Nato nel 1952
Fornatosi alla California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA 1973, BFA,California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA 1975, MFA
Vive e lavora a Brooklyn, New York
Mostre individuali
2008
Galleri Faurschou, Copenhagen, Danimarca
2007
David Salle: New Paintings, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salisburgo, Austria
A Recreation of David Salle’s 1977 Kitchen Installation: Bearding the Lion in His Den, Deitch Projects, New York, USA
David Salle: New Paintings, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, Colorado, USA
Galleria Cardi, Milano, Italia
2006
Life Is a Vortex, Galleria In Arco, Torino, Italia
2005
The Vortex Paintings, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, USA
2004
David Salle: Split Worlds. The Montage Principle, Stella Art Gallery, Mosca, Russia
2003
Mary Boone Gallery, New York, USA
Waddington Galleries, Londra, Inghilterra
Emilio Mazzoli Galleria d'Arte Contemporanea, Milano, Italia
2001
Gagosian Gallery, New York, USA
Jablonka Galerie, Colonia, Germania
2000
Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey, Monterrey, Messico
Dreams on Paper, Galleria In Arco, Torino, Italia
1999
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Olanda
Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spagna
1997
Galeria Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid, Spagna
1995
Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurigo, Svizzera
1994
Mary Boone Gallery, New York, USA
1993
Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California, USA
1992
Galerie Daniel Templon, Parigi, Francia
1990
Mario Diacono Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
1989
Bayerische Staatsgemaldesammlungen Munchen, Monaco di Baviera, Germania (ex-Germania Ovest)
The Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israele
Waddington Gallery, Londra, Inghilterra
1988
Mary Boone Gallery, New York, USA
The Menil Collection, Houston, Texas, USA
Fundacion Caja de Pensiones, Madrid, Spagna
1987
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California, USA
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Mary Boone Gallery, New York, USA
Spiral/Wacoal Art Center, Tokyo, Giappone
1986
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, USA
Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
1985
Mary Boone Gallery, New York, USA
1984
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, USA
1983
Museum Boymans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Olanda
Mary Boone Gallery, New York, USA
1982
Mary Boone Gallery, New York, USA
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, USA
1981
Mary Boone Gallery, New York, USA
Mostre collettive
2008
Here and Now, Regina Gallery, Mosca, Russia
Totally Rad: New York in the 80s, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, USA
2007
Not for Sale, P.S.1/MoMA Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York, USA
Vent'anni con gli amici, Galleria In Arco, Torino, Italia
2006
Damien Hirst, David Salle, Jenny Saville, Museo Carlo Bilotti, Roma, Italia
Songs for Sale: Big American Paintings by Robert Rauschenberg, David Salle, and Michael Bevilacqua, Deitch Projects, New York, USA
Heroines, The Arnold and Marie Schwartz Gallery Met, Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center, New York, USA
2*4, Galleria In Arco, Torino, Italia
2005
Contemporary Voices: Works from The UBS Art Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Picturing America: Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art, Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum, Nagasaki, Giappone
2004
Flowers, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, USA
Flowers Observed, Flowers Transformed, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
North Fork/South Fork: East End Art Now/Part II, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York, USA
The Charged Image, Joseloff Gallery, University of Hartford, West Hartford, Connecticut, USA
What's Modern?, Gagosian Gallery, New York, USA
2003
Strange but not Stranger, Galleria In Arco, Torino, Italia
2001
Mythic Proportions: Painting in the 1980s, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, Florida, USA
L'enigma ritrovato, Galleria In Arco, Torino, Italia
2000
Around 1984: A Look at Art in the Eighties, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York, USA
1999
The American Century: Art & Culture, 1900-2000 Part 2, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
1998
Young Americans 2, Saatchi Gallery, Londra, Inghilterra
1996
Thinking Print: From Books to Billboards, 1980-1995, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
The Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., USA
1993
Four American Artists, Ho-Am Museum, Kyunggi-Do, Corea del Sud
Operto, La Biennale di Venezia, Venezia, Italia
1991
Mito y Magia en America: Los Ochenta, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey, Monterrey, Messico
Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
1989
Bilderstreit, Rheinhalle, Colonia, Germania (ex-Germania Ovest)
1987
Avant Garde in the Eighties, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California, USA
L'epoque, la mode, la morale, la passion, Centre Georges, Pompidou, Parigi, Francia
1986
Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Ooghoogte, 50 jaar later, Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Olanda
Europe/America, Ludwig Museum, Colonia, Germania (ex-Germania Ovest)
Prospect 86, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Francoforte, Germania (ex-Germania Ovest)
1985
Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
XIII Biennale de Paris, Grand Halle du Parc de la Villette, Parigi, Francia
Carnegie International, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
1984
An International Survey of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
The Human Condition: SFMMA Biennial III, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California, USA
1983
Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
New York Now, Kunstverein fur die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germania (ex-Germania Ovest)
Tendencias en Nueva York, Crystal Palace, Madrid, Spagna
Sao Paulo Biennale, San Paolo, Brasile
New Art, The Tate Gallery, Londra, Inghilterra
1982
Documenta 7, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germania (ex-Germania Ovest)
La Biennale di Venezia, Venezia, Italia
Zeitgeist, Berlino, Germania (ex-Germania Ovest)
1981
Westkunst: Heute, Museum der Stadt Köln, Colonia, Germania (ex-Germania Ovest)