Biography

Dan Climan (b. 1987, Montréal) received his BFA from the Emily Carr University of Art + Design in Vancouver, Canada. He currently lives and works in Montréal, Canada.

 

The work of painter Dan Climan depicts everyday scenes with an underlying uncanniness, exploring the tension between the familiar and the unknown. Both stylistically and thematically, Climan’s oeuvre draws from mid-century cinema, photography, and advertising. His paintings invoke the era’s non-digital simplicity with flat, clean-edged forms and wide-open compositions; their sparse canvases are populated with common objects and nostalgic figures — radiators, barns, dogs — that feel eerily out-of-place. Like a frame from an old film or a snapshot taken from a car window, Climan’s works capture fleeting moments-in-time: emotive, unresolved narratives that ask the viewer to draw their own conclusions.

 

Works
  • Dan Climan, Cherry Red, 2025
    Cherry Red, 2025
  • Dan Climan, Easily Distrected, 2025
    Easily Distrected, 2025
  • Dan Climan, Ender, 2025
    Ender, 2025
  • Dan Climan, Exceptionally Generous, 2025
    Exceptionally Generous, 2025
  • Dan Climan, Out of Stock, 2025
    Out of Stock, 2025
  • Dan Climan, Precisely, 2025
    Precisely, 2025
  • Dan Climan, This Way and That Way, 2025
    This Way and That Way, 2025
  • Dan Climan, Two Fourty Five, 2025
    Two Fourty Five, 2025
  • Dan Climan, You're the Best, 2025
    You're the Best, 2025
  • painting of a tv playing a batman episode
    The Joker's Provoker, 2024
  • painting of a girl reading a book
    Pelouse interdite, 2023
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