GERALD DAVIS

Born 1974 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Lives and works in Los Angeles, California

 

 

Education

 

1999         MFA, Painting and Drawing, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL

1997         BFA, Painting and Drawing, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA                                                        

1996         Yale University, Summer School of Art, New Haven, CT

 

Solo Exhibitions

 

2023    Flowers Sing in D Minor, La Loma Projects, Los Angeles, CA

 

2022    You Can Cut All the Flowers, But You Cannot Keep Spring from Coming, Lundgren Gallery, Mallorca, Spain

 

2019    Ecstatic Figure, La Loma Projects, Los Angeles, CA

            Rorschach Paintings, Lundgren Gallery, Palma de Mallorca, Spain

 

2017     Paintings, Lundgren Gallery, Palma de Mallorca, Spain

 

2016     House with Buried Figure, LTD Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA

             Paintings, Lundgren Gallery, Palma de Mallorca, Spain

 

2012     Paintings and Drawings, Mallorca Landings, Mallorca Spain

 

2010     Nothing is Coming to Me, Salon 94, New York, NY

             The Worry Vase, Parker Jones Gallery, Los Angeles CA

 

2009      The Damned, Salon 94, New York, NY

 

2007       Der Wichser, Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles, CA

 

2006      1986, John Connelly Presents, New York, NY

              1986, Salon 94, New York, NY

 

2005         Drawings, Tall Wall Space, The University of La Verne, La Verne, CA                                                                    

               Paintings and Drawings, Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles, CA       

 

2003         Gerald Davis: Drawings and Paintings, Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles, CA                                 

                                                     

Group Exhibitions

 

2023    Homecoming, La Loma Projects, Los Angeles, CA

2022    Pour Some Sugar on Me, Lundgren Gallery, Mallorca, Spain

2020    So Far, La Loma Projects, Los Angeles, CA

2019    Household Effects, La Loma Projects, Los Angeles, CA  

2016    Forward, LTD Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2015    Pissing in the Sink, LTD Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

           Black and White, Ameringer Gallery, NY, NY

 

2014   Mallorca Landings, Mallorca, Spain

 

2013   Paper, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK

 

2010   Attitude- Initial Access, Frank Cohen Collection, Wolverhampton, England

           The Library of Babel/ In and Out of Place, Zabludowicz Collection, London

 

2009    California Maximalism, Nyehaus, Ny, NY

            Between Abstraction and Figuration, John Connelly Presents, NY, NY

 

2008   Pruespress, Rental Gallery, Ny, Ny

 

2007   Traum and Trauma, From the Collection of Dakis Janau, Kunsthalle Wien,                      

          Osterreich, Austria

           At Home, curated by Mario Testino, Yvon Lambert Gallery, New York, NY

           Warhol and…, Kantor/ Feuer, Los Angeles, CA

 

2006    USA Today, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK

            Fall, Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles, CA

            From L.A., Baronian Francey, Brussels, Belgium

            LAXed: Paintings from The Other Side, Peres Projects, Berlin, Germany

 

2005         Gerald Davis/Charles Ivin/Jennifer Rochlin, Shane Campbell, Oak Park, IL                                           

               Christmas in July, Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles, CA

Exploding Plastic Inevitable, curated by Simon Watson & Scenic, Bergdorf Goodman, NY

                 

2004         Sign of the Covenant, John Connelly Presents, New York, NY

                  Black Dragon Society, Apex Art, New York, NY

 

2003         Smoking Pencils, Rolling Papers, Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles, CA

2002         My Problem, Counterpoint Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

 

2001         Drawing Invitational, Optimistic Gallery, Chicago, IL

 

Collections

 

 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

 

 Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA

 

 Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA

 

 Larry Gagosian Collection, New York, NY

 

 Saatchi Collection, London, UK

 

 Dakis Joannou Collection, Athens, Greece

 

 Mario Testino Collection, Lima, Peru

 

 Frank Cohen Collection, Wolverhampton, UK

 

 

Awards/Residencies

 

 Pennsylvania Arts and Architecture Alumni Award, State College, PA, 2010

 

Yale Norfolk Residency, Norfolk Connecticut, 1996

 

 

 

Bibliography

2019  Annabel Osberg, “ Gerald Davis, Ecstatic Figure”, Artillery Magazine, Dec. 2019

2016  MEGAN ABRAHAMS , “Gerald Davis, House with Buried Figure, art ltd. July/Aug, 2016

2010  Watson, Sasha, Critic's Pick: Gerald Davis, ARTnews, June, 2010

2008     Swenson, Kristen, Gerald Davis at Black Dragon Society, Art in America,         

         March, 2008  

2006  Cotter, Holland. Art in Review, New York Times, Oct. 6, 2006

2005     “Uncensored,” Visionaire, Issue #42

2004     Cotter, Holland. “Sign of the Covenant,” Art in Review,                                                        

          New York Times, Sept. 24, 2004

 “Sign of the Covenant,” Around Town, The New Yorker, Sept. 7, 2004                       

            Featured Artist, Xtra Large (Israel), Issue #9 June