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BORN
1954 Reno, Nevada
Lives and works in New York
EDUCATION
1976 B.F.A., Parsons School of Design, New York
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009 "20th Anniversary Exhibition", Bill Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, GA
-- The Greenhouse Project, Studio Swan, Palmetto, GA
-- The Greenhouse Project and New Landscapes, Alan Avery Fine Art, Atlanta, GA
2008 "Michael David: Old School", Mason Murer, Atlanta, GA
2007 “Michael David: Painting and Photography,” The Lowe Gallery,
Atlanta, GA
2006 “Compassion,” The Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, GA
-- “Michael David: New Encaustic Painting,” Wooster Projects, New
York, NY
2001 “Michael David,” The Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2000 “New Encaustic Paintings,” Knoedler and Company, New York, NY
1999 “Michael David,” The Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, GA
1998 “Cruciforms,” Meredith Long and Company, Houston, TX
-- “New Work,” Dorothy Blau, Bay Harbor, FL
1997 “Michael David,” Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
-- “Michael David,” Knoedler and Company, New York, NY
1995 “Michael David,” Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
-- “The Poured Image,” Knoedler and Company, New York, NY
1994 “Paintings and Works on Paper,” Meredith Long and Company,
Houston, TX
-- “Paintings,” Margulies Taplin Gallery, Boca Raton, FL
1993 “The Wolfen Series,” Knoedler and Company, New York, NY
-- “Michael David,” Irving Galleries, Palm Beach, FL
1992 “Michael David,” Margulies Taplin Gallery, Boca Raton, FL
-- “Painted Collage,” Knoedler and Company, New York, NY
1991 “Paintings on Paper,” Meredith Long Gallery, Houston, TX
-- “The Georgia Series,” Solo Gallery, New York, NY
-- “New Paintings: The Georgia Series,” Knoedler and Company, NY
1990 “Six Paintings,” Meredith Long Gallery, Houston, TX
-- “Works on Paper,” Knoedler and Company, New York, NY
1989 “New Work,” Knoedler and Company, New York, NY
1988 “New Work,” Meredith Long and Company, Houston, TX
-- “Golem and Other Prints,” The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New
York, NY
-- “New Paintings: Invisible Cities,” Compass Rose Gallery, Chicago,
IL
1987 “New Paintings,” The Greensberg Gallery, St. Louis, MO
-- “Paintings and Drawings,” Knoedler and Company, New York, NY
-- “Recent Works,” Knoedler Gallery, London, England
1986 “Recent Painting,” Knoedler and Company, New York, NY
1984 “New Paintings,” Knoedler and Company, New York, NY
-- “Paintings,” Dart Gallery, Chicago, IL
1983 “Michael David,” Hamilton Gallery, New York, NY
1982 “Michael David,” Hamilton Gallery, New York, NY
1981 “New Paintings: Evolutions of the Symbol,” Sidney Janis
Gallery, New York, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2006 “Unspoken Connections,” The Lowe Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2004 The 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
1997 “Michael David and James Hyde,” Margulies Taplin Gallery, Coral
Gables, FL
1996 “Different Sides:
Drawings/Photographs/Prints/Paintings/Sculpture,” Knoedler and
Company, New York, NY
1994 “Summer Group Exhibition 1994,” Knoedler and Company, New York,
NY
-- “Michael David: Paintings / Nicholas Pearson: Sculpture,”
Margulies Taplin Gallery, Boca Raton, FL
1992 “Group Exhibition,” Knoedler and Company, New York, NY
1991 “Group Exhibition,” Knoedler and 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 and Company, Houston,
TX
-- “New Editions,” Pace Prints, New York, NY
1988 “Golem! Danger, Deliverance, and Art,” The Jewish Museum, New
York, NY
-- “1988 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, participating gallery Knoedler and 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,” The Jewish
Museum, New York, NY
-- “Public and Private American Prints Today,” Brooklyn Museum,
Brooklyn, NY
1985 “A Decade of Visual Arts at Princeton: 1975-1985,” The Art
Museum, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
-- “With an Eye to Nature,” Jeffrey Hoffeld and Company, New York,
NY
1984 “Off the Landscape,” Grand Central Galleries, New York, NY
-- “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 Gallery, 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 “Bobsand 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
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, VA
Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, NY
Commodities Corporation, Princeton, NJ
Dannheiser Foundation, New York, NY
De Cordova and Dana Museum and Park, Lincoln, MA
The Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
The Edward Albee Foundation, New York, NY
Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN
The ITT Collection, New York, NY
The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
List Art Center, Brown University, Providence, RI
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Neuberger Museum, State University at Purchase, NY
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
The Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS AND REVIEWS
Ackley, Clifford S, “Michael David,” The Print Collector’s Newletter
(September -
October 1987): 137.
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.
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).
Gomez, Edward M., “Improvised Images in Molten Wax, as Fluid as
Jazz,” The New York Times (May 16, 1999): Section 2, 31-32.
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, Garrit, “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).
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.
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).
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.
Tallman, Susan, “Michael David at Knoedler,” Art in America (October
1991): 156.
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.
AWARDS AND GRANTS
1984 The Guggenheim Fellowship
1983 National Endowment for the Arts
1982 The Edward Albee Foundation, Montauk, NY
-- The American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, Art
Award, New York, NY
-- The Meet the Composer Grant, New York, NY
-- Guest Professor - Advanced Painting, Princeton University,
Princeton, NJ
1981 The Edward Albee Foundation, Montauk, NY
1980 The Edward Albee Foundation, Montauk, NY
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