American, b. 1949
An abstract painter born in Falmouth Maine, David Row studied art at Yale, both undergraduate and graduate, where he first met Joseph Albers, and Lester Johnson, and began a long friendship with Al Held. Row has lectured and taught at The Cooper Union, RISD, Pratt, Princeton, and is currently in the MFA Program at The School of Visual Arts. He received an NEA grant (1987) and Isaac Maynard Prize for Painting from the National Academy Museum (2008). Row was included in Critiques of Pure Abstraction (1995), curated by Mark Rosenthal, which traveled widely including the Guggenheim and Armand Hammer Museum of Art at UCLA, and led to Rosenthal’s book, Abstraction in the Twentieth Century (Guggenheim Museum Publications, 1996). Continuous Model: The Paintings of David Row, which was published by Edition von Lintel, Munich, in 1997. Row has had museum shows in Germany, Switzerland, San Marino and Italy, and site-specific installations globally. In 2020 Row was included in From Géricault to Rockburne at The Met Breuer.
