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David Armstrong
 


 
 
Born: Arlington, MA, 1954. Lives and works in New York City.

 

Education:

1988 Tufts University, BFA
1977-78 Cooper Union, New York, East Coast Exchange Program
1974-78 Boston Museum School; Fifth Year Certificate 1980

 

Awards:

1980, 1984 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Travelling Fellowship

 

Solo Exhibitions:

2006 Judy Ann Goldman Fine Art, Boston, Model Boy

2004

Camel Mennour, Paris

  Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
2003 Judy Ann Goldman Fine Art, Boston
  M. & R. Fricke Gallery, Dusseldorf and Berlin
2002 Scalo Gallery, Zurich
  Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
2001 M. & R. Fricke Gallery, Dusseldorf and Berlin
  Bangs St. Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2000 Joao Graca, Lisbon
1999 M.&R. Fricke Gallery, Dusseldorf and Berlin
  Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
  Judy Ann Goldman Fine Art, Boston
  Bangs St. Gallery, Provincetown, MA
1998 Galerie Barbara Farber/Rob Jurka, Amsterdam
  Ugo Ferranti, Rome
  M.&R. Fricke Gallery, Dusseldorf and Berlin
1997 Yvon Lambert, Paris
  Scalo Gallery, Zurich
  Bangs Street Gallery, Provincetown, MA
  Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
1996 Judy Ann Goldman Fine Art, Boston
1995 Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
1994 Galerie Bruno Brunet, Berlin (with Nan Goldin)
  Museum Fur Gestaltung, Zurich (with Nan Goldin)
1993 Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
1980 Jeffrey Hudson Gallery, New York
1977 Hudson Gallery, Boston (with Nan Goldin)

 

Group Exhibitions:

2002 Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, Visions from America
  Dallas Museum of Art, Recent Acquisitions
2001 F.I.T., New York, Dreaming in Print: A Decade of Visionaire
  Brooke Alexander, NY, City
  Matthew Marks Gallery, NY, Tenth Anniversary Exhibition
  Judy Ann Goldman Fine Art, Boston, Building Dwelling Thinking
  Galerie Lothar Albrecht, Frankfurt, Places & People
2000 DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, Photography in Boston: 1955-1985
  Marlborough Graphics, NY, New Editions
  Bang St. Gallery, Provincetown, OFaces
1999 American Federation of the Arts, New York, Gardens
  Marlborough Gallery, NY, Views from the Edge of the World
  Scalo Gallery, NY, ODavid Armstrong/Paul Bowles
  Baroness Lambert Collection, Hamburg
1998 Hamburg, Kunsthalle, Emotions and Relations
  Judy Ann Goldman Fine Art, Boston, Kind of Blue
1997 White Columns, New York, Blind Spot Exhibition
1996 Marlborough Graphics, New York, Photogravure: A Survey
  Cesena Modern and Contemporary Art Gallery, Adicere Animos
1995 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Biennial
  Regen Projects, Los Angeles, Armstrong, Barker, Horsfield
  I.C.A. Boston, The Boston School
  Judy Ann Goldman Fine Art, Boston, Camera Craft
1994 24 Hours for Life Gallery, New York, Pride in Our Diversity
  Whitney Museum of American Art, From the Collection
1993 Tom Cugliani Gallery, New York, Saints in the City
  Barbara Braathen Gallery New York, Urban Analysis
  Galeries de Photo de FNAC, Paris, L'Amerique de Nan Goldin
  Tacheles, Berlin, Aerarier
  Galerie Im Kabinet, Berlin, Group Photo Show
  Kunstraum Elbschloss, Hamburg, Love Again
1992 Tom Cugliani, New York, Some People
1991 St. Lawrence University, New York, A Queer Diary
1990 Cooper Union, New York, The Electric Blanket
  P.S. 122, New York, Portraits
1989 Artists' Space, New York, Against Our Vanishing
1985 Patrick Fox Gallery, New York
  Vision Gallery, Boston
1984 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Travelling Fellows
1983 Patrick Fox Gallery, New York
1981 P.S. 1, Long Island City, New York, New Wave (curated by Diego Cortez)
1980 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Travelling Fellows

 

Books by David Armstrong:

2002 David Armstrong: All Day Every Day, Scalo, Zurich
1997 David Armstrong: The Silver Cord, Scalo, Zurich
1994 Nan Goldin/David Armstrong: A Double Life, Scalo, Zurich

 

Selected Publications:

2002 Visionaire #38 Love
2000 Visionaire #31 Blue and #32 Where
1998 Gundlach, F.C.; Emotions and Relations, Hamburger Kunsthalle
  The Male Nude, David Leddick, editor, Rizzoli
1996 Nickerson, Camila, and Wakefield, Neville; Fashion Photography of the Nineties, Scalo, Zurich 1994 Visionaire #12, Desire
1993 Gatermann, Birgit and Hart, Cludia; Love Again, Kunstraum
  Elbschloss, Hamburg, Germany
  Druck, Sally; Aerarier, Twcheles, Berlin, Germany
1980 Goldin, Nan; Witnesses Against our Vanishing, Artists Space, New York, NY

 

Bibliography:

  Aletti, Vince; Falling in Love with Love..., Village Voice, Feb. 13, 2004
  Photography: David Armstrong The New Yorker, Feb. 4, 2002
  Aletti, Vince; Photo; David Armstrong The Village Voice, Feb. 2002
  Shot through the Heart, V Magazine, Jan./Feb. 2002
  For the Trees, Blind Spot, Issue 16, 2000
  David Armstrong and Nan Goldin Talk Nostalgia V Magazine, Mar. 2000
  Johnson, Ken, Galleries: Chelsea The New York Times, October 22, 1999
  Aletti, Vince; Buena Vista The Village Voice, April 20, 1999
  Hicks, Robert; Blurring reality for a clearer picture of it, The Villager, March 31, 1999
  McQuaid, Cate; Off the Wall; reveries in wood; his art has legs The Boston Globe, March 18, 1999
  Hill, Shawn; A calculated success Bay Windows, March 11, 1999
  David Armstrong Bomb, Summer 1999
  Miller, Jake; Images of Private Dreams The New York Times Book Review, July 27, 1997
  Times Square, New York Times Magazine, May 18, 1997
  Coming of Age, Blind Spot, Issue 9, Spring 1997
  Yablonsky, Linda; New Romantic: Photographer David Armstrong Finds the
  Limelight in Black and White Out Magazine, April 1997
  Grundberg, Andy; I'll Be Your Mirror The New York Times Book Review,
  Dec. 8, 1996
  Glueck, Grace; When Faster and Cheaper Is Not Necessarily Better The New
  York Times, July 26, 1996
  Nemser, Rebecca; The Wild Bunch, Boston Magazine, Jan. 1996
  Colurso, Mary; Picture This: David Armstrong New Haven Register, May 7, 1995, pp. E1, E2
  Kimmelman, Michael; A Quirky Whitney Biennial The New York Times, March 24, 1995
  Cotter, Holland; A Critic's Dozen to Catch at the Biennial The New York
  Times, March 12, 1995, Section 2, p.37, ill.
  Goldberger, Paul; The Next 15 Minutes in Art Are in His Hands: Klaus
  Kertess And the Making of the Whitney Biennial The New York Times Magazine, Feb. 26, 1995, pp.30-39, ill.
  Pierson, Jack and McCann, Richard; Provincetown, Late 70's: David Armstrong's Photographs Provincetown Arts, 1994.
  Hormann, Egbert; Fotografie aus Doppelter Perspektive Euros, 1994, No.21, ill.
  McQuaid, Cate; Seeing Double: Nan Goldin and David Armstrong Collaborate in Art and Life The Boston Phoenix, Oct. 4, 1994
  Gross, Fred; Peep Show The Advocate, August 1994, pp.115-116
  Hazera, Helene; Goldin et Armstrong: Le Double Jue Liberation, 29 August 1994, pp30-31
  Toshihiro, Ito; Dream and Sediment deja-vu, no, 16, Spring 1994, pp. 109- 111
  Weil, Benjamin; Nan Goldin, David Armstrong, Gotscho: The Unbearable
  Lightness of Being Flash Art, March/April 1994
  Choon,Angela; Desire for Identity Art and Antiques, March 1994
  Guerrin, Michel; L;image Coup de Poing Le Monde, 15 December 1993
  Aletti, Vince; L'Amerique de Nan Goldin Sommaire, no. 27, Sep.-Dec. 1993, pp. 16,24, ill.
  Aletti, Vince; Listings The Village Voice, 20 April 1993
  Smith, Roberta; Some People The New York Times, 9 October 1992
  Nalley, John; Witness This Out Week, 10 December 1989

 

 

Collections:

  Boston Museum of Fine Arts
  Dallas Museum of Art
  De Cordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA
  Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University
  Yvon Lambert Foundation
  Moderna Museet, Stockholm
  New York Public Library
  Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC