Selected Solo Exhibitions
2021 David Diao, Gazelli Art House, London, UK
2021 David Diao, ShanghART, Singapore
2020 New Work, Office Baroque, Antwerp, Belgium
2019 Studios and Sales, Postmasters, New York, USA
2018 Kin, Tanya Leighton, Berlin, Germany
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, ShanghART, Beijing, China
2017 America Beckoning, Gund Gallery at Kenyon College, Gambier, USA
Hong Kong Boyhood, Postmasters Gallery, New York, USA
2016 Re:Barnett Newman, Office Baroque, Brussels, Belgium
2015 Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
2014 Front to Back, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut, USA
David Diao, Galeria Marta Cervera, Madrid, Spain
David Diao + Christian Bjone, The Glass House, Connecticut, USA
2013 TMI, Postmasters, New York, USA
2012 David Diao and Walid Raad , Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, USA
2011 Da Hen Li House, I lived there until I was 6..., MC Contemporary, Madrid, Spain
2010 David Diao, Office Baroque, Antwerp, Belgium
2009 I Lived there until I was 6..., Postmasters Gallery, New York, USA
2008 Best Laid Plans, Tanya Leighton, Berlin, Germany
Da Hen Li House, Courtyard Gallery, Beijing, China
2005 Co To Jest Konstuktywizm & After, Galeria Arsenal, Bialystok, Poland; Galeria Klimy Bochenskiej, Warsaw, Poland
2003 David Diao /Gang Zhao: at Mid Career, Asian American Arts Centre, New York, USA
2000 Demolished/At Risk, Postmasters Gallery, New York, USA
1999 Cherng Piin Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
Co To Jest Konstuktywizm & After, Galeria Arsenal, Bialystok, Poland and Galeria Klimy
Bochenskiej, Warsaw, Poland
Provinciaal Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Oostende, Belgium
1997 Histoires Et Fictions, Peintures Recentes de David Diao, La Criée and La Galerie Tnb, Rennes, France
1994 Cherng Piin Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
1993 Barnett Newman: 1 painting & 5 prints, Postmasters, New York, USA
1992 Vendus, École National d’Art de Dijon, Dijon, France
1991 Selections 1972-1991, Cherng Piin Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
1990 Claire Burrus Gallery, Paris, France
Het Kruithuis, Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst, ‘s-Herogenbosch, The Netherlands and Provincial
Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Oostende, Belgium
1989 Postmasters Gallery, New York, USA
Musée d’Art Moderne, Saint Etienne, France
1988 Galerie “Westersingel 8,” Rotterdam, Holland
1985 Postmasters Gallery, New York, USA
1980 Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, USA
1979 Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, USA
Tyler Gallery, Temple University, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, USA
1978 115 Spring Street, New York (Artist’s Studio), USA
1975 Cuningham Ward Gallery, New York, USA
1973 Dunkelman Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1972 Reese Palley Gallery, New York, USA
David Diao and Cy Twombly, Hampshire College, Amherst, USA
1971 Dunkelman Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1970 New Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, USA
1969 Françoise Lambert Galleria, Milan, Italy
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, USA
Scenic Landmarks of New York presents a Scenic Landmark for Toronto, David Diao and Brice
Marden, Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto, Canada
David Diao and Peter Young, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, USA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2020 Bauhaus: Utopia in Crisis, Bauhaus University, Weimar, Germany
2019 New York: the 1980s; Part Two, Le Consortium, Dijon, France
Genealogías del Arte, curated by Manuel Fontán del Junco, Fundación Juan March, Madrid, Spain
Bauhaus: Utopia in Crisis, Camberwell Space, Camberwell College of Arts, London, UK
There will never be a door. You are inside, curated by Luiza Teixeira de Freitas, Sala de Arte of Fundacion Santander, Madrid, Spain
2018 Walk Right In... (with Gwenn Thomas), Jeffrey Stark, New York, USA
2017 alt-facts, Postmasters Gallery, New York, USA
Social Photography V, Carriage Trade, New York, USA
2016 Prelude / Subversion, Gallery Baton, Seoul, Korea
Three American Painters: David Diao, Sam Gilliam, Sal Sirugo, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art
Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
2015 Museum Studies, Berman Museum, Collegeville, Pennsylvania, USA
Affinity Atlas, Tang Teaching Museum, Saratoga Springs, New York, USA
2014 Some Artists, Minus Space, Brooklyn, USA
ICA@50: Pleasing Artists and Publics Since 1963, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, USA
Whitney Biennial, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
2013 Swing State, Jane Kim Gallery, New York, USA
2012 Conceptual Abstraction, Hunter College Gallery, New York, USA
OPEN::CLOSED (curated by David Howe), 601Artspace, New York, USA
Painters Panting (Curated by Stuart Horodner), Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, USA
The Annual: 2012, National Academy Museum, New York, USA
The Indiscipline of Painting: International abstraction from the 1960s to now, Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry, UK
2011 The Indiscipline of Painting: International abstraction from the 1960s to now (curated by Daniel Sturgis, Martin Clark and Sarah Shalgosky), Tate St. Ives, St. Ives, UK
Art/Système/Poésie, In Situ Gallery, Paris, France
The Horizon Behind Us (curated by Michele D’Aurizio), The Kaleidoscope Project Space, Milan, Italy
One Suitcase Per Person (with Ken Lum & Hiram To, curated by Davina Lee), 1a Art Space, Hong Kong
2010 Lonely at the Top, Modern Dialect (curated by Win Van den Abbeele), Muhka, Antwerp, Belgium
Matthew Brannon, Mathew Cerletty, David Diao, Daniel Sinsel, Office Baroque, Antwerp, Belgium
2009 Images & (Re)Presentations, Magasin-CNAC, Grenoble, France
Expanding Boundaries: Lyrical Abstraction Selections from the Permanent Collection, Boca Raton
Museum of Art, Boca Raton, Florida, USA
2008 Unnamablename (curated by Kim Asbury and Todd Ayoung), Københavns Hovedbibliotek, Copenhagen, Denmark
2007 High Times, Hard Times: New York Painting 1967-1975 , National Academy Museum, New York, USA(traveling to numerous venues in the USA and Europe)
Dialogues, Centre d’Art Contemporain Le Quartier, Quimper, France
Stripes, Tang Teaching Museum, Saratoga Springs, New York, USA
2005 Dreaming of A More Better Future (curated by Saul Ostrow), Cleveland Institute of Art, Rehberger Galleries, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
2nd Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
Design for Living, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, New York
Les apparencees sont souvent trompeuses, CaPC Musée D’Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France
2004 About Painting, Tang Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York, USA
Black Belt, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, USA
2003 Black Belt, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, USA
Temporal Surfaces, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2000 Personal Space: the Domesticated Long Island Landscape, The Parrish Museum, Southampton, New York, USA
1997 After the Fall, Painting in New York Since 1970, Snug Harbor Center for the Arts, Staten Island, New York, USA
1996 Landscape Reclaimed, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut, USA
Thinking Print, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Fractured Fairy Tales: Art in the Age of Categorical Disintegration, Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, North Carolina, USA
Time Wise, The Swiss Institute, New York, USA
1994 East/West, Cross Cultural Influences in Painting, E.S. Vandam, New York, USA
Die Orte der Kunst, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany
1992 C’est Pas La Fin Du Monde—Une Vue Des Années 80, La Cour d’Or, Musée de Metz, Metz, France
Génériques, le Visuel et l’Écrit, Hôtel des Arts, Paris, France
Oeuvres Americaines, Autour de la Collection, FRAC, Dijon, France
Slow Art: Painting In New York Now, P.S.1, Queens
Quotations, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut, USA
En Noir Et Blanc, Galerie du Tnb, Rennes, France
1991 Schwerelos, Grossen Orangerie, Charlottenburg Castle, Berlin
Le Consortium Collectione, Château d’Oiron, Oiron, France
ords & #s, Museum of Contemporary Art, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, USA
PASTFUTURETENSE, Winnipeg Art Gallery and Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada
1990 The Charade of Mastery, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Lawrence Oliver Gallery, Philadelphia, USA
All Quiet On The Western Front?, Espace Dieu, Paris, France
1989 Une Autre Affaire, Le Consortium, Dijon, France
Jet Lag, Turon Travel, Inc., New York, USA
Mind and Matter: New American Abstraction, USIA traveling exhibition to Asian capitals
1988 Hybrid Nuetral: Mode of Abstraction and the Social, traveling exhibition, Independent Curators, Inc., New York, USA
1987 Generations of Geometry, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Post–Abstract Abstraction, Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut, USA
Corris, Diao, IFP, Parrino, Le Consortium, Dijon, France
Avant–Garde in the 80’s, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA
1986 Tableaux Abstraits, Villa Arson, Centre National d’Art , Nice, France
The Use of Geometry in the 80’s, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, USA
Paravision II, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Spiritual America, CEPA, Buffalo, New York, USA
1985 The Non–Objective World, Kamikaze Club, New York, USA
1983 The Terminal Show, Brooklyn, New York, USA
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, USA
1977 The New York School: The State of the Art, New York State Museum, Albany
1973 Maler, Painters, Peintres, Prospect ‘73, Stadtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, Germany
Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
1972 8 New York Painters, Museum of Art, Berkeley, California, USA
1971 The White Monochrome in 20th Century Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA
1970 Two Generations of Color Painting, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, USA
Using Walls, Jewish Museum, New York, USA
1969 Annual Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
The Albert Pilavin Collection: 20th Century American Art, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, USA
Education
1965 The Cooper Union
1964 Kenyon College, BA in Philosophy
Awards and Nominations
2015 Grants to Artists Award for Visual Arts, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, New York
2012 National Academy Award for Excellence
1973 Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada
Public Collections
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Fransisco
Brooklyn Museum, New York
Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
Blanton Museum of Art, Austin
Akron Art Museum, Akron, Ohio
Fonds national d’art contemporain, Paris, France
Frac Bretagne, Rennes, France
Frac Bourgogne, Dijon, France
Musée d’art moderne et contemporain, Saint-Etienne, France
Le Consortium, Dijon, France
Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei,
Taiwan M+ Collection, Honk Kong, China
Ontario Art Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada