Dave McKenzie

Portrait as a Ghost, 2004. Clay and acrylic paint, 21⁄2 × 2 × 2 inches. Photo Marc Bernier

A Small Monument, 2004. Foam core and cardboard, 45 × 32 × 9 1⁄2 inches.
Photo Marc Bernier

BIOGRAPHY

Born: Kingston, Jamaica, 1977
Resides: Brooklyn
Education: Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2000); University of the Arts (B.F.A., 2000)

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2006
“Haven’t Seen You in a Minute,” Gallery 40000, Chicago.

2005
“Portrait as a Ghost,” Savage Art Resources, Portland.

2004
“Together is Forever,” Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, Los Angeles.

Selected Group Exhibitions

2005
“Down the Garden Path,” Queens Museum of Art, New York. Catalogue.

2004
“Me, Myself and I,” Schmidt Center, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton.
“Figuratively: Dave McKenzie, Wangechi Mutu, William Villalongo,” Studio Museum in Harlem,
New York. Catalogue.
“Open House: Working in Brooklyn,” Brooklyn Museum. Catalogue.

2003
“American Idyll,” Metrotech Center Commons, Brooklyn. Catalogue.
“24/7,” Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania.
“In Practice,” Sculpture Center, Long Island City, New York.
“Videos In Progress: Dave McKenzie,” RISD Museum, Rhode Island.

2002
“Stray Show,” Kingsbury Place, Chicago.
“Videodrome II,” New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York. Traveled.
“Americas Remixed,” The Factory of the Vapor, Milan, Italy. Catalogue.
“Room for a Revolution,” Deluxe Gallery, Chicago.
“Queens International,” Queens Museum of Art, New York. Catalogue.
“Listening to New Voices,” P.S.1 Center for Contemporary Art, Long Island City, New York.
“Supervideonight,” Gale Gates, New York.
“Slow Dive,” Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco.
“Multiplicity,” Midway Gallery, St. Paul, Minnesota.

2001
“Something/Nothing—Passport to the State of Flux,” Art in General, New York.
“Material World,” Susquehanna Art Museum/VanGo, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
“Freestyle,” Studio Museum in Harlem, New York. Catalogue. Traveled.
“In/SITE/Out: Inquiries into Social Space,” Apex Art, New York.

Selected Bibliography

2005
Ligon, Glenn. “Openings: Dave McKenzie,” Artforum (September).

2004
Cotter, Holland. “Black Comes in Many Shadings,” The New York Times (August 13).
Mills, Michael. “Through a Fractured Lens,” Broward New Times (November 18).
Ligon, Glenn. “Black Light: David Hammons and the Poetics of Emptiness,” Artforum (September).
Weinberg, Michelle. “It’s All about Me,” Miami New Times (November 25).

2003
Ranger, Abby. “What’s Paul Bunyan Doing at Metrotech?” Brooklyn Eagle (September 26).

2002
Heuer, Megan. “Queens International,” The Brooklyn Rail (fall).
Van Dyke, Aaron. “Multiplicity,” New Art Examiner (May–June).

2001
Cotter, Holland. “A Full Studio Museum Show Starts with 28 Young Artists and a Shoehorn,” The New York Times (May 11).
Princenthal, Nancy. “Freestyle,” Artext (August–October).
Saltz, Jerry. “POST-BLACK Radical Intelligence at the Studio Museum in Harlem,” Village Voice (May 22).
Schjeldahl, Peter. “Breaking Away: A Flowering of Young African-American Artists,” The New Yorker
(June 11).
Valdez, Sarah. “Freestyling,” Art in America (September).