Dave McKenzie | VIELMETTER LOS ANGELES

1977: Born in Kingston, Jamaica
: Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY

2000: Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Somerset County, ME
: BFA in Printmaking, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA

Selected Solo and Two Person Exhibitions

2023: "And sometimes y," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
: "AEIOU," Barbara Wien Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2021: "The Story I Tell Myself," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
2018: "Speeches Speeches Speeches," Galerie Barbara Wien, Berlin, Germany (Link)
2017: "Dave McKenzie: An Intermission," University Art Museum, University at Albany SUNY, Albany, NY
2016: “Joy Syringe,” Practice Gallery, New York, NY
2015: "Pants full of hope, pockets full of adventure, or… dont call me Cheesuz," Wien Lukatsch, Berlin, Germany
2013: "Where the Good Lord Split You," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
2012: "Everythings Alright, Nothings Okay!" Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2011: "Citizen," Wien Lukatsch Galerie, Berlin, DE
2010: "Dave McKenzie," Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
2009: "On Premises," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
2008: "Present Tense," Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA
: "Screen Doors on Submarines," REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA
2007: "Momentum 8: Dave McKenzie," Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, Boston, MA
: "Tomorrow will be Better," Small A Projects, Portland, OR
2006: "Havent Seen You in a Minute," Gallery 400, Chicago, IL
2005: "Portrait as a Ghost," Savage Art Resources, Portland, OR
2004: "Together is Forever", Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2023: "Friends & Lovers," The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY
2022: "Whitney Biennial 2022: Quiet as It’s Kept," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
2021-2022: "Prospect.5: Yesterday we said tomorrow," The Hancock Whitney Welcome Center, New Orleans, LA
2021: "20 Years," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2020: "20 Years," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2019-2020: "SOFT POWER," SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
: "Colored People Time: Mundane Futures," Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA; MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
2018: “Stories of Almost Everyone,” Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2017: “Postcards from America,” Celaya Brothers Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico
: “The Times,” The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY (Link)
: “The Half-Life of Love,” MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA (Link)
2016: “Wound: Mending Time and Attention,” Cooper Union, New York, NY
2015: "Morning Pages," Laurel Gitlen, New York, NY
: "Glen Ligon: Encounters and Collisions," Nottingham Contemoprary, Nottingham, UK
2014: Whitney Biennial, curated by Stuart Comer, Anthony Elms, and Michelle Grabner, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
: Biel Biennial, Le Mouvement: Performing the City, Movement III: The City Performed, Art Centre Centre PasquArt, Biel Switzerland, curated by Gianni Jetzer
2013: "Radical Presence: Black Performance In Contemporary Art," Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, TX; traveling to Grey Art Gallery at New York University, New York, NY; The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
: Blues for Smoke, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH
: "Body Language," The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
: "Assembly Required," Selections from the Permanent Collection, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
: Sinister Pop Family Day, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
2012: "The Ungovernables," New Museum Triennial, New Museum, New York, NY
: "Art Public," Bass Museum of Art, Miami, FL
: "The Living Years: Art after 1989," Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
: "Typical Frankenstein," Laurel Gitlen, New York, NY
: "Optotype," 92YTribeca, New York, NY
: "Year of Cooperation," Broadway 1602, New York, NY
: "Configured," Benrimon Contemporary, New York, NY
2011: "The Bearden Project," The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY.
: "Drawn to Disaster," ICA, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME.
2010: "The Production of Space," The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY.
: "Held Up By Columns," Renwick Gallery, New York, NY.
: "At Home/Not At Home: Works From the Collection of Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg, CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY.
: "The Absolutely Other," The Kitchen, New York, NY.
: "’Collected.’ Reflections on the Permanent Collection," Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
2009: "30 Seconds off an Inch," Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
: "Unusual Behavior," Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA
: "Character Generator," Eleven Rivington, New York, NY
: "Convention," MOCA, North Miami, FL
: "To the left of the rising sun," Small A Projects, New York, NY
: "Collected. Propositions on the Permanent Collection," The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
: "Gravity," Cornish Main Gallery, Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, WA
: "Rockstone and Bootheel: Contemporary West Indian Art," Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
2008: "Prospect.1 New Orleans," International Biennial, curated by Dan Cameron, New Orleans, LA (catalogue)
: "This Shadow is a Bit of Ideology," Gallery 400, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL, curated by Kelly Chen and Anthony Elms
: "As Others See Us: The Contemporary Portrait," Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro, VT
: "Alternating Beats," RISD Museum, Providence, RI
: "Museum as Hub: Six Degrees," New Museum, New York, NY (brochure)
: "Free Parking," Boston Center for the Arts’ Mills Gallery, Boston, MA
: "On Procession," Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
: "Black is, Black Aint," The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL (curated by Hamza Walker); traveling to the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, MI; H & R Block Artspace, Kansas City, MO
: Disinhibition: Black Art and Blue Humor, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
: "You & Me," Sometimes, Lehmann Maupin, New York, NY
: "Good Doll Bad Doll," Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
: "A New High in Getting Low (NYC)," John Connelly Presents, New York, NY
: "2000 Years of Sculpture," Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
: "Working History: African American Art and Objects," Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College, Portland, OR (catalog)
: "Slightly Unbalanced," Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL; traveling to Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington WV; Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum, Lafayette, LA; Rodman Hall Arts Center, St. Catharines, Ontario; Museum London, London, Ontario; Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art at the University of Richmond Museums, Richmond, VA (catalog)
2007: PERFORMA 07 Biennial: All Together Now, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Harlem, NY (Catalogue)
: "Looking Back: The White Columns Annual," selected by Clarissa Dalrymple, White Columns New York, NY
: "A New High in Getting Low," Artnews Projects, Berlin, Germany
: "Just Kick it Till it Breaks," The Kitchen, New York, NY, curated by Debra Singer and Matthew Lyons, (Catalog)
: "Mr. President," University Art Museum, University of Albany, Albany, NY (catalog)
2004: "Me, Myself, and I," Schmidt Center, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL
: "Figuratively: Dave McKenzie, Wangechi Mutu, William Villalongo," The Studio Museum, Harlem, NY
: "Open House: Working in Brooklyn," Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY (catalog)
: "The Sneeze 80 x 80", Gazon Rouge Gallery, Athens, Greece
2003: "American Idyll," Metrotech Center Commons, Brooklyn, NY. (Catalog)
: "24/7," Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania
: "In Practice," Sculpture Center, Long Island City, NY
2002: "Videodrome II," New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
: "Americas Remixed," The Factory of the Vapor, Milan, Italy (catalog)
: "Queens International," Queens Museum of Art, NY (catalog)
: "Listening to New Voices," P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY
: "Supervideonight," Gale Gates, New York, NY
: "Slow Dive," Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
: "Video Marathon: Bringing up the (Mediated) Body," Art in General, New York, NY
: "Multiplicity," Midway Gallery, St. Paul, MN
: "Room for a Revolution," Deluxe Gallery, Chicago, IL
2001: "Video Call," ICA, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
: "Something/Nothing-Passport to the State of Flux," Art in General, NY
: "Material World," Susquehanna Art Museum/VanGo, Harrisburg, PA
: "Freestyle," The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY (Catalog) and traveled to Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
: "In/SITE/Out: Inquiries into Social Space," Apexart, New York, NY

Screening

: Ethnography/Biography/Whimsy: Three Contemporary African American, Frederick Douglass Institute for African and African-American Studies, Rochester, NY
: Declassified Daytime Screening, New Museum, New York, NY
: Declassified: Recent Videos by Erik van Lieshout, Dave McKenzie, Museum, New York, NY
: Enactment, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK
: Videos In Progress: Dave McKenzie, Stairwell Gallery, The RISD Museum, Providence, RI
: Videodrome II, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY [Traveled] 
: Video Cafe: Dave McKenzie, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY
: Selections from Art in General: A Program of Short Video Works in Russia, Various Venues, Russia.
: Supervideonight, Gale Gates, Brooklyn, NY
: Fourth Annual Video Marathon: Bringing up the (Mediated) Body, Art in General, New York, NY
: Video Call, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
: Something/Nothing-Passport to the State of Flux, Art in General, New York, NY

Bibliography

2022: Lakin, Max. "Addicted to the Shindig," Artforum, April 2 (Link)
: Cotter, Holland. "A Whitney Biennial of Shadow and Light," The NY Times, March 31 (Link)
2021: Klett, Maddie. "Dave McKenzie with Maddie Klett," The Brooklyn Rail, July/August (Link)
: Colby Chamberlain. "The Stranger," ArtForum, May (Link)
: Kotecha, Shiv. "Dave McKenzie’s Elegiac Reminder of Cultural Debts," Frieze, April 19 (Link)
: Lopez Cassell, Dessane. "Dave McKenzie Brings His Methodical Approach to the Whitney Museum’s Façade," Hyperallergic, April 27 (Link)
2020: Durón, Maximiliano. "2020 Prospect New Orleans Triennial to Consider America’s ‘Unprecedented’ Political Moment," ArtNews, March 2 (Link)
: Valentine, Victoria L. "Artist List for Prospect New Orleans Triennial Includes Mark Bradford, Willie Birch, Simone Leigh, Dawoud Bey, Glenn Ligon, Karon Davis, Naudline Pierre, and Kevin Beasley," CultureType, March 2 (Link)
: "Prospect New Orleans Announces Artist List for Prospect.5," Artforum, March 2 (Link)
2019: Copeland, Huey and Meg Onli. "ABOUT TIME: Huey Copeland in conversation with Meg Onli," Artforum, May (Link)
: "ICA Philadelphia Explores Black History in "Colored People Time" Exhibition," Hypebeast, February 15 (Link)
2018: Hanson, Sarah P., "The public joins the protest in Frieze’s Live programme," The Art Newspaper (web), May 4 (Link)
: Schneider, Tim, "‘It’s About a Sort of Twisted Magic’: How One Artist Is Revealing the Tricks of Racial Profiling at Frieze New York," Artnet news (web), May 2 (Link)
: Greenberger, Alex,"Frieze New York Will Present Adam Pendleton–Designed Black Lives Matter Flag, Hank Willis Thomas Works on Gun Violence," Artnews, April 5 (web) (Link)
: Speed, Mitch. "Critics’ Picks: Dave McKenzie," Artforum, February (web) (Link)
2017: Yerebakan, Osman Can, “In ‘The Times,’ Artists Make the Media Their Message,” ArtSlant (web), July 21 (Link)
2016: Shaw, Anny, “Performa teams up with the contemporary African art fair in New York,” The Art Newspaper (web), April 12
2015: Pilger, Zoe, Black people in post-war America: New exhibition documents an often brutal experience, The Independent (web), April 7
: Petersen, Sarah. "Risk Assessment," X-TRA, Summer
2014: Tuero, Natalia, "Corin Hewitt and Dave McKenzie Among Rome Prize Winners," Art in America online, April 11 (Link)
: Schnadt, Sara, "Artists on the Whitney Biennial", KCET Art Bound, May 8 (Link)
: Vogel, Shane, Touching Ecstasy, Social Text 121, Winter
2013: Johnson, Ken, "Riffs on Race, Role and Identity," New York Times, September 19
: Newton, Mike, "Clashing Visions of Black American Life," The Indypendent, October 30 (Link)
: Backer, Yona, "Performance Trace: Staged Actions, Live Art, and Performance Made for the Camera," catalogue for "Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art," Contemporary Art Museum Houston
: Schwabsky, Barry, Post-White? On Blues for Smoke: The Whiteys adventurous, awkard attempt to explore abstract art through the blues, The Nation, May 20
2012: Schmelzer, Paul, Yesterdays Newspaper: November 8, 2012, Untitled (blog), Walker Art Center, November 8
: Simpson, Bennett, Blues for Smoke, exhibition catalogue, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Prestel
: Chou, Kimberly, Local Talent Leads Downtown Triennial, Wall Street Journal, February 10
: Buchmaier, Barbara, Dave McKenzie, Artforum, January 6
: "The Bearden Project", Exhibition Catalogue, The Studio Museum in Harlem
2011: Clifford Owens BOMB, December 15
2009: Haddad, Natalie, Dave McKenzie at Susanne Vielmetter, Frieze, p. 136, November/December
: Woodard, Josef, Off the Off Radar Art, Santa Barbara News Press, November 20
: Shaw, Michael, Continuing and Recommended, ArtScene, October
: Ligon, Glenn, Civic Engagement: To Miss New Orleans, Artforum, January
: Born, Katheryn, This Shadow Is A Bit of Ideology, Time Out Chicago, Issue 210, January 1
: New York Artists Dictionary Part 1, Flash Art, Volume 62, Number 264, January/February
2008: MacCash, Doug. Prospect.1 New Orleans artist Dave McKenzie practices inspired unproductiveness, The Times-Picayune, November 14
: Copeland, Huey, The Blackness of Blackness, ArtForum, October
: Foumberg, Jason. Slightly Unbalanced, Frieze, Issue 115, p. 171, May
: Weinberg, Lauren, Black Comedy, Time Out Chicago, Issue 164, April
: Prospect.1 New Orleans, Exhibition Catalogue, texts by Barbara Bleomink, Dan Cameron, Lolis Eric Elie, and Claire Tancons, Picturebox Inc., Brooklyn, NY, November
: McQuaid, Cate, Humor Drives Free Parking exhibit, The Boston Globe, October 15
: Just Kick it till it Breaks, Exhibition Catalogue, The Kitchen
: Goings on About Town, The New Yorker, May 5
: Farrugia, Mallory, Art:Installation, Dave McKenzie, Flavorpill, April
: Riggot, Julie, The Season of the Idea, Los Angeles Downtown News, April 28
: Mizota, Sharon, Dave McKenzie at REDCAT, Los Angeles Times, April 18
: Boucher, Brian, Dave McKenzie, All Together Now, at or near the Studio Museum in Harlem, Art In America, March
: Bowie, Chas, Working History: African American Objects, Portland Mercury, February 7
2007: Cotter, Holland, Celebrating the Intangibles Money Cant Buy, The New York Times, December 23
: Cotter, Holland, Art is Brief, You Just Have To Be There, The New York Times, November 9
: Johnson, Ken, Goldfish, Warhol, and basketball in a video riff on identity politics, Boston Globe, August 10
: Malone, Micah, Dave McKenzie Portland, OR Art Papers, May/June
: Cotter, Holland, Art In Review, The New York Times, April 13
2006: Moulton, Aaron, 40000, Flash Art, p.72, May/June
2005: Ligon, Glenn, "Black Light", Artforum, pg. 248, September issue
: Dirks, Ryan, Dave McKenzie, Portrait as a Ghost, The Portland Mercury, Feb 3
2004: Weinberg, Michelle, Its All About Me, Miami New Times, November 25
: Mills, Michael, Through a Fractured Lens, New Times, November 18
: Ligon, Glenn, Black Light: David Hammons and the Poetics of Emptiness, Art Forum, 43, no1, pp. 242-249, September
: Cotter, Holland, " ‘Black’ Comes in Many Shadings", New York Times, August 13
: Firstenberg, Lauri, "Hit Me, Take Me, Wear Me, Fake me", "Figuratively" at the Studio Museum Harlem, exhibition brochure essay
: Laster, Paul, "Back-to-back At SMH – Interviews with Mickalene Thomas and Dave McKenzie", WBURG.com, Vol.4, No.2, Summer
: Brockington, Horace, "Extra Open: A conversation with Charlotta Kotik, Dread Scott, Bill Scan", NY Arts Magazine, July-August
2003: Ranger, Abby. Whats Paul Bunyan Doing at Metrotech? Brooklyn Eagle, September 26.
2002: Heuer, Megan. "Queens International." The Brooklyn Rail, Autumn.
: Van Dyke, Aaron. Multiplicity. New Art Examiner, May-June.
: Knighton, Andrew. An Expanding Pluriverse. Object Magazine.
2001: Princenthal, Nancy. Freestyle. Artext, August-October.
: Knight, Christopher, " Cultural Evolution in ‘Freestyle’ ", Los Angeles Times, October 2.
: Valdez, Sarah. Freestyling. Art in America, September.
: Cotter, Holland. A Full Studio Museum Show Starts With 28 Young Artists and a Shoehorn., The New York Times, May 11
: Saltz, Jerry. POST-BLACK Radical Intelligence at the Studio Museum in Harlem.The Village Voice, May 22
: Schjeldahl, Peter. Breaking Away: A flowering of young African-American artists. The New Yorker. June 11
: Brockington, Horace. Freestyle: Studio Museum in Harlem. NY Arts Magazine, Vol. 6 No. 6 June
2000: Jones, Karen E., "MoMovements Against the Grain", Freestyle Catalog

Awards, Grants and Fellowships

2018: Artist Grant, Visual Arts, Foundation for Contemporary Arts (Link)
2011: Guna S. Mundheim Visual Arts Fellow, The American Academy in Berlin
2009: USA Rockefeller Fellow, United States Artists
: Art Matters Foundation Grant
2008: Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant
2005: The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation
: William H. Johnson Prize
: Michael Richards Fund, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
2003: Artist-in-Residence, The Studio Museum in Harlem, 2003-2004
2001: Artist-in-Residence, P.S.1 National and International Studio Program, 2001-2002

Group Exhibition Catalogues and Books

2022: Pindell, Howardena. "Howardena Pindell – A New Language," Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh in collaboration with Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge and Spike Island, Bristol. pp 67
2012: Simpson, Bennett. Blues for Smoke, exhibition catalogue, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Prestel