David Salle Biography

David Salle

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Born 1952 in Norman Oklahoma
Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York


Education

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

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


Selected Solo Exhibitions

2015        
New Paintings, Skarstedt Fine Art, New York City
Debris, Dallas Contemporary, Dallas

2014
David Salle, Maureen Paley, London
David Salle - Collage, Galeria Mendes Wood, São Paulo
David Salle: Ghost Paintings, The Arts Club, Chicago
Leeahn Gallery, Daegu
Leeahn Gallery, Seoul

2013
David Salle: Ghost Paintings, The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago

2012
David Salle, Lever House Art Collection, New York
Ariel and Other Spirits, The Arnold and Marie Schwartz Gallery Met, Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center, New York
Tapestries/ Battles/ Allegories, Lever House Art Collection, New York
Wrestlers and others, Gerhardsen Gerner, Berlin

2011
Mary Boone Gallery, New York
Maureen Paley, London

2010
Mary Boone Gallery, New York

2009
Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover

2008
Galleri Faurschou, Copenhagen
Studio d/Arte Raffaelli, Trento

2007
Galleria Cardi, Milan
Galerie Thaddeaus Ropac, Salzburg
Deitch Projects, New York
Baldwin Gallery, Aspen

2006
Life is a Vortex, Galleria In Arco, Turin

2005
Mary Boone Gallery, New York

2004
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
Stella Art Gallery, Moscow
Baldwin Gallery, Aspen

2003
Mary Boone Gallery, New York
Waddington Galleries, London
Emilio Mazzoli Galleria D’Arte Contemporanea, Modena

2002
Galleria Cardi, Milan
Lehmann Maupin, New York

2001
Gagosian Gallery, New York
Jablonka Galerie, Cologne

2000
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, A.C., Monterrey
Dreams on Paper, Galleria In Arco, Turin
David Salle - Dreams on Paper, Studio d'Arte Raffaelli - Palazzo Wolkenstein, Trento
David Salle, Museo Guggenheim de Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo, Bilbao

1999
Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York
Gagosian Gallery, New York
Retrospective, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam;
traveled to: Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig;
Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Castello di Rivoli, Turin;
Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao
David Salle - The Drunken Chauffeur, University of Virginia Art Museum, Charlottesville

1998
Baldwin Gallery, Aspen
Itochu Gallery, Tokyo

1997
Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills.
Claudia Gian Ferrari Arte Contemporanea, Milan

1996
Galerie Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid
Galerie Thaddeus Ropac, Paris

1995
Galerie Bischofberger, Zurich
Gagosian Gallery, New York

1994
Gagosian Gallery, New York
David Salle, Mary Boone Gallery, New York

1993
David Salle: New Works, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach
Newport Harbor Art Museum, California

1992
Regen Projects, Los Angeles
Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris
Gagosian Gallery, New York
Galeria Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid
Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague

1991
Gagosian Gallery, New York
Robert Miller Gallery, New York (photographs)
Galerie Bischofberger, Zurich

1990
Mario Diacono Gallery, Boston
Fred Hoffman Gallery, Santa Monica
Castelli Graphics, New York

1989
Waddington Galleries, London
Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne

1988
Castelli Gallery, New York. (with Jasper Johns and Bruce Naumann)
Mary Boone/Michael Werner Gallery, New York
The Menil Collection, Houston
Fundacion Caja de Pensiones, Madrid;
traveled to: Staatsgalerie Modern Kunst, Munich;
The Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv;
Galerie Bischofberger, Zurich

1987
The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles
Mary Boone Gallery, New York
The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh.
Galerie Bischofberger, Zurich
Spiral Garden, Wacoal Art Center, Tokyo

1986
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
Mario Diacono Gallery, Boston
Castelli Graphics, New York
Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund;
traveled to: Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark;
The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston.
Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia;
traveled to: The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York;
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles;
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto;
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Galerie Bischofberger, Zurich

1985
Texas Gallery, Houston
Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris
Mary Boone Gallery, New York
Donald Young Gallery, Chicago
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne

1984
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
Mario Diacono Gallery, Rome
Galerie Bischofberger, Zurich

1983
Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo
Mary Boone Gallery, New York
Galerie Schellmann & Kluser, Munich (with Francis Picabia)
Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam
Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles

1982
Mary Boone Gallery
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
Galerie Bischofberger, Zurich
Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London

1981
Mary Boone Gallery, New York
Larry Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles
Lucio Amelio Gallery, Naples

1980
Galerie Bischofberger, Zurich

1979
Gagosian/Nosei Webber, New York


Selected Group Exhibitions

2016
Collage: Moving Beyond Paper, Krannert Art Museum, Champaign
Spring Group Exhibition, Skarstedt, London
Nice Weather, Skarstedt Fine Art, New York
Condo, de Kooning, Kippenberger, Muñoz, Salle, Warhol, Skarstedt, London
Pop Art Classics, Galerie Fluegel-Roncak, Nuremberg

2015
Il manichino della storia l´arte dopo le costruzioni della critica e della cultura, Mata, Modena  
Decades, Woodward Gallery, New York
Choice: Contemporary Art from the Akron Art Museum, Transformer Station, Cleveland  
Europa - Die Zukunft Der Geschichte, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich
I Love Art 13, 100 artists from the Watari-Um Collection, Watari-Um, Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
O Olhar do Colecionador / The Collector's Eye, Berardo Museum, Lisbon
Future Seasons Past, Lehmann Maupin, New York City
America Is Hard to See, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

2014
George Condo, Albert Oehlen, David Salle, Thomas Schütte and Cindy Sherman, Skarstedt Fine Art, New York
Weltenbummler - abenteuer kunst, Essl Museum - Kunst der Gegenwart, Klosterneuburg
Disturbing Innocence, FLAG Art Foundation, New York
Urban Theater: New York Art In The 1980S, The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth
Guild Hall: An Adventure in the Arts, Pensacola Museum of Art, Pensacola
Absent Friend, Monya Rowe Gallery, New York
Summer Guests, Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich
Modernism from the National Gallery of Art: The Robert & Jane Meyerhoff Collection, The de Young Museum, San Francisco
Feats of Clay, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen
Beg, Borrow and Steal, Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke

2013
(P)Arerga & (P)Aralipomena Della (P)Ittura - Bonelli Arte Contemporanea, Mantova
Meshes of the Afternoon, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York
DSM-V, The Future Moynihan Station, New York (Curated by David Rimanelli and presented by Vito Schnabel)  
Everyday Epiphanies. Photography and Daily Life Since 1969, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York  
Galen at The Galen, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs
The System of Objects, Deste Foundation, Athens  
Beg, Borrow and Steal, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs
David Salle / Francis Picabia, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
1980's Revisited, Skarstedt Fine Art, New York

2012
The Gallery Collection, Jiro Miura Gallery, Tokyo
Out Of The Blue, Bortolami, New York
Project Inc. Revisited, Churner and Churner, New York
Astrazione Figurazione, Galleria Cardi - Pietrasanta, Pietrasanta
Spring Fever, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York
This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
Contemporary Painting, 1960 to the Present: Selections from the SFMOMA Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
Accrochage der Pop Art - Künstler der Galerie, Galerie Fluegel-Roncak, Nuremberg
American Prints III, Russell Bowman Art Advisory, Chicago
The Best of Everything, Electric Works, San Francisco
FlowerPower, Galerie ABTART, Stuttgart

2012
The Best of Everything, Electric Works, San Francisco
Accrochage der Pop Art - Künstler der Galerie, Galerie Fluegel-Roncak, Nuremberg
American Prints III, Russell Bowman Art Advisory, Chicago
FlowerPower, Galerie ABTART, Stuttgart
This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois

2011
Under the Big Black Sun: California Art 1974-1981, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
Pop Art 1960’s-2000’s from Misumi Collection, Kawaguchiko Museum of Art, Yamansashi Prefecture, Japan
Distant Star, Regen Projects, Los Angeles
Distant Star/Estrella Distante, Kurimanzutto, Mexico City, Mexico
Les Fleurs du Mal, Munich Modern, Munich, Germany
Lets Party For A Piece Of Art, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich; The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles
Sommerausstellung 2011, Galerie Thomas Modern, Munich
American Prints II, Russell Bowman Art Advisory, Chicago
Zettels Traum, Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal
The 80s Revisited. Sammlung Bischofberger II, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld

2010
Calder to Warhol: Introducing the Fisher Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Painting and Sculpture, Lehmann Maupin, New York
SONGS FOR SALE, Galleri Faurschou - Beijing, Beijing
Armitage Gone Dance Exquisite Corpse Project, Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert, Inc., New York
The Vision of Contemporary Art, Artsonje Museum, Gyeongju Bomun
The End of the Affair, The Fireplace Project, East Hampton
Off the Wall Part 1: Thirty Performative Actions, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Pastiche, Pace Gallery, New York
Tracks and Traces, Galleria In Arco, Turin
Your History is not Our History, Haunch of Venison - New York, New York
Collecting Biennials, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
American Prints, Russell Bowman Art Advisory, Chicago

2009
The Pictures Generation, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Beg Borrow and Steal, Rubell Family Collection, Miami
MOCA´s First Thirty Years, MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles
Just what is it that makes today's painting so different, so appealing?, Gering & López Gallery, New York
A Tribute To Ron Warren, Mary Boone Gallery, New York
Intense, Russell Bowman Art Advisory, Chicago
Don't Panic! I'm Selling My Collection, Rental Gallery, New York
The Figure and Dr Freud, Haunch of Venison - New York, New York
Images & (re)présentations, The 1980s – Part 2, MAGASIN-Centre National d’art Contemporain de Grenoble, Grenoble
FLOWER POWER, Craa Centro di ricerca arte attuale Villa Giulia, Verbania
Vivid Lines in Graphic Times, Krannert Art Museum, Champaign
Antes de ayer y pasado mañana; o lo que puede ser pintura hoy, MACUF Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Union Fenosa, A Coruña
Opere recenti, Studio d'Arte Raffaelli - Palazzo Wolkenstein, Trento
American Concepts and Global Visions/Selections from the AT&T Collection: Contemporary Paintings and Sculpture, The McNay Art Museum, San Antonio

2008
Passioniert Provokativ Die Sammlung Stoffel, Pinakothek Der Moderne, Munich
Broad Contemporary Art Museum at LACMA, Los Angeles County Museum of Art Los Angeles, CA
UBS Openings: Paintings from the 1980s, Tate Modern, London
Love, Love, Love, Martos Gallery, New York
Dalla Presitoria al Futuro. Capolavori dalla collezione Bischofsberger, Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli, Turin
The Moments of Arario, Arario Cheonan, Cheonan-si
Pasións Privadas, Visións Públicas, MARCO Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo, Vigo
HERE and NOW. PART II, REGINAGALLERY, Moscow 

2007
Not for Sale, P.S. 1 MoMA Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York
Vent'anni con gli amici (A. V.), Galleria In Arco, Turin
Selection 2007, Proje4L/Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art, Istanbul
POP ART 1960's to 2000's, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima
100 Jahre Kunsthalle Mannheim, Städtische Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim
Invitational Exhibition of Contempory Art, The American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York
Not For Sale, MoMA PS1, New York
Lights, Camera, Action: Artists´ Films for the Cinema, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Private Corporate IV, Daimler Contemporary, Berlin
Great Impressions, Dean Jensen Gallery, Milwaukee

2006
Damien Hirst, David Salle, Jenny Saville The Bilotti Chapel, The Bilotti Chapel, Museo Carlo Bilotti, Rome, Italy
New Aquisitions, Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich
Songs for Sale, Deitch Projects, 76 Grand Street, New York (closed, 2010)
Eretica, Civica Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Palermo (closed)
Aspects of Humanity, CCAS - Center for Contemporary Art Sacramento, Sacramento
Somnambulist/Fabulist, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs
Black & Blue, Robert Miller Gallery, New York
(A. V.), Galleria In Arco, Turin
Chairs, Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich
Full House - Gesichter einer Sammlung, Städtische Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim
Spring Paper 8, Woodward Gallery, New York

2005
Contemporary Voices: Works from the UBS Art Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Skulls, Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich
Flashback - Revisiting the Art of the Eighties, Museum für Gegenwartskunst - Emanuel Hoffmann-Stiftung, Basel
STRANIERI, Galleria Francocancelliere, Messina
Closing Down, Bortolami, New York
BIG BANG, Centre Pompidou, Paris
American artists, Galleria Alessandro Bagnai, Florence
Collettiva, Galleria Alessandro Bagnai, Florence
Colecoes VI - 17 Foros - 18 Artistas, Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo
Skin, Galleria Daniele Ugolini, Florence (closed, 2010)
Figuratively Speaking, MAM - Miami Art Museum, Miami

2004
Surprise!, Galleria Cardi - Milano, Milan
Sonderaktion Graphiken und Bücher, Galerie Klüser, Munich
What´s modern?, Gagosian Gallery , New York City, NY
Vision einer Sammlung, Museum der Moderne Salzburg Mönchsberg, Salzburg
Visions of America, ESSL MUSEUM - KUNST DER GEGENWART, Klosterneuburg
Highlights from the Permanent Collection, NIU Art Museum - Northern Illinois University, DeKalb
Year Zero, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland (England)
Tear Down This Wall: Paintings From The 1980, MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles
2004 Summer Print Sale, IKON Ltd, Santa Monica
...So Fresh, So Cool!, Galleria Cardi - Milano, Milan
I Am The Walrus, Cheim & Read, New York
Particular view, Galleria Alessandro Bagnai, Florence
Africa - Beauty and Disaster, Galerie Beyeler, Basel
Home Sweet Home, Galleria Cardi - Milano, Milan
Flowers, Mary Boone Gallery, New York
Under $2,000 Albers > Zaugg, Brooke Alexander Editions, New York

2003
Strange but not stranger (A. V.), Galleria In Arco, Turin
Painting Lesson, Galleria Cardi - Milano, Milan
Crimes and Misdemeanors, Politics in U.S. Art of the 1980s, CAC - Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati
The Eighties - Part II: USA, Galerie Klüser, Munich
In Your Face, Alan Koppel Gallery, Chicago
Some Assembly Required - Collage Culture in Post-War America, Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland
Reverie - Works from the Collection of Douglas S. Cramer, Speed Art Museum, Louisville
Pop thru out - Arario Cheonan, Cheonan-si
Embracing the Present - The UBS Art Collection, Austin Museum of Art - AMOA, Austin

2002
Something We Talked About - Brooke Alexander Editions, New York; Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
Jasper Johns to Jeff Koons - Four Decades of Art from the Broad Collections, MFA - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston
Time Space Motion, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac - Salzburg, Salzburg
Impressions, Galerie Beyeler, Basel
Desire, Galleria d'Arte Moderna di Bologna - GAM, Bologna (closed, 2007)
Good News, Galleria Cardi - Milano, Milan
Arte Múltipla, Galeria 111 - Lisboa, Lisbon
Memoir of Freedom, CAM - Chelsea Art Museum, New York City, NY
Popcorn and politics - Activists of Art, Kiasma - Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
New York Expression, Bergen Kunstmuseum, Bergen

2001
Mythic Proportions: Painting in the 1980's, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami
Jasper Johns to Jeff Koons: Four Decades of Art form the Broad Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Shortcuts, Deste Foundation, Centre for Contemporary Art, Athens
New Work, Lehmann Maupin, New York
Desire, Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal-Unteröwisheim
Hero, IKON Ltd, Santa Monica
L'enigma ritrovato (A. V.), Galleria In Arco, Turin

2000
Around 1984: A Look at Art in the Eighties, PS1, New York
Figure in the Landscape, Lehmann Maupin, New York
superpredators, team (gallery, inc.), New York
New Acquisitions, IKON Ltd, Santa Monica
An Exhibition of Selected Paintings, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills
DIÁLOGOS CON LA FOTOGRAFIA, Galería Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid
Art at Work: Forty Years of the Chase Manhattan Collection, Queens Museum of Art (QMA), New York
Americanos, Galeria Moises Perez de Albeniz, Pamplona
David Salle, Francesco Clemente, Eric Fischl, Gagosian Gallery , New York
Laissez parler les p'tits papiers, Gabrielle Salomon – Art Conseil, Paris

1999
The American Century: Art & Culture, 1900-2000 Part 2, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
The First View, Sammlung Essl, Vienna
Photographs by Painters, Photographers, Sculptors, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York
Masterprints, Galerie nächst St. Stephan, Vienna
La mirada del Artista, Fotografías, Galería Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid
17 Contemporaries: Artists from America, Italy, and Mexico—the Eighties, The Menil Collection, Houston
Printmaking 1960-1990, Davison Art Center, Middletown

1998
Contemporary Art: The Janet Wolfson de Botton Gift, Tate Gallery, London
Young Americans 2, Saatchi Gallery, London
Cleveland Collects Contemporary Art, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland
Sarajevo 2000, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig - MUMOK , Vienna
Summer Group Show, Gagosian Gallery, London (closed)
An exhibition of paintings, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills
Art of Four Decades: 1958 - 1998, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco
Tillbaka till åttiotalet — redan? / Isn't It Too Early for the Eighties Yet?, Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö (closed, 2006)
Exhibition of the century, Wellington City Gallery, Wellington
Dreaming II: Contemporary American Art and Ancient Korea, Akira Ikeda - New York, New York

1997
Group Show: Benglis, Fuss, Salle, Spitzer, Cheim & Read, New York
Papiers Contemporains, Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, Paris

1996
The Robert and Jane Meyehoff Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. 
Reel Work: Artists Film and Video of the 1970’s, Museum of Contemporary Art - North Miami (MOCA), Miami
Leo Castelli: An Exhibition In Honor Of His Gallery And Artists, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills

1995
American Photography 1890-1965, The Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
A Benefit Exhibition for D.E.A.F., Inc, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York

1993
Venice Biennale, Venice
The Portrait Now, National Portrait Gallery, London
1982-83, Ten Years After, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York

1992
Allegories of Modernism, Contemporary Drawing, The Museum of Modern Art New York. Curated by Bernice Rose
Summer Group Show, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York

1991
1991 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Works on Paper, Jack Hanley Gallery - San Francisco, San Francisco (closed, 2010)
Summertime, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York
Word As Image: American Art 1960–1990, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston

1990
Bilderstreit: Widerspruch, Einheit und Fragment in der Kunst seit 1960, Rheinhalle, Cologne
Image World: Art and Media Culture, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
High and Low: Modern and Popular Culture, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Group Exhibition, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York

1989
Group Drawings Exhibition, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
Don't Bungle in the Jungle!, A Benefit Exhibition for the Rainforest, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York
Group Exhibition, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York

1988
Johns, Nauman, Salle, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
Les années 80 : à la surface de la peinture, Abbaye St André - Centre d'art contemporain Meymac, Meymac
Contempory American Art, Sara Hildén Art Museum, Tampere

1987
Europe/America, Ludwig Museum, Cologne
Prospect 86, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt
Avant Garde in the Eighties, Los Angeles County Art Museum, Los Angeles
L'epoque, la morale, la passion, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
CalArts - Skeptical Belief(s), The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago, Chicago

1986
An American Renaissance, Painting and Sculpture Since 1940, Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale, FL
Biennale of Sydney, Sydney
Barry Lowen Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Group Exhibition, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
Group Exhibition, Richard Gray Gallery - Chicago, Chicago
75th American Exhibition, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago

1985
Polke, Salle, Clemente, Contemporary Art Gallery, Seibu Department Store, Tokyo
Overture, Castello di Rivoli, Turin
Carnegie International, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh
The Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
XIII Biennale de Paris, Grande Halle du Parc de la Villette, ParisGroup Exhibition, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York

1984
An International Survey of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, Museum of Modern, Art, New York
The Heroic Figure, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; traveled to Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis; Alexandria Museum of Art, Louisiana; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara
Content, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC
The Human Condition: SFMMA Biennial III, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Group Exhibition, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture, MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York
Via New York, Musée d´art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal

1983
Directions 1983, The Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C.
1983 Biennial Exhibition, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
New York Now, Kunstverein fuer die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Duesseldorf
New Art, The Tate Gallery, London
Tendencias en Nueva York, Crystal Palace, Madrid
Sao Paulo Biennale, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Back to the USA, Kunstmuseum Luzern

1982
Dokumenta 7, Kassel
Clemente, Kiefer, Salle, Schnabel: New Paintings, Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London
74th American Exhibition, The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago
Zeitgeist, Internationale Kunstausstellung, Berlin
Focus on the Figure: Twenty Years, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Brochure by Barbara Haskell
Eight Artists: The Anxious Edge, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Art and the Media, Renaissance Society, Chicago
The Americans: Collage 1950-1982, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston
Avanguardia Transavanguardia, Gallerie Civica, Modena
Body Language, Fort Worth Art Museum, Fort Worth
New York Now, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hannover
Image Scavengers: Painting, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Catalogue by Janet Kardon
Venice Biennale, Aperto
25th Anniversary Exhibition of Leo Castelli, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
Group Show, Mary Boone Gallery, New York

1981
Young Americans, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio
Westkunst: Heute, Cologne
U.S. Art Now, Goteborgs Konstmuseum, Goteborg
Figures, forms and expressions - Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo
Group Show, Mary Boone Gallery, New York

1980
Ross Bleckner, David Salle, Julian Schnabel, Mary Boone Gallery, New York

1976
Barbara Bloom, David Salle, Artists Space, New York