ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Episode 490 / David Huffman
David Huffman is a painter who explores identity, memory, and the material implications associated with the Black diasporic experience.(b. 1963, Berkeley, CA) has work in the collections of SFMOMA, San Francisco; LACMA, Los Angeles; Berkeley Art Museum, CA; Studio Museum, Harlem; Minneapolis Institute of Art, MN; Oakland Museum of California; Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA; San José Museum of Art, CA; Denver Art Museum, CO; and the Embassy of the United States of America, Dakar, Senegal, among others. Huffman was the subject of a 2022 solo exhibition at the Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco and has been included in recent group exhibitions at the de Young Museum, San Francisco; Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, CA; Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY; and Birmingham Museum of Art, AL. He is the recipient of numerous awards and residencies including the Eureka Fellowship, ARTADIA San Francisco, Palo Alto Public Arts Commission, and the Barclay Simpson Award. He studied at the New York Studio School and received his MFA at California College of the Arts & Crafts, San Francisco. Huffman lives and works in Oakland, CA and teaches at California College of the Arts. David just had a show A Brilliant Blackout at Jessica Silverman in San Francisco, CA that closed September 3rd.
