DAVID GISTA
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Selected Personal Exhibitions
2023 Robin Malpass art@ chicago fine arts building “Mini memories” - Chicago, IL
2022 Centre d’art Jean Prouve – Issoire ,France “ Romanesque”
2021 Springboard arts gallery – Chicago, IL
a+c Gallery – Skokie, IL “Land”
a.i.r gallery – Glencoe, IL “ Electron”
2020
Mediatheque Agora Braye -Savigny sur Braye - France
2019
Thomas Masters Gallery - Chicago, IL “ color corners”
Carol Nassaw art – Chicago, IL- “Size matters”
P.O.Box collective - Chicago, IL - Plastic river ( Installation )
Schoenherr gallery - North central college, Naperville,IL “Dreams, books and library”
2018
Triptych international workshop gallery – Kiev - Ukraine
2017
Thomas Masters gallery “The right to be lazy” – Chicago, USA
Musee de Vendome “ Figures absentes” – Vendome, France
Galerie Laurent Potier Drawings and sculptures – Vendome, France
2016
Startup art fair – Chicago, USA
2015
Thomas Masters gallery « rendez vous yesterday » – Chicago, USA
Startup art fair- San Francisco, USA
Obsolète collection, Campagn’art – Dollon, France
Galerie Carla Milivinti – Blois, France
Eglise Saint-Etienne (with Francois Weil) – Beaugency, France “Fictions” Médiathèque de Montoire-sur le loir, France
2014
“Bibliotheques imaginaires” Galerie Envie d’art - Paris
2013
“Mysterious Islands” Thomas Masters Gallery, Chicago
2011
“Stairways to Heaven”- Thomas Masters Gallery, Chicago, IL USA
2008
“Flame and Flamenco“ The Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago IL USA “Fictions” College of Lake County, Grayslake, IL USA
Thomas Masters Gallery, Chicago, IL USA
2007
“Chance meeting” Thomas Masters Gallery, Chicago, IL USA “Stranger in a Strange Land,” Thomas Masters Gallery, Chicago USA
2004
Gallery Mornea, Evanston, IL USA Galerie Friedland-Rivault, Paris, France
2003
TO BE ART Gallery – St Barthelemy, French West Indies Union League Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL USA
2002
Hotel Sofitel Chicago, Downtown: commission of 274 paintings
Duke University, Durham, NC USA
2001
University Club, Chicago, IL USA
St. Mary University, Winona, MN USA
2000
Galerie Darthea Speyer, Paris, France
1998
Galerie Darthea Speyer, Paris, France
1997
Gallery “New World” Dusseldorf, Germany
Gary Marks Gallery, Chicago, IL USA
1996
Galerie Munipale de Vitry-sur, Seine, France
Relais Chateau “le St James”, Bouliac, France
1995
Galerie Darthea Speyer, Paris, France Galerie “New World”, Dusseldorf, Germany
1994
Galerie 7/8 Barmherzigkeit, Hamburg, Germany
1993
Galerie C.R.O.U.S/BEAUX-ARTS, Paris – France
Group exhibitions ( Selection)
2020
Springboard arts Gallery, Chicago, Il .USA
2019
“L’oeil et l’esprit” - David Gista & Michel Chataigneau - Salle des editions, Gordes France.
“Ceramiques d’artistes” Galerie Laurent Potier Vendome, France
2018
“Breaking free “A&C gallery, Skokie, IL - USA Stacy Foisy, David Gista & Veronica Sax
2017
“ Euro Vision,” Jane Barthes/ David Gista pop up show Chicago, USA
2016
“Babel Iconoclast” Galerie Garnier-Delaporte, Chavignol France
2015
“Babel” Galerie Thomas Masters, Chicago, Il USA
2014
“Biblioteques imaginaires” galerie “Envie d’Art”, Paris. France 2011
Galerie “Envie d’art”, Paris, France
Galerie Mark Hachem, Paris, France
2010
“War and Peace” Think Art Gallery, Chicago, IL USA
2009
“Art at the top” Gallery Cynthia Corbett at Ronnette Riley Empire State Building, New York, NY
Galerie “Envie d’art”, Paris, France
2008
“Art français” The Art Center, Highland Park, IL USA
Wit Gallery Lenox, MA USA
Galerie “Envie d’art”, Paris, France
Rudnik-Solomon Gallery, Sacramento, CA USA
2007
“7even” ThinkArt, Chicago, Il USA
LIMN Gallery, San Francisco, CA USA
2006
“Go!” Galerie Friedland/Rivault, Paris, France
2005
“Aparte” print show, Chicago, IL USA
“Silence on reve” Galerie Friedland/Rivault, Paris, France
“French flair” The Art Center, Highland Park, IL USA
“The Blue Period” Thomas Masters Gallery, Chicago, IL USA
2004
Gallerie Friedland/Rivault, Paris, IL USA
Veridian Gallery, New York, NY USA
2003
LIPA Gallery, Summer Summit, Chicago, IL USA
2002
Galerie Hedaes Sevira, Mois de la Photo, Paris, France “Aparte”, Galerie Nomade, Paris, France
“Pleines Formes” Galerie Nomade, Paris, France
Galerie Darthea Speyer, Paris, France
2001
Galeria Cueto, Puerto Rico
“Quartiers d’ete au St James”, Bordeaux, France
Galerie Courant d’Art, Paris, France ART OPEN, Chicago, IL USA
Chicago’s Artist month: featured for the “Face to Face” event CONFRONTATIONS: Galerie Darthea Speyer, Paris, France
2000
Espace Paul Ricard, Paris, France
Cultural Center of Teagu: “French painters”, South Korea
1999
Espace d’Art Contemporain, Juvisy, France
Galerie Suzane Tarasieve, Barbizon, France
Galerie Van Hoeck, Paris, France
Zolla-Lieberman Gallery, Chicago IL USA
1998
Gallerie Darthea Speyer: 30th anniversary, Paris, France Zolla-Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL USA
Galerie 7/8 Barmherzigkeit, Hamburg, Germany
1997
Galerie 7/8 Barmherzigkeit, Hamburg, Germany Galerie “New World”, Dusseldorf, Germany
“Salon de la Jeune Peinture”, Paris, France
Galerie Area: “Portrait a la carte”, Paris, France
1996
Salon de Bagneux, France
Culturel Center JULIO GONZALEZ, Arceuil, France “Courant d’Art”, Deauville, France
1995
Espace d’Art Contemporain, Juvisy, France
Culturel Center, Athis-Mons, France
40th salon de Montrouge, France
“Novembre a Vitry”: Painting prize winner of the city of Vitry, France
1994
39th Salon de Montrouge, France
Rainer Wild Stiftung, Heidelberg, Germany Arte Viva 94, Sennigallia, Italy
1992
Arte Viva 92, Sennigallia, Italy
1991
“Diplome avec Felicitations” de l’ENSBA: Painting prize winner