Born 1952, Norman, Oklahoma, USA.
Lives and works in New York, USA.

Selected Press

Frieze, Hitting the High Notes: David Salle’s New Paintings at Skarstedt, London, Cal Revely-Calder, 1 April 2019
Apollo Magazine, David Salle puts a new spin on history painting, Chloë Ashby, 8 May 2019
Brooklyn Rail, DAVID SALLE: Paintings 1985-1995, Benjamin Clifford, 5 June 2018
Mousse, David Salle: New Paintings, William J. Simmons, February/March 2017

Education

1975

California Institute of the Arts, MFA.

1973

California Institute of the Arts, BFA.

Honours and Distinctions

2016

American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY

2015

National Academy of Art, New York, NY

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2023

Tree of Life, This Time With Feeling, Galerie Thaddeus Ropac, Paris

2022

David Salle, The Brant Foundation, Greenwich, CT
Gladstone Gallery, Brussels, Belgium

2021

Alchemy in Real Life, Lehmann Maupin, Seoul, South Korea
Protected: Test, The Brant Foundation, New York, NY, USA
David Salle: The Tree of Life, Skarstedt, NY, USA

2020

David Salle: Works on Paper, Skarstedt, NY, USA
Self-Ironing Pants and Other Paintings, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France

2019

Portraits, Flowers and Wire, Galeria Javier Lopez, Madrid, Spain
David Salle: Musicality and Humour, Skarstedt, London, UK

2018

David Salle: Paintings 1985–1993, Skarstedt, New York, NY, USA

2017

Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris Marais, France
Ham and Cheese and Other Paintings, Skarstedt, New York, NY, USA

2016

Inspired by True-Life Events, CAC Malaga, Spain
David Salle, Lehmann Maupin – Hong Kong, Hong Kong

2015

Debris, Dallas Contemporary, Dallas, Texas, USA
New Paintings, Skarstedt Chelsea, New York, NY, USA

2014

Maureen Paley, London
Collage, Mendes Wood D, São Paulo

2013

Ghost Paintings, Skarstedt, New York.
David Salle/ Francis Picabia, Galerie Thaddeaeus Ropac, Paris, France.
David Salle: Ghost Paintings, The Arts Club, Chicago.
Leeahn Gallery, Daegu, South Korea.
Leeahn Gallery, Seoul, South Korea.

2012

Gerhardsen Gerner, Berlin, Germany.
Tapestries/ Battles/ Allegories, Lever House Art Collection, New York, USA.
Ariel and Other Spirits, The Arnold and Marie Schwartz Gallery Met, Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center, New York.

2011

David Salle: Recent PaintingsMary Boone Gallery, New York.
Maureen Paley, London.

2010

Mary Boone Gallery, New York.

2009

Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover.

2008

Galleri Faurschou, Copenhagen.
Studio d/Arte Raffaelli, Trento.

2007

Galleria Cardi, Milan.
Galerie Thaddeaus Ropac, Salzburg.
Deitch Projects, New York.
Baldwin Gallery, Aspen.

2005

Mary Boone Gallery, New York

2004

Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris.
Stella Art Gallery, Moscow.
Baldwin Gallery, Aspen.

2003

Mary Boone Gallery, New York.
Waddington Galleries, London.
Emilio Mazzoli Galleria D’Arte Contemporanea, Modena,.

2002

Galleria Cardi, Milan.
Lehmann Maupin, New York.

2001

Gagosian Gallery, New York.
Jablonka Galerie, Cologne.

2000

Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, A.C., Monterrey, Mexico.

1999

Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York.
Gagosian Gallery, New York.
Retrospective, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.
Traveled to Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna; Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Castello di Rivoli, Turin; Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao.

1998

Baldwin Gallery, Aspen.
Itochu Gallery, Tokyo.

1997

Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills.
Claudia Gian Ferrari Arte Contemporanea, Milan.

1996

Galerie Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid.
Galerie Thaddeus Ropac, Paris.

1995

Galerie Bischofberger, Zurich.
Gagosian Gallery, New York.

1994

Gagosian Gallery, New York.

1993

Newport Harbor Art Museum, California.

1992

Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris.
Gagosian Gallery, New York.
Galeria Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid.
Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague

1991

Gagosian Gallery, New York.
Robert Miller Gallery, New York. (photographs)
Galerie Bischofberger, Zurich.

1990

Mario Diacono Gallery, Boston.
Fred Hoffman Gallery, Santa Monica.
Castelli Graphics, New York.

1989

Waddington Galleries, London.
Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne.

1988

Castelli Gallery, New York. (with Jasper Johns and Bruce Naumann)
Mary Boone/Michael Werner Gallery, New York.
The Menil Collection, Houston.
Fundacion Caja de Pensiones, Madrid.
Traveled to: Staatsgalerie Modern Kunst, Munich;
The Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv.
Galerie Bischofberger, Zurich.

1987

Mary Boone Gallery, New York
The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh.
Galerie Bischofberger, Zurich.
Spiral Garden, Wacoal Art Center, Tokyo

1986

Leo Castelli Gallery, New York.
Mario Diacono Gallery, Boston.
Castelli Graphics, New York.
Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund.
Traveled to: Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark;
The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston.
Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
Traveled to: The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York;
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles;
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto;
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.
Galerie Bischofberger, Zurich.

1985

Texas Gallery, Houston.
Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris.
Mary Boone Gallery, New York.
Donald Young Gallery, Chicago.
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.
Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne.

1984

Leo Castelli Gallery, New York.
Mario Diacono Gallery, Rome.
Galerie Bischofberger, Zurich.

1983

Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo.
Mary Boone Gallery, New York.
Galerie Schellmann & Kluser, Munich. (with Francis Picabia)
Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam.
Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles.

1982

Mary Boone Gallery
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York.
Galerie Bischofberger, Zurich.
Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London.

1981

Mary Boone Gallery, New York.
Larry Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles.
Lucio Amelio Gallery, Naples.

1980

Galerie Bischofberger, Zurich.

1979

Gagosian/Nosei Webber, New York.

Selected Two Person Exhibitions

2016

Cindy Sherman and David Salle: History Portraits and Tapestry Paintings, Skarstedt, London, UK

Selected Group Exhibitions

2023

The Gemma De Angelis Testa Donation, Ca’ Pesaro – International Gallery of Modern Art, Venice, Italy
Artists Choose Parris: Part III, Parrish Art Museum, New York, USA
Faces and Figures, Skarstedt, New York, USA
Old Friends, Francesco Clemente, David Salle, Julian Schnabel, Vito Schnabel Gallery St. Moritz, Switzerland

2022

1986, Galerie Max Hetzler, London, UK
Luncheon on the Grass, Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles, USA

2021

Faces and Figures, Skarstedt, East Hampton, NY, USA
Go Figure: A Group Exhibition, Maune Contemporary, Atlanta, GA, USA
The 80’s. Art of the Eighties, Albertina Modern, Vienna, Austria
Whimsy, The Southampton Arts Center, Southampton, NY, USA

2020

Drawing 2020, Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Portraits Forever, Tajan, The Gallery, Paris, France
Where Art Might Happen, The Early Years of CalArts, Kunsthus Graz, Graz Austria
30 Years in Paris, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France

2019

Inaugural Exhibition, Rubell Museum, Miami, USA
International Masters/Collaborations in Printmaking, Southampton Arts Centre, New York, USA
Where Art Might Happen, The Early Years of CalArts, Kestner Gessellschaft, Hannover, Germany
The Rubell Museum, Miami, USA
Inaugural Exhibition, Skarstedt, New York, USA
At First Glance: Fischl Sculptures and Salle Photographs, Skarstedt, New York, USA
Portraits: Gstaad, Galeria Javier Lopez, Madrid, Spain

2018

In My Room: Artists Paint the Interior 1950 – Now, The Fralin Museum of Art at The University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
Every Picture Tells A Story, Parrish Art Museum, Watermill, NY, USA
A New Spirit Then, A New Spirit Now, 1981 – 2018, Curated by Norman Rosenthal, Almine Rech Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Collection David H. Brolliet, Genève, Fondation Fernet Branca, Saint-Louis, France
Before/On/After: William Wegman and California Conceptualism, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA
Running Wild: 80s Painting in America, The Arts Club, London, UK
Condo, Fischl, Kaws, Kippenberger, Salle, Sherman, Williams, Skarstedt Gallery, New York, NY, USA
America! America! How Real Is Real?, Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden, Germany

2017

Hope and Hazard: A Comedy of Eros, Hall Art Foundation, Reading, Vermont, USA
Disorderly Conduct: American Painting and Sculpture, 1960-1990, Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
Baselitz, Condo, Fischl, Haring, Muñoz, Prince, Salle, Skarstedt Gallery, New York City, New York, USA
Zeitgeist, MAMCO, Geneva, Switzerland
Fast Forward Paintings from the 1980s, Whitney Museum of Art, New York, USA
Third Space/Shifting Conversations About Contemporary Art, The Birmingham Museum of Art, AL, USA
Frauenzimmer (Women), Galerie Klüser and Galerie Klüser 2, Munich, Germany

2016

Painters’ Painters, Saatchi Gallery, London
Excitement – exhibition by Rudi Fuchs, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam Netherlands
Good Dreams, Bad Dreams—American Mythologies, curated by Massimiliano Gioni, Aïshti Foundation, Beirut, Lebanon
Unfinished Business: Paintings from the 1970s and 1980s by Ross Bleckner, Eric Fischl, and David Salle, Parrish Art Museum, Watermill, New York, USA
Nice Weather, Skarstedt, New York, USA
Collage: Moving Beyond Paper, Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, Ilinois, USA

2015

Unrealism, The Moore Building, Miami, USA
Space Age, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
Choice: Contemporary Art from the Akron Art Museum, Transformer Station, Cleveland, USA
Woodward Gallery Decades, Woodward Gallery, New York, USA
America is Hard to See, The Whitney Museum, New York, USA
Future Seasons Past, Lehmann Maupin, New York, USA
Matters of Pattern, Skarstedt Chelsea, New York, USA
Ghada Amer, Trisha Baga, Robin Cameron, Joanne Greenbaum, Pam Lins, Alice Mackler and David Salle, Jane Hartsook Gallery, Greenwich House Pottery, New York, USA
MAD: Making Art Dance, Backdrops and Costumes Celebrating, 30 Years of the Armitage Foundation, Glass Gallery, Mana Contemporary, New Jersey, USA

2014

URBAN THEATER: NEW YORK ART IN THE 1980s, The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas, USA
Rauschenberg: Collecting and Connecting, Nasher Museum, Duke University, Durham, USA
Beg, Borrow, Steal, Medical Facilities of America Gallery/Temporary Exhibitions Gallery and The Media Lab, Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, Virginia, USA
Modernism from the National Gallery of Art: The Robert & Jane Meyerhoff Collection, de Young Museum, San Francisco, USA
Summer Exhibition, Skarstedt Gallery, New York
George Condo, Albert Oehlen, David Salle, Thomas Schütte and Cindy Sherman, Skarstedt Gallery, New York

2013

Girls can tell, GAK, BremenMeshes of the Afternoon, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York
DSM-V, The Future Moynihan Station, New York (Curated by David Rimanelli and presented by Vito Schnabel)

2012

Spring Fever, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York
This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts
The Brucennial, Bruce High Quality Foundation, New York
Daum 10! The First Decade, Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, Missouri
Contemporary Painting, 1960 to the Present: Selections from the SFMOMA Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California.

2011

Under the Big Black Sun: California Art 1974-1981, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
Pop Art 1960’s-2000’s from Misumi Collection, Kawaguchiko Museum of Art, Yamansashi Prefecture, Japan
Distant Star, Regen Projects, Los Angeles
Distant Star/Estrella Distante, Kurimanzutto, Mexico City, Mexico
Les Fleurs du Mal, Munich Modern, Munich, Germany
America: Now and Here, cross-country traveling exhibition

2010

Calder to Warhol: Introducing the Fisher Collection, San Francisco Museum Modern Art, San Francisco, CA.
Brucennial 2010: Miseducation, The Bruce High Quality Foundation, New York
Your History is Not Our History, Haunch of Venison, New York, NY (curated by David Salle and Richard Phillips)
Pastiche, The Pace Gallery, New York
Re-Dressing, Bortolami Gallery, New York
Songs for Sale: Robert Rauschenberg/David Salle/Michael Bevilacqua, Faurschou Beijing, Beijing, China

2009

The Pictures Generation, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY.

2008

Passioniert Provokativ Die Sammlung Stoffel, Pinakothek Der Moderne, Munich.
Broad Contemporary Art Museum at LACMA, Los Angeles County
Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA.

2007

Not for Sale, P.S. 1 MoMA Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York.

2006

Damien Hirst, David Salle, Jenny Saville The Bilotti Chapel, The Bilotti Chapel, Museo Carlo Bilotti, Rome, Italy.

2005

Contemporary Voices: Works from the UBS Art Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY.

2001

Mythic Proportions:Painting in the 1980’s, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami.
Jasper Johns to Jeff Koons: Four Decades of Art from the Broad Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA.

2000

Around 1984: A Look at Art in the Eighties, PS1, New York.

1999

The American Century: Art & Culture, 1900-2000 Part 2, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
The First View, Sammlung Essl, Vienna.

1998

Contemporary Art: The Janet Wolfson de Botton Gift, Tate Gallery, London.
Young Americans 2, Saatchi Gallery, London.

1996

The Robert and Jane Meyehoff Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

1995

American Photography 1890-1965, The Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.

1993

Venice Biennale, Venice.
The Portrait Now, National Portrait Gallery, London.

1992

Allegories of Modernism, Contemporary Drawing, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, curated by Bernice Rose.

1991

1991 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

1990

Bilderstreit: Widerspruch, Einheit und Fragment in der Kunst seit 1960, Rheinhalle, Cologne.
Image World: Art and Media Culture, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
High and Low: Modern and Popular Culture, Museum of Modern Art, New York.

1987

Europe/America, Ludwig Museum, Cologne.
Prospect 86, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt.
Avant Garde in the Eighties, Los Angeles County Art Museum, Los Angeles.
L’epoque, la morale, la passion, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.

1986

An American Renaissance, Painting and Sculpture Since 1940, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL.
Biennale of Sydney, Sydney.
Barry Lowen Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.

1985

Polke, Salle, Clemente, Contemporary Art Gallery, Seibu Department Store, Tokyo.
Overture, Castello di Rivoli, Turin.
Carnegie International, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh.
The Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
XIII Biennale de Paris, Grande Halle du Parc de la Villette, Paris.

1984

An International Survey of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, Museum of Modern Art, New York.
The Heroic Figure, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston. Travelled to Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis; Alexandria Museum of Art, Louisiana;
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara.
Content, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC.
The Human Condition: SFMMA Biennial III, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA.

1983

Directions 1983, The Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C.
1983 Biennial Exhibition, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
New York Now, Kunstverin fur die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Dusseldorf.
New Art, The Tate Gallery, London.
Tendencias en Nueva York, Crystal Palace, Madrid.
Sao Paulo Biennale, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Back to the USA, Kunstmuseum Luzern.

1982

Dokumenta 7, Kassel.
Clemente, Kiefer, Salle, Schnabel: New Paintings, Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London.
74th American Exhibition, The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago.
Zeitgeist, Internationale Kunstausstellung, Berlin.
on the Figure: Twenty Years, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Brochure by Barbara Haskell.
Eight Artists: The Anxious Edge, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis..
Art and the Media, Renaissance Society, Chicago.
The Americans: Collage 1950-1982, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston.
Avanguardia Transavanguardia, Gallerie Civica, Modena.
Body Language, Fort Worth Art Museum, Fort Worth.
New York Now, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hannover.
Image Scavengers: Painting, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Catalogue by Janet Kardon.

1981

Young Americans, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio.
Westkunst: Heute, Cologne.
U.S. Art Now, Goteborgs Konstmuseum, Goteborg.

Curated Exhibitions

2023

Beautiful, Vivid, Self-Contained, Curated by David Salle, Hill Art Foundation, New York, USA

2020

In Her Hands, Curated by David Salle, Skarstedt, New York, USA

2019

Vanquishing Ocular, Curated by Nicole Wittenberg and David Salle, Rental Gallery, New York, USA

Lectures, Interviews, Web Videos and Public Appearances

2023

In Conversation: David Remnick, David Salle, Katie Roiphe, and Zoë Heller on Janet Malcolm’s Still Pictures: On Photography and Memory, The Drawing Centre, New York

2022

Podcast: Rubinstein, Dan; David Salle: Behind the Canvas, Beyond the Image, The Grand Tourist, The Brant Foundation

2019

Gallery Talk: David Salle, Parrish Art Museum, NY, USA
Lecture, Alex Katz + David Salle | Looking + Seeing, Rockland Strand Theatre, Rockland, USA

2018

Artist Talk: “How to See” with David Salle, Art Students League: The Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery, New York, USA

2017

David Salle on Marsden Hartley Towering Above Maine, David Salle in conversation with Randall Griffey, co-curator of Marsden Hartley’s Maine, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
A Conversation with David Salle, Moderated by Joe Donahue, New York State Writers Institute, University of Albany Performing Arts Center, Albany, NY
Artist Talk | David Salle | The Painting Life, Conversation with Joe Bradley, Alex Katz, Dana Schutz, Chris Martin. Moderated by David Salle, The Armory, New York, USA
Cockefair Chair Speakers Series – David Salle’s How to See: Looking, Talking and Thinking about Art, University of Missouri, Kansas City, MO
How to Look at Art, Hosted by Steve Kraske and Luke Martin, National Public Radio, KCUR 89.3 Kansas, Kansas, MO
Episode 2: Uncovering the great art of the 2000s with David Salle and Alison Gingeras, With Allan Schwartzman and Alison Gingeras. Moderated by Charlotte Burns, Art Agency, Partners, In Other Words Podcast
An Evening with David Salle on How to See: Looking, Talking and Thinking about Art, How-To Academy, Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London

2016

One Painter on why understanding art is as simple as looking, PBS News Hour, USA
David Salle (Artist)- The Enemy of Art, Think Again – A Big Think Podcast
Robert Enright and David Salle in Conversation, Hosted by WAG and Border Crossings, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Manitoba, CA
David Salle: How To Be An Art Connoisseur? Look First, Think Later (video clip), Big Think
How to See With David Salle and Ben Lerner, New York Public Library, New York, USA
Anne Umland and David Salle discuss Francis Picabia, 192 Books, New York, USA
BAM Unbound: David Salle, Co-presented by BAM and Greenlight Bookstore and Moderated by Lorin Stein, Editor of the Paris Review, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY
The Leonard Lopate Show: Looking at Art from a Painter’s Perspective, (Radio appearance to discuss How to See: Looking, Talking, and Thinking about Art), WNYC, NY, USA
Un-Private Collection: David Salle and Hilton Als, The Broad Museum, Los Angeles, CA
David Salle | How to See: Looking, Talking, and Thinking about Art, David Salle in conversation with Eileen Owens, Suzanne Andrée Curatorial Fellow in Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Free Library of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
David Salle in conversation with Jane Panetta, How to See: Looking, Talking, and Thinking about Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
On the Occasion of Nice Weather, Hunter Braithwaite in Conversation with David Salle, Gary Stephan, Patricia Treib, Nicole Wittenberg, Skarstedt Gallery, London, UK
The Review Panel with Svetlana Alpers, David Salle, Laurie Fendrich, Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn, New York, USA
Panel Discussion on the occasion of Eddie Martinez: Salmon Eye, With Lisa Fischman, Eddie Martinez, and Howie Chen, Mitchell-Innes & Nash Gallery, New York, USA
Character in Art, Cooper Union, New York, USA

2015

The Artist Project: David Salle on Marsden Hartley, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA

2014

Painting Beyond Belief 3, Developed alongside the exhibition Chagall: Love, War, and Exile, The Jewish Museum, New York, USA

2013

David Salle / Francis Picabia , Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris – Marais, (video clip), Paris, France

2012

David Salle: Sensitized Spaces, “MOCA’s 15 Year Anniversary Celebration.”, ART New York No. 65, Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, Florida.
David Salle: Good Painting Has Immediate Impact, Tate Shots, (video clip), Tate, London, UK
Pharrell Williams Interviews David Salle & KAWS, ARTST TLK, Reserve Channel
Episode 351: David Salle, Podcast with Christopher Hudgens, Bad At Sports
David Salle and Karole Armitage with Helen Molesworth in conjunction with exhibition This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s, WBEZ Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

2011

Art and Literature: Deborah Lutz & David Salle, Pleasure Bound, Moderated by Arezoo Moseni, New York Public Library, New York, USA
Conversations in Context: David Salle, The Glass House, Produced by National Trust for Historic Preservation. Interview by Hunter Palmer, New Canaan, CT, USA
Culture Now: David Salle: The As-if in Art, Institute of Contemporary Art London, London, UK

2010

American Federation of the Arts: ArtTalk, “David Salle.”, Christies, New York, USA

2009

David Salle in Conversation with Karen Lang, School of Visual Arts, New York, USA

2006

Art and The New Biology of the Mind, Moderated by David Freedberg with George Condo, Marina Abramovic, and Robert Irwin, Columbia University, New York, USA

1999

Guggenheim Museum Salon Series hosted by Rachel and Jean-Pierre Lehmann, The Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA

1995

David Salle on Search and Destroy, WHYY Philadelphia, PA, USA

1985

Audio from MOMA analyzing “Muscular Paper”, MOMA, New York, USA

1984

Four on the Scene. Panel: Vito Acconci, Keith Haring, Jenny Holzer, David Salle, In conjunction with the exhibition Content, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC, USA

1981

Directions in Painting: Stella, Salle, Golub, ART New York No. 12, New York, USA

1978

Jack Goldstein and current issues in contemporary art, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA

Selected Solo Publications

2023

David Salle: Tree of Life, Thaddeaus Ropac, Paris

2022

David Salle: Tree of Life, Skarstedt, New York

2016

How to See, W. W. Norton & Company, New York

2013

David Salle: Ghost Paintings. (interview by Hal Foster) Chicago: The Arts Club
David Salle – Francis Picabia
, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris

2012

David Salle: New Paintings
, Text by John Haskell
, Mary Boone Gallery, New York

2010

David Salle: Some Pictures from the 80’s. (essay by Klauss Kertess) Mary Boone Gallery, New York

2009

David Salle: Distance from Nowhere. (essays by Veit Görner, Rainer Crone and Alexandra Von Stosch, Karen Lang, Isabella Goebel, Frank-Thorston Moll) (Edited by Veit Görner, Frank-Thorston Moll.) Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover

2007

David Salle, Galleria Cardi, GMB Milano
1,2,3,4 David Salle, Aspen: Baldwin Gallery

2005

David Salle | The Vortex Paintings, Essay by Jeffrey Deitch, Mary Boone Gallery and Deitch Projects

1999

David Salle: Retrospective (Texts by Rudi Fuchs and Dorine Mignot, Frederic Tuten), Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Ludion Group, additional printings in German, Spanish, Italian.

1997

David Salle, Charta, Milan

1994

David Salle 1979-1994, Edited by David Whitney, Text by Lisa Liebmann, Rizzoli, New York

1991

David Salle: Photographs, Robert Miller Gallery, New York

1988

David Salle, Recent paintings, Mary Boone, Michael Werner, New York

1987

Salle, Elizabeth Avedon Editions, Vintage Contemporary Artists Original, New York

1986

DAVID SALLE, Kardon, Janet, with Lisa Phillips, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

1985

David Salle, Mary Boone, Michael Werner, New York

1983

DAVID SALLE, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Selected Exhibition Catalogues and Books

2018

David Salle: Paintings 1985-1995 (text Deborah Solomon), Skarstedt, NY 2018

2017

Third Space/shifting conversations about contemporary art, Birmingham Museum of Art, 2017 p 37

2016

David Salle: DEBRIS, (Interview with Peter Doroshenko) Dallas Contemporary and Karma, New York
Unfinished Business: Paintings From The 1970s And 1980s By Ross Bleckner, Eric Fischl, And David Salle, DelMonico Books Prestel, London

2015

David Salle: Late Product Paintings, Silver Paintings, exh. cat. Skarstedt, New York

2010

Your History is Not Our History: Organized by David Salle and Richard Phillips.
New York: Haunch of Venison
David Salle: Some Pictures from the 80’s. (essay by Klauss Kertess) New York: Mary Boone Gallery.

2009

David Salle: Distance from Nowhere. (essays by Veit Görner, Rainer Crone and Alexandra Von Stosch, Karen Lang, Isabella Goebel, Frank-Thorston Moll.) (Edited by Veit Görner, Frank-Thorston Moll.) Hannover: Kestnergesellschaft.

2008

David Salle: Paintings and Drawings (essay by Alan Jones edited by Raymond Foye) Trento: Studio D’Arte Raffaelli.

2007

1,2,3,4 David Salle, Aspen: Baldwin Gallery.

2006

Damien Hirst, David Salle, Jenny Saville: The Bilotti Chapel. (essay by Demetrio Paparoni) Rome: The Bilotti Chapel.

2005

David Salle: The Vortex Paintings. New York: Mary Boone Gallery and Deitch Projects. Essay by Jeffrey Deitch.

2004

David Salle: Paris Opera Paintings (Essay by Philippe Dagen), Paris: Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac.
David Salle: Split Worlds the Montage Principle (essay by Philippe Dagen, translated by Petrus Schaesberg, essay by Sarah French), Moscow: Stella Contemporary Art.
Digital Elements 2004, (produced, edited, and designed by Ralph Gibson), Germany: The Olympus Foundation.

2003

Coen, Vittoria, Pictura Magistra Vitae, I nuovi simboli della pittura contemporanea (The new symbols of contemporary painting), Bologne: Fondazione Cassa Di Risparmio.
David Salle: New Paintings (essays by Achille Bonito Oliva and Richard Milazzo) Milan, Emilio Mazzoli.
David Salle (essay by Robert Rosenblum) London: Waddington Galleries.
Kramer, Douglas, Reverie: Works from the Collection of Douglas S. Cramer, Louisville: The Speed

2002

de Pury, Simon, Ahead of the 21st Century the Pisces Collection Germany: Hatje Cantz Publishers.
Some Assembly Required: Collage Culture in Post-War America. Syracuse: Everson Museum of Art.
David Salle: Immediate Experience (edited by Sarah French, essay by Wayne Koestenbaum) Milan: Gabrius S.P.A.
The New York School and Beyond: Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art, (Essay by Maxwell L. Anderson), New York: Whitney Museum of American Art. Art Museum.
Pearlman, Alison, Unpackaging the Art of the 1980s, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.

2001

David Salle: Pastoral (Text by Ronald Jones) New York: Gagosian Gallery.
David Salle: Ice Flow (Text by Robert Hullot-Kentor) Cologne: Jablonka Galerie.
Mythic Proportions: Painting in the 1980’s, (essay by Bonnie Clearwater) North Miami: Museum of Contemporary Art.
L’enigma ritrovato (essays by Luca Beatrice and Matthew Gale) Torino: Galleria In Arco.
Zelevansky, Lynn and Barron, Stephanie Jasper Johns to Jeff Koons: Four Decades of Art from the Broad Collections (essays by Thomas Crow, Sabine Eckmann, Joanne Heyler, and Pee Karmel) Los Angeles: Museum Associates.

2000

David Salle: Retrospective (Texts by Xavier López de Arriaga, Walter Hopps, Molly Nesbit, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, A.C.
David Salle: Dreams on Paper (Text by Luca Beatrice) Torino: Galleria In Arco.

1999

Mulder, Arjen. “Images That Come from Outside”, David Salle, Ghent/Amsterdam: Ludion.
Als, Hilton “Darkness Made Visible”, David Salle: Bears/Interiors, New York: Gagosian Gallery.
Nesbit, Molly, “Dark Glasses”, David Salle: Glass and Mirror Paintings, New York:
Lehmann Maupin Gallery.
David Salle: Retrospective (Texts by Rudi Fuchs and Dorine Mignot, Frederic Tuten)
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Ludion Group, additional printings in German, Spanish, Italian.
David Salle/ Juan Uslé: La mirada del artista- Fotografías. (Text by Rosa Olivares) Madrid: Galeria Soledad Lorenzo.
Phillips, Lisa, The American Century: Art & Culture, 1950-2000 Part 2. New York:
Whitney Museum of American Art.
Suzanne, Farver, 20 Years/20 Artists. Aspen, Colorado: Aspen Art Museum.
Tuten, Frederic, “At the Edges, An Interview”, David Salle Retrospective,
Ghent/Amsterdam: Ludion.

1998

David Salle, Essay by Akira Tatehata, translation by Mari Saegusa, Tokyo: Itochu Gallery.
David Salle: The Burning Bush, Text by Maria De Corral, “The 80’s,” Lisbon: Culturgest, May 12-August 31.
David Salle, Text by Sergio Risaliti “Bandiere di Maggio”, Napoli: Piazza Del Plebiscito.

1997

David Salle: Maple Leaves, Text by Massimo Audiello, Milan: Galleria Gian Ferrari.

1996

David Salle, Essay by Rosa Olivares, translation by Francisco Javier Torre Ribelles, ,Madrid: Galeria Soledad Lorenzo.
David Salle: Malerie Ein Kunstwissenschaftlicher Meta-Ansatz, by Rudiger Kogel, Jahn & Ernst Verlag, Hamburg.

1994

David Salle: Aspects of Collage, Essay by Christina Mossaides Strassfield, Easthampton: Guild Hall Museum.
Early Product Paintings, Text by Diego Cortez, New York: Gagosian Gallery.
David Salle, David Whitney, editor, text by Lisa Liebmann, Rizzoli International Publications, New York.

1992

David Salle: Drawings. Text by R.H. Fuchs, , New York: Gagosian Gallery.
David Salle, Essay by Kevin Power, translation by Javier Torre, Madrid: Galeria Soledad Lorenzo.

1991

David Salle: American Social Dance, Zurich: Galerie Bruno Bischofberger.
David Salle: Photographs, Essay by Henry Geldzahler, edited & designed by John Cheim, New York: Robert Miller Gallery.
David Salle, by Frederique Lucien, Paris: Galerie Nationale De Jeu Paume NINETY
David Salle, by George W.S. Trow, New York: Gagosian Gallery.

1990

David Salle, Boston: Mario Diacono Gallery.
David Salle: Canfield Hatfield 1989-1990, A Series of Nine Etchings and Aquatints, London: Waddington Graphics.

1989

Cameron, Dan. “Sheer Artiface, A Catalogue Text on David Salle”, David Salle, London: Waddington Galleries.
Power, Kevin. “David Salle: Seeing it My Way”, David Salle, Madrid: Ausstelung Fundación Caja de Pensiones.
Dickhoff, Wilfried. “On Stage”, David Salle, Cologne: Michael Werner.
Schjeldahl, Peter. Karole Armitage and David Salle: 3 Years of the Ballet Stage, Kyoto: Shoin International Co. Ltd.
Schulz, Carla Hoffman. “David Salle: The Triumph of Artificiality, the Shock of theCommonplace, David Salle, Madrid: Fundacion Caja de Pensiones.

1988

Tuten, Frederic.”David Salle on Native Grounds”, David Salle: Recent Paintings, New York: Mary Boone and Michael Werner.

1987

Itoh, Junhi. “Visible and Invisible Things”, David Salle, Tokyo: Wacoal Art Center.
Schjeldahl, Peter. “An Interview with David Salle”, Salle, New York: Elizabeth Avedon/Editions/Vintage Contemporary Artists.
Thomson, Richard.”David Salle: The First Artist of our Fin-de-Siecle”, David Salle. Edinburgh: Fruitmarket Gallery.
David Salle: The Birth of a Poet, Rossini Opera Festival: Galleria di Franca Mancini.

1986

Busche, Ernst A. David Salle: Works on Paper 1974-1986, Dortmund: Museum Am Ostwall Dortmund.
Cooper, Dennis. “To David Salle”, David Salle, Zurich: Galerie Bruno Bischoberger.
Crone, Rainer.”Impositions on Meaning: The Difference in Painting, New York City, October, 1984”, (translation by Michael Lipson), David Salle, Zurich: Galerie Bruno Bischofberger.
Diacono, Mario. David Salle, Boston: Mario Diacono Gallery.
Kardon, Janet. “The Old, the New, and the Different”, David Salle, Philadelphia: Institute of Contemporary Art.
Phillips, Lisa. “His Equivocal Touch in the Vicinity of History”, David Salle, Philadelphia: Institute of Contemporary Art.
Rosenblum, Robert.”Notes on David Salle”, David Salle, Zurich: Galerie Bruno Bischofberger.

1985

Hawkes, John. “An Offering to David Salle”, David Salle, New York: Mary Boone and Michael Werner.
Schjedahl, Peter “David Salle”, David Salle: Sieben Bilder, Cologne: Michael Werner.

1984

Diacono, Mario. “David Salle: Imagine Totale”, David Salle, Rome: Mario Diacono.

1983

Beeren, W.A.L.”David Salle, My View”, David Salle: Paintings, Rotterdam: Museum Boymans-van Beuningen.
Kruger, Michael. “Inscribings for myself and for David Salle.” David Salle Neue Bilderund Aquarelle,Hamburg: Ascan Crone.
Ratcliff, Carter. “David Salle and the New York School”, David Salle: Paintings, Rotterdam: Museum Boymans-van Beuningen.
Rein, Ingrid. “ A real sexy work”, David Salle, Francis Picabia, Munich: Verlag Schellmann & Kluser.
David Salle, Tokyo: Akira Ikeda Gallery.

1981

Diacono, Mario “Man with a Camera”, David Salle, Rome: Mario Diacono.

Selected Bibliography

2023

Salle, David, ‘Juxtaposition Is Art of the Possible’: Taking a Turn as a Curator, Artist David Salle Considers How Context Shapes the Way We See Art, news.artnet.com, 20 April 2023
Phillips, Ian, Inside an Art Connoisseur’s Carefully Calibrated Paris Pied-à-Terre, yahoo.com, 11 January 2023

2022

Brara, Noor, Art School Confidential, nytimes.com, 6 July 2022
–––, Artist David Salle Exhibits At Gladstone Gallery Brussels, occhimagazine.com, 9 June 2022
–––, The Experience Issue, Whitewall Magazine, Winter 2022, p. 26

2021

Acosta, Camilla, Spectral Rauschenberg: Thaddeus Ropac London Exhibits ‘Night Shades and Phantoms’, blackbookmag.com, 5 April 2021
Adam, Georgina, Taiwan and the balance of power, ft.com, 14 May 2021
Barylski, Nicole, INTERVIEW: Per Skarstedt On Skarstedt Gallery’s “Faces & Figures”, hamptons.com, 17 March 2021
Berleant, Anne, Abstract artist’s career has taken twists and turns, ellsworthamerican.com, 29 April 2021
Cordon, Miguel, Explained: How cracks formed at Revolution Precrafted, the Philippines’ first unicorn, techniasia.com, 19 February 2021
Clark, Alex, RIP Janet Malcom, America’s finest nonfiction writer who detailed the failings of others alongside her own, 20 June 2021
Fisher, Kimberly, 5 Questions with Mixed Media Artist Jojo Anavim, pursuitist.com, 16 January 2021
Frances, Ellen, Back to the beginning: author and art critic Frederic Tuten will have his first solo show in the Hamptons, theartnewspaper.com, 21 June 2021
Greenberger, Alex, Douglas S. Cramer, TV Producer with Star-Studded Art Collection, Is Dead at 89, artnews.com, 7 June 2021
Italie, Hillel, Janet Malcolm, provocative author-journalist, dies at 86, dailyherald.com, 17 June 2021
K. Scott, Andrea, David Salle, newyorker.com, 10 October 2021
Lamitie, Amber, Provocative writer and journalist Janet Malcolm dies at age 86 | National, illinoisnewstoday.com, 16 June 2021
Laster, Paul, Tomashi Jackson at the Parrish and Amazing Art & Design Out East, whitehotmagazine.com, July 2021
Menon, Suresh, When 41 false starts provide more dots to join, thehindu.com, 19 June 2021
Nuernberg, Germany, Street-Art Exhibition 2021 | FRINGE | X0000X | Mr. Brainwash | 16.02.2021 – 15.06.2021, artfixdaily.com, 12 February 2021
Reynolds, Pamela, At The Fitchburg Art Museum, An Artist Ponders The Caprice And Folly of Youth, wbur.org, 23 June 2021
Spiegelman, Willard, Lucid Living, wsj.com, 18 June 2021
Urist, Jacoba, The Hamptons Became An Art Destination This Summer, culturedmag.com, 11 August 2021
White, Katie, Late Journalist Janet Malcom, Who Thought Artists Didn’t Have Anything Valuable to Say, Was Also and Artist – See Her Work Here, news.artnet.com, 21 June 2021
Young, Beth, Sculpture Gardens Come Alive, eastendbeacon.com, 3 June 2021
–––, Feb 1: Brooklyn Black History Maker, Jean-Michel Basquiat, bkreader.com, 1 February 2021
–––, London Art Exhibitions Are Back – Paul Carey-Kent, artlyst.com, 15 April 2021
–––, The Hamptons Fine Art Fair Is Bringing More Than 50 Galleries – Plus an M.C. Escher Show – to a Southampton Architectural Icon, newsnartnet.com, 18 August 2021
–––, XOOOOX new Street Art Edition published, artfixdaily.com, 23 April 2021

2020

Barylski, Nicole, INTERVIEW: Per Skarstedt On Skarstedt Gallery’s New Hamptons Outpost, hamptons.com, 3 July 2020.
Basciano, Oliver, John Baldessari: the giant prankster who torched artworld pretension, theguardian.com, 6 January 2020.
Ben, Luke, The top five YouTube channels for an art fix this christmas season, theartnewspaper.com, 25 December 2020.
Binlot, Ann, Photographer Jeanette Barron Montgomery tells the stories behind her images of Cindy Sherman, Robert Mapplethorpe, and more, documentjournal.com, 17 March 2020.
Brady, Anna, ‘The art world had become extremely aggressive’: Rachel Lehmann on a return to localism and intimacy in the art market, theartnewspaper.com, 9 October 2020.
Carlisle, Madeleine, The New Issue of Italian ‘Vogue’ Has Replaced Glossy Fashion Shoots With Illustrations, In Move Towards Sustainability, time.com, 7 January 2020.
Cascone, Sarah, What I Buy & Why: Real-Estate Mogul Jorge Pérez on Which Artists He’s Lucky to Have Bought Early and Why He Likes Very Big Art, news.artnet.com, 3 August 2020.
Cleary, Mary, At home exercises from ‘punk ballerina’ Karole Armitage, wallpaper.com, 5 November 2020.
Cohen, Alina, Alex Katz’s Seven-Decade Career Has Produced Masterpieces and Little Hype – Until Now, artsy.net, 2 June 2020.
Cowan, Katy, Vibrant paintings inspired by advertising and cartoons from The New Yorker in the 1950s, creativeboom.com, 20 January 2020.
Curiel, Jonathan, Wayne Thiebaud’s Lonely Islands + ‘Yadadamean’, sfweekly.com, (26 October)
Dafoe, Taylor, Vogue Italia Reduced Its Carbon Footprint by Hiring Artists to Illustrate Its January Issue Instead of Staging Photo Shoots, news.artnet.com, 3 January 2020.
Day, Jeffrey, Maker of monumental sculptures will give Thiebaud lecture, dailydemocrat.com, 24 January 2020.
Di Liscia, Valentina, Hauser & Wirth’s New Online Exhibition Celebrates the Artists Among Its Staff, hyperallergic.com, 14 May 2020.
Dunne, Aidan, John Baldessari: An American artist’s Burren adventure, irishtimes.com, 28 January 2020.
Edelson, Sharon, As If Sees Future in Creative Alliances, wwd.com, 6 March 2020.
Erin, Overbey, Sunday Reading: The Art Of The Profile, newyorker.com, 16 February 2020.
Estilier, Keith, Skarstedt’s New East Hampton Gallery Displays Works by KAWS, Barbara Kruger and More, hypebeast.com, 1 July 2020.
Finkel, Jori, John Baldessari, Who Gave Conceptual Art a Dose of Wit, Is Dead at 88, nytimes.com, 5 January 2020.
Giuliano, Charles, Visual Arts Feature: Memories of a Veteran Boston Gallerist — Mario Diacono, artsfuse.org, 11 May 2020.
Goodyear, Dana, Jordan Wolfson’s Edgelord Art, newyorker.com, 9 March 2020.
Gurvitch, Alexandra, Looking Back at Vogue’s 1996 Celebration of New York City, Capital of the World, vogue.com, 1 May 2020.
Hass, Nancy, A Land Art Pioneer’s Adventures in Time and Space, nytimes.com, 21 July 2020.
Herriman, Kat, highlishts From Frieze Week Los Angeles, culturedmag.com, 14 February 2020.
Indrisek, Scott, Four Artist Couples Share the Art They Collect, artsy.net, 31 January 2020.
Kalai, Leonidas, John Baldessari’s Legacy, art-critique.com, 10 January 2020.
Kamp, Justin, How Louise Bourgeois’s Multifaceted Art Practice Won Over Collectors, artsy.net, 7 December 2020.
Karan, Robert Bechtle, Pioneer Of Photorealism, Is Dead at 88, art-insider.com, 25 September 2020.
Landes, Jennifer, Skarstedt’s New Gallery in Town on Newton, easthamptonstar.com, 16 June 2020.
Landes, Jennifer, Salle Obscures but Encourages Meaning at Skarstedt Gallery, easthamptonstar.com, 1 October 2020.
Leung, Ambrose, Final Fantasy Artist Yoshitaka Amano Creates Cover for ‘Vogue Italia’, hypebeast.com, 6 January 2020.
Leung, Gabrielle, Jean Michel Basquiat’s $6 Million USD Portrait to Lead Christie’s Auction, hypebeast.com, 10 September 2020.
Libbey, Peter, Elizabeth Murray Estate Moves to Gladstone Gallery, nytimes.com, 8 July 2020
Luckel, Madeleine, At Artist David Salle’s Home and Studio, the Light Is Always Great, architecturaldigest.com, 3 March 2020.
Mellin, Haley, Nicole Wittenberg Fins Her Place In the Sun, garage.vice.com, 26 January 2020.
Moldan, Tessa, John Baldessari’s Enduring Presence, ocula.com, 20 March 2020.
Nys Dambrot, Shana, Gold Circle: CalArts 50+50 Project Celebrates a Milestone, laweekly.com, 28 February 2020.
Richman-Abdou, Kelly, Explore How Neo-Expressionism Revolutionized Contemporary Figurative Painting, mymodernmet.com, 5 July 2020.
Rogers, John, John Baldessari, playful master of Conceptual art, dies at 88, washingtonpost.com, 7 January 2020.
Scobie, Ilka, New York Gallery Walkabout Winter 2020, artlyst.com, 19 January 2020.
Scott, Daisy, Artist Behind Geisel’s “READ/WRITE/THINK/DREAM” Passes Away, ucsdguardian.org, 10 January 2020.
Siegel, Fern, ‘Vogue Italia’ Returns To Illustrated Covers, Aims For Greener Magazine, mediapost.com, 5 January 2020.
Small, Zachary, John Baldessari as an Artist Who ‘Always Knew What He Was Doing’, news.artnet.com, 7 January 2020.
Smith, Roberta, Jean Michel Basquiat: Mass Productions, villagevoice.com, 29 June 2020.
Sutton, Benjamin, John Baldessari, Conceptual Art Giant with a Sense of Humor, Dead at 88, artsy.net, 6 January 2020.
Tauer, Kristen, Calling All Benevolent Benefactors, Robert Longo Has a Proposition, yahoo.com, 10 August 2020.
Westall, Mark, Sel-ironing Pants and Other Paintings is an exhibition of new works by the American artist David Salle, fadmagazine.com, 20 January 2020.
Yau, John, Eric Fischl’s Privileged Bubble, hyperallergic.com, 14 November 2020.
–––, Acclaimed Conceptual artist John Baldessari dies at 88, panow.com, 9 January 2020.
–––, ‘All for the Hall’ Benefit Group Show at the Hamptons Guild Hall, wwd.com, 10 August 2020.
–––, Amy Sillman: “Faux Pas.” Reading and Discussion, sva.edu, 27 October 2020.
–––, Editors’ Picks: 19 Events for Your Art Calendar This Week, From Pace’s Star-Studded Fall Lineup to a Virtual Block Party at the Rubin, artnet.com, 14 September 2020.
–––, Farewell To Influential Conceptual Artist John Baldessari, coolhunting.com, 6 January 2020.
–––, ‘He taught by example’ – a tribute to John Baldessari (1931 – 2020), apollo-magazine.com, 21 January 2020.
–––, In memoriam: John Baldessari, 88, beloved professor, who reshaped Conceptual art, newsroom.ucla.edu, 9 January 2020.
–––, John Baldessari: The artist who cremated his own paintings, bbc.co.uk, 12 January 2020.
–––, Parrish Art Museum Director Terrie Sultan To Step Down After Twelve Years, artforum.com, 26 May 2020.
–––, Price Check! Here’s What Sold – and for How Much – in Art Basel’s June Virtual Art Fair, news.artnet.com, 22 June 2020.
–––, Price Check! Here’s What Sold – and for How Much – Through Art Basel Miami Beach’s Online Viewing Room, news.artnet.com, 7 December 2020.
–––, Vogue Italia Ditches Photoshoots To Highlight The Industry’s Huge Environmental Footprint, brandt.com.au, 9 January 2020.
–––, 26K Art Fans Visited Hamptons Virtual Art Fair Over Labor Day, broadwayworld.com, 10 September 2020.

2019

Ashby, Chloe, David Salle puts a new spin on history painting, apollo-magazine.com, 8 May 2019.
Edelman, Eleanor, Insider’s guide to Frieze London, tatler.com, 4 October 2019.
Greenberger, Alex, From the Archives: 13 Key Shows in Mary Boone Gallery’s History, artnews.com, 18 March 2019.
Kinsella, Eileen, How Scholars and Curators Helped Create an International Art Market for Pioneering American Modernist Marsden Hartley, news.artnet.com, 30 September 2019.
Lucie-Smith, Edward, David Salle, Martin Parr and Willian Monk Kick Off The Spring Gallery Season, Sartlyst.com, 17 March 2019.
Nanda, M.C., Blau Magazine Goes International, businessoffashion.com, 18 October 2019.
O’Grady, Megan, Cash, Credit or Painting? How, and Why, Artists Exchange Work, nytimes.com, 8 October 2019.
Pagel, David, Review: Call it whiplash painting. Ricochet inside the high-octane art of Ales Becerra, latimes.com, 8 October 2019.
Regensdorf, Laura, The Original “Punk Ballerina” Karole Armitage Teams up with Hairstylist Danilo on a New Dance Work, vogue.com, 25 October 2019.
Revely-Calder, Cal, Hitting the High Notes: David Salle’s New Paintings at Skarstedt, London, frieze.com, 1 April 2019.
Sayej, Nadja, Pat Steir Is Reinventing the Color Wheel, garage.vice.com, 20 October 2019.
Schjeldhal, Peter, Clemente to Marden to Keifer: It’s the All-Eighties Art-Stars, thevillagevoice.com, 28 March 2019.
Teitler, Nicole, The Science Of Printmaking, Sans Harsh Chemistry, indyeastend.com, 29 October 2019.
Terrein, David, David Salle: Musicality and Humour, ArtReview, p.103, May 2019.
Young, Beth, Solar Impressions Brings Innovative Work to Southampton, eastendbeacon.com, 15 November 2019.
–––, CalArts’ Early Years Subject of Exhibition in Germany, scvnews.com, 10 September 2019.
–––, David Salle’s “Musicality and Humour” at Skarstedt London, blouinartinfo.com, 15 March 2019.
–––, Rubell Museum Announces Inaugural Installation For Its New Campus, broadwayworld.com, 30 September 2019.
–––, Paddle8 Names New CEO, artfixdaily.com, 19 November 2019.
–––, New Home for Rubell Museum Debuts During Miami Art Week, artfixdaily.com, 4 December 2019.

2018

Battaglia, Andy, David Salle Touches God in Seldom-Seen Paintings Going to the Parrish Art Museum, artnews.com, 11 November 2018
Cascone, Sarah, Editors’ Picks: 19 Things to See in New York This Week, news.artnet.com, 23 April 2018.
Hass, Nancy, Uptown or Downtown? In the Early ’80s, It Made All the Difference, nytimes.com, 17 April 2018.
Kron, Cat, The California Artists Who Made Conceptual Art Funny, artsy.net, 19 January 2017.
Miller, M. H., The Artists Who Defined the East Village’s Avant-Garde Scene, nytimes.com, 17 April 2018.
Pasori, Cedar, Artist David Salle Picks his Five Favourite Artworks, interviewmagazine.com, 26 April 2018.
Salle, David, Cold Comforts, Frieze, pp.154–159, May 2018.
Waldman, Katy, Does Having a Day Job Mean Making Better Art?, nytimes.com, 22 March 2018.
–––, 1980s Paintings Illuminate the Decadent Decade in ‘Running Wild’ Exhibition at The Arts Club in London, artfixdaily.com, 9 January 2018.
–––, Norman Rosenthal’s 1981 Exhibition Recreated at Almine Rech Gallery, New York, 22 May 2018

2017

Benzi, Cristina, David Salle: New Paintings at Thaddaeus Ropac, artefuse.com, 6 March 2017.
Burns, Charlotte, In Other Words episode 2: Uncovering the great art of the 2000s with David Salle and Alison Gingeras (podcast), artagencypartners.com, 21 February 2017.
McDermon, David Salle on How to Look at David Salle, nytimes.com, 4 October 2017.
Earnest, Jarret, Close Encounters: David Salle with Jarrett Earnest, brooklynrail.org, 1 February 2017.
J. Simmons, William, David Salle: New Paintings, Mousse Magazine, February—March 2017, p. 148.
Salle, David, Going home with the artist David Salle, nytimes.com, 14 April 2017.
Salle, David, Outing the Inside, nybooks.com, 7 December 2017.
Salle, David, Clothes That Don’t Need You, nybooks.com, 28 September 2017.
Schjeldahl, Peter, The Joy of Eighties Art, newyorker.com, 6 February 2017.
Tittel, Cornelius, Carroll Dunham & David Salle with Cornelius Tittel, brooklynrail.org, 13 December 2017.
Troulliot, Terence, David Salle’s Advice for Painters: Ignore the Internet and Learn to Write About Other Painters, news.artnet.com, 5 October 2017.

2016

Cline, Emma, David Salle, interviewmagazine.com, 6 November 2016.
Cossons, Malcolm, Contemporarary conversations with the Old Masters, christies.com, 26 October 2016.
frieze A to Z of Contemporary Art, Phaidon Press, 2016.
Garner, Dwight, Review: David Salle’s ‘How to See,’ a Painter’s Guide to Looking at and Discussing Art, nytimes.com, The New York Times, 18 October 2016.
Jobey, Liz, In the Gap Between Art and Life, FT Weekend Magazine, Financial Times, 19 November 2016, pp.52-56.
Paul, Pamela, 8 New Nonfiction Books We Recommend This Week, nytimes.com, 27 October 2016.
Rappalt, Mark, How to See: Looking, Talking, and Thinking About Art, Art Review, October 2016, p.154.
Salle, David, Artist’s page in: New Skin, Aishti Foundation, Srira, pp. 312-313.
Salle, David, David Salle on Old Guys Painting, elephantmag.com, 4 December 2016.
Salle, David, et al, One painter on why understanding art is as simple as looking, pbs.org, 13 December 2016.
Salle, David, Lisa Liebmann 1955-2016, Artforum, vol.55, no.2, October 2016, p.85.
Salle, David, Mendelsohn, Daniel, Taste the Difference: Criticizing Criticism, Intercourse, Issue 4, February 2016
Solway, Arthur, Reviews: David Salle, Lehmann Maupin, Artforum, December 2016, vol. 55, no.4, pp. 278-279.
Stein, Lorin, The Quotable David Salle, The Paris Review, 19 September
Street, Ben, Reviews: Cindy Sherman and David Salle: History Portraits and Tapestry Paintings, Art Review, December 2016, p.108.
Weiss, Haley, Unfinished Business, 40 Years Later, Interviewmagazine.com, 8 August 2016.
White, Roger, An Artist’s Lesson on How to Appreciate Art, nytimes.com, The New York Times, 2 December 2016.
––––, BAM to host Brooklyn-based painter, writer David Salle, brooklyneagle.com, 26 Ocotber 2016.
––––, Painter’s Painters: Artists Of Today Who Inspire Artists Of Tomorrow, artandcollections.com, 29 October 2016.

2015

Blinot, Ann, The “Punk Ballerina” Karole Armitage Brings Together Lacroix, Gaultier, Koons and More, nytimes.com, 9 January 2015.
Bradley, Joe, David Salle, interviewmagazine.com, April 2015.
Braithwaite, Hunter, David Salle with Hunter Braithwaite, Brooklynrail.org, 6 May 2015.
Ellis-Petersen, Hannah, Berlins Gallery Weekend: A heady maze of former warehouses and powerplants, The Guardian Online, 3 May 2015.
Martin, Hannah, Karole Armitage’s Artist Collaborations Are Revisited At New Jersey’s Mana Contemporary, architecturaldigest.com, 14 January 2015.
Meyer. Richard, Previews: “America Is Hard To See”, ArtForum, May 2015, pp. 180-181.
Nowacka, Malgorzata, Bodies Beholden: The Changed Corporeality of David Salle’s New Paintings, momus.ca, 12 August 2015.
Peña, Arthur, We’ve Got One Question: David Salle, newamericanpaintings.com, 16 July 2015.
Salle, David, brooklynrail.org, 9 December 2015.
Shore, Robert, David Salle, Elephant, Spring 2015, pp. 169-177.
Sieff, Gemma, Free Radical: David Salle, aesop.com, September 2015.
Smith, Roberta, David Salle Paintings Deliver Colliding Culture at Skarstedt Gallery nytimes.com, 18 June 2015.
Vazquez, Neil, Art Basel Miami Bbeach 2015: Deitch and Gagosian Collaborate for Unrealism, miaminewtimes.com, 20 October 2015.
—-, David Salle: New Paintings, timeout.com, 8 June 2015.

2014

Bazhenova, Ekaterina, David Salle at Maureen Paley, London, purple ART, purple.fr, 28 May 2014.
Coomer, Martin, Mad for Matisse, Time Out, 15 April 2014, pp.78-79.
Coomer, Martin, The Boys are Back in Town: David Salle, Time Out, 13-19 May 2014, p.71.
Knowles, Jamie, On View: New Work by David Salle, details.com, 27 April 2014.
Lowenstein, Drew, Shape Shifters: David Salle Ghost Paintings, artcritical.com, 30 April 2014.
Malcolm, Janet, Forty-one False Starts, newyorker.com, 21 July 2014.
Nabeyrat, Estelle, Deyson Gilbert and David Salle at Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo, moussemagazine.it, 06 March 2014.
Ong, Geo, New Beginnings, False Starts, urchinmovement.com 02 January 2014
–––, David Salle, urbanjunkies.com, 29 May 2014.

2013

Agustsson, Sola, David Salle’s Ghost Paintings shown for the first time in decades,
whitewallmag.com, 8 November 2013.
Cristello, Stephanie, Invisible Performers: David Salle at The Arts Club of Chicago, newamericanpaintings.com, 22 May 2013.
Herkommer Devries, Art: David Salle, kmuw.org, 21 August 2013.
Melouney, Carmel, Ghost paintings’ Rise Again in Manhattan, Metropolis blog: Wall Street Journal.com, 8 November 2013.
Minutillo, Josephine, Ghost Paintings at Skarstedt Gallery, Architectural Digest.com, 18 November 2013.
Pincus-Witten, Robert, Lever House: David Salle, ArtForum, February 2013, p. 243.
Ratcliff, Carter, In Situ: Mood Shifter, Art in America, May 2013, pp. 77-80.
Rosenberg, Karen, ‘Ghost Paintings’, The New York Times, 5 December 2013.
Small, Rachel, ‘David Salle, In Ghost Colors’, Interview, November 2013.
—— David Salle’s Special Time Capsule, baxnyc.com, 13 November 2013

2012

Chan, Dawn, David Salle: Painting and Performance, Al Limite, November 2012, pp. 82-89.
O’Brien, Glenn, David Salle Interview, Purple Fashion Magazine, March 2012, pp. 190-199
Rips, Michael, Fair Use, Art, Swiss Cheese And Me, The New York Times, 17 June 2012, p. SR5
Vogel, Carol, Prelude to ‘The Tempest’, The New York Times, 14 September 2012, p. C24

2011

Coomer, Martin, David Salle, timeout.com, 3 June 2011.
Ellis, Patricia, David Salle, Spike, June 2011, pp.125-126.
Herbert, Martin, David Salle, Maureen Paley, London, Frieze, September 2011, p.202.
Nathan, Emily in conversation with Salle, David, Don’t Understand Me Too Quickly, artnet.com, May 2011.
Robecchi, Michele, David Salle, Flash Art, November-December 2011.
Salle, David, Previews: Dana Schutz: If The Face Had Wheels, Artforum, September 2011, p.142.
West, Naomi, Body of work, Harper’s Bazaar, June 2011, p.94.

2010

Pincus-Witten, Robert, Your History Is Not Our History/Haunch of Venison, Artforum, June 2010, pp. 349-350.
Smith, Roberta, David Salle: Some Pictures from the 80s, The New York Times, 4 June 2010, p C28.
Staff, David Salle, The New Yorker, 28 June 2010, p 9.

2009

Lobel, Michael, Outside the Frame, ArtForum, September 2009, pp 252-255.
Saltz, Jerry, Great Artists Steal, New York Magazine, 18 May 2009, pp 66-67.
Schjeldahl, Peter, Alien Emotions: Picture Art Revisited, The New Yorker, 04 May 2009, pp 74-75.

2008

Salle, David “The Camera Blinks”, February 2008: 115-116.

2007

Goodrich, John, David in the Lion’s Den, The New York Sun, 15 March 2007, p. 14.
Leoni, Chiara, David Salle, Muse, winter 2007 number 10, pp 76-85.
Smith, Roberta, David Salle: ‘Bearding the Lion in His Den, The New York Times, 23 March 2007, p E24.
Staff, David Salle, The New Yorker, 26 March 2007, p 21.
Weinzierl, Gudrun, Das zykonische Kraftfeld in der Kunst, Salzburger Nachrichten, January, 2007

2006

Colonnelli, Lauretta, Bilotti, un museo su commisione, Corriere Della Sera, May 11, 2006
Crespi, Paolo, Senza Limiti Di Luce, La Republica delle Donne, April 22, 2006, pp 222-228
Kantor, Jordan, David Salle Talks About His Paintings After The Sistine Chapel, Artforum, Summer 2006, pp 330-331,
Miller, Leigh Anne, Met Opera Enlists Art Stars, Art in America, October 2006, pp 41-43.
Moore, Susan, Making artists make art, Financial Times, June 3/June 4, 2006.
Rosenthal, Elisabeth, Rome’s Latest Gem Was One Collector’s Big Dream, The New York Times, 25 November 2006, pp A15, A19.

2005

Johnson, Ken, David Salle: The Vortex Paintings, The New York Times, 2 December 2005: E36.
Long, Robert “The Artist As Cyclone”, The East Hampton Star, November 24, 2005, p C1, C5.
Mulholland, Neil, “Unpackaging the Art of the 1980’s”, The Art Book, Volume 12, Issue 2, May 2005

2004

Lumpkin, Libby, “Hurricane Salle,” Loft (no. 28), October 2004: 46-52
Salle, David, “Karole Armitage”, Interview, March 2004: 112, 114, 116..

2003

Edelson, Sharon, “Salle’s New Scenes”, WWD, Friday, January 3, 2003: 4.
Nesbit, Molly”Bright Light, Big City The 80’s Without Walls”, Artforum, April 2003: 184-189, 245, 248.
Rosenblum, Robert, “The 80’s Then, David Salle talks to Robert Rosenblum”, Artforum, March 2003: 74, 75, 264-265.

2001

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, September 15, 2001: 57.
Imdahl, Georg, “Wo Häuser zu Phantomen verschwimmen: Saisonstart in Köln”,
Reginato, James, “Pastoral Perfect”, W Magazine, March 2001.
Russell, Candice, “The Big 80’s” , City Link, March 7, 2001.
Salle, David, “The Artist’s Model: fashion photography by David Salle”, Elle Magazine, November 2001.
Turner, Elisa, “Raucous ‘80 s Art Exhibited at Moca”, The Miami Herald, February 15, 2001.

2000

Armada , Alfonso, “David Salle: “Nunca he pintado como un niño”, ABC Cultural, January 15, 2000: 33-36.
Ariznabarreta, Idoia – “Mi obra surge en comunicón con mi actitud ante la vida”, El Mundo, January 18, 2000.
Borras, Maria Luisa, “El artista del Zaping”, La vanguardia, February 10, 2000.
Carrera , J.A. Gonzalez , “El Guggenheim exhibe la pintura figurativa cifrada de David Salle”, El Correo, January 18, 2000: 47.
de Gorbea, Xabier Sáenz, “Resoluciones Impersonales” Deia, January 21, 2000.
Erausquin , Victoria, “David Salle, la pintura no ha muerto”, Expansión, January 22, 2000.
Esteban , Iñaki, “David Salle. De todo un poco”, El Correo (Suplemento Territorios) January 12, 2000: 6, 7.
Garcia-Osuna, Carlos , “Imágenes Encontradas El Pais” Semanal , February 27, 2000: 84.
Molina, Oscar Alonso, “La parodia de la parodia es una dulce agonia” La Razón, January 15, 2000.
Navarro, Mariano, “Acrósticos Visuales de David Salle” El Cultural, January 23, 2000: 34,35.
Serraller , Francisco Calvo, “La ambiguedad Formal de David Salle”, El Pais, January 15, 2000
Souto , I., “David Salle ilustra en el Guggenheim la reacción ante el arte conceptual”, ABC, January 18, 2000.
Urquijo, Javier, “David Salle o la esencia del postvanguardismo”, El Mundo, January 16, 2000. n.p.

1999

Brizio, Giorgio S. “David Salle”. Arte e Critca, 1999: 128.
Cotter, Holland. “Changes Aside, Soho Is Still Very Much Soho”. The New York Times, February 12, 1999: E 35, 37.
“Expo: Ausstellungen: Salle, Bonnard, Buckminster Fuller”, Architectural Digest (German Edition), June/July 1999: 28.
Gorsen, Peter, “King Kong und der Geist der Collage”. Frankfurter Allegemeine, August 17, 1999.
Horny, H. “David Salle: Ein Plünderer und perfekter Handwerker” Kurier, July 1, 1999.
Kagie, Rudie. “De revanche van David Salle”, Vrij Nederland, March 27, 1999.
Karcher, Eva, “Manie und Melancholie”. German Vogue, April 1999: 141-142.
Lamoree, Jhim. “Verhalen sonder plot” (stories without a plot), Het Parool, April 24, 1999: 20-24
Lano, Cristiana, “Un Nostalgico Zapping”. il Corrierre, October 8, 1999.
Melchart, Erwin, “Postmoderne Malerei”, Krone, July 1, 1999.
Mignot, Dorine. interview with David Salle. Stedelijk Museum Bulletin 2, 1999.
Mittringer, Markus, “Schöne Bilder, die von Herzen Kommen”, Der Standard, July 1, 1999: 14.
Nijmeijer, Peter. “Chaos is vrijheid” (chaos is freedom), De Groene Amsterdammer, June 2, 1999: 28-29.
Perée, Rob. “De terigkeer van David Salle” (the return of David Salle), Kunstbeeld, March 1999: 22-23.
Poli, Francesco, “I Labirinti Visivi Di David Salle”. Il Manifesto, October 6, 1999: 238.
Ramondetti, Raffaella, “Due Americani”. il Corriere, October 1, 1999.
Sotriffer, Von Kristian “Bild Schicht, Schicht-Bild, Teil, Zitat”, Die Presse, July 16, 1999.
Stiemer, Flora “Zappen tot het duizelt”, Algemeen Dagblad, April 26 1999.
Sumiyoshi, Chie. BRUTUS Japan. January 15, 1999: 124.
Tegenbosch, Pietje, “Regisseur van het platte vlak, schilderijen van David Salle” (film director of the flat surface, paintings of David Salle), Vitrine 3, May 1999: 28- 33.
Tolson, Jay “What’s after Modern”, U.S. News, June 7, 1999.
Vallora, Marco, “Rivoli, Zapping Sulla Tela”. La Stampa, September 30, 1999: 267.
Van de Velde, Paola “Dingen die je nooit eerder zag” (Things you’ve never seen before), De Telegraaf, April 23, 1999: 16
Vettese, Angela, “Laconico ritorno alla pittura”. di Angela Il Sole 24 Ore, October 10, 1999: 277.
Von Erwin, Melchart, “Postmoderne Malerei (Museum moderner Kunst: David Salle)”, KRONE, July 1, 1999.
Wesseling, Janneke “Een vale, schokkende werkelijkheid op linnen” NRC/Handelsblad, April 27, 1999:10.

1998

Fiz, Alberto. “Milano riscopre l’America” Italia Oggi, January 10, 1998.
Tanaka, Sanzo. Asahi Shimbun Weekly AERA, November 30, 1998: 76.
Verzotti, Giorgio. “David Salle”. Artforum, May 1998.
——, Bijutsu Techo, November 1998: 174-5.
——, “In Vogue”, British Vogue, May 1998, p. 32.
——,”Preview, Young Americans 2”, Artforum, May 1998: 70.
——,”Exhibition Young Americans 2”, The London Times, April 28, 1998.
——,”Young Americans 2”, London in One, May 1998.
——,”Review of Reviews: Art, Exhibition of the week -Young Americans 2”, The Week, May 16, 1998.
——,”Play it Again”, Interior Design, June 1998: 138-141.

1997

Campbell, Clayton. “Reviews: David Salle at Gagosian Gallery,” Flash Art, October 1997
Tuten, Frederic. “David Salle: At the Edges.” interview with Frederic Tuten. Art in America, September 1997.
Vagheggi, Paolo. “David Salle scatti e colori”, La Repubblica, November 17, 1997.
“La prima volta di Salle a Milano, Con Foto inedite”, Arte, December 1997.

1995

Katz, Vincent. The Print Collector’s Newsletter, Vol. XXVI, No. 4, September – October 1995.
Larson, Kay. “The Return of Painting II: New Image- America,” (Chapter 32 from “Art of the Modern Century”) Atelier, November, 1995.
Schjeldahl, Peter. “Puritan and Warlock,” The Village Voice, December 5, 1995.
Schjeldahl, Peter. “Salle Days,” Artforum, Summer 1995.
Smith, Roberta. “Art In Review: David Salle,” The New York Times, Friday November 19,1995.

1994

Adams, Brooks. “At a Certain Point, You Bring The Gods Down On Your Head,” Artnews, January 1994: 150-153.
Gutterman, Scott. “David Salle”, Atelier, April 1994. n.p.
Malcolm, Janet. “Forty – One False Starts”, The New Yorker, July 11, 1994: 50-68.
Schjeldahl, Peter. “Here and Gone”, Village Voice, February 8, 1994: 37.

1992

“David Salle en Madrid.” Diario, October 16, 1992.
“David Salle.” El Pais, November 2, 1992.
Kazanjian, Dodie. “Salle Days.” Vogue, May 1992: 246-253, 303.
Sanchez, Blanca. “David Salle en Madrid.” Marie Claire, November 1992: 125.

1991

“Art, (David Salle Review).” The New Yorker, April 8, 1991: 14.
Farrow, Claire. “David Salle: An Art & Design Interview.” New Art New York: Rizzoli, 1991: 134-137.
Flohic, Catherine. “David Salle.” Ninety, Paris. September 1991.
Wallach, Amei. “An Artistic Struggle to Maturity.” New York Newsday, April 26, 1991: II.

1990

Hawkes, John. “Complicities.” Border Crossings, Fall 1990: 28-40

1989

Bozzi, Elisabeth. “Madrid: David Salle – Caja de Pensiones.” New Art International, January 1, 1989: 93.

1988

Brenson, Michael. “David Salle and Rafael Ferrer: In Mainstream and Out.” The New York Times, March 18, 1988: C. 29.
Heartney, Eleanor. “David Salle: Impersonal Effects.” Art in America, June 1988: 120-129, 175. Kuspit, Donald. “The Opera Is Over: A Critique of Eighties Sensibility.” Artscribe International, September/October 1988: 44-47.
Millet, Catherine. “L’Interview: David Salle, entre composition et designation.” Art Press, October 1988: 12-17.
Storr, Robert. “Salle’s Gender Machine.” Art In America, June 1988: 24-25.
Wood, Paul. “Exemplary exhibitions.” Artscribe International, January/February 1988: 35-37.

1987

Allison, Sue. “Life Visits: Karole Armitage & David Salle.” Life Magazine, November 1987: 104-107.
Cameron, Dan. “Art and Its Double.” Flash Art, May 1987.
Danto, Arthur C. “Art: David Salle.” The Nation, March 7, 1987: 302-304.
Grimes, Nancy. “Teasing Images: Hip Estrangement.” Art News 86, April 1987: 173.
Hughes, Robert. “Random Bits from the Image Haze.” Time, February 9, 1987: 67- 68.
Jones, Ronald. “Spotlight: David Salle.” Flash Art, April 1987: 82.
Lakshmanan, Indira. “The Sexual Imagery of David Salle.” The Harvard New Review, February 1987: 9-10.
Larson, Kay. “The Big Tease.” New York Magazine, February 9, 1987: 58-59.
Levin, Kim. “The Salle Question.” The Village Voice, February 3, 1987: 81-82.
Liebmann, Lisa. “Harlequinade for an Empty Room: On David Salle.” Artforum, February 1987:94-99.
Marzorati, Gerald. “Salle Days.” Vanity Fair, January 1987: 93.
McGuigan, Cathleen. “Dipping Into a Grab Bag of Pop Culture: Salle’s Secret Code.” Newsweek, March 2, 1987: 77.
Smith, Roberta. “Art: David Salle’s Works Shown at the Whitney.” The New York Times, January 23, 1987: C20.
Taylor, Paul. “How David Salle Mixes High Art and Trash.” The New York Times, January 11, 1987: 26-29, 39.

1986

Brenson, Michael. “Is Neo-Expressionism an Idea Whose Time Has Passed?” The New York Times, January 5, 1986: Section 2, 1-2.
Johnston, Jill. “Dance: The Punk Princess and the Postmodern Prince.” Art in America, October 1986: 23-25.
Smecchia, Muni de. “Gli Artisti nel Loro Studio: David Salle.” Vogue Italia, February 1986: 296-301, 324.
Tuchman, Phyllis. “David Salle, emerging as a young master,” Newsday, April 20, 1986: 11.

1985

Brenson, Michael. “Art: David Salle Show at Mary Boone Gallery.” The New York Times, May 3, 1985: C-25.
Cameron, Dan. “The Salle Academy.” Arts Magazine, November 1985.
Honnef, Klaus. “Nouvelle Bienniale de Paris.” Kunstforum, May-June 1985.
Hughes, Robert. “Careerism and Hype Amidst the Image Haze.” Time Magazine, June 17, 1985: 79.
Kuspit, Donald. “David Salle, Mary Boone Gallery.” Artforum, November 1985: 103-104.
Larson, Kay. “The Daring of David Salle.” New York Magazine, May 20, 1985: 98.
Levin, Kim. “Artwalk: David Salle, Mary Boone/Michael Werner.” The Village Voice, May 28, 1985: 100.
Matthew, Ray. “Infant Phenomenon Salle.” Art World, May 15 – June 15, 1985: 1,2.
McGill, Douglas C. “Artist’s Style Wins High Praise -/and Rejection.” The New York Times, May 16, 1985.
Millet, Catherine. “David Salle.” Flash Art, Summer 1985: 30-34.
Millet, Catherine. “David Salle: la peinture que le regard disperse.” Art Press February1985: 18-21.
Olive, Kristin. “David Salle’s Deconstructive Strategy.” Arts Magazine, November 1985.
Pincus-Witten, Robert. “Interview with David Salle.” Flash Art 123, Summer 1985: 30-36.
Pincus-Witten, Robert. “Pure Painter: An Interview with David Salle.” Arts Magazine, November 1985.
Staniszewski, Mary Anne. “Corporate Culture/Gallery Guide.” Manhattan Inc., May 1985: 98.

1984

Brenson, Michael. “Art: Variety of Forms for David Salle Imagery.” New York Times, March 23, 1984: C-20.
Cameron, Dan. “Against Collaboration.” Arts Magazine, March 1984: 83-97.
Larson, Kay. “Art: Antidotes to Irony.” New York Magazine, February 27, 1984: 58- 59.
Leavin, Kim. “From the Familiar to the Sublime.” Village Voice, September 11, 1984: 77.
Marzorati, Gerald. “The Artful Dodger.” Artnews, Summer 1984: 46-55.
Millet, Catherine. “L’Ingratitude de l’art, a propos de quelques artistes americains.” Art Press, October 1984: 4-12.
Pincus-Witten, Robert. “I-Know-That-You-Know-That-I-Know.” Arts Magazine, February 1984: 126-129.
Schjeldahl, Peter. “The Real Salle.” Art in America, September 1984: 180-187.
Schwartz, Sanford. “David Salle: The Art World.” The New Yorker, April 30, 1984: 104-111.
Smith, Roberta. “Quality is the Best Revenge.” The Village Voice, April 3, 1984: 79.

1983

Brenson, Michael. “Artists Grapple with new Realities.” The New York Times, May 15, 1983: 2/1-30.
Brenson, Michael. “New York vs. Paris: Views of an Art Reporter.” The New York Times, January 16, 1983: 2/1-36.
Cameron, Dan. “Biennial Cycle.” Arts Magazine, June 1983: 64.
Fawcett, Anthony and Whithers. “Commercial Art.” The Face, May 1983: 75-77.
Forte, Gabriella. “A Colpi di Pennello: David Salle Sabbataggio d’Artista.” L’Uomo Vogue, October 1983: 342-343.
Glozer, Laszlo. “Dialog mit den Ahnen, Zwei, Ausstellungen in der Munchner Maximillianstrasse.” Suddeutsche Zeitung, October 26, 1983.
Hegewisch, Katharina. “Eine Besondere Art der Erotik, David Salle en Munchen und Hamburg.” Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, October 18, 1983.
Honnef, Klaus. “Tagebuch einer Dienstereise.” Kunstforum, May 1983: 32-123.
Hughes, Robert. “There’s No Geist Like Zeitgeist.” The New York Review of Books, October 27, 1983: 63-68.
Hughes, Robert. “Three from the Image Machine.” Time, March 14, 1983: 83-84.
Kipphoff, Petra. “Humburg: David Salle.” Die Zeit October 28, 1983.
Larson, Kay. “How Should Artists Be Educated.” Art News, November 1983: 85-91.
Levin, Kim. “Art: David Salle.” The Village Voice, February 16, 1983.
Liebmann, Lisa. “David Salle.” Artforum, Summer 1983: 74.
Morgan, Stuart. “David Salle at Anthony d’Offay.” Artscribe, February 1983.
Moufarrage, Nicholas. “David Salle.” Flash Art, May 1983: 60.
Moufarrege, Nicolas. “Intoxication: April 9, 1983.” Arts Magazine, April 1983: 70-76.
Owens, Craig. “Honor, Power and Love of Women.” Art in America, January 1983: 7-13.
Pincus-Witten, Robert. “Entries: Vaulting Ambition.” Arts Magazine, February 1983: 70-75.
Roberts, John. “An Interview with David Salle.” Art Monthly, March 1983: 3-7.
Smith, Roberta. “Comics Stripped.” The Village Voice, August 23, 1983: 94-100.
Smith, Roberta. “Making Impressions.” The Village Voice, March 1, 1983: 79.
Walker, John. “David Salle’s Exemplary Perversity.” Tension Magazine, July/August 1983: 14-17.
Wolf, Leslie. “David Salle: When Worlds Collide.” Los Angeles Weekly, December 23-29, 1983.

1982

Bangert, Albrecht. “Neue Kunst oder nur eine Neue Masche?” Ambiente, February 1982.
Caroli, Flavio. “I Mondiali del Giovani.” Arte, August 1982: 35-41.
Caroli, Flavio. “Magico Primario.” Interarte 23, April 1982: 5-27.
Groot, Paul. “David Salle.” Flash Art, November 1982: 69-70.
Hunter, Sam. “Post Modernist Painting.” Portfolio, January/February 1982: 46-53
Kontova, Helena. “From Performance to Painting.” Flash Art, February/March 1982: 16-21.
Larson, Kay. “David Salle.” New York Magazine, March 29, 1982: 76-77.
Liebmann, Lisa. “David Salle, Leo Castelli Gallery and Mary Boone.” Artforum, Summer 1982: Kuspit, Donald. “David Salle at Boone and Castelli.” Art in America, Summer 1982: 142
Oliva, Achille Bonito. “Avant Garde and Trans-Avantgarde.” Interarte 24, June 1982: 6-32. 89-90.
Owens, Craig. “Back to the Studio.” Art in America, January 1982: 99-107.
Peters, Lisa. “David Salle.” Print Collector’s Newsletter, January/February 1982: 182.
Pincus-Witten, Robert. “David Salle: Holiday Glassware.” Arts Magazine, April 1982: 58-60.
Ratcliff, Carter. “David Salle’s Aquatints.” Print Collector’s Newsletter, September- October 1982: 123-126.
Ratcliff, Carter. “An Attack on Painting.” The Saturday Review, January 1982: 50.
Ratcliff, Carter. “Art: A Conversation with a Major Young Painter-David Salle.” Interview, February 1982: 64-66.
Ratcliff, Carter. “Expressionism Today: An Artist’s Symposium.” Art in America, December 1982: 58-75.
Roberts, John. “The Art of Self-Attention” Artscribe, August 1982: 50-55.
Russell, John. “A Big Berlin Show that Misses the Mark.” The New York Times, December 5, 1982: C3.
Russell, John. “Art: David Salle.” The New York Times, March 19, 1982: C24.
Russi Kirshner, Judith. “74th American Exhibition.” Artforum, October 1982: 74-75.
Schjeldahl, Peter. “David Salle’s Objects of Disaffection.” Village Voice, March 23, 1982: 83.
Silverthorne, Jeannie. “The Pressure to Paint.” Artforum, October 1982: 67-68.
Smith, Roberta. “Mass Productions.” Village Voice, March 23, 1982: 84.
Stevens, Mark. “The Revival of Realism.” or “Arts Wild Young Turks.” Newsweek, June 7, 1982: 47-52, 64-70.
Tompkins, Calvin. “The Art World.” The New Yorker, June 7, 1982:120-125.

1981

Anderson, Alexandra. “Schnabel’s Sally.” Portfolio Magazine, September-October 1981: 6.
Brooks, Rosetta. “The Art Machine: Editorial.” ZG Magazine 3, December 1981: 1-2.
Christy, George. “The Great Life.” The Hollywood Reporter, April 24, 1981.
Knight, Christopher. “The Medium Cool Art of David Salle.” Los Angeles Herald Examiner, May 3 1981: E6.
Knox, Marion. “Brief aus New York,” (Letter From New York) Trans Atlantik, April 4, 1981: 70-73.
Lawson, Thomas. “David Salle at Mary Boone.” Artforum, May 1981: 71-72.
Lawson, Thomas. “Last Exit: Painting.” Artforum, October 30, 1981: 40-47.
Lawson, Thomas. “Switching Channels.” Flash Art, March-April 1981: 20-22.
Levine, Sherrie. “David Salle.” Flash Art, Summer 1981: 34.
Olander, William. “Young Americans.” Dialogue, March-April 1981: 42-44.
Oliva, Achille Bonito. “The International Trans-Avantgarde.” Flash Art, October-November 1981: 36-43 * Text Reproduced from Oliva’s book, The International Trans-Avantgarde, Milan.
Pincus-Witten, Robert. “Entries: Sheer Grunge.” Arts Magazine, May 1981: 93-97.
Ratcliff, Carter. “Westkunst: David Salle.” Flash Art, Summer 1981: 33-34.
Schjeldahl, Peter. “Absent-minded Female Nude on Bed: For David Salle.” Artforum, December 1981: 49.
Schjeldahl, Peter. “David Salle Interview.” LAICA Journal, September-October 1981) 15-21.
Siegel, Jeanne. “David Salle: Interpretation of Image.” Arts Magazine, April 1981: 94-95.
Smith, Roberta. “Separation Anxieties.” Village Voice, March 18, 1981: 78.
Wilson, William. “David Salle.” Los Angeles Times, April 24, 1981: 9.

1980

Oliva, Achille Bonito. “The Bewildered Image”, Flash Art, March/April 1980.
Pincus-Witten, Robert. “Entries: Big History, Little History.” Arts Magazine, April 1980: 183.
Pincus-Witten, Robert. “Entries: If Even in Fractions.” Arts Magazine, September 1980: 119.
Pincus-Witten, Robert. “Entries: Palimpsest and Pentimenti.” Arts Magazine, June 1980: 128-131.
Ratcliff, Carter. “David Salle: A Matter of Interrogation.” Allen Memorial Art Museum Bulletin 38, No. 2,1980-81: 80-85.
Simon, Joan. “Double Takes.” Art in America, October 1980: 113-17.
Tompkins, Calvin. “The Art World.” The New Yorker. December 22, 1980: 78-80.
Welling, James. “Images That Understand Us: A Conversation with David Salle and James Welling.” L.A.I.C.A. Journal, June-July 1980: 41-44.

1979

Bleckner, Ross. “Transcendent Anti-Fetishism”, Artforum, March 1979.
Lawson, Thomas. “On Pictures, A Manifesto”, Flash Art, April 1979.
Salle, David “The Paintings are Dead.” Cover, May 1979: n.p.

Selected Writings

2023

Salle, David, “Medium Cool: David Salle on Alex Katz”, ArtForum, February 2023, Vol. 61, No. 6, p. 122

2022

Salle, David, "Going on Her Nerve", nybooks.com, 12 May 2022

2021

Salle, David, "Janet Malcolm (1934-2021)", artforum.com, September 2021

2020

French, Sarah and Salle, David, "Robert Rauschenberg in Black and White", nybooks.com, 13 December 2020
Salle, David, "Object Lessons", nybooks.com, 27 November 2020
Salle, David, "Object Lessons", The New York Review, December 2020

2019

Salle, David, “Houdini with a Brush (David Salle on Charline von Heyl)” New York Review of Books, 9 May 2019. pp 16-20.
Salle, David, “The Star of the Silken Screen (David Salle on Andy Warhol)” New York Review of Books, 21 February 2019. pp. 39-42. (trans. “Der Siebdruckstar” Lettre International, 7 March 2019 .pp. 90-94.

2018

Salle, David, “Musical Lines (David Salle on Terry Winters)” New York Review of Books, 18 August 2018 .pp. 58-59.
Salle, David, “Theater of the Self (David Salle on Dahn Vo)” The New York Review of Books, 10 May 2018 .pp. 60-62.
Salle, David, “Cold Comforts (David Salle on George W.S Trow)” Frieze No.195, May 2018 .pp. 154-158.
Salle, David, “Art in Free Fall (David Salle on Laura Owens)” The New York Review of Books, 8 February 2018. pp 38-40.
Salle, David, “ Playing it Cool (David Salle on Alex Katz)” The New York Review of Books, 18 January, 2018. pp. 57-58.
Salle, David and French, Sarah, “Ann Craven and the Art of Happy Hands” KARMA, 2018. pp. 8-11.

2017

Salle, David, “K is for Key Impressions, in Learning To Read with John Baldessari” JRP/Ringler, 2017. pp. 140-143.
Salle, David, ”The Artist Project: What Artists See When They Look At Art”, (David Salle on Marsden Hartley) Phaidon Press Limited, 2017.pp. 200-201.
Salle, David, “Outing the Inside (David Salle on Louise Bourgeois)” The New York Review of Books, 7 December 2017. pp. 56-58.
Salle, David, “David Salle: My Manifesto” Garage.vice.com 12 October 2017.
Salle, David, “One Piece: The Old Bars (after M.H.)” BOMB Magazine, 4 October 2017.
Salle, David, and Richardson, John, “The Collected Works of Robert Rauschenberg” Esquire Magazine, September Issue 2017.
Salle, David, “Clothes That Don’t Need You (David Salle on Rei Kawakubo) The New York Review of Books, 28 September 2017. Volume LXIV, Number 14, pp. 10-14.
Salle, David, and Richardson, John, “The Conversation of Art” Esquire Magazine, June + July Issue 2017. pp. 76-77.
Salle, David, “Going Home: Art School Confidential” The New York Times Style Magazine, 14 April 2017. pp. M288
Salle, David, and Schutz, Dana, “Problem Painters: Dana Schutz and David Salle in Conversation” Modern Painters, 23 March 2017.

2016

Salle, David. “School of Presentation: David Salle on Art Direction and Its Discontents” ArtNews.com, 6 December 2016.
Salle, David. “David Salle Cooks with a Purpose” Surface Magazine, November 2016.
Salle, David. “Artists’ Artists: David Salle” Frieze Masters, Issue 5, September 2016.
Salle, David. “Alex Katz, a Painter’s Painter” Frieze Week, April 2016: pp 25-26.
Salle, David. “How to See: Looking, Talking, and Thinking about Art” WW Norton, October 2016.
Salle, David. “Lisa Liebmann: 1955-2016” Artforum, October 2016: pp. 85-86.

2015

Salle, David. “Critics Page: David Salle” Brooklyn Rail, December 2015.
Salle, David. “Modern Geometry: For Frank Stella, Inveneting Minimalism Was only the Start. The Whitney Surveys a Rebel’s Long Career” Town and Country, November 2015: pp.112.
Salle, David. “Face Off: David Salle on Thomas Houseago” Artforum, October 2015: pp. 85-86.
Salle, David. “The Performer: Karole Armitage” Town and Country, September 2015: pp. 192.
Salle, David. “Old Guys Painting: David Salle on the Mature Painter’s Letting Go” ArtNews, 10 September 2015: pp 48.
Salle, David. “Katz Paints a Rock.” This is Now. Atlanta: High Museum of Art. Spain: Guggenheim Museum Bilbao: pp 39-41.
Salle, David. “Structure Rising: David Salle on ‘The Forever Now’ at MoMA,” ARTnews, Feb. 23, 2015: pp. 44.
Salle, David. “John Baldessari’s Movie Scripts / Art Series.” John Baldessari: the Stadel Paintings. Frankfurt: Stadel Museum, 2015: pp. 68-71.

2014

Salle, David. “Future Shocks,” Town and Country, January 2014: pp. 34-35.
Salle, David. “Polke Party,” Town and Country, March 2014: pp. 64, 66.
Salle, David. “Casting Off,” Town and Country, May 2014: p. 66.
Salle, David. “Puppy Love,” Town and Country, September 2014: pp. 110, 112.
Salle, David. “Drainman,” Town and Country, Dec. 2014/Jan.2015: pp. 102-03.

2013

Salle, David. “Pedal to the Mental,” Town and Country, June/July 2013: pp. 40.
Salle, David. “Cool For Katz,” Town and Country, March 2013: pp. 56-57
Salle, David. “In Conversation, Alex Katz with David Salle,” The Brooklyn Rail, March 4, 2013: brooklynrail.org
Salle, David. “Renaissance Man,” Town and Country, April 2013: pp. 34-35.
Salle, David. “Urban Scrawl,” Town and Country, November 2013: pp. 64, 68.
Salle, David. “John Baldessari,” Interview Magazine, October 2013: pp. 160-165.
Salle, David. “Late Greats,” Town and Country, September 2013: pp. 82-83.

2012

Salle, David. “Alex Katz Interviewed by David Salle,” Alex Katz, Klosterneuburg, Austria, Essl Museum, 2012: pp. 22-32.
Salle, David. “David Salle on Andre Derain,” In My View. Ed. Simon Grant. London, Thames & Hudson Ltd, pp. 142-43.

2011

Salle, David. “Dana Schutz, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York,” ArtForum, Vol. 50, No. 4, December, 2011: 246-247.

2010

Salle, David. “Questions Without Answers for John Baldessari,” The Paris Review. December 13, 2010.
Salle, David. “Roy Lichtenstein Reflected,” New York: MitchellInnes & Nash, 2010.
Salle, David. “Amy Sillman and Tom McGrath,” The Paris Review No. 195, Winter 2010: 173-175.
Salle, David and Phillips, Richard. “Your History is Not Our History.” New York: Haunch of Venison, 2010.
Salle, David. “Some Thoughts on the Art of the 1980’s,” New York: Haunch of Venison, 2010.

2009

Salle, David. “The Petit Cinéma of John Baldessari,” John Baldessari: Pure Beauty, edited by Jessica Morgan and Leslie Jones, Los Angeles: LACMA, 2009: 143- 158.

2008

Salle, David. “The Camera Blinks, David Salle on The Diving Bell and the Butterfly,”Artforum, February 2008: 115-116.

2006

Salle, David. “Christophe Ruckhäberle Interview” Christophe Ruckhäberle: Die Flasche Bakbuk, Leipzig: Kerber Editions/Young Art, 2006.
Salle, David. “David Salle Talks about his Paintings after the Sistine Chapel,” Artforum, Summer 2006.

1980

Salle, David and Welling, James. “Images That Understand Us.” LAICA Journal No. 27, June-July 1980: 54-57.

1979

Salle, David. “The Paintings are Dead.” Cover, May 1979, Vol 1, No 1: pp 28-32.

1978

Salle, David. “Jack Goldstein; Distance Equals Control.” Buffalo: Hallwalls, 1978.

1976

Salle, David. “Vito Acconci’s Recent Work,” Arts Magazine 51, n.4, Dec. 1976: pp 90.

Museum / Public Collections

Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA
Akron Art Museum, OH
Albertina, Vienna: Essl Collection, Austria
Art Institute of Chicago, IL
Birmingham Museum of Art, AL
Eli Broad Family Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
The Broad, Los Angeles, CA
The Brant Foundation, Greenwich, CT
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
Chase Manhattan Collection, New York, NY
The Cleveland Museum of Art, OH
Dallas Museum of Art, TX
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
El Museo de Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo de Santander y Cantabria, Spain
Elgiz Museum, Istanbul
Farnsworth Art Museum, Farnsworth, ME
Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs
The Glass House, New Caanan, CT
Guild Hall, East Hampton
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
The Hall Art Foundation, Reading, Vermont
Hamburger Bahnhof, Staatliche Museen, Berlin, Germany
Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale-on –Hudson, NY
Ho-Am Museum, Seoul, Korea
Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland
Lever House Art Collection, New York, NY
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Louisiana Museum of Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
Ludwig Forum für International Kunst, Cologne, Germany
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Milwaukee Art Museum, WI
Museum Boijmans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland
Musée National D’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Museo Carlo Bilotti, Rome, Italy
Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Trento, Italy
Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra T
he New York Public Library, NY
National Gallery, Washington D.C. N
elson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA
The Parrish Art Museum, South Hampton, NY
Pellizzi Family Collection, Columbus, OH
Phillip Schrager Collection Omaha, NE
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL
The Saatchi Collection, London, United Kingdom
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
Sansab Museum, Bangkok, Thailand * opens 2019
Seattle Art Museum, WA
Sintra Museum, Portugal, Spain
Staedelmmuseum, Franksfurt Germany
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Stedelijk Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Tate Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
UBS Art Collection University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI
University of Oklahoma Museum, Norman, OK
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, KS
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT