CV

YEARSOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023In the Gloaming, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY
2022Last Time I Saw You, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
2020Darren Waterston’s Filthy Lucre: Whistler’s Peacock Room Reimagined, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
Notes From the Air, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY
2019Vistas, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
Eventide, Inman Gallery, Houston, TX
2018Ecstatic Landscape, DC Moore Gallery, NY
Studio Wall: Some Trees, DC Moore Gallery, NY
2017Architectonic Forms, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2016Topos, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
New Work, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY
2015Peacock Room REMIX: Darren Waterston’s Filthy Lucre, Freer|Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC
Pavo, Inman Gallery, Houston, TX
2014Uncertain Beauty, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA
Split the Lark, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY
Cadence, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
2013Ravens and Ruins, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Stabat Mater, Inman Gallery, Houston, TX
A Swarm, A Flock, A Host: A Compendium of Creatures, Legion of Honor, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA
A Compendium of Creatures, Poet’s House, New York, NY
2012Remote Futures, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY
2011Forest Eater, Honolulu Academy of Arts, HI and The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI
Kingdom, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
Recent Work, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2010Anatomies, Inman Gallery, Houston, TX
New Monotypes, Smith Andersen Editions, Palo Alto, CA
2009Splendid Grief: Darren Waterston and the Afterlife of Leland Stanford Jr., Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for the Visual Arts at Stanford University, CA
Recent Paintings and Works on Paper, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Recent Editions, Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA
2008Aurora, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Last Days, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
2007Parlor, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Constellations: Paintings by Darren Waterston and The Flowering (The Fourfold Sense),Ronna and Eric Hoffman Gallery of Contemporary Art, Lewis & Clark College, Portland, OR
The Flowering (The Fourfold Sense),Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
Fugue, Inman Gallery, Houston, TX
2006Was and Is Not and Is to Come, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, CA
Hyle, Galerie Jan-Luc & Takako Richard, Paris, France
2005Turning Back In, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
New Paintings, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2004Notations, Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, BC
Delirium, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN
Chimera, Inman Gallery, Houston, TX
Thirteen Paintings, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
2003Scapes, Bellevue Arts Museum, WA
Ghosts, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
Infatuated River, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Works on Paper, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
2002Works on Paper, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
New Work, Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, BC
New Paintings, Inman Gallery, Houston, TX
Recent Paintings, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Paintings, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
2001Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
Seven Heavens, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2000New Works on Paper, Inman Gallery, Houston, TX
Paintings, Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Through the Arch, Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
Monoprints & Works On Paper, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
1999Recent Works, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
Recent Paintings, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
In the Reeds and Rushes, Fresno Art Museum, CA
1998New Works: Paintings and Works on Paper, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
New Paintings, Inman Gallery, Houston, TX
New Paintings, Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, BC
1997Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, BC
Recent Marshes and Fields, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
KOPAC, Seoul, Korea
1996Recent Paintings, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1995Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, BC
Paintings, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
Elegies, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1994Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
1993Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Paintings, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
1992Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Elegies, Long Beach Museum of Art, CA
1991Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1990Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Fresno Art Museum, CA
YEARSELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024Y3K: On Distant Keys, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Design Building Gallery, Amherst, MA
2023Something Old, Something New: 40th Anniversary Exhibition, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
Summer Heat, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY
Freaky Flowers, September Gallery, New York, NY
Come A Little Closer, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY
2022The Gravity of Beauty, Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA
Form, Figure, Abstraction, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY
2019Fear and Wonder: Sublime Landscapes on Paper, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
2018The Neo-Victorians: Contemporary Artists Revive Gilded-Age Glamour, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
Night Walk, Inman Gallery, Houston, TX
Line Up, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY
2016Boundless Nature: Real and Imagined, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY
Art AIDS America, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY
Revealed Terrain: The Semantics of Landscape, The Center for Book Arts, New York, NY
Luscious, Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, VT
Bird in Hand, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA
2015Animal Tales, The British Library, London, UK
Alchemy, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY
Art AIDS America, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
47th Collector's Show & Sale, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR
2014Strut: The Peacock and Beauty in Art, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
Initial Public Offering: New Works from the SJMA’s Permanent Collection, San Jose Museum of Art, CA
2013The Land Before and After Time, Accola Griefen Gallery, New York, NY
The Hogarth Experiment, Smith Anderson Editions, Palo Alto, CA
2012New Prints: Gallery Artists, Inman Gallery, Houston, TX
Beasts of Revelation, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY
Eastern Traditions/Western Expressions, Boise Art Museum, ID
2011Seattle As Collector, Seattle Art Museum, WA
Wild Kingdom, School of Art & Design, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX
Never the Same Twice, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY
SUBstainability, School of Art & Design, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX
2010Material Evidence: A Phenomenology of Matter, Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS
3 + 3, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Calling Beauty, Canzani Center Gallery, Columbus College of Art & Design, OH
Crossing: Falling: Watching: Throwing, Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, BC
25th Anniversary Show, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Made in the U.S.A., Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
2009Altered States: The Collection in Context, Gatehouse Gallery, di Rosa, Napa, CA
Work on Paper, Pence Gallery, Davis, CA
200815 Year Anniversary Exhibition, Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA
The Surrealist Impulse: New Acquisitions from the Tacoma Art Museum Collection, Tacoma Art Museum, WA
New Acquisitions 2008, Portland Art Museum, OR
Fresh Impressionism, Seattle Art Museum, WA
2007Animal Rites, David Cunningham Projects, San Francisco, CA
On Paper, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2006Altered Image, Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, BC
Natural and Unnatural: Imagining Landscape, Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJ
Extreme Abstraction, Galerie Jean-Luc & Takako Richard, Paris, France
Nine Decades of Los Angeles Art, Otis College of Art & Design, Los Angeles, CA
Director’s Choice, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Magnolia Editions: Woven Transcriptions, Fresno Art Museum, CA
2005Director’s Choice: Contemporary Art with Objects from Asia, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Majestic Tapestries of Magnolia Editions: Woven Works by Contemporary Artists, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
2004Representing Landscape, The Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, VA
Weaving Weft and Warp: Tapestries from Magnolia Editions, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, CA
The Big Spin, Walter and McBean Galleries, San Francisco Art Institute, CA
Mindscape, Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York, NY
Neo Mod: Recent Northern California Abstraction, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
2003Downtown Stomp Around, Inman Gallery, Houston, TX
Darren Waterston & Beatrice Wood: A Personal Alchemy, Bellevue Arts Museum, WA
The Great Drawing Show 1550-2003 A.D., Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Works on Paper, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2002Fifteen - 15th Anniversary Exhibition, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
High Art: Art of the Bank of America Tower, Bank of America Gallery, Seattle, WA
Sweet & Wild: Animals in Contemporary Art, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
Representing Landscape, University Art Gallery, University of California San Diego, CA
Contemporary American Art, Embassy of the United States, Vienna, Austria
2001Collector’s Show, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
Amused: Humor in Contemporary Art, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL
Fast Forward, Berkeley Art Museum, University of California, CA
Selected Paintings from the Microsoft Collection, Microsoft Conference Center, Redmond, WA
New Location and Inaugural Exhibition, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2000Bluer, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL
A Gift of Light and Time, Bank of America Gallery, Seattle, WA
Reconstructions: The Imprint of Nature/The Impact of Science, The Sidney Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College, New York, NY
A Lasting Legacy: Recent Additions to the Collection, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
The Next Wave: New Painting in Southern California, California Center for the Arts, Escondido, CA
10, Inman Gallery, Houston, TX
Recent Inventory Additions, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
Distant Echoes, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle WA
1999Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
The Great Drawing Show, 1550 to 1999, Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Brushes with Spirituality: Ethereal Paintings, Noyes Museum of Art, Oceanville, NJ
Botanica: Contemporary Art and the World of Plants, Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota Duluth, MN. Traveled to: Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND; University Galleries, Illinois State University, Normal, IL; Carleton College Art Gallery, Northfield, MN; Alexandria Museum of Art, Alexandria, LA; Tarble Arts Center, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL; Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL; University Gallery, University of Delaware, Newark, DE
1998A-Z Works on Paper, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
The Winter Show, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
Divining Nature, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC
Recent Acquisitions and New Work, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
Recent Gallery Acquisitions, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
1997Distant Bodies, LA Artcore Art Bank, Los Angeles, CA
Summer Previews, Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, BC
Out of Eden, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
West Coast Painting and Sculpture 1997, Oceanside Museum of Art, CA
Collector’s Show, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
Contemporary Masters, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
Anatomy of a Print, Bedford Gallery, Lesher Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, CA
1996Collector's Show, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
Summer Show, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
Summer Previews, Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, BC
Matters of the Heart, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Master Classes: What classifies an artist as Master? Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
1995The Traditional Impulse, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
Under Glass, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
Metaphors, Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery, Portland, OR
Terrain, SOMA Gallery, San Diego, CA
From Nature, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Previews, Charles Cowles, New York, NY
Project Exhibit, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
1994The Sacred and The Profane, Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Peaceable Kingdom, Babcock Galleries, New York, NY
Flora: In Artists’ Gardens, San Francisco Community Arts, 400 South Hope Street Associates, Los Angeles, CA
The Art Cup, Garth Clark Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
1993Stealth, Seafirst Gallery, Seattle, WA
School Days, Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Layered Look, Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Thomas Solomon’s Garage, Los Angeles, CA
The Surface of the Sign, University Art Gallery, California State University, Chico, CA
1992Diane Farris Gallery, Vancouver, BC
Art and Nature, Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, TX
1991Encaustic, Palo Alto Cultural Center, CA
LACE Sixth Annual, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, CA
The Edge of Night, Muckenthaler Cultural Center, Fullerton, CA
1988Artworks Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Artist Awards Exhibition, Otis/Parsons, Los Angeles, CA
Illustration Award Show, Otis/Parsons, Los Angeles, CA
Fine Arts Building Small Edition Book Show, Los Angeles, CA
Foot and Shoe Show, San Francisco Arts Commission, San Francisco, CA
1987Books Without Bounds, Irvine Fine Arts Center, CA
Amnesty International Poster Awards Show, Los Angeles, CA and New York, NY
Art from the Page: Bookworks, Salem Art Association, OR
Onyx Café, Los Angeles, CA
YEAREDUCATION, HONORS AND AWARDS
1988BFA, Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA
Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany
Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Munster, Germany
2004Richard C. Diebenkorn Teaching Fellowship, San Francisco Art Institute, CA
2005Civitella Ranieri Foundation Fellowship, Umbertide, Italy
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Achenbach Graphic Arts Council, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA
Berkeley Art Museum, University of California, CA
Boise Art Museum, ID
Boston Athenaeum, Boston, MA
The Broad Family Foundation, Santa Monica, CA
British Library, London, England
De Young Museum, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA
Fresno Art Museum, CA
Gerald E. Buck Collection, Irvine, California
The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA
The Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Honolulu Museum of Art, HI
Knoxville Museum of Art, TN
Long Beach Museum of Art, CA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA
Lyman Allyn Art Museum, New London, CT
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, CA
New York Public Library, New York, NY
Oakland Museum of California, CA
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
Portland Art Museum, OR
San Jose Museum of Art, CA
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
Seattle Art Museum, WA
Stanford University Library, Stanford, CA
Tacoma Art Museum, WA
Washington State University Museum of Art, Pullman, WA