David Humphrey

DAVID HUMPHREY
Born 1955
Lives and works in New York

Education
1980
MA, New York University, NY
1977
BFA,  Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD

1996-97
New York Studio School

Honors and Awards

2011
American Academy of Arts and Letters, purchase award
2008
Rome Prize, American Academy in Rome
2002
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
Thomas B. Clarke Prize from the National Academy of Design
1995
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
1987
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
1985
New York Council for the Arts Grant
1979-80
New York Council for the Arts Grant
2008-2009
Rome Prize, American Academy in Rome

Solo Exhibitions

2020
Pamela Salisbury, Hudson, NY
Fredericks and Freiser, NY
2018
Fredericks and Freiser, NY
Banner Day, Crush Curatorial, Amagansett, NY
2017
I’m Glad We Had This Conversation, Fredericks and Freiser, NY
Real Estate Fine Arts, Brooklyn, NY
2016
Between Animal and Machine, Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2014
Work and Play, Fredericks and Freiser, NY
Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta, GA
A Horse Walks into a Painting, Protocol Gallery, Gainesville, FL
2012
Fredericks & Freiser, New York, NY
Katzen Center, American University Museum, Washington DC
2011
Lamar Dodd School of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
2010
Lux Institute, Encinitas, CA
Solomon Projects, Atlanta, GA
Defrosted, a life of Walt Disney in collaboration with Adam Cvijanovic, Postmasters, NY
Animal Companions, in collaboration with Jennifer Coates, Holly Coulis and Ridley Howard, Andracx
2008
Expecting Ecstasy, Parisian Laundry, Montreal, Canada
2007
Keith Talent Gallery, London
Fred Amaya Gallery, Miami, FL
2006
New Paintings, Solomon Projects, Atlanta, GA
Frederic Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL
Snowman in Love, Triple Candie, NY
2005
Oven Stuffer Roaster, Morsel, NY
2004
Brent Sikkema Gallery, New York, NY
2002
Both Less and More, Littlejohn Contemporary,    New York, NY
Lace, Bubbles, Milk, Pittsburgh Filmakers’ New Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA (catalogue)
Holiday Melt, Solomon Projects, Atlanta, GA
Holiday Melt, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL
2001
Holiday Melt, Saks Fifth Avenue Project Art, Palm Beach, FL
University of Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
2000
McKee Gallery, New York, NY
1999
Sculptures, Deven Golden Fine Art Ltd, New York, NY
Me and My Friends, The Phillip Feldman Gallery, Pacific Northwest
College of Art, Portland, OR
1998
Love Teams, Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL (catalogue)
Works on Paper, Roy G Biv Gallery, Columbus, OH
1997
Team SHaG, collaborative paintings by A. Sillman, D. Humphrey and E. Greene
Postmasters, New York, NY
Sculptures, Deven Golden Fine Art Ltd, New York, NY
1996
Nancy Solomon Gallery, Atlanta, GA
David Humphrey: Paintings and Drawings 1987-1994, Wood Street Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA (catalogue)
Head: Recent Paintings, I Space, Chicago, IL
1995
David Humphrey: Paintings and Drawings 1987-1994,
The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH (catalogue)
Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1993
McKee Gallery, New York, NY
1992
Patricia Shea Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1991
Bergstrom-Mahler Museum, Neenah, WI (catalogue)
Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
McKee Gallery, New York, NY
1990
Krygier\Landau Contemporay Art, Santa Monica, CA
David McKee Gallery, New York, NY

Selected Reviews and Publications

2017
Two Coates of Paint, Jonathan Stevenson
Artcritical, Dennis Kardon
Culture Catch, Milree Hughes
2014
Interview with Jennifer Samet, Beer with a Painter, Hyperallergic
2012 Interview with Phong Bui in The Brooklyn Rail
Hilary Harkness, the Huffington Post
David Brody, Art Critical
Ara Marjian, Artforum.com
Raphael Rubenstein, Art in America
2010
Karen Rosenberg, New York Times
TJ Carlin, Time Out, 2/9

Selected Group Exhibitions

2021
Re: Representation, curated by Dan Cameron, Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans
Preternatural, Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta GA
2020
Feels Good, curated by Austen Lee, Jeffery Deitch, NY
2019
Re-New, Postmasters, Roma
2016
Conference of the Birds, Shirley Fiterman Art Center, NY
Representing Rainbows, Gerald Peters Gallery, NY
2010
Visible Vagina, David Nolan Gallery, New York, NY
Animal as Other, curated by April Gornik, Danese Gallery, New York, NY
Knock Knock: Who’s There? That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore – Curated by Elana Rubinfeld & Sarah Murkett
Spring Fever, curated by Ridley Howard and Nicole Russo106 Green, Brooklyn, NY
2009
Chunky Monkey, Red Flagg, NY
Spazi Aperti, Romanian Academy, Rome, Italy
2008
Perversions of Theater, Apex Art, New York, NY
2007
Inside the Pale, Thrust Projects, New York, NY
Mr President, University Art Museum, SUNY Albany, NY
Neointegrity, Derek Eller Gallery, NY
2006
Complicit,  University of Virginia Art Museum, Richmond, VA
Normal, Linda Warren Gallery, Chicago, IL
2005
Jeff Gauntt & David Humphrey, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY
Life and Limb, Feigen Contemporary, New York, NY
2004
When I Think of You I Touch Myself, New York Academy of Art, New York
2003
New Prints, McKee Gallery, New York, NY
4 x 4, Artist’s Union, St. Petersburg, Russia
Pop thru Out, Araio Gallery, Choongchungnma, Korea (catalogue)
The Burbs, DFN Gallery, New York, NY (catalogue)
2002
Pasted On, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL
Super Natural Payground, Gallerie Marella, Milan Italy (catalogue)
177th Annual, National Academy of Design Musuem, New York, NY (catalogue)
Hair Stories, Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York, NY
Words in Deeds, PICA, Portland ,OR
Someone’s Been Telling Lies, Forde Gallery, Geneva Switzerland
Luscious Too, Zolla/Lieberman, Chicago, IL
2001
Fhuh…, Fishtank Gallery, New York, NY
Self Made Men, DC Moore Gallery, NY
2000
Objects that Flicker, Solomon Projects, Atlanta, GA
Exit Art, New York, NY
Rapture, Janet Phelps, New York, NY
The Figure, Another Side of Modernism, Snug Harbor
Art Center, NY (catalogue)
Collaborations, Bucknell University Art Gallery, Lewisburg, PA
Toys, Kagan Martos Gallery, New York, NY
1999
Drawing in the Present Tense, Parsons School of Design, NY
Body Parts, Pewabic Pottery, Detroit, MI
1998
The Mind Is a Beast, The Work Space, NY
Road Show, dfn Gallery, NY
1997
La Tradicion, Performance Painting, Exit Art, New York, NY
Lubiana Biennial, Lubiana, Slovenia (catalogue)
Drawn & Quartered,  Karen McCready Fine Art, New York, NY
Hair-Do, Curated by Nancy Brett, The Work Space, New York, NY
1996
Thing,  Deven Golden Fine Art, New York, NY
Photographism (in painting), Pratt Galleries, New York, NY
Face, One Great Jones, New York, NY (catalogue)
Some Friends In My Apartment, Barbara Pollack, New York, NY
Psycho-Morphing, Caren Golden Fine Art, New York, NY
True Bliss, LACE, Los Angeles, CA (catalogue)
1995
Crystal Blue Persuassion, Feature, New York, NY
Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC (catalogue)
Internal/External, Foster Goldstrom Gallery, New York, NY  (catalogue)
More Than Real, Gallery 400, University of Illinois at Chicago,  IL
On Target, Horodner Romley Gallery, New York, NY
Arresting Images, Gallery 400, University of Illinois at Chicago, IL
1994
Digressions, Caren Golden Fine Art, New York, NY
Flooding Camera, The Work Space, New York, NY
Family Values, Russet Lederman Productions
1993
Art in the Age of Information, Wood Street Galleries and 808 Penn Modern, Pittsburgh, PA (catalogue)
Pittsburgh Collects, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA
Appraising the Preternatural, Patricia Shea Gallery, Santa Monica,  CA (organized by Sue Spaid and Michael Anderson)
Psychological Impact, Northampton Community College,  Bethlehem, PA (curated by Rhonda Wall)
Robert Morrison Gallery, New York
Personal Imagery, Chicago/New York, Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York, NY
43rd Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary Painting, The Corcoran Gallery  of Art, Washington, D.C. (catalogue)
1992
Dysfunction in the Family Album, Diane Brown Gallery, New York,  NY, (curated by David Humphrey)
Underthings, Bliss, Pasadena, CA
(Drawing) Pictures, Four Walls at P.S. 1, Long Island City, NY, (organized by Amy Sillman)
Hair, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, W I
1991
Personal Portrait, Annina Nosei Gallery, NY
Mute, Solo Gallery, New York, NY (curated by Susan Tallman)
Expressive Visions and Exquisite Images:  Two Aspects of Art of  the 80’s From The Richard Brown Baker Collection,     Meadowbrook Art Gallery, Oakland University, CA     (catalogue)
Landscape as Stage, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA (organized by  Meyer Raphael Rubenstein)
1990
Prints & Monotypes, Pelavin Editions, New York, NY
Faces, Marc Richards Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Unique Print: 70’s into the 90’s, Museum of Fine Art, Boston, MA (catalogue)

Selected Writings by David Humphrey
(In addition to this list, Humphrey wrote regularly for Art issues magazine until 2001 and more recently for Art in America. Catalogue essays include Catherine Howe, Jill Giegerich, Laurence Hegarty and Katherine Kuharic, Julie Heffernan and Ian Dawson)
2009
Blind Handshake: art writing + art 1990 – 2008
2005
“Hi, My Name is Artwork,” M/E/A/N/I/N/G Online #1, University of                 Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
1996
“Describable  Beauty,” New Observations #113.
“On the Fantastic,” Tema Celeste.
1993
“Telepathy” (a collaborative artists’ book project with Bill Jones).
“The Abject Romance of Low Resolution,” Lusitania, Vol. 1 #4.
1990
“Hair Piece,” Art issues, February.
“Stained Sheets/Holy Shroud,” Arts Magazine, December
1987
“The Dictator’s Body,” Stanford Italian Review (drawings)

Curated Exhibitions
2007
Horizon, EFA Gallery, New York, NY
2006
19 Penis’ thebody.com/visualaids/web_gallery
2005
Life and Limb, Feigen Contemporary, New York, NY
2004
When I Think of You I Touch Myself, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
2002
Hello to Handmade Words, K.S. Art, New York, NY
2001
Fhuh, Promiscuously Subarticulate Paintings, Fishtank,  New York, NY
1997
Normotic, One Great Jones, New York, NY
1992
Dysfunction in the Family Album, Diane Brown Gallery,  New York, NY
1990
Stained Sheets: Holy Shroud, Krygier/Landau Contemporary Art,
Santa Monica, CA

Selected Reviews and Publications
2007
Bors, Chris, www.artinfo.com/articles/story/26151
2006
Bors, Chris, Snowmen in Harlem, Artnet. com

2005
“Artist of the Week,” Edward Winkelman Blogspot, January 10.
2004
Kalm, James. “David Humphrey,” Brooklyn Rail, May.
Pepe, Sheila. ” What’s in a Game?” Gay City News, April 22-28.
2003
Green, Elliot. “David Humphrey, ” Bomb, Fall.
Rubinstein, Raphael. “David Humphrey: Correlative Kitsch,”  Art in America, November.
2002
Johnson, Ken. “Tricky Adios,” New York Times, June 7
2000
Cullum, Jerry. “ Poodles, Ice Cream and the Way We Live,” Atlanta

Journal-Constitution, March 22
Feaster, Felicia. “Kitsch on Quaaludes,” Creative Loafing, Atlanta, GA
2000
Diehl, Carol, “David Humphrey at McKee Gallery,” Art in America, June.
Chambers, Christopher, “The Splice of Life,” D, Art, Fall.
Wiken, Karen, Partisan, Spring.
1999
“A Conversation with Catherine Howe,” NY Arts, February.
“A Conversation with Scott Weiland,” NY Arts, July/August.
DiMaggio, Anthony.  Review, June 15.
1998
Camper, Fred. Chicago Reader, April 17.
Cone, Jon. Art Byte, December-January.
1995
Plagens, Peter. “A Painter’s Pixel Palette”, Newsweek,
February 27.
Stein, Jerry. “Family photos take role in artist’s paintings”,
The Cincinnati Post, April 8.
Findsen, Owen. “Mysterious narratives enter new art dimension”,
The Cincinnati Enquirer, April 11.
Heisler, Eva. ” Computer Gargoyoles”, Dialogue, September/October.
Hirsch, Faye. “On Paper,” September/October.
1994
Cameron, Dan. “Art for the New Year,” Art and Auction, January.
1993
Weiner, Daniel. “Studio Visits,” (interview with David Humphrey ) Artspace, March/April.
Miller, Donald. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, March 13.
Sanchez, Annette B. “Art in the Age of Information: Thought-Provoking,”  New Pittsburgh Courier, April 17.
Richard, Paul. “What’s Wrong with this Picture,” The Washington Post, October 31.
Hagen, Charles. “David Humphrey,” The New York Times, November 26.
Shirley, David. Option Magazine, October.
1992
Hagen, Charles. “Dysfunction in the Family Album,” The New York Times, January 31.
Homes, A.M. “Dysfunction in the Family Album,” Artforum, May.
Scarborough, James. “David Humphrey at Patricia Shea,” Artweek, October 8.
1992
Weisman, Benjamin. “David Humphrey – Patricia Shea Gallery,” Artforum, November.
Wye, Pamela. “David Humphrey: Adjusting the Picture” Sulfur 30,  Spring.
Anderson, Michael. “David Humphrey,” Art Issues, November/December.
1991
Lading, Sara. “Artist Illustrates Relationship Between Anatomy, Emotion,” Valley Sun, January 31.
Baker, Kenneth. “David Humphrey: Walk on the Weird Side,” San Francisco Chronicle, February 9.
Bartlett, Mark. “David Humphrey,” Art issues, April/May.
Rubinstein, Meyer Raphael. “David Humphrey at David McKee,”
Art in America, July.
Cyphers, Peggy. Arts Magazine, September.
“David Humphrey,” Journal of Comtemporary Art, Vol. 4, #2, Fall/Winter.
1990
Spector, Buzz. “Stained Sheets/Holy Shroud,” Art issues, September/October.
“David Humphrey,” The New Yorker, April 23.

Private and Public Collections
Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA
Chemical Bank, New York, NY
Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, OH
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
Exxon Corporation, New York, NY
First Bank Minneapolis, Minneapolis, MN
Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ
McCrory Corporation, New York, NY
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Museum of Fine Art, Boston, MA
The Progressive Corporation, OH
Prudential Insurance Corporation, Newark, NJ
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN