About Me
Dan Gilhooley is an artist, psychoanalyst and teacher. Born in 1950 in Racine, Wisconsin, he graduated with an A.B. and M.A in Studio Art from Hunter College, City University of New York where he was the student Tony Smith, Robert Swain, Doug Ohlson, Lynda Benglis, and Ron Gorchov. He worked as a dean and professor of visual art at Suffolk Community College on Long Island for 35 years. During his career at Suffolk he was the recipient of three SUNY Chancellor’s Awards for Administrative, Teaching, and Scholarly Excellence.
For three decades Gilhooley created drawings and paintings that document his evolving
relationships with his family. He made life-size, highly detailed portraits; drawings made from snapshots of his childhood; and mystical mixed media pieces combining realism and abstraction (Instagram.com/dangilhooley/). As a practicing artist Gilhooley participated nationally in over 125 group shows and held 18 one-person exhibitions. He was elected to the National Academy of Design in 1991. In 1995 he received a Gradiva Award for Art contributing to an understanding of psychoanalysis by the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis. The fall 2005 issue of Drawing magazine contained a 16-page feature article on his work highlighting his association of art and psychotherapy.
Gilhooley also earned an M.A. and doctorate in clinical psychoanalysis from the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis, and a certificate in psychoanalysis from the Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies. His dissertation,Stepping back: An Empirical Study of Regression in the Analytic Hour, was supervised by Wilma Bucci, Stephen Soldz, and Robert Marshall. In 2007 he was a Fellow in the IPA Psychoanalytic Research Training Program at Yale University. Beginning in 2006 he has taught at CMPS and the New York Graduate School of Psychoanalysis. Since 2000 Gilhooley has practiced as a NYS licensed psychoanalyst. He has published articles and book chapters (mla.hcommons.org/members/dangilhooley/) describing the therapeutic process and spoken at national conferences on topics such as altered states of consciousness, telepathy and exceptional experiences, dreaming and creativity, and intersubjectivity. His book,Psychoanalysis, Intersubjective Writing, and a Post-Materialist Model of Mind: I Woke up Dead (Routledge), written in collaboration with his patient, Frank Toich, won a Gradiva Award for Best Psychoanalytic Book in 2020.