BIOGRAPHY
Born: Lockhart, Louisiana, 1962
Resides: Houston, Texas
Education: Prairie View A&M University (B.F.A., 1985)
Website: inmangallery.com

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
“The Tarot Cards and the Gloria Paintings,” Inman Gallery, Houston, Texas.

2017
“Urban Dread and the Complications of Water,” Texas Gallery, Houston.

2007
“El Soñador Elegante,” Diverse Works, Houston, Texas.

2005
“New Paintings and Drawings,” Stux Gallery, New York.

2001
“15 Minutes,” RISD Museum, Providence, Rhode Island.

2000
“Black Flies and Socialites,” David Beitzel Gallery, New York.

SELECTED GROUPS EXHIBITIONS
2023
“Art in Words: Prints from the 20th Century to Today,” Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin.

2015
“The Secret of the Hanging Egg,” Menil Collection, Houston, Texas.

2012
“About Face,” ACME Gallery, Los Angeles.

2011
“Go West,” UNESCO, Paris.

2002
“Art, Artist, and the Addison,” Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts.

1999
“Re-Righting History: Counternarratives by Contemporary African American Artists,” Katonah Museum of Art, New York.

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2023
Knudson, Rainey. “David McGee Does Kehinde Wiley Better,” Glasstire (October 29).
Becker, Chris. “Opening Saturday, a New Inman Gallery Exhibit Shows the Good Fortune of Treasured Artist David McGee,” CityBook Houston (September 14).

2020
Powell, Richard, J. Going There: Black Visual Satire. Yale University Press.

2019
Becker, Chris. “From Urban Dread to Holy Water: Painter David McGee’s Manifest for Survival,” beckermusic.blogspot.com (January 9).

2017
Myong, Elizabeth. “The Telling and the Told Tells a Story of Its Own,” Houstonia (November 9).
Glentzer, Molly. “Artist David McGee Having Whale of a Moment,” Houston Chronicle (October 13).

2016
Becker, Chris. “The Most Wanted,” CityBook Houston (November 20).
Arning, Bill. “Up Close: Houston Loves Eccentrics,” Art in America (May 23).