1952 Born in Norman, Oklahoma
1973 B.F.A., California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California, USA
1975 M.F.A., California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California, USA
Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2023 Tree of Life, This Time With Feeling, Thaddaeus ropac, Paris Marais, France
2021 David Salle, Brant Fondation, Greenwich, CT, USA
David Salle, Tree of Life, Skarstedt, New York
David Salle, Alchemy in Real Life, Lehmann Maupin, Seoul, Korea
David Salle, Pictures of People and Paintings on Magazines, Vortic, Online Exhibition
2020 David Salle: Self-ironing Pants and Other Paintings ,Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, Marais ,3e, Paris, France
2019 David Salle: Portraits, Flowers, and Wire ,Galeria Javier López & Fer Frances (La Florida) ,Madrid, Spain
David Salle: Musicality and Humour ,Skarstedt Gallery, London ,St. James's, London, UK
2018 David Salle: Paintings 1985-1995 ,Skarstedt Gallery, New York (79th Street) ,Upper East Side, New York, USA
2017 David Salle: Ham and Cheese and Other Paintings ,Skarstedt Gallery, New York (79th Street) ,Upper East Side, New York, USA
David Salle: New Paintings ,Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, Marais ,3e, Paris, France
2016 David Salle ,Centro De Arte Contemporáneo De Málaga ,Malaga, Spain
David Salle ,Lehmann Maupin, Hong Kong ,Central, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
2015 Debris, The Dallas Contemporary Museum, Dallas
New Paintings, Skarstedt Gallery, New York
2014 David Salle, Maureen Paley, London
2013 David Salle, LEEAHN Gallery, Seoul/Daegu
David Salle: Ghost Paintings, The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago
David Salle: Ghost Paintings, Skarstedt Gallery, New York
David Salle/Francis Picabia, Galerie Thaadaeus Ropac, Paris
2012 Tapestries/ Battles/ Allegories, Lever House Art Collection, New York
Ariel and Other Spirits, Galerie MET, New York
2011 David Salle Recent Paintings, Gallery, London
David Salle Recent Paintings, Mary Boone Gallery, New York
David Salle, Maureen Paley, London
2010 Some Pictures From the 80s, Mary Boone Gallery, New York
2009 Héritage du Pop Art, Beaux Arts, Hanover
David Salle: Distance From Nowhere, Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover
2008 David Salle, Paintings and Drawings, Studio d'Arte Raffaelli - Palazzo Wolkenstein, Trento
David Salle, Galleri Faurschou, Copenhagen
2007 David Salle, New Works, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg
Bearding The Lion In His Den, Deitch Projects, New York
David Salle: New Paintings, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen
David Salle, Galleria Cardi, Milan
2005 The Vortex Paintings, Mary Boone Gallery, New York
2004 David Salle: Split Worlds. The Montage Principle, Stella Art Gallery, Moscow
2003 Mary Boone Gallery, New York
Waddington Galleries, London
Emilio M azzoli Galleria d'Arte Contemporanea, Milan
2001 Gagosian Gallery, New York
Jablonka Galerie, Koln
2000 Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey, Monterrey
1999 Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao
1997 Galeria Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid
1995 Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich
1994 Mary Boone Gallery, New York
1993 Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach
1992 Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris
1990 Mario Diacono Gallery, Boston
1989 Bayerische Staatsgemaldesammlungen Munchen, Munich
The Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
Waddington Gallery, London
1988 Mary Boone Gallery, New York
The Menil Collection, Houston
Fundacion Caja de Pensiones, Madrid
1987 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Mary Boone Gallery, New York
Spiral/Wacoal Art Center, Tokyo
1986 Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
1985 Mary Boone Gallery, New York
1984 Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
1983 Museum Boymans van Beuningen, Rotterdam
Mary Boone Gallery, New York
1982 Mary Boone Gallery, New York
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
1981 Mary Boone Gallery, New York
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022 1986 : Georg Herold, Albert Oehlen, David Salle, Max Hetzler, London
2021 Faces and Figures, Skarstedt, East Hampton, New York
Whimsy, Southampton Art Center Outdoor Sculpture Garden, New York
2020 Off-Nostalg(h)ia ,Super Dakota ,Brussels, Belgium
Art Basel Highlights at Ely House ,Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, London ,Mayfair, London, UK
In Pursuit of A Meaningful Mark ,Mindy Solomon Gallery ,Miami, Florida, USA
Where art might happen. The early years of CalArts ,Kunsthaus Graz, Universalmuseum Joanneum ,Graz, Austria
Crown Point Press in the ’80s ,Crown Point Press Gallery ,San Francisco, California, USA
2019 Third Dimension: Works from The Brant Foundation ,The Brant Foundation Art Study Center, New York ,
Lower Manhattan, New York, USA
What We See, How We See ,The Parrish Art Museum ,Southampton, New York, USA
Painting for Performance ,McNay Art Museum ,San Antonio, Texas, USA
Portraits ,Skarstedt Gallery, New York (79th Street) ,Upper East Side, New York, USA
At First Glance. Fischl Sculptures and Salle Photographs ,Skarstedt Gallery, New York (79th Street) , New York, USA
2018 The Portrait: Gstaad ,Galeria Javier López & Fer Frances (La Florida) ,Madrid, Spain
Foundation for Contemporary Arts 2018 Benefit Exhibition ,Gladstone Gallery, New York (21st Street) ,New York, USA
Codice colore: Opere dalla collezione di Alessandro Grassi ,Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci ,Prato, Italy
Summer Choices ,Crown Point Press Gallery ,San Francisco, California, USA
Four Degrees of Abstraction ,Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, Chelsea ,Chelsea, New York, USA
A New Spirit Then, A New Spirit Now 1981 - 2018 ,Almine Rech Gallery, New York ,Upper East Side, New York, USA
2017 Soledad Lorenzo Collection ,Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía ,Madrid, Spain
Déjeuner sur l’herbe ,Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, Pantin ,Paris, France
International Masters: Collaborations in Printmaking ,Cape Cod Museum of Art ,Dennis Port, Massachusetts, USA
Frauenzimmer (Women) ,Galerie Klüser ,Munich, Germany
Zeitgeist ,MAMCO Geneve ,Geneva, Switzerland
Fast Forward: Painting from the 1980s ,Whitney Museum of American Art ,Greenwich Village, New York, USA
Fischl, Holzer, Prince, Salle, Sherman ,Skarstedt Gallery, New York (Chelsea) ,Chelsea, New York, USA
2016 Desire ,Jeffrey Deitch ,Miami, Florida, USA
Painters' Painters ,Saatchi Gallery ,London, UK
Portraits ,Skarstedt Gallery, New York (79th Street) ,Upper East Side, New York, USA
Cindy Sherman and David Salle: History Portraits and Tapestry Paintings ,Skarstedt Gallery, London ,St. James's, London, UK
Unfinished Business: Paintings from the 1970s and 1980s by Ross Bleckner, Eric Fischl, and David Salle ,
The Parrish Art Museum ,Southampton, New York, USA
Other Voices ,Farnsworth Art Museum ,Rockland, Maine, USA
A Selection of Works from the 1980s ,Vito Schnabel Gallery ,St. Moritz, Switzerland
The Old Things ,Galerie Crèvecoeur, Paris ,Paris, France
Group Exhibition ,Skarstedt Gallery, New York (79th Street) ,Upper East Side, New York, USA
Rockwell and Realism in an Abstract World ,Norman Rockwell Museum ,Stockbridge, Massachusetts, USA
La mia ceramica ,Galerie Max Hetzler, Paris ,4e, Paris, France
Spring Group Exhibition: Condo, Kippenberger, Oehlen, Salle. ,Skarstedt Gallery, London ,St. James's, London, UK
The Generosity of Richard Brock: Prints, Drawings and Paintings ,Chazen Museum of Art ,Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Nice Weather ,Skarstedt Gallery, New York (Chelsea) ,Chelsea, New York, USA
Collage: Moving Beyond Paper ,Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion ,Champaign, Illinois, USA
2015 Ghada Amer, Trisha Baga, Robin Cameron, Joanne Greenbaum, Pam Lins, Alice Mackler and David Salle, Jane Hartsook Gallery,
Greenwich House Pottery, New York
Making Art Dance: Backdrops and Costumes from the Armitage Foundation, MANA Contemporary, New Jersey
Matters of Pattern, Skarstedt Gallery, New York
Winter Group Show ,Skarstedt Gallery, London ,St. James's, London, UK
SECOND WAVE: Aesthetics of the 80s in Today's Contemporary Art ,California Museum Of Photography, California, USA
Highlights: The Castellani Collection ,Castellani Art Museum of Niagara University ,Niagara, New York, USA
Summer Exhibition ,Skarstedt Gallery, London ,St. James's, London, UK
2014 Urban Theater: New York in the 1980’s, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth
Feats of Clay ,Baldwin Gallery ,Aspen, Colorado, USA
globetrotter ,Essl Museum (Sammlung Essl) ,Klosterneuburg, Austria
Guild Hall Museum Permanent Collection 2010-2014 ,Guild Hall Museum ,East Hampton, New York, USA
Disturbing Innocence ,The FLAG Art Foundation ,Chelsea, New York, USA
Fierce Creativity ,Pace New York (32 East 57th Street) ,57th Street, New York, USA
2013 Miquel Barcelo ,Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, St. Moritz ,St. Moritz, Switzerland
Artists Choose Artists ,The Parrish Art Museum ,Southampton, New York, USA
Galen at The Galen ,Palm Springs Art Museum ,Palm Springs, California, USA
Fit to Print: Contemporary American Graphics from the Collection ,Daum Museum of Contemporary Art ,Sedalia, Missouri, USA
Seventh Annual Summer Exhibition ,New York Academy of Art ,Greenwich Village, New York, USA
Group Exhibition: Sommerbilder Summer Pictures ,Essl Museum (Sammlung Essl) ,Klosterneuburg,
2012 Spring Fever, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York
David Salle and Karole Armitage in Conversation with Helen Molesworth, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago
This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.
Traveled to; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Institute of Contempoary Art, Boston
2011 Under the Big Black Sun: California Art 1974-81, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Pop Art 1960’s-2000’s From Misumi Collection, Kawaguchiko Museum of Art, Yamanashi Prefecture
Distant Star, Regen Projects, Los Angeles
Distant Star/Estrella Distante, Kurimanzutto, Mexico City
2010 Brucennial 2010: Miseducation, The Bruce High Quality Foundation at 350 West Broadway, New York
Your History is Not Our History, Haunch of Venison, New York
Pastiche, The Pace Gallery, New York
Re-Dressing, Bartolami Gallery, New York
Songs for Sale: Robert Rauschenberg/David Salle/Michael Bevilacqua, Faurschou Beijing, Beijing
2009 The Pictures Generation, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
A Tribute to Ron Warren, Mary Boone Gallery, New York
Collection: MOCA’s First Thirty Years, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Beg Borrow and Steal, Rubell Family Collection, Miami
2008 Here and Now, Regina Gallery, Moscow
Totally Rad: New York in the 80s, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York
Roots & Ties II: Joe Andoe, Carolyn Brady, Petah Coyne, Bill Goldston, David Salle, Untitled [ArtSpace], Oklahoma City
2007 Not for Sale, P.S.1/MoMA Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York
2006 Damien Hirst, David Salle, Jenny Saville, Museo Carlo Bilotti, Rome
Songs for Sale: Big American Paintings by Robert Rauschenberg, David Salle, and Michael Bevilacqua,
Deitch Projects, New York
Heroines, The Arnold and Marie Schwartz Gallery Met, Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center, New York
2005 Contemporary Voices: Works from The UBS Art Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Picturing America: Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art,
Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum, Nagasaki
2004 Flowers, Mary Boone Gallery, New York
Flowers Observed, Flowers Transformed, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh
North Fork/South Fork: East End Art Now/Part II, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton
The Charged Image, Joseloff Gallery, University of Hartford, West Hartford
What's Modern?, Gagosian Gallery, New York
2001 Mythic Proportions: Painting in the 1980s, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami,
2000 Around 1984: A Look at Art in the Eighties, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City
1999 The American Century: Art & Culture, 1900-2000 Part 2, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1998 Young Americans 2, Saatchi Gallery, London
1996 Thinking Print: From Books to Billboards, 1980-1995, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
The Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
1993 Four American Artists, Ho-Am Museum, Kyunggi-Do
Operto, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice
1991 Mito y Magia en America: Los Ochenta, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey, Monterrey Biennial Exhibition,
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1989 Bilderstreit, Rheinhalle, Koln
1987 Avant Garde in the Eighties, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
L'epoque, la mode, la morale, la passion, Centre Georges, Pompidou, Paris
1986 Biennale of Sydney, Sydney
Ooghoogte, 50 jaar later, Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
Europe/America, Ludwig Museum, Koln
Prospect 86, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt
1985 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
XIII Biennale de Paris, Grand Halle du Parc de la Villette, Paris
Carnegie International, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh
1984 An International Survey of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
The Human Condition: SFMMA Biennial III, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
1983 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
New York Now, Kunstverein fur die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Dusseldorf
Tendencias en Nueva York, Crystal Palace, Madrid
Sao Paulo Biennale, Sao Paulo
New Art, The Tate Gallery, London
1982 Documenta 7, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel
La Biennale di Venezia, Venice
Zeitgeist, Berlin
1981 Westkunst: Heute, Museum der Stadt Koln, Koln
Awards
2016 American Academy of Arts and Letters
2015 National Academy of Art
1986 Guggenheim Fellowship
Public Collections
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas
Guggenheim Museum, New York
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Museum of Modern Art, New York
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis
Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto Trento
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
Tate Gallery, London
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond