Dave McKenzie received his BFA in printmaking from the University of the Arts, Philadelphia, and was also a participant in the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2000. His solo exhibitions include Pants full of hope, pockets full of adventure, or… dont call me Cheesuz, Wien Lukatsch, Berlin, Germany (2015); Dave McKenzie, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA (2013); Dave McKenzie: Everything’s Alright, Nothing’s Okay!, Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, University of the Arts, Philadelphia (2012); Dave McKenzie, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO (2010); Screen Doors on Submarines, REDCAT, Los Angeles (2008); Momentum 8: Dave McKenzie, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (2007); and Together Is Forever, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA (2004).
His group exhibitions include Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2014); The Ungovernables, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (2012); Blues for Smoke, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2012–13, traveling); The Living Years: Art after 1989, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2012); 30 Seconds off an Inch, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (2009); Unusual Behavior, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA (2009); Prospect.1 Biennial, New Orleans (2008); Alternating Beats, RISD Museum, Providence, Rhode Island (2008); Museum as Hub: Six Degrees, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (2008); Black Is, Black Ain’t, Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago (2008); All Together Now, Performa 07, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (2007); Just Kick It Till It Breaks, The Kitchen, New York (2007); Open House: Working in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum (2004); Slow Dive, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco (2002); Video Call, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia (2001); and Freestyle, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (2001).
