CV
BORN
1954 in Reno, Nevada
RESIDES
Lives and works in Brooklyn, Tivoli, NY, and Atlanta, GA
EDUCATION
1975 -76 SUNY Fredonia
1976 – 1977 B.F.A. Parsons School of Design
SOLO EXHIBiTIONS (selected)
2022
Michael David, The Mirror Stage, Johnson Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, GA
(November 11, 2022 – January 7, 2023)
2021
Castle Hill Center for the Arts with Brenda Goodman, Truo, Mass
2011
New Paintings: Bill Lowe Gallery, AT
2010
Michael David, New Encaustic Works, The Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, GA
New Paintings, The Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ (Nov 4 – 28)
Post Mammalian Tension, Michael David & Scott Browning, Bill Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, GA
(October 15, 2010 – January 3, 2011)
2009
Michael David: Chortens, The Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, GA
The Greenhouse Project and New Landscapes, Alan Avery Fine Art, Atlanta, GA
2007
Michael David: Painting and Photography, The Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2006
Compassion, The Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Michael David: Photography, The Lowe Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Chortens and Golems: New Encaustic Paintings, Wooster Projects, New York, NY
2004
Michael David: New Paintings, Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
2002
Michael David: New Paintings, The Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2001
Michael David, The Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2000
Michael David: New Encaustic Paintings, Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
1999
Michael David, The Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Michael David: New Encaustic Paintings, Knoedler & Company, New York, NY
1998
Michael David: Cruciforms, Meredith Long and Company, Houston, TX
Dorothy Blau, Bay Harbor, Florida: “Michael David: New Work”
1997
Michael David, Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
Michael David: Insets and Symbols 1994-1997, Knoedler & Company, New York, NY
Michael David & Scott Browning, Post Mammalian Tension, Bill Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, GA
1995
Michael David, The Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
The Poured Image, Knoedler & Company, New York, NY
1994
Paintings and Works on Paper, Meredith Long & Company, Houston, TX Paintings, Margulies Taplin Gallery, Boca Raton, FL
1993
The Wolfen Series, Knoedler & Company, New York, NY Michael David, Irving Galleries, Palm Beach, FL
1992
Michael David, Margulies Taplin Gallery, Boca Raton, FL Painted Collage, Knoedler & Company, New York, NY
1991
Paintings on Paper, Meredith Long & Company, Houston, TX The Georgia Series, Solo Gallery, New York, NY
New Paintings: The Georgia Series, Knoedler & Company, NY
1990
Michael David: Six Paintings, Meredith Long & Company, Houston, TX
Michael David: Works on Paper, Knoedler & Company, New York, NY
1989
Michael David: New Work, Knoedler & Company, New York, NY
1988
Michael David:New Work, Meredith Long & Company, Houston, TX
Michael David: Golem and Other Prints, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Michael David, New Paintings: Invisible Cities, Compass Rose Gallery, Chicago, IL
1987
Michael David: New Paintings, The Greenberg Gallery, St. Louis, MO
Michael David: Paintings and Drawings, Knoedler & Company, New York, NY
Michael David: Recent Works, Knoedler Gallery, London, UK
1986
Michael David: Recent Paintings, Knoedler & Company, New York, NY
1984
Michael David: New Paintings, Knoedler & Company, New York, NY
Michael David: Paintings, Dart Gallery, Chicago, IL
1983
Michael David, Hamilton Gallery, New York, NY
1982
Michael David, Hamilton Gallery, New York, NY
1981
Michael David, New Paintings: Evolutions of the Symbol, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
Radiate, Garvey Simon, New York, NY
2021
Selections from NYFA – Courtesy of the Martin Z. Margulies Foundation, New York, NY
2020
Annual Group Exhibition, Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
Hampton’s Virtual Art Fair, Johnson Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Bill Lowe Gallery Presents: Masterworks from the Gallery Collection, Johnson Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2019
Bold Moves: Black and White Works, Johnson Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2018
Out of 145 Degrees Fahrenheit, Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
2016
The Golem, The Jewish Museum of Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2014
Gallery Artists, Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
2011
Post Mammalian Tension, Michael David & Scott Browning, Bill Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, GA
(October 15, 2010 – January 3, 2011)
New Paintings, The Bentley Gallery ,Scottsdale AZ
New Paintings: Bill Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, GA
New Paintings, The Chmar Gallery, Santa Fe, NE
2006
Bill Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2002
Unexpected Selections from the Martin Z. Margulies Collection: Art from 1985 to the Present, The Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami, FL
1999
Waxing Poetic: Encaustic Art in America, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
Forty Years of American Drawings, Raab Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Germany Summertime, Knoedler & Company, New York, NY
1997
Michael David and James Hyde, Margulies Taplin Gallery, Coral Gables, FL
Contemporary Masterworks, Knoedler & Company, New York, NY
Drawing the Lines: New York City Subways, Michael Ingbar Gallery of Industrial Art, New York, NY
1996
Different Sides: Drawings/Photographs/Prints/Paintings/Sculpture, Knoedler & Company, New York, NY
1994
Summer Group Exhibition 1994, Knoedler & Company, New York, NY
Michael David: Paintings / Nicholas Pearson: Sculpture, Margulies Taplin Gallery, Boca Raton, FL
1992
Group Exhibition, Knoedler & Company, New York, NY
1991
Group Exhibition, Knoedler & Company, New York, NY
Working with Wax: Ten Contemporary Artists, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY
1990
Heland Wetterling Gallery Shows Knoedler Gallery Artists, Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
Works on Paper, The Harcus Gallery, Boston, MA
1989
Projects and Portfolios: The 25th Print National, The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Important Works on Paper, Meredith Long & Company, Houston, TX
New Editions, Pace Prints, New York, NY
1988
Golem! Danger, Deliverance, and Art, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
Invitational, New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT
Seventeen Years at the Barn: Highlights of the Edward F. Albee Foundation, Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, NY
1987
Monotypes, Pace Editions, New York, NY
Working in Brooklyn/Painting, The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Art Against AIDS, Benefit exhibition and art sale held throughout New York for the benefit of the American Foundation for AIDS Research, participating gallery Knoedler & Company, New York, NY
Jewish Themes: Contemporary American Artists, Spertus, Chicago, IL
1986
First Impressions: Recent Monotypes by 15 Artists, Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, NY
Saints and Sinners: Contemporary Responses to Religion, De Cordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
Jewish Themes: Contemporary American Artists II, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
Public and Private American Prints Today, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY (travelled to: Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN)
1985
A Decade of Visual Arts at Princeton: 1975-1985, The Art Museum, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
With an Eye to Nature, Jeffrey Hoffeld & Company, New York, NY
1984
Off the Landscape, Grand Central Galleries, New York, NY (curated by Peter Frank) Cunningham Dance Foundation Benefit, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY
Invitational Painting Exhibition, Part I: Twelve Abstract Painters, Seigel Contemporary, New York, NY
Small Paintings, Jeffrey Hoffeld & Company, New York, NY
1983
Calaway, David, Nelson, Hamilton Gallery, New York, NY
1982
Sounds and Visions, Rockland Center for the Arts, West Nyack, NY
Group Show, Hamilton Gallery, New York, NY
The Crucifix Show, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY
Elaine de Kooning’s Inadvertent Collection, Elaine Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY
Work by Newly Elected Members and Recipients of Honors and Awards, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
Paintings and Sculptures by Candidates for Art Awards, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
1981
New Visions, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
New Directions—Contemporary American Art from the Commodities Corporate Collection, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY
1980
Bobs and New York City Volunteers, Municipal Parking Garage, New York, NY
Seven Young Americans, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY
1979
Story Mann’s Possum Head—In a Pictorial Framework, The New Museum, New York, NY
1978
Black and White on Paper, The Nobe Gallery, New York, NY (curated by David Boyce)
1977
Six New Painters, The SoHo Center for the Visual Arts, New York, NY
Sixth Annual Contemporary Reflections, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
SELECTED PERMANENT PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Best & Co, Richmond, Virginia
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York
Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, New York
Commodities Corporation, Princeton, New Jersey
Elaine Dannheiser Foundation, New York, New York
DeCordova and Dana Museum and Park, Lincoln, Massachusetts
Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado
Edward Albee Foundation, New York, New York
Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, Indiana
Houston Museum of Contemporary Art, Houston, Texas
ITT Collection, New York, New York
Jewish Museum, New York, New York
List Art Center, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
Margulies Collection in Miami, Miami, Florida
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
Neuberger Museum, State University of New York, Purchase, New York
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York
AWARDS
1983 Guggenheim Fellowship
1983 The National Endowment of the Arts
1982 American Academy of Arts and Letters Award
1982 Meet The Composer Grant
1981-1984 Edward F. Albee Foundation Fellowship
1983 Yaddo Fellowship
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Monographies
Exhibition catalogue. Michael David Evolution of the Symbol (April 9-May 2), published by Sidney Janis Gallery (1981).
Exhibition Catalogue with an essay by Emily Bilski, published by Knoedler Gallery and Company.
Exhibition Catalogue with an essay by Lowery Sims, published by Meredith Long Gallery.
A Conversation between Michael David and Lowery Sims, Meredith Long Gallery (February 1, 1995).
Exhibition Catalogue. Requiem for a Gangster, with an essay by Peter Frank, published by Bill Lowe Gallery. Exhibition Catalogue. Michael David: New Encaustic Paintings, with an essay by Gail Stavitsky, published by Knoedler & Company and Bentley Gallery, 1999-2000.
Publications
Exhibition Catalogue, the Aspen Museum, 1995.
Exhibition Catalogue. Golem, Jewish Museum, 1984.
Exhibition Catalogue. Golem, Jewish Museum, 2016.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS AND REVIEWS
Ackley, Clifford S, “Michael David,” The Print Collector’s Newsletter (September – October 1987): 137.
Bilski, Emily D., “Michael David: From Doppelganger toward Entelechy,” (March 6, 1990).
Bottino, Carroll Ann, “DeCordova Takes a Look at the ‘Saints and Sinners’,” Lincoln Journal, (December 4, 1986): 8.
Boyce, David B., “Michael David: New Abstraction and the Transcendent Metaphor,” Arts Magazine (October 1983): 62-65.
Brenson, Michael, “Critics’ Choices, Art,” The Guide, The New York Times (April 21, 1985): G2.
—“Bringing Fresh Approaches To Age-Old Jewish Themes,” The New York Times (August 3, 1986): H27, 32.
Cullum, Jerry, “A Desperate and Honest Search: Some Notes on New Works by Michael David,” Atlanta Journal Constitution Newspaper, December 1, 2006
Damsker, Matt, “1988 Invitational show at New Britain Museum,” The Hartford Courant, (March 27, 1988).
David, Michael, “Art of Hot Wax and Dogs,” The Aspen Times (June 10, 11, 1995): 1B, 13B.
Derrickson, Howard, “Abstract show at Greenberg Triumph of Metaphor and Mystery,” West End Word (October 1, 1987): 20.
Fraile, Stephen, “…” The Print Collector’s Newsletter XVI, no. 3 (July 1985).
Peter Frank, “Michael David: Faith in Painting,” (December 1, 2006).
Gomez, Edward M., “Improvised Images in Molten Wax, as Fluid as Jazz,” The New York Times (May 16, 1999)
Gongard, Willi, “David at Janis,” Art Aktuell, April 1981.
Haggerty, Gerard, “Michael David’s New Paintings: The Georgia Series,” Cover Arts Magazine (Summer 1991): 8.
Hanson, Bernard, “New Britain Museum’s 1988 Invitational Exhibit,” The Middletown Press, (May 5, 1988).
Harris, Susan, “Michael David,” Arts Magazine (December 1982): 46.
Henry, Garrett, “Michael David at Hamilton,” Art in America (January 1984): 124.
J, H., “Sieben Amerikaner der Gegenwart,” Kunst (April 18, 1980).
Jessup, Sally, “Seven Young Americans,” Art/World (April 19/May 17, 1980).
Koch, Liz, “Not Just a Bunch of Brooklyn Painters,” The Phoenix, (June 25, 1987): 13 – 14.
Kramer, Hilton, “Seven Young Americans,” The New York Times (April 18, 1980).
Kuspit, Donald, “Michael David: Knoedler and Company,” ArtForum (January 2000).
Kuspit, Donald, “Michael David’s Burgeoning Populations” essay for Low Catalogue and for Nodler (December 6, 2002).
Kuspit, Donald, “Immediacy Redivivus: Michael David’s Paintings,” Catalog essay, published by Knoedler and Company (December 6, 2006).
Larson, Kay and Rickey, Carrie, “Art: Seven Young Americans,” The Village Voice (April 28, 1980).
Mahoney, Robert, “Sacred Iconoclasm: Exercising Painting’s Ancient Demons,” Cover Arts Magazine (September 1993): 13.
Moorman, Margaret, “An Eclectic Brooklyn Show,” New York Newsday (August 7, 1987).
Morgan, Robert, “Abstract Pictorialism,” publication unknown.
Nicholson, Stuart, “The Poured Image,” Cover Arts Magazine (March 1995): 24-25.
O’Neil, Gail, “Artist draws from punk rock and shattered glass for works at Lowe Gallery,” The Atlanta Journal Constitution (November 17, 2022).
Potter, Thomas F., “Contemporary Art Show will Appeal to All Art Lovers,” Meriden Record, (March 19, 1988).
Ruzicka, Joseph, “Michael and the Wolfen,” Upper Eastside Resident (September 23 – 30, 1993).
Ruzicka, Joseph, “Michael David at Knoedler” (January 1, 1994).
Schwartzman, Allan, “Corporate Culture: The Yippie-Yuppie Artist (Jeff Koons),” Manhattan, Inc. (December 1987): 137 – 143.
Sherman, Mary, “David’s abstract art entices, grips the viewer,” Chicago Sunday Times (April 8, 1988): 82.
Silverthorne, Jeanne, “Michael David,” ArtForum (January 1984): 73.
Sjostrom, Jan, “David’s Intense Art Examines the Inner Man,” Palm Beach Daily News (March 7, 1993): B1.
Southworth, Linda, “Michael and the Wolfen,” Upper Eastside Resident (September 23 – 30, 1993).
Stapen, Nancy, “DeCordova Show Has Mass Appeal,” The Boston Herald, (November 21, 1986): W6.
Stavitsky, Gail “Waxing Poetic: Encaustic Art in America during the Twentieth Century,” (1999).
Tallman, Susan, “Michael David at Knoedler,” Art in America (October 1991): 156.
“The Mirror Stage Exhibition reflects human experience from broken to wholeness,” Michael David interviewed by Lois Reitz, WABE Radio (January 4, 2023). https://www.wabe.org/the-mirror-stage-exhibition-reflects-human-experience-from-broken-to-wholeness/
Upshaw, Reagan, “Michael David at Knoedler,” Art in America (July 1997): 95-95.
Wallach, Amei, “The Golem Legend in Many Guises,” (review: The Jewish Museum), Newsday (January 6, 1989): 15.
Zimmer, William, “Seven Young Americans,” The SoHo News (April 16, 1980): 63.
—“Michael David,” The SoHo News (April 22, 1981): 64.
—”Wax as a Medium and a Message,” The New York Times (June 6, 1999).
VIDEOS
2022
Johnson Lowe Gallery. “Michael David. The Mirror Stage. Installation,” (2022).
Johnson Lowe Gallery. “Michael David. The Mirror Stage. Studio,” (2022).
“Michael David. 2022 Encaustic Conference Keynote Address.” Produced by Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill (2022). https://vimeo.com/744357415 .
2009
Alan Avery Art Company. Michael David is the director of “The Greenhouse Project.” (September 24, 2009). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-2efhW7xp0
PROJECTS IN ART
2020 – today
Founder and director of Yellow Chair Salon
2016 – today
Director & Curator of M. David & Co. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2013 – 2016
Artistic director and curator of Life on Mars Gallery in Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY
2010
Founder and director of Fine Arts Workshop, Atlanta, GA
2002
The Greenhouse Project, Atlanta, GA
MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
1976-77
Founder and bassist of The Plasmatics, punk band with Roy Stuart and Richie Stotts