David Kapp was born in New York City in 1953. Influenced by the New York School, he went to the Walden School in New York, received a BFA from Windham College in Putney, Vermont and an MFA from Queens College CUNY. His work has been shown all over North America, including David Beitzel Gallery, Manhattan Art, Alpha Gallery and Albright-Knox Art Gallery. His paintings are in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY; the Brooklyn Museum, NY and the Museum of the City of New York, NY. Kapp's awards include the American Academy & National Institute of Arts & Letters, 1995 and 1985, the Rosenthal Foundation Award and the CAPS Fellowship in Painting.

Education

Queens College, New York, MFA 1977
Windham College, Putney, VT, BFA 1974

Solo Exhibitions

2002 Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York
2001 Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
David Beitzel Gallery, New York
1999 Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1998 David Beitzel Gallery, New York
1997 Marita Gilliam Gallery, Raleigh, NC
1996 Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
David Beitzel Gallery, New York
1995 Marita Gilliam Gallery, Raleigh, NC
1994 Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
David Beitzel Gallery, New York
1991 David Beitzel Gallery, New York
Feigenson/Preston Gallery, Birmingham, MI
Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
1989 David Beitzel Gallery, New York
1988 Feigenson/Preston Gallery, Birmingham, MI
Watson Gallery, Houston, TX
Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
1987 Anne Plumb Gallery, New York
1986 Anne Plumb Gallery, New York
1985 Galerie Christian Cheneau, Paris, France
Manhattan Art, New York
1984 Manhattan Art, New York
1983 Olsen Gallery, New York

Selected Group Exhibitions

2002 "Facing the City," DNFA Gallery, Pasadena, CA
2001 "Summer Group Exhibition," David Beitzel Gallery, New York
2000 "Summer Group Exhibition," David Beitzel Gallery, New York
2000-2001 "Beyond the Mountains: The Contemporary American Landscape," Pamela Auchincloss Projects Space and Management Services, New York, NY. Travels to: Newcomb Gallery, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, December 1, 1999 - February 13, 2000; Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, MI, February 26 - April 6, 2000; Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, Florida, May 27 - August 6, 2000; Boise Art Museum, Boise, Idaho, August 12 - October 22, 2000; Ft. Wayne Museum of Art, Ft. Wayne, Indiana, November 18, 2000 - January, 14, 2001; The Lyman Allyn Museum, New London, CT, February 9 - March 23, 2001.
1999 "Summer Group Exhibition," David Bietzel Gallery, New York
"New New York Views," The Museum of the City of New York
1998 "In Passing," Inman Gallery, Houston, TX
1997 "All In A Family," The New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT
"Working Sources: The Painter and the Photographic Image," Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
1996 "Graphics from Solo Impressions," Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
1995 "In Motion," Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
"The City: New York Visions 1900-1995," ACA Galleries, New York, NY
1994-95 "New York, New York: Recent Cityscapes," North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
1994 "American Academy of Arts and Letters 46th Annual Purchase Exhibition," American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York
"Prints from Solo Impression, Inc., New York," The College of Wooster Art Museum, Wooster, OH
1993 "Paintings from New York," Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
"1992 Art on Paper," Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC
1992 "Urban Beauties," Kornbluth Gallery, Fairlawn, NJ
"Among Family," Associated American Artists, New York
"Paper Houses," David Beitzel Gallery, New York
"New York Realities: Contemporary Portraits of New York," Thomas J. Walsh Art Gallery, Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT
1991-92 "The Contemporary American Landscape," Philharmonic Center for the Arts, Naples, FL
1991 "Urban Re-Collection," Haenah-Kent Gallery, New York
"Traffic Jam: The Automobile in Art," New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ
"Motion as Metaphor: The Automobile in Art," Virginia Beach Center for the Arts, Virginia Beach, VA, curated by Sue Scott.
"The Art of This Century," Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
"The Technological Muse," Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY
1990 "The Art of Drawing," Lehman College Art Gallery, New York "Horizons," Pfizer, Inc., New York
1989 "Direct Response: Contemporary Landscape Painting," Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
"Nocturnes," Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
"Art of the Eighties from the Collection of Chemical Bank," Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
"Drive: Seven Artists," BMW Gallery, New York
"A Painter's Brooklyn," Pratt Manhattan Gallery, Puck Building, New York
1988 "Landscape Anthology," Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York
"Transcendent," David Beitzel Gallery, New York
1987 "Decay of the Urban Landscape," Jayne Baum Gallery, New York
1986 "Life in the Big City," Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
1985 "The Brooklyn Landscape," Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
"Annual Awards Exhibition," American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York
1984 "City Lights," Dart Gallery, Chicago, IL.
"Drawings," Barbara Toll Fine Art, New York
1983 Group Show, Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium
"In Honor of the Brooklyn Bridge," David Findlay Gallery, New York
1982 "Brooklyn Paperworks," The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
"30 New York Painters," Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY
"City/Sight," The Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
"The First 17 Years," Queens College, New York
Group Show, Richard Hines Gallery, Seattle, WA
"Avenues of Expression," The Arsenal Annex, New York
1980 "New Talent," A.M. Sachs Gallery, New York
1979 "Hassam Purchase Fund Exhibition," American Academy & National Institute of Arts & Letters, New York

Selected Bibliography

2001 Lori Oritz. "David Kapp at Beitzel Gallery," The Brooklyn Rail, May - June.
1999 Jonathan Goodman. "David Kapp at David Beitzel Gallery," Art in America, March.
Joel Silverstein. "David Kapp at David Beitzel Gallery," Cover Magazine, January.
1998 Ken Johnson. "David Kapp at David Beitzel Gallery," The New York Times, October 9.
Mark Stevens. "Talent: David Kapp at David Beitzel Gallery," New York, October 5.
1997 Kate Dobbs Ariail. "City Streets," The Independent Weekly, Raleigh, NC April, 9-15.
Blue Greenberg. "David Kapp," The Herald Sun Preview, Raleigh, NC, April 25.
William Zimmer. "Complex Linkages and Contrasts," The New York Times, March 23.
1996 Robert Edelman. "Traffic Jam Uses the Grid as a Departure Point," Cover Magazine, October.
1995 "A Skewed Look at the City," Raleigh News & Observer, May 5.
Pepe Karmel, "The City," The New York Times, March 24.
1994 Margaret Moorman, "David Kapp," ARTnews, October.
Joanne Silver, "Painter Captures a City in Motion," Boston Herald, May 20.
1992 Phyllis A.S. Boros, "Fairfield University Exhibition Reflects Diversity of New York City," The Bridgeport Post, March.
Karin Niesyn, "Urban Realities," Fairfield County Advocate, April 2-8.
Stephen Westfall, "David Kapp," Art in America, January.
Carol Kino, "David Kapp," Art & Antiques, January.
1991 Peter Ballamy. "The Artist's Project, Portraits of the Real Art World/New York Artists 1981-1990," In Publishing.
Peggy Cyphers, "David Kapp," Arts, December, Vol. 66, No. 4, p. 79.
Eileen Watkins, "Art," The Star-Ledger, October 11.
Vivien Raynor, "Seeing Beauty or Problems," The New York Times, October 6.
Edith Newhall, "Galleries," New York Magazine, September 23.
1990 William Zimmer, "A Show in Katonah Examines American Attitudes About Machines," The New York Times, December 30.
Malcom Browne, "Engines, Factories and Art, Or the Machine as Muse," The New York Times, December 28.
William Zimmer, "The Public and Private in Robust Dialogue," The New York Times, October 28.
Kathy Grantham, "Katonah Museum's 'The Technological Muse'," North County News, November 14-20.
" 'The Technological Muse' Inaugural Exhibition at Katonah Museum of Art," Antiques & the Arts Weekly, Newtown, CT, November 2.
Charles Hagen, "All That Jazz," ARTnews, February.
1989 Ellen Handy, "David Kapp," Arts, September, p. 97.
Georgia Marsh, "David Kapp, Interview," Bomb, Summer.
Ron Netsky, "Changes in the Landscape," Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester), May 7.
Robert Pincus-Witten, "Entries: Style Shucks," Arts, October.
1988 Smith Kline & French Research & Development: Art Collection/ Upper Merion R & D Facility, Reflections on the collection by Mark Rosenthal, published by Smith Kline & French Laboratories, Inc.
Joy Hakanson Colby, "Exhibits," The Detroit News, December 30.
Marsha Miro, "Artist Has an Expressway of Showing City Life," Detroit Free Press, December 11.
Margaret Moorman, "Transcendent," ARTnews, December.
John Loughhery, "David Kapp," Arts, February.
1987 Michael Brenson, "David Kapp," The New York Times, December 11.
1986 Robert Mahoney, "The Decay of the Urban Landscape," Arts,/i>, November.
Timothy Cohrs, "Group Show," Arts, November.
Michael Brenson, "David Kapp," The New York Times, April 4.
Daniel Rosenfeld, "Life in the Big City," exhibition catalogue, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Winter.
Bill Van Siclen, "Art that Beats Like the Big City that Inspired It," Providence Sunday Journal, January.
Pamela J. Galbraith, "The Naked City Bares Its Soul," East Side Monthly, Providence, RI, February.
Norman Keyes, Jr., "New York Through Artists' Eyes," The Boston Globe, February 7.
1985 "A New York Album, New Yorkers," Vogue (London), November.
Glenn O'Brien, "David Kapp," Artforum, September.
Moonan/Walz, "International Style in New York," Town and Country, March.
1984 Gary Indiana, "David Kapp at Manhattan Art," Art in America, September.
Roland Hagenberg, "Untitled 1984: The Art World in the Eighties," Essay by Robert Pincus-Witten, Pelham Press.
Alan Jones, "David Kapp," Arts, June.
Yasmin Ramirez-Harwood, East Village Eye, May.
1983 Morgan Lewis, The Villager, New York.
1982 Bomb, No. 4.

Selected Private and Public Collections

Arthur Andersen Inc., Detroit, MI
BMW of North America, Woodcliff Lake, NJ
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Brooklyn Union Gas Co., Brooklyn, NY
Champion International, Stamford, CT
Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, NY
Chase Mellon Financial Group, Ridgefield, NJ
Chemical Bank, New York, NY
Foundation Paribas, Paris, France
GreenPoint Bank, Flushing, NY
Hilton Hotel, New York, NY
Henry Kaufman & Co., New York, NY
Kidder, Peabody, New York, NY
M & A Properties, Maspeth, NY
Bernard Madoff Investment Securities, New York, NY
Manufacturers's Hanover, New York, NY
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
McKinsey & Co., New York, NY
Metropolitan Life, New York, NY
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Microsoft, Corp., Seattle, WA
Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC
Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
Museum of the City of New York, New York, NY
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston TX
Nokia, Dallas, TX
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
Oak Brooke Bank, Pfizer Inc., New York, NY
Progressive Corp., Pepper Pike, OH
Proskauer, Rose, Mendelsohn & Goetz, New York, NY
Prudential Insurance Co., Newark, NJ
Smith Kline & French, Philadelphia, PA
The Sunshine Group, Ltd., New York, NY
3M, Minneapolis, MN
Zelle & Larson, Minneapolis, MN

Awards

American Academy & National Institute of Arts & Letters, 1994
American Academy & National Institute of Arts & Letters, 1985
Rosenthal Foundation Award, 1985
CAPS Fellowship in Painting, 1982
Hassam Purchase Prize, 1979