Born 19?? in Los Angeles, USA
Lives in Los Angeles, USA
Solo Exhibitions
2022
Let Us Keep Our Own Noon, Curated by Patrick Steffen, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Paris
2021
How to Shoplift Books as part of The Dreamers: An Echoing, CURA. HQ / BASEMENT ROME, Rome
Mayflower, David Horvitz & Javier Cruz, as part of An Involuntary Trace, curated by This is Jackalope (Christina Aglada and Gema Melgar), La Casa Encendida, Madrid
(in all its different manifestations), curated by Park C.Myers, 1708 Gallery Inc, Richmond, VA
2020
lessons, Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden, (as part of Follow Fluxus – After Fluxus scholarship), Wiesbaden
Commission for R.U.in.ART Performance, Frieze Art Fair, Los Angeles
oceaean, Praz-Delavallade, Los Angeles
2019
David Horvitz, une intervention à la Collection Lambert, Musée d’Art Contemporain Avignon
Summer rains, SCAI The Bathhouse, Tokyo
435 ponti e qualche scorciatoia, curated by Silvia Guerra, Venice
Nostalgia, ChertLüdde, Berlin
The Shape of a Wave Inside of a Wave, Curated by Sophie Kaplan, La Criée, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Rennes
2018
Nuvola Nuvola Oceano Nuvola Foschia Tu, LOOM gallery, Milan
a n e m o c h r y, Château Shatto, Los Angeles
Für Ruth, der Himmel in Los Angeles, Albertinum, SDK, Dresden
When the Ocean Sounds, Curated by Thomas Caron, Brussels Gallery Weekend, Brussels
When The Ocean Sounds, Billboard Series #11, art|lead, Gent
Água Viva, Belo Campo, Lisbon
2017
Eridanus, Galerie Allen, Paris
Dedicated to Forgotten Oceans, Organised by Barnie’s at the window of Davish News, London
2016
Concurrent solo exhibitions ja at Chert, Berlin and oui at Yvon Lambert Bookshop, Paris
The Studio Rent Editions: 2010-ongoing, Pacific North West College of Art
The Studio Rent Editions: 2010-ongoing, Joseph Gross Gallery, University of Arizona, AZ
2015
The Studio Rent Editions: 2010-ongoing, Pacific North West College of Art
Situation #20, Fotomuseum Winterthur
through the morning) kiss this pillow, tongewölbe T25, Ingolstadt
2014
David Horvitz: Gnomons, curated by Helga Christoffersen, New Museum, New York
David Horvitz, Blum and Poe, Los Angeles
Concurrent solo exhibitions at Jan Mot, Brussels and Dawid Radziszewski Gallery, Warsaw
2013
Hot, muggy, then cold and windy. We swam in the sea, it got misty and we couldn’t tell what time it was anymore, Peter Amby Gallery, Copenhagen
Statements, with Chert, Berlin, Art Basel, Basel
POST, curated by Jacob Fabricius, Antechamber, North galleries, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen
At Night They Leave Their Century,Chert, Berlin
Drugstore Beetle II,Special Collections Library, California State Universty, Long Beach, California
2011
Adobe, San Francisco, California
The Discovery Award, Arles Photography Festival, Arles
Room 129, commissioned by Fillip Magazine, Fair, Vancouver, British Columbia
2010
Carry On, Galerie West, Den Haag
2009
Believe Inn, Chicago, Illinois
Public Space One, Iowa City
2008
To a Sunset in Palos Verdes, siteLA, Los Angeles
I Will Go Somewhere and Send You Something from There, Right Window, San Francisco
Group Exhibitions
2022
Breaking the Waves, Curated by ArtReview, K11 Art Foundation, Hong Kong
2021
How to disappear completely and never be found, curated by Ekaterina Shcherbakova, Typography Center for Contemporary Art, Krasnodar, Russia
Not Standing in Place, Zürcher Theater Spektakel & town, Zurich
Three, four trees, curated by Elene Abashidze, EA Shared Space, Tbilisi
JULY, AUGUST, SEPTEMBER, Organized by hospitality, a nomadic exhibition project founded by Carla Donauer and Martin Germann, St. Apernstrasse 13, Cologne
Telepathy and New Labor, curated by Warren Neidich and Jacqueline Drinkall, Verein zur Förderung von Kunst und Kultur am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz e.V., Berlin
Breaking the waves, curated by ArtReview, Chi K11 art museum K11 ArtMall, Shanghai
(re)connecting.earth, curated by Bernard Vienat, Travelling Exhibition, Kurt-Kurt and Habsburg Gausstraße Garden, Berlin; andata.ritorno, Geneva
THE DREAMERS, curated by Ilaria Marotta and Andrea Baccin, The 58th October Salon, Belgrade Biennial 2021, Museum of Yugoslavia, Belgrade
The city under the sky, curated by Sylvie Boulanger, Raphaël Guillet, Nathalie Lacroix, Thomas Maestro, Léa Warrin, Exhibition-Manifesto, CNEAI, Paris
The Imaginary Sea, curated by Christ Sharp, Fondation Carmignac, Villa Carmignac, Porquerolles
The Musical Brain, organised by Cecilia Alemani, Donald R. Mullen and Melanie Kreis, HIGH LINE ART: Various locations along the High Line, New York
This Inconstant World, curated by Jamillah James, ICA, Los Angeles
..barely pausing/pausing barely.., curated by Christina Li, A Tale of A Tub, Rotterdam
Dear You, curated by Caterina Molteni, MAMbo – Museum of Modern Art of Bologna, Bologna
Fleeting Media. Publishing Post-Photography, curated by Mona Schubert, Fotomuseum Winterthur Library
2020
On Seeing, curated by Guðrún Benónýsdóttir and Inger Wold, Gletta, Borgarfjörður Eystri, Bakkagerði, Iceland
Die Wolken und die Wolke / The clouds and the cloud, Curated by Thomas Thiel, MGK Siegen
Long Time Short, KAI 10 | ARTHENA FOUNDATION, Curated by Marion Eisele, Düsseldorf
Casper, Sgomento Zurigo, curated by Francesco Tenaglia, Zürich
Festival of Ephemeral Arts CONTEXTS, organised by Julia Wielgus, Sokolowsko, Poland
La pleine lune dort la nuit, Musée d’art contemporain de la Haute-Vienne – Château de Rochechouart, Rochechouart
All the time that came before this moment, curated by Katharina Dunst and Jean-Claude Freymond-Guth, Kunst Raum Riehen, Riehen
Le Book Club, In collaboration with Nina Strand, Anna Planas and Pierre Hourquet, Fotogalleriet, Oslo
Sculpture from a Distance (Part II), Parker Gallery, Los Angeles
2019
Collectionner au 21e siècle, Si une accumulation, reflète une vie…, curated by Stéphane Ibars, Collection Lambert, Avignon
By repetition, you start noticing details in the landscape, curated by Yann Chateigné and Anny Serratì, Le Commun Bâtiment d’Art Contemporain (BAC), Geneva
Lo scherzo dell’arte, curated by Kasia Fudakowski and Roberto Fassone, organised by Leonardo Bigazzi, Lo schermo dell’arte (Short film festival), Palazzo Strozzi, Florence
Loitering Is Delightful, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles
The sound of silence, Praz-Delavallade, Los Angeles
Phenomenon 3, Anafi, Greece
Living in a Lightbulb, curated by Jenny Jaskey and Mia Locks, Tanya Bonakdar, Los Angeles
La Source, curated by Chiara Parisi, Villa Carmignac, Hyères
snap+share: transmitting photographs from mail art to social networks, curated by Clément Chéroux, SF MOMA, San Francisco
2018
Object Intimacies, curated by Jane Cavalier & Nicole Kaack, NURTUREart, Brooklyn, New York
Signal or Noise – The Photographic II, Curated by Martin Germann and Tanja Boon, S.M.A.K, Gent
The Tyranny of Distance, Curated by FLAX Project, Tin Flats, Los Angeles
The Tyranny of Distance, Curated by Translation, TALM, Angers
25 YEARS! SHARED HISTORIES, SHARED STORIES, Fotomuseum Winterthur
Metaphoria III, Organised by Lab’Bel, Curated by Silvia Guerra, Le CENTQUATRE-PARIS
The Sensation of the Sea – In honour of Bas Jan Ader, Curated by Joanna De Vos, The Mesdag Collection, The Hague
Zeitspuren, Curated by Samuel Leuenberger and Felicity Lunn, Pasquart Kunsthaus Centre d’Art in Biel/Bienne, CH
Art Basel Cities, Curated by Cecilia Alemani, Buenos Aires
Notes for a Shell #2, Plage de la Verrerie, Marseille
the camera and the hummingbird, fluent space, Santander
A Tale of Ingestion, Monitor, Lisbon
Catalogue, Showroom MAMA, Rotterdam
Fantasy is a place where it always rains, Fanta Spazio, Milan
2017
Take me (I’m Yours), Curated by Christian Boltanski, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Chiara Parisi, Roberta Tenconi, HangarBicocca, Milan
Carte blanche to Camille Henrot, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
The Vague Space. Sammlung Christian Kaspar Schwarm, Museum für moderne Kunst, Weserburg
While I Was Also Listening To David, Eleanor, Mariana, Genk, Jean, Mark, Daphné, Pierre, Shima, Simon, Zin, Christian and Virginie, Curated by Félicia Atkinson, Julien Bismuth, Sophie Kaplan et Yann Sérandour, La Criée centre for contemporary art, Rennes
Art of the Postcard, Selling exhibition of artists’ work with postcards, at 14 Florence Street, London
Tidalectics, curated by Stefanie Hessler, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (TBA21), Vienna
FIAC with ChertLüdde, Paris
Flowers are Documents – Arrangement I and II, Curated by Emanuele Guidi, ar/ge kunst, Bolzano
Duet with Artist. Participation as Artistic Principle, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen
Group Exhibition Curated by Asha Bukojemsky, Samuel Freeman gallery, Los Angeles
You can tell I’m alive and well because I weep continuously, Knockdown Center, New York
While I was also listening to David, Eleanor, Mariana, Delia, Genk, Jean, Mark, Pierre, Shima, Simon, Zin and Virginie, Criée centre of contemporary art, Curate by Felicia Atkinson, Julien Bismuth, Sophie Kaplan and Yann Sérandour, Rennes, France
Commercial Break, Public Art Fund 40th Anniversary, Public Art Fund, New York
2016
Sequences Art Festival, 10th Anniversary at Marshall House, Reykjavik
breathing space, Museum Arnhem, Netherlands
8688, curated by Diana Campbell Betancourt, Project 88, Colaba, Mumbai
A Moment In Time, BolteLang, Zürich
The Sun Placed in the Abyss, at Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus
Sea, curated by Monika Kozioł, MOCAK, Museum of Contemporary Art, Krakow
Group presentation at Artissima, Turin
The Distance of a Day: New in Contemporary Art, curated by Rita Kersting, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
I will go where I don’t belong, at Volcano Extravaganza, Stromboli
Par tibi, Roma, nihil, Palatin Hill, Rome
I’M WAITING FOR SOMEONE TO CALL ME, at Galeria Dawid Radziszewski, Warsaw
Six Weeks, in Time, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle
True Spirit, Galerie Allen, Paris
Publish or Perish, Transmitter Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
2015
Current Location, Waiting Room, Minneapolis
10th Baltic Biennial of Contemporary Art, Szczecin
Aquí hay dragones (Here be Dragons), La Casa Encendida, Madrid
Regular Expressions, 221A, Vancouver
Ocean of Images: New Photography 2015, at MoMA, New York
Bunting, Chemould Prescott Road, Mumbay
Transparencies, Bielefelder Kunstverein and Kunstverein Nürnberg
Triple Canopy presents Pattern Masters, Performance at Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
HPSCHD 1969>2015/Live Arts Week IV, Mambo, Bologna, Italy
The Secret Life, Murray Guy, New York
Night Begins the Day: Rethinking Space, Time, and Beauty, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco
Im Inneren der Stadt, Künstlerhaus Bremen
When we share more than ever, MKG Museum, Hamburg
Cool / As a state of mind, MAMO, Marseille
Group presentation at Art Cologne, with Chert, Berlin
Good luck with your natural, combined, attractive and truthful attempts in two exhibitions, Crac Alsace, Altkirsch
Mijn Vlakke Land, FoMu, Antwerp
more Konzeption, Conception now, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen
Tongue Stones, Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, New York
2014
Requiem for the Bibliophile, Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, CA
Scars of Our Revolution, Yvon Lambert, Paris
Kochi-Muziris Biennal, Fort Kochi, India
Crossing Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York
Ways of Working, According to an Office Desk, Upominki, Rotterdam
AGITATIONISM, EVA International 2014, curated by Bassam El Baroni, Ireland’s Biennial, Limerick City
Unseen Presence, IMMA, Dublin
#nostalgia, Glasgow International 2014, CCA, Glasgow
To Meggy Weiss Lo Surdo, Happy Hours, CO2 gallery, Turin
Canceled: Alternative Manifestations & Productive Failures, The Orseman Gallery, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts
Simultáneo, La Tallera, Cuernavaca, México
And I laid Traps for the Troubadours who get killed before they reached Bombay, Clark House Initiative, Bombay
Flag Stavanger, curated by Randi Grov Berger and co-presented by Entrée, Kunsthall Stavanger, Norway
video screening 25, ZERO, Milan
2013
Only to Melt, Trustingly, Without Reproach, curated by Tevz Logar, Skuc Gallery, Ljubljana
Editionshow, Chert, Berlin
I’ve Lost My Marbles, Totàl, Athens
And So On And So Forth, curated by Margit Sade Lehni, Centre for Contemporary Art Riga, Latvia
The Space Between Us, Courtesy, St-Ouen
Please Come to the Show: Part II (1980–Now), organised by David Senior, MoMA Library, New York
Canceled: Alternative Manifestations & Productive Failures, Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading, PA
Stranded Travelers, Atelier 35, Bucharest
Just what is it that makes today so familiar, so uneasy?, LIAF, Lofoten International Art Festival, Norway
Rematerialized New Galerie Paris/New York, New Galerie, Paris
on Off moments, Grimmuseum, Berlin
Le tamis et le sable 2/3: L’Intervalle, Instants Chavirés, Paris
New Eyes for New Spaces, ISCP, New York
Und everybody says yeah – on internet meme, The House of Electronic Arts, Basel
2012
The End(s) of the Library, Goethe-Institut New York Library, New York
The Making of Americans: A marathon reading of Gertrude Stein’s novel, Triple Canopy, New York
Let us keep our own noon, curated by David Horvitz, West, Den Haag
Rome Photo Festival, MACRO, Testaccio, Rome
Fair Exchange, curated by Taeyoon Choi, Eyebeam, New York
Canceled: alternative manifestations and productive failures, organised by Lauren van Haaften-Schic, Center for Book Arts, New York
Frieze, with Triple Canopy, New York
Group exhibition, Access Art, Vancouver
Matter Out of Place, The Kitchen, New York
Scenes of Selves, Occasions for Ruses, Surrey Art Gallery, Vancouver
In search of…, curated by Lennard Dost and Daniel Dennis de Wit, Academie Minerva, Groningen
the chief on top of the chief, MIRACLE & CONNELLY PRESENTS, Vancouver
Force Fields, curated by Alexis Granwell and Jenny Jaskey, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Philadelphia
2011
The Greater Cloud, curated by Petra Heck, Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam Worng, IMO, Copenhagen
Intimate Bureaucracies: Art and the Mail, curated by Zanna Gilbert, Art Exchange, University of Essex, Essex
Subject to Change, Fathom+Hatch, New York
The Best of 2011, Soloway, Brooklyn, New York
The Open Daybook, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles
FINISHED, Showpaper 42nd St Gallery, New York, New York
As Yet UnTitled, SF Camerawork, San Francisco
LATE Nights, Berkley Art Museum, Berkeley, California (performance)
2010
FREE, New Museum, New York
Different Repetitions, curated by David Senior, Booklyn, New York
Palling Around with Socialists, U-turn Art Space, Cincinnati, Ohio
We have as much time as it takes, Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco
FAX, Burnaby Art Gallery, Vancouver
An Immaterial Survey of our Peers, Chicago (online)
01, Presented by 01 Magazine, 107 Shaw Gallery, Toronto
The Page, Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, Orange, California
Burn, Baby, Burn!, DUVE Berlin, Berlin (group screening)
Cheat Codes: Lessons in Love, Space 204, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee (group screening)
2009
Into the Archive: Contemporary Art in the Bard College Stevenson Library, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
Session_7_Words, Am Nuden Da, London
Gifts by Artists, Art Meropole, Toronto
Young Collectors #1, Sign, Groningen
Tell Me Everything, As You Remember It, Creative Research Laboratory, Austin, Texas
Get Free%, Golden Parachutes, Berlin
Ideally, Utopics, Switzerland
Evading Customs, organized by Peter J. Russo and Lumi Tan, Brown, London
SF Camerawork, San Francisco
The World is Flat, curated by Rhizome, in No Soul For Sale, X-Initiative, New York
Light and Wire, Circus Gallery, Los Angeles
Unintended Uses, Nexus, Philadelphia
The Wild So Close, curated by Jennifer Cane, Or Gallery, Vancouver
2008
Gifts by Artists, Art Metropole, Toronto
Cycling Apparati, High Energy Constructs Gallery, Los Angeles
Line Up, Strip Down, Fade Out, Vanderbilt University Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee
I will Send You a Photograph of the Sky for Every Day, Galerie West, Den Haag
Egoesdayglow, 533 Gallery, Los Angeles
Here is Where You’ll Find Me, The Lab101, Culver City, California
Spacing Out, curated by Cinders Gallery, Space 1026, Philadelphia
Some Food We Could Not Eat, September Gallery, Chicago
To Illustrate and Multiply: An Open Book, curated by Lynda Bunting, MOCA, Los Angeles
Imagined California, Fort Gallery, San Francisco
2007
Photo Exhibition, The Smell, Los Angeles
1st Annual Juried Show, juror: Jorge Pardo, Treehouse Gallery, Los Angeles
Forever is not Long Enough, UCLA gallery 1250, Los Angeles
Between Thought and Expression, Sweeney Art Gallery, Riverside, California
2006
Chain, High Energy Constructs Gallery, Los Angeles
Greater LA, Cal State University Long Beach Art Department Gallery, Long Beach, California
Publications
2021
Catalogue: “Crocodile Cradle” by Simon Morretti, Mousse Publishing, Milan, 2021, ISBN: 978-88-6749-503-0
“For Ruth: The sky in Los Angeles” ed. by Kathleen Reinhardt, Yvon Lambert, ChertLüdde, Staatliche Kunstsammlung Dresden, Wende Museum, Spector Books, Leipzig, 2021. ISBN: 978-3-95905-405-8
“David Horvitz Newly Found Bas Jan Ader Film” by Ed Steck, Afterall Book, London, 2021. ISBN: 978-0-578-95793-7
“Change the name of the days” by David Horvitz and Natilee Harren, Jean Boîte Éditiobs & Yvon Lambert, Paris, June 2021. ISBN: 978-2-36568-053-0
“How To Survive – Kunst ale Überlegungsstrategie” by Carina Plath, Sprengel Museum Hannover, Die Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, ISBN: 978-3-89169-250-9
2020
“Performativity and disability” by Sally Miller in “Contemporary Photography and Theory Concepts and Debates”, Bloomsburry Visual Arts, London, New York, 2020, ISBN: 9781350003323
“David Horvitz” by Katharina Proksch in “A Long Time Short”, Ed.: Arthena Foundation, Verlag
Kettler, Bönen, ISBN: 978-3-86206-844-9
“Fluxus Forms: Scores, Multiples, and the Eternal Network”, by Natilee Harren, University of Chicago Press, ISBN: 978-0226354927
2019
“Nostalgia” by David Horvitz, Ed.: Gato Negro Ediciones, Mexico City, 2019.
“Steal the book while the sun rises over the horizon”, Edition Taube, ChertLüdde and Mousse Publishing, ISBN: 978-3-945900-24-6
“La Source”, Fondation Carmignac & Jean Boîte Editions, ISBN 978-2-36568-033-2
“Touch the sky with your eye”, Jean Boîte Éditions, Paris, France, ISBN: 978-2-36568-028-8
“Speaking and Listening” by LaCriée, Shelter Press, ISBN: 978-2-36582-028-8
2018
“Take Me (I’m Yours)” by Pirelli HangarBicocca, Mousse Publishing, ISBN: 978-88-6749-310-4
“When The Ocean Sounds”, Published by Yvon Lambert & Shelter Press
“Archival hardbound large photograph of Demian the cat”, bound by Small Editions NYC
2017
“A Disappearance from Winschoten”, Design by Bartolomé Sanson, Shelter Press
“Océan”, Yvon Lambert, Limited Edition, 50 exemplars
“Photo Book”, Artist book, Limited Editions
2016
“Stolen Spoons”, Artist book with Helga Christoffersen, Published by Pork Salad Press, Denmark, ISBN: 978-87-91409-77-6
2015
“Mood Disorder”, Chert & Motto Books & New Documents, ISBN: 9781927354230
2014
“Dublin Foxes”, Automatic Books, Dublin, Ireland
“Crossing Brooklyn: Art from Bushwick, Bed-Stuy, and Beyond”, exhibition catalogue, published by Brooklyn Museum, editor John Antonides, designer Jae-eun Chung, Brooklyn, NY
“Printed Web #1”, published by Library of the Printed Web, Long Island City, NY
“something between the jurisdiction of time”, published by Art in America, author David Horvitz and Alexander Provan, NY
“Mood Disorder – Printed Web #1”, printed paper, published by Paul Soulellis Library of the Printed Web Long Island City, New York 2014
2013
“It’s All About a Small Quiet Longing, or Maybe Something Else”, Brooklyn, NY
“Undoing Property?”, Edited by Marysia Lewandowska and Laurel Ptak, Sternberg Press, Berlin
“The Distance of a Day”, Motto Books & Chert, Berlin
“How to Shoplift Books (Come Rubare Libri)”, Automatic Books, Venice
“Comment voler des livres / Jak kraść książka”, (Polish and French translations of How to Shoplift Books), Automatic Books, Venice
“Cómo robber libros / Bogrov”, (Danish and Spanish translations of How to Shoplift Books), Automatic Books, Venice
“I was Serious, I was Eating Apples”, Automatic Books, Venice
“Watercolors”, Natalie Haüsler and David Horvitz, Eberl Print GmBH, Immenstadt, Bavaria
2012
“Public Access”, Publication Studio, Portland, Oregon
“Sad, Depressed, People”, New Documents, Los Angeles, California
2011
“The Open Daybook”, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, California
“My Grandmother’s Recipes”, Morova, Poznan, Poland
“Volume North + South”, Publication Studio, Portland, Oregon
2010
“Everything That Can Happen in a Day”, Mark Batty, Los Angeles
2009
“Rarely Seen Bas Jan Ader Film”, 2nd Cannons Publications, Los Angeles
2007
“Xiu Xiu: The Polaroid Projects”, published by Mark Batty Publisher, ISBN-10: 0979048656