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Biography - David True

Born

February 24, 1942 Marietta, OH. Currently lives in New York City.

Education

1967 Ohio University, B.F.A., M.F.A.

Solo Exhibitions

1974 “Angel Bear,” (narrative installation) Michael Walls Gallery, NY
1977 “David True, Paintings,” Edward Thorp Gallery, NY
1981 Edward Thorp Gallery, NY
1982 Edward Thorp Gallery, NY
1984 “David True Paintings 1974‑84,” Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
1985 Edward Thorp Gallery, NY
1986 “New Paintings,” Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA
Blum Helman Gallery, NY
1987 “David True: Paintings on Paper,” Blum Helman Gallery, NY
“David True:Paintings and Drawings,” Mangel Gallery, Philadelphia,PA
“David True: Etchings,” Crown Point Press, San Francisco, CA and NY “David True: Paintings on Paper,” Blum Helman Gallery, NY
1988‑89 Blum Helman Gallery, NY
1989 Blum Helman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1990 “David True: New Work,” Blum Helman, New York, NY
2000 Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York

Group Exhibitions

1974 John Doyle Gallery, Chicago, IL
1975 Emily Lowe Gallery, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY, “Thomas Schmidt, Alan Shield, David True”
University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada, “Narrative in Contemporary Art”
1975‑76 A.T.T. Travelling Group Exhibition, curated by Tobert Glauber, “Classical Line”
1976 Trisolini Gallery of Ohio University, OH
Edward Thorp Gallery, NY
1977 Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY, “Painting 75, 76, 77”
Holly Solomon Gallery, NY
Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, “1977 Biennial Exhibition”
Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, “Recent Acquisitions”
1979 Edward Thorp Gallery, NY
Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, “New Image Painting”
1980 Indianapolis Museum of Art, IN, “Painting and Sculpture Today, 1980” Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, AL, “American Painting of the 60’s and 70’s”
Edward Thorp Gallery, NY
1981 Virginia Museum, Richmond, VA, “A New Bestiary: Animal Imagery in Contemporary Art”
Edward Thorp Gallery, NY
Whitney Museum of American Art, Stamford, CT, “American Landscape: Recent Developments”
1982 Whitney Museum of American Art, Stamford, CT, “Surveying the Seventies,” Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
1983 La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA, “A Contemporary Collection on Loan from the Rothschild Bank AG, Zurich” The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA, “Reallegory”
Edward Thorp Gallery, NY
Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading, PA; Zilkha Gallery,Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT; Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA, “Contemporary Landscape Painting”
Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco, CA, “Perspectives of Landscape”
The Artists’ Choice Museum, NY, “Bodies and Souls”
Siegel Contemporary Art, Inc., NY, “Nocturne”
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA, “Currents”
Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, “Minimalism to Expresionism”
1984 The Museum of Modern Art, NY, “An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture,” Traveled to The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, The Detroit Institute of Art, MI, “Automobile and Culture”
1984 Venice Biennale, American Pavillion, Venice, Italy
“Paradise Lost/Paradise Regained: American Visions of the New Decade,”Traveled to Lisbon, Portugal; Madrid, Spain; Athens, Greece; Belgrade, Yugoslavia; Budapest, Hungary
Edward Thorp Gallery, NY
Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico, “New Narrative Painting”
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, “ec.cen.tric im.ag.es”
Barbara Toll Fine Arts, NY, “Drawing!”
Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC, “Art On Paper”
Sordoni Art Gallery, Wilkes College, Wilkes‑Barre, PA, “The New Expressive Landscape”
1985 Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, “Views”
1986 The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, “Public and Private - American Prints Today” The Mitchell Museum, Mt. Vernon, IL, “Recent Graphics from American Print Shops” The Lois and Michael Torf Gallery, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA “70’s Into 80’s: Printmaking Now”
1987 Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA, “Large Scale Prints”
Museum of Modern Art, NY, “For 25 Years: Crown Point Press”
1988 General Electric Company (an exhibition organized by the Museum of Modern Art, Art Advisory Service,) “Situations”
1989 The Art Advisory Service of The Museum of Modern Art, Mezzanine of the Corporate Conference Center, “Water”
1990 University Gallery, Fine Arts Center, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, “Silhouettes: Prints & Multiples”
1991 Edison Community College, Fort Myers, FLA, “Contemporary Woodblock Prints From Crown Point Press, The Leif E. Johnson Memorial Exhibition”
1993 Phyllis Kind Gallery, NY, “Personal Imagery”
Montgomery Glasoe Fine Art, Minneapolis, MN

Public Collections

Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
Munson‑Williams‑Proctor Institute, Utica, NY
El Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico
The Museum of Modern Art, NY
Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond, VA
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
New School of Social Research, NY
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
Henie-Onstad Artcenter, Hoevikodden, Norway
The Rivendale Collection, Bard College, Annandale on Hudson, NY
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Honolulu, HI
Hirschhorn Museum, Washington, DC
Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI

Awards

National Endowment for the Arts, Grant for painting, 1982‑83
National Endowment for the Arts, Grant for painting, 1991

Selected Bibliography

Russell, The New York Times, October 19, 1975
Ratcliff, Carter. “New York Letter,” Art International, Summer, 1976
Marshall, Richard. “New Image Painting,” Catalogue, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
Salle, David. “New Image Painting,” Flash Art, March‑April, 1979
Yassin, Robert. “Painting and Sculpture Today 1980,” Catalogue, Indianapolis Museum of Art, IN, 1980
Marzorati, Gerald. “Art Picks,” The Soho Weekly News, May 20, 1981
Raynor, Vivien. Review, The New York Times, May 22, 1981
Ratcliff, Carter. “New York Letter,” Art International, January, 1982
Tucker, Marsha. “An Iconography of Recent Figurative Painting,” Art Forum, Summer, 1982
Phillips, Lisa. “Surveying the Seventies,” Catalogue, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
Ratcliff, Carter. “David True: Edward Thorp Gallery,” Flash Art, January, 1983
Yau, John. “David True’s Pendulum,” Art Forum, February, 1983
Westfall, Stephen. “David True: Edward Thorp,” Arts Magazine, February, 1983
Forsha, Lynda. “A Contemporary Collection on Loan from the Rothschild Bank AG, Zurich”, Catalogue, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, CA, 1983
Russell, John. “New York’s Next Modern Museum is on the Way,” The New York Times, February 17, 1985
Nadelman, Cynthia. “David True,” ArtNews, October 1983
Yau, John. “Speculative Images: The Paintings of David True,” Sulphur 8, 1983
Brenson, Michael. “Today’s Landscapes Grapple with America,” The New York Times, February 5, 1984
Russell, John. “Paintings by David True,” Vogue Magazine, June, 1984.
Deutsch, David and Van Dalen, Anton. The New York Times, May 25, 1984
Bourdon, David. “Paradise: The American Version;” Raynor, Vivien. “Gallery Group,” The New York Times, February 24, 1984
Russell, John. “Art: Battered Venice Biennale Shows Will to Live,” The New York Times, June 18, 1984
Ibid. “Paintings by David True, Anton Van Dalen and David Deutsch,” The New York Times, May 25, 1984
Brenson, Michael. “David True,” The New York Times, May 3, 1985
French, Sherry. “David True,” ArtNews, September 1985
Henry, Gerrit. David True: Poetry as Print,” The Print Collector’s Newsletter, September 1985
Indiana, Gary. “Framing Creatures,” The Village Voice, May 7, 1985
Larson, Kay. “David True,” New York Magazine, May 20, 1985
Thorp, Edward. “David True,” ArtNews, September, 1985
Gardner,Colin. “Galleries,” The Los Angeles Times, May 2, 1986
Gardner, Colin. “Galleries,” The Los Angeles Times, August 21, 1987
Salzman, Linda Sher. “Memories of Dreams,” ArtWeek, March 18, 1989
(Review) “David True, Blum Helman Gallery,” The New Yorker, November 20, 2000
Mahoney, Robert. “David True at Tibor de Nagy,” Art in America, April 2001
Zieher, Scott. “Post-Millennial David True,” Provincetown Arts, 2001