David Humphrey has maintained a forty-year commitment to making formally inventive, psycho-socially engaged paintings. Over this time he has continued to transform images from the public realm into imaginative hybrids of the social and eccentrically individual, the historic and vividly contemporary. His work celebrates the peculiar nesting within the familiar. Mixing various representational schema with improvisational abstraction, he tells stories of vexed intimacy, political/ socio reality, and imaginative projections crashing into the real.
Humphrey was born in Germany, and today lives and works in New York. He received his BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 1977, and his MA from New York University in 1980. He is the recipient of numerous honors and awards, including the Rome Prize, Guggenheim Fellowship, and two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, among others.
