David Downs

David Downs is an interdisciplinary artist born in 1978 in St. Louis, Missouri. Currently he works in Chicago, Illinois. Since 2005 his work has been exhibited in South Bend Museum of Art, Las Manos Gallery, and Baby Blue Gallery. David is a recipient of the Chicago Artist Assistance Program Grant (2010), and a resident artist at Spudnik Press (2016). His work has also been featured in Barbed, Average Art, and WERKS magazines.

Art Institute of Chicago
Oakton College
Meramec College

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 Ga...