David Row (Portland, 1949), lives and works in New York. A student of Al Held, he graduated with honors from Yale University in 1972, where he earned a master’s degree in 1975. He then moved to New York, where he became a leading member of the then young generation of abstract artists such as Peter Halley, Ross Bleckner, and Mary Heilmann.<\/p>\n
He was awarded the National Endowment for the Arts Grant in Painting (1987) and the Isaac N. Maynard Prize for Painting by the National Academy Museum, New York, in May 2008.<\/p>\n
He has exhibited in countless solo and group exhibitions in leading American and international galleries. Lecturer in numerous institutions such as The Cooper Union, Rhode Island School of Design, Pratt Institute, Princeton University, Fordham University, he currently teaches at The School of Visual Arts in New York.<\/p>\n
His works can be found, among others, in the permanent collections of the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, the Brooklyn Museum, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego. The Portland Museum of Art has recently acquired one of his great works that will be placed at the entrance of the museum and the CMCA (Center for Maine Contemporary Art) in Rockland in 2020 will inaugurate, in its new building designed by Toshiko Mori, the first stop of a traveling exhibition to which he will dedicate the main exhibition space to the works of David Row.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-28617","artists","type-artists","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t