Dan Attoe

Dan Attoe is a painter, sculptor, and founder of the art group Paintallica. Attoe left the group in 2017, citing the creative differences. He is represented by Western Exhibitions, Chicago and works with The Hole, New York and L.A. Attoe was born in Bremerton, Washington in 1975 and moved through Idaho, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Iowa before choosing his current location Washougal, Washington where he owns and operates a tattoo shop - Dan's Tattoos.

Attoe attended the University of Wisconsin-Marathon County and the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he first studied psychology, and later art. During college, he worked at the Wausau Metals factory - now known as Wausau Window and Wall Systems. While he was there, among other projects, they made the windows and aluminum panels for the Getty Center in Los Angeles. He earned his bachelor's degree from UW- Madison in 1998. From 1998 to 2001 he worked at The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, first as security and maintenance, then on the installation crew. He earned his M.F.A. at the University of Iowa in Iowa City in 2004.

Attoe's work often touches on the grittier parts of both rural and urban life colored with a mystical form of existentialism.[1]