Artist
David Salle was born in Oklahoma, USA
in 1952 and studied at the California Institute of
the Arts. He has his first solo show in 1975, and has
been exhibiting regularly throughout the world ever
since. His work helped define the post-modern sensibility
by combining figuration with an extremely varied pictorial
language. Salle has had over 75 solo exhibitions in
the US and abroad, and his work is included in numberous
museum collections in America, Europe and Asia. In
1987 he had a mid-career retrospective at the Whitney
Museum in New York, which travelled to several museums
in the US and Canada. In 1999 a retrospective exhibition
opened at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam which travelled
to the Museum Moderne Kunst, Vienna; Castello di Rivoli,
Turin; and the Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao. He is a long
time collaborator with choreographer Karole Armitage,
designing sets and costumes for many of her dance productions.
He also worked with Richard Foreman, and received a
Guggenheim fellowhsip for theatre design in 1986. In
1994/95 he directed the feature film Search & Destroy,
starring Griffin Dunne and Christopher Walken. He lives
and works in Brooklyn, New York. |
