Contact
dmsATdavidmstein.com
Education
California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA.
M.F.A. in Sculpture, May 2005.
The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy, June 1998.
Solo Exhibitions
2018
A Large Line of International Products, Art in Buildings, NY, NY.
2017
Existing Words, Gridspace, Brooklyn NY.
2016
A Partial Museum of a Day in the News, Lamar Dodd School of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, GA.
Palimpsest Clusterfuck, Lamar Dodd School of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, GA.
2010
Today I want to tell you about…., Proof Gallery, Boston, MA.
2009
Selection from the Impossible Library, Verge Gallery, Sacramento, CA.
2008
Improbable/Unlikely, Eleanor Harwood Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2005
Let’s Trade, Rooseum, Malmö, Sweden. Curated by Joseph Del Pesco.
Group Exhibitions
2016
Historicode, Nanjing International Arts Festival, Nanjing, China.
2015
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA. curated by Katie Grannan.
2014
TWO TWO ONE, Regina Rex, NY, NY.
Looking For Work, Regina Rex, Ridgewood, Queens, NY.
2013
Site Non-Specific, Et Al Projects, San Fransciso, CA.
2010
Living As Form, Creative Time, Essex St. Market, NY, NY.
Out of Print, Mercer Union. Toronto, Canada. Curated by Sarah Robayo Sheridan.
Unbound, Bedford Gallery at the Lesher Center for the Arts. Walnut Creek, CA.
The Secret Society, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA.
Proliferations Part Two, OFFspace, San Francisco, CA.
Front + Center, Headlands Center of the Arts, Sausalito, CA.
2009
Exercises in Seeing, Queens Nails Annex, San Francisco, CA. Curated by the Post Brothers
20 Artists 2 Galleries Four Blocks, SF, CA.
2007
SOEX Marks the Spot, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA.
2006
Best of the Bay – San Francisco Bay Guardian Show , Club Six, San Francisco, CA. Curated by Dina Pugh.
Between the Walls , Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA.
2005
Black Market Auction, Independent School of Art, San Francisco, CA.
Government Store, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA.
Masters of Fine Arts Thesis Show, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA.
The Pitch, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA.
Family Album, Richard L. Nelson Gallery, University of California, Davis.
Dumb Economy, Funny Democracy, Impossible Projects, Rooseum, Malmo, Sweden.
2004
Honors Exhibition, California College of the Arts, Oakland, California.
The Murphy & Cadogan Fellowships in the Fine Arts, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, SF, CA.
Post-it Show, Playspace, San Francisco, CA.
Iche Lieben Alles,Kunsthaus Dresden, Dresden, Germany.
Awards
Collective Playlist Grant, Collective Foundation
Leon Levy Foundation, Supplemental Grant.
All College Honors for Graduate Fine Arts, California College of the Arts.
Murphy Fellowship, Murphy and Cadogan Fellowships in Fine Arts.
CCA Scholarship, California College of the Arts.
Publications
Sculpture of a Conversation, Romuald Demidenko, newartcenter.info, Feb, 2016.
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Glen Helfand, Photograph, August.
An antidote to irony at Fraenkel Gallery, Kenneth Baker, SF Chronicle, June 12, 2015.
The Artist As a Lonely Hunter, Andrea DenHoed, New Yorker, Aug 11, 2015.
Two Two One, William Corwin, Frieze, #168.
5 Must-See Gallery Shows, www.blouinartinfo.com, September, 2014.
Recommended Shows: Two Two One at Regina Rex, Corinna Kirsch, artfcity.com, Oct 2014.
See This Art, Jerry Saltz, New York Magazine, March 2014.
Site Non-Specific, Et Al Projects, March, 2013.
New York Times, When Life Becomes Art, Ken Johnson, September, 2011.
Residencies
The McDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH, Summer 2008
Bemis Center for the Arts, Omaha, NE, Summer 2007.