Born in 1971, San Francisco, CA. Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.
EDUCATION
1999
M.F.A., University of California, Los Angeles, CA
1992
B.F.A., Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
Greensleeves, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2023
Work on Paper, University of Montana Western Fine Arts Gallery, Dillon, MT
2021
Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY
2020
Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY (Project Room)
2019
Howl, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2017
SLEEPER, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY
2016
Sadie Coles HQ, London, United Kingdom
2015
Figure Constructions, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Wallspace, New York, NY
2013
Have / Had, Sadie Coles HQ, London, United Kingdom
New Paintings, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2012
Kimmerich Gallery, New York, NY
Mary Mary, Glasgow, United Kingdom (with Marieta Chirulescu; part of Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art)
2011
David Korty, China Art Objects, Los Angeles, CA
2010
Kimmerich Gallery, New York, NY
Gerhardsen Gerner, Berlin, Germany
Sadie Coles HQ, London, United Kingdom
Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2009
M Art, Seoul, South Korea
2008
Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Sadie Coles HQ, London, United Kingdom
2007
China Art Objects, Los Angeles, CA
2006
Sadie Coles HQ, London, United Kingdom
2005
China Art Objects, Los Angeles, CA
Galleria Il Capricorno, Venice, Italy
Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, NY
2004
Sadie Coles HQ, London, United Kingdom
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
SP—Arte, presented by Night Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil
2021
Dear John, Adams and Ollman, Portland, OR
2020
Majeure Force, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Armory Show, presented by Night Gallery, New York, NY
2018
Dallas Art Fair, presented by Night Gallery, Dallas, TX
2017
Marching to the Beat, Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2016
Flowers in Your Hair, organized by Night Gallery at Fused Space, San Francisco, CA
2015
Call and Response, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York, NY
2014
The Word Today Serves No One Except to Say to the Grocer Give Me a Pound of Lentils, Supportico Lopez, Berlin, Germany
2013
Nacket Gläubigen: Be Leaf Me, Infernoesque, Berlin, Germany
Made in Space II, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise and Venus Over Manhattan, New York, NY
Made in Space, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2012
Mr. Natural, Gallery KM, Los Angeles, CA
Permanent Incandescent, Elephant, Los Angeles, CA
Glasgow International Festival, Glasgow, Scotland
2011
On Forgery: Is one thing better than another?, LAXART, Los Angeles, CA
2010
25th Anniversary Show, Michael Kohn, Los Angeles, CA
The Flower Show, China Art Objects, Los Angeles, CA
2009
The Curse of Ceramics, China Art Objects, Los Angeles, CA
Directions, A Palazzo Gallery, Brescia, Italy
Trained Impulse, Braverman Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2007
Hiram, Galleria Antonio Ferrara, Reggio Emilia, Italy
Gallery Artists Summer Show, Sadie Coles HQ, London, United Kingdom
Automatic, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY
Groupshow, Galerie Mezzanin, Vienna, Austria
2006
Painting Codes: I Codici della Pittura, Galleria Comunale d’Arte Contemporane di Monfalcone, Monfalcone, Italy
Group Exhibition, China Art Objects, Los Angeles, CA
Landscape Confection, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
2005
Landscape Confection, The Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH
2004
Looking at Painting II, Galerie Tanit, Munich, Germany
Happy Days are Here Again, David Zwirner Gallery, New York, NY
On Paper, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY
2002
My Head is On Fire But my Heart is Full of Love, Charlottenburg Exhibition Hall, Copenhagen, Denmark
Painting on the Move, Kunstmuseum Basel; Museum für Gegenwartskunst Basel; Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Regarding Landscape, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, Canada
Pause, 4th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea
EVAN HOLLOWAY- DAVID KORTY, Galleria Raucci/Santamaria, Naples, Italy
2001
Carl’s Art, Sampling California Painting, University of North Texas, Denton, TX
Drawn from LA (curated by Connell Ray Litle & Julie Deamer), Midway Initiative, Missoula, MT
Kim Fisher, JP Munro, David Korty, Jonathan Pylypchuk, Eric Wesley, China Art Objects Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Approximative (curated by Meghan Dailey), Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, France
Bright Paradise: Landscape in Contemporary Art: The 1st Auckland Triennial, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
2000
Gallery Swap: China Art Objects at Sadie Coles HQ, London, United Kingdom
Kool Aid, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, NY
SHOCKWAVE, Galleria Raucci/Santamaria, Naples, Italy
H20, Works on Paper Inc, Los Angeles, CA
The More I Love You, The More Beautiful You Become, Los Angeles, CA
1998
Malibu Sex Party, Purple, Los Angeles, CA
PUBLICATIONS
Blue Shelves, 2016. Monograph published by Sadie Coles and Night Gallery, with texts by Laura Owens and Suzanne Hudson.
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Collection Olbricht, Berlin, Germany
Goetz Collection, Munich, Germany
Grunwald Center for Graphic Arts, Los Angeles, CA
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Judith Rothschild Foundation, Philadelphia, PA
Rubell Collection, Miami, FL
Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Saratoga Springs, NY
RESIDENCIES
2020
The Frederick Hammersley Artist Residency, Albuquerque, NM
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
2023
Bookforum, Fall 2023 (cover)
NBC Montana Staff, "New UM Western exhibit inspired by fly tying and fly fishing," NBC Montana, August 11
Eugenia Bell, “New Directions: David Forty’s next chapter,” The Yale Review, June 12
2020
Audrey Troche, "David Korty chosen as UNM Art Department's Frederick Hammersley Visiting Artist," UNM Newsroom, March 10
2017
Matt Stromberg, “Five Outstanding Shows Closing in Los Angeles This Month,” Hyperallergic, December 20
2016
Robbie O’Halloran, “David Korty @ Sadie Coles HQ”, The Glaze London Journal, Sept 14
2015
Editors of Modern Painters, “Biopic: David Korty”, Modern Painters, December
2013
Agnieszka Gratza, “David Korty,” FlashArt, December
Laura Davidson, “David Korty: Have / Had,” this is tomorrow, Dec 19
2012
Karen Rosenberg, “Art in Review: David Korty,” The New York Times, Aug 2
2011
Lucy Flint and Nikki Bruno Clapper, Creating the New Century - Contemporary Art from the Dicke Collection, The Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH
2010
Skye Sherwin, ‘Artist of the week 81: David Korty’, Guardian online, 01 April
Christopher Miles, ‘Reviews: David Korty’, Artforum, April
‘David Korty’, The Big Issue, March
Paul Carey-Kent, ‘London Highlights’, Saatchi Online, March
2009
Collection, Catalogue Raisonné, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Jens Hoffmann, John Bock, Klütterkammer, Institute of Contemporary Art, London
2008
Lean Ollman, ‘Review: David Korty @ Michael Kohn Gallery’, LA Times blog, October
Mark Rappolt, ‘Special Focus: Review Marathon, London’, ArtReview, July/August
‘David Korty’, Sadie Coles HQ, Michael Kohn Gallery, Koenig Books, London
2006
Martin Coomer, ‘David Korty’, Modern Painters, September
Andrea Bruciati & Alessandra Galasso, Painting Codes: I Codici della Pittura, Galleria Comunale
d’Arte Contemporanea di Monfalcone, Monafalcone, Italy
Elisabeth Kley, David Korty, Artforum
2005
Rachel Kushner, ‘David Korty’, Artforum, May
Malik Gaines, ‘David Korty’, Tema Celeste, May/June
Sue Spaid, Landscape Confection, artUS
2004
Diversita & Contrasti, (Italy: Fondazione di Vignola)
Martin Coomer, ‘David Korty’, Time Out, 23 - 30 June
Donald Goddard, ‘David Korty’, newyorkartworld.com, March
Tom Morton, ‘David Korty’, Frieze, September
Maika Pollack, ‘David Korty’, Flash Art, January/February
2003
‘Talent: The Air Out There’, New York Magazine, November
Will Bradley, My Head is on Fire but my Heart is Full of Love, Charlottenborg Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen, Denmark
2002
Martin Herbert, ‘David Korty’, Time Out, March
Painting on the Move, Kunstmuseum Basel, Museum fur Gegenwartskunst and Kunstalle Basel
Dutch Magazine, (illus.) Charles Beyer, David Korty, Roberta Smith, ‘The Staying Power (and Its Not a Freeze Frame) of Paint’, The New York Times
2001
Julie Caniglia, ‘David Korty: Greene Naftali’, Artforum, (Best of 2001 issue), December
Artist’s Pages, Material4, Zurich Switzerland Meghan Dailey, ‘Review’, Time Out (New York), October
Meghan Dailey and Alison Gingeras, The Approximative, Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, exhibition (cat.)
Carmine Iannaccone, ‘LA Fortune Cookie’, Artext, No.73
Giovanni Intra, ‘Landscape in David Korty, Paul Sietsema and Vincent Ward, Bright Paradise (cat.)
Claudine Ise, Art Issues, March/April Artforum International, December
Jonathan Gilmore, David Korty, Tema Celeste, November/December Chelsea Galleries, The New Yorker, October
Mario Testino’s Art Index, Interview, V Magazine, vol.11, May/June
Short List, The New Yorker, October
Claudine Ise, ‘Review’, Art Issues, March/April
2000
Tim Griffin, ‘Kool Aid’, Time Out (New York), Issue 252, June
‘New York exhibitions’, The New Yorker, 24 July
Gregory Salzman, ‘Regarding Landscape’, Canadian Art, Fall
Ken Johnson, ‘Kool Aid’, The New York Times, 21 July
‘Kool Aid’, The New Yorker, 24 July
Kim Levin, ‘Kool Aid’, The Village Voice, 25 July