About the artist:

Though his paintings, works on paper, and sculptures defy categorization, David Humphrey emerged as an artist in the late 1970s along with Postmodernism, an approach that continues to inform his heterogeneous compositions, visual pastiches that, in his words, “erase the breaks” between divergent styles. As he explains: “I suppose that the dynamic of relationship—the psychology of bonding, lovemaking, attachment, and so on—has kept me interested for a long time. I come back to it as a way to thicken the grammar of picture making.” In his paintings, this grammar includes gestural abstraction, cartoonish figuration, Pop Art, Surrealism, and Expressionism. His vibrant compositions feature human figures, narrative vignettes, animals, and objects interwoven into abstract passages. They read as sexually and psychologically charged dreamscapes, through which Humphrey breaks down boundaries to explore our relationships with each other and the world. American, born in Augsburg, Germany 1955 Lives and works in New York Education 1980 MA, New York University, NY 1977 BFA, Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD Honors and Awards 2002 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship Thomas B. Clarke Prize from the National Academy of Design 1995 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship 1987 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship 1985 New York Council for the Arts Grant 1979-80 New York Council for the Arts Grant 2008-2009 Rome Prize, American Academy in Rome Solo Exhibitions 2008 Expecting Ecstasy, Parisian Laundry, Montreal, Canada 2007 Keith Talent Gallery, London Fred Amaya Gallery, Miami, FL 2006 New Paintings, Solomon Projects, Atlanta, GA Frederic Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL Snowman in Love, Triple Candie, NY 2005 Oven Stuffer Roaster, Morsel, NY 2004 Brent Sikkema Gallery, New York, NY 2002 Both Less and More, Littlejohn Contemporary, New York, NY Lace, Bubbles, Milk, Pittsburgh Filmakers’ New Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA (catalogue) Holiday Melt, Solomon Projects, Atlanta, GA Holiday Melt, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL 2001 Holiday Melt, Saks Fifth Avenue Project Art, Palm Beach, FL University of Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 2000 McKee Gallery, New York, NY 1999 Sculptures, Deven Golden Fine Art Ltd, New York, NY Me and My Friends, The Phillip Feldman Gallery, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR 1998 Love Teams, Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL (catalogue) Works on Paper, Roy G Biv Gallery, Columbus, OH 1997 Team SHaG, collaborative paintings by A. Sillman, D. Humphrey and E. Greene Postmasters, New York, NY Sculptures, Deven Golden Fine Art Ltd, New York, NY 1996 Nancy Solomon Gallery, Atlanta, GA David Humphrey: Paintings and Drawings 1987-1994, Wood Street Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA (catalogue) Head: Recent Paintings, I Space, Chicago, IL 1995 David Humphrey: Paintings and Drawings 1987-1994, The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH (catalogue) Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1993 McKee Gallery, New York, NY 1992 Patricia Shea Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 1991 Bergstrom-Mahler Museum, Neenah, WI (catalogue) Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA McKee Gallery, New York, NY 1990 Krygier\Landau Contemporay Art, Santa Monica, CA David McKee Gallery, New York, NY Selected Group Exhibitions 2009 Chunky Monkey, Red Flagg, NY Spazi Aperti, Romanian Academy, Rome, Italy 2008 Perversions of Theater, Apex Art, New York, NY 2007 Inside the Pale, Thrust Projects, New York, NY Mr President, University Art Museum, SUNY Albany, NY Neointegrity, Derek Eller Gallery, NY 2006 Complicit, University of Virginia Art Museum, Richmond, VA Normal, Linda Warren Gallery, Chicago, IL 2005 Jeff Gauntt & David Humphrey, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY Life and Limb, Feigen Contemporary, New York, NY 2004 When I Think of You I Touch Myself, New York Academy of Art, New York 2003 New Prints, McKee Gallery, New York, NY 4 x 4, Artist’s Union, St. Petersburg, Russia Pop thru Out, Araio Gallery, Choongchungnma, Korea (catalogue) The Burbs, DFN Gallery, New York, NY (catalogue) 2002 Pasted On, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL Super Natural Payground, Gallerie Marella, Milan Italy (catalogue) 177th Annual, National Academy of Design Musuem, New York, NY (catalogue) 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, DC Moore Gallery, NY 2000 Objects that Flicker, Solomon Projects, Atlanta, GA Exit Art, New York, NY Rapture, Janet Phelps, New York, NY The Figure, Another Side of Modernism, Snug Harbor Art Center, NY (catalogue) Collaborations, Bucknell University Art Gallery, Lewisburg, PA 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 (catalogue) 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 (catalogue) 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 (catalogue) 1995 Crystal Blue Persuassion, Feature, New York, NY Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC (catalogue) Internal/External, Foster Goldstrom Gallery, New York, NY (catalogue) More Than Real, Gallery 400, University of Illinois at Chicago, IL On Target, Horodner Romley Gallery, New York, NY Arresting Images, Gallery 400, University of Illinois at Chicago, IL 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 (catalogue) 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 Personal Imagery, Chicago/New York, Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York, NY 43rd Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary Painting, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (catalogue) 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) Hair, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, W I 1991 Personal Portrait, Annina Nosei Gallery, NY Mute, Solo Gallery, New York, NY (curated by Susan Tallman) Expressive Visions and Exquisite Images: Two Aspects of Art of the 80’s From The Richard Brown Baker Collection, Meadowbrook Art Gallery, Oakland University, CA (catalogue) Landscape as Stage, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA (organized by Meyer Raphael Rubenstein) 1990 Prints & Monotypes, Pelavin Editions, New York, NY Faces, Marc Richards Gallery, Los Angeles, CA The Unique Print: 70’s into the 90’s, Museum of Fine Art, Boston, MA (catalogue) Selected Writings by David Humphrey (In addition to this list, Humphrey wrote regularly for Art issues magazine until 2001 and more recently for Art in America. Catalogue essays include Catherine Howe, Jill Giegerich, Laurence Hegarty and Katherine Kuharic, Julie Heffernan and Ian Dawson) 2009 Blind Handshake: art writing + art 1990 – 2008 2005 “Hi, My Name is Artwork,” M/E/A/N/I/N/G Online #1, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 1996 “Describable Beauty,” New Observations #113. “On the Fantastic,” Tema Celeste. 1993 “Telepathy” (a collaborative artists’ book project with Bill Jones). “The Abject Romance of Low Resolution,” Lusitania, Vol. 1 #4. 1990 “Hair Piece,” Art issues, February. “Stained Sheets/Holy Shroud,” Arts Magazine, December 1987 “The Dictator’s Body,” Stanford Italian Review (drawings) Curated Exhibitions 2007 Horizon, EFA Gallery, New York, NY 2006 19 Penis’ thebody.com/visualaids/web_gallery 2005 Life and Limb, Feigen Contemporary, New York, NY 2004 When I Think of You I Touch Myself, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY 2002 Hello to Handmade Words, K.S. Art, New York, NY 2001 Fhuh, Promiscuously Subarticulate Paintings, Fishtank, New York, NY 1997 Normotic, One Great Jones, New York, NY 1992 Dysfunction in the Family Album, Diane Brown Gallery, New York, NY 1990 Stained Sheets: Holy Shroud, Krygier/Landau Contemporary Art, Santa Monica, CA Selected Reviews and Publications 2007 Bors, Chris, www.artinfo.com/articles/story/26151 2006 Bors, Chris, Snowmen in Harlem, Artnet. com 2005 “Artist of the Week,” Edward Winkelman Blogspot, January 10. 2004 Kalm, James. “David Humphrey,” Brooklyn Rail, May. Pepe, Sheila. ” What’s in a Game?” Gay City News, April 22-28. 2003 Green, Elliot. “David Humphrey, ” Bomb, Fall. Rubinstein, Raphael. “David Humphrey: Correlative Kitsch,” Art in America, November. 2002 Johnson, Ken. “Tricky Adios,” New York Times, June 7 2000 Cullum, Jerry. “ Poodles, Ice Cream and the Way We Live,” Atlanta Journal-Constitution, March 22 Feaster, Felicia. “Kitsch on Quaaludes,” Creative Loafing, Atlanta, GA 2000 Diehl, Carol, “David Humphrey at McKee Gallery,” Art in America, June. Chambers, Christopher, “The Splice of Life,” D, Art, Fall. Wiken, Karen, Partisan, Spring. 1999 “A Conversation with Catherine Howe,” NY Arts, February. “A Conversation with Scott Weiland,” NY Arts, July/August. DiMaggio, Anthony. Review, June 15. 1998 Camper, Fred. Chicago Reader, April 17. Cone, Jon. Art Byte, December-January. 1995 Plagens, Peter. “A Painter’s Pixel Palette”, Newsweek, February 27. Stein, Jerry. “Family photos take role in artist’s paintings”, The Cincinnati Post, April 8. Findsen, Owen. “Mysterious narratives enter new art dimension”, The Cincinnati Enquirer, April 11. Heisler, Eva. ” Computer Gargoyoles”, Dialogue, September/October. Hirsch, Faye. “On Paper,” September/October. 1994 Cameron, Dan. “Art for the New Year,” Art and Auction, January. 1993 Weiner, Daniel. “Studio Visits,” (interview with David Humphrey ) Artspace, March/April. Miller, Donald. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, March 13. Sanchez, Annette B. “Art in the Age of Information: Thought-Provoking,” New Pittsburgh Courier, April 17. Richard, Paul. “What’s Wrong with this Picture,” The Washington Post, October 31. Hagen, Charles. “David Humphrey,” The New York Times, November 26. Shirley, David. Option Magazine, October. 1992 Hagen, Charles. “Dysfunction in the Family Album,” The New York Times, January 31. Homes, A.M. “Dysfunction in the Family Album,” Artforum, May. Scarborough, James. “David Humphrey at Patricia Shea,” Artweek, October 8. 1992 Weisman, Benjamin. “David Humphrey – Patricia Shea Gallery,” Artforum, November. Wye, Pamela. “David Humphrey: Adjusting the Picture” Sulfur 30, Spring. Anderson, Michael. “David Humphrey,” Art Issues, November/December. 1991 Lading, Sara. “Artist Illustrates Relationship Between Anatomy, Emotion,” Valley Sun, January 31. Baker, Kenneth. “David Humphrey: Walk on the Weird Side,” San Francisco Chronicle, February 9. Bartlett, Mark. “David Humphrey,” Art issues, April/May. Rubinstein, Meyer Raphael. “David Humphrey at David McKee,” Art in America, July. Cyphers, Peggy. Arts Magazine, September. “David Humphrey,” Journal of Comtemporary Art, Vol. 4, #2, Fall/Winter. 1990 Spector, Buzz. “Stained Sheets/Holy Shroud,” Art issues, September/October. “David Humphrey,” The New Yorker, April 23. Private and Public Collections Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA Chemical Bank, New York, NY Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, OH Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO Exxon Corporation, New York, NY First Bank Minneapolis, Minneapolis, MN Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ McCrory Corporation, New York, NY Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Museum of Fine Art, Boston, MA The Progressive Corporation, OH Prudential Insurance Corporation, Newark, NJ Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN