| 1976 |
Artists Space, NY |
| 1977 |
Foundation de Appel, Amsterdam, Holland |
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The Kitchen, NY |
| 1979 |
The Kitchen, NY |
| 1980 |
Anina Nosei Gallery, NY |
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Galerie Bischofberger, Zurich |
| 1981 |
Mary Boone Gallery, NY |
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Larry Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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Lucio Amelio Gallery, Naples, Italy |
| 1982 |
Mario Diacono, Rome, Italy |
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Mary Boone Gallery/Leo Castelli Gallery, NY |
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Galerie Bischofberger, Zurich, Switzerland |
| 1983 |
Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
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Museum Boymans‑vanBeuningen, Rotterdam, Holland |
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Mary Boone Gallery, NY |
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Larry Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| 1984 |
Leo Castelli Gallery, NY |
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Galerie Bischofberger, Zurich, Switzerland |
| 1985 |
Texas Gallery, Houston, TC |
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Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France |
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Mary Boone Gallery, NY |
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Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne, Germany |
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Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, IL |
| 1986 |
Leo Castelli Gallery, NY |
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Mario Diacomo Gallery, Boston, MA |
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Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA |
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Institute of Contemporay Art, Boston, MA |
| 1987 |
Whitney Museum of American Art, NY |
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Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA |
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Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada |
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Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL |
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Mary Boone Gallery, NY |
| 1988 |
Leo Castelli Gallery, NY |
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Michael Werner, Koln, West Germany |
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The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh |
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Mary Boone Gallery, NY |
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Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich, Switzerland |
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“Two No Figures”, Daniel Templon, Paris, France |
| 1989 |
Michael Werner Gallery, Cologne, West Germany |
| 1990 |
“Recent Prints”, Castelli Graphics, NY |
| 1991 |
“David Salle”, Gagosian Gallery, NY |
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“David Salle”, Gallery Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich, Switzerland |
| 1992 |
“David Salle”, Galerie Templon, Paris, France |
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“David Salle”, Galeria Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid, Spain |
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“David Salle: Recent Drawings”, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY |
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“David Salle: Photographs”, Stuart Regen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| 1993 |
Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1995 |
Galerie Thaddeus Ropac, Paris, France |
| 1997 |
Galeria Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid, Spain. |
| 1999 |
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. |
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Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain. |
| 2000 |
Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico. |
| 2001 |
Gagosian Gallery, NYC, NY. |
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Jablonka Galerie, Koln, Germany. |
| 2003 |
Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY. |
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Waddington Galleries, London, England. |
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Emilio Mazzoli Galleria d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy. |
| 2004 |
“David Salle: Split Worlds”, The Montage Principle, Stella Art Gallery, Moscow, Russia. |
| 2005 |
“The Vortex Paintings”, Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY |
| 2007 |
“David Salle; New Paintings”, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria. |
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“A Recreation of David Salle’s 1977 Kitchen Installation: Bearding the Lion in His Den”, Deitch Projects, NYC, NY. |
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“David Salle: New Paintings”, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, Colorado. |
| 1979 |
“Masters of Love”, 80 Langton Street, San Francisco, CA |
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“Imitation of Life”, Joseloff Gallery, Hartford, CT |
| 1980 |
“Apres le Classicisme”, Musee d’art de Industrie, St. Etienne, France |
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“Horror Pleni: Give Me Time to Look, Pictures in New York”, Padiglione d’Art Contemporanea, Milan, Italy |
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“Illustration and Allegory”, Brooke Alexander Gallery, NY |
| 1981 |
“Young Americans”, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH |
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“Westkunst”, Heulte, Cologne, Germany |
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“Figures, Forms and Expressions”, Albright‑Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY |
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“Body Language”, Hayden Gallery, MIT, Cambridge, MA |
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“Aspects of Post‑Modernism”, Squibb Gallery, Princeton, MA |
| 1982 |
“Focus on the Future: Twenty Years”, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY |
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“The Anxious Edge”, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN |
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“Castelli and His Artists”, Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA |
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“Art and the Media”, Renaissance Society, Chicago, IL |
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“Avanguardia Transavanguardia”, Mura Aureliane, Rome, Italy |
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“74th American Exhibition”, Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, IL |
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“Documenta 7”, Kassel, Germany |
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Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy |
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“The Pressure to Paint”, Marlborough Gallery, NY |
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“Body Language”, Fort Worth Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX |
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“The Expressionistic Image: American Art from Pollack to Today”, Sidney Janis Gallery, NY |
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“New York, Now”, Kestner‑Gesselschraft, Hannover, Germany |
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“New Figuration in America”, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI |
| 1983 |
“En Internationnel Samlung”, Stiftelsen Karlsvik, Stockholm, Sweden |
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The Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY |
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“Directions 1983”, The Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC |
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“From Minimalism to Expressionism”, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY |
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“Tendencias en Nueva York”, Palacio de Cristal, Madrid, Spain |
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“Sao Paulo Biennial”, Sao Paolo, Brazil |
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“New Art”, Tate Gallery, London, England |
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“Back to the USA”, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Switzerland |
| 1984 |
“New Painting”, Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL |
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“New Art”, Musee d’Art Contemporain, Montreal, Canada |
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“An International Survey of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture”, Museum of Modern Art, NY |
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“The Human Condition”, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA |
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“Kapelle am Wegesrand”, La Paloma, Hamburg, Germany |
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“The Restoration of Painterly Figuration: Painting Now”, Kitakyushi Municipal Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan |
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“Polke, Salle, Clemente”, Seibu Museum, Tokyo, Japan |
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“Content”, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC |
| 1985 |
“Whitney Biennial”, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY “XIII Biennial de Paris”, Grande Halle de Parc de la Villette, Paris, France |
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“Carnegie International”, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA |
| 1986 |
“An American Renaissance: Painting and Sculpture Since 1940”, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL |
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Biennial of Sydney, Australia |
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“Europa/America”, Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Germany |
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“Prospect 86”, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany |
| 1987 |
“Avant Garde in the Eighties”, Los Angeles County Art Museum |
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“L’Epoque, la morale, la mode, la passion”, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France |
| 1988 |
“Altered Images”, Penson Gallery, NY |
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“10 + 10: Contemporary Soviet and American Painting”, organized by the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Travelled to: Museum of Modern Art, Fort Worth, TX; SanFrancisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; Albright‑Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Artists Union Hall of the Tretyakov Embankment, Moscow, USSR; State Picture Gallery of Georgia, Tbilisi, Central Exhibition Hall, Leningrad, USSR |
| 1989 |
“Water”, Art Advisory Service of The Museum of Modern Art, Mezzanine of the Corporate Conference Center |
| 1990 |
Bank of America, Concourse Gallery, NY |
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“Prints of the Eighties”, Pratt University, Brooklyn, NY, traveled to Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY |
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“The Last Decade: American Artists of the 80’s”, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, NY |
| 1991 |
“Whitney Biennial”, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY |
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“Contemporary Woodblock Prints From Crown Point Press, The Leif E. Johnson Memorial Exhibition”, Edison Community College, Fort Myers, FL |
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“Drawings for the Stage”, Stephen Solvoy Fine Art, Chicago, IL |
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“David Salle: Photographs 1980-90 & Man Ray: Natural Paintings”, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1992 |
“Allegories of Modernism: Contemporary Drawing”, MoMA, NY |
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Gallery Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich, Switzerland |
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“Mythologies contemporaines”, Galerie Mansart, Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France |
| 1993 |
“The Spirit of Drawing”, Sperone Westwater, NY “1982-1983, Ten Years After”, Tony Shafrazi Galleery, New York, NY “American Post-Modern Art”, Ho-Am Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea |
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“New York on Paper”, Galerie Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland |
| 1996 |
“Thinking Print: From Books to Billboards, 1980-1995”, The Museum of Modern Art, NYC, NY. |
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The Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. |
| 1998 |
“Young Americans 2”, Saatchi Gallery, London, England. |
| 1999 |
“The American Century: Art & Culture, 1900-2000 Part 2”, Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC, NY. |
| 2000 |
“Around 1984: A Look at Art in the Eighties”, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York. |
| 2001 |
“Mythic Proportions: Painting in the 1980s”, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, Florida. |
| 2004 |
“Flowers”, Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY. |
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“Flowers Observed, Flowers Transformed”, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. |
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“North Fork/South Fork: East End Art Now/Part II”, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York. |
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“The Charged Image”, Joseloff Gallery, University of Hartford, West Hartford, Connecticut. |
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“What’s Modern?”, Gagosian Gallery, NYC, NY. |
| 2005 |
“Contemporary Voices: Works from The UBS Art Collection”, The Museum of Modern Art, NYC, NY. |
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“Picturing America: Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art”, Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum, Nagasaki, Japan. |
| 2006 |
“Damien Hirst, David Salle, Jenny Saville, Museo Carlo Bilotti”, Rome, Italy. |
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“Songs for Sale: Big American Paintings by Robert Rauschenberg, David Salle, and Michael Bevilacqua”, Deitch Projects, NYC, NY. |
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“Heroines”, The Arnold and Marie Schwartz Gallery Met, Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center, NYC, NY. |
| 2007 |
“Not for Sale”, P.S.1/MoMA Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York. |