Biography
January 2018
Born 1945
M.A., UCLA, 1968
Lives and works in San Francisco, CA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016 "David Maxim, Points of View," Saint Mary's College Art museum, Moraga, California.
"David Maxim: Moments, Mercury 20 Gallery, Oakland, California.
2015 "David Maxim," California Bank of Commerce, Oakland, California
2013 "David Maxim" Figure Drawings," Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, Michigan
2012 "David Maxim: Lookback Time," Sandra Lee Gallery, San Francisco, California "David Maxim: The Collection," Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, Florida.
"David Maxim (Legends of the Bay Area), Marin MOCA, Hamilton Field, Novato, California.
2010 “David Maxim: Selected Drawings,” Room for Painting Room for Paper, San Francisco, California.
2009 “Delicate Knots: Works by David Maxim,” California Bank of Commerce, Lafayette, California.
2008 “David Maxim: The Light of Change,” David Cunningham Projects (DCP) San Francisco, California.
2007 "David Maxim: Drawings of Tornadoes and Waves," The Contemporary Gallery, Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, Louisiana.
2005 “David Maxim: Natural Force,” Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, Florida.
“David Maxim: Nets and Templates,” Graystone, San Francisco, California. (catalog)
2004 “David Maxim: Small Scale Figure Sculpture,” Graystone, San Francisco, California. (catalog).
2003 “David Maxim: Drawings,” Vero Beach Museum of Art, Vero Beach, Florida; “Statues,” Studio exhibition, San Francisco, California.
2002 “Unseen Pictures,” Graystone, San Francisco, California. (catalog).
2001 “Minor Figures,” Space 743, San Francisco, California.
“Sex and Muscles,” Studio exhibition, San Francisco, California.
1999 "Summer Darkness, Winter Light." Space 743, San Francisco, California.
1996 "Heroes and Giants," Space 743, San Francisco, California. (catalog).
1995 "Men," Space 743, San Francisco, California
Foster Goldstrom Gallery, New York City; also: 1993, 1991, 1990 (catalog).
D.P. Fong Gallery, San Jose, California.
1994 "Painted Philosophy," UC Berkeley Museums at Blackhawk, Danville, California(catalog); traveling: Cabrillo Gallery, Cabrillo College, Santa Cruz, California; Sheldon Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska.
1993 Thomas Gehrke Gallery, Hamburg, Germany. "David Maxim," Kunstverein, Heidenheim, Germany.
1991 Galerie Sander, Darmstadt Germany. (catalog).
1988 "Forum," Hamburg Kunstmesse, Hamburg, Germany.
1987 "Forces and Powers," Studio exhibition, San Francisco, California.
1986 "The Labors of Hercules," Studio exhibition, San Francisco, California.
1985 "David Maxim," University Art Gallery, California State University, Stanislaus, Turlock, California, (brochure).
1983 Foster Goldstrom Fine Arts, San Francisco, California; also annually, 1979-1982.
1979 Art Space Gallery, Los Angeles, California.
1976 "Mountains, Stars, Seas and History, "Santa Barbara City College Gallery," Santa Barbara, California. Plaza Gallery, Bank of America Center, San Francisco, California.
1975 "29,028 Ft," Anapamu Gallery, Santa Barbara, California.
COLLECTIONS
Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, California
Avampato Discovery Museum, Charleston, West Virginia
Air Systems Incorporated, San Jose, California
Bank America Corporation
The British Museum, London
Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York
Bullard, E. John, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana
California Bank of Commerce, Lafayette, California
Carnegie Institute of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California
Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, Missouri
Dean Witter, Seattle, Washington
De Saisset Museum of Art, University of Santa Clara, Santa Clara, California
Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa
Figge Art Museum, Davenport, Iowa
Flaten Art Museum, St. Olaf, College, Northfield, Minnesota
First Republic Bank, San Francisco, California
Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, Michigan
Fluor-Daniel Corporation, Orange County, California
Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, Connecticut
Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, California
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna
Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Hammer Museum, Grunwald Center, University of California, Los Angeles
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
Heritage Bank, San Jose, Fremont, Morgan Hill, Mountain View, California
Hilliard University Art Museum, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, Louisiana
Housatonic Museum of Art, Bridgeport, Connecticut
Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, Tennessee
Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California
Longview Museum of Art, Longview Texas
Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, California
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama
Mulvane Art Museum, Topeka, Kansas
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
Museum Fur Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany
Museum of Art and History, McPherson Center, Santa Cruz, California
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tuscon, Arizona
Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
National Baseball Hall of Fame & Museum, Cooperstown, New York
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri
Oakland Museum of Art and History, Oakland, California
Polk Museum, Lakeland, Florida
Saint Mary's College Museum of Art, Moraga, California
San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California
Sheldon Gallery of Art, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska
Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts
Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, Pennsylvania
Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas
Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota, Duluth
University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, California
University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara, California
University of California Medical Center, Los Angeles, California
University of California Museum at Blackhawk, Danville, California
University of Richmond Art Museums, Richmond, Virginia
University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee
University of Virginia Art Museum, Charlottesville, Virginia
Vero Beach Museum of Art, Vero Beach, Florida
Villa-Heiss Museum, Stuttgart, Germany
Michael and Midge Zagaris, Modesto, California