David Diao
Born 1943, Chengdu, Sichuan, China Lives and works in New York
Selected Solo Exhibitions
| 2013 | tmi , Postmasters, New York, USA (forthcoming) |
| 2012 | David Diao: Franklin Street, 5th fl, 1974-2012 (curated by Pavel S. Pyś), 72 Franklin Street, New York, USA |
| 2011 | David Diao: Da Hen Li House, I lived there until I was 6..., MC Contemporary, Madrid David Diao: Design Matters, Galeria Marta Cervera, Madrid, June-July |
| 2010 | David Diao, Office Baroque, Antwerp |
| 2009 | I lived there until I was 6..., Postmasters Gallery, New York |
| 2008 | Best Laid Plans, Tanya Leighton Gallery, Berlin Da hen Li House, Courtyard Gallery, Beijing, China (catalog) |
| 2005 | Demolished/At Risk, Postmasters Gallery, New York David Diao: Co To Jest Konstruktywizm & After, Galeria Arsenal, Bialystock and Galeria Klima Bochenska, Warsaw, Poland (catalog) |
| 2000 | Postmasters Gallery, New York |
| 1999 | Cherng Piin Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan |
| 1997 | Histoires Et Fictions, Peintures Recentes De David Diao, La Criée and La Galerie du Tnb, Rennes, France |
| 1995 | The Bitter Tea of General Yen, Postmasters Gallery, New York |
| 1994 | Cherng Piin Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan |
| 1993 | Barnett Newman: 1 painting & 5 prints, Postmasters Gallery, New York |
| 1992 | Vendus, École National d’Art de Dijon, France |
| 1991 | Selections 1972–1991, Cherng Piin Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan ...a real allegory, Postmasters Gallery, New York |
| 1990 | Claire Burrus Gallery, Paris Het Kruithuis, Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst, ‘s–Hertogenbosch, Holland and Provinciaal Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Oostende, Belgium |
| 1989 | Postmasters Gallery, New York Galerie Joseph Dutertre, Rennes, France Musée d'Art Moderne, Saint Etienne, France |
| 1988 | Galerie Westersingel 8, Rotterdam, Holland Postmasters Gallery, New York (catalog) |
| 1986 | Postmasters Gallery, New York |
| 1985 | Postmasters Gallery, New York |
| 1980 | Rosa Esman Gallery, New York |
| 1979 | Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago Tyler Gallery, Temple University, Elkins Park, PA |
| 1978 | 115 Spring Street, New York (Artist’s Studio) |
| 1975 | Cuningham Ward Gallery, New York |
| 1974 | Jared Sable Gallery, Toronto, Canada Cuningham Ward Gallery, New York |
| 1973 | Dunkelman Gallery, Toronto, Canada |
| 1972 | Reese Palley Gallery, New York |
| 1971 | Dunkelman Gallery, Toronto, Canada |
| 1970 | New Gallery, Cleveland, OH Paula Cooper Gallery, New York |
| 1969 | Françoise Lambert Galleria, Milan, Italy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York |
Selected 2 and 3 person Exhibitions
| 2012 | David Diao and Walid Raad, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, USA |
| 2011 | One Suitcase Per Person (with Ken Lum & Hiram To, curated by Davina Lee), 1a Art Space, Hongkong |
| 2005 | David Diao/Gang Zhao, TZ Hanart Gallery, Hongkong |
| 2003 | David Diao /Gang Zhao: at Mid Career, Asian American Arts Centre, New York |
| 1988 | Michael Corris, David Diao, Olivier Mosset, Shafrazi Gallery, New York |
| 1972 | David Diao and Cy Twombly, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA |
| 1969 | Scenic Landmarks of New York presents a Scenic Landmark for Toronto, David Diao and Brice Marden, Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto, Canada David Diao and Peter Young, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York |
Selected Group Exhibitions
| 2013 | Swing State, Jane Kim Gallery, New York, USA |
| 2012 | Conceptual Abstraction, Hunter College Gallery, New York, USA OPEN::CLOSED (curated by David Howe), 601Artspace, New York, USA Context Message, Zach Feuer Gallery, New York, USA Richteriana, Greg Allen, David Diao, Rory Donaldson, Hasan Elahi, Fabian Marcaccio, and Rafael Rozendaal, Postmasters Gallery, New York, USA Painters Panting (Curated by Stuart Horodner), Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, USA The Annual: 2012, National Academy Museum, New York, USA |
| 2011 | The Indiscipline of Painting: International abstraction from the 1960s to now, (curated by Daniel Sturgis, Martin Clark and Sarah Shalgosky), Tate St. Ives, St. Ives Art/Système/Poésie, In Situ Gallery, Paris The Horizon Behind Us, (curated by Michele D'Aurizio), The Kaleidoscope Project Space |
| 2010 | Lonely at the Top, Modern Dialect, (curated by Win Van den Abbeele), Muhka, Antwerp, Belgium Matthew Brannon, Mathew Cerletty, David Diao, Daniel Sinsel, Office Baroque, Antwerp, Belgium |
| 2009 | Images & (Re)Presentations, Magasin-CNAC, Grenoble, France |
| 2007 | High Times, Hard Times: New York Painting 1967-1975 , National Academy Museum, New York (traveling to numerous venues in the US and Europe) |
| 2005 | Dreaming of A More Better Future, Cleveland Institute of Art, Rehberger Galleries, Clevelasnd, OH (curated by Saul Ostrow) 2nd Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China Design for Living, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY Les apparencees sont souvent trompeuses, capc Musée D’Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France |
| 2004 | About Painting, Tang Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY Black Belt, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA |
| 2003 | Black Belt, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York Temporal Surfaces, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada |
| 2001 | The Sensibility of the 80s, Thomas Ammann Fine Art, Zurich |
| 2000 | Personal Space: the Domesticated Long Island Landscape, The Parrish Museum, Southampton, NY |
| 1997 | After the Fall, Painting in New York Since 1970, Snug Harbor Center for the Arts, NY |
| 1996 | Landscape Reclaimed, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT Thinking Print, Museum of Modern Art, New York Fractured Fairy Tales: Art in the Age of Categorical Disintegration, Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, NC Time Wise, The Swiss Institute, New York |
| 1995 | Raw, Postmasters Gallery, New York True Lies, Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston On Target, Horodner Romley Gallery, New York |
| 1994 | East/West, Cross Cultural Influences in Painting, E.S. Vandam, New York About Time, Testwall, TZ’Art & Co., New York Crash, Thread Waxing Space, New York Die Orte der Kunst, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany |
| 1992 | Gegen den Strich—Against the Grain, Galerie Theuretzbacher, Vienna C’Est Pas La Fin Du Monde—Une Vue Des Années 80, La Cour d’Or, Musée de Metz, France Génériques, le Visuel et l’Écrit, Hôtel des Arts, Paris Oeuvres Americaines, Autour de la Collection, FRAC, Dijon Slow Art: Painting In New York Now, P.S.1 Museum, Queens, New York Then & NOW, Philippe Staib Gallery, New York Quotations, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT En Noir Et Blanc, Galerie du Tnb, Rennes, France |
| 1991 | Conceptual Abstraction, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York Schwerelos, Grossen Orangerie, Charlottenberg Castle, Berlin Le Consortium Collectione, Château d’Oiron, Oiron, France Words & #s, Museum of Contemporary Art, Wright State University, Dayton, OH Marta Cervera Gallery, New York The Construction of Knowledge, Diane Brown Gallery, New York PASTFUTURETENSE, Winnipeg Art Gallery and Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (cat.) |
| 1990 | The Charade of Mastery, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Lawrence Oliver Gallery, Philadelphia All Quiet On The Western Front?, Espace Dieu, Paris |
| 1989 | Une Autre Affaire, Le Consortium, Dijon, France Postmasters Gallery, New York Jet Lag, Turon Travel, Inc., New York Mind and Matter: New American Abstraction, USIA traveling exhibition to Asian capitals Diagrams and Surrogates, Shea and Beker Gallery, New York Diao, Dona, Goldstein, and Ladda, Krygier/Landau Contemporary Art, Los Angeles |
| 1988 | Hybrid Nuetral: Mode of Abstraction and the Social, traveling exhibition, Independent Curators, Inc., New York Art at the End of the Social, Rooseum, Malmö, Sweden Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA Meaningful Geometry, Postmasters Gallery, New York |
| 1987 | Generations of Geometry, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Post–Abstract Abstraction, Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT Corris, Diao, IFP, Parrino, Le Consortium, Dijon, France Avant–Garde in the 80’s, Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
| 1986 | Tableaux Abstraits, Villa Arson, Centre National d’Art , Nice Ultrasurd, S.L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto The Use of Geometry in the 80’s, Wright State University, Dayton, OH Paravision II, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles Red, Massimo Audiello Gallery, New York Abstract Appropriations, Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York Spiritual America, CEPA, Buffalo, New York |
| 1985 | Cult and Decorum, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York The Non–Objective World, Kamikaze Club, New York |
| 1983 | The Terminal Show, Brooklyn, New York |
| 1982 | The Chinese Response: Paintings by Leading Overseas Artists, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong |
| 1981 | Geometric Abstraction: A New Generation, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston |
| 1979 | Mind Set: An Ongoing Involvement with the Rational Tradition, John Weber Gallery, New York |
| 1977 | The New York School: The State of the Art, New York State Museum, Albany, NY |
| 1973 | Maler, Painters, Peintres, Prospect ‘73, Stadtische Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf, Germany Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
| 1972 | 8 New York Painters, Museum of Art, Berkeley, CA |
| 1971 | The White Monochrome in 20th Century Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago 8 from New York, Gallery A, Sidney, Australia |
| 1970 | Two Generations of Color Painting, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia Using Walls, Jewish Museum, New York |
| 1969 | Annual Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York The Albert Pilavin Collection: 20th Century American Art, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI |
| 1967 | Park Place Gallery, New York |
Selected Press and Publications
| 2012 | Kathy Zhang, 'One Suitcase Per Person', Art Asia Pacific, March/April, p.124 David Boyce, 'Stripped Down', Pipeline, March, p.62 |
| 2011 | Piper Koh, 'One Suitcase Per Person', Time Out Hong Kong, December 7 Els Fiers, 'David Diao', Metropolis M, February/March 2011, p.91 Vivian Ziherl, 'David Diao', _Leap, p.202 |
| 2009 | Elizabeth C. Baker, 'David Diao, Postmasters', Art in America, June/July 2009, p.198 Hiram To, 'Match Point', Harper’s Bazaar, March 'Galleries: Chelsea: David Diao', New Yorker, February 23 Nicole Pasulka, 'Loss of Home', The Morning News, March 2 Stephen Maine, 'David Diao: “I lived there until I was 6…” at Postmasters', artcritical.com, February Paul Laster, 'David Diao, "I lived there until I was 6…"', Time Out New York, February 5 |
| 2008 | Philip Tinari, 'David Diao’s ‘Da Hen Li House’', catalog essay , Courtyard Gallery, Bejing, March Catherine Spaeth, 'David Diao: A Picaresque Tale of Ruins', catherinesartforums.blogspot.com, May 2 Andrew Maerkle, 'David Diao', Art Asia Pacific # 57, March |
| 2007 | Catherine Spaeth, 'Inspired by Environs, From City Loft to Country Trailer', The New York Times, April 8 |
| 2005 | Michael Corris, 'Medals of Honor and Flags of Convenience: The Paintings of David Diao, David Diao 1969 - 2005', Timezone 8 Art Books, Beijin Co to Jest Konstruktywizm & After, Published by Galeria Arsenal, Poland (cat.) Astrit Schmidt-Burkhardt, Stammaume der Kunst zur Genealogie der Avantgarde, Akademie Verlag Edward Leffinfwell, 'David Diao at Postmasters', Art In America, November Helen A. Harrison, 'Design for Living', The New York Times, October 2 |
| 2003 | Howard Singerman, 'Noncompositional Effects, or the Process of Painting in 1970', Oxford Art Journal, 26 January |
| 2001 | Lilly Wei, 'David Diao', review, Art in America, July |
| 2000 | Michael Brennan, 'Painter’s Journal', artnet.com Saul Ostrow, 'David Diao:Two Acts in One', NY Arts, Dec. |
| 1999 | Serie’Bruche’:David Diao, art das kunstmagazin, Hamburg, Oct. Henri-Pierre Jeudy, 'Les Usages Sociaux de l’Art', Circe, 1999, pp.147-160 Interview with David Diao, 'Fractured Fairy Tales', Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, NC |
| 1995 | Paul A. Anderson, 'Critical Painting and the Racial Sublime', Third Text #33, London, Fall Mira Schor, 'The Bitter Tea of General Yen - Paintings by David Diao', Published by Provincetown Arts, Summer David Rimanelli, 'David Diao', review, Artforum, Summer Brooks Adams, 'David Diao', review, Art in America, May Kathleen Finley Magnan, 'The Bitter Tea of David Diao', Asian Art News, Hong Kong, March/April Elizabeth Hess, 'The Diao Foundation', The Village Voice, February 28 |
| 1994 | Gao Cianwei, 'Formalism and Meaning', Hsiung Shih Art Monthly, Taipei,Taiwan, December Zheng Naiming, 'Cleanly Cropped Modern Landscape', Artist, Taipei, October Conversation between Wu Mali and David Diao, 'Geometry and Beyond Geometry', Hsiung Shih Art Monthly, Taipei, October Hou Hanru, 'David Diao: Standing Up to Authority', Hsiung Shih Art Monthly, Taipei, September |
| 1992 | David Diao, 'When the Wheel is Invented Anew', Tema Celeste, April/May Richard Kalina, 'David Diao at Postmasters', (review) Art in America, March Marjorie Welish, 'Abstraction, Advocacy of', Tema Celeste, Jan–Mar. David Humphrey, 'David Diao at Postmasters', (review) Art Issues Robert Mahoney, 'David Diao', (review) Arts, Jan. Rhonda Lieberman, 'David Diao', (review) Artforum, Jan. |
| 1991 | 'Conceptual Abstraction', (cat. with artist’s statement), Published by Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, Nov/Dec L. C. Huang, 'The New Language of Abstract Painting', Hsiung Shih Art Monthly, Taipei, November Bruce Ferguson, 'A New History: David Diao’s Paintings, David Diao: Selections 1972–1991', (cat.), Cherng Piin Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan, October Roselyne Perrodin, 'Paintings David Diao, Bernard Frieze and Francois Perrodin, Abstract Paintings in the Collection of FRAC', Bretagne |
| 1990 | Charles Penwarden, 'David Diao', review, Artscribe, December 'David Diao: Peinture et Silence', Elle, #2341, Paris, November 19 Lucy R. Lippard, 'Mixed Blessings', New York and Toronto Victoria Lu, 'Postmodernist Art', Artists’ Press, Taipei Heinz–Peter Schwerfel, 'David Diao', Beaux–Arts, #84, November Bruce Ferguson, 'Modernism’s Many Lives: David Diao', Artforum, May Richard W. Quinn, 'Critical Investments', essay in The Charade of Mastery, (cat.), Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Bruce Ferguson, 'PASTFUTURETENSE: or What is a Meta For?', essay in PASTFUTURETENSE, (cat.), Published by The Winnipeg Art Gallery and the Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada Kees Broos, 'On Thin Ice', essay in David Diao (cat.), Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst Het Kruithuis, ’s– Hertogenbosch, Netherlands, and Provinciaal Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Oostende, Belgium Joshua Decter, 'A Genealogy of Signs: David Diao’s Metahistoricist Redactions (Synchronic into Diachronic, Diachronic into Synchronic)', ibid. Jack Bankowsky, 'David Diao', review, Artforum, March Peggy Cyphers, 'David Diao', review, Arts, February Terry R. Myers, 'David Diao', review, Lapiz, February |
| 1989 | Joshua Decter, 'The Greenberg Effect', Arts, December Roberta Smith, 'Tops of the Town: Critics’ Choices', New York Times, Nov 24 Bruce Ferguson, 'From Vision to Text: a Re–Action', essay in David Diao (cat.), Musée d’Art Moderne Saint–Etienne, France |
| 1988 | Catherine Grout, 'David Diao, Formalisme et Histoire', (interview), Art Press, No. 130, Paris, November Ken Johnson, 'David Diao at Postmasters', Art in America, July Michael Jenkins, 'David Diao–Interview', Artpapers, Atlanta, May/June Robert C. Morgan, 'Let a Hundred Flowers Bloom, David Diao and the Modernist Monogram', Arts, May Jack Bankowsky, 'Iconoclasms: The Styles of David Diao', essay in exhibition catalog, Postmasters Gallery, New York, March Catherine Queloz, 'La Peintre en Abyme: Notes sur le Travail de David Diao', FACES: Journal d'Architectures, No. 7, Geneva, Winter 1987/1988 Collins and Milazzo, 'Tropical Codes, 3. David Diao, Die Überflüssigkeit der Vision', Kunstforum International, No. 92, Köln, December 1987–January |
| 1987 | 'Neo–Geo, New Mode from New York', Bijutsu Techo, Tokyo, December Nicholas Bourriaud, 'L’Heritage de l’Indifference, Art Minimal', Artstudio, No. 6, Paris, Autumn Craig Bromberg, 'Teaching Tomorrow’s Avant–Garde', Artnews, Sept. Roberta Smith, 'Generations of Geometry', New York Times, July 17 Robert C. Morgan, 'David Diao’s New Paintings: The Historicity of the Present', C magazine, Toronto, June Barry Schwabsky, 'David Diao–Review', Artscribe, London, April/May Christian Besson, 'Tableaux Abstraits', Art Press, No. 106, Paris, September, reprinted from catalog, Villa Arson/ Centre National d’Art Contemporain, Nice |
| 1986 | Stephen Westfall, 'Diaorama', Art in America, March |
| 1981 | Clark V. Poling, 'Geometric Abstraction: A New Generation', Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Jan |
| 1979 | Thomas Lawson, 'David Diao–Review', Art in America, Jan/Feb Tiffany Bell, 'David Diao', Arts, January |
| 1978 | Carrie Rickey, 'Fashion/Custom/Style', Artforum, October (Cover) |
| 1977 | Joseph Masheck, 'David Diao’s Chinatown', Arts, January |
| 1974 | John Elderfield, 'Diao,' Studio International, London, Summer (Cover designed by Diao) Thomas B. Hess, 'Hello Old Paint!', New York magazine, April 22 |
| 1973 | John Elderfield, 'Painterliness Redefined', Art International, Lausanne, April |
| 1972 | Peter Schjeldahl, 'Two on the Move in a Movementless Time', New York Times, Sunday, March 19 Robert Hughes, 'Three Bold Newcomers', Time, New York, March 13 |
| 1971 | Carter Ratcliff, 'Painterly vs. Painted', Artnews Annual, New York J. Patrice Marandel, 'La Nouvelle Peinture Abstraite Americaine', Opus, No. 28, Paris, November Joseph Masheck, 'David Diao–Review', Artforum, New York, June |
| 1970 | James Harithas, 'David Diao', Arts, pp. 46- 48, April Gregoire Muller, 'After the Ultimate', Arts, March Dore Ashton, 'Young Abstract Painters, Right On!', Artnews, February |
| 1969 | Emily Wasserman, 'Three Younger Artists', Artforum, Summer |