David Salle
Bio
1952
born in Norman, USA
1973
holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, USA
1975
received a Master of Arts degree from the California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, USA
Lives and works in New York, USA

Collections
Berardo Museum, Lisbon
Castellani Art Museum, Lewiston, USA
Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
Kiasma, Helsinki
Museo d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto, Italy
Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, USA
Portland Art Museum, Portland, USA
Saatchi Gallery, London
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
Tate Britain, London
Selected solo exhibitions
1981
David Salle. Mary Boone Gallery, New York, USA
1982
David Salle. Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, USA
1983
David Salle. Museum Boymans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands
1984
David Salle. Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, USA
1985
David Salle. Mary Boone Gallery, New York, USA
1986
David Salle. Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, USA
David Salle. Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA
1987
David Salle. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
David Salle. Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, United States
David Salle. Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
David Salle. Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, United States
David Salle. Spiral / Wacoal Art Center, Tokyo
1988
David Salle. The Menil Collection, Houston, United States
David Salle. Fundacion Caja de Pensiones, Madrid
1989
David Salle. Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Munich, Germany
David Salle. Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
1990
David Salle. Mario Diacono Gallery, Boston, United States
1992
David Salle. Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris
1993
David Salle. Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, United States
1994
David Salle. Mary Boone Gallery, New York, USA
1995
David Salle. Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich, Switzerland
1997
David Salle. Galeria Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid
1998
New Paintings. Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, United States
1999
David Salle. Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
2000
David Salle. Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico
David Salle. Museo Guggenheim de Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo, Bilbao, Spain
2001
David Salle. Gagosian Gallery, New York, USA
2002
David Salle. Galleria Cardi, Milan, Italy
2003
David Salle. Waddington Galleries, London
David Salle. Emilio Mazzoli Galleria d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
2004
Shattered worlds. Installation principles. Stella Art Foundation, Moscow
2005
The Vortex Paintings. Mary Boone Gallery, New York, USA
2007
Bearding The Lion In His Den. Deitch Projects, New York, USA
2008
David Salle. Galleri Faurschou, Copenhagen
Selected group exhibitions
1980
Apres le Classicism. Musée d’Art et Industrie et Maison de la Culture, Saint-Etienne, France
Horror Pleni. Padiglione d’Art Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
1981
Westkunst: Heute. Museum der Stadt Köln, Cologne, Germany
Young Americans. Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, United States
1982
documenta VII. Kassel, Germany
La 40 Biennale di Venezia. Venice, Italy
Focus on the Figure: Twenty Years. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
1982-1983
New York Now. Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hanover; Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Dusseldorf, Germany
1983
Directions 1983. Hirshhorn Museum, Washington
Whitney Biennale. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
New Art. Tate Gallery, London
17 Bienal de São Paulo. Sao paulo brazil
1984
An International Survey of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture. Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
The Human Condition: SFMMA Biennial III. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
1985
Whitney Biennale. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
XIII Biennale de Paris. Grand Halle du Parc de la Villette, Paris
1986
Biennale of Sydney. Sydney, Australia
Prospect 86. Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
1987
L’epoque, la mode, la morale, la passion. Center Georges Pompidou, Paris
1989
Bilderstreit. Rheinhalle, Cologne, Germany
1990
High and Low: Modern and Popular Culture. Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
1991
Whitney Biennale. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
1992
Allegories of Modernism: Contemporary Drawings. Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
1993
Aperto’93. La 45 Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
Portrait Now. National Portrait Gallery, London
1995
American Photography 1890-1965. Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
1996
Thinking Print: From Books to Billboards, 1980-1995. Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
1998
Art of Four Decades: 1958-1998. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
1999
The American Century: Art & Culture. 1900-2000. Part 2. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
2000
Around 1984 - A Look at Art in the Eighties. P. S. 1, New York, USA
Art at Work: Forty Years of the Chase Manhattan Collection. Queens Museum of Art, New York, USA
2001
Mythic Proportions - Painting in the 1980’s. Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, United States
2001-2002
Desire. Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kreichtal Unterovisheim, Germany; Galleria d’Arte Moderna di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
2002
Memoir of Freedom. Chelsea Art Museum, New York, USA
Popcorn and Politics - Activists of Art. Kiasma, Helsinki
2003
Crimes and Misdemeanors - Politics in U. S. Art of the 1980s. Cincinnati contemporary
Arts Center, Cincinnati, USA
2004
Flowers Observed, Flowers Transformed. The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, United States
2005
Big Bang. Center Georges Pompidou, Paris
Contemporary Voices. Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
2007
100 Jahre Kunsthalle Mannheim. Städtische Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany
Not For Sale. P. S. 1, New York, USA
Lights, Camera, Action: Artists ’Films for the Cinema. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA