| 2024 | A Life in Fields, Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA 94110 |
| 2023 | In the Gloaming, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY |
| 2022 | Last Time I Saw You, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA |
| 2020 | Darren 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 |
| 2019 | Vistas, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA |
| Eventide, Inman Gallery, Houston, TX |
| 2018 | Ecstatic Landscape, DC Moore Gallery, NY |
| Studio Wall: Some Trees, DC Moore Gallery, NY |
| 2017 | Architectonic Forms, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
| 2016 | Topos, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA |
| New Work, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY |
| 2015 | Peacock Room REMIX: Darren Waterston’s Filthy Lucre, Freer|Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC |
| Pavo, Inman Gallery, Houston, TX |
| 2014 | Uncertain Beauty, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA |
| Split the Lark, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY |
| Cadence, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA |
| 2013 | Ravens 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 |
| 2012 | Remote Futures, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY |
| 2011 | Forest 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 |
| 2010 | Anatomies, Inman Gallery, Houston, TX |
| New Monotypes, Smith Andersen Editions, Palo Alto, CA |
| 2009 | Splendid 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 |
| 2008 | Aurora, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| Last Days, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA |
| 2007 | Parlor, 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 |
| 2006 | Was and Is Not and Is to Come, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, CA |
| Hyle, Galerie Jan-Luc & Takako Richard, Paris, France |
| 2005 | Turning Back In, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
| New Paintings, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2004 | Notations, 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 |
| 2003 | Scapes, 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 |
| 2002 | Works 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 |
| 2001 | Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY |
| Seven Heavens, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
| 2000 | New 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 |
| 1999 | Recent Works, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY |
| Recent Paintings, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA |
| In the Reeds and Rushes, Fresno Art Museum, CA |
| 1998 | New 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 |
| 1997 | Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY |
| Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, BC |
| Recent Marshes and Fields, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA |
| KOPAC, Seoul, Korea |
| 1996 | Recent Paintings, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA |
| Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| 1995 | Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY |
| Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, BC |
| Paintings, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA |
| Elegies, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
| 1994 | Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1993 | Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| Paintings, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA |
| 1992 | Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| Elegies, Long Beach Museum of Art, CA |
| 1991 | Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| 1990 | Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| Fresno Art Museum, CA |
| YEAR | SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS |
| 2024 | California Gold, Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
| Who Is There?, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY |
| Y3K: On Distant Keys, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Design Building Gallery, Amherst, MA |
| 2023 | Something 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 |
| 2022 | The Gravity of Beauty, Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA |
| Form, Figure, Abstraction, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY |
| 2019 | Fear and Wonder: Sublime Landscapes on Paper, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX |
| 2018 | The 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 |
| 2016 | Boundless 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 |
| 2015 | Animal 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 |
| 2014 | Strut: 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 |
| 2013 | The Land Before and After Time, Accola Griefen Gallery, New York, NY |
| The Hogarth Experiment, Smith Anderson Editions, Palo Alto, CA |
| 2012 | New Prints: Gallery Artists, Inman Gallery, Houston, TX |
| Beasts of Revelation, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY |
| Eastern Traditions/Western Expressions, Boise Art Museum, ID |
| 2011 | Seattle 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 |
| 2010 | Material 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 |
| 2009 | Altered States: The Collection in Context, Gatehouse Gallery, di Rosa, Napa, CA |
| Work on Paper, Pence Gallery, Davis, CA |
| 2008 | 15 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 |
| 2007 | Animal Rites, David Cunningham Projects, San Francisco, CA |
| On Paper, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
| 2006 | Altered 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 |
| 2005 | Director’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 |
| 2004 | Representing 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 |
| 2003 | Downtown 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 |
| 2002 | Fifteen - 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 |
| 2001 | Collector’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 |
| 2000 | Bluer, 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 |
| 1999 | Charles 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 |
| 1998 | A-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 |
| 1997 | Distant 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 |
| 1996 | Collector'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 |
| 1995 | The 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 |
| 1994 | The 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 |
| 1993 | Stealth, 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 |
| 1992 | Diane Farris Gallery, Vancouver, BC |
| Art and Nature, Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, TX |
| 1991 | Encaustic, Palo Alto Cultural Center, CA |
| LACE Sixth Annual, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, CA |
| The Edge of Night, Muckenthaler Cultural Center, Fullerton, CA |
| 1988 | Artworks 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 |
| 1987 | Books 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 |
| YEAR | EDUCATION, HONORS AND AWARDS |
| 1988 | BFA, Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA |
| Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany |
| Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Munster, Germany |
| 2004 | Richard C. Diebenkorn Teaching Fellowship, San Francisco Art Institute, CA |
| 2005 | Civitella 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 |
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