Since graduating from Yale (M.F.A. '75, B.A. cum laude '72) David Row has pursued his professional career as a painter. He has lectured and taught at numerous institutions including The Cooper Union, Rhode Island School of Design, Pratt Institute, Princeton University, Fordham University and, the M.F.A. Fine Arts Program at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.
Row has been honored as Scholar of the House in Painting at Yale (1971-1972) and with a National Endowment for the Arts Grant in Painting (1987) as well as the Isaac N. Maynard Prize for Painting from the National Academy Museum in New York, received in May 2008.
Since 1982, Row has been featured in numerous solo exhibitions, both nationally and internationally, with Rosenbaum Contemporary being his 40th solo show. International museum shows include: Divergent Models, at the Nassauischer Kunstverein in Wiesbaden, Germany (1997); Trois Collections d'Artistes, at the Musee des Beaux Arts in La Chaux de Fonds, Switzerland (1996); and Italia/America l’Astrazione Redefinita, at the State Museum of San Marino, Italy (1993).
One-person museum shows include Ennead, originating at the Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art at Wichita State University; Wichita, Kansas (2000); and traveling to The McKinney Avenue Contemporary in Dallas, Texas (2001).
His works are in the permanent collections of museums worldwide including the Brooklyn Museum, the Carnegie Museum of Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego.
