Donald Moffett Born: 1955, Texas Lives and works in New York, NY Education Trinity University, BA Art, BA Biology One-Person Exhibitions (selected) 2007 Fleisch, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London 2006 Impeach, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY 2005 Hippie Shit, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY 2004 Paintings from a Hole, Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA D.C. Stephen Friedman Gallery, London 2003 The Extravagant Vein, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY 2002 Donald Moffett: What Barbara Jordan Wore, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL 2001 Mr. Gay in the USA, Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA What Barbara Jordan Wore (part 1), Texas Gallery, Houston, TX 2000 The Incremental Commandments, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London The Ten Commandments, Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, CA 1999 Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York, NY 1997 Blue (NY), Beaver College of Art, Glenside, PA, (catalogue) 1996 A Report on Painting, Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York, NY 1991 Texas Gallery, Houston, TX Simon Watson, New York, NY Wessel O’Connor Gallery, New York, NY 1990 Wessel O’Connor Gallery, New York, NY 1989 Wessel O’Connor Gallery, New York, NY Group Exhibitions (selected) 2006 The Last Time They Met, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London Trifecta, Bellwether Gallery, New York, NY The Eighth Square: Gender, Life and Desire in Art since 1960, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany 2005 Ten Year Anniversary Exhibition, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London Around About Abstraction, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC ex.05.03.06103, The Cartin Collection, Hartford, CT 2004 North Fork/South Fork: East End Art Now, Part II, The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York, NY Hidden Histories, The New Art Gallery Walsall, (curated by Michael Petry) Seeing Other People, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY 2003 Image Stream, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH, (catalogue) Puddle-wonderful, Artemis Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York, NY Site Specific, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, (curated by Julie Rodrigues Widholm) International Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY 2002 Life, Death, Love, Hate, Pleasure, Pain: Selected Works from the MCA Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL Interstate, Texas Fine Arts Association, Jones Center for Contemporary Art, Austin, TX, (curated by Alex Gray) Penetration, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY VAPOR, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY, (organized by Donald Moffett) Paintings, Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, CA 2001 The Inward Eye: Transcendence in Contemporary Art, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas, TX, (catalogue) Snap! Photography from the Collection, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT Camera Works, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY Standfast Dick and Jane, The Project, Dublin, Ireland American, Postmasters, New York, NY 2000 00, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY, (catalogue) Drawing, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London Dope, American Fine Arts, New York, NY More, Nicole Klagsbrun, New York, NY Photography About Photography, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, NY Power Up with Sister Corita Kent, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, (organized by Julie Ault) The Sea and the Sky, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland and Beaver College of Art Gallery, Glenside, PA, (catalogue) New Work: Abstract Painting, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1999 Monochrome, Patrick Callery, New York, NY Drawings, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY Finesliver Gallery, San Antonio, TX, (with Jesse Amado) 1998 Sculpture from the Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA AIDS World, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland, (catalogue) Insite 98, Mysterious Voyages: Exploring the Subject of Photography, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD WACK-O: Extreme Politics & the Poster, St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY, (organized by Donald Moffett) PULSE: Painting Now, Rare, New York, NY 1997 Power Up with Sister Corita Kent, Wadsworth Atheneum: Matrix 134, Hartford, CT, (organized by Julie Ault) Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, CA Public Notice, Exit Art, New York, NY 1996 Fifteen Paintings, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA Bare Bones, TZ Art, New York, NY 1995 The Masculine Masquerade: Masculinity and Representation, M.I.T. List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA, (catalogue) In a Different Light, University Art Museum, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, (catalogue) Temporarily Possessed: The Semi-Permanent Collection, New Museum, New York, NY 1994 Works on Paper: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, New York, NY Don’t Leave Me This Way: Art in the Age of AIDS, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia, (catalogue) The Social Fabric, Beaver College Art Gallery, Glenside, PA, (catalogue) 1993 Whitney Biennial 1993, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, (catalogue) Recent Acquisitions, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA Prospect, 1993, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany, (catalogue) Fawbush Gallery, New York, NY 1992 Sculpture, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY Dissent, Difference and the Body Politic, Portland Fine Arts Museum, Portland, OR, (catalogue) Object Choice, Hallwalls, Rochester, NY, (catalogue) Gegendarstellung, Kunstverein, Hamburg, Germany, (catalogue) The Wor(l)d, Fondation Cartier Pour L’Art, Jouy-en-Josas, France, (curated by Laura Cottingham, catalogue) Promises, Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ, (catalogue) Structural Damage, Blum Helman Warehouse, New York, NY, (with Joel Otterson, Gary Simmons and Charles LeDray) 1991 The Interrupted Life, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY, (catalogue) (Dis)member, Simon Watson, New York, NY When Objects Dream and Talk in Their Sleep, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, NY Situation, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA Nayland Blake, Ross Bleckner, Donald Moffett, Simon Watson, New York, NY Someone or Somebody, Meyers/Bloom, Los Angeles, CA Group Material’s AIDS Timeline, Whitney Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY, (catalogue) Erotic Desire, Perspektief Centre for Photography, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, (catalogue) 1990 U.B.C., Fine Arts Gallery, Vancouver, Canada, (with Felix Gonzalez-Torres and John Lindell, catalogue) Critical Realism, Perspektief Centre of Photography, Rotterdam, Netherlands, (catalogue) Looking at Revolution, Simon Watson, New York, NY Eros/Thanatos-Death and Desire, Tom Cugliani Gallery, New York, NY The Indomitable Spirit, The International Center of Photography, New York, NY, (catalogue) Over the Sofa, Into the Street, NGBK, Berlin, Germany, (with David Wojnarowicz, Felix Gonzalez-Torres and John Lindell, catalogue) 1989 To Probe and To Push: Artists of Provocation, Wessel O’Connor Gallery, New York, NY Erotophobia: A Forum on Sexuality, Simon Watson, New York, NY 1988 Group Material: AIDS and Democracy, Dia Art Foundation, New York, NY, (catalogue) Vollbild, The Full Blown Picture, NGBK, Berlin, Germany and Bern, Switzerland, (catalogue) Books, Catalogues and Brochures (selected) 2005 Richer, Francesca and Matthew Rosenzweig, (eds.), no. 1: First Works by 362 Artists. New York: D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, Inc. pg. 249 2003 Molesworth, Helen, Image Stream. Columbus: Wexner Center for the Arts, The Ohio State University 2002 Herbert, Lynn M, (with essays by Klaus Ottman and Peter Schjeldahl), The Inward Eye: Transcendence in Contemporary Art. Houston: Contemporary Arts Museum Lewis, Jim and Elizabeth A.T. Smith, Donald Moffett: What Barbara Jordan Wore. Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art 1997 Torchia, Richard, Beaver College Art Gallery and Donald Moffett, Blue (NY). Glenside: Beaver College Art Gallery 1995 Perchuk, Andrew and Posner, Helaine (eds.), The masculine masquerade: masculinity and representation, Cambridge (Mass.): MIT Press 1990 Torres, Felix Gonzalez, essay by Scott Watson. Donald Moffett & Felix Gonzalez Torres–Strange Ways: Here We Come. Donald Moffett. British Columbia: University of British Columbia Fine Arts Gallery Bibliography (selected) 2006 Douglas, Sarah, “Staying Power,” Art + Auction, November, pp. 160-167 2005 “Donald Moffett”, The New Yorker, November 14 Smith, Roberta, “Art in Review: Donald Moffett-Hippie Shit,” The New York Times, November 4 2004 Powhida, William, “Seeing Other People at Marianne Boesky Gallery”, The Brooklyn Rail, September Johnson, Ken, “Review; The Hamptons, A Playground For Creativity”, The New York Times, August 6 Krygowski, Jill Martinez, interview “Artworker of the Week #36: Donald Moffett at Stephen Friedman Gallery, London”, Kultureflash, July 14 Coomer, Martin, “Donald Moffett”, Time Out London, July 7-14 “The Best D.C. Art isn’t in D.C.”, http://www.greg.org/ July 13 2003 Gehlawat, Monica, “Focus:212121 Painting From Postconceptualism To Recontextualism: Profile Donald Moffett”, Contemporary, issue 58 Golden, Thelma, “Best of 2003”, Artforum, December Rubenstein, Raphael, “8 Painters: New Work”, Art in America, November Starker, Melissa, “A List”, Alive, October 2 Painter, Chad, “Watching a video is a legit option for once”, The Other Paper, Sept 25-Oct 1 Mar, Alex, review, The New York Sun, August 14 Johnson, Ken, “Puddle-Wonderful”, The New York Times, August 8 Reeves, Jennifer, “The Evergreen Will”, NY Arts, June Church, Amanda, “Donald Moffett at Marianne Boesky”, Flash Art, May-June Williams, Gregory, review, Artforum, May Review, The New Yorker, March 17 Levin, Kim, review, The Village Voice, March 5-11 2002 Cotter, Holland, review, The New York Times, February 21 “New art exhibit showcases famed congresswoman", Daily Herald, August 21 “Museum showcases famed congresswoman”, Telegraph, August 21 West, Cassandra, “Political icon hailed; domestic icon assailed”, Chicago Tribune, July 9 Hawkins, Margaret, “Fashion of forthrightness”, Chicago Sun-Times, June 9 Camper, Fred, review, Chicago Reader, June 7 Artner, Alan G, “Barbara Jordan steps front, center in Moffett installation”, Chicago Tribune, June 6 Cotter, Holland, review, “VAPOR”, The New York Times, April 5 2001 Wilsher, Mark, review, What’s On In London, November 8-15 Wehr, Anne, “American”, Time Out New York, January 18-25 Withers, Rachel, review, Artforum, January 2000 Herbert, Martin, review, Time Out London, November 8-15 Review, Evening Standard, Going Out, October 19 Gonzalez-Day, Ken, review, Art Issues, Summer Newhouse, Kristina, review, Artext, no. 70, August-October Eggerer, Thomas, review, Texte zur Kunst, June LaBelle, Charles, review, Frieze, May Aletti, Vince, “Choice”, Village Voice, March 7 Henry, Max, “Gotham Dispatch”, http://www.artnet.com, March 3 Colpitt, Frances, review, Art in America, March Hainley, Bruce, “Sister Acts”, Artforum, January 1999 Johnson, Ken, review, The New York Times, August 13-20 Arning, Bill, review, Time Out New York, August 5-12 Cotter, Holland, review, The New York Times, July 23 Goldsworthy, Rupert, “Plastic Casters”, http://www.artnet.com, Summer Hagarty, Laurence, review, New Art Examiner, Summer 1997 “Der Frankenfurter Engel, (The Frankfurt Angel), Mahnchmal Homosexuellenverfolgung”, Eichborn, Frankfurt, Germany Rice, Robin, review, Philadelphia City Paper, October 17 Sozanski, Edward J, review, Philadelphia Inquirer, October 10 Donahue, Victoria, review, Philadelphia Inquirer, October 5 Brown, Gerard, review, Philadelphia Weekly, September 24 1996 Atkins, Robert, Goodbye Lesbian/Gay History, Art Journal, December 1 Paparoni, Demetrio, “Redefined Abstraction”, Tema Celeste, Autumn 1995 Atkins, Robert, “Very Queer Indeed”, Village Voice, January 31 1994 Smith, Roberta, review, The New York Times Cotter, Holland, “Art after Stonewall: 12 Artists Interviewed”, Art in America, June Watney, Simon, “Aphrodite of the Future”, Artforum, April Hess, Elizabeth, “No Way Out”, Village Voice, February 22 1993 Cottingham, Laura, “The Pleasure Principle”, Frieze, May Watney, Simon, “Memorializing AIDS: The Work of Ross Bleckner”, Parkett, no. 38 Harris, William, “Urgent Images”, Artnews, May 1992 Zimmer, William, “Review of Promises at Jersey City Museum”, The New York Times, September 13 Glueck, Grace, The New York Observer, September 21 Ellenzweig, Allen, “The Homoerotic Photograph: Durieu/Delacroix to Mapplethorpe”, Columbia University Press: New York, NY 1991 Feinstein, Rochelle, “The Reverse of Capital”, Village Voice, October 15 Schjeldahl, Peter, “Death Warmed Over”, Village Voice, October 15 Nesbitt, Lois E. Artforum, May Mahoney, Robert, Arts, April “Donald Moffett”, The New Yorker, February 18 Donahue, John, “Wet Your Whistle: Donald Moffett’s Double Header”, Outweek, no. 84, January 1990 Sokolowski, Thomas, “Iconophobic Anonymous”, Artforum, Summer Donahue, John, “Fund Me”, Outweek, no. 51, June Wulfen, Thomas, “Kunst und schwule Kultur in den USA”, Kunstforum, April/May Smith, Roberta, The New York Times, February 16 Wallis, Brian (ed.), “Democracy: A Project for Group Material”, Dia Art Foundation, Discussions in Contemporary Culture, no. 5, Bay Press, Seattle Crimp, Douglas with Adam Rolston, AIDS DEMOGRAPHICS, Bay Press, Seattle 1989 Cooper, Dennis, Artforum, September Dechter, Joshua, Arts, September Atkins, Robert, “Art=Life”, 7 Days, May 24 Projects (selected) 1989 Founded BUREAU: a trans-disciplinary studio 1988 Founding Member of Gran Fury: an AIDS activist collective Lectures, Grants and Appointments (selected) 2004 Skowhegan School, Skowhegan, Maine, ME, Resident Faculty, (Summer) 2003 Wexner Center, Columbus, OH, “Image Stream” Symposium Speaker 1997 Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, Panel 1996 Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, Lecturer Cooper Hewitt Museum, New York, NY, Lecturer Yale University, Graduate School of Art, Lecturer 1992-94 Adjunct Professor, Yale University, Graduate School of Art 1991-94 Appointment to Artist Advisory Board of the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY 1988 Art Matters, Inc. Grant Public Collections (selected) Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA Artpace, San Antonio, TX Deutsches Architektur Museum in Frankfurt am Main, Germany Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA Museum of Fine Art, Boston, MA Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN Weatherspoon Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY