Solo and Two-Person Shows
2022
“David Downs and Boris Ostrerov” Polonium Projects, Chicago, IL
2017
“David Downs” Betterday, Santa Fe, NM
2016
“Color and Light” Flatiron Arts Building, Chicago, IL
2011
“Xacbe: Traces of the Light Beyond” Mink & Arce Gallery, Chicago, IL
2006
“Age and Decay” The Lucky Cat, New York, NY
Select Group Shows
2022
“Glory Hole” Polonium Projects, Chicago, IL
2021
“Grommit Open Studios” Chicago, IL
2019
“Terrain Biennial” Chicago, IL
“Biennial 30” South Bend Art Museum, South Bend, IN
“This is where we draw the line” Uptown Arts Center, Chicago, IL
“Material Objectivity” Baby Blue Gallery, Chicago, IL
2018
Uptown Arts Center, Resident Group Show, Chicago, IL
2016
“Suffragate Social” Spudnik Press, Chicago, IL
“Conceptualize/Realize” Marwen Institute, Chicago, IL
2015
“Marwen Art Fair” Marwen Institute, Chicago, IL
2014
“[re]claimed” Semeiotic Gallery, Chicago, IL
“Marwen Art Fair” Marwen Institute, Chicago, IL
2011
“Artifice & Ambiguity” Mink & Arce Gallery, Chicago, IL
2010
“New American Landscape” Las Manos Gallery, Chicago, IL
“The Evidence Against Us” Las Manos Gallery, Chicago, IL
2009
“die Zeit of Drawing” Climate/Gallery, New York, NY
“New Works” Las Manos Gallery, Chicago, IL
“Deck Deck Deck” APW Gallery, New York, NY
“New Photographs” Las Manos Gallery, Chicago, IL
2005
“Emily Rosen and David Downs” Dick Blick Gallery, New York, NY
Published Works, Printed Exhibitions, Interviews:
2021
2019
Bad at Sports, ”Material Objectivity” Top Weekend Pick (1/10-1/16)
2018
2017
Average Art Magazine, March issue
2017
Polonium No3: Work (Sprocketbox Entertainment/Polonium Gallery)
2014
Polonium No2: NonObject (Sprocketbox Entertainment/Polonium Gallery)
Polonium No1: Sentiment (Sprocketbox Entertainment/Polonium Gallery)
2012
Figure Face Identity (Sprocketbox Entertainment)
2011
International Dictionary of Artists (World Wide Books)
2010
David Paul Downs, Recent Works (Sprocketbox Entertainment)
New American Landscape (Sprocketbox Entertainment)
die Zeit of Drawing (Climate/Gallery)
Awards and Residencies:
2021
Hopper Prize Finalist
2010
Community Arts Assistance Program (CAAP) Grant
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