David Huffman

Happy Mother’s Day to this truly amazing person. We love you to the moon 🥰🌻🌸❤️🪐🌺 #mothersday #heart #love

Really excited to have several works featured at EXPO CHICAGO with Jessica Silverman gallery! Booth 316 April 9-12. Heart and Soul, Acrylic, gouache, fabric, spray paint, color pencil and photo collage on canvas, 48x48in on canvas. #chicago #expo #contemporary #art #painting

“David Huffman is a painter who explores identity, memory, and the material implications associated with the Black diasporic experience. Raised in the Bay Area among civil rights activists and Black Panther radicals, Huffman has a longstanding interest in change, speculative stories, and science fiction. Mixing and editing these references, Huffman sees his practice as “social abstraction.” His Traumanauts series, for example, depicts Black astronauts exploring the cosmos in search of their origins outside of the constraints of gravity and history.” During @sf_artweek , our doors will be open to the public 1/20-1/22, 3-7pm. Can’t make it to the closing or want to visit before the show ends? Book a viewing appointment using the link in our bio. Lucid Plane features: Miguel Arzabe, @miguel.arzabe Jay Blakesberg, @jayblakesberg + Marco Ferrero, @skatingaway Kelsey Brookes, @kelseybrookes Nick Dong, @studiodong Lia Halloran, @liahalloranstudio David Huffman, @davidhuffmanstudio Terri Loewenthal, @lowandtall Kate Nichols Mario Martinez (Mars-1), @mars_1_ Mary Ann Strandell, @maryannstrandell & Psychedelic Puppet Show with Brad Necyk and Jason Silva, @psychedelicpuppetshow Featured artwork: David Huffman Meditation 1 Acrylic and gouache on canvas 16 x 20 x .75 in. Courtesy of Jessica Silverman Gallery

My new painting,AURA, will be featured at Miami Basel with Jessica Silverman gallery, booth AO4. Come check it out in person if you’re in Miami. AURA, 48x48in, acrylic, gouache, textile, spray paint, collage and color pencil on canvas, 2025. #artbaselmiami #artbasel #jessicasilvermangallery #aura #socialabstraction

The review of my exhibition, A Brilliant Blackout, at Jessica Silverman gallery is finally out in the October issue of Frieze magazine. It’s really great to have the physical copy in hand. They chose my new Prince Traumanaut painting for the review. Very thankful to Theodora Walsh for writing this amazing review 👏🏽🙌🏽🥰🪐 “Whenever I’m Around You “ 72x60, acrylic, oil, gauche and color pencil on canvas, 2025. #abrilliantblackout #jessicasilvermangallery #frieze #artmagazines #review #prince #traumanaut

Excited to see my painting,Together We Are More, in its new home 🥰🌻🪐👍🏽 #togetherwearemore #socialabstraction #contemporaryart #MLK #corettascottking #traumanauts #painting

My friend Rico Gatson took these images of our work included the permanent collection exhibition at the Weisman Art Museum in Minnesota. So great to see my piece Breonna up with so many great works. BREONNA (Breonna Taylor), 72 x 60 in, acrylic, oil, collage,spray paint, glitter and color pencil on wood panel, 2020. @rico_gatson #weismanartmuseum #permanentcollection #breonnataylor #socialabstraction

If you’re at SFMOMA check out my installation, Portals. A three court destination to an otherworldly place. Thanks to Alteronce Gumby for the image and Wayee Chu for the group photo 🙌🏽🙌🏽🪐🔥 #portals #sfmoma

My painting, Seeds of Light, will be featured at Untitled Houston, Sept 19-21. Jessica Silverman gallery, booth B11. Seeds of Light, 40x30”, Acrylic and gouache on linen, 2025. #untitled #houston #artfair #seedsoflight

So honored to have my painting, The Black Hole and a Traumanaut’s uncertain journey, featured in the new book, Conjuring the Void The Art of Black Holes. Written and curated by Lynn Gamwell with a forward by Astrophysicist Neal deGrasse Tyson! 🥰🪐🙌🏽🙌🏽🔭 The Black Hole and a Traumanaut’s Uncertain Journey, 2008, 82x72, acrylic, oil, glitter and spray paint on canvas, collection of San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and curtesy of Jessica Silverman gallery. #nealdegrassetyson #lynngamwell #blackhole #art #traumanaut #astrophysics #astronomy #sfmoma #science #contemporaryart

@davidhuffmanstudio is on the pod right off the heels of his show @jessicasilvermangallery A talk about the Bay and NYC, Hendrix and escapism, barely missing Madonna, teaching and much more. Link in bio. @caseykaplangallery 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. #podcast #art #painting #sculpture #davidhuffman

This Friday will be the last day of my exhibition, A Brilliant Blackout, at Jessica Silverman gallery. Thank you Jessica, Sarah, Kathryn, Owen, Hakki and all the wonderful folks at the gallery for putting on such a beautiful show 🥰🥰🙌🏽🙌🏽🪐🌻🌠🦋 #abrilliantblackout #art #exhibition #abstractpainting #traumanauts #afrofuturism