David Horvitz
Born in Los Angeles, 1982. Lives and works in Los Angeles.

Education
2010 – MFA, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
2004 – BA, University of California, Riverside, California
2002 – BA, Waseda University, Tokyo

Residencies
2017
Curva Blu, organized by INCURVA, cultural association, Favignana
The Great Learning, organized by La Criée, centre d’art contemporain, Rennes, Montcontour, Brittany
2014
IMMA, Dublin
2013
Recipient of Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Emergency Grant
Session, Recess, New York
Fifty-Five Honey Locust Trees, curated by Joe Ahearn, Clocktower Gallery, New York

Grants – Prizes

2018
Henraux Prize

Solo Exhibitions
2019
solo show, La Criée centre d’art contemporaine, Rennes (upcoming)
2018
Für Ruth, der Himmel in Los Angeles, Albertinum, SDK, Dresden
When the Ocean Sounds, Curated by Thomas Caron, Brussels Gallery Weekend, Brussels
When The Ocean Sounds, Billboard Series #11, art|lead, Gent
Água Viva, Belo Campo, Lisbon
2017
Eridanus, Galerie Allen, Paris
Dedicated to Forgotten Oceans, Organised by Barnie’s at the window of Davish News, London
2016
Concurrent solo exhibitions ja at Chert, Berlin and oui at Yvon Lambert Bookshop, Paris
The Studio Rent Editions: 2010-ongoing, Pacific North West College of Art
The Studio Rent Editions: 2010-ongoing, Joseph Gross Gallery, University of Arizona, AZ
2015
The Studio Rent Editions: 2010-ongoing, Pacific North West College of Art
Situation #20, Fotomuseum Winterthur
through the morning) kiss this pillow, tongewölbe T25, Ingolstadt
2014
David Horvitz: Gnomons, curated by Helga Christoffersen, New Museum, New York
David Horvitz, Blum and Poe, Los Angeles
Concurrent solo exhibitions at Jan Mot, Brussels and Dawid Radziszewski Gallery, Warsaw

2013

Hot, muggy, then cold and windy. We swam in the sea, it got misty and we couldn’t tell what time it was anymore, Peter Amby Gallery, Copenhagen
Statements, with Chert, Berlin, Art Basel, Basel
POST, curated by Jacob Fabricius, Antechamber, North galleries, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen

At Night They Leave Their Century, Chert, Berlin
Drugstore Beetle II, Special Collections Library, California State Universty, Long Beach, California
2011
Adobe, San Francisco, California
The Discovery Award, Arles Photography Festival, Arles

Room 129, commissioned by Fillip Magazine, Fair, Vancouver, British Columbia
2010
Carry On, Galerie West, Den Haag
2009

Believe Inn, Chicago, Illinois

Public Space One, Iowa City
2008
To a Sunset in Palos Verdes, siteLA, Los Angeles
I Will Go Somewhere and Send You Something from There, Right Window, San Francisco

Group Exhibitions
2019
Phenomenon, Anafi, Greece (upcoming)
2018
Signal or Noise – The Photographic II, Curated by Martin Germann and Tanja Boon, S.M.A.K, Gent (upcoming)
25 YEARS! SHARED HISTORIES, SHARED STORIES, Fotomuseum Winterthur (upcoming)
Metaphoria III, Organised by Lab’Bel, Curated by Silvia Guerra, Le CENTQUATRE-PARIS
The Sensation of the Sea – In honour of Bas Jan Ader, Curated by Joanna De Vos, The Mesdag Collection, The Hague
Zeitspuren, Curated by Samuel Leuenberger and Felicity Lunn, Pasquart Kunsthaus Centre d’Art in Biel/Bienne, CH
Art Basel Cities, Curated by Cecilia Alemani,  Buenos Aires
Notes for a Shell #2, Plage de la Verrerie, Marseille
the camera and the hummingbird, fluent space, Santander
A Tale of Ingestion, Monitor, Lisbon
Catalogue, Showroom MAMA, Rotterdam
Fantasy is a place where it always rains, Fanta Spazio, Milan
2017
Take me (I’m Yours), Curated by Christian Boltanski, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Chiara Parisi, Roberta Tenconi, HangarBicocca, Milan
Carte blanche to Camille Henrot, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
The Vague Space. Sammlung Christian Kaspar Schwarm, Museum für moderne Kunst, Weserburg
While I Was Also Listening To David, Eleanor, Mariana, Genk, Jean, Mark, Daphné, Pierre, Shima, Simon, Zin, Christian and Virginie, Curated by Félicia Atkinson, Julien Bismuth, Sophie Kaplan et Yann Sérandour, La Criée centre for contemporary art, Rennes
Art of the Postcard, Selling exhibition of artists’ work with postcards, at 14 Florence Street, London
Tidalectics, curated by Stefanie Hessler, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (TBA21), Vienna
FIAC with ChertLüdde, Paris
Flowers are Documents – Arrangement I and II, Curated by Emanuele Guidi, ar/ge kunst, Bolzano
Duet with Artist. Participation as Artistic Principle, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen
Group Exhibition Curated by Asha Bukojemsky, Samuel Freeman gallery, Los Angeles

You can tell I’m alive and well because I weep continuously, Knockdown Center, New York
While I was also listening to David, Eleanor, Mariana, Delia, Genk, Jean, Mark, Pierre, Shima, Simon, Zin and Virginie, Criée centre of contemporary art, Curate by Felicia Atkinson, Julien Bismuth, Sophie Kaplan and Yann Sérandour, Rennes, France
Commercial Break, Public Art Fund 40th Anniversary, Public Art Fund, New York
2016
Sequences Art Festival, 10th Anniversary at Marshall House, Reykjavik
breathing space,  Museum Arnhem, Netherlands
8688, curated by Diana Campbell Betancourt, Project 88, Colaba, Mumbai
A Moment In Time, BolteLang, Zürich
The Sun Placed in the Abyss, at Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus
Sea, curated by Monika Kozioł, MOCAK, Museum of Contemporary Art, Krakow
Group presentation at Artissima, Turin
The Distance of a Day: New in Contemporary Art, curated by Rita Kersting, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem

I will go where I don’t belong, at Volcano Extravaganza, Stromboli
Par tibi, Roma, nihil, Palatin Hill, Rome
I’M WAITING FOR SOMEONE TO CALL ME, at Galeria Dawid Radziszewski, Warsaw
Six Weeks, in Time, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle
True Spirit, Galerie Allen, Paris
Publish or Perish, Transmitter Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
2015
Current Location, Waiting Room, Minneapolis
10th Baltic Biennial of Contemporary Art, Szczecin
Aquí hay dragones (Here be Dragons), La Casa Encendida, Madrid

Regular Expressions, 221A, Vancouver
Ocean of Images: New Photography 2015, at MoMA, New York
Bunting, Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbay
Transparencies, Bielefelder Kunstverein and Kunstverein Nürnberg
Triple Canopy presents Pattern Masters, Performance at Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
HPSCHD 1969>2015/Live Arts Week IV, Mambo, Bologna, Italy
The Secret Life, Murray Guy, New York

Night Begins the Day: Rethinking Space, Time, and Beauty, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco

Im Inneren der Stadt, Künstlerhaus Bremen

When we share more than ever, MKG Museum, Hamburg

Cool / As a state of mind, MAMO, Marseille
Group presentation at Art Cologne, with Chert, Berlin
Good luck with your natural, combined, attractive and truthful attempts in two exhibitions, Crac Alsace, Altkirsch

Mijn Vlakke Land, FoMu, Antwerp

more Konzeption, Conception now, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen
Tongue Stones, Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, New York
2014

Requiem for the Bibliophile, Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, CA
Scars of Our Revolution, Yvon Lambert, Paris
Kochi-Muziris Biennal, Fort Kochi, India
Crossing Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York
Ways of Working, According to an Office Desk, Upominki, Rotterdam
AGITATIONISM, EVA International 2014, curated by Bassam El Baroni, Ireland’s Biennial, Limerick City

Unseen Presence, IMMA, Dublin

#nostalgia, Glasgow International 2014, CCA, Glasgow
To Meggy Weiss Lo Surdo, Happy Hours, CO2 gallery, Turin

Canceled: Alternative Manifestations & Productive Failures, The Orseman Gallery, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts
Simultáneo, La Tallera, Cuernavaca, México

And I laid Traps for the Troubadours who get killed before they reached Bombay, Clark House Initiative, Bombay
Flag Stavanger, curated by Randi Grov Berger and co-presented by Entrée, Kunsthall Stavanger, Norway
video screening 25, ZERO, Milan
2013
Only to Melt, Trustingly, Without Reproach, curated by Tevz Logar, Skuc Gallery, Ljubljana
Editionshow, Chert, Berlin
I’ve Lost My Marbles, Totàl, Athens
And So On And So Forth, curated by Margit Sade Lehni, Centre for Contemporary Art Riga, Latvia
The Space Between Us, Courtesy, St-Ouen
Please Come to the Show: Part II (1980–Now), organised by David Senior, MoMA Library, New York
Canceled: Alternative Manifestations & Productive Failures, Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading, PA
Stranded Travelers, Atelier 35, Bucharest
Just what is it that makes today so familiar, so uneasy?, LIAF, Lofoten International Art Festival, Norway
Rematerialized New Galerie Paris/New York, New Galerie, Paris

on Off moments, Grimmuseum, Berlin
Le tamis et le sable 2/3: L’Intervalle, Instants Chavirés, Paris
New Eyes for New Spaces, ISCP, New York
Und everybody says yeah – on internet meme, The House of Electronic Arts, Basel
2012
The End(s) of the Library, Goethe-Institut New York Library, New York
The Making of Americans: A marathon reading of Gertrude Stein’s novel, Triple Canopy, New York
Let us keep our own noon, curated by David Horvitz, West, Den Haag

Rome Photo Festival, MACRO, Testaccio, Rome

Fair Exchange, curated by Taeyoon Choi, Eyebeam, New York
Canceled: alternative manifestations and productive failures, organised by Lauren van Haaften-Schic, Center for Book Arts, New York

Frieze, with Triple Canopy, New York
Group exhibition, Access Art, Vancouver
Matter Out of Place, The Kitchen, New York
Scenes of Selves, Occasions for Ruses, Surrey Art Gallery, Vancouver

In search of…, curated by Lennard Dost and Daniel Dennis de Wit, Academie Minerva, Groningen
the chief on top of the chief, MIRACLE & CONNELLY PRESENTS, Vancouver
Force Fields, curated by Alexis Granwell and Jenny Jaskey, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Philadelphia
2011
The Greater Cloud, curated by Petra Heck, Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam Worng, IMO, Copenhagen
Intimate Bureaucracies: Art and the Mail, curated by Zanna Gilbert, Art Exchange, University of Essex, Essex
Subject to Change, Fathom+Hatch, New York
The Best of 2011, Soloway, Brooklyn, New York

The Open Daybook, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles
FINISHED, Showpaper 42nd St Gallery, New York, New York

As Yet UnTitled, SF Camerawork, San Francisco

LATE Nights, Berkley Art Museum, Berkeley, California (performance)
2010
FREE, New Museum, New York
Different Repetitions, curated by David Senior, Booklyn, New York
Palling Around with Socialists, U-turn Art Space, Cincinnati, Ohio
We have as much time as it takes, Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco

FAX, Burnaby Art Gallery, Vancouver
An Immaterial Survey of our Peers, Chicago (online)
01, Presented by 01 Magazine, 107 Shaw Gallery, Toronto

The Page, Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, Orange, California
Burn, Baby, Burn!, DUVE Berlin, Berlin (group screening)
Cheat Codes: Lessons in Love, Space 204, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee (group screening)
2009
Into the Archive: Contemporary Art in the Bard College Stevenson Library, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
Session_7_Words, Am Nuden Da, London

Gifts by Artists, Art Meropole, Toronto

Young Collectors #1, Sign, Groningen

Tell Me Everything, As You Remember It, Creative Research Laboratory, Austin, Texas
Get Free%, Golden Parachutes, Berlin
Ideally, Utopics, Switzerland
Evading Customs, organized by Peter J. Russo and Lumi Tan, Brown, London
SF Camerawork, San Francisco
The World is Flat, curated by Rhizome, in No Soul For Sale, X-Initiative, New York

Light and Wire, Circus Gallery, Los Angeles

Unintended Uses, Nexus, Philadelphia
The Wild So Close, curated by Jennifer Cane, Or Gallery, Vancouver
2008

Gifts by Artists, Art Metropole, Toronto
Cycling Apparati, High Energy Constructs Gallery, Los Angeles

Line Up, Strip Down, Fade Out, Vanderbilt University Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee

I will Send You a Photograph of the Sky for Every Day, Galerie West, Den Haag
Egoesdayglow, 533 Gallery, Los Angeles

Here is Where You’ll Find Me, The Lab101, Culver City, California

Spacing Out, curated by Cinders Gallery, Space 1026, Philadelphia
Some Food We Could Not Eat, September Gallery, Chicago

To Illustrate and Multiply: An Open Book, curated by Lynda Bunting, MOCA, Los Angeles
Imagined California, Fort Gallery, San Francisco
2007
Photo Exhibition, The Smell, Los Angeles

1st Annual Juried Show, juror: Jorge Pardo, Treehouse Gallery, Los Angeles

Forever is not Long Enough, UCLA gallery 1250, Los Angeles
Between Thought and Expression, Sweeney Art Gallery, Riverside, California
2006
Chain, High Energy Constructs Gallery, Los Angeles
Greater LA, Cal State University Long Beach Art Department Gallery, Long Beach, California

Collections
Nomas Foundation, Rome; The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Moma Library, New York; Le Silo– Collection Billarant, Paris; Fotomuseum Winterthur

Selected Projects
2016
Frieze Projects: Frieze New York 2016, curated by Cecilia Alemani
2014
f/stop 6, Festival für Fotografie, Leipzig
2013
Artist’s Breakfast, POST, MoMA, New York
Eat the blue, Le 116 center for contemporary arts, Montreuil, invitation by Jagna Ciuchta
Flag New York City, Performa 13, New York
Let Us Keep Our Own Noon, NY Art Book Fair, MoMa PS1, New York
The Distance of a Day, Studio commission, Rhubaba, Edinburgh
Monsanto seed burning performance, The Shandaken Project, New York
2011
Life drawing at Zucotti Park, with Adam Katz, Occupy Wall Street, New York
Creative Time Tweets, New York, NY (commissioned Twitter project by Creative Time)
Tabehoudai Tour, for Iron Maiden Artist Tours, New York, NY (hosted project)
2010
No Soul for Sale, project with Rhizome, Tate Modern, London (commissioned project)
2009
Miami Basel project with Art Metropole. Miami, Florida (commissioned project)
Sign/Co-Sign, curated by Light and Wire, Miami, FL (commissioned project)
Meeting Point, project with NYU Student Body, New York, (commissioned project)
The Box Tour, various locations across North America (project)
Hors Les Murs, Fette’s Gallery, Los Angeles, California, (solo online project)
In Real Life, curated by Laurel Ptak, Capricious Space, Brooklyn, NewYork (commissioned project)
Innerseeing/Outerseeing, by Gabriel Saloman (commissioned online project)
2008
Miami Basel Art Fair, Art Metropole/ Printed Matter, Miami, Florida, (commissioned project)
One Size Fits All, Printed Matter, New York (commissioned project)
Light and Wire, Los Angeles, CA (solo online project)
http://www.six-years.com/ (solo online project)

Bibliography – Selected Articles
2018
“Artist’s Things”, ICON by Francesco Garutti, #issue 24, June
2017
“In conversation with David Horvitz”, CURA. by Margot Norton, Issue #26, October
“A thing without a past? The economy and Aesthetics of artists’ editions”, Mousse Magazine by Orit Gat, issue #57, Februay/March
“Days are Dogs”, PALAIS, by Camille Henrot, issue #26, October
2016
“It sounds contemplative, but often it’s excitement that drives my work”, by Fridey Mickel, Taz-Blogs

“David Horvitz: Give and Take” by Peter Hill, Vault, Issue 16
“Frieze Projects: The opposite of pickpocket”, by Radhika Seth, Financial Times on line

“L’arte? È un disturbo dell’umore. Parola di David Horvitz”, Artribune
“David Horvitz | Mood Disorder”, Artists’ Books and Multiples
“David Horvitz at Frieze New York 2016”, by Johanna Silver, The Last Magazine
“New York Updates: a Frieze si aggira un borseggiatore. Invece di rubare, regala opere d’arte. È il progetto di David Horvitz”, Artribune
“One Frieze Artist’s Special Relationship With His Retainers”, by Emily Spivack, The New York Times Style Magazine
“Frieze Hired a Pickpocket to Roam Their Art Fair—Here’s Why”, by Ryan Steadman, Observer
2015
“7 Questions to David Horvitz” by Transparencies blog, December 2015
“After the Hookup, the App”, by Paul Soulellis on Rhizome online, December 2015
“How this artist’s internationally cliche self-portrait was spread across the internet” by Eugene Reznikon, American Photo Mag online, June 2015
“I send you this California Readwood: An interview on Mail Art with Zanna Gilbert and David Horvitz”, by Alison Burstein, MoMA learning blog, January 2015
2014
“Contemporary Art and Online Popular Culture”, by Domenico Quaranta, ARTPULSE Magazine, December 2014
“David Horvitz at Blum & Poe”, by Natilee Harren, ARTFORUM, November 2014
“David Horvitz at Blum & Poe”, by Andrew Berardini, Art Agenda, July 2014
“Sounds of All but Silence”, by Roberta Smith,  New York Times, May 23, 2014
“Artist’s diary”, by Matteo Mottin, ATP Diary, April 2014
2013
“In Conversation with David Horvitz”, by Rachel Peddersen, Andreview

“Local Colour?”,  by Suvi Lehtinen, ArtFetch
“The Art World Eats Breakfast All Day Long,” by Sarah Cascone, Art in America

“David Horvitz Would Like to Invite You to Breakfast”, by Harriet Staff, Poetry Foundation
“Art Basel”, by Aoife Rosenmeyer, Art Agenda, June 2013
“Best of Art Basel”, by Francesca Gavin, Dazed Digital

“The Daily Pic: David Horvitz shows sunset and sunrise from opposite points on the globe”, by Blake Gopnik, The Daily Beast

“Künstler, die uns aufgefallen sind: David Horvitz”, by Boris Pofalla, Monopol, 07/2013
“What color is your parachute, David Horvitz?, ” interview by Jacob Fabricius, Mousse, issue 38
Interview between David Horvitz and Regine Ehleiter, artzines.de
“What Next? How Occupy influenced New York’s art scene”, by Tirdad Zolghadr, Frieze
2012
“Appropriating Web Interfaces: From the Artist As DJ to the Artist As Externalizer”, by Marialaura Ghidini, New Media Caucus

“Towards a History, Politics and Philosophy of the Online Image”, by Laurel Ptak, Foam Magazine, #29
2011
David Horvitz, “Something Fishy on Pelican State Beach”, Rhizome
2010
“Drugstore Developer: David Horvitz”, interview by Jenny Borland, BOMBLOG
2009
“Art Review: David Horvitz at 2nd Cannons Publications”, by Holly Myers, Los Angeles Times

“Small Distractions”, by Jaime Calder, Newcity Art

“Free for All”, by Silvia Anna Barrila, Damn° #22
2008
“Life Monger”, by Jonas Moody, Atlantica Mag

Selected Publications
2015
“Mood Disorder”, Chert & Motto Books & New Documents, ISBN: 9781927354230
“Stolen Spoons”, Pork Salad Press, Copenhagen, Denmark, ISBN: 978-87-91409-77-6
2014
“Dublin Foxes”, Automatic Books, Dublin, Ireland
“Crossing Brooklyn: Art from Bushwick, Bed-Stuy, and Beyond”, exhibition catalogue, published by Brooklyn Museum, editor John Antonides, designer Jae-eun Chung, Brooklyn, NY
“Printed Web #1”, published by Library of the Printed Web, Long Island City, NY
“something between the jurisdiction of time”, published by Art in America,  author David Horvitz and Alexander Provan, NY
“Mood Disorder – Printed Web #1”, printed paper, published by Paul Soulellis Library of the Printed Web Long Island City, New York 2014
2013
“It’s All About a Small Quiet Longing, or Maybe Something Else”, Brooklyn, NY
“Undoing Property?”, Edited by Marysia Lewandowska and Laurel Ptak, Sternberg Press, Berlin
“The Distance of a Day”, Motto Books & Chert, Berlin
“How to Shoplift Books (Come Rubare Libri)”, Automatic Books, Venice
“Comment voler des livres / Jak kraść książka”, (Polish and French translations of How to Shoplift Books), Automatic Books, Venice
“Cómo robber libros / Bogrov”, (Danish and Spanish translations of How to Shoplift Books), Automatic Books, Venice
“I was Serious, I was Eating Apples”, Automatic Books, Venice
“Watercolors”, Natalie Haüsler and David Horvitz, Eberl Print GmBH, Immenstadt, Bavaria
2012
“Public Access”, Publication Studio, Portland, Oregon
“Sad, Depressed, People”, New Documents, Los Angeles, California
2011
“The Open Daybook”, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, California
“My Grandmother’s Recipes”, Morova, Poznan, Poland
“Volume North + South”, Publication Studio, Portland, Oregon
2010
“Everything That Can Happen in a Day”, Mark Batty, Los Angeles
2009
“Rarely Seen Bas Jan Ader Film”, 2nd Cannons Publications, Los Angeles
2007
“Xiu Xiu: The Polaroid Projects”,  published by Mark Batty Publisher, ISBN-10: 0979048656