1944 Born in Brooklyn, NY
2014 Died in New York, NY
EDUCATION
1968 M.F.A. Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
1966 B.F.A. Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
1965 Skowhegan School of Art, Skowhegan, ME
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020 David Shapiro: Transcendent Abstractions, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN
2019 David Shapiro, Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
2018 David Shapiro: Tribute, Goya Contemporary Gallery, Baltimore, MD, Curator: Amy Eva Raehse
2015 David Shapiro: Textures of Contemplation and Openness, Leslie Sacks Contemporary, Santa Monica, CA
2014 David Shapiro: Infinite Centers, Goya Contemporary Gallery, Baltimore, MD,
Curator: Amy Eva Raehse (catalogue)
2012 Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina Greensboro, Greensboro, NC
2011 Allyn Gallup Contemporary Art, Sarasota, FL
Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL
Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
2010 Amy Simon Contemporary Art, Westport, CT
2009 Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
2008 David Shapiro: Twenty Years, 1988 – 2008, Goya Contemporary Gallery, Baltimore, MD,
Curator: Amy Eva Raehse (catalogue)
Bobbie Greenfield Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2007 Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL
Bobbie Greenfield Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2006 Allyn Gallup Contemporary Art, Sarasota, FL
Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
2005 Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL
The Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2001 The Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, GA
1999 The Fine Art Society, London, England
Numark Gallery, Washington, DC
Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1998 The Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Elliot Smith Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO
Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL
1997 Numark Gallery, Washington, DC
Sen Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1996 Elliot Smith Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO
Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL
1995 Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL
1994 Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Kaoru Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1992 Davidson Gallery, Seattle, WA
Twenty Year Retrospective, Indiana University Fine Art Gallery, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Thompson Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
1990 Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Kansas City Artist Coalition, Kansas City, MO
Kaoru Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Gloria Luria Gallery, Miami, FL
Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL
Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Dolan/Maxwell Gallery, New York, NY
Dolan/Maxwell Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1989 Dolan/Maxwell Gallery, New York, NY
Thompson Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
1988 Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL
Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Souyun Yi Gallery, New York, NY
Dolan/Maxwell Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Gloria Luria Gallery, Miami, FL
1987 Dolan/Maxwell Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Jan Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Thompson Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
Gloria Luria Gallery, Miami, FL
1986 Vandewoude- Tananbaum Gallery, New York, NY
1985 Thompson Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
Gloria Luria Gallery, Miami, FL
Getler/ Pall Gallery, New York, NY
1983 Vandewoude - Tananbaum Gallery, New York, NY
Styria Studio, New York, NY
Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, TN
Gloria Luria Gallery, Miami, FL
Getler/Pall Gallery, New York, NY
1982 Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN
Canton Art Institute, Canton, OH
Butler Institute of America Art, Fort Wayne, IN
1981 Gloria Luria Gallery, Miami, FL
Getler/Pall Gallery, New York, NY
1979 Gloria Luria Gallery, Miami, FL
Getler/Pall Gallery New York, NY
Alexander Milliken Gallery, New York, NY
Poindexter Gallery, New York, NY
1978 Poetry (Fall 1978): David Shapiro, MoMA PS 1, Queens, NY
Huntington Galleries, Huntington, WV
Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago, IL
Alexander Milliken Gallery, New York, NY
1974 Poindexter Gallery, New York, NY
1973 William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Poindexter Gallery, New York, NY
Gertrude Kasle Gallery, New York, NY
1971 Poindexter Gallery, New York, NY
Gertrude Kasle Gallery, New York, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 On Tenterhooks, Apex Gallery, Tandem Press, Madison WI
2023 Pulp Potential, Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC
Then & Now: Geometric Abstraction, Dolan / Maxwell, Philadelphia, PA
2019 Highlights from the Posner Fine Art Collection, Posner Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
Winter Group Show, Leslie Sacks Gallery, Santa Monica
2018 Common Ground, Amy Simon Fine Art, Westport, CT
The Foundation: 30 Years of Creativity, Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville, MA
2015 BURTYNSKY/ SHAPIRO: Nature Abstracted, Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
2014 Chroma, Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
2013 Joachim Bandau, Niko Luoma, David Shapiro, Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
2006 Paper, Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
2005 Square, Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
2004 Special Projects (Spring 2004): Christian Holstad, Justin Lowe, Tracy Nakayama, Gary Rough, and
David Shapiro, MoMA PS1, Queens, NY
1995 US Print Grafikan Paja Himmelblau Tampere, Finland
Frameless, Inaugural International Invitational Biennial, Mie Cultural Center, Ise, Japan
1990 Eleventh British International Print Biennial, Bradford Art Galleries and Museums; Traveled to the
Royal College of Art, Henry Moore Galleries, London, UK
Echo Press: A Decade of Printmaking, Indiana University Museum of Art, Bloomington, IN (catalogue)
Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, NC
1989 Myth Symbol Dream: Structures of the Unconscious, Delaware Center for Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE
Graphic Biennial, exhibition sponsored by U.S.I.A., Ljubljana, Yugoslavia; Traveled to University of
Florida Gallery, Gainesville, FL
Mind and Matter, exhibition sponsored by U.S.I.A; Traveled to Seoul, Tokyo, New Zealand, Australia, Bangkok,
Manila, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore (catalogue)
1988 23rd National Print Exhibition, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Contemporary American Prints, Garton & Cooke, London, UK (catalogue)
Combination Prints-1980's, New Jersey Center for the Visual Arts, Summit, NJ
1986 Contemporary Works from the Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1983 World Print Tour, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA
1982 Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
1981 22nd National Print Exhibition, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Recent Acquisitions, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
1980 Recent Acquisitions, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Aichi Prefecture Museum of Art, Nagoya, Japan
Achenbach Foundation for the Graphic Arts, San Francisco, CA
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA
Daum Museum, Sedalia, MO
Davis Art Museum, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL
Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN
Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, IN
Kresge Art Center, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
Kunsthalle der Stadt Nuremberg, Nuremberg, Germany
Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, FL
Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC
Museum of Fine Art, Boston, MA
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
North York Performing Arts Center, North York Ontario, Canada
Ohio University Art Museum, Athens, OH
Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA
Pennsylvania Academy, Philadelphia, PA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Smithsonian Museum of Art, Washington, DC
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
University of Iowa Art Museum, Iowa City, IA
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Weatherspoon Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC
Zimmerli Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
SELECTED CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
Alleghany
American Express
Amoco
Ashland Oil Corporation
Bayer, USA
The Chase Manhattan Bank
Continental Grain Corporation
Deloitte & Touche
First National Bank of Chicago
General Mills
Highlands Group
Holder Construction Company
Hospital Corporation of America
Mobile Oil Corporation
Northern Telecom
Philadelphia Savings Fund Society
Security Pacific National Bank
Southeast Banking Corporation
3M Corporation
Union Bank of Switzerland (Canada)
Haworth Canada, Toronto
American Telephone & Telegraph
Bank of New York
Barclays Financial
Coca Cola
Dun & Bradstreet International
The General Electric Corporation
HBO
Hewlett-Packard
IBM
KMPG
Microsoft
Morgan Guaranty Trust
PepsiCo Corporation
Price Waterhouse
Sea First Bank
Shearson Lehman Brothers
SSC & B Lintas Worldwide
Harper, Detroit Deiser Ltd., Toronto, Canada
Sun Life of Canada, Toronto, Canada
Thompson Financial
Time Warner
Fidelity Investments
Goldman Sachs
Commerzbank, New York, NY
Nissho Iwai America
Novartis
Swiss Re Corporation
Vanguard Investments
Winston Strawn
VISITING ARTIST
1993 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
1991 Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
Southern Graphic Association Convention, Kansas City, MO
1988 University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
1986 Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA
1985 Iowa State University, Ames, IA
1982 Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
1981 Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
State University of New York at Buffalo
State University of New York at Purchase
Nova Scotia School of Art & Design, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Drake University, Des Moines, IA
1973 Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
TEACHING
1974-80 Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
1971-72 Barnard College, New York, NY
1970-71 University of Bridgeport, CT
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
1968-69 Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI
1966 John Herron School of Art, Indianapolis, IN