Dan Gilhooley is an artist, teacher and psychoanalyst. Born in 1950 in Racine, Wisconsin, he graduated with an A.B. and M.A in Fine Art from Hunter College. He has been a dean and professor of visual art at Suffolk Community College on Long Island for 35 years. He earned an M.A. and doctoral degree in psychoanalysis from the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis, and since 2006 he has taught at the New York Graduate School of Psychoanalysis.
For the past thirty years Gilhooley has made drawings that document his evolving relationships with family members. These pictures fall into three categories: life-size, highly detailed portraits of family members made at significant moments in their lives; drawings of family groupings depicting relationships among family members; and a collection of drawings made from snapshots from his childhood that give the viewer a feeling of altered recollection.
Since 2000 Gilhooley has practiced as a psychoanalyst. He has published papers describing the therapeutic process, written a book in collaboration with a patient, and spoken at a dozen national conferences on topics such as altered states of consciousness, dreaming and creativity, intersubjectivity, and mind/matter interaction.
