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Daniel facing forward, light brown mustache and beard, shaved head, wearing a camouflage shirt.

Daniel Pope

Studio Art: Photography
Expected graduation: 2024
Daniel.Pope@unt.edu
Art Annex, Studio 126G

Instagram: @Daniel_Manning_Pope

Daniel Manning Pope Jr. is a multidisciplinary artist whose art critiques the working apparatuses, hierarchies, systems, and visual culture of late-stage neoliberal capital and fascism through photography, new media, installation, and sculptural work. Pope has exhibited work across the United States, including the 5 & J Gallery in Lubbock, Texas; Las Laguna Art Gallery, Laguna Beach, Calif.; Stola Contemporary Gallery, Chicago, Ill.; and at Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, the University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, and Austin College, Austin, Texas.

Daniel has worked as a photographer for the University of North Texas’ “NT Daily” and for several grassroots organizing campaigns, such as the Bedrooms are for People initiative in Boulder, Colo., during the summer and fall of 2020, and as a fellow, at both the Charles Adams Studio Project and Louis Hopkins Center for the Arts, both in Lubbock, Texas.

A white room with purple lighting and a dark floor that has various objects hanging from the ceiling and the walls. A box in the center features a photograph of a woman

"Ode to Belle Delphine," 2023 
Deconstructed washing machine, framed image, bath water, IV drip bag, sink basin 
10 x 10 x 10 feet 

A multi-media room with a combination of images projected on the walls, active monitors hanging from the ceiling, and large objects wrapped in plastic placed strategically about the room.

"Domestication II," 2023 
Couch segments, plastic wrap, randomized video feeds, monitors, rope, chains, zip ties 
Variable dimensions