geboren/born 1946, San Diego;
lebt und arbeitet/lives and works in New York


Grants & Awards & Fellowships
2001
Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kunstförderpreis für Malerei
Skowhegan Medal for Painting
1991 National Endowment for the Arts, Visual Arts Fellowship
1988 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Fellowship
1969 Roswell Museum and Art Center, Grant
1966 Rockefeller Foundation, Fellowship



Einzelausstellungen (Auswahl)/Solo Shows (selection)

2008
David Reed: Lives of Paintings Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College (Portland, OR)*

2007
Max Protech Gallery (New York, NY)

1999
Galerie Xippas (Paris, France)*

2006
Galerie Schmidt Maczollek (Köln, Germany)
Leave Yourself Behind Luckman Fine Arts Complex, California State University (Los Angeles, CA)

2005
Galerie Bob van Orsouw (Zürich, Switzerland)
Leave yourself behind. Paintings and Special Projects 1967–2005. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, (Wichita, KS); traveled to Ros well Museum and Art Center (Roswell, NM)

2004
Max Protetch Gallery (New York, NY)
Galerie Xippas (Paris, France)

2003
Galerie Rolf Ricke (Köln, Germany)

2002
Max Protetch Gallery (New York, NY)
Patricia Faure Gallery (St. Monica, USA)

2001
David Reed. You look good in blue. Kunstmuseum St. Gallen (St. Gallen, Switzerland)*

2000
Galerie Rolf Ricke (Köln, Germany)

1999
David Reed – Painting/Vampire Study Center, Goldie Paley Gallery, Moore College of Art and Design,
(Philadelphia, PA)
Max Protetch Gallery (New York, NY)

1998
David Reed Paintings: Motion Pictures, Museum of Contemporary Art (San Diego, CA); Wexner Center for the Arts, The Ohio State University (Columbus, OH); Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University (Waltham, MS), P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center (Long Island City, NY)
Max Protetch Gallery (New York, NY)

1997
Galerie Rolf Ricke (Köln, Germany)
Patricia Faure Gallery (Los Angeles, CA)

1996
New Paintings for the Mirror Room and Archive in a Studio off the Courtyard, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum (Graz, Austria)

1995
David Reed, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Köln; Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart (mit Beat Streuli); Westfälischer Kunstverein (Münster, Germany)
Max Protetch Gallery (New York, NY)

1993 Galerie Rolf Ricke (Köln, Germany)

1992
Max Protetch Gallery, New York, USA
Walter/McBean Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute (San Francisco, CA)

1991
Galerie Rolf Ricke (Köln, Germany)
Max Protetch Gallery (New York, NY)

1989
Max Protetch Gallery (New York, NY)

1988
Asher/Faure Gallery (Los Angeles, CA)
Max Protetch Gallery (New York, NY)

1986 Max Protetch Gallery (New York, NY)
1985 Max Protetch Gallery (New York, NY)
1983 Max Protetch Gallery (New York, NY)

1980
Institute for Art and Urban Resources / The Clocktower (New York, NY)
Painting Residency, Fashion Moda, Bronx (New York, NY)

1979 Max Protetch Gallery (New York, NY)

1977
Nancy Lurie Gallery, Chicago, USA
Max Protetch Gallery (New York, NY)
Protetch-McIntosh Gallery (Washington, DC)

1976 Rush Rhees Gallery, University of Rochester (New York, NY)

1975
Susan Caldwell Gallery (New York, NY)
Faculty Office Building Gallery, Reed College (Portland, OR)



Gruppenausstellungen (Auswahl)/Group Shows (selection)

2008
Las Vegas Collects Contemporary Las Vegas Art Museum (Las Vegas, NV)
SEHNSUCHT (Aspiration) curated y Georges Armaos, LIGHT&SIE (Dallas, TX)
The 183rd Annual: An invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art National Academy Museum (New York, NY)
Silent Films & Bedroom Painting curated by Adam Lerner, The Lab (Lakewood, CO)
David Reed and Klaus Merkel Galerie Thomas Flor (Düsseldorf, Germany)
Rochelle Feinstein and David Reed The Suburban (Oak Park, IL)
abstrakt/abstract curated by Andrea Madesta, Museum Moderner Kunst Kaernten (Kaernten, Austria)*
There is Desire Left (Knock, Knock) Mondstudio Collection, curated by Claudine Metzger, Kunstmuseum Bern (Bern, Switzerland)*

2007
BILINGUAL, Art at the intersection of Painting and Video curated by Tracy Marie Taylor, Glass Curtain Gallery (Chicago, IL)
Lust for Life, The Ricke Collection curated by Christiane Meyer-Stoll, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein (Vaduz, Liechtenstein), travelling group show*
Beyond A Gift Of Time Roswell Museum and Art Center (Roswell, NM)*
Das Kapital. Blue Chips and Masterpieces Museum für Moderne Kunst (Frankfurt, Germany)
Brave Lonesome Cowboy: Western Topoi in Contemporary Art or: For John Wayne’s 100th Birthday curated by Konrad Bitterli, Galerien der Stadt Esslingen (Esslingen, Germany), Villa Merkel (Esslingen, Germany) and Kunstmuseum St. Gallen (St. Gallen, Switzerland)*
RoseArt. Works from the Permanent Collection The Rose Art Museum of Brandeis University (Waltham, MA)
Not for Sale P.S.1 (New York, NY)

2006
Transformation – From our Collection, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein (Vaduz, Liechtenstein)
Une simple question de temps. Conversation entre les collections du FRAC Auvergne et du Musée Crozatier, Musée Crozatier (Le Puy-en Velay, France)
New York Next: The Contemporary Blanton, Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art (Austin, TX)
Clear Cuts – Sammlung Wolkenlos – Die Privatsammlung von Michael Stankiewicz Schloss Raabs (Raabs a.d.Thaya, Austria)

2005
Vertiges: Printemps de Septembre a Toulouse curated by Jean-Marc Bustamante, Les Abattoirs (France)*
What’s New Pussycat? Neuerwerbunen und Sammlung Ströher, Museum für Moderne Kunst (Frankfurt, Germany)
Willem de Kooning curated by Florian Steininger, BA-CA Kunstforum (Vienna, Austria)
Populence Blaffer Gallery, The Art Museum of the University of Houston (Houston, TX)*
Extreme Abstraction Albright Knox Museum (Buffalo, NY)*
Dreams Galerie André Buchmann (Köln, Germany)
ESPECIAL Galerie Schmidt Maczollek (Köln, Germany)
Sweet Temptations - Dialoge mit der Sammlung Rolf Ricke Kunstverein St. Gallen Kunstmuseum (St. Gallen, Switzerland)
Me, myself, I Kunstverein St. Gallen Kunstmuseum (St. Gallen, Switzerland)

2004
Me Myself I. Konstruktionen von Raum und Identität in der Kunst der Gegenwart curated by Konrad Bitterli, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen (St. Gallen, Switzerland)
Gesture Suggestion Vous Etes Ici (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Paintings that Paint Themselves, or so it seems Kresge Art Museum (East Lansing, MI)
Painting Now: Selections from the Permanent Collection Museum of Contemporary Art (San Diego, CA)
Le Syndrome de Babylone Centre d'Art Contemporain de la Villa du Parc (Geneve, Switzerland)
Still mapping the moon. Perspektiven zeitgenössischer Malerei/Perspectives on Contemporary Painting Kunstmuseum Bonn (Bonn, Germany)*
David Reed, Malerei Sammlung Kunst, Neues Museum (Nürnberg, Germany)
Surface Tension curated by Manon Slome, Chelsea Art Museum (New York, NY)*
The Void and the Plentitude curated by Martin Hentschel, Museum Haus Esters (Krefeld, Germany)
In the Spotlight The Rose Art Museum of Brandeis University (Waltham, MA)
100 Artists See God curated by John Baldessari and Meg Cranston, organized by Independent Curators International (New York, NY); traveled to The Contemporary Jewish Museum (San Francisco, CA); Laguna Arts Museum (Laguna, CA); Institute of Contemporary Arts (London, Great Britain); Contemporary Arts Center of Virginia (Virginia Beach, VA); Albright College Freedman Art Gallery (Reading, PA); Cheekwood Museum of Art (Nashville, TN)*

2003
Postimpact Portalakis Collection (Athens, Greece)*
Perpetuum Mobile curated by Günter Umberg, Galerie Rolf Ricke (Köln, Germany)
Painting Pictures. Malerei und Medien im digitalen Zeitalter Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg (Wolfsburg, Germany)
Trespassing: Houses X Artists MAK Center for Art and Architecture (Los Angeles, CA)
Schokolade, was denn sonst: Sammlung Rolf Ricke. Kunstraum Innsbruck (Innsbruck, Austria)
We Love Painting: The Contemporary American Art from Misumi Collection Museum of Contemporary Art (Tokyo, Japan)

2002
Another World: Zwölf Bettgeschichten/Twelve Bedroom Stories Kunstmuseum Luzern (Luzern, Switzerland)*
Mood River curated by Jeffrey Kipnis, Wexner Center for the Arts, The Ohio State University (Columbus, OH)*
The Magic Hour: Die Konvergenz von Kunst und Las Vegas curated by Alex Farquharson, Neue Galerie im Künstlerhaus (Graz, Austria)*
Pleasures of Sight and States of Being curated by Roland Nasgaard, Museum of Fine Arts, Florida State University (Tallahassee, FL)*
Einfach Kunst: Sammlung Rolf Ricke, Staatliches Museum für Kunst und Design (Nürnberg, Germany)
Raum für Malerei Kaiser Wilhelm Museum Krefeld (Krefeld, Germany)

2001
Lateral Thinking: Art of the 1990’s, Museum of Contemporary Art (San Diego, CA)
Vertigo Ursula Blickle Stiftung (Kraichtal, Germany)
Hybrids: International Contemporary Painting Tate Liverpool (Liverpool, Great Britain)
Ornament and Abstraction, Fondation Beyeler (Basel, Switzerland)

2000
how you look at it: Photographs of the 20th Century Sprengel Museum (Hannover, Germany)
Body of Painting Museum Ludwig (Köln, Germany)
Das Gedächtnis der Malerei Aargauer Kunsthaus (Aarau, Schweiz)

1999
special offer Kasseler Kunstverein (Kassel, Germany)
Notorious: Alfred Hitchcock and Contemporary Art Museum of Modern Art (Oxford, Great Britain)
Moving Images Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst (Leipzig, Germany)

1998
Geistes Gegenwart. Diözesanmuseum, Freising und Heilig-Geist-Kirche (Landshut, Germany)
Pop Abstraction Museum of American Art of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Philadelphia, PA)
Interior Landscapes An Exhibition from the Collection of Clifford Diver. Delaware Art Museum (Wilmington, DE)

1997
Theories of the Decorative: Abstraction and Ornament in Contemporary Painting Inverleigh House, Royal Botanic Garden (Edinburg, Scotland), Edwin A. Ulrich Museum, Wichita State University (Wichita, KS)
Primarily Paint Museum of Contemporary Art (San Diego, CA)
After the Fall: Aspects of Abstract Painting Since 1970 Snug Harbor Cultural Center (Staten Island, NY)
Critiques Of Pure Abstraction Independent Curators, Inc. (New York, NY)
Relations Between Contemporary Architecture and Painting: Greg Lynn, Fabian Marcaccio, David Reed, Jesse Reiser/Nanako Umemoto Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn und Taxis (Bregenz, Austria)

1996
Nuevas Abstracciones. Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia (Madrid, Spain); Museu d'Art Contemporani de (Barcelona, Spain); Kunsthalle Bielefeld (Bielefeld, Germany)

1995
Pittura/Immedia: Malerei in der 90er Jahren. Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Österreich
Das Abenteuer der Malerei. Württembergischer Kunstverein (Stuttgart, Germany) und Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen (Düsseldorf, Germany)
Repicturing Abstraction: The Politics of Space, The Abducted Image, Basic Nature, From Impulse to Image. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (Richmond, IN)
Going for Baroque: 18 Contemporary Artists Fascinated with the Baroque and Rococco. The Contemporary and The Walters Collection (Baltimore, MD)

1994
Chance, Choice, and Irony Todd Gallery (London, Great Britain), John Hansard Gallery, University Southhampton, Great Britain)

1993
Fractured Seduction: New Conceptual Abstract Painting, Eight Artists from New York. Artifact Gallery (Tel Aviv, Israel)
New York Painters: Donald Baechler, Ross Bleckner, Peter Halley, Jonathan Lasker, Richard Prince, David Reed, Peter Schuyff, Philip Taaffe, Christopher Wool. Sammlung Goetz, (München, Germany)
Der zerbrochene Spiegel: Positionen zur Malerei Museumsquatier Messeplatz und Kunsthalle Wien (Wien, Austria), Deichtorhallen (Hamburg, Germany)
Prospect 93: Eine Internationale Ausstellung aktueller Kunst Frankfurter Kunstverein und Schirn Kunsthalle, (Frankfurt, Germany)

1992
Slow Art: Painting in New York Now Institute for Art and Urban Resources, P.S.1 (Long Island City, NY)

1991
Conceptual Abstraction Sidney Janis Gallery (New York, NY)
Contemporary Abstract Painting: Resnick, Reed, Laufer, Moore Muscarelle Museum of Art, College of William and Mary (Williamsburg, NY)

1989
Biennial Exhibition Whitney Museum of American Art (New York, NY)
Aus meiner Sicht: Eine Ausstellung von Rolf Ricke Galerie Ricke; Kölnischer Kunstverein (Köln, Germany)

1988
A New Generation The 80's: American Painters and Sculptors. The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY)
Seven American Abstract Artists Ruggerio Henis Gallery (New York, NY)

1987
Monsters: The Phenomena of Dispassion Barbara Toll Fine Arts, Inc. (New York, NY)
The Four Corners of Abstract Painting (From Sincerity to Sarcasm, from Formalism to Expressionsim), White Columns (New York, NY)
Print/Film Bess Cutler Gallery (New York, NY)
Generations Of Geometry: Abstract Panting in America Since 1930, Whitney Museum of American Art at Equitable Center (New York, NY)

1985
An Invitational, Condeso/Lawler (New York, NY)
The Art of the 1970’s and 1980’s Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art (Ridgefield, CT)

1984
Invitational Painting Exhibition: Part 1, Twelve Abstract Painters Siegel Contemporary Art (New York, NY)

1983
Language, Drama, Source, and Vision New Museum of Contemporary Art (New York, NY)
Three Painters: Sean Scully, David Reed, Ted Stamm Zenith Gallery (Pittsburgh, PA)

1982
Abstract Painting Maryland Institute College of Art (Baltimore, MD)

1980
Recent Acquisitions La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art (La Jolla, CA)
Investigations: Probe, Structure, Analysis: Agnes Denes, Lauren Ewing, Vernon Fisher, Stephen Prina, David ReedNew Museum of Contemporary Art (New York, NY)

1978
Two Decades of Abstraction University Galleries, University of South Florida, Tampa, USA

1977
Recent Acquisitions Centre Nationale d’Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou (Paris, France)

1976
Max Protetch Gallery (New York, NY)

1975
Abstraction: Alive and Well State University College, Potsdam (New York, NY)
Fourth Annual Contemporary Reflections 1974–75 Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, USA

1975 Biennial Exhibition Whitney Museum of American Art (New York, NY)
1974 Marylin Lenkowsky, David Reed, Herbert Schiffrin. Susan Caldwell Gallery (New York, NY)
1973 Lo Guidice Gallery (New York, NY)
1972 Six Painters in the ’70s: Abstract Painting in New York. Ackland Art Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, NC)

1970
A Clean Well-Lighted Place (Austin, TX)
A Gift of Time Santa Fe Museum of Fine Arts (Santa Fe, CA)

*Katalog/catalogue