Daniel Tucker

Daniel Tucker is an arts leader who helps artists, activists, and organizations to create impactful work. He has been sought out for the last two decades as a curatorial, programming and editorial consultant for a range of organizations across the country: KADIST, Mural Arts Philadelphia, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, A Blade of Grass, Creative Time, the University of California Institute for Research in the Arts, Northwestern University’s Block Museum, the Inclusive Museums conference, the Alliance of Artist Communities, and the National Alliance of Media Arts and Culture, The Library Company of Philadelphia, The University of Pennsylvania Press, the Sachs Program for Arts Innovation, Philadelphia Housing and Development Authority’s Percent for Art Program, and Express Newark’s community-university initiative, among others. His early projects were rooted in Chicago and included the publication AREA Chicago and the oral history and archiving initiative Never The Same with Rebecca Zorach. As a curator, his exhibitions have toured nationally and internationally. He recently developed the Curating Engagement Retreat with the support of Wagner Foundation and Public Trust. Lastgaspism: Art and Survival in the Age of Pandemic (Soberscove, 2022), his last co-authored book with Anthony Romero and Dan S. Wang, was picked as a “Best Art Book of 2022” by Hyperallergic. Tucker is the chair of the international Arts in Society Research Network and recently hosted their annual conference in Seoul, South Korea in 2024, and is preparing one in Athens, Greece for June 2026. He has led graduate programs in museum studies and socially-engaged art for the last decade and is currently a fellow with the Center for Experimental Ethnography at the University of Pennsylvania and the Engaged Humanities Studio at Swarthmore College. Since 2023, he has organized the ongoing Eco-Social Salon, Site-Seeing, and Screening Series in Philadelphia, where he lives with his family.