1943

David Diao  刁德謙 was born in Chengdu, Sichuan Province China.

1949

He moved to Hong Kong, with his paternal grandparents.

1955

He joined his father, a structural engineer, in United States and studied in Kenyon

1964

He graduated with a ( B.A. ) from Kenyon College.

He decided to be an artist in New York, while doing various odd jobs.

A job in the gallery Sam Kootz then in the gallery Richard Feigen and finally in Guggenheim,

Museum, allowed him meet artists and the world of Art.

His early works are influenced by the New York School of Abstract Painting.

1969

1970 / 2000

He taught at the Whitney Museum.( Independent Study Program )

He focused on form, medium and materials, then his painting got more geometric.

1986

He participated in Tableaux abstraits in Villa Arson  France.

He received a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship in painting  ( 1973 ),

grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Pollock-Krasner Foundation

( 1990 )  and an Adolph and Esther Gottleib Foundation Grant ( 1993  )

He took part to Conceptual Abstraction, Sidney Janis Gallery  in  New York  ( 1991 ),

exhibition reprised by Hunter College gallery ( 2012 ) to show the evolution of the

practices of these same artists.

2008

For his first exhibition in China, Da Hen Li house, he used his childhood home, as

subject of his paintings.

Danièle Sicard

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Collections  selection

Solo exhibitions  selection

2005

14.05 18.06 new paintings and photographs Postmasters New York  United States

2005

Da hen Li House Cortyard Beijing  China

2005

I lived there until I was 6 Postmasters New York  United States

2005

David Diao Office Baroque Anvers  Belgium

2005

Da Hen Li House - I lived there until I was 6 MC Contemporary Madrid  Spain

2005

Postmasters New york  United States

2005

David Diao Galerie Marta Cervera Madrid  Spain

2005

19.09 15.11 David Diao U.C.C.A. Beijing  China

2005

24.03 26.03 Diao Deqian exhibition Center Hong Kong Convention China

Collective exhibitions  selection

2000

Images & (Re)Presentations, Magasin CNAC Grenoble  France

2011

Art/Système / Poésie In situ Gallery Paris  France

2011

The Indiscipline of Painting:abstraction from the 1960s to now  International Tate St.Ives  

United Kingdom

2012

Walid Raad - David Diao Paula Cooper Gallery New York  United States

2014

What It Is To Come Has Already Arrived MUSAC León Spain

2016

The Boundaries of Order Hive Center Beijing  China

2005

 Prelude / Subversion Baton Gallery Seoul  Korea

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David Diao  刁德謙  -  Odd Man Out  -  Acrylic on canvas  -  1974    

David Diao 刁德謙  -  The Rug, It Shrank !  -  Acrylic on canvas  -  05 2004    

David Diao  刁德謙  -  Yellow Peril  -  Acrylic on canvas  -  1992

David Diao  刁德謙  -  Yellow Peril  -  Acrylic on canvas  -  1992

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