Bio
b. New York, 1947
EDUCATION
1977
M.F.A. Visual Studies Workshop in Photography, Rochester, NY
1971
M.A. in Molecular Genetics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
1968
B.A. in Biology and Chemistry, SUNY Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
ACADEMIC POST
1986-2017
Professor, Media Arts Department, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2017
Electricities, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, NY
Electricities, Spazio Damiani, Bologna, Italy
2016
Zap and Flow, Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art, Collegeville, PA
2014
Electro-graphs, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, NY
2013
Electrified Drawings, Bakken Museum, Minneapolis, MN
2007
Traces, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, NY
2005
David Goldes: Art/Science, Wright State University Galleries
Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA
2004
Soap & Water, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, NY
Looking at Water, Fotofest, Houston, TX
2001
The Elements, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, NY
2000
Project Wall: From the Orchard, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY
1998
Recent Work, Thomas Barry Fine Art, Minneapolis, MN
Natural Observations, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY
1996
Water, etc., Thomas Barry Fine arts, Minneapolis, MN
1995
Photographs by David Goldes, Rochester Art Center, Rochester, MN
1993
Light and Liquids, Thomas Barry Fine Arts, Minneapolis, MN
1991
Thomas Barry Fine Arts, Minneapolis, MN
1987
David Goldes, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1985
Musee Nicephore Niepce, Chalon-sur-Saone, France
Thomas Barry Fine Arts, Minneapolis, MN
1984
Phenomenal Space installation, Minneapolis College of Art and Design Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
1982
Barry Richard Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
1980
Nexus Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Film in the Cities, St. Paul, MN
1979
Memphis Academy of Art, Memphis, TN
George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
1977
Colorado Mountain College, Breckenridge, CO
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019
Continuum: McKnight Visual Artist Fellows 2014–2018, MCAD Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2018
Growing the Collection: Drawings and Collage, 1960 to Now, Harrison Photography Galleries, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN
2015
Photography and the Scientific Self, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
2014
Breaking Ground: Contemporary Photography at the College of William & Mary, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA
2013
Soft Target, M+B Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2012
The Skin We’re In, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, NY
Verlangsamte Performance, Van Horn, Dusseldorf, Germany
2011
Midnight Party, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
2010
The Things Themselves: Contemporary Still Life, Pelham Art Center, Pelham, NY
2008
McKnight Artist Fellowships for Photographers, Franklin Art Works, Minneapolis, MN
The Pencil of Nature, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY
9th Shanghai International Photographic Art Exhibition
Stilles Leben, Found Galerie, Hamburg, Germany
2007
Seeing Things, Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City, NY
The Grotesque, MCAD Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2005
Water Views: On, Over and Below, Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, NM
2004
Drawing: Seven Curatorial Responses, Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota, MN
2003
By the Sea, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York
2002
Complexity, Samual Dorsky Museum, SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, NY
2001
Object as Subject, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Recent Acquisitions, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
2000
State of the Art: Recent Acquisitions, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
1999
Summer Reading: Photographs of Books, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY
Future Present: Photographs of Children from the Reader’s Digest Collection,
Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
Phenomena: The Poetics of Science, Friends of Photography, San Francisco, CA
1998
Cornucopia, Winston Wachter Fine Arts, New York, NY
Formi-cation, Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, NY
Mississippi-Neva: An Exhibition of Contemporary Photography, Russian State Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
Beyond the Image, Thomas Barry Fine Arts, Minneapolis, MN
1997
Tatistcheff and Company, New York, NY
Small World: Images of Children, Thomas Barry Fine Arts, Minneapolis, MN
New Faces and Recent Acquisitions, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Surface Tensions, Blue Star Art space, San Antonio, TX
Flesh! Thomas Barry Fine Arts, Minneapolis, MN
1996
The Subject is Music, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Blind Spot: The First Four Year, Baldacci Gallery, New York, NY
Cornucopia, Champion International, Stamford, CT
Birds!, Thomas Barry Fine Arts, Minneapolis, MN
Project Wall, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY
Watershed, Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul, MN
Art & Science: Creative Solutions, College of Visual Arts, St. Paul, MN
Photography in the 1990’s, Wright State University, Dayton, OH
1995
McKnight Fellowship Exhibition, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
New Photography, Madison Art Center, Madison, WI
H2O: Photographs of Water, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY
Self-Portrayals, Thomas Barry Fine Arts, Minneapolis, MN
1994
Summer Salon, Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York., NY
Sci-Art, Museum of Modern Art Advisory Exhibition at Pfizer, Inc., New York, NY
1993
Contemporary Still Life, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
FISEA 93, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN
1992
Pleasures and Terrors of Domestic Comfort travels to the Baltimore Museum of Art; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
1991
Pleasures and Terrors of Domestic Comfort, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1990
Landscape Photography Katherine Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota, MN
12 Photographers, Southdale Plaza, Minneapolis, MN
1989
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; Permanent Collection: Recent Acquisitions
Permanent Collection: Recent Acquisitions, Lafayette College, Eaton, PA
1988
Film in the Cities, St. Paul, MN
1986
Neglected Realities, Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies, Las Angeles, CA
1985
Taking Liberty, N.Y. State Museum, Albany, NY
Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris
1983
Life Times, Minneapolis Institute of the Arts, Minneapolis, MN
Photographers Invite Photographers, N.A.M.E. Gallery, Chicago, IL
1982
Floods of Light, The Photographer's Gallery, London
Contemporary VII, George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
1980
Visual Studies Workshop 1970-80, Pratt Center Gallery New York, NY
1979
New Talent, N.Y. State Gallery Association, Albany, NY
1974
Southwest Biennial, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, NM
GRANTS AND AWARDS
2017
McKnight Foundation Fellowship, Minneapolis, MN
2008
McKnight Foundation Fellowship, Minneapolis, MN
2003
MacDowell Colony Residency, Peterborough, NH
2001
MacDowell Colony National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, Peterborough, NH
1999
John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship
1998
McKnight Foundation Photography Fellowship, Minneapolis, MN
1997
Residency at Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris
1994
McKnight Foundation Photography Fellowship, Minneapolis, MN
1995
Minnesota State Arts Board Fellowship
Arts Midwest/ Regional NEA Fellowship
1993
Bush Foundation Artist Fellowship
Travel and Study Grant sponsored by the Jerome, General Mills and Dayton Hudson Foundations
1989
McKnight Foundation Photography Fellowship, Minneapolis, MN
1986
American Center Studio Residency at Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
McKnight Foundation Photography Fellowship, Minneapolis, MN
1984
American Center Studio Residency at Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris
National Endowment for the Arts, Photography
1983
McKnight Foundation Photography Fellowship, Minneapolis, MN
1982
Minnesota State Arts Board Fellowship
1981
Bush Foundation Artist Fellowship
COLLECTIONS
Art in Public Places, Olympia, WA
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Bibliotheque Nationale de France, Paris, France
Cleveland Art Museum, Cleveland, OH
Cray Research, Seattle, WA
Dayton-Hudson Foundation, Minneapolis, MA
Dow Jones, New York, NY
Fond National l'Art Contemporain, Paris, France
Frederick Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, MN
General Mills Corporation, Minneapolis, MN
George Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY
Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI
McKnight Foundation, Minneapolis, MN
Minneapolis Institute of the Arts, Minneapolis, MN
Musee Nicephore Niepce, Chalon-sur-Saone, France
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
One Percent for the Arts, MN
Polaroid Collection, Cambridge, MA
Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Wright State University Galleries, Dayton, OH
Yale University Art Museum, New Haven, CT
COMMISSIONS
1993
Art at Work, General Mills Corporation, Minneapolis, MN
1985
Art-Side Out, Billboard Project, Minneapolis, MN
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2017
"Electricities."Wall Street International 11 December 2017
"David Goldes’ Electricities at Yossi Milo Gallery, New York."Blouin Artinfo 11 October 2017
"Electricities by David Goldes."Wall Street International 11 December 2017
Goldes, David. Electricities. Damiani, October 2017. [book]
“Portfolio: David Goldes, Snakes in the Garden.” Osmos Winter 2017
2014
Rosenberg, Karen. "David Goldes: 'Electro-graphs'." The New York Times 13 March 2014
Aletti, Vince. "David Goldes." The New Yorker 10 March 2014
Cornet, Laurence. "David Goldes: Electro-graphs." L'Oeil de la Photographie 21 February 2014
2009
Harvard Review, No. 37, Houghton Library of The Harvard College Library, 2009.
2008
Herwig, Oliver and Thallemer, Axel. Water / Wasser: Unity of Art and Science Arnoldsche Verlagsanstalt, 2008
Vapnyar, Lara. “Pot Luck.” The New York Times 25 May 2008
Chinese Photography, Issue #5, 2008 pp. 71-81 (interview and portfolio)
2006
“Director’s Cut.” Aperture Foundation Winter 2006
2005
Ball, Phillip and Vince Leo. Water Being Water: Photographs by David Goldes. Dayton: Wright State University Art Galleries, 2005.
Schurmann, Wilhelm. Kurzdavordanach, Gegenwart als Zwischenraum. Catalog. Cologne, 2004.
2004
“Portfolio: Water Variations.” Seed Spring 2004: pg 8-16.
Looking at Water: FOTOfest 2004. Catalog. 2004.
[essay and portfolio] European Photography 2004.
2003
“H2O: Experiments in Black and White.” American Scientist January/February 2003.
“Natural History.” Museum of Natural History Magazine May 2003.
2002
“Glow”, 2wice magazine 2002.
Grundlund, Melissa. “David Goldes: Yossi Milo Gallery.” ARTnews May 2002.
Loke, Margaret. “Making Artful Images Out of Science.” New York Times 25 January 2002.
Wolf, Sylvia and Andy Grundberg. Visions from America: Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1940-2001. New York: Prestel, 2002.
2000
Jeffrey, Nancy Ann. “Betting on Photo Futures.” Wall Street Journal 31 March 2000.
1999
Bayliss, Sarah. “The Shifting Visions of Childhood.” New York Times 14 March 1999.
1998
Boxer, Sarah. “David Goldes at Yancey Richardson.” New York Times 12 June 1998.
Aletti, Vince. “Voice Choice: Photo.” Village Voice 7 July 1998.
1997
Image (George Eastman House publication), 39.3-4 (1997).
1996
Rhem, James. “The New Art Examiner: New Photography…” March 1996: 47.
Wolf, Sylvia. The Subject is Music. Catalog. Art Institute of Chicago 1996.
1995
Hagen, Charles, “H2O at Yancey Richardson.” NY Times 11 August 1995.
“W.a.t.e.r..” Hungry Mind Review No. 36 1995.
“Water Balance.” BLIND SPOT Spring 1995.
1994
Hagen, Charles. “Summer Salon at Bonni Benrubi.” New York Times 22 July 1994.
1992
“Art at Work,” General Mills, Minneapolis, MN 1992.
1991
Galassi, Peter. “Pleasures and Terrors of Domestic Comfort.” New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1991.
Kimmelman, Michael. “Pleasures and Terrors.” New York Times 27 September 1991.
Martin, Mary Abbe. Star-Tribune 11 April 1991.
McDermott, Alice. “Dark Domestic.” New York Times 13 October 1991.
1989
Borden, J. “Science Projects.” Lafayette College, PA.
1988
Clinton St. Quarterly 10.2 (1988).
Silberman, R. “David Goldes at Art Institute.” Art in America April 1988.
1986
“Angels of Language.” Beyer & Heartney 1986.
ZOOM [Paris] 21 (1986).
1985
Ellis, Valerie. “Images of the Heart.” Art Paper November 1985.
1984
Graham, M. “Constructions of Imagery.” Artweek March 1984.
1979
Euclaire, Sally. “Goldes' Vision.” Rochester Democrat and Chronicle 21 April 1979.