Darren Waterston

Darren Waterston has been exhibiting in the U.S. and abroad since the early 1990s. He received his BFA at the Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA and continued his training in Germany at the Akademie der Kunst, Berlin and the Fachhochschule für Kunst in Münster. He currently lives and works in New York City.

Recent exhibition highlights include: Forest Eater (2011), which Waterston conceived specifically for The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI; Splendid Grief: The Afterlife of Leland Stanford Jr. (2009), an installation at The Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, CA; and The Flowering (The Fourfold Sense) (2007), at the Hoffman Gallery of Contemporary Art, Lewis & Clark College, Portland, OR. The monograph Darren Waterston: Representing the Invisible was published by CHARTA books in 2007.

Waterston’s paintings are included in numerous permanent collections including Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA; Portland Art Museum, OR; Seattle Art Museum, WA; and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX.