MICHAEL DAVID

American, b. 1954
“David may be the most innovative master of immediate surface since the Abstract Expressionists. He has acknowledged his debt to Abstract Expressionism, but he has transformed it. Where the Abstract Expressionist paintings of the forties and fifties seem like modem cave paintings, as their crude, unfocused, often meandering, turbulent painterliness suggests, and as such to resonate prehistory, David seems to tum the cave into a temple .. ”
– Donald Kuspit

Michael David lives and works in New York. He has exhibited most recently with solo exhibitions at Private Public Gallery, Hudson (2025) and Johnson Lowe Gallery, Atlanta (2024). He has exhibited internationally since 1981, first with the renowned Sidney Janis and then with M. Knoedler & Co., Kasmin Gallery in London and he has been the subject of a solo exhibition at the Aspen Art Museum, Aspen. David’s work is held in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Guggenheim Museum, Brooklyn Museum, and the Jewish Museum (New York and Berlin); Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles); Margulies Collection and Rubell Family Collection (Miami); Houston Museum of Contemporary Art (Houston);  Denver Museum of Contemporary Art (Denver); and the Edward Albee Foundation (Montauk, NY); among others. David has been awarded fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council for the Arts, as well as residencies at Yaddo and the Edward Albee Foundation.