This Season's People, 2022, Acrylic, oil, spray paint, African cloth, glitter, photo collage and color pencil on wood panel, 72 x 60 inches, 182.9 x 152.4 cm, MMG#34511
The Awakening, 2022, Acrylic, oil, spray paint, African cloth, glitter, photo collage and color pencil on canvas, 77 x 77 inches, 195.6 x 195.6 cm, MMG#34369
Sublimation, 2020, Mixed media on wood panel, 72 x 59 3/4 inches, 182.9 x 151.8 cm, MMG#32823
Ogun, 2022, Acrylic, oil, collage, spray paint and color pencil on wood panel, 60 x 60 inches, 152.4 x 152.4 cm, MMG#34492
Kemit Soul, 2022, Acrylic, oil, spray paint, African cloth, glitter and color pencil on wood panel, 60 x 48 inches, 152.4 x 121.9 cm, MMG#34510
Children of the Sun, 2022, Acrylic, oil, spray paint, African cloth, glitter, photo collage and color pencil on canvas, 77 x 77 inches, 195.6 x 195.6 cm, MMG#34509
Cosmology, 2020, Mixed media on wood panel, 72 x 59 3/4 inches, 182.9 x 151.8 cm, MMG#32825
Psychedelic Drum, 2021, Acrylic, oil, spray paint, African cloth, glitter and color pencil on wood panel, 60 x 60 inches, 152.4 x 152.4 cm, MMG#33356
I Can't Breathe #7, 2020, Mixed media on wood panel, 72 x 59 3/4 inches, 182.9 x 151.8 cm, MMG#32824
George 8:46, 2021, Mixed media on wood panel, 72 x 60 inches, 182.9 x 152.4 cm, MMG#33210
We Are Family, 2021, Acrylic and spray paint on wood panel, 72 x 60 inches, 182.9 x 152.4 cm, MMG#33352
Huey, 2020, Mixed media on wood panel, 72 x 59 3/4 inches, 182.9 x 151.8 cm, MMG#32826
Breonna, 2020, Mixed media on canvas, 36 x 36 inches, 91.4 x 91.4 cm, MMG#32439
No Knock, 2020, Mixed media on wood panel, 24 x 20 inches, 61 x 50.8 cm, MMG#32440
I Can't Breathe #4, 2020, Mixed media on wood panel, 40 x 30 inches, 101.6 x 76.2 cm, MMG#32437
Liberation, 2019, rubber basketballs official size, wood frame, bluetooth speaker, 90 x 120 x 120 inches, 228.6 x 304.8 x 304.8 cm, MMG#31631
Liberation, 2019, rubber basketballs official size, wood frame, bluetooth speaker, 90 x 120 x 120 inches, 228.6 x 304.8 x 304.8 cm, MMG#31631
Liberation (detail), 2019, rubber basketballs official size, wood frame, bluetooth speaker, 90 x 120 x 120 inches, 228.6 x 304.8 x 304.8 cm, MMG#31631
Psychlodroma, 2019, Acrylic, oil, spray paint, glitter, collage, crayon, graphite, on canvas, 48 x 48 inches, 121.9 x 121.9 cm, MMG#31529
Transcendance, 2019, Acrylic, oil, spray paint, glitter, collage, crayon, graphite, on canvas, 72 x 60 inches, 182.9 x 152.4 cm, MMG#31526
People Get Ready, 2019, Acrylic, oil, spray paint, glitter, collage, crayon, graphite, on canvas, 60 x 48 inches, 152.4 x 121.9 cm, MMG#31532
Brother From Another Planet, 2018, Acrylic, oil, spray paint, glitter, collage, crayon, graphite, on canvas, 84 x 96 inches, 213.4 x 243.8 cm, MMG#31525
Afro Hippie, 2017, Acrylic, oil, spray paint, glitter, collage, crayon, graphite on canvas, 72 x 60 inches, 182.9 x 152.4 cm, MMG#31522
Abracadabra, 2017, Acrylic, oil, spray paint, glitter, collage, crayon, graphite on canvas, 84 x 72 inches, 213.4 x 182.9 cm, MMG#31521
David Huffman Studio, 2021, Oakland, CA
David Huffman (b. 1963 in Berkeley, CA) studied at the New York Studio School and the California College of the Arts & Crafts, and received his Master of Fine Arts degree at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco in 1999.
Huffman has been the subject of recent solo exhibitions at Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA; Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA; Paulson Fontaine Press, Berkeley, CA; Roberts and Tilton Gallery, Culver City, CA; and Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
He has been included in group exhibitions at the Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA; Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL; de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA; Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY; Manchester City Art Gallery, Manchester, United Kingdom; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY; Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA; and the Weatherspoon Museum of Art, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC.
His work may be found in the collections of the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA; Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL; Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA; Embassy of the United States of America, Dakar, Senegal; Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; San José Museum of Art, San José, CA; and The Studio Museum, Harlem, New York, NY.
Huffman lives and works between Berkeley and Oakland, CA.
Miles McEnery Gallery is thrilled to present a curated two-person exhibition of significant works by Rico Gatson and David Huffman for The Armory Show 2021.
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David Huffman is included in "Both Teams Played Hard," on view as part of Open Ended: Painting and Sculpture, 1900 to Now, at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
David Huffman is included in A Point Stretched: Views on Time at the San Jose Museum of Art.
David Huffman's solo exhibition, Terra Incognita, at the Museum of the African Diaspora is reviewed in the September issue of Artforum.
David Huffman's solo exhibition Terra Incognita is featured in The Mercury News.
David Huffman's 'Akhet 1' is featured in The New York Times.
Glen Helfand on David Huffman's Terra Incognita in Squarecylinder
David Huffman is featured in the group exhibition Personal to Political: Celebrating the African American Artists of Paulson Fontaine Press, on view at the Bakersfield Museum of Art.
By Julian E.J. Sorapuru
David Huffman's solo exhibition "Terra Incognita" is on view through 18 September 2022 at the Museum of the African Diaspora in San Francisco, CA.
David Huffman's exhibition Terra Incognita, on view at the Museum of the African Diaspora, is featured in The San Francisco Standard.
David Huffman is included in the show "The Artist's Eye" at the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Film Archive.
David Huffman's work in included in the exhibition Mothership: Voyage Into Afrofuturism at the Oakland Museum of California.
How Berkeley’s Countercultural Movement Shaped Artist David Huffman
Afro Hippie examines Huffman’s time at Berkeley and how it continues to influence him today.
