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 | Born in Norman, Oklahoma, 1952.
Education: California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California, B.F.A., 1973. California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California, M.F.A., 1975.
Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. | 
 | | 1981 | Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY.
| | 1982 | Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY. Leo Castelli Gallery, NYC, NY.
| | 1983 | Museum Boymans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
 Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY.
| | 1984 | Leo Castelli Gallery, NYC, NY.
| | 1985 | Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY.
| | 1986 | Leo Castelli Gallery, NYC, NY.
 Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
 Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts.
| | 1987 | Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC, NY.
 Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California.
 Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada.
 Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois.
 Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY.
 Spiral/Wacoal Art Center, Tokyo, Japan.
| | 1988 | Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY. The Menil Collection, Houston, Texas.
 Fundacion Caja de Pensiones, Madrid, Spain.
| | 1989 | Bayerische Staatsgemaldesammlungen Munchen, Munich, West Germany.
 The Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel.
 Waddington Gallery, London, England.
| | 1990 | Mario Diacono Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts.
| | 1992 | Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France.
| | 1993 | Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California.
| | 1994 | Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY.
| | 1995 | Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich, Switzerland.
| | 1997 | Galeria Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid, Spain.
| | 1999 | Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
 Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain.
| | 2000 | Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico.
| | 2001 | Gagosian Gallery, NYC, NY. Jablonka Galerie, Koln, Germany.
| | 2003 | Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY.
 Waddington Galleries, London, England.
 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.
 A Recreation of David Salle’s 1977 Kitchen Installation: Bearding the Lion in His Den, Deitch Projects, NYC, NY.
 David Salle: New Paintings, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, Colorado.
 Galleria Cardi, Milan, Italy.
| | 2008 | Galleri Faurschou, Copenhagen, Denmark. 
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 | | 1981 | Westkunst: Heute, Museum der Stadt Koln, Koln, West Germany.
| | 1982 | Documenta 7, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, West Germany.
 La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy.
 Zeitgeist, Berlin, West Germany.
| | 1983 | Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC, NY.
 New York Now, Kunstverein fur die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Dusseldorf, West Germany.
 Tendencias en Nueva York, Crystal Palace, Madrid, Spain.
 Sao Paulo Biennale, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
 New Art, The Tate Gallery, London, England.
| | 1984 | An International Survey of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, The Museum of Modern Art, NYC, NY.
 The Human Condition: SFMMA Biennial III, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California.
| | 1985 | Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC, NY.
 XIII Biennale de Paris, Grand Halle du Parc de la Villette, Paris, France.
 Carnegie International, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
| | 1986 | Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
 Ooghoogte, 50 jaar later, Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
 Europe/America, Ludwig Museum, Koln, West Germany.
 Prospect 86, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, West Germany.
| | 1987 | Avant Garde in the Eighties, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California.
 L'epoque, la mode, la morale, la passion, Centre Georges, Pompidou, Paris, France.
| | 1989 | Bilderstreit, Rheinhalle, Koln, West Germany.
| | 1991 | Mito y Magia en America: Los Ochenta, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico.
 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC, NY.
| | 1993 | Four American Artists, Ho-Am Museum, Kyunggi-Do, South Korea.
 Operto, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy.
| | 1996 | Thinking Print: From Books to Billboards, 1980-1995, The Museum of Modern Art, NYC, NY.
 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.
 Flowers Observed, Flowers Transformed, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
 North Fork/South Fork: East End Art Now/Part II, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York.
 The Charged Image, Joseloff Gallery, University of Hartford, West Hartford, Connecticut.
 What's Modern?, Gagosian Gallery, NYC, NY.
| | 2005 | Contemporary Voices: Works from The UBS Art Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, NYC, NY.
 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.
 Songs for Sale: Big American Paintings by Robert Rauschenberg, David Salle, and Michael Bevilacqua, Deitch Projects, NYC, NY.
 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.
| | 2008 | Here and Now, Regina Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
 Totally Rad: New York in the 80s, Paul Kasmin Gallery, NYC, NY. 
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 | Russell, John, David Salle, THE NEW YORK TIMES, 19 March 1982, p. C24.
 Marzorati, Gerald, The Artful Dodger, ART NEWS, Summer 1984, pp. 47-55.
 Schjeldahl, Peter, The Real Salle, ART IN AMERICA, September 1984, pp. 180-187.
 Pincus-Witten, Robert, An Interview with David Salle, ARTS MAGAZINE, November 1985, pp. 78-81. (illus: "The Farewell Painting", Cover, C).
 Politi, Giancarlo, David Salle, FLASH ART, August 1986, pp. 12-17.
 Taylor, Paul, How David Salle Mixes High Art and Trash, THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE, 11 January 1987, pp. 26-28, 39.
 Liebmann, Lisa, Harlequinade for an Empty Room: On David Salle,
 ARTFORUM, February 1987, pp. 94-99.
 Mc Guigan, Cathleen, Dipping into the Grab Bag of Pop Culture, NEWSWEEK, 2 March 1987, p. 77.
 Danto, Arthur, Art: David Salle, THE NATION, 7 March 1987, pp. 302-304.
 Heartney, Eleanor, David Salle: Impersonal Effects, ART IN AMERICA, June 1988, pp. 120-129, 175. (illus: "Byron's Reference to Wellington", Cover, C).
 Millet, Catherine, David Salle, entre composition et designation, ART PRESS, October 1988, pp. 12-17. (illus: "The Kelly Bag", Cover, C).
 Olivares, Rosa, David Salle - Born in the U.S.A., LAPIZ, October 1988, pp. 76-81. (illus: "We'll Shake the Bag", Cover, C).
 Vaudey, Marc, De l'ironie d'une rhetorique neuter, inquietante et Familiere: David Salle, ARTSTUDIO, December 1988, pp. 26-41. (illus: "Colony", Cover, C).
 Adams, Brooks, Art and Sole, INTERVIEW, September 1989, pp. 88-93.
 Tuten, Frederic, The House of Salle, VANITY FAIR, October 1989, pp. 210-215, 276.
 Hawkes, John, Complicities, BORDER CROSSINGS, Fall 1990, pp. 28-40. (illus: "The Mystical Master", Cover, C).
 Smith, Roberta, David Salle Enters a Rococo Phase, THE NEW YORK TIMES, 5 April 1991, p. C26.
 Kazanjian, Dodie, Salle Days, VOGUE, May 1992, pp. 246-253, 303.
 Adams, Brooks, At a Certain Point, You Bring the Gods Down on Your Head, ART NEWS, January 1994, pp. 150-153.
 Smith, Roberta, Two Shows by David Salle, THE NEW YORK TIMES, 28 January 1994, p. C19.
 Tuten, Frederic, David Salle's 'Search and Destroy' Mission, INTERVIEW, March 1995, pp. 104-109.
 Schjeldahl, Peter, Salle Days, ARTFORUM, Summer 1995.
 Tuten, Frederic, David Salle: At the Edges, ART IN AMERICA, September 1997, pp. 78-83.
 Carrera, J.A. Gonzalez, El Guggenheim exhibe la pintura figurativa cifrada de David Salle, EL CORREO, 18 January 2000, p. 47.
 Wallach, Amei, Reassessing an Era When Excess was the Norm, THE NEW YORK TIMES, 29 April 2001.
 Edelson, Sharon, Salle's New Scenes, WOMEN'S WEAR DAILY, 3 January 2003, p. 4.
 Solomon, Deborah, An Art Star's Comeback? Those Aren't His Words, THE NEW YORK TIMES, 5 January 2002, pp. AR1, AR39.
 Rosenblum, Robert, David Salle talks to Robert Rosenblum, ARTFORUM, March 2003, pp. 74-75, 264-265.
 Nesbit, Molly, Bright Light, Big City, ARTFORUM, April 2003, pp. 184-189, 245-248.
 Gilmore, Jonathan, David Salle, TEMA CELESTE, July 2003, pp. 74-75.
 Yablonsky, Linda, What Makes a Painting a Painting?, ART NEWS, April 2005, pp. 96-101.
 Boodro, Michael, Contemporary Vision, ELLE DECOR, May 2005, pp. 124-133.
 Ayers, Robert, David Salle, ART AND AUCTION, November 2005, pp. 48-52.
 Johnson, Ken, David Salle: The Vortex Paintings, THE NEW YORK TIMES, 2 December 2005, p. E36.
 Kantor, Jordan, 1000 Words: David Salle, ARTFORUM, June 2006, pp. 330-331.
 Miller, Leigh Anne, Met Opera Enlists Art Stars, ART IN AMERICA, October 2006, pp. 41-43.
 Rosenthal, Elisabeth, Rome’s Latest Gem Was One Collector’s Big Dream, THE NEW YORK TIMES, 25 November 2006, pp. A15, A19.
 Goodrich, John, David in the Lion’s Den, THE NEW YORK SUN, 15 March 2007, p. 14.
 Smith, Roberta, David Salle: ‘Bearding the Lion in His Den’, THE NEW YORK TIMES, 23 March 2007, p. E24.
 Staff, David Salle, THE NEW YORKER, 26 March 2007, p. 21.

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