Dan Thompson has exhibited in public and private collections throughout the world, including the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the National Arts Club, the Butler Institute of American Art, the Pasadena Museum of California Art, the Forbes Galleries, the Dahesh Museum of Art, Museo MEAM de Barcelona, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Shanghai Art Museum and Beijing’s World Art Museum. He has won numerous awards, ranging from the Grand Prize, American Society of Portrait Artists; First Prize in Figure Drawing at the Salmagundi Club; as well as two Bernstein awards from the Corcoran School of Art, and being designated a Living Master by the Art Renewal Center. Thompson co-founded two art schools in New York City, and has taught master classes and workshops internationally and nationally for more than twenty years. He has held long-term teaching appointments at the Art Students League of New York, the National Academy of Design, Parsons the New School for Design and Studio Incamminati. Since 2001, he has served on the faculty of the New York Academy of Art. He currently serves as Faculty Chair of the Certificate of Fine Arts program.