David Novros (b. 1941, Los Angeles) first exhibited in a two-person show with Mark di Suvero in 1965 at the Park Place Gallery. The following year, Novros had his first one-person show at Dwan Gallery, LA, and was included in Systemic Painting at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.
In 1970, Donald Judd commissioned David Novros to create a work at 101 Spring Street, Judd’s home and studio. The fresco remains on view at the Judd Foundation. In 2022, the foundation presented a one-person exhibition of large-scale paintings by Novros. In 2021, Novros’s immersive installation of painted rooms created for the 1975 exhibition Marden, Novros, Rothko: Painting in the Age of Actuality was reinstalled for the first time at the Moody Center for the Arts at Rice University, Houston, Texas. In Fall 2026, the Hamburger Kunsthalle, Germany, will open the most comprehensive exhibition of Novros’s work to date.
Novros's work has been exhibited in prominent venues, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art; the Dallas Museum of Fine Art; and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Novros’s works are owned by international institutions, with significant collections held at the Brooklyn Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Blanton Museum of Art, Austin; Museum Wiesbaden, Germany; the Menil Collection, Houston; and Walker Art Center, Minnesota. Novros lives and works in New York City.
David Novros
Phoenix, June-September 2018
oil on canvas
3 panels, each: 80 x 40 in. (203.2 x 101.6 cm); overall: 80 x 120 in. (203.2 x 304.8 cm).
David Novros
Salidas, 2012-2016
(installation 2017)
oil on canvas
Collection of the Museum Wiesbaden, Germany
David Novros
Untitled, 1975
oil on canvas, 2 panels
overall: 117 1/4 x 168 x 2 in. (297.8 x 426.7 x 5.1 cm).
David Novros
Untitled (Frog Altar), 1975
oil on canvas
84 x 168 x 2 in. (213.4 x 426.7 x 5.1 cm) overall.
David Novros
Lent Painting, 1975
oil on canvas
78 x 300 in. (198.1 x 762 cm) overall.
David Novros
Untitled, 1974,
charcoal and red oil paint on Arches paper
22 3/4 x 59 1/4 in. (57.8 x 150.5 cm)
David Novros, Installation view, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, 2009.
David Novros
Untitled, 1965
acrylic on canvas
2 panels total overall: 132 x 60 in. (335.3 x 152.4 cm)
David Novros
untitled, 2019
watercolor on paper
16 1/4 x 13 1/4 x 1 3/8 in. (41.3 x 33.7 x 3.5 cm)
David Novros
Untitled, 1966/2000
acrylic on canvas, white with Murano pink
approx. overall: 84 x 144 in. (213.4 x 365.8 cm) 4 panels each (A,B,C,D) Panel 1: 19 3/8 x 97 x 2 1/2 in. (49.2 x 246.4 x 6.4 cm) panel 2: 19 1/2 x 109 1/4 x 2 1/2 in. (49.5 x 277.5 x 6.4 cm) panel 3: 20 x 109 x 2 1/2 in. (50.8 x 276.9 x 6.4 cm) panel 4: 19 1/2 x 104 x 2 1/2 in. (49.5 x 264.2 x 6.4 cm)
Photo by Farzad Owrang
David Novros
Untitled, 1966
acrylic lacquer on canvas
3 panels each 98 5/8 x 93 x 1 1/2 in. (250.5 x 236.2 x 3.8 cm); approx. overall: 98 5/8 x 250 x 1 1/2 in. (250.5 x 635 x 3.8 cm).
David Novros
Untitled, 1966-67
acrylic lacquer/ dacron
3 panels @: 18 x 81 x 2 in. (45.7 x 205.7 x 5.1 cm) 6 panels; 3 panels @: 12 x 54 x 1 in. (30.5 x 137.2 x 2.5 cm); overall: 102 x 162 x 1 in. (259.1 x 411.5 x 2.5 cm).
David Novros
Untitled, 1973
fresco
Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1973.
