David Reed

#785

2018 - 2023 / Acrylic on polyester / 87 × 193 × 4 cm

#782

2018 - 2023 / Acrylic on polyester / 84 × 193 × 4 cm

#781

2018 - 2023 / Acrylic on polyester / 77 × 163 × 5 cm

#778

2018 - 2023 / Acrylic on polyester / 77 × 163 × 5 cm

#775

2018 - 2023 / Acrylic and alkyd on polyester / 77 × 163 × 4 cm

#762

2022 - 2023 / Acrylic on polyester / 76 × 252 × 4 cm

#761

2022 - 2023 / Acrylic on polyester / 82 × 259 × 4 cm

#701-2

2017 - 2018 / 2022 - 2023 / Acrylic on polyester / 69 × 257 × 5 cm

#708

2018 - 2019 / Oil, alkyd and acrylic on polyester / 45 x 305 cm

#740

2021 / Oil, acrylic and alkyd on polyester / 193 x 28 cm

#737

2020 / Oil, alkyd and acrylic on canvas / 193 x 28 cm

#731

2020 / Acrylic on canvas / 193 × 28 cm

#738

2021 / Oil, alkyd and acrylic on polyester / 193 x 28 cm

#543, 67x132cm

2004-2006/ 2010-2013 / Oil, alkyd and acrylic on canvas / 67 x 132 cm

Color study #3

2020 / Acrylic, alkyd and oil on dibond / 34 × 70 cm

Color Study #1

2020 / Acrylic, alkyd and oil on illustration board / 33,5 × 74 cm

#678

2015–2017 / Oil. alkyd, acrylic on polyester / 66 × 297 cm

#667

2017–2018 / Acrylic on polyester / 45 × 410 cm

#670

2014 - 2015/2016 - 2017 / Acrylic on polyester / 2 attached canvases / 45 × 410 cm

#637

2003 – 2013 / Alkyd and oil on linen / 132 × 320 cm

Color Study #8

2017 / Alkyd and acrylic on dibond / 43,5 × 77,8 cm

Color Study #28

2016 / Acrylic, oil on illustration board / 24,5 × 24,5 cm

Color Study #1

2017 / Alkyd on styrene / 28 × 55 cm

Working Drawing for #678, page 2

2015-2017 / Mixed media on paper / 28 × 43,2 cm

Color Studies for painting #642, F canvases

2014 / Oil, alkyd and acrylic on dibond / 29 × 53 cm each

Color Studies for painting #643, B canvases

2014 / Oil, alkyd and pencil on dibond / 29 × 57 cm; 29 × 48 cm; 29 × 48 cm

Color Studies for painting #645, E and G canvases

2014 / Oil, alkyd and acrylic on dibond / 29 × 46 cm; 29 × 57 cm; 29 × 43 cm

Sky Drawing

1967 / Charcoal on paper / 122 × 123 cm

Working Drawing for #552

2006-2010 / Mixed media on paper / 43,2 × 28 cm

Paintings / Drawings / Studies

David Reed at Open Galleries 2010

#668

2014–2017 / Oil. alkyd, acrylic on polyester / 71 × 285 cm

David Reed CV

born 1946, San Diego;
lives and works in New York

Grands, Awards, Fellowships

2001 Ursula Blickle Stiftung / Kunstförderpreis für Malerei

 Skowhegan / Medal for Painting

1991 National Endowment for the Arts / Visual Arts Fellowship

1988 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation / Fellowship

1969 Roswell Museum and Art Center / Grant

1966 Rockefeller Foundation / Fellowship

Solo Exhibitions

2023 David Reed, Galerie Anke Schmidt, Cologne (GER)

2022 DAVID REED, Gagosian Gallery, Basel (CH)

2020 DAVID REED – New Paintings / Gagosian Gallery / 980 Madison / New York (USA)

2019 DAVID REED - VICE AND REFLECTION #2 / NEUES MUSEUM Staatliches Museum für Kunst und Design Nürnberg / Nürnberg (Germany)

 DAVID REED - Zeichnungen / Kunst Museum Winterthur - Beim Stadthaus / Winterthur (Switzerland)

2018 Recent Paintings / Galerie Anke Schmidt / Cologne (Germany)

2017 Painting Paintings (David Reed) 1975 / Gagosian Gallery / New York (USA) / curated by Katy Siegel and Christopher Wool

 Trouvailles / David Reed and Richard Allen Morris / Häusler Contemporar / Zurich (Switzerland)

2016 David Reed: Vice and Reflection – An Old Painting, New Paintings and Animations / Pérez Art Museum Miami / Miami (USA)

 Painting Paintings (David Reed) 1975 / Rose Art Museum / Waltham (USA) / curated by Katy Siegel and Christopher Wool

 David Reed - New Paintings / Peter Blum Gallery / New York (USA)

2015 DAVID REED - The Mirror And The Pool / Kunstmuseen Krefeld, Haus Lange / Krefeld (Germany)

 Two By Two, Mary Heilmann & David Reed / Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart / Berlin (Germany)

2013 Recent Paintings / Galerie Schmidt Maczollek / Cologne (Germany)

 Recent Paintings / Häusler Contemporary / Zurich (Switzerland)

2012 Heart of Glass - Paintings and Drawings 1967 - 2012 / Kunstmuseum Bonn / Bonn (Germany)

2011 Galeria Marta Cevera / Madrid (Spain)

 Galerie Peder Lund / Oslo (Norway)

2010 Galerie Schmidt Maczollek / Cologne (Germany)

 Works on paper, Peter Blum / New York, NY (USA)

2009 Recent Paintings / Häusler Contemporary / Munich (Germany)

2008 David Reed: Lives of Paintings / Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College / Portland, OR (USA) / cat.

2007 New Paintings / Max Protech Gallery / New York, NY (USA)

2006 Galerie Schmidt Maczollek / Cologne (Germany)

 Leave Yourself Behind / Luckman Fine Arts Complex, California State University / Los Angeles, CA (USA)

2005 Galerie Bob van Orsouw / Zurich (Switzerland)

 Leave yourself behind. Paintings and Special Projects 1967–2005 / Ulrich Museum of Art / Wichita State (USA)

2004 Max Protetch Gallery / New York, NY (USA)

 Galerie Xippas / Paris (France)

2003 Galerie Rolf Ricke / Cologne (Germany)

2002 Max Protetch Gallery / New York, NY (Germany)

 Patricia Faure Gallery / St. Monica (USA)

2001 David Reed. You look good in blue / Kunstmuseum St. Gallen / St. Gallen (Switzerland) / cat.

2000 Galerie Rolf Ricke / Cologne (Germany)

1999 David Reed – Painting/Vampire Study Center / Goldie Paley Gallery, Moore College of Art and Design / Philadelphia, PA (USA)

 Max Protetch Gallery / New York, NY (USA)

1998 David Reed Paintings: Motion Pictures / Museum of Contemporary Art / San Diego, CA SA / Wexner Center for the Arts, The Ohio State University / Columbus, OH (USA) / Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University / Waltham, MS (USA) / P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center / Long Island City / New York (USA)

 Max Protetch Gallery / New York, NY (USA)

1997 Galerie Rolf Ricke / Cologne (Germany)

 Patricia Faure Gallery / Los Angeles, CA (USA)

1996 New Paintings for the Mirror Room and Archive in a Studio off the Courtyard, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum / Graz (Austria)

1995 David Reed / Kölnischer Kunstverein / Cologne (Germany) / Württembergischer Kunstverein / Stuttgart (Germany) / Westfälischer Kunstverein / Münster (Germany) / with Beat Streuli

 Max Protetch Gallery / New York, NY (USA)

1993 Galerie Rolf Ricke / Cologne (Germany)

1992 Max Protetch Gallery, New York (USA)

 Walter and McBean Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute / San Francisco, CA (USA)

1991 Galerie Rolf Ricke / Cologne (Germany)

 Max Protetch Gallery / New York, NY (USA)

1989 Max Protetch Gallery / New York, NY (USA)

1988 Asher Faure Gallery / Los Angeles, CA (USA)

 Max Protetch Gallery / New York, NY (USA)

1986 Max Protetch Gallery / New York, NY (USA)

1985 Max Protetch Gallery / New York, NY (USA)

1983 Max Protetch Gallery / New York, NY (USA)

1980 Institute for Art and Urban Resources / The Clocktower / New York, NY (USA)

 Painting Residency / Fashion Moda, Bronx / New York, NY (USA)

1979 Max Protetch Gallery / New York, NY (USA)

 Nancy Lurie Gallery, Chicago (USA)

1977 Max Protetch Gallery / New York, NY (USA)

 Protetch-McIntosh Gallery / Washington, DC (USA)

1976 Rush Rhees Gallery, University of Rochester / New York, NY (USA)

1975 Susan Caldwell Gallery / New York, NY (USA)

 Faculty Office Building Gallery, Reed College / Portland, OR (USA)

Group Exhibitions

2024 Hovering on the Edge / Timothy Taylor / London (GB)

 Von Gerhard Richter bis Mary Heilmann. Abstrakte Malerei aus Privat- und Museumsbesitz / Kunstmuseum Winterthur / Winterthur (CH)

 Pictorial Resonance / Galerie Thomas Schulte / Berlin (Germany)

 Die Sammlung Haniel - Der eigene Weg / Museum Küppersmühle / Duisburg (Germany)

2023 Paper Pulp / Galerie Anke Schmidt / Cologne (Germany)

 To Bend the Ear of the Outer World / Gagosian Gallery / London (UK)

 Given Time / The Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation, New York (USA) / curated by Molly Sullivan

2023 Given Time / The Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation / New York / curated by Molly Sullivan

2022 The Fiction of Property I / Kienzle Art Foundation / Berlin (Germany)

2021 Can't take my eyes off you / Galerie Anke Schmidt / Cologne (Germany)

2020 Marking Time: Process in Minimal Abstraction / Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum / New York (USA)

2019 Alles Farbe! Jörn Stoya und die Sammlung des Museum Morsbroich / Museum Morsbroich / Leverkusen (Germany)

 INGRID CALAME, FABIAN MARCACCIO, CARL OSTENDARP, DAVID REED Frozen Gesture - Gesten in der Malerei von Roy Lichtenstein bis Katharina Grosse / Kunst Museum Winterthur - Beim Stadthaus / Winterthur (Switzerland)

2016 Concept and Idea in Art / Kunstraum Alexander Bürkle / Fribourg (Germany)

 Drama Queens. Die inszenierte Sammlung / Museum Morsbroich / Leverkusen (Germany)

 Jackson Pollock's 'Mural': Energy Made Visible / Museo Picasso / Málaga (Spain)

 PAINTING 2.0 Malerei im Informationszeitalter / mumok / Vienna (Austria)

 Richard Allen Morris and David Reed / Häusler Contemporary Munich / Munich (Germany)

 How to be unique - Sammlung Kienzle / Kienzle Art Foundation / Berlin / cavuspace / Berlin (Germany)

 DRAWINGS / Galerie Anke Schmidt / Cologne (Germany)

 Splotch / Sperone Westwater Gallery / New York (USA)

 A quoi tient la beauté des étreintes / FRAC / Auvergne, / Clermont Ferrand (France)

 Order and Color / A Dialogue with Collection Günter Hackenberg / Häusler Contemporary Munich / Munich (Germany)

2015 PAINTING 2.0 - Expression in the Information Age / Museum Brandhorst / Munich (Germany)

 Schön, euch zu sehen. 160 Werke aus der Sammlung / Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein / Vaduz (Liechtenstein)

 Random Sampling - Paintings from Sammlung Goetz / Haus der Kunst / Munich (Germany)

 Jackson Pollock's 'Mural': Energy Made Visible / Deutsche Bank KunstHalle /Berlin (Germany)

 Elementary Painting / Kunstmuseum St. Gallen / St. Gallen (Switzerland)

 12 Painters: The Studio School, 1974/2014 / Steven Kasher Gallery / New York (USA)

 L'Oiseau présente - "Be Abstract" / Berlin (Germany)

 Summer Group Exhibition / Quint Gallery / La Jolla (USA)

2014 Elementary Painting / Kunstmuseum St. Gallen / St. Gallen (Switzerland)

 Thinking Through Painting / The Royal Academy of Arts / Stockholm (Sweden)

 Pictures of Everything / Harris Gallery / University of La Verne, CA (USA)

 EIGHT BOOKS, TWO WEEKS / Kienbaum Artist's Books, t.a.t. new talents / Cologne (Germany)

 DAVID REED & JAMES TURELL / Häusler Contemporary / Lustenau (Austria)

 Works on Paper 1963-2013 / Galerie Anke Schmidt / Cologne (Germany)

 Sie griff in den Tomatensalat und schob sich ein Stück Rot in den Mund / Häusler Contemporary / Munich (Germany)

2013 The Indiscipline of Painting / Mead Gallery / Coventry (UK)

 ENTRÉE LIBRE MAIS NON OBLIGATOIRE / Villa Arson / Nice (France) / organized by Noël Dolla

 Temperamente auf Papier II / Häusler Contemporary / Zurich (Switzerland)

 Misdirect Movies / The Royal Standard / Liverpool (UK) / travels to Standpoint Gallery / London (UK) / to Greyfriars / Lincoln (UK) / to Meter Room / Coventry (UK) / curated by Andrew Bracey and John Rimmer

2012 Movement, MAGAZINE 4 / Bregenzer Kunstverein / Bregenz (Austria) / curated by Jörg van den Berg and Wolfgang Fetz

 Conceptual Abstraction / Hunter College Times Square Gallery / New York, NY (USA)

 Conspiracies of Illusion: Protection of Time & Space / McMaster Museum of Art, McMaster University / Hamilton Ontario (Canada) / curated by Mark A. Cheetham, Andy Patton and Christine Sprengler

 Summer Series / Quint Contemporary Art / La Jolla, California (USA)

 DECADE: Contemporary Collection / Albright-Knox Art Gallery / Buffalo, NY (USA)

 THE SLIDE SHOW, Mekanism Skateboards / FRAC / Auvergne (France)

 A Abstraction / Galerija Contra / Koper (Slovenia)

 The Gallery Collection / Galerie Bob van Orsouw / Zurich (Switzerland) / curated by Beda Achermann

 The Happy Fainting of Painting / Zwinger Gallery / Berlin (Germany) / organized by Hans Jürgen Hafner and Gunter Reski

 New York Painting / Häusler Contemporary / Munich (Germany)

2011 Itsy Bitsy Spider / Galerie Schmidt Maczollek / Cologne (Germany)

 75th Anniversary-American Abstract Artists / OK Harris Works of Art / New York, NY (USA)

 75th Anniversary-American Abstract Artists International / Galerie oqbo and Deutscher Künstlerbund Projektraum / Berlin (Germany) / initiators Don Voisine and Michael Bause

 William Eggleston and David Reed / Peder Lund / Oslo (Norway)

 70 Years of Collecting / Weatherspoon Art Museum / Greensboro, North Carolina (USA)

2010 Move on up / Galerie Schmidt Maczollek / Cologne (Germany)

 Surprise no 2 – W. Bullinger, A. Eloyan, D. Reed / Gallerie Bob von Orsouw / Zurich (Switzerland)

 INSIDE OUT / Susan Inglett Gallery / New York, NY (USA) / curated by Eli Ping

 Color and Conten / Kunstmuseum Bonn / Bonn (Germany)

 Palm Paintings / Buchmann Galerie / Berlin (Germany)

 Painting: Process and Expansion / Museum Moderner Kunst Wien / MUMOK / Vienna (Austria)

 Until Now: Collecting the New / 1960-2010 / Minneapolis Institute of Art / Minneapolis, Minnesota (USA)

 Mapping the Region / Museum Folkwang / Essen (Germany)

 Babel / Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain Centre / Auvergne (France)

 Highlights of the Schaufler Collection / Schauwerk Sindelfingen / Sindelfingen (Germany)

2009 Sammlung Reloaded / Bonn (Germany) / curated by Stephan Berg and Christoph Schreier - Kunstmuseum Bonn

 Mix: Nine San Diego Architects and Designers / Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego / San Diego, California (USA)

 Rewind, Fast Forward / Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum / Graz (Austria)

 La Rose Pourpre du Caire – Making of et Bande Annonce; Art Contemporain et Cinéma / FRAC / Auvergne (France) / Musée d’Art et d’Archéologie / Aurillac (France)

2008 Las Vegas Collects Contemporary / Las Vegas Art Museum / Las Vegas, NV (USA)

 Sehnsucht (Aspiration) / Light & Sie / Dallas, TX (USA) / curated by Georges Armaos

 The 183rd Annual: An invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art / National Academy Museum / New York, NY (USA)

 Silent Films & Bedroom Painting / The Lab / Lakewood, CO (USA) / curated by Adam Lerner

 David Reed and Klaus Merkel / Galerie Thomas Flor / Dusseldorf (Germany)

 Rochelle Feinstein and David Reed / The Suburban / Oak Park, IL (USA)

 abstrakt (abstract) / Museum Moderner Kunst Kaernten / Kaernten (Austria) / curated by Andrea Madesta / cat.

2007 There is Desire Left (Knock Knock), Werke aus der Sammlung Mondstudio / Kunstmuseum Bern / Bern (Switzerland) / curated by Claudine Metzger / cat.

 BILINGUAL / Art at the intersection of Painting and Video / Glass Curtain Gallery / Chicago, IL (USA) / curated by Tracy Marie Taylor

 Lust for Life, The Ricke Collection / Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein / Vaduz (Liechtenstein) / travelling group show / curated by Christiane Meyer-Stoll / cat.

 Beyond A Gift Of Time / Roswell Museum and Art Center / Roswell, NM (USA) / cat.

 Das Kapital. Blue Chips and Masterpieces / Museum für Moderne Kunst / Frankfurt (Germany)

 Brave Lonesome Cowboy: Western Topoi in Contemporary Art or: For John Wayne’s 100th Birthday / Galerien der Stadt Esslingen / Esslingen (Germany) / Villa Merkel / Esslingen (Germany) / Kunstmuseum St. Gallen / St. Gallen (Switzerland) / curated by Konrad Bitterli / cat.

 RoseArt. Works from the Permanent Collection / The Rose Art Museum of Brandeis University / Waltham, MA (USA)

 Not for Sale / P.S.1 / New York, NY (USA)

2006 Transformation – From our Collection / Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein / Vaduz (Liechtenstein)

 Une simple question de temps. Conversation entre les collections du FRAC Auvergne et du Musée Crozatier / Musée Crozatier / Le Puy-en Velay (France)

 New York Next: The Contemporary Blanton / Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art / Austin, TX (USA)

 Clear Cuts / Sammlung Wolkenlos, Die Privatsammlung von Michael Stankiewicz Schloss Raabs / Raabs a.d.Thaya (Austria)

2005 Vertiges: Printemps de Septembre a Toulouse / Les Abattoirs (France) / curated by Jean-Marc Bustamante / cat.

 What’s New Pussycat? / Neuerwerbungen und Sammlung Ströher / Museum für Moderne Kunst / Frankfurt (Germany)

 Willem de Kooning / BA-CA Kunstforum / Vienna (Austria) / curated by Florian Steininger

 Populence Blaffer Gallery / The Art Museum of the University of Houston / Houston, TX (USA) / cat.

 Extreme Abstraction / Albright Knox Museum / Buffalo, NY (USA) / cat.

 Dreams / Galerie André Buchmann / Cologne (Germany)

 Especial / Galerie Schmidt Maczollek / Cologne (Germany)

 Sweet Temptations – Dialoge mit der Sammlung Rolf Ricke / Kunstverein St. Gallen Kunstmuseum / St. Gallen (Switzerland)

 Me, myself, I / Kunstverein St. Gallen Kunstmuseum / St. Gallen (Switzerland)

2004 Me Myself I. – Konstruktionen von Raum und Identität in der Kunst der Gegenwart / Kunstmuseum St. Gallen / St. Gallen (Switzerland) / curated by Konrad Bitterli

 Gesture Suggestion Vous Etes Ici / Amsterdam (The Netherlands)

 Paintings that Paint Themselves, or so it seems / Kresge Art Museum / East Lansing, MI (USA)

 Painting Now: Selections from the Permanent / Collection Museum of Contemporary Art / San Diego, CA (USA)

 Le Syndrome de Babylone / Centre d’Art Contemporain de la Villa du Parc / Geneve (Switzerland)

 Still mapping the moon – Perspektiven zeitgenössischer Malerei/Perspectives on Contemporary Painting / Kunstmuseum Bonn / Bonn (Germany) / cat.

 David Reed / Malerei Sammlung Kunst / Neues Museum / Nuremberg (Germany)

 Surface Tension / Chelsea Art Museum / New York, NY (USA) / curated by Manon Slome / cat.

 The Void and the Plentitude / Museum Haus Esters / Krefeld (Germany) / curated by Martin Hentschel

 In the Spotlight / The Rose Art Museum of Brandeis University / Waltham, MA (USA)

 100 Artists See God / New York, NY (USA) / traveled to The Contemporary Jewish Museum / San Francisco, CA (USA) / Laguna Arts Museum / Laguna, CA (USA) / Institute of Contemporary Arts / London (UK) / Contemporary Arts Center of Virginia / Virginia Beach, VA (USA) / Albright College Freedman Art Gallery / Reading, PA (USA) / Cheekwood Museum of Art / Nashville, TN (USA) / curated by John Baldessari and Meg Cranston / organized by Independent Curators International curated by John Baldessari and Meg Cranston, organized by Independent Curators International / cat.

2003 Postimpact Portalakis Collection / Athens (Greece) / cat.

 Perpetuum Mobile / Galerie Rolf Ricke / Cologne (Germany) / curated by Günter Umberg

 Painting Pictures. Malerei und Medien im digitalen Zeitalter Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg / Wolfsburg (Germany)

 Trespassing: Houses X Artists / MAK Center for Art and Architecture / Los Angeles, CA (USA)

 Schokolade, was denn sonst: Sammlung Rolf Ricke / Kunstraum Innsbruck / Innsbruck (Austria)

 We Love Painting: The Contemporary American Art from Misumi Collection / Museum of Contemporary Art / Tokyo (Japan)

2002 Another World: Zwölf Bettgeschichten / Twelve Bedroom Stories / Kunstmuseum Luzern / Luzern (Switzerland) / cat.

 Mood River / Wexner Center for the Arts / The Ohio State University / Columbus, OH (USA) / curated by Jeffrey Kipnis / cat.

 The Magic Hour: Die Konvergenz von Kunst und Las Vegas / Neue Galerie im Künstlerhaus / Graz (Austria) / curated by Alex Farquharson / cat.

 Pleasures of Sight and States of Being / Museum of Fine Arts, Florida State University / Tallahassee, FL (USA) / curated by Roland Nasgaard / cat.

 Einfach Kunst: Sammlung Rolf Ricke / Staatliches Museum für Kunst und Design / Nuremberg (Germany)

 Raum für Malerei / Kaiser Wilhelm Museum Krefeld / Krefeld (Germany)

2001 Lateral Thinking: Art of the 1990’s / Museum of Contemporary Art / San Diego, CA (USA)

 Vertigo Ursula Blickle Stiftung / Kraichtal (Germany)

 Hybrids: International Contemporary Painting / Tate Liverpool / Liverpool (UK)

 Ornament and Abstraction / Fondation Beyeler / Basel (Switzerland)

2000 how you look at it: Photographs of the 20th Century / Sprengel Museum / Hannover (Germany)

 Body of Painting / Museum Ludwig / Cologne (Germany)

 Das Gedächtnis der Malerei / Aargauer Kunsthaus / Aarau (Switzerland)

1999 Special Offer / Kasseler Kunstverein / Kassel (Germany)

 Notorious: Alfred Hitchcock and Contemporary Art / Museum of Modern Art / Oxford (UK)

 Moving Images / Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst / Leipzig (Germany)

1998 Geistes Gegenwart / Diözesanmuseum, Freising and Heilig-Geist-Kirche / Landshut (Germany)

 Pop Abstraction / Museum of American Art of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts / Philadelphia, PA (USA)

 Interior Landscapes / an Exhibition from the Collection of Clifford Diver / Delaware Art Museum / Wilmington, DE (USA)

1997 Theories of the Decorative: Abstraction and Ornament in Contemporary Painting / Inverleigh House, Royal Botanic Garden / Edinburg (Scotland) / Edwin A. Ulrich Museum / Wichita State University / Wichita, KS (USA) / Primarily Paint Museum of Contemporary Art / San Diego, CA (USA)

 After the Fall: Aspects of Abstract Painting Since 1970 / Snug Harbor Cultural Center / Staten Island, NY (USA)

 Critiques Of Pure Abstraction / Independent Curators, Inc. / New York, NY (USA)

 Relations Between Contemporary Architecture and Painting: Greg Lynn, Fabian Marcaccio, David Reed, Jesse Reiser / Nanako Umemoto / Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn und Taxis / Bregenz (Austria)

1996 Nuevas Abstracciones / Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia / Madrid (Spain) / Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona / Barcelona (Spain) / Kunsthalle Bielefeld / Bielefeld (Germany)

1995 Pittura/Immedia: Malerei in der 90er Jahren / Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum / Graz (Austria)

 Das Abenteuer der Malerei / Württembergischer Kunstverein / Stuttgart (Germany) and Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen / Dusseldorf (Germany)

 Repicturing Abstraction: The Politics of Space, The Abducted Image, Basic Nature, From Impulse to Image / Virginia Museum of Fine Arts / Richmond, IN (USA)

 Going for Baroque: 18 Contemporary Artists Fascinated with the Baroque and Rococco / The Contemporary and The Walters Collection / Baltimore, MD (USA)

1994 Chance, Choice, and Irony / Todd Gallery / London (UK) / John Hansard Gallery / University Southhampton (UK)

1993 Fractured Seduction: New Conceptual Abstract Painting, Eight Artists from New York / Artifact Gallery / Tel Aviv (Israel)

 New York Painters: Donald Baechler, Ross Bleckner, Peter Halley, Jonathan Lasker, Richard Prince, David Reed, Peter Schuyff, Philip Taaffe, Christopher Wool / Sammlung Goetz, / Munich (Germany)

 Der zerbrochene Spiegel: Positionen zur Malerei / Museumsquatier Messeplatz und Kunsthalle Wien / Vienna (Austria) / Deichtorhallen / Hamburg (Germany)

 Prospect 93: Eine Internationale Ausstellung aktueller Kunst / Frankfurter Kunstverein and Schirn Kunsthalle / Frankfurt (Germany)

1992 Slow Art: Painting in New York Now / Institute for Art and Urban Resources, P.S.1 / Long Island City, N (USA)

1991 Conceptual Abstraction / Sidney Janis Gallery / New York, NY (USA)

 Contemporary Abstract Painting: Resnick, Reed, Laufer, Moore Muscarelle / Museum of Art, College of William and Mary / Williamsburg, NY (USA)

1989 Biennial Exhibition Whitney / Museum of American Art / New York, NY (USA)

 Aus meiner Sicht: Eine Ausstellung von Rolf Ricke / Galerie Ricke; Kölnischer Kunstverein / Cologne (Germany)

1988 A New Generation The 80’s: American Painters and Sculptors / The Metropolitan Museum of Art / New York, NY (USA)

 Seven American Abstract Artists / Ruggerio Henis Gallery / New York, NY (USA)

1987 Monsters: The Phenomena of Dispassion / Barbara Toll Fine Arts, Inc. / New York, NY (USA) / curated by Günter Umberg

 The Four Corners of Abstract Painting – From Sincerity to Sarcasm, from Formalism to Expressionsim / White Columns / New York, NY (USA)

 Print–Film / Bess Cutler Gallery / New York, NY (USA)

 Generations Of Geometry: Abstract Panting in America Since 1930 / Whitney Museum of American Art at Equitable Center / New York, NY (USA)

1985 An Invitational / CondesoLawler Gallery / New York, NY (USA)

 The Art of the 1970’s and 1980’s / Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art / Ridgefield, CT (USA)

1984 Invitational Painting Exhibition: Part 1, Twelve Abstract Painters / Siegel Contemporary Art / New York, NY (USA)

1983 Language, Drama, Source, and Vision / New Museum of Contemporary Art / New York, NY (USA)

 Three Painters: Sean Scully, David Reed, Ted Stamm / Zenith Gallery / Pittsburgh, P (USA)

1982 Abstract Painting / Maryland Institute College of Art / Baltimore, MD (USA)

1980 Recent Acquisitions / La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art / La Jolla, CA (USA)

 Investigations: Probe, Structure, Analysis: Agnes Denes, Lauren Ewing, Vernon Fisher, Stephen Prina, David Reed / New Museum of Contemporary Art / New York, NY (USA)

1978 Two Decades of Abstraction / University Galleries, University of South Florida / Tampa, USA (USA)

1977 Recent Acquisitions / Centre Nationale d’Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou / Paris (France)

1976 Max Protetch Gallery / New York, NY (USA)

1975 Abstraction: Alive and Well / State University College, Potsdam / New York, NY (USA)

 Fourth Annual Contemporary Reflections 1974–75 / Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, USA (USA)

 Biennial Exhibition / Whitney Museum of American Art / New York, NY (USA)

1974 Marylin Lenkowsky, David Reed, Herbert Schiffrin / Susan Caldwell Gallery / New York, NY (USA)

1973 Lo Guidice Gallery / New York, NY (USA)

1972 Six Painters in the ’70s: Abstract Painting in New York / Ackland Art Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill / Chapel Hill, NC (USA)

1970 A Clean Well-Lighted Place / Austin, TX (USA)

 A Gift of Time / Santa Fe Museum of Fine Arts / Santa Fe, CA (USA)