Donald Moffett

Biography

Lives and works in New York, NY

Education

Trinity University - B.A. Art, B.A. Biology

Solo Exhibitions

2011

Survey exhibition, co-organized by the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston and the Andy Warhol Museum. The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA, 2011; The Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX, 2012.

2008

Easy Clean, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY

2007

GUTTED, Anthony Meier Fine Art, San Francisco, CA

Mangle Me, Marianne Boesky FIAC 2007 project, Paris, France

Fleisch, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England

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, England

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 I), Texas Gallery, Houston, TX

2000

The Incremental Commandments, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England

Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1999

Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York, NY

1997

Blue (NY), catalogue, Beaver College of Art, Glenside, PA

1996

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

2010

Mixed Use: Photography and Other Practices in Manhattan, 1970s to the Present, Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain

Range: A collaborative work from 1997, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY

2009

ACT UP New York: Activism, Art, and the AIDS Crisis 1987 - 1993, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Amerikana, NGBK, Berlin, Germany

En Todas Partes: Políticas LGBTQ En El Arte, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

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

2007

Crimes of Omission, Institute of Contemporary Art University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

Sparkle Then Fade, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA

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

2005

Around About Abstraction, Weatherspoon Art Museum, NC

Ten Year Anniversary Exhibition, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London

2004

Seeing Other People, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York

The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY

2003

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

2002

Life, Death, Love, Hate, Pleasure, Pain: Selected Works from the MCA Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL

Interstate, Texas Fine Arts Association/The Jones Center for Contemporary Arts, Austin, TX

Penetration, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY

VAPOR, organized by Donald Moffett, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY

Paintings, Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, CA

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

2000

"00", Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY

Dope, American Fine Arts, New York, NY

Drawing, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England

More, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY

Photography About Photography, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, NY

Power Up, with Sister Kent, organized by Julie Ault, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA

The Sea and the Sky, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland and Beaver College Art Gallery, Glenside, PA

1999

Monochrome, Patrick Gallery, New York, NY

Drawings, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY

Finesilver Gallery, San Antonio, TX, with Jesse Amado

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

1997

Power Up, with Sister Corita Kent, organized by Julie Ault, Wadsworth Atheneum: Matrix 134, Hartford, CT

Marc Foxx Gallery, 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

In a Different Light, University Art Museum, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA

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

The Social Fabric, Beaver College Art Gallery, Glenside, PA

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

1992

Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY

Dissent, Difference and the Body Politic, Portland Fine Arts Museum, Portland, OR

Object Choice, Hallwalls, Rochester, NY
Gegendarstellung, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

The Wor(l)d, curated by Laura Cottingham, Foundation Cartier Pour L'Art, Jouy-en-Josas, France

Promises, Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NY

Structural Damage, with Joel Otterson, Gary Simmons, and Charles LeDray, Blum Helman Warehouse, New York, NY

1991

The Interrupted Life, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY

(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 American Art, New York, NY

Erotic Desire, Perspektief Centre for Photography, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

1990

Fine Arts Gallery, U.B.C., Vancouver, B.C. Canada with Felix Gonzales-Torres

Critical Realism, Perspektief Centre of Photography, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Looking at a 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

Over the Sofa, Into the Street, NGBK, Berlin, Germany

1989

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

1988

Founding Member of Gran Fury, an AIDS activist collective

Group Material: AIDS and Democracy, Dia Art Foundation, New York, NY

Vollbild, The Full-Blown Picture, NGBK, Berlin, Germany, and Berne, Switzerland

Selected Bibliography

ARTINFO  February 2010
NY Times  October 2008
Frieze  October 2007
NY Times  November 2005
Carolina Arts  July 2005
NY Times  August 2004
Kulture Flash  July 2004
Brooklyn Rail  September 2004
NY Times  February 2003
SF Chronicle  November 2001
ArtNet  March 1999