David Diao was born 1943 in Chengdu, Sichuan, China.
Lives and works in New York, NY, USA.
Education
1965
The Cooper Union, NY, USA
1964
Kenyon College, BA, USA
Solo Exhibitions
2022
Berlin Chair in Pieces, Postmasters Gallery, New York, USA
2021
David Diao: Traces of Modernism, Gazelli Art House, London, UK
David Diao, ShanghART Gallery, Singapore, Republic of Singapore
2020
New Work, Office Baroque, Antwerp, Belgium
2019
Bauhaus: Utopia in Crisis, Camberwell Space, Camberwell College of Arts, London, traveling 2020 to Bauhaus University, Weimar, Germany
Genealogy of Art or the History of Art as Visual Art, Foundation Juan March, Museo Picasso, Madrid, Spain
New York: the 1980s; Part II, Le Consortium, Dijon, France
Studios and Sales, Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2018
Kin, Tanya Leighton Gallery, Berlin, Germany
David Diao: Shadows of Forgotten Ancestor, ShanghART Beijing, Beijing, China
2017
West Bund Art & Design, Shanghai, China
America Beckoning, Gund Gallery, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH, USA
HongKong Boyhood, Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2016
REF: Barnett Newman, Office Baroque, Brussels, Belgium
2015
David Diao, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China(catalog)
2014
David Diao: Front to Back, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT, USA
Melnikov, Galería Marta Cervera, Madrid, Spain
2013
TMI, Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Artist on Artist Lecture: David Diao on Barnet Newman, February, DIA Art Foundation
2012
David Diao: Franklin Street, 5th fl, 1974-2012 (curated by Pavel S. Pys), organized by Tanya Leighton Gallery, 72 Franklin Street, New York, NY, USA
Walid Raad & David Diao, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2011
David Diao: Da Hen Li House, I lived there until I was 6... Galería Marta Cervera, Madrid, Spain
David Diao: Design Matters, Galería Marta Cervera, Madrid, Spain
2010
David Diao, Office Baroque, Antwerp, Belgium
2009
I lived there until I was 6… Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2008
Best Laid Plans, Tanya Leighton Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Da hen Li House, Courtyard Gallery, Beijing, China (catalog)
2005
Demolished/At Risk, Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY, USA
David Diao: Co To Jest Konstruktywizm & After, Galeria Arsenal, Bialystok, and
Galeria Klima Bochenska, Warsaw, Poland(catalog)
2000
Demolished/At Risk, Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1999
Cherng Piin Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
1997
Histoires et Fictions, Peintures Recentes de David Diao, La Criée and La Galerie du TNB, Rennes, France
1995
The Bitter Tea of General Yen, Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1994
Cherng Piin Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
1993
Barnett Newman: 1 Painting & 5 Prints, Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1992
Vendus, École National d’Art de Dijon, France
1991
Selections 1972–1991, Cherng Piin Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
1969-1991… a real allegory, Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1990
Claire Burrus Gallery, Paris, France
Het Kruithuis, Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst, ‘s–Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands
Provinciaal Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Oostende, Belgium
1989
Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Galerie Joseph Dutertre, Rennes, France
Musée d’art moderne, Saint Etienne, France
1988
Galerie Westersingel 8, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1986
Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1985
Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1980
Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1979
Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, USA
Tyler Gallery, Temple University, Elkins Park, PA, USA
1978
115 Spring Street, New York (Artist's Studio), NY, USA
1975
Cuningham Ward Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1974
Jared Sable Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Cuningham Ward Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1973
Dunkelman Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1972
Reese Palley Gallery, New York, USA
1971
Dunkelman Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1970
New Gallery, Cleveland, OH, USA
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Parker Street 470, Boston, MA, USA
1969
Galleria Françoise Lambert, Milan, Italy
Sheetrock, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, USA
Group Exhibitions
2021
Coloring, University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington, Kentucky
2020
Bauhaus: Utopia in Crisis, Bauhaus University, Weimar
2019
Bauhaus: Utopia in Crisis, Camberwell College of Arts, London, trav. 2020 to Bauhaus University, Weimar, DE
Genealogy of Art or the History of Art as Visual Art, Foundation Juan March, Madrid / Museo Picasso, Malaga, ES
New York: the 1980s; Part II, Le Consortium, Dijon, France
2017
alt-facts, Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Social Photography V, Carriage Trade, New York, NY, USA
2016
Prelude / Subversion, Gallery Baton, Seoul, South Corea
Three American Painters: David Diao, Sam Gilliam, Sal Sirugo, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
2015
Affinity Atlas, Tang Teaching Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, USA
Museum Studies, Berman Museum, Collegeville, Pensilvania, USA
2014
Some Artists, Minus Space, Brooklyn, New York, USA
Biennial, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
Lo que ha de venir ya ha llegado, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (C.A.A.C), Seville, Spain
David Diao / Two Generations of Color Painting (1970) in ICA@50, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, USA
ICA@50: Pleasing Artists and Publics Since 1963, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, USA
2013
Swing State, Jane Kim Gallery, New York, USA
2012
Walid Raad & David Diao, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, USA
The House Show. David Diao, Elisabeth Kley, Richard Sigmund & Gwenn Thomas, Rose Burlingham, Living Room Gallery, New York, USA
Conceptual Abstraction, Hunter College Art Galleries, New York, USA
Context Messagem, Zach Feuer Gallery, New York, USA
Richteriana, Postmasters Gallery, New York, USA
Open::Closed (curated by David Howe), 601Artspace, New York, USA
Painters Painting (curated by Stuart Horodner), Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA, USA
The Annual: 2012, National Academy Museum, New York, USA
The Indiscipline of Painting: International abstraction from the 1960s to now, (selected by Daniel Sturgis, curated by Martin Clark and Sarah Shalgosky), Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry, UK
2011
The Indiscipline of Painting: International abstraction from the 1960s to now (selected by Daniel
Sturgis, curated by Martin Clark and Sarah Shalgosky), Tate St Ives, Cornwall, UK
Art / system / poesie, In Situ / Fabienne Leclerc, Paris, France
The Horizon Behind Us (curated by Michele D’Aurizio), The Kaleidoscope Project Space, Milan, Italy
2010
Lonely at the Top: Modern Dialect (curated by Win Van den Abbeele), MuHKA, Antwerp, Belgium
Matthew Brannon, Mathew Cerletty, David Diao, Daniel Sinsel, Office Baroque, Antwerp, Belgium
2009
Images & (Re)Presentations, Magasin-CNAC, Grenoble, France
2008
Unnamablename (curated by Kim Asbury and Todd Ayoung), Københavns Hovedbibliothek, Copenhagen, Denmark
2007
High Times, Hard Times: New York Painting 1967-1975, National Academy Museum, New York, traveling through 2008 to Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologi, Karlsruhe, Germany; Neue Galerie, Graz, Austria; Museo de Arte Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City; National Academy Museum, New York; American University Museum, Washington DC; Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina, USA
Dialogues, Le Quartier, Centre d’Art Contemporain de Quimper, France
Stripes (curated by Ginny Kollak), Tang Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York, USA
2005
Dreaming of A More Better Future (curated by Saul Ostrow), Institute of Art, Rehberger Galleries, Cleveland, OH, USA
2nd Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
Design for Living, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY, USA
Les apparences sont souvent trompeuses, capc Musée D’Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France
David Diao/Gang Zhao, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hongkong, China
2004
About Painting, Tang Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, USA
Black Belt, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA, USA
2003
Black Belt, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, USA
Temporal Surfaces, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada
David Diao /Gang Zhao: at Mid Career, Asian American Arts Centre, New York, USA
2001
The Sensibility of the 80s, Thomas Ammann Fine Art, Zurich, Switzerland
2000
Personal Space: the Domesticated Long Island Landscape, The Parrish Museum, Southampton, NY, USA
1997
After the Fall, Painting in New York Since 1970, Snug Harbor Center for the Arts, Staten Island, NY, USA
1996
Landscape Reclaimed, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT, USA
Thinking Print, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Fractured Fairy Tales: Art in the Age of Categorical Disintegration, Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, NC, USA
Time Wise, The Swiss Institute, New York, USA
1995
Raw, Postmasters Gallery, New York, USA
True Lies, Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, USA
On Target, Horodner Romley Gallery, New York, USA
1994
East/West, Cross Cultural Influences in Painting, E.S. Vandam, New York, USA
About Time, Testwall, TZ’Art & Co., New York, USA
Crash, Thread Waxing Space, New York, USA
Die Orte der Kunst, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany
1992
Gegen den Strich—Against the Grain, Galerie Theuretzbacher, Vienna, Austria
C’Est Pas La Fin Du Monde—Une Vue Des Années 80, La Cour d’Or, Musée de Metz, France
Génériques: le visuel et l’écrit, Hôtel des Arts, Paris, France
Oeuvres Americaines, Autour de la Collection, FRAC, Dijon, France
Slow Art: Painting In New York Now, P.S.1 Museum, Queens, New York, USA
then & NOW, Philippe Staib Gallery, New York, USA
Quotations, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT, USA
En Noir Et Blanc, Galerie du Tnb, Rennes, France
1991
Conceptual Abstraction, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, USA
Schwerelos, Grossen Orangerie, Charlottenberg Castle, Berlin, Germany
Le Consortium Collectionne, Château d’Oiron, Oiron, France
Words & #s, Museum of Contemporary Art, Wright State University, Dayton, OH, USA
Marta Cervera Gallery, New York, USA
The Construction of Knowledge, Diane Brown Gallery, New York, USA
PastFutureTense, Winnipeg Art Gallery and Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
1990
The Charade of Mastery, Whitney Museum of American Art, Downtown at Federal Reserve Plaza, NY, USA
Lawrence Oliver Gallery, Philadelphia, USA
All Quiet On The Western Front?, Espace Dieu, Paris, France
1989
Une Autre Affaire, Le Consortium, Dijon, France
Postmasters Gallery, New York, USA
Jet Lag, Turon Travel, Inc., New York, USA
Mind and Matter: New American Abstraction, USIA traveling exhibition to Asian capitals
Diagrams and Surrogates, Shea and Beker Gallery, New York, USA
Diao, Dona, Goldstein, and Ladda, Krygier/Landau Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA
1988
Hybrid Neutral: Mode of Abstraction and the Social, traveling exhibition, Independent Curators, Inc., New York, USA
Art at the End of the Social, Rooseum, Malmö, Sweden
Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA, USA
Meaningful Geometry, Postmasters Gallery, New York, USA
Michael Corris, David Diao, Olivier Mosset, Shafrazi Gallery, New York, USA
1987
Generations of Geometry, Whitney Museum of American Art at Equitable Center, New York, USA
Post–Abstract Abstraction, Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT, USA
Corris, Diao, IFP, Parrino, Le Consortium, Dijon, France
Avant-Garde in the 80's, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, USA
1986
Tableaux Abstraits, Villa Arson, Centre National d’Art , Nice, France
Ultrasurd, S.L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto, Canada
The Use of Geometry in the 80’s, Wright State University, Dayton, OH, USA
Paravision II, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Red, Massimo Audiello Gallery, New York, USA
Abstract Appropriations, Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York, USA
Spiritual America, CEPA, Buffalo, New York, USA
1985
Cult and Decorum, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, USA
The Non–Objective World, Kamikaze Club, New York, USA
1983
The Terminal Show, Brooklyn, New York, USA
1982
The Chinese Response: Paintings by Leading Overseas Artists, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, China
1981
Geometric Abstraction: A New Generation, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA
1979
Mind Set: An Ongoing Involvement with the Rational Tradition, John Weber Gallery, New York, USA
1977
The New York School: The State of the Art, New York State Museum, Albany, NY, USA
1973
Maler, Painters, Peintres, Prospect ’73, Stadtische Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf, Germany
Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
1972
8 New York Painters, Museum of Art, Berkeley, CA, USA
David Diao and Cy Twombly, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA, USA
1971
The White Monochrome in 20th Century Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA
8 from New York, Gallery A, Sidney, Australia
1970
Two Generations of Color Painting, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, USA
Using Walls, Jewish Museum, New York, USA
1969
Annual Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
The Albert Pilavin Collection: 20th Century American Art, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI, USA
Scenic Landmarks of New York presents a Scenic Landmark for Toronto, David Diao and Brice Marden, Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto, Canada
David Diao and Peter Young, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, USA
1967
Park Place Gallery, New York, USA
Bibliography
2021
Mroczkowski, Stéphane & Alexandra Pignol (eds.), David Diao Peinture et document/Painting and document,
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2020
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2018
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2017
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2016
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2015
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“Fall Shows in Beijing”, Randian, September 29
Nooshfar Afnan, “David Diao’s personal narrative takes on New York abstraction”, Art Radar, September 25
“Through his symbolic painterly rhetoric, David Diao Transforms the formal language of
New York Abstraction through his personal narrative”, Art Behrain, September 22
Matthew Deleget, “David Diao”, Bomb Magazine, Fall
Lavender Au, “David Diao : I am fearless about revealing the seamy underbelly of myself”, Christies, September 28
Danyu Xu, “artnet对话— —刁德谦(David Diao)谈UCCA回顾展: “我对自己的嫉妒、失望和野心毫不忌讳"" artnet news China, September 17
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2014
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Heinz Peter Schwerfel, “Insider sind Out: Kunstbetrieb und olympischer Geist oder Dabeisein ist nicht alles”, Lettre International, No. 104, Spring, pp. 92-96
David Podgurski, “Appropriation, Dialogue, Memorial”, New Canaan Darien Magazine, September 11
Maryam Omidi, “Radical geometry: artists’ reflections on Kaimir Malevich”, The Calvert Journal, July 16
Lauren O’Neill Butler, “David Diao discusses his exhibition at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art”, Artforum, July 10
Carles Guerra, “David Diao at Marta Cervera”, Contemporary Art Daily, June 17
Mousse Magazine, May 29
Blake Gopnik, “David Diao Tracks The Big Game”, Artinfo, May 20
2013
Robert Berlind, “David Diao TMI”, The Brooklyn Rail, May 3
Davina Lee, “David Diao, A Bitter Pill”, Harper’s Bazaar Hong Kong, May
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Holland Cotter, “David Diao: TMI”, The New York Times, April 18
“Going Ons About Town”, The New Yorker, April 16
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2012
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Benjamin Sutton, “Bruce Nauman, Peter Saul, and Cindy Sherman Among 23 New National Academy
Members”, Artinfo, July 2
Kyle Chayka, “Deconstructing Gerhard Richter Mania, Postmasters Offers a Playful and Surprisingly Affecting Essay in Exhibition Form”, Blouin Artinfo, June 5
Blake Gopnik, “A Deity, Doubted”, The Daily Beast, June 4
Ulrike Knofel, “Leicht verwischit” (trans. “Slightly Blurred”), Der Spiegel, May 28
James Hannaham, “The Richter Scale”, The Village Voice, May 23
Jane Hu, “Gerhard Richter Is A Famous Painter Of Expensive Paintings”, The AWL, May 22
Carolina A. Miranda Gallerina, “This Week: Must-See Arts in the City”, WNYC Culture, May 09
Karen Tauches, “More Than Painting: Professionals Pant at the contemporary”, Burnaway, May 5
Julia Halperin, “Postmasters Exhibition Questions Gerhard Richter’s Earth-Shattering Success”, In The Air, Blouin Artinfo, April 25
Mark Harris, “Indiscipline of Painting at Tate St. Ives”, Art Monthly, February
2011
Piper Koh, “One Suitcase Per Person”, Time Out Hong Kong, December 7
Els Fiers, “David Diao, Office Baroque”, Metropolis M, February/March
Vivian Ziherl, “David Diao”, Leap, January
2010
Eleanor Heartney, “Invisible Networks”, Art in America, November
2009
Hiram To, “Match Point, Harper’s Bazaar, March
“Galleries: Chelsea: David Diao”, New Yorker, February 23
Nicole Pasulka, “Loss of Home”, The Morning News, March 2
Stephen Maine, “David Diao: I lived there until I was 6… at Postmasters”, artcritical.com, February
Paul Laster, “David Diao, I lived there until I was 6…”, Time Out New York, February 5
2008
Philip Tinnari, David Diao’s ‘Da Hen Li House’, catalog essay, Courtyard Gallery, Bejing, March
Catherine Spaeth, “David Diao: A Picaresque Tale of Ruins”, catherinesartforums.blogspot.com, May 2
Andrew Maerkle, “David Diao”, Art Asia Pacific # 57, March
Catherine Spaeth, “Inspired by Environs, From City Loft to Country Trailer”, The New York Times, April 8
2005
Michael Corris, “Medals of Honor and Flags of Convenience: The Paintings of David Diao”, David Diao: Works 1969-2005, Timezone 8 Art Books, Beijing
Co to Jest Konstruktywizm & After (catalog), Galeria Arsenal, Poland
Astrit Schmidt-Burkhardt, Stammaume der Kunst zur Genealogie der Avantgarde, Akademie Verlag, Berlin
Edward Leffinfwell, “David Diao at Postmasters”, Art In America, November
Helen A. Harrison, “Design for Living”, The New York Times, October 2
2003
Howard Singerman, “Noncompositional Effects, or the Process of Painting in 1970”, Oxford Art Journal, January 26
2001
Lilly Wei, “David Diao” (review), Art in America, July
2000
Michael Brennan, “Painter’s Journal”, artnet.com/Magazine/reviews/11-20-00
Saul Ostrow, “David Diao: Two Acts in One”, NY Arts, December
1999
“Serie’Bruche’: David Diao”, art das kunstmagazin, Hamburg, October
Henri-Pierre Jeudy, “Les Usages Sociaux de l’Art”, Circe, pp.147-160
“Interview with David Diao”, Fractured Fairy Tales: Art in the Age of Categorical Disintegration (exhibition catalog), Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, NC
1995
Paul A. Anderson, “David Diao: Critical Painting and the Racial Sublime”, Third Text #33, London, Fall
Mira Schor, “The Bitter Tea of General Yen: Paintings by David Diao”, Provincetown Arts, Summer
David Rimanelli, “David Diao” (review), Artforum, Summer
Brooks Adams, “David Diao” (review), Art in America, May
Kathleen Finley Magnan, “The Bitter Tea of David Diao”, Asian Art News, Hong Kong, March/April
Elizabeth Hess, “The Diao Foundation”, The Village Voice, February 28
1994
Gao Cianwei, “Formalism and Meaning”, Hsiung Shih Art Monthly, Taipei, Taiwan, December
Naiming Zheng, “Cleanly Cropped Modern Landscape”, Artist, Taipei, October
“Geometry and Beyond Geometry”. Conversation between Wu Mali and David Diao,
Hsiung Shih Art Monthly, Taipei, October
Hou Hanru, “David Diao: Standing Up to Authority”, Hsiung Shih Art Monthly, Taipei, September
1992
David Diao, “When the Wheel is Invented Anew”, Tema Celeste, April/May
Richard Kalina, “David Diao at Postmasters” (review), Art in America, March
Marjorie Welish, “Abstraction, Advocacy of”, Tema Celeste, January–March
David Humphrey, “David Diao at Postmasters” (review), Art Issues, #21, January/February
Robert Mahoney, “David Diao” (review), Arts, January
Rhonda Lieberman, “David Diao” (review), Artforum, January
1991
Conceptual Abstraction (catalog with artist’s statement), Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, November/December
L. C. Huang, “The New Language of Abstract Painting”, Hsiung Shih Art Monthly, Taipei, November
Bruce Ferguson, “A New History: David Diao’s Paintings”, in David Diao: Selections 1972–1991 (exhibition catalog), Cherng Piin Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan, October
Roselyne Perrodin, “Paintings: David Diao, Bernard Frize and Francois Perrodin”, in Abstract Paintings in the Collection of FRAC Bretagne (exhibition catalog), FRAC Bretagne, Bretagne, France
1990
Charles Penwarden, “David Diao” (review), Artscribe, December
“David Diao: Peinture et Silence”, Elle, #2341, Paris, November 19
Lucy R. Lippard, Mixed Blessings, The New Press, New York and Toronto
Victoria Lu, “Postmodernist Art”, Artists’ Press, Taipei
Heinz–Peter Schwerfel, “David Diao”, Beaux–Arts, #84, November
Bruce Ferguson, “Modernism’s Many Lives: David Diao”, Artforum, May
Richard W. Quinn, “Critical Investments”, essay in The Charade of Mastery (exhibition catalog), Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Bruce Ferguson, “PastFuturTense: or What is a Meta For?”, essay in PastFutureTense (exhibition catalog), The Winnipeg Art Gallery and The Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada
Kees Broos, “On Thin Ice”, essay in David Diao (exhibition catalog), Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst Het Kruithuis, ’s– Hertogenbosch, Netherlands, and Provinciaal Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Oostende, Belgium
Joshua Decter, “A Genealogy of Signs: David Diao’s Metahistoricist Redactions (Synchronic into Diachronic, Diachronic into Synchronic)”, in David Diao (exhibition catalog), Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst Het Kruithuis, ’s– Hertogenbosch, Netherlands, and Provinciaal Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Oostende, Belgium
Jack Bankowsky, “David Diao: Postmasters” (review), Artforum, March
Paggy Cyphers, “David Diao” (review), Arts, February
Terry R. Myers, “David Diao” (review), Lapiz, February
1989
Joshua Decter, “The Greenberg Effect”, Arts, December
Roberta Smith, “Tops of the Town: Critics’ Choices”, New York Times, November 24
Bruce Ferguson, “From Vision to Text: a Re–Action”, essay in David Diao (exhibition catalog), Musée d’Art Moderne Saint–Étienne, Saint–Étienne, France
Catherine Grout, “David Diao, Formalisme et Histoire” (interview), Art Press, No. 130, Paris, November
Ken Johnson, “David Diao at Postmasters”, Art in America, July
1988
Michael Jenkins, “David Diao–Interview”, Artpapers, Atlanta, May/Jun
Robert C. Morgan, “Let a Hundred Flowers Bloom, David Diao and the Modernist Monogram”,
Arts, May
Jack Bankowsky, “Iconoclasms: The Styles of David Diao”, essay in David Diao (exhibition catalog),
Postmasters Gallery, New York, March 1988
Catherine Queloz, “La Peintre en Abyme: Notes sur le Travail de David Diao”, FACES: Journal d’Architectures, No. 7, Geneva, Winter
1987
Collins and Milazzo, “Tropical Codes, 3. David Diao, Die Überflüssigkeit der Vision”, Kunstforum International, No. 92, Köln, December
“Neo–Geo, New Mode from New York”, Bijutsu Techo, Tokyo, December 1987
Nicholas Bourriaud, “L’Heritage de l’Indifference, Art Minimal”, Artstudio, No. 6, Paris, Autumn
Craig Bromberg, “Teaching Tomorrow’s Avant–Garde”, Artnews, Sept
Roberta Smith, “Generations of Geometry”, New York Times, July 17
Robert C. Morgan, “David Diao’s New Paintings: The Historicity of the Present”, C magazine, Toronto, June
Barry Schwabsky, “David Diao–Review”, Artscribe, London, April/May
1986
Christian Besson, “Tableaux Abstraits”, Art Press, No. 106, Paris, September
Stephen Westfall, “Diaorama”, Art in America, March
1981
Clark V. Poling, Geometric Abstraction: A New Generation (exhibition catalog), Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
1979
Thomas Lawson, “David Diao” (review), Art in America, January/February
Tiffany Bell, “David Diao”, Arts, January
1978
Carrie Rickey, “Fashion/Custom/Style”, Artforum (cover), October
1977
Joseph Masheck, “David Diao’s Chinatown”, Arts, January
1974
John Elderfield, “Diao”, Studio International, London, Summer (Cover designed by Diao)
Thomas B. Hess, “Hello Old Paint!”, New York Magazine, April 22
1973
John Elderfield, “Painterliness Redefined”, Art International, Lausanne, April
1972
Peter Schjeldahl, “Two on the Move in a Movementless Time”, New York Times, Sunday, March 19
Robert Hughes, “Three Bold Newcomers”, Time, New York, March 13
1971
Carter Ratcliff, “Painterly vs. Painted”, Artnews Annual, New York
Patrice J. Marandel, “La Nouvelle Peinture Abstraite Americaine”, Opus, No. 28, Paris, November
Joseph Masheck, “David Diao–Review”, Artforum, New York, June
1970
Gregoire Muller, “After the Ultimate”, Arts, March
Dore Ashton, “Young Abstract Painters, Right On!”, Artnews, February
1969
Emily Wasserman, “Three Younger Artists”, Artforum, Summer
Awards & Nominations
2015
Grants to Artists (Visual Arts), Foundation for Contemporary Arts, New York, USA
2012
National Academy Award for Excellence
1973
Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, US & Canada