Education
2014 MFA, Studio with concentration in Sculpture, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2013 MA, Visual and Critical Studies, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2009 BFA with Honors, Photography, Rhode Island School Of Design
Exhibitions
2024 Some Radios [invited], Patient Info, Chicago, IL
2024 880: A Retrospective [invited], The Residency Project, Pasadena, CA
2023 Tryst Art Fair [invited], Torrance Art Museum, Torrence, CA
2023 Green Noise [invited], Granite City Art and Design District, Granite City, IL
2023 Who Did the Job? Who Dealt the Blow? [solo, invited], Freerange, Chicago, IL
2021 Oh Matchless Earth [solo], The Residency Project, Pasadena, CA
2019 Nothing Can Surpass [solo, invited], Basketshop, Cincinnati, OH
2019 Stillness Variations [two-person collaboration], Comfort Station, Chicago, IL
2019 Disauders & Marorders [two-person collaboration], Roots & Culture, Chicago, IL
2018 Heaven is a Place [invited], Heaven Gallery, Chicago, IL
2017 The Dangerous Professors [invited], Triumph Gallery, Chicago, IL
2015 Terrorist in the Library: Are you the Terrorist? [invited], President’s Gallery at Harold Washington College, Chicago, IL
2015 2 Tambours [two-person collaboration, invited], Cornerstore, Chicago, IL
2015 A Program of Silent Lectures [invited], Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago, IL
2014 SAIC MFA Show, Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, IL
2014 Frozen Borderline, Ballroom Projects, Chicago, IL
2013 Back Matter, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago, IL
2009 It’s Hard to Explain, Because It’s Easy to Understand [solo] Red Eye Gallery, Providence, RI
Curatorial Projects
2021 General Objects II, Heaven Gallery, Chicago, IL
2018 After Junkspace [invited] Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation, Chicago, IL
2018 Not an Inert Box [invited], Triumph Gallery, Chicago, IL
2018 Beyond Words Chicago Artists Coalition, Chicago, IL
2017 A Rainbow in Curved Air, Chicago Artists Coalition, Chicago, IL
2017 Hand Eye [invited], ACRE Projects, Chicago, IL
2017 Boondoggle, Chicago Artists Coalition, Chicago, IL
2017 SOMETHING VERY FOOLISH: Video work by Emily Sasmor, Hairpin Art Center & 2nd Floor Rear Festival, Chicago, IL
2016 Scenario II: Let’s Get This Thing Going [invited], ACRE Projects, Chicago, IL
2016 Prospects: Julietta Cheung, Ballroom Projects, Chicago, IL
2016 Scenario I: Dancin’ in Heaven [invited] ACRE Projects, Chicago, IL
2016 Glass House: Intimacy with Buildings, Ballroom Projects in partnership with the Chicago Architecture Biennial, Chicago, IL
2015 Orange You Glad!, Ballroom Projects, Chicago, IL
2015 Acerbunundrum: SAIC Visual and Critical Studies MA Show [invited], Ballroom Projects, Chicago, IL
2014, 2015 General Objects, Ballroom Projects, Chicago, IL; Fjord Space, Philadelphia, PA
2011 Lim Tzay Chuen: Extended Classroom, Curatorial team-member Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, IL
Awards and Residencies
2023 Roger Brown House Residency
2021 The Residency Project, TRP @ 880, Pasadena, CA
2019 Earthbound Moon, &TRANGE Residency, Eugene, OR [invited]
2019 ACRE Artist Residency, Chicago, IL/Steuben, WI
2018 Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation Curatorial Fellowship, Chicago, IL [invited]
2016-2018 Chicago Artists Coalition HATCH Projects Curatorial Residency
2015-2018 ACRE Curatorial Fellowship, Chicago, IL/Steuben, WI
2012 Visiting Artist in Residence at AS220, Providence, RI [invited]
2011 New Artist Society Trustee Scholarship
Academic Positions
2014-current Assistant Professor, Adj. of Visual and Critical Studies
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2015-current Sculpture Department Affiliated Faculty
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2018-current Undergraduate Division / Academic Spine Faculty
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Other Teaching
2010-2014 Deerfield Academy Summer Art Camp (DASAC), Deerfield, MA
2009-2011 AS220 Photography Program, Providence, RI
Teaching Awards
2017, 2019, 2021, 2023 Team-Teaching Award
Four-time winner for Building as Form: Architectural Concepts in Studio Research
Arts Administration
2019-2023 Artists Cooperative Residency and Exhibitions (ACRE) Exhibitions Director, Chicago, IL / Steuben, WI
2019-current ACRE Programming Committee
2018-current ACRE Admissions Committee
2017-2019 Adler & Floyd Co-Director, Chicago, IL
2013-2017 Ballroom Projects Director, Chicago, IL
2009-2011 AS220 Photography Keymember, Providence, RI
Bibliography
2022 Fouts, A. “The Object as a Lightning Rod for Meaning” Sixty Inches from Center, Chicago, IL (Web)
2022 Floyd, D. “untitled” An Atlas Flatland Gallery, Chicago, IL (Print)
2020 Floyd, D. “The Case for Living and Very, Very, Very Long Time.” The Old Futures Almanac 2020. Flatland Gallery, Chicago, IL (Print)
2015 Floyd, D. “American Standard.” Serpentine Magazine (Web)
2015 Floyd, D. “Looking at Nothing.” Were the Eye not Sunlike. Fernwey Gallery, Chicago, IL (Print)
2015 Floyd, D. “Wheelchair Lift at the Temple of Dendur.” Serpentine Magazine (Web)
2014 Floyd, D. Essays on Weather for a Post-Katrina Society. Serpentine Magazine (Web)