Dave Kinsey

DAVE KINSEY

Dave Kinsey was born in Pittsburgh in 1971 and attended the Art Institute of Pittsburgh and the Art
Institute of Atlanta before moving to California in 1994 to pursue a career as a designer and fine
artist.
His work captures the universal essence of the human condition mainly through a symbolic and
energetic portrayal of contemporary life.
Working spontaneously, and utilizing a range of mediums, he constructs multi-layered, textured
environments easily likened to the complexities of the human experience.
Kinsey founded (Kinsey/DesForges), formally BLK/MRKT Gallery in 2001, allowing him to
provide a crossroads for a new movement of young and electrifying iconoclasts.
In addition to these pursuits his fine art has been shown in galleries and museums worldwide,
among these exhibitions at the URBIS Museum in Manchester, FAME Festival in Italy, NEXT
Chicago and Art Brussels in Belgium. He has also been featured in such publications as The New
York Times, Black Book and BLK/MRKT One and Two, and invited to speak at numerous
institutions such as The Art Center College of Design, UCLA, University of Florida, Montserrat
College of Art and the Semi-Permanent conference in Sydney, Australia.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010 Joshua Liner Gallery, New York, NY “New Works” (Sept)
2008 ALICE Gallery, Brussels, Belgium “•You Are Here”
Lazarides Gallery, Newcastle, England “Holy Sh*t”
2007 BLK/MRKT Gallery, Los Angeles, CA “Sure, Why Not”
2006 The Public Trust, Dallas, TX “New Works”
ALICE Gallery, Brussels, Belgium “Enviromentalistic II”
Stolenspace, London, England “Enviromethodology”
2005 Boon Gallery, City, MA, “Enviromentalistic I”
2003 Basil Hayward Gallery, Portland, OR “New Works”
BLK/MRKT Gallery, Los Angeles, CA “80% Post-Consumer Grade”
2001 Magda Danysz Gallery, Paris, France,“Message From The Soul”
2000 381G Gallery, San Francisco, CA “New Works”
1999 ARO.SPACE Gallery, Seattle, WA “New Works”

SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010 Bristol Museum, Bristol, England “Art From The New World”
2009 SCOPE, Miami – Joshua Liner Gallery, New York, NY
Joshua Liner Gallery, New York, NY “Summer Group Show”
Riverside, CA “Sea No Evil” to benefit Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
VASF Gallery, San Francisco, CA “Whammy!”
2008 New Image, Los Angeles, CA “15yr Anniversary Show”
Metro Pictures, New York “Postcards From the Edge”
Studiocromie, Grottaglie, Italy “FAME”
NEXT Art Fair, Chicago – Kinsey/DesForges, Los Angeles
2007 Slick Contemporary Art Fair, Paris – Alice Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Art Brussels – ALICE Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
BLK/MRKT Gallery, Los Angeles, CA “BMG Second Artists’ Annual”
2006 Montserrat College of Art Gallery, Beverly, MA “Electric Wasteland”
Art Brussels – ALICE Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
BLK/MRKT Gallery, Los Angeles, CA “BMG Artists’ Annual”
2005 Halcyon Shop, Brooklyn, NY “Hard Times” Tsunami benefit Exhibition
2004 Urbis Museum, Manchester, England “Ill Communication II”
Yerba Buena Arts Center, San Francisco, CA “Beautiful Losers”
2003 NY Arts Gallery, New York, NY “Decipher 2.0”
Alte Chemie, Munich, Germany “Modart03”
2002 Nagoya Parco Museum, Tokyo, Japan “Sk8 On The Wall”
Apart Gallery, London, England “Streetwise 1”
Compound Gallery, Portland, OR
Revolutiones Gallery, Denver, CO “The Four Horseman”
2001 Alife, New York, NY “Arkitip – Exhibition 002”
1999 La Panaderia Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico “Dave Kinsey & Shepard Fairey”
1998 Army Street Gallery, San Francisco, CA “Survival”
1997 IP Gallery, San Diego, CA “BLK/MRKT Group Show”
1994 Underground Gallery, Atlanta, GA “Urbanistiks Collective”

EDUCATION
Autodidactic Studies, Los Angeles, 2007 – present
Art Institute of Atlanta, Associate of Arts Degree, 1991-1993
Art Institute of Pittsburgh, Associate of Arts, 1989-1990

LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS
2007 Semi-Permanent, Sydney, Australia – Design conference lecture
2005 Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA – Lecture and studio visit
Art Center, Pasadena, CA – Lecture and studio visit
UCLA Design class, Los Angeles, CA – Lecture and studio visit
2004 AIGA, Los Angeles, CA – Lecture and Studio visit