DAVID SIMPSON
° 1928, Pasadena, California
Lives and works in Berkeley, California
Education
1958 MFA, San Francisco State College
1956 BFA, California School of Fine Arts
Solo Exhibitions (selection)
2018
(upcoming) The War Room, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Spotlight: David Simpson,solo presentation by Haines Gallery at Frieze New York, NY
2017
David Simpson: Heaven and Hell, Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
David Simpson: Fifty Years of Painting, Modernism, San Francisco, CA
2016
Then and Now, Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, CA
Now &Then: The Work of David Simpson, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
David Simpson: True to Light, Geukens & De Vil, Knokke, Belgium
David Simpson:Works from the 1980s, Studio La Citta, Verona, Italy
2015
Geukens & De Vil, Antwerp, Belgium
2014
Hommage à David Simpson, Parisian Laundry, Montreal, Canada
Heaven and Earth: Interference Paintings, Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
2013
David Simpson, Art Museum of University of Wyoming, Laramie
2012
David Simpson, Gallery Sonja Roesch, Houston
David Simpson: Paintings, Modernism Gallery, San Francisco
David Simpson – Solo show, Studio la Città, Verona
2011
Interference Paintings 2002-2010, curated by Marco Meneguzzo, Giacomo Guidi arte Contemporanea, Roma
Nonsense Poems, Cheryl Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2010
Interference Blues, Charlotte Jackson Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2009
Paintings & Works on Paper, Modernism, San Francisco
2008
Studio la Città, Verona
2007-08
Light Wells +, Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe
2007
Sonta Roesch Gallery, Houston
Light Wells, Haines Gallery, San Francisco
2005
Iridescent Interference, Gallery Sonja Roesch, Houston
Surrealist Landscape and other Departures, Haines Gallery, San Francisco
2004
Cheryl Haines Gallery, San Francisco
2003
James Kelly Contemporary, Santa Fe NM
2002
Artotek, Köln
Renate Schröder Galerie, Köln
2001
Renate Schröder Galerie, Köln
Studio la Città, Verona
Modernism Gallery, San Francisco
2000
University Art Museum, San Francisco
Renate Schröder Galerie, Köln
Haines Gallery, San Francisco
1999
Sonora Museum of Visual Art, Santa Rosa
Angles Gallery, Santa Monica
1997
Renate Schröder Galerie, Köln
Seomi Gallery, Seoul
Studio la Città, Verona
Haines Gallery, San Francisco
1996
The Panza di Biumo Collection , Museo d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Trento; Rovereto
1995
Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe
Laguna Art æMuseum, Laguna Beach
Museo Cantonale d'Arte, Lugano
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Group Exhibitions (Selection)
2018
Quintessence: 6 Perspectives on Abstraction, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
In the Ship of Dreams:Artists, Poets and Visionaires of the SS Vallejo, Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, Sonoma, CA
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2017
Continuum Art - as - Art, The Harwood Museum of Art, University of New Mexico, Taos, NM
2016
Radical: Monochrome Paintings from the Duffy Collection, George LawsonGallery, San Francisco, CA
2015
I like America, The Schaufler Foundation/SCHAUWERK Singelfingen, Singelfingen, Germany
Ghoethe"s Chamber, Cheryl Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Gallery Sonja Roesch, Houston, TX
Today Together, Studio la Città and Galleria Tonelli, Milan
Proportio, curated by Axel Vervoordt and Daniela Ferretti, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice
2014
Fundamental Abstraction III, Haines Gallery, San Francisco
The Cosmic Spectrum/Monochromes and Beyond, Montoro 12, Roma
2013
Rosa Piero, Rosa Tiepolo, Rosa Spalletti, Rosa…, Studio la Città, Verona
Summer Juried Member’s Exhibition, The Art Institute and Gallery, Salisbury, MD
2011
Beyond Tradition: Art Legacies at the Richmond Art Center, Richmond Art Center, Richmond
2010
Omaggio a Giuseppe Panza di Biumo Opere della Donazione Museo Cantonale d’Arte, Museo d’Arte di Lugano, Lugano
Extract: Developing Exhibitions Inspired by the Collection, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach
2009
Other Voices, Other Rooms, Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City
IN – FINITUM, Palazzo Fortuny, Venezia
2008
Fundamental Abstraction II: In Memory of Kim Wauson, Haines Gallery, San Francisco
West Coast Abstraction: Selected Works from 1975-2007, Part I, Modernism Gallery, San Francisco
2007
Galerie Lausberg, Dusseldorf
West Coast Abstraction, Modernism Gallery, San Francisco
Fundamental Abstraction, Haines Gallery, San Francisco
The Panza Collection – An experience in light colour, Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo, with catalogue
2005
Inneres Leuchten-Farbe als Malerei, Kunstverein Lingen Kunsthalle, Lingen
Recent Paintings, Galleria G7, Bologna
Je ne Regrette Rien, Studio la Città, Verona
The Forman Collection, Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo
2004
Modernism Gallery, San Francisco
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
2003
Albright Knox Art Gallery, N.Y.
2002
La percezione dello spazio , Palazzo della Gran Guardia, Verona
Le stanze dell'arte , MART, Rovereto (curated by Gabriella Belli)
2001
Artisti americani ed europei dalla collezione Panza , Palazzo Ducale, Sassuolo
Nebeneinander III (Painting Today - Overseas and Here ), Galerie Renate Schröder, Köln (con catalogo)
1999
Bay Area Now 2 , Yerba Beun Center for the Arts, San Francisco (con catalogo)
1997
La collezione Panza di Biumo: artisti degli anni '80 - '90 , Museo del Palazzo Ducale, Gubbio (con catalogo)
1996
E la chiamano pittura… , Studio la Città, Verona (con catalogo)
Collezione Panza di Biumo, Palazzo delle Albere, Trento (con catalogo)
Haines Gallery, New York
1995
A California Collection , Hunsaker/Schlesinger, Santa Monica
The Panza di Biumo Donation: European and American Art '83-'93 , Museo Cantonale d'arte, Lugano (con brochure)