DAVID DIAO 刁德谦 Biography

Solo Exhibitions

2021	David Diao, ShanghART Singapore, Singapore
2018	David Diao: Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, ShanghART Beijing, Beijing
2016	REF:Barnett Newman, Office Baroque, Brussels, Belgium
2015	David Diao, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
2014	Front to Back, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut, U.S.A.
2008	Da Hen Li House, Courtyard Gallery, Beijing
1997	Histoires et Fictions, Peintures Recentes de David Diao, La Criée and La Galerie du TNB, Rennes, France
1991	1969–1991...a real allegory, Postmasters Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
	Selections 1972–1991, Cherng Piin Gallery, Taibei, Taiwan
1990	David Diao, Provinciaal Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Oostende, Belgium
	Het Kruithuis, Museum Voor Hedendaagse Kunst‘s, Hertogenbosch, Holland
1989	David Diao, Musée d'Art Moderne, Saint Etienne, France
1979	David Diao, Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, U.S.A

Group Exhibitions

(Selected

All)

2021	M+ Sigg Collection: From Revolution to Globalisation, M+ Museum, Hong Kong
2019	New York: The 1980s; Part II, Consortium Museum, Dijon, France
	Bauhaus: Utopia in Crisis, Camberwell Space, London, U.K.
2014	David Diao / Two Generations of Color Painting (1970) in ICA@50, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, U.S.A.
	Biennial, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, U.S.A.
2012	Conceptual Abstraction, Hunter College Art Galleries, New York, U.S.A.
	Walid Raad&David Diao, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
2011	The Indiscipline of Painting: International abstraction from the 1960s to now, Tate St. Ives, Cornwall, UK
	One Suitcase Per Person，David Diao&Ken Lum&Hiram To, 1aSpace, Hong Kong
2007	High Times, Hard Times: New York Painting 1967-1975,
2003	Black Belt, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, U.S.A.
1997	After the Fall, Painting in New York Since 1970, Snug Harbor Center for the Arts, Staten Island, New York, U.S.A.
1987	Avant–Garde in the 80’s, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, U.S.A.
1986	Tableaux Abstraits, Villa Arson, Centre National d’Art, Nice, France
1981	Geometric Abstraction: A New Generation, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, U.S.A.
1973	Biennial, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, U.S.A.
	Maler, Painters, Peintres, Prospect ‘73, Stadtische Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf, Germany
1972	David Diao and Cy Twombly, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA，U.S.A.
1969	David Diao and Peter Young, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
	Scenic Landmarks of New York presents a Scenic Landmark for Toronto:David Diao and Brice Marden, Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto, Canada
	Annual, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, U.S.A.

Collections

	Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, U.S.A.
	Museum Ludwig, Koeln, Germany
	Brooklyn Museum, New York, U.S.A.
	High Museum of Art, Atlanta, U.S.A.
	Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, U.S.A.
	Akron Art Museum, Ohio, U.S.A.
	Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, U.S.A.
	Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, U.S.A.
	Fonds National d’art contemporain, Paris, France
	Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei
	Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
	Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada
	M+ Collection, Hong Kong
	San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco , U.S.A.
	Museum of Modern Art, New York, U.S.A

2022	Berlin Chair in Pieces, Postmasters Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
2021	Traces of Modernism, Gazelli Art House, London, U.K.
	David Diao, ShanghART Singapore, Singapore
2018	David Diao: Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, ShanghART Beijing, Beijing
2017	David Diao Solo Exhibition \| West Bund Art and Design 2017, West Bund Art Center, Shanghai
	HongKong Boyhood, Postmasters Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
	America Beckoning, Gund Gallery, Ohio, U.S.A.
2016	REF:Barnett Newman, Office Baroque, Brussels, Belgium
2015	David Diao, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
2014	Front to Back, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut, U.S.A.
	CT Melnikov, Galeria Marta Cervera, Madrid, Spain
2013	TMI, Postmasters Gallery, New York, U.S.A
2012	David Diao: Franklin Street, 5th fl, 1974-2012, New York, U.S.A.
2011	David Diao: Da Hen Li House, I lived there until I was 6..., MC Contemporary, Madrid, Spain
	David Diao: Design Matters, Galeria Marta Cervera, Madrid, Spain
2010	David Diao, Office Baroque, Antwerp, Berlin
2009	I Lived There Until I Was 6, Postmasters Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
	Best Laid Plans, Tanya Leighton Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2008	Da Hen Li House, Courtyard Gallery, Beijing
2005	David Diao：Co To Jest Konstruktywizm & After, Galeria Arsenal, Bialystock and Galeria Klima Bochenska, Warsaw, Poland
	Demolished/At Risk, Postmasters Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
2003	David Diao/Gang Zhao, Asian American Arts Center, New York, U.S.A.
2000	David Diao, Postmasters Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
1999	David Diao, 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, U.S.A.
1993	Barnett Newman: 1 Painting & 5 Prints, Postmasters Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
1992	Vendus, École National d’Art de Dijon, France
1991	1969–1991...a real allegory, Postmasters Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
	Selections 1972–1991, Cherng Piin Gallery, Taibei, Taiwan
1990	David Diao, Provinciaal Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Oostende, Belgium
	Het Kruithuis, Museum Voor Hedendaagse Kunst‘s, Hertogenbosch, Holland
	David Diao, Claire Burrus Gallery, Paris, France
1989	David Diao, Musée d'Art Moderne, Saint Etienne, France
	David Diao, Galerie Joseph Dutertre, Rennes, France
	David Diao, Postmasters Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
1988	David Diao, Postmasters Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
	David Diao, Galerie Westersingel 8, Rotterdam, Holland
1986	David Diao, Postmasters Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
1985	David Diao, Postmasters Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
1980	David Diao, Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
1979	David Diao, Tyler Gallery, Temple University, Elkins Park, U.S.A.
	David Diao, Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, U.S.A
1978	David Diao, 115 Spring Street(Artist’s Studio), New York, U.S.A.
1975	David Diao, Betty Cuningham Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
1974	David Diao, Cuningham Ward Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
	David Diao, Jared Sable Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1973	David Diao, Dunkelman Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1972	David Diao, Reese Palley Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
1971	David Diao, Dunkelman Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1970	David Diao, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
	David Diao, New Gallery, Cleveland, U.S.A.
1969	David Diao, Françoise Lambert Galleria, Milan, Italy
	Sheetrock, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, U.S.A.

2021	M+ Sigg Collection: From Revolution to Globalisation, M+ Museum, Hong Kong
2019	New York: The 1980s; Part II, Consortium Museum, Dijon, France
	Bauhaus: Utopia in Crisis, Camberwell Space, London, U.K.
	There will never be a door. You are inside., Works from the Coleção Teixeira de Freitas, Sala de Arte of Fundacion Santander, Madrid, Spain
2018	Nothing Will Be As Before, Tanya Leighton, Berlin
2017	Alt-facts, Postmasters Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
2015	Affinity Atlas, Tang Teaching Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY , Berman Museum, Collegeville, U.S.A.
2014	Pictures: What Is to Come Has Already Arrived, Centro Andaluz de Arte de Contemporaneo, Seville, Spain
	David Diao / Two Generations of Color Painting (1970) in ICA@50, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, U.S.A.
	Biennial, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, U.S.A.
	Some Artists, Minus Space, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A.
2013	Swing State, Jane Kim Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
2012	The Annual: 2012, National Academy Museum, New York, U.S.A.
	Painters Panting, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, U.S.A.
	NY Open::Closed, 601Artspace, New York, U.S.A.
	Context Messagem, Zach Feuer Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
	Conceptual Abstraction, Hunter College Art Galleries, New York, U.S.A.
	Walid Raad&David Diao, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
2011	Colorific! We Make an Art Rainbow Organized by Paulina, Postmasters Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
	The Horizon Behind Us, The Kaleidoscope Project Space, Milan, Italy
	Art / System / Poesie, In Situ/Fabienne Leclerc, Paris
	The Indiscipline of Painting: International abstraction from the 1960s to now, Tate St. Ives, Cornwall, UK
	One Suitcase Per Person，David Diao&Ken Lum&Hiram To, 1aSpace, Hong Kong
2010	Matthew Brannon, Mathew Cerletty, David Diao, Daniel Sinsel, Office Baroque, Antwerp, Belguim
	Lonely At The Top: Modern Dialect, MuHKA, Antwerp, Bleguim
2009	Images & (Re)Presentations, Magasin-CNAC, Grenoble, France
2008	Unnamablename, Københavns Hovedbibliothek, Copenhagen, Denmark
2007	Stripes, Tang Museum, Skidmore College, Sarotoga Springs, New York, U.S.A.
	Dialogues, Le Quartier, Centre d’Art Contemporain de Quimper, France
	High Times, Hard Times: New York Painting 1967-1975,
2005	David Diao/Gang Zhao, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong
	Open! Kuandu Extravganza, Kuandu Museum, Taiwan
	Design for Living, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, U.S.A.
	Dreaming of a More Better Future, Cleveland Institute of Art, Rehberger Galleries, Cleveland
	C, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong
2004	The Inverse Mirror, Chambers Fine Arts, New York, U.S.A.
	About Painting, Tang Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York, U.S.A.
2003	Temporal Surfaces, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada
	Black Belt, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, U.S.A.
	David Diao /Gang Zhao: at Mid Career, Asian American Arts Centre, New York, U.S.A.
2001	The Sensibility of the 80s, Thomas Ammann Fine Art, Zurich, CH
2000	Personal Space: the Domesticated Long Island Landscape, The Parrish Museum, Southampton, New York, U.S.A.
1997	After the Fall, Painting in New York Since 1970, Snug Harbor Center for the Arts, Staten Island, New York, U.S.A.
1996	Time Wise, The Swiss Institute, New York, U.S.A.
	Fractured Fairy Tales: Art in the Age of Categorical Disintergration, Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, U.S.A.
	Thinking Print, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, U.S.A.
	Landscape Reclaimed, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, U.S.A.
1995	On Target, Horodner Romley Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
	True Lies, Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, U.S.A.
	Raw, Postmasters Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
1994	Die Orte der Kunst, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany
	Crash, Thread Waxing Space, New York, U.S.A.
	About Time, Testwall, TZ’Art & Co., New York, U.S.A.
	East/West, Cross Cultural Influences in Painting, E.S. Vandam, New York, U.S.A.
1993	Neither East nor West: 7 Contemporary New York Artists, The Taipei Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
1992	En Noir et Blanc, Galerie du TNB, Rennes, France
	Quotations, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, U.S.A.
	then & NOW, Philippe Staib Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
	Slow Art: Painting In New York Now, P.S.1 Museum, New York, U.S.A.
	Oeuvres Americaines, Autour de la Collection, FRAC, Dijon, France
	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, France
	Gegen den Strich – Against the Grain, Galerie Theuretzbacher, Vienna, Austria
1991	La Peinture abstraite dans la collection du FRAC Bretagne, La Quartier, Quimper, France
	PASTFUTURETENSE, Winnipeg Art Gallery and Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
	The Construction of Knowledge, Diane Brown Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
	Words & #s, Museum of Contemporary Art, Wright State University, Dayton, U.S.A.
	Le Consortium Collectione, Château d’Oiron, Oiron, France
	Schwerelos, Grossen Orangerie, Charlottenberg Castle, Berlin, Germany
	Conceptual Abstraction, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
1990	All Quiet On The Western Front?, Espace Dieu, Paris, France
	David Diao, Lawrence Oliver Gallery, Philadelphia, U.S.A.
	The Charade of Mastery, The Whitney Museum of American Art, Downtown at Federal Reserve Plaza, New York, U.S.A.
	Abstract Painting: the Late Eighties, Lawrence Oliver Gallery, Philadelphia, U.S.A.
1989	Diao, Dona, Goldstein, and Ladda, Krygier/Landau Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, U.S.A.
	Diagrams and Surrogates, Shea and Beker Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
	Mind and Matter: New American Abstraction, USIA traveling exhibition to Asian capitals
	Jet Lag, Turon Travel, Inc., New York, U.S.A.
	Une Autre Affaire, Le Consortium, Dijon, France
1988	Art at the End of the Social, Rooseum, Malmö, Sweden Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, U.S.A.
	David Diao, Shafrazi Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
1987	Avant–Garde in the 80’s, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, U.S.A.
	Corris, Diao, IFP, Parrino, Le Consortium, Dijon, France
	Geometry, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, New York, U.S.A.
	York Post–Abstract Abstraction, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, U.S.A.
	Meaningful Geometry, Postmasters Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
1986	Spiritual America, CEPA, Buffalo, New York, U.S.A.
	Abstract Appropriations, Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York, U.S.A.
	Red, Massimo Audiello Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
	The Use of Geometry in the 80’s, Wright State University, Dayton, U.S.A.
	Painting and Objects, Postmasters Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
	Ultrasurd, S.L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto，Canada
	Tableaux Abstraits, Villa Arson, Centre National d’Art, Nice, France
1985	The Non–Objective World, Kamikaze Club, New York, U.S.A.
	Cult and Decorum, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
1983	The Terminal Show, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A.
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, U.S.A.
1979	Mind Set: An Ongoing Involvement with the Rational Tradition, John Weber Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
1977	The New York School: The State of the Art, New York State Museum, Albany, U.S.A.
1973	Biennial, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, U.S.A.
	Maler, Painters, Peintres, Prospect ‘73, Stadtische Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf, Germany
1972	David Diao and Cy Twombly, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA，U.S.A.
	The White Monochrome in 20th Century Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago 8 from New York, Gallery A, Australia
	8 New York Painters, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, U.S.A.
1970	Two Generations of Color Painting, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia Using Walls, Jewish Museum, New York, U.S.A.
1969	David Diao and Peter Young, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
	Scenic Landmarks of New York presents a Scenic Landmark for Toronto:David Diao and Brice Marden, Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto, Canada
	The Albert Pilavin Collection: 20th Century American Art, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, U.S.A.
	Annual, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, U.S.A.