Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects
Dave McKenzie
1977
Born in Kingston, Jamaica
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY
2000
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Somerset County, ME
BFA in Printmaking, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2013
Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
2012
“Dave McKenzie: Everything’s Alright, Nothing’s Okay!”, Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2010
“Dave McKenzie”, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
2009
“On Premises”, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
2008
“Screen Doors on Submarines”, REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA
2007
“Momentum 8: Dave McKenzie”, The Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, Boston, MA
“Tomorrow will be Better”, Small A Projects, Portland, OR
2006
“Haven’t Seen You in a Minute”, Gallery 40000, Chicago, IL
2005
“Portrait as a Ghost”, Savage Art Resources, Portland, OR
2004
"Together is Forever", Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City
2013
“Sinister Pop Family Day,” (performance), Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
"Etched in Collective History", Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL
2012
“Radical Presence: Black Performance In Contemporary Art”, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX
“Configured”, Benrimon Contemporary, New York, NY
“The Ungovernables”, Second New Museum Triennial, New Museum, New York, NY
“Blues for Smoke”, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH
"The Living Years: Art after 1989" Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
2009
“30 Seconds off an Inch”, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
“Unusual Behavior”, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA
“Character Generator”, Eleven Rivington, New York, NY
“Convention”, MOCA, North Miami, FL
“To the left of the rising sun”, Small A Projects, New York
“Collected. Propositions on the Permanent Collection”, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
2008
“Prospect.1 New Orleans", International Biennial, curated by Dan Cameron, New Orleans, LA (catalogue)
“This Shadow is a Bit of Ideology”, Gallery 400, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL, curated by Kelly Chen and Anthony Elms
“As Others See Us: The Contemporary Portrait”, Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro, VT
“Alternating Beats”, The RISD Museum, Providence, RI
“Museum as Hub: Six Degrees”, New Museum, New York, NY (brochure)
“Free Parking”, Boston Center for the Arts' Mills Gallery, Boston, MA
“On Procession”, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
“Black is, Black Ain’t”, The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
“Disinhibition: Black Art and Blue Humor”, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
“You & Me, Sometimes…”, Lehmann Maupin, New York, NY
“Good Doll Bad Doll”, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
“A New High in Getting Low (NYC)”, John Connelly Presents, New York, NY
“A Thousand Years of Sculpture”, Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, Philidelphia, PA
“Working History: African American Art and Objects”, Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College, Portland, OR (Catalogue)
“Slightly Unbalanced”, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL, and traveling to: Huntington
Museum of Art, Huntington WV, Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum, Lafayette, LA (Catalogue)
2007
“PERFORMA 07 Biennial: All Together Now”, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Harlem, NY (Catalogue)
“Looking Back: The White Columns Annual”, selected by Clarissa Dalrymple, White Columns New York, NY
“A New High in Getting Low”, Artnews Projects, Berlin, Germany
“Just Kick it Till it Breaks”, The Kitchen, New York, NY, curated by Debra Singer and Matthew Lyons, (Catalogue)
“Mr. President”, University Art Museum, University of Albany, Albany, NY (Catalogue)
2004
“Me, Myself, and I” Schnidt Center, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL
"Figuratively: Dave McKenzie, Wangechi Mutu, William Villalongo", The Studio Museum, Harlem, NY
“Open House: Working in Brooklyn”, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY (catalog)
"The Sneeze 80 x 80", Gazon Rouge Gallery, Athens, Greece
2003
“American Idyll”, Metrotech Center Commons, Brooklyn, NY. (Catalog)
“24/7”, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania
“In Practice”, Sculpture Center, Long Island City, NY
2002
“Videodrome II”, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
“Americas Remixed”, The Factory of the Vapor, Milan, Italy (catalog)
“Queens International”, Queens Museum of Art, NY (catalog)
“Listening to New Voices”, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY
“Supervideonight”, Gale Gates, New York, NY
“Slow Dive”, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
“Video Marathon: Bringing up the (Mediated) Body”, Art in General, New York, NY
“Multiplicity”, Midway Gallery, St. Paul, MN
“Room for a Revolution”, Deluxe Gallery, Chicago, IL
2001
“Video Call”, ICA, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
“Something/Nothing-Passport to the State of Flux”, Art in General, NY
“Material World”, Susquehanna Art Museum/VanGo, Harrisburg, PA
“Freestyle”, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY (Catalog) and traveled to Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
“In/SITE/Out: Inquiries into Social Space”, Apexart, New York, NY
2013
Schwabsky, Barry, “Post-White? On ‘Blues for Smoke:’ The Whitey’s adventurous, awkard attempt to explore abstract art through the blues,” The Nation, May 20
2012
Schmelzer, Paul, “Yesterday’s Newspaper: November 8, 2012”, Untitled (blog), Walker Art Center, November 8
Simpson, Bennett, “Blues for Smoke”, exhibition catalogue, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Prestel
Chou, Kimberly, “Local Talent Leads Downtown Triennial”, Wall Street Journal, February 10
Buchmaier, Barbara, “Dave McKenzie”, ArtForum, January 6
"The Bearden Project", Exhibition Catalogue, The Studio Museum in Harlem
2011
“Clifford Owens” BOMB, December 15
2009
“New York Artists Dictionary Part 1”, Flash Art, Volume 62, Number 264, January/February
Ligon, Glenn, “Civic Engagement: To Miss New Orleans”, ArtForum, 47 no. 5, January
Born, Katheryn, “This Shadow Is A Bit of Ideology”, Time Out Chicago, Issue 210, January 1-7
2008
MacCash, Doug. “Prospect.1 New Orleans artist Dave McKenzie practices inspired unproductiveness,” The Times-Picayune, November 14
Copeland, Huey, “The Blackness of Blackness”, ArtForum, October
Foumberg, Jason. “Slightly Unbalanced,” Frieze, Issue 115, p. 171, May
Weinberg, Lauren, “Black Comedy,” Time Out Chicago, Issue 164, April
“Prospect.1 New Orleans”, Exhibition Catalogue, texts by Barbara Bleomink, Dan Cameron, Lolis Eric Elie, and Claire Tancons, Picturebox Inc., Brooklyn, NY, November
McQuaid, Cate, “Humor Drives ‘Free Parking’ exhibit”, The Boston Globe, October 15
“Just Kick it till it Breaks”, Exhibition Catalogue, The Kitchen
“Goings on About Town”, The New Yorker, May 5
Farrugia, Mallory, “Art:Installation, Dave McKenzie”, Flavorpill, April
Riggot, Julie, “The Season of the Idea”, Los Angeles Downtown News, April 28
Mizota, Sharon, “Dave McKenzie at REDCAT”, Los Angeles Times, April 18
Boucher, Brian, “Dave McKenzie, ‘All Together Now’, at or near the Studio Museum in Harlem”, Art In America, March
Bowie, Chas, “Working History: African American Objects”, Portland Mercury, February 7
2007
Cotter, Holland, “Celebrating the Intangibles Money Can’t Buy”, The New York Times, December 23
Cotter, Holland, “Art is Brief, You Just Have To Be There”, The New York Times, November 9
Johnson, Ken, “Goldfish, Warhol, and basketball in a video riff on identity politics”, Boston Globe, August 10
Malone, Micah, “Dave McKenzie Portland, OR” Art Papers, May/June
Cotter, Holland, “Art In Review”, The New York Times, April 13
2006
Moulton, Aaron, “40000”, Flash Art, p.72, May/June
2005
Ligon, Glenn, "Black Light", Artforum, pg. 248, September issue
Dirks, Ryan, “Dave McKenzie, Portrait as a Ghost”, The Portland Mercury, Feb 3
2004
Weinberg, Michelle, “It’s All About Me”, Miami New Times, November 25
Mills, Michael, “Through a Fractured Lens”, New Times, November 18
Ligon, Glenn, “Black Light: David Hammons and the Poetics of Emptiness”, Art Forum, 43, no1, pp. 242-249, September
Cotter, Holland, " 'Black' Comes in Many Shadings", New York Times, August 13
Furstenberg, Laurie, "Hit Me, Take Me, Wear Me, Fake me", "Figuratively" at the Studio Museum Harlem, exhibition brochure essay
Laster, Paul, "Back-to-back At SMH - Interviews with Mickalene Thomas and Dave McKenzie", WBURG.com, Vol.4, No.2, Summer
Brockington, Horace, "Extra Open: A conversation with Charlotta Kotik, Dread Scott, Bill Scan", NY Arts Magazine, July-August
2003
Ranger, Abby. “ What’s Paul Bunyan Doing at Metrotech?” Brooklyn Eagle, September 26.
2002
Heuer, Megan. "Queens International." The Brooklyn Rail, Autumn.
Van Dyke, Aaron. “Multiplicity.” New Art Examiner, May-June.
Knighton, Andrew. “An Expanding Pluriverse.” Object Magazine.
2001
Princenthal, Nancy. “Freestyle.” Artext, August-October.
Knight, Christopher, " Cultural Evolution in 'Freestyle' ", Los Angeles Times, October 2.
Valdez, Sarah. “Freestyling.” Art in America, September.
Cotter, Holland. “A Full Studio Museum Show Starts With 28 Young Artists and a Shoehorn.”, The New York Times, May 11
Saltz, Jerry. “POST-BLACK Radical Intelligence at the Studio Museum in Harlem.”The Village Voice, May 22
Schjeldahl, Peter. “Breaking Away: A flowering of young African-American artists.” The New Yorker. June 11
Brockington, Horace. “Freestyle: Studio Museum in Harlem.” NY Arts Magazine, Vol. 6 No. 6 June
2000
Jones, Karen E., "MoMovements Against the Grain", Freestyle Catalog
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