SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021
Interior, Gold/Scopophilia Gallery, Montclair, New Jersey
2017
Conversations with Yesterday, curated by Paul Nicholson, Martin Gallery, Baker Center for the Arts, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA (catalog)
Repairing Beauty, curated by Margaret O’Reilly, David Ambrose A Mid-Career Retrospective, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ (catalog)
Straitjacket Kaleidoscope, Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Surface to Surface, curated by Florence Neal and Sallie Mize, Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY (brochure)
Working Papers 2002 – 2012, Warner Gallery, O’Brien Art Center, Middletown, DE (catalog)
Afterimage, curated by Mary Birmingham, Visual Art Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ (catalog)
Faith Is Equality, curated by Victor Davson, Aljira, A Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ
The Braille Landscape, Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Tropical Gothic, Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Braided Incidents: Recent Paintings and Works on Paper by David Ambrose, Project Room 88, New York, NY
Public and Private Work, Domo Gallery, Summit, NJ
Patterns of Resistance, Morpeth Gallery, Hopewell, NJ
The Echo of Ornament, Kaiserslautern, Germany
The Bound Brook Cycle: Recent Work by David Ambrose, Tomasulo Gallery, Union County
Community College Cranford, NJ, and The Gallery at St. Andrew’s School, Middletown, DE (catalog)
Powder and Lace, curated by Victor Davson, Aljira, A Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ
The Saturated Soul, curated by Dr. Alejandro Anreus, Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ
Conduct, Diligence, and Drawing: Recent Works by David Ambrose, curated by Bonnie L. Pover and Stacy Smith, Noyes Museum of Art, Oceanville, NJ
Flesh and Blood: Recent Paintings by David Ambrose and Dik F. Liu, Pennsylvania School of Art & Design, Lancaster, PA
Recent Work by David Ambrose, Brodsky Gallery, Princeton, NJ
Recent Work, Swain Galleries, Plainfield, NJ
Works on Paper, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA
Watercolors and Works on Paper, Swain Galleries, Plainfield, NJ
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022
Make Art Not War, Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY
Escape into Reality, Julie Peppito, Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY
2021
If Tomorrow Comes, Bravin Lee Programs, New York, NY
2020
30/30-Small Works on Paper, Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY
Holiday Show, LABspace, Hillsdale, NY
Mother Altar, Mother, Beacon, NY
Pushing the Envelope, Pulp, Holyoke, MA
NYFA Hall of Fame Benefit, Capitale, NY
14C Art Fair, Morpeth Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ
2019
Asterism, curated by Patricia Zarate and Lynn Truncale, Queens, NY
Magical Spaces, Familiar Places, curated by Anna Shukeylo, Howe Gallery, Kean University
Four Painters: Turning Up the Heat, curated by Elisa Jensen, Green Door Gallery,
Brooklyn, NY
Among Friends, Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center, NY
Be Mine, LABspace, Hillsdale, NY
2018
True North, LABspace, Hillsdale, NY
Hot Stuff, Odetta Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (flat file artist)
2017
Yellow Chair Extravaganza, David and Schweitzer Contemporary, Brooklyn, NY
All Things Great and Small, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
In the Details, curated by Carleen Zimbalatti, SEABA, Burlington, VT (catalog)
2016
The Warmth of Winter, The National Arts Club, New York, NY
Mapping Spaces, curated by Dita Amory, Kentler International Drawing Space,
Red Hook, Brooklyn (brochure)
Paris/Paper, Paris, France
More, More, More, The Flinn Gallery, Greenwich, CT
2015
Prime Matter, Teckningsmuseet, Laholm, Sweden (catalog)
Black and White in 3-D, Schema Projects, Brooklyn, NY
Remains to Be Seen, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
Worlds Without End, Brain Morris Gallery, New York, NY
Making History, Ten Van Eyck, Brooklyn, NY (catalog)
New Views: FIT Art & Design Faculty, The Great Hall, FIT, New York, NY
Paperazzi, Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2014
10 Year Anniversary Show, Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Prime Matters, organized by Christopher Schade and Zoe Pettijohn Schade, Senaspace, NY, NY
Prologue/Epilogue, organized by Rebecca Jampol and Jasmine Wahi, The Gateway Project, Newark, NJ
Pratt Foundation Faculty Show, The Schafler Gallery, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
The Reason for Beauty, curated by Phil and Sue Knoll, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
Aljira at 30: Dream and Reality, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
Process, Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York, NY
Paperazzi, Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2013
C’est Brooklyn, Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Paperazzi 2, Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2012
Excursions on a Wobbly Rail, curated by Brad Hajzak, Roos Arts, Rosendale, NY
Size Matters – Small Works from the Permanent Collection, curated by Margaret O’Reilly, The New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
Up From the Cracks, Shore Institute of Contemporary Art, Asbury Park, NJ
Summer Snacks, Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
The Beatles, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
Obsessive Compulsive Design, Shore Institute, Asbury Park, NJ
Paperazzi, Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2011
Double Vision, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
Summer Paper, Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York, NY
Summer Rotation, Amy Simon Fine Art, Westport, CT
Marked Differences, Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY
Paper 2011, Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2010
Highlights, Amy Simon Fine Art, Westport, CT
I Am the Cosmos, curated by Sara Lynn Henry, The New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ (catalog)
Strategic Abstraction, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
Degrees of Density, The Corn Center for the Arts, Columbus State University, Columbus, GA
Reclining Nude, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
Superimpose, Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Degrees of Density, curated by Marilyn Symmes, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR (brochure)
The Rule of Typical Things, Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2009
Your Documents Please, Museum of Arts and Crafts, Itami, Japan (traveling to Budapest, Berlin, Bratislava, Guadalajara, and New York City)
Casheesh II, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
Neo Rococo, Shore Institute of Contemporary Art, Long Branch, NJ
Continuum, Amy Simon Fine Art, Westport, CT
Palms, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
Degrees of Density, curated by Marilyn Symmes, Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY (brochure)
Drawing, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY
2008
Collector's Choice, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AK
Exquisitude, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
This Just In, Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Summer Rotation, Amy Simon Fine Art, Westport, CT
Horror Vacui, McKenzie Fine Art, New York, NY
Painting Process, The Walsh Gallery, Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ
Midnight Full of Stars, curated by Sara Lynn Henry, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ (catalog)
It’s Gouache and Gouache Only, curated by Geoffrey Young, Jeff Bailey Gallery, NY
2007
Luxe, Calme, et Volupte, curated by Joanne Mattera, Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2005
Encore: More from the Permanent Collection, The Noyes Museum of Art, Oceanville, NJ
2004
Metaphors, Muses & Mysteries, Victory Hall, Jersey City, NJ
2002
Small Works, Morpeth Gallery, Hopewell, NJ
2000
New Jersey State Fellowship Exhibition, Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, NJ
1999
Size Matters, Gail Gates et al, Brooklyn, NY
1997
Recurrence and the Work of Art, Gallery Korea, New York, NY (brochure)
Recent Works from the Innovative Center for Print & Paper, Rutgers University,
New Brunswick, NJ
1996
Saturnine/Mercurial: The Many Moods of Watercolor, The Noyes Museum of Art,
Oceanville, NJ
New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship Exhibition, Noyes Museum of Art Oceanville, NJ
The Elegance of Obliquity, Seton Hall University, Newark, NJ
1994
Identity: An American Dream, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
The Definite Decade, Aljira, A Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ
Meditations, City Without Walls, Newark, NJ
Chamber 2, Chamber, New York, NY
Natural Histories, Pyramid Atlantic, Riverdale, MD
1993
Master Prints from the Rutgers Center for Innovative Printmaking, The Noyes
Museum of Art, Oceanville, NJ (catalog)
Major Medical, curated by David Ambrose, City Without Walls, Newark NJ
1993
Alumni Exhibition, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
1992
New Jersey Arts Annual: Fine Arts, The Noyes Museum of Art, Oceanville, NJ
The Figure as Muse, curated by Emma Amos, Artworks, Trenton, NJ
1991
Undead Artists, City Without Walls, Newark, NJ
Choices, curated by Victor Davson and Carl Hazlewood, Aljira, A Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ
1990
Earthworks, Palmer Gallery, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ
1988
Black and White, Tweed Gallery, Plainfield, NJ
Drawings, Tweed Gallery, Plainfield, NJ
The American Dream, Tweed Gallery, Plainfield, NJ
1986
The Contemporary American Landscape, Swain Galleries, Plainfield, NJ
1985
From the Other Side, Zim-Lerner Gallery, New York, NY
Fifth Biennial of New Jersey Artists, The Newark Museum, Newark, NJ (catalog)
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COLLECTIONS
Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, Little Rock, AR
The Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
The Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA
Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ
The Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
The Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ
New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
The Noyes Museum of Art, Oceanville, NJ
Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, NJ
Brandywine Realty Trust, Radnor, PA
The Capital Group, Los Angeles, CA
Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA
AWARDS
2022-2023 Painting Fellowship, New Jersey State Council on the Arts
2002 Artist-in-Residence, Atlantic Academy, Kaiserslautern, Germany
2000-2001 Painting Fellowship, New Jersey State Council on the Arts
1995-1996 Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper, New Brunswick, NJ
1993-1994 Distinguished Artist Fellowship, New Jersey State Council on the Arts
EDUCATION
1988 University of Pennsylvania, M.F.A. Painting, Philadelphia, PA
1982 Muhlenberg College, B.A. Fine Arts, Allentown, PA
1980 Universita Italiana Per Stranieri, Perugia, Italy
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2022 Spring Semester Temporary Full-Time Faculty replacement, Instructor of Painting; Instructor of Drawing, Middlesex College, Edison, NJ
2014 – 2017 Adjunct Instructor of Drawing, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, NY
2014 -2015 Visiting Artist, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
2010 –2013 Adjunct Instructor of Drawing, Parsons, The New School, New York, NY
2010 – Present Adjunct Instructor of Drawing, Middlesex County College, Edison, NJ
Adjunct Instructor of Painting, Middlesex County College, Edison, NJ
2005 – 2021 Instructor, Arts High School, Middlesex County College, Edison, NJ
1987-1988- Teaching Assistant, Design of the Environment, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
ARTIST TALKS
Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
In Conversation with Stephen Maine, Brooklyn, NY
Artist Lecture Series with Richard Saja, Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NY
Kentler International Drawing Space, Red Hook, NJ
St. Andrew’s School. Middletown, DE
Aljira, A Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ
Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ
Middlesex County College, Edison, NJ
Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Atlantic Academy, Kaiserslautern, NJ
Rutgers-Newark, Newark, NJ
Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA
Noyes Museum, Oceanville, NJ
Pennsylvania School of Art and Design, Lancaster, PA