David Salle

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Biography

David Salle was born in Norman, Oklahoma in 1952, and earned a BFA and MFA from the California Institute for the Arts, where he studied under John Baldessari. Salle creates paintings that juxtapose seemingly unrelated images from mass media, often with an erotic and sexual theme.

David Salle

Biography

David Salle was born in Norman, Oklahoma in 1952, and earned a BFA and MFA from the California Institute for the Arts, where he studied under John Baldessari. Salle creates paintings that juxtapose seemingly unrelated images from mass media, often with an erotic and sexual theme. Images of different styles and content, taken from magazines, film and mass media are superimposed together both formally and textually. Adapting scenes from art history, advertising design and popular culture, he creates a combination of diverse cultural references.

Salle had his first solo exhibition at age 23 in Los Angeles. When his work was first shown, it generated controversy. Since then, he has earned the reputation as one of the most influential representational painters of the latter half of the 20th century. His work was in the 1993 Venice Biennale and in major retrospectives of the Whitney Museum.

1973 – California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California, BFA

1975 – California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California, MFA

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Exhibitions

2013

David Salle / Francis Picabia, Galerie Thaddaues Ropac, Paris, France
Pop Art Accrochage, Fluegel-Roncak Gallery, Nuremberg, Germany
Tapestries/Battles/Allegories, Lever House Art Collection, New York, NY (solo)

2011

Mary Boone Gallery, New York (solo)
Maureen Paley, London (solo)

2010

Calder to Warhol: Introducing the Fisher Collection, San Francisco Museum Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
Nudes, Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich, Switzerland

2009

The Pictures Generation, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover (solo)

2008

David Salle, Galleri Faurschou, Copenhagen, Denmark (solo)
Studio d’Arte Raffaelli, Trento, Italy

2007

Not For Sale, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island, NY

2006

New Acquisitions, Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich, Switzerland

2005

Closing Down, Bortolami, New York, NY
Vortex Paintings, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY

2004

Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
Stella Art Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO
I am the Walrus, Cheim and Read Gallery, New York, NY

2003

Reverie: Works from the Collection of Douglas S. Cramer, The Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY
Pictura Magistra Vitae, Fondazione Cassa Di Risparmio In Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Spike Gallery, New York, NY
Emilio Mazzoli Galleria D’Arte Contemporanea, Modena, Italy
Waddington Galleries, London, UK
Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY

2002

Lehmann Maupin, New York, NY
Galleria Cardi, Milan, Italy
Some Assembly Required: Collage Culture in Post-War America, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY

2001

L’enigma ritrovato, Galleria in Arco, Torino, Italy
Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany
Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY
Michael Lord Gallery, Milwaukee, WI

2000

Galleria In Arco, Torino, Italy
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico
Around 1984: A Look at Art in the Eighties, PS1, New York, NY

1999

Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain
Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY

1998

Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO
Itochu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

1997

Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Galeria Claudia Gian Ferrari, Milan, Italy

1996

Galeria Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid, Spain
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France

1995

Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY
Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich, Switzerland

1994

Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY

1993

Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport, CA

1992

Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France
Galeria Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid, Spain

1991

Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY
Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich, Switzerland

1990

Castelli Graphics, New York, NY

1989

Waddington Galleries, London, UK
Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne, Germany

1988

Mary Boone/Michael Werner Gallery, New York, NY
The Menil Collection, Houston, TX
Fundacion Caja de Pensiones, Madrid, Spain
Staatsgalerie Modern Kunst, Munich, Germany
The Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich, Switzerland

1987

Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich, Switzerland
Spiral Hall, Wacoal Art Center, Tokyo, Japan

1986

Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich, Switzerland
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY
Mario Diacono Gallery, Boston, MA
Asrhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

1985

Texas Gallery Houston, TX
Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France
Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, IL
Galerie Bernard Kluser, Munich, Germany
Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne, Germany

1984

Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY
Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich, Switzerland
Mario Diacono Gallery, Rome, Italy

1983

Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
Museum Boymans-van Beunigen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Castelli Graphics, New York, NY
David Salle, Francis Picabia, Galerie Schellmann & Kluser, Munich, Germany