Curriculum Vitae
Education
1972-74 M.F.A., San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California
1972-74 Laney College, Oakland, California (plastics technology and printmaking)
1950-53 B.A.A., California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, California (industrial design)
1948-50 Western Washington State University, Bellingham, Washington
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2012
Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
2009
Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
2008
Karsten Schubert Gallery, London, England
2006
Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA.
2003-04
David Ireland: A Retrospective, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA; traveled to:
Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA; Sheldon Memorial Art
Gallery and Sculpture Garden, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
2001
David Ireland and Gallery Paule Anglim Contemplate the de Young Museum, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2000
Reflections, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
Everyday Art, Freedman Gallery, Reading, PA
1998
Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
1997
The Gallery of the American Academy in Rome, Italy
1996
Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Center for the Arts at Yerba Buena Garden, San Francisco, CA
1994
Skellig, Ansel Adams Center for Photography, San Francisco, CA
1993
Installation, Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA
Laura Carpenter Fine Art, Sante Fe, New Mexico
1992
Ruth Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
David Ireland/Ann Hamilton, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
1991
You Can’t Make Art by Making Art, Helmhaus, Zurich, Switzerland
Proximities, Damon Brandt Gallery, New York, NY
1990
Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
A Clean Well-Lighted Place for Books, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
1989
Germans Van Eck, New York, NY
The Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia, PA
1988
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Damon Brandt Gallery, New York, NY
A Decade Documented, University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley; University of California at Santa Cruz; University of California at Irvine
1987
Gallery as Place, Adeline Kent Award exhibition. Emmanuel Walter and Atholl McBean
Galleries, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
1984
New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
1983
American River College Gallery, Sacramento, CA
1982
Installation, Emily Carr College of Art, Vancouver, Canada
1981
Leah Levy Gallery, San Francisco (off-site location)
1980
White Columns Gallery, New York, NY
Libra Gallery, Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, CA
80 Langton Street Gallery, San Francisco, CA (off-site location)
1979
Mr. Gordon’s Birthday Party, action at 500 Capp Street, San Francisco, CA
65 Capp Street, South China Paintings, San Francisco, CA
1978
Exhibition of the Maintenance Action at 500 Capp Street, San Francisco, CA;
Videotape: Mr. Gordon at Lunch, Tony Labat
1976
Restoration of a Portion of the Floor, Wall, and Ceiling of the Main Gallery, Museum of Conceptual Art, San Francisco, CA
Whatcom Museum of History and Art, Bellingham, WA
Calcutta Culture Spa, San Francisco Art Institute Annual, 16th Street Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2015
Retrospective, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
2014
Allegorical Procedures: Bay Area Collage, 1950-Present, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
Summer in Black and White, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
2013
Solid Concept VI, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
Damage Control: Art and Destruction Since 1950, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
Heroes, Carter & Citizen, Los Angeles, CA
Its Surreal Thing: The Temptation of Objects, Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE
Editions, Moody Gallery, Houston, TX
2011
Under the Big Black Sun: California Art 1974–1981, The Museum of Contemporary Art – Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA
2010
Altered States: The Collection in Context, DiRosa, Napa, CA
2009
The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860 to 1989, Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
California Calling: Works from Santa Barbara Collections, 1948-2008, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
Altered States: The Collection in Context, di Rosa Preserve, Napa, CA
2008
Conceptual Art from California, n.b.k., Berlin, Germany
Safe as Houses, Gallery Karsten Schubert, London, England
MATRIX/REDUX, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive BAM/PFA, Berkeley, CA
Exact Imagination, Canzani Center Gallery/Bureau for Open Culture at Columbus College of Art & Design, Columbus, OH
2007
California College of the Arts Centennial Exhibition Honoring Alumni, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
Spring Show, Dwight Hackett Projects, Santa Fe, NM
2006
Moody Gallery, Houston, TX
2005
Practice Makes Perfect: Bay Area Conceptual Craft, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
David Ireland, Jess, and Al Souza, Moody Gallery, Houston, TX
Solid Concept V, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
2004
The True Artist is an Amazing Luminous Fountain, Kreeger Museum, Washington, DC
Selections from the Permanent Collection, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Practice, Carl Berg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2003
Capp Street Project Alumnae, Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA
Solid Concept IV, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
Magic Markers: Objects of Transformation, Des Moines Art Center, De Moines, IA
2002
Sweet Tooth, Copia, Napa, CA
Beyond Preconceptions, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
2001
Making the Making, Apex Art Curatorial Program, New York, NY
Overhead: Installation and Baker’s Dozen, Julie Baker Fine Art, Grass Valley, CA
Pasadena Museum of Art, Pasadena, CA
2000
Seascape, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Rapture, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
Eccentric Forms and Structures, Microsoft Art Collection, Redmond, WA
1999
Museum Pieces: Bay Area Artists Consider the de Young, San Francisco, CA
Ideas in Things, Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, CA
On the Ball: The Sphere in Contemporary Sculpture, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA
1998
Double Trouble: The Patchett Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego,CA
Affinities and Collections, California Center for the Arts, Escondido, CA
pFORMative Acts, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
1997
The Art Orchestra: A Sculptors’ Ensemble, The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, California
1996
Thinking Print, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
SFAI 125th Anniversary Tribute Show, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California
1994
Solid Concept III, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California
Duchamp’s Leg, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN (Travels)
Mapping, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
David Ireland/Annette Messager/Bill Viola, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California
1991
Selections from the Permanent Collection: 1975-1991, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
1990
In-Site, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
Signs of Life, Process and Materials, 1960-1990, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Paradox of Process, collages and assemblage in the permanent collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Constructing a History, works from the permanent collection, Museum of Contemporary Art,
1989
Solid Concept, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
40 Years of Assemblage, travelling exhibition organized by White Gallery, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
1988
The Home Show, Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA
Awards in the Visual Arts, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
1987
The Right Foot Show, San Francisco Airport Commission, San Francisco, CA
1985
New Furnishings, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA
Inspired by Leonardo, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
1983
Elegant Miniatures from San Francisco and Kyoto, Japan, Kyoto, Japan, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), San Francisco, CA
1976
Eighteen Bay Area Artists, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
1975
Museum of Modern Art Rental Gallery, New York, New York, Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
Public Projects and Commissions
2000 IKEA, Oakland, CA
1999 Big Chair, Lincoln, Nebraska
1996 Addison Gallery, visiting artist’s apartment (function artwork in collaboration with architect Henry Moss and master craftsman John Sirois), Andover, MA
1992 Performance for San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)’s groundbreaking, San Francisco, CA
1990 Pacific Enterprises Corporate Office Installation, First Interstate World Center, Los Angeles, CA
Security Pacific Bank Gallery (collaboration with Frederick Fisher, architect), San Francisco, CA
1998 Collaboration with architect Mark Mack for design and execution of furniture, The Headlands Center for the Arts, Fort Barry, CA
1987 Outdoor sculpture for the Three Rivers Art Festival, Pittsburgh, PA
1987 Light Up- Philadelphia, light schemes for the city of Philadelphia, Fairmont Park Art Association
1986 Artist in Residence, Headlands Center for the Arts, Ft. Barry, CA
1985-87 Newgate, entryway sculpture for the landfill Preservation area, Candlestick Point State Park, San Francisco, CA
1985-88 Functional works in the visitor’s facility of the State Reformatory at Monroe, Washington
1984-85 Jade Garden, A collaboration with Robert Wilhite at Washington Project for the Arts,
Washington, D.C. A functional work serving as an apartment for visiting artists.
Awards
1997 American Academy of Art, Rome, Italy
1988 The Englehard Award, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
1987 The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant
Adaline Kent Award, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
1983 National Endowment for the Arts, Artist Fellowship grant
1982 Oakland Museum of California, Contemporary Art Council, Artist of the Year Award
1978 National Endowment for the Arts, Artist Fellowship grant
Selected Collections
Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York
Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
Achenbach Foundation for the Graphic Arts, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco
Oakland Museum, Oakland, California
Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, California
Whatcom Museum of Art and History, Bellingham, Washington
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Gallery, Cambridge, Massachusetts
University of Californian, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Logan, Utah
Norton Family Foundation
Di Rosa Preserve, Napa, CA