David Salle (b. 1952, Norman, Oklahoma) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Salle attended the California Institute of Arts (CalArts), Los Angeles, receiving a BFA in 1973 followed by an MA in 1975. Since the 1980s, Salle has received international recognition, with solo exhibitions at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Spiral Hall Museum, Tokyo; Tel Aviv Museum of Art; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. His 1999 retrospective was held at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam and traveled to the Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna; Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy; and Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain. Salle’s most recent survey exhibition, was held at the Brant Foundation in Greenwich, Connecticut (2021). Salle’s work is held in international public collections including the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois; The Broad, Los Angeles; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Dallas Museum of Art, Texas; Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), California; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humblebæk, Denmark; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco; Tate Modern, London; Solomon R, Guggenheim Museum, New York; and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, among others. Salle is also a prolific writer and critic whose essays and interviews have been published in Artforum, Art in America, Modern Painters, and The Paris Review, as well as in numerous exhibition catalogs and anthologies. He is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and his collection of critical essays, How To See, was published by W. W. Norton in 2016.