David Simpson American, b. 1928
Biography
David Simpson Studio Potrait, 2015 © Curator
Was born in 1928 in Pasadena, California. He received his BFA from the California School of Fine Arts (now SFAI) and MA from San Francisco State College (now SFSU). In addition to solo exhibitions at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the de Young Museum, the Oakland Museum of Art, and the Laguna Art Museum, all in California, his work has been included in group exhibitions throughout Europe, Asia, and the United States. Significant exhibitions include the Whitney Museum of American Art (1962) and MoMA (1963) in NY, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (1965) and SFMoMA (1965) in CA, and the Portland Art Museum (1968) in Oregon. Simpson is represented in public and private collections that include the Baltimore Museum of Art, MD; Berkeley Art Museum, CA; M.H. de Young Museum, CA; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, NY; Laguna Art Museum, CA; Museo Cantonale d’Arte, Switzerland; Museum of Modern Art, NY; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; The Panza Collection, Switzerland, and Italy; Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA; San Jose Museum of Art, CA; and Seattle Museum of Art, WA. A monograph of his career, David Simpson: Works 1965 - 2015, was published by Radius Books in 2016.
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