b. 1946, Los Angeles, California
Currently lives and works in Santa Cruz, CA


Education

1967-1971   San Francisco Art Institute


Selected One-Person Exhibitions

2026

Magnetic Field, Gallery RAM, Bakersfield, CA

2025

Bakersfield Standards, Bakersfield Museum of Art, Bakersfield, CA

Still Life Work: A Twenty-year Survey, M. Stark Gallery, Half Moon Bay, CA

2024

Sobriety Test, Minnow Arts, Santa Cruz, CA

light | touch, light | space, Tuscon, AZ

2021

Astral Bridge, Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO

2020

Non-Linear Time: The Passion of Impermanence, The Great Highway Gallery,

San Francisco, CA

2019

Snow Pictures, The Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA

Organic Chemistry/ Works on Paper, Radius Books, Santa Fe, NM

2018

Three Lanterns and a Richard Nonas Postcard, The Great Highway Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2014

The Manresa Seasons, New Museum Los Gatos, Los Gatos, CA

Ranchland, The Great Highway Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2013

Altitude, Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO

to Morris Graves, The Morris Graves Museum of Art, Eureka, CA

2012

Travel: Rome, Namche, Bellas Artes Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

2011

Selections from to Morris Graves, Anderson Ranch Art Center, Snowmass, CO

2010

In Nature, Linda Durham Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM

2008

to Morris Graves, Salt Lake Museum of Art, Salt Lake, UT

to Morris Graves, Linda Durham Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM

2006

New Buddhas, Linda Durham Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM

2005

Wall, Pagoda, Filters, Lemmons Contemporary, New York, NY

2003

Winter Tracks, Linda Durham Contemporary Art, New York, NY

2002

Baroque Appointments and Machine Parts, Linda Durham Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM

2001

The Pacific Works: 1995-2001, Triton Museum, Santa Clara, CA

1996

Big Mind, Braunstein Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1994

Conscious Contact, Linda Durham Contemporary Art, Galisteo, NM

Higher Alertness, Braunstein Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1991

Rust and Ether, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

Tables and Machine Parts, Hokin-Kaufman Gallery, Chicago, IL

The Collection, Linda Durham Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM

1989

My Tibet, Linda Durham Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM

1979

Screens and Turbines, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA

1978

New Work, Thorpe/Kind/Braunstein Gallery, New York, NY

1975

Kimono, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA

1973

Outer Star, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA

 

Selected Group Exhibitions

2025

Undercurrents, Gallery RAM, Bakersfield, CA

Duologies, Robischon Gallery, Denver

2022

A Multiplicity of Ideas, Madelyn Jordon Fine Art, Scarsdale, NY

New Work, Yangyang Pan and David Kimball Anderson, Madelyn Jordon Fine Art, Scarsdale, NY

2020

Intimacy, Harvey Preston Gallery, Aspen, CO

The Ripple Effect, Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, CA

2018

Beach Industry, Blitzer Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA

2017

The Audacious Still Life, Madelyn Jordon Fine Art, Scarsdale, NY

2015

Land of Enchantment: New Mexico as Cultural Crossroads, Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE

2011

50 Years of Bay Area Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA

2009

Hearts and Souls, Salzkirche Tangermunde, Tangermunde, Germany

A Unique Pairing: Catherine Howe and David Kimball Anderson, Madelyn Jordon Fine Art, Scarsdale, NY

2003

Surf Culture: Art History of Surfing, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA

Gold, Linda Durham Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM

1991

Singular Visions: Contemporary Sculpture in New Mexico, Museum of Fine Arts,

Santa Fe, NM

1990

Some Interesting Sculptors Working in New Mexico, Stables Gallery, Taos, NM

1985

Skulls, Janie Beggs Gallery, Aspen, CO

1980

Sculpture in California, 1975-1980, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA

1975

The Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

 

Selected Public Collections

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY

Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM

Art in Embassies, Washington, DC

Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, University of California, Berkeley, CA

City of Easton, PA

Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM

National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, DC

Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV

Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University, Logan, UT

San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA

Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE

The Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA

The Village of Hastings-on-Hudson, NY

World Bank, Washington, DC

 

Grants and Awards

1993   John Michael Kohler Art Center, iron foundry residency, Kohler Corporation, Sheboygan, WI

1988   National Endowment for the Arts, individual fellowship

1986   Pollack-Krasner Foundation, individual grant

1981   National Endowment for the Arts, individual fellowship

1974   National Endowment for the Arts, individual fellowship

1972   Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, individual grant

 

Selected Bibliography

Adlmann, Jan E, Report from Santa Fe, Art in America, January 1995, pp.50-55

Asbury, Dana, The Visitor, Artspace, Summer, 1982, pg.16

Ballatore, Sandy, The Form and Fantasy of David Kimball Anderson, Artspace, March/April, 1990, pp.58-59

Brown, Sylvia, David Kimball Anderson at Braunstein, Art in America, May/June, 1978, pp.115, 123-124

Edwards, Jim, A Sculptor’s Response to a Painter, David Kimball Anderson, to Morris Graves, catalog essay, Salt Lake Museum of Art

Griggs, Brandon, to Morris Graves, Salt Lake Museum of Art, Sculpture, October, 2008, pp.75-76

Hillhouse, Susan, The Pacific Work: 1995-2001, catalog essay, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA

Johnson, Ken, Galleries: Chelsea, New York Times, October 31, 2004, Section B, p.40

Landi, Ann, Travel: Rome, Namche, Bellas Artes Gallery, Santa Fe, ARTnews, December, 2012, p.118

Peterson, William, Larry Bell, Bruce Nauman, David Kimball Anderson at Hill’s, Artspace, September, 1977, pp.52-54

Porges, Maria, catalog essay, Bakersfield Standards, Bakersfield Museum of Art, Bakersfield, CA

Walz, Jonathan Frederick, Winter Tracks: David Kimball Anderson’s Snow Pictures, catalog essay, The Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA

Wilson-Powell, Ma Lin, My Tibet, catalog essay, Linda Durham Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM

Wilson-Powell, Ma Lin, Deep Space and Rust, text, DAVID KIMBALL ANDERSON, WORK, 1969-2017, Radius Books, Santa Fe, NM

 

Professional Positions

2007-2019   Visiting Artist, Workshop Instructor, Anderson Ranch Art Center, Snowmass, CO

2010, 2012   Visiting Artist, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT

1997-2011   Lecturer, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA

1984-1992   Lecturer, University on New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM

1987-1989   College of Santa Fe/ Santa Fe Institute of the Arts, Professor, Sculpture Chairperson