Dan Biferie
Dan Biferie is an active artist and has displayed his photographs in more than 150 different exhibitions nationally, including 20 one-person shows. His works have been widely published and are represented in major public collections including, the National Museum of American Art, New Orleans Museum of Art, the High Museum and the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris. He has lectured and conducted workshops at numerous colleges and museums throughout the nation. He was awarded an individual artists fellowship from the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs for his work in digital imaging in 2008.
He is Chair of the School of Photography at Daytona State College, where he has taught for the past thirty-four years, and a Senior Professor at the Southeast Center for Photographic Studies (a consortium comprising the Daytona State College School of Photography, University of Central Florida – Daytona Photography Program, and the Southeast Museum of Photography). Dan was founding director of the DBCC Gallery of Fine Arts, organizing more than 500 exhibitions, lectures, workshops and seminars during his twelve-year tenure, and served on many state and national arts panels. He played a leading role in the creation of the Southeast Museum of Photography.