David Slater (1940- )
Education:
B.S., SUNY College of Buffalo
M.F.A, Rhode Island School of Design, 1969
Awards:
2007, 2021 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
1997-2004 Honorable Mention, Guild Hall Museum Artist Members Show, East Hampton
1989 Best in Show, Islip Art Museum Juried Exhibition; Purchase prize, “New Narrative,” Guild
Hall Museum
1988 Third prize, “The Expert Eye,” Wunsch Art Center, Glen Cove, NY
1986 Nora Hambuechen Award, Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY
1983 Best Work on Paper, 44th Annual Artist Members Show, Guild Hall Museum, juror
Lowery Stokes Sims; Heckscher Museum Membership Prize; Best in Show, “All Nude
Review,” Art Complex East, Riverhead, NY
1976 Grant for the mural, Ghost Train, National Endowment for the Arts and the State of
Rhode Island
1975 Sundance at Crow Dogs mural, Minneapolis, MN
1968 Laura Gross Memorial Award, Silvermine Guild, New Canaan, CT; Rhode Island Arts
Festival Prize; Best in Show, Providence Art Club, Providence, RI 1967 Bristol Womens College Art Association Prize, Bristol, CT
Solo Exhibitions:
2019 MM Gallery, Southampton, NY
2018 John Jermain Library, Sag Harbor, NY
2016 Peter Marcelle Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY 2010 Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY
2008 Peter Marcelle Contemporary, Southampton, NY 2006 Hampton Road Gallery, Southampton, NY
2000 Keyes-Robbin Gallery, Sag Harbor, NY
1993 Gallery Authentique, Roslyn, NY
1991 Gallery Authentique, Roslyn, NY
1990 Benton Gallery, Southampton, NY
1978 Anyart Gallery, Providence, RI
1969 Obelisk Gallery, Boston, MA
1967 Denmark House, Henley-on-Thames, England
Group Exhibitions (selected)
2021 “Selections from the Permanent Collection: Guild Hall 90th Anniversary Celebration,” Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY
2020 “This Land Is . . .,” MM Gallery, Southampton, NY
2019 “Life Affirmations,” Lyceum Gallery, Suffolk Community College, Riverhead, NY; “Springs
Invitational,” Ashawagh Hall, East Hampton, NY; “Face to Face,” Long Island Museum,
Stony Brook, NY.
2018 “Long Island Painters: A Survey, 1890-Present,” MM Gallery, Southampton; “Springs
Invitational,” Ashawagh Hall, East Hampton, NY; “In the Narrative Tradition,” MM
Gallery, Southampton
2017 “East End Collected II,” Southampton Arts Center, Southampton, NY; “People of Sag
Harbor,” Sag Harbor Whaling Museum; “Dreams, Ghosts, and Blue Moons,” Peter
Marcelle Project, Southampton
2016 “Springs Invitational,” Ashawagh Hall, East Hampton, NY
2015 “Something Old, Something New,” Peter Marcelle Project, Southampton
2013 “About Whales,” Sag Harbor Whaling Museum
2012 “Portraits,” Gerald Peters Gallery, New York, NY; “For the Birds,” Sag Harbor Whaling
Museum, Sag Harbor, NY
2011 “Hamptons Then & Now,” Gerald Peters Gallery, New York, NY; “Faces,” Gerald Peters
Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2009 “Botanicals,” Peter Marcelle Gallery, Southampton, NY
2008 “New Narrative,” Artists Alliance of Long Island, Dix Hills, NY
2005 “Large Works,” Hampton Road Gallery, Southampton, NY
2003 “Founders Show,” Gallery Merz, Sag Harbor, NY; “Assemblage,” Avram Gallery,
Southampton College, Southampton, NY
2002 “Inaugural Exhibition,” Alpan Gallery, Huntington, NY
2001 “Beauty Will Save the World,” Monique Goldstrom Gallery, New York, NY
1999 “The Artist’s Song,” Heckscher Museum at Bryant Library, Roslyn, NY
1998 “Celebrating Diversity,” Nese Alpan Gallery, Roslyn, NY
1997 “Lost and Found: Assemblages,” Ross School, East Hampton, NY; “Visionaries,” Gallery
North, Setauket, NY
1995 “Drawings,” Gallery Authentique, Roslyn, NY
1994 “Three Buffalo Artists,” Broome Street Gallery, New York, NY
1993 “FataGata,” Flux Gallery, Providence, RI; “Statute of Limitations: Wounded Knee Series,”
LTV, Wainscott, NY; “The Art of Protest,” Benton Gallery, Southampton, NY; “3993,”
Alley Cat Gallery, Chelsea, NY
1992 “Chain Reaction,” Commission of Fine Arts Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1991 “Aspects of Collage,” Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY; “The Children Among Us,”
Krasdale Corporation, White Plains, NY
1990 “Featured Artists from the Permanent Collection,” Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY
1989 “Jesse Helms Degenerate Art,” East Greenwich Village, NY; “New Narrative,” Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY; “Prisoners of Art,” COLAB Police Building, New York, NY
1988 Two-person exhibition, Suffolk Community College, Riverhead, NY; “Art Around Town,” sculpture invitational, Sag Harbor, NY
1987 “The End of Art,” COLAB Invitational, B&D Museum, New York, NY; “Artist Extremists,” Cuando Center, New York, NY; “Erotic Art,” Gasperi Gallery, New Orleans, LA
1986 “Banned and Rejected,” ABC No Rio, New York, NY
1985 “Art Sharks Looking,” Danceteria, Water Mill, NY
1983 “Art of the Northeast,” Silvermine Guild, New Canaan, CT; “Arrivals,” Guild Hall
Museum, East Hampton, NY
1982 “The Buffalo Group,” Jeda Gallery, New York, NY
1977 “Space Window,” Woods Gerry Gallery, Providence, RI
1971 Two-person exhibition, Woods Gerry Gallery, Providence, RI
1970 National Drawing Society traveling exhibition to six cities: New York, Atlanta, Houston,
San Francisco, Chicago, St. Louis
1968 Rhode Island Arts Festival prize winners (juried by Marisol), Providence, RI
1967 Oxford Art Society exhibition, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, England
1966 “Transatlantic Exhibition,” U.S.I.S. Gallery, United States Embassy, London, England 1965 “A&P Exhibition,” Buffalo, NY
1962 “New Tendencies in Painting,” Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
1960 “Western New York Exhibition” (juried by Philip Guston and Walter Murch), Albright-
Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
