Marianne Boesky Gallery

Donald Moffett

(American, born 1955)

Donald Moffett

Lot 01313 (hibiscus), 2013

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Donald Moffett

Lot 041212 (cadmium comfort), 2012

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Donald Moffett

Lot 051912 (the cobalt quad), 2012

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Biography

Timeline

1955: Born in Texas
1988: Art Matters, Inc., Grant
1991 - 1994: Appointment to Artist Advisory Board of the New Museum of Contemporary Art
1992 - 1994: Adjunct Professor, Yale University, Graduate School of Art
1996: Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Lecture
: Cooper Hewitt Museum, New York, NY Lecture
: Yale University, Graduate School of Art Lecture and Crits
1997: Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY Panel
2003: Wexner Center, Columbus, OH, “Image Stream” Symposium Speaker
2004: Skowhegan School, Skowhegan, Maine, Resident Faculty (Summer)
: Bachelor of Arts in Art and Biology, Trinity University, San Antonio, TX
: Lives and works in New York City

Exhibitions

2012: Radiant Future and Mr. Gay in the USA, Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, OH (solo)
: The Radiant Future, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY
: This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980’s, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
: Stretching Painting, curated by Veronica Roberts, Galerie Lelong, New York, NY
: Too Old for Toys, Too Young for Boys, OHWOW, Los Angeles, CA
2011: Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco (solo)
2010: 25 Years / 25 Works, Wessel + O’Connor Fine Arts, Lambertville, NJ
: Pittsburgh, PA, The Andy Warhol Museum, survey exhibition, 2010. Travels to Houston, Contemporary Arts Museum, 2012, and to other venues
2009: En Todas Partes: Políticas LGBTQ En El Arte, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
: ACT UP New York: Activism, Art, and the AIDS Crisis 1987 - 1993, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, October 15 - December 23, 2009.
2008: The Collection and Then Some, Modern Art Museum of Forth Worth, Fort Worth, TX
: Person of the Crowd: The Contemporary Art of Flânerie, curated by Thom Collins, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY
: Easy Clean, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
: Sparkle Then Fade, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
: Crimes of Omission, Institute of Contemporary Art University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
2007: GUTTED, Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA (solo)
: Mangle Me, Marianne Boesky FIAC 2007 project, Paris, France (solo)
: Fleisch, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England (solo)
2006: The Last Time They Met, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England
: Trifecta, Bellwether Gallery, New York, NY
: The Eighth Square: Gender, Life and Desire in Art since 1960, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
: Impeach, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
2005: Hippie Shit, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
: Around About Abstraction, Weatherspoon Art Museum, NC
: Ten Year Anniversary Exhibition, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England
: ex.05.03.06103, The Cartin Collection, Hartford, CT
: D.C., Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England (solo)
: Paintings from a Hole, Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA (solo)
2004: Seeing Other People, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
: The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY
: Hidden Histories, The New Art Gallery, Walsall, England
2003: The Extravagant Vein, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
: Image Stream, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH
: puddle-wonderful, Artemis Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York, NY
: Site Specific, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
: International Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
: Paintings, Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, CA
: Penetration, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY
: VAPOR, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY, (Organized by Donald Moffett)
: Interstate, Texas Fine Arts Association/ The Jones Center for Contemporary Arts, Austin, TX
2002: Life, Death, Love, Hate, Pleasure, Pain: Selected Works from the MCA Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
: Donald Moffett: What Barbara Jordan Wore, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL (solo)
2001: The Inward Eye: Transcendence in Contemporary Art, Contemporary Arts Museum (CAM), Houston, TX
: 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
: Mr. Gay In the USA, Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA (solo)
: What Barbara Jordan Wore (part I), Texas Gallery, Houston, TX (solo)
: More, Nicole Klagsbrun, New York, NY
: Power Up, with Sister Kent, organized by Julie Ault, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
: Photography About Photography, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, NY
: Drawing, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England
: The Sea and the Sky, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland and Beaver College Art Gallery, Glenside, PA
: “00”, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY
: Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
2000: The Incremental Commandments, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England (solo)
: Dope, American Fine Arts, New York, NY
1999: Monochrome, Patrick Gallery, New York, NY
: Drawings, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY
: Finesilver Gallery, San Antonio, TX, with Jesse Amado
: Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York, NY (solo)
1998: Sculpture from the Garden, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
: AIDS World, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
: Mysterious Voyages: Exploring the Subject of Photography, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD
: WACK-O: Extreme Politics & the Poster, curated by Donald Moffett, St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY
: Public Notice, Exit Art, New York, NY
: Blue NY, Beaver College of Art, Glenside, PA (solo)
1997: Power Up, with Sister Corita Kent, organized by Julie Ault, Wadsworth Atheneum: Matrix 134, Hartford, CT
: Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, CA
1996: Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York, NY (solo)
: 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
: In a Different Light, University Art Museum, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
: Temporarily Possessed: The Semi-Permanent Collection, New Museum, New York, NY
: The Social Fabric, Beaver College Art Gallery, Glenside, PA
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
1993: Whitney Biennial 1993, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
: Recent Acquisitions, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
: Prospect 1993, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
: Fawbush Gallery, New York, NY
: Structural Damage, with Joel Otterson, Gary Simmons, and Charles LeDray, Blum Helman Warehouse, New York, NY
: Promises, Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NY
: The Wor(l)d, curated by Laura Cottingham, Foundation Cartier Pour L’Art, Jouy-en-Josas, France
: Dissent, Difference and the Body Politic, Portland Fine Arts Museum, Portland, OR
: Object Choice, Hallwalls, Rochester, NY
1992: Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY
: Gegendarstellung, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Germany
: Group Material’s AIDS Timeline, Whitney Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
: Wet Holes, Wessel O’Connor Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
: Simon Watson, New York, NY (solo)
: Texas Gallery, Houston, TX (solo)
: Someone or Somebody, Meyers/Bloom, Los Angeles, CA
: Erotic Desire, Perspektief Centre for Photography, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
: Situation, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
: When Objects Dream and Talk in Their Sleep, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, NY
: (Dis)member, Simon Watson, New York, NY
1991: The Interrupted Life, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
: Nayland Blake, Ross Bleckner, Donald Moffett, Simon Watson, New York, NY
: Oh-Oh-Harder-Oh-Oh, Wessel O’Connor Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
: Over the Sofa, Into the Street, NGBK, Berlin, Germany
: Eros/Thanatos—Death and Desire, Tom Cugliani Gallery, New York, NY
: The Indomitable Spirit, The International Center of Photography, New York, NY
: Critical Realism, Perspektief Centre of Photography, Rotterdam
1990: Fine Arts Gallery, U.B.C., Vancouver, B.C. Canada with Felix Gonzales-Torres
: Looking at a Revolution, Simon Watson, New York, NY
1989: Homo Art: I Love It When You Call Me Names, Wessel O’Connor Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
: Founded BUREAU, a trans-disciplinary studio
: 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
: Group Material: AIDS and Democracy, Dia Art Foundation, New York, NY
1988: Founding Member of Gran Fury, an AIDS activist collective
: Vollbild, The Full-Blown Picture, NGBK, Berlin, Germany, and Berne, Switzerland

Literature

2008: Holmes, Steven, ed. Festschrift: Selections from a Collection. Hartford, Connecticut: Leo, 2008.
2005: Patterson, Tom, “Angles on Abstraction,” Winston-Salem Journal, June 26, 2005.
2004: Powhida, William. “Seeing Other People at Marianne Boesky Gallery,” The Brooklyn Rail, September 2004.
: Johnson, Ken. “Review; The Hamptons, A Playground For Creativity”, New York Times, August 6, 2004.
: Krygowski, Jill Martinez. “Artworker of the week #36: Donald Moffett at Stephen Friedman Gallery, London,” Kultureflash. interview conducted by Jill Martinez Krygowski, July 14, 2004.
: Coomer, Martin. “Review: Donald Moffett,” Time Out London, July 7-14, 2004
: “The Best D.C. Art isn’t in D.C.,” Greg.org, July 13, 2004
: Cotter, Holland. The New York Times, February 21, 2003.
: Levin, Kim. “Review,” The Village Voice, March 5, 2003.
: “Review,” The New Yorker, March 17, 2003.
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2003: Molesworth, Helen. Image Stream. Wexner Center for the Arts, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, 2003.
: Williams, Gregory. “Review,” Artforum, May 2003.
: Camper, Fred. “Review,” Chicago Reader, June 7, 2002.
: Cotter, Holland. “Review: VAPOR,” The New York Times, April 5, 2002.
: Artner, Alan G. “Barbara Jordan Steps Front, Center in Moffett Installation,” Chicago Tribune, June 6, 2002.
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: “Museum Showcases Famed Congresswoman,” Telegraph, August 21, 2002
: “New Art Exhibit Showcases Famed Congresswoman,” Daily Herald, August 21, 2002
: Lewis, Jim, and Elizabeth A.T. Smith. Donald Moffett: What Barbara Jordan Wore. Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois, 2002
2002: The Inward Eye: Transcendence in Contemporary Art. Lynn M. Herbert with essays by Klaus Ottman and Peter Schjeldahl, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas, 2002
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2001: Withers, Rachel. Artforum, January 2001.
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1999: Arning, Bill. Time Out New York, August 5-12, 1999.
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: Sozanski, Edward J. Philadelphia Inquirer, October 10, 1997.
: Rice, Robin. Philadelphia City Paper, October 17, 1997.
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: Der Frankfurter Engel (The Frankfurt Angel) Mahnmal Homosexuellenverfolgurg; Eichborn; Frankfurt, Germany 1997.
: Torchia, Richard. Blue [NY]. Beaver College Art Gallery and Donald Moffett, Glenside, Pennsylvania, 1997
1996: Paparoni, Demetrio. “Redefined Abstraction”, Tema Celeste, Autumn 1996.
: Atkins, Robert. “Goodbye Lesbian/Gay History”, Art Journal, December 1, 1996.
1995: Atkins, Robert, “Very Queer Indeed”, Village Voice, January 31, 1995.
1994: Smith, Roberta. “From Media to Metaphor”, The New York Times, show at Grey Art Gallery.
: Cotter, Holland. “Art after Stonewall: 12 Artists Interviewed,” Art in America, June 1994.
: Watney, Simon. “Aphrodite of the Future”, Artforum, April 1994.
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: Watney, Simon. “Memorializing AIDS: The Work of Ross Bleckner,” Parkett, no. 38.
: Harris, William. “Urgent Images”, Artnews, May 1993.
1993: Cottingham, Laura. “The Pleasure Principle”, Frieze, May 1993.
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: Glueck, Grace. New York Observer, September 21, 1992.
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: Feinstein, Rochelle. “The Reverse of Capital”, Arts, December 1992.
: Donahue, John. “Wet Your Whistle: Donald Moffett’s Double Header”, Outweek, Jan., #84
: Mahoney, Robert. Arts, April 1991.
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1991: Schjeldahl, Peter. “Death Warmed Over”, Village Voice, October 15, 1991.
: Nesbitt, Lois. Artforum, May 1991.
: Moffett, Donald, and Felix Gonzalez Torres. Donald Moffett & Felix Gonzalez Torres – Strange Ways: Here We Come., essay by Scott Watson, University of British Columbia Fine Arts Gallery, British Columbia, 1990.
1990: Donahue, John. “Fund Me”, Outweek, June, #51.
: Sokolowski, Thomas. “Iconophobic Anonymous” Artforum, Summer 1990.
: Crimp, Douglas, and Rolston, Adam. AIDSDEMOGRAPHICS. Seattle: Bay Press.
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: Democracy: A Project for Group Material, Brian Wallis, ed., DIA Art Foundation, Discussions in Contemporary Culture, No. 5; Bay Press: Seattle.
: Smith, Roberta. New York Times, February 16, 1990.
1989: Cooper, Dennis. Artforum, September 1989.
: Dechter, Joshua. Arts, September 1989.