERED PERCEPTIONS, Katja Loher, Jaime Poblete, Paolo Cavinato, Stefano Caimi, The Flat Massimo Carasi, Milan, IT.
2023 COLOR OF SOUND, Anne Patterson, Vance Kirkland, Mary Ellen Bute, Andy Akiho, Brad Johnson, Daniel Mullen with Lucy Cordes Engelman.
Curated by Courtney Gilbert. Sun Valley Museum of Art, Idaho, US.
2023 CA$H’23, Franktaal Gallery, Rotterdam , NL
2023 OF VOIDS AND PORTALS, Warehouse Gallery, Shanghai, CN
2023 LICKING BLACKBERRY JAM FROM YOUR FRONT TEETH: Blanco, Ghent BE.
Marlene Elgueta, Iván Krassoievitch, Alejandra López & Lena Longefay, José Pedro Godoy, Ricardo Alcaide, Felipe Muhr,
SAPLAB, Jorge Tacla, Felipe Mujica, Yue Yuan, Fabiola Burgos.
2022 WYSIWYG, Curated by Bob van Orsouw & Oliver Muller, Glarus, CH
2022 CATCH 22’ Franktaal gallery, Rotterdam, NL
2021 WORLDS OF COLOR, Light Forms Art Center, Hudson, New York, US
Judy Pfaff, Soo Sunny Park, Martina A Muller, Laura Summer, Sampsa Pirtola & Daniel Mullen.
2020 LIFE ON TRALFAMADORE, The Flat - Massimo Carasi, Milan, IT
Sali Muller-Paolo Cavinato & Daniel Mullen, The Flat - Massimo Carasi, Milan, IT
2020 DECADE Marian Cramer Projects, Amsterdam, NL
2020 CHAPTER 3HREE, Het Hem, Zaandam, NL (Curated by Maarten Spryut and Rieke Vos)
2020 BIENAL DE CURITIBA, Curitiba, BR (Curated by Massimo Scari, Oscar Niemeyer Museum)
2019 OSTRALE BIENNIALE 019, Dresden, DE
2019 DUSK TILL DAWN, The Flat-Massimo Carasi, Milan, IT
2019 AESTHETICA ART PRIZE (shortlisted), York Art Gallery, York, UK
2018 Winter Show, Elan Fine Art, Vancouver, CA
2017 A WORLD AWAY: Francis Boeske Projects, Amsterdam, NL. Neil Fortune, Niek Peters & Daniel Mullen.
2017 RADIATING SPACES, Direktorenhaus Museum, Berlin, DE (Curated by Pascal Johanssen)
2017 SPACE TIME AND ARCHITECTURE, Cityscapes Foundation, Amsterdam, NL
2017 RHIZOOM-BWHS 2.0, Cityscapes Foundation, Burgerweeshuis, Amsterdam, NL
2016 SPACE SHAPES AND VOYAGES, Sanquine, Amsterdam, NL (Curated by Cityscapes Foundation)
2015 SPACE TIME AND ARCHITECTURE: Franck Gribling and Daniel Mullen, Cityscapes Foundation, Amsterdam, NL
2014 Dutch Royal Prize for Painting, Palais Amsterdam, Amsterdam, NL

SELECTED ART FAIRS
2025 SP-Arte, Zipper Galeria, Sao Paulo, BR
2024. ART RIO, Zipper Galeria, Sao Paulo, BR.
2024. PArC, Enalce Galeria, Lima, PE
2024 SP-Arte, Zipper Galeria, Sao Paulo, BR
2023 Art Toronto, Paul kyle Gallery, Vancouver, CA
2023 ArtRIo, Zipper Galeria, Sao Paulo, BR
2023 SP-Arte, Zipper Galeria, Sao Paulo, BR
2023 Art Rotterdam, Flat Massimo Gallery, IT
2023 Art Rotterdam, FrankTaal Gallery, NL
2022 ArtRio, Zipper Galeria, Sao Paulo, BR
2022 SP-Arte, Zipper Galeria, Sao Paulo, BR
2022 SP-Arte, Galeria Kogan Amaro, Sao Paulo, BR
2021 SP-Arte, Galeria Kogan Amaro, Sao Paulo, BR
2021 Art Rotterdam, Marian Cramer Projects, NL
2020 Art Rotterdam, Marian Cramer Projects, NL
2020 Art Rotterdam, Frank Taal Gallery, NL
2020 Untitled, Art San Francisco, Kogan Amaro Gallery, US
2019 SP-ARTE, Kogan Amaro Gallery, Sao Paulo, BR
2018 Solo Booth SP-ARTE, Privateview Gallery, Sao Paulo, BR

RESIDENCY
2023 EKWC, Oisterwijk, NL
2022 Casa Lu Residency, Mexico City, MX
2022 Wassaic Artist Residency, New York, US
2019    FAMA Foundation, Itu, Sao Paulo, BR

AWARDS
2019 Shortlisted for the Aesthetica Art Prize, UK
2017    Winner, Public Prize, Summer Show, Nieuw Dakota and Francis Boeske Projects Amsterdam, NL
2016    Longlisted for the Aesthetica Art Prize, UK
2014 Nominated for the Dutch Royal Prize for Painting, NL
2012 Nominated for the Buning Brongers Prize for Painting, NL

COLLECTIONS
FAMA MUSEUM, Itu, Sao Paulo, BR
SCHLUMBERGER, Houston, USA
ERASMUS MC, Rotterdam, NL
IMPACT-Vastegoed, NL
AEGON, NL
AKZO NOBLE, NL
SANQUINE BLOODBANK, NL
HUGHES HUBBARD and REED LLP, Miami, USA
EDISON INVESTMENT RESEARCH, London, UK
PACE ARCHITECTS, Kuwait

EDUCATION
2006 - 2011 BA Fine Art, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, Netherlands