"Shutterbug"
2005
Acrylic on canvas
16"H x 20"W

David Humphrey Biography
American, born in Augsburg, Germany 1955
Lives and works in New York
Education
1956-73 Grows up in Pittsburgh, PA
1973-77 Attends Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Receives BFA
1976-77 Studies at New York Studio School of Painting, Drawing, and Sculpture
1977-80 Attends New York University, New York, Receives MA
1979-80 Receives New York State CAPS grant
1985 Receives New York State Council for the Arts Grant
1987 Receives National Endowment for the Arts fellowship
1995 Receives National Endowment for the Arts ellowship
2002 Receives fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Receives the Thomas B. Clarke prize from the National Academy of design
Solo Exhibitions
2004 Brent Sikkema, New York, NY
2002 Both Less and More, paintings and sculpture, Littlejohn
Contemporary, NY; Holiday Melt, Solomon Projects, Atlanta, GA;
*Lace, Bubbles, Milk, digital Works Pittsburgh Filmmakers, Pittsburgh, PA; Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami FL
2001 University of Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara CA
Holiday Melt, Saks Project Art holiday windows, Palm Beech FL
2000 Mckee Gallery, New York, NY
1999 Sculptures, Deven GoldenFine Art, LTD, New York, NY
Me and My Friends, The Phillip Feldman Gallery, Pacific Northwest
College of Art, Portland, OR
1998 *Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Works on Paper, Roy G Biv Gallery, Columbus OH
1997 SHaG, team paintings by A. Sillman, D. Humphrey and E. Greene Postmasters, New York, NY; Sculptures, Deven GoldenFine Art, LTD, New York, NY
1996 Nancy Solomon Gallery, Atlanta, GA
David Humphrey: Paintings and Drawings 1987-1994, *Wood Street Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA; Head: Recent Paintings, I Space, Chicago, IL
1995 *David Humphrey: Paintings and Drawings 1987-1994, The
Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati OH; Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco CA
1994 New Arts Program, Kutztown, PA
1993 McKee Gallery, New York, NY
1992 Patricia Shea Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1991 *Bergstrom-Mahler Museum, Neenah, WI; Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA; McKee Gallery, New York, NY
1990 Krygier\Landau Contemporary Art, Santa Monica;David McKee Gallery, New York, NY
1989 Krygier\Landau Contemporary Art, Santa Monica, CA
1988 *David McKee Gallery, New York, NY; Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA; *Cone Editions, New York, NY
1987 Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1985 David McKee Gallery, New York, NY
1984 David McKee Gallery, New York, NY
1983 Pittsburgh Plan for Art, Pittsburgh, PA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2007 David Humphrey / Jeff Gauntt: SVA (NYC), Still Missing: Beauty Absent Social Life/ 09/05/06-10/7/06, Westport Art Center,
1/12/07-3/4/07
2004 When I think about You, I touch Myself, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
2003 Prints, McKee Gallery, New York NY; the burbs, DFN Gallery, New York, NY;* Pop Thru Out, Arario Gallery, Korea
2002 Pasted On, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL;
*Super Natural Playground, Gallerie Marella, Milan, Italy;
*177th Annual, National Academy of Design Museum, New York, NY;
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, (organized by Alexi Worth) DC Moore Gallery, NY
2000 Exit Art, NY
Rapture, Janet Phelps, NY
*The Figure, Another side of Modernism, Snug Harbor Art Center, New York
Collaborations, Bucknell University Art Gallery, Lewisburg, PA
Objects that Flicker, Solomon Projects, Atlanta GA
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
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
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
1995 *Internal/External, Foster Goldstrom Gallery, NY
More Than Real Gallery 400, University of Illinois at Chicago, IL.
On Target, Horodner Romley Gallery, New York
Arresting Images, Gallery 400, University of Illinois at Chicago, IL.
Crystal Blue Persuasion, Feature, New York, NY
*Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, The University of North
Carolina at Greensboro, NC
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
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, NY
Personal Imagery, Chicago/New York, Phyllis Kind Gallery, N Y
*43rd Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary Painting, The Corcoran
Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
1992-93 *Hair, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, W I
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)
1991-92 *Landscape as Stage, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA (organized by Meyer Raphael Rubenstein)
1991 Personal Portrait, Annina Nosei Gallery, NY
Mute, Solo Gallery, New York (curated by Susan Tallman)
*Expressive Visions and Exquisite Images: Two Aspects of Art of 80's From The Richard Brown Baker Collection, Meadowbrook Art Gallery, Oakland University, Rochester, MI
1990 Prints & Monotypes, Pelavin Editions, New York
Faces, Marc Richards Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
*The Unique Print: 70's into the 90's, Museum of Fine Art, Boston, MA
1988-89 The Nature of Things, Cydney Payton Gallery, Denver, CO
1987 Drawings from the 80's - Chatsworth Collection,
Carnegie Mellon University Art Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
Magic in the Mind's Eye, Meadow Brook Art Gallery, Rochester, MI 1988
*Fresh from New York, Artspace, Auckland, New Zealand
1986 American Art Today: The Figure in the Landscape, The Museum at Florida International University, Miami, FL
*Public and Private: American Prints Today, Brooklyn Museum, NY
Painting and Sculpture by Candidates for Art Arts and Letters, NY
Inner Images, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME
Artificial Paradise, Asher/Faure Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
New Drawing, Gallery Association of New York State, Hamilton, NY
*The Potent Image, Morris Museum of Art, Morristown, NJ
1985 Artists in Two Mediums, Bennington College Art Gallery, VT Art in the Anchorage, Creative Time, Brooklyn, NY (installation under the Brooklyn Bridge)
The 20th Retrospective Show, New York Studio School, NY
Manifestations of the Figure, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, NY
*Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North
Carolina-Greensboro, NC
Exhibit A, Brooklyn Federal Courthouse Show, Brooklyn, NY
*Contemporary American Prints: Recent Acquisitions, Brooklyn Museum, NY
1984 Drawings by Young American Artists, Nordjylands Kunstmuseum, Aalborg, Denmark
Intermedia: Between Painting and Sculpture, Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT
A Refocus on Landscape, School 33 Art Center, Baltimore, MD; Pittsburgh Plan for Art, Pittsburgh, PA
Painting and Sculpture, Hill Gallery, Birmingham, MI
New Hand Painted Dreams: Contemporary Surrealism, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, NY
Fall Show, Condeso/Lawler Gallery, New York, NY
Young Americans, Galleri Bellman, New York, NY
Inner Visions: Drawings, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA
In Spirit, Monique Knowlton Gallery, New York, NY
Drawings, Barbara Toll Gallery, New York, NY
1983 Selections 21, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
American Cauldron, Kouros Gallery, New York, NY
Group Show, Barbara Toll Gallery, New York, NY
*Bodies and Souls, A.M. Sachs Gallery, New York, NY (organized by the Artist`s Choice Museum)
Three Dimensional Painting, Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, NY
1982 New Talent, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
Summer Show, David McKee Gallery, New York, NY
1981 Thirty New York Painters, Hobart College, Geneva, NY
1980 Three Person Exhibition, State University of New York at Purchase, Purchase, NY
1979 *CAPS Recipients Exhibition, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,
Troy, NY
*Catalog
Writings by David Humphrey
David Humphrey's articles, reviews and column "New York email" appeared in Art issues from 1990 until its closing in 2002.
"Hello, My Name is Artwork," 2002 M/E/A/N/I/N/G @ artkrush.com
"Soma Zone," on the art of Jill Giegerich, 2002 catalog essay for the
Pasadena Armory retrospective "Caballeros Western Museum," New Observations #128 2001
"Who's Talking? Notes on Catherine Howe," 2001 catalog essay for
Littlejohn Contemporary, NY
"Amy Sillman," Bomb 2000
M/E/A/N/I/N/G An Anthology of Artists' Writings, Theory and Criticism, edited by Mira Schor and Susan Bee, Duke University Press, 2000
"On the Fantastic," Tema Celeste, 1996
"The Abject Romance of Low Resolution," Lusitania, Vol. 1 #4.
"Describable Beauty," New Observations #113, 1996
"Stained Sheets/Holy Shroud," Arts Magazine, December 1990
"HairPiece," Art issues, February 1990.
"Case Studies at MOCA," Flash Art, 1990
"Robert Longo at LACMA," Flash Art, 1990
Telepathy, 1993 Bill Jones and David Humphrey (a collaborative artists' book project)
"The Dictator's Body," 1989, Stanford Italian Review, (drawings)
Interviews with Chancellor Paige, RISD Journal, Paint Rag 200l
with Scott Weiland, NY Arts, July/August 1999
with Catherine Howe, NY Arts, Feb. 1999
with Elaine King, Cincinnati Art Center 1993 survey catalog
with Daniel Wiener, "Studio Visits," Artspace, March/April 1993
with Lawrence Gipe, Bomb, 1992
Curated Exhibitions
When I think about You, I touch Myself, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY, 2004
Tricky Adios; Hello to Handmade Words, KS Art, New York, 2002
Fhuh, Promiscuously Subarticulate Paintings, Fishtank, New York, 2001
Normotic, One Great Jones, New York, 1997
Dysfunction in the Family Album, Diane Brown Gallery, New York, 1992
Stained Sheets: Holy Shroud, Krygier/Landau Contemporary Art, Santa Monica, CA, 1990
Public Collections
Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA
Chemical Bank, NY
Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, OH
Denver Art Museum, CO
Exxon Corporation, NY
First Bank Minneapolis, MN
Jersey City Museum, NJ
McCrory Corporation, NY
Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
Museum of Fine Art, Boston, MA
Prudential Insurance Corporation, Newark, NJ
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
The Progressive Corporation, OH
Selected Reviews and Publication
2004 Art Listings/ Time Out New York, April 1-8.
2003 "Pop Thru Out," Arario Gallery, Korea (exhibition catalog), pp.
15-16
Raphael Rubenstein, "8 Painters: New Work," Art in America, November, pp. 130-141
2002 Ken Johnson, "Tricky Adios", New York Times, June 7.
Felicia Feaster, "Kitsch on Qualudes", Atlanta Weekly, March.
Jerry Callum, "Poodles, Ice cream and the Way We Live", Atlanta
Journal-Constitution, March 22
2000 Christopher Chambers, "The Splice of Life", D'Art, Fall.
Karen Wiken, Partisan Review, Spring.
Carol Diehl, Art in America, June.
1999 Anthony DiMaggio Review, June 15.
Jon Cone, Art Byte, Dec-Jan 1998-99
1998 Fred Camper, Chicago Reader, April 17.
1996 Faye Hirsch, On Paper, September/October 1996
1995 Eva Heisler, " Computer Gargoyles", Dialogue, September/October
1995 Owen Findsen, "Mysterious narratives enter new art dimension", The Cincinnati Enquirer, April 11.
Jerry Stein, "Family photos take role in artist's paintings", The
Cincinnati Post, April 8.
Peter Plagens, "A Painter's Pixel Palette", Newsweek, February 27.
1994 Dan Cameron, "Art for the New Year," Art and Auction, January.
1993 David Shirley, Option Magazine, Oct.
Charles Hagen, "David Humphrey," The New York Times, November 26.
Paul Richard, "What's Wrong with this Picture," The Washington Post, October 31.
Annette B. Sanchez, "Art in the Age of Information: Thought -
Provoking", New Pittsburgh Courier, April 17.
Donald Miller, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, March 13.
1992 Michael Anderson, "David Humphrey", Art issues, November/December.
Pamela Wye, "David Humphrey: Adjusting the Picture" Sulfur 30, Spring.
Benjamin Weissman, "David Humphrey - Patricia Shea Gallery", Artforum, November.
James Scarborough, "David Humphrey at Patricia Shea", Artweek, October 8.
A.M. Homes, "Dysfunction in the Family Album". Artforum, May.
Charles Hagen, "Dysfunction in the Family Album", The New York Times, January 31.
1991 Sara Lading, "Artist Illustrates Relationship Between Anatomy,
Emotion", Valley Sun, January 31.
Kenneth Baker, "David Humphrey: Walk on the Weird Side", San Francisco Chronicle, February 9.
Mark Bartlett, " David Humphrey", Art issues, April/May.
Meyer Raphael Rubinstein, "David Humphrey at David McKee", Art in
America, July.
Peggy Cyphers, Arts Magazine, September.
"David Humphrey", Journal of Contemporary Art, Vol. 4, #2, Fall/Winter.
1990 Buzz Spector, "Stained Sheets/Holy Shroud", Art issues,
September/October.
"David Humphrey", The New Yorker, April 23.
1989 S.G., "Galleries - Santa Monica", Los Angeles Times, May 26.
Parnassus - Poetry in Review, Vol. 15, no.2, 1989 (cover illustration
and illustration).
1988 John Yau, "David Humphrey", Artforum, May .
Catherine Liu, "David Humphrey", Flash Art, May-June.
Holland Cotter, "David Humphrey", Art in America, September.
Hearne Pardee, "David Humphrey", Art New England, July-August.
Jennifer Heath, "Nature, Science, Technology Show Refreshes Briefly",
Rocky Mountain News, December 2.
Meyer Raphael Rubenstein, "David Humphrey at Cone Editions", ETC
Montreal Numero t, Automne.
1987 Mark Van Prolyn, "Hints of Narrative", Artweek (San Francisco),
April 4.
Kenneth Baker, "Organic World of a Surrealist", San Francisco
Chronicle, April 6.
Kate Regan, "David Humphrey", Artnews, Summer.
Dorothy Burkhart, "Political Paintings Highlight Four Shows", San Jose Mercury News, April 10.
David Humphrey, Untitled Essay, M/E/A/N/I/N/G, #2
1986 Holland Cotter, "David Humphrey", Flash Art, December 1985
January 1986
David Humphrey", The Print Collector's Newsletter, May - June.
Colin Gardner, "Galleries", Los Angeles Times, May 2, 1986
1985 Kenneth Baker, "David Humphrey - review", Art in America, January.
Nancy Princenthal, "Young Americans", Artnews, January.
Kim Levin, "Cryptanalysis: Art in the Anchorage", Village Voice, June
18.
Kim Levin, "Art in the Anchorage (centerfold)", Village Voice, June 18.
Deborah Phillips, "Bright Lights, Big City", Artnews, September.
Kim Levin, "David Humphrey - Centerfold", Village Voice, October 22.
1984 Ronnie Cohn, "David Humphrey", Artnews, December.
Dan Cameron, "Neo-Surrealism: Having It Both Ways", Arts Magazine, November.