EXHIBITIONS
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025
David Byrd: Auction Action, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY, October 29-Decemeber 20, 2025
2024-2025
David Byrd: Bad jobs can produce very good pictures, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY, October 30, 2024–January 9, 2025
2024
David Byrd Online Catalogue Raisonné, Volume 1: Painting, Sculpture, Book, Studies, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY, September 28–October 30, 2024
Scroll Flask and Hand,42 Carlton Place, Glasgow, Scotland, June 6 - 23, 2024
David Byrd, Matthew Brown Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, February 22 – March 30, 2024, Talk by Matthew Higgs
2023-24
David Byrd, DANIEL BLAU, München, Germany, November 2, 2023–January 16, 2024
2023
Art Basel Switzerland, Kabinett Sector: David Byrd, Anton Kern Gallery, June 13-18, 2023
2021-2022
In Resonance with David Byrd, Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, November 18, 2021 – January 22, 2022
2021
Montrose VA 1958-1988, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA, October 14 – November 20, 2021
Montrose VA 1958-1988, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY, February 25, 2021 – April 3, 2021
2019
Art Basel Miami Beach, Kabinett Sector: David Byrd, Anton Kern Gallery, December 5 – 8, 2019
Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY, February 7, 2019 – March 9, 2019
White Columns, New York, NY, January 17, 2019 – March 9, 2019
2018
Patient Pondering, Fleisher Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, September 13 – November 10, 2018
2017
DAVID BYRD: Ten Stops was an art pilgrimage of ten exhibitions that illuminated the life and artistic trajectory of artist David Byrd. Each exhibition in the series, including a retrospective at the home and studio Byrd designed and built in the Catskills, highlighted a specific theme and was shown in a location that correlated to the work. link
David Byrd – Coming Alive: Drawings and Paintings, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA, November 1 – December 23, 2017
On and Off the Ward: David Byrd Paints, Montrose V.A., The Field Gallery, Peekskill, NY, September 9 – October 8, 2017
Auction Action: The Art of David Byrd, Art Garage, Cooperstown, NY, September 8 – October 8, 2017
VIGNETTES: David Byrd Paints Delaware County, Delaware County Historical Association, Delhi, NY, August 1 – October 8, 2017
David Byrd: Flicks, Bouts, Blocks, Studio 10, Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY, July 20 – August 6, 2017
David Byrd, A Life, David Byrd Home & Studio, Sidney Center, NY, July 8 – September 30, 2017
The Dramatic Gesture: Paintings of David Byrd, Franklin Stage Company, Franklin, NY, July 1 – July 30, 2017
2015
David Byrd: War Is Always With Us, Catherine G. Murphy Gallery, St Catherine University, St. Paul. MN, November 7 – December 20, 2015
David Byrd: War Is Always With Us, Edgewood College Gallery, Madison, WI, August 20 – October 18, 2015
ADAA: The Art Show, Park Ave Armory, New York, NY, March 4 – March 8, 2015
David Byrd: Voices; Paintings From Montrose V.A. Hospital, Walter Mead Gallery, Roxbury Arts Center, Roxbury, NY, January 17 – February 21, 2015
2013
David Byrd: Seeing What Is There, Martin-Mullen Gallery, SUNY Oneonta, NY, November 11 – December 20, 2013
David Byrd Introduction: A Life of Observation, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA, April 4 – May 18, 2013
2012
David Byrd: Painting and Sculpture, Maywood Arts, Sidney Center, NY, September 29 – October 31, 2012
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026
Anton Kern Gallery, Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland, June 18-21, 2026
PAINT YOUR LIFE!, Leo Koenig Inc., Andes, NY, May 24–July 26, 2026. Curated by Ryan Steadman
Frieze, NY, The Shed, 545 W 30th St, New York, NY 10001, N.Y., May 13– 17, 2026
Salon, Lismore Castle, County Waterford, P51 F859, Ireland, April 25–October 25, 2026. Curated by Matthew Higgs
Analog, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY, March 4-May 1, 2026
2025
A Certain Form of Hell, Karma Gallery, Thomaston, Maine, July 20–August 31, 2025
2024
A Particular Kind of Heaven,Karma Gallery, Thomaston, Maine, July 21–September 1, 2024
The Campus, Inaugural Exhibition, Claverack, NY, June 29-October 31, 2024, by Bortolami, James Cohan, kaufmann repetto, kurimanzutto, Andrew Kreps, and Anton Kern. Organized by Timo Kappeller
Anton Kern Gallery, Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland, June 11 – 16, 2024
Mind’s Eye, Winter Street Gallery, Edgarton, MA, May7-June 2, 2024
Frieze NY, The Shed, 545 W 30th St, New York, NY, May 1– 5, 2024
2023
Place-World, Sean Horton Gallery, New York, NY, September 7th – October 7, 2023
Anton Kern Gallery, Art Basel, Miami Beach, Convention Center, Pulse, Miami, Fla., December 8–10, 2023
Moth and the Thunderclap, Stuart Shave Modern Art, St. James, London, curated by Simon Grant, Feb 4 – March 18, 2023
2022
Blind Field,1969 Gallery, NYC, curated by Matt Bollinger, November 3 – December 18, 2022
Splendid Isolation, S.M.A.K., the Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art, Ghent, Belgium, View exhibition, May 13–Sept. 18, 2022
Space, Laurel Gitlen Gallery, New York, NY, March 5 – April 16, 2022
2021
Art Basel, Switzerland, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY, September 24 – 26, 2021
Tales of Manhattan – 25th Anniversary, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY, July 10 – August 20, 2021
2020
Secret Storm, Winter Street Gallery, Edgartown, Massachusetts, August 7–September 6, 2020
2019
Art Basel, Anton Kern Gallery, December 5 – 9, 2019
FIAC (International Contemporary Art Fair), Anton Kern Gallery, Paris, France, October 17 – 20, 2019
Small Painting, Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago, Ill.,June 28–August 17, 2019
Art Basel Switzerland, Anton Kern Gallery, June 16 – 21, 2019
Independent New York, White Columns, March 7 – 10, 2019
Byrd - Hammond - Klossowski - Olowska, Balice Hertling Galerie, Paris, France, Nov 30, 2018 – Jan 19, 2019
2018
NADA Miami Beach, Adams & Ollman, December 6 – 9, 2018
2017
David Byrd at West Point, West Point Museum, West Point, NY, July 10 – October 22, 2017
Sanctuary(n): a refuge or safe place, Smithy Gallery, Cooperstown, NY, August 7 – Sept. 3, 2017
2016
OUTSIDE-as in: out-of-doors, as in: not belonging to. Curated by Matthew Higgs, Karma Gallery, Amagansett, NY, September 3 – September 25, 2016
NADA, New York, Horton Gallery, NY, May 5 – 8, 2016
2015
David Byrd and Peter Gallo, Zieher Smith and Horton, New York, NY, November 17 – December 19, 2015
COLLECTIONS
Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) Museum
Frances Lehman Loeb Arts Center, Vassar College
HE Art Museum, Foshan, Guangdong Province, China
SYMPOSIUMS
Ananya Dance Theater, St Catherine University, St Paul, MN, December 10, 2015
Veterans, Art and Mental Health Edgewood College, Madison, WI, September 18, 2015 PDF
Hope & Healing: Perspectives on Mental Illness 2
Guilford New York, June 6, 2015
Hope & Healing: Perspectives on Mental Illness, Roxbury Arts Center, January 31, 2015 PDF