New York City-based artist Doug Argue’s forty-year painting career has culminated in a well-known and recognizable body of work that ranges from pure abstraction to representation.
Born in St. Paul, Minnesota, Argue’s work has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions including at Edelman Arts and Haunch of Venison in New York and the Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica. Two of his new monumental paintings commissioned for the lobby of One World Trade Center in Manhattan are now on display. His work is in the collections of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Walker Art Center, Weisman Art Museum, and numerous other museums, corporate and private collections.
Image Credit: Cristina Arza
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2023 Doug Argue: Letters to the Future, survey, exhibition, and curation by Elizabeth Armstrong,
Weisman Art Museum, Saint Paul, MN
2022 Doug Argue: There is No Happiness Like Mine, Piermarq*, Surry Hills, Australia
Sydney Contemporary, Darlinghurst, Australia
The Life Aquatic. Oceanic Visions by Doug Argue, collaboration with German Consulate, 1014 – Space for Ideas, New York, NY
2019 Kovacek Gallery, Vienna, Austria
2018 Marc Straus Gallery, New York, NY
2017 Waterhouse and Dodd, New York, NY
2015 Scattered Rhymes, Venice Biennale, Collateral Exhibition, Venice, Italy
2013 Doug Argue, Cafesjian Center for the Arts, Yerevan, Armenia
Awards
2009 London International Creative Competition | Artist of the Year Review
2001 Golden Family Foundation
1997 Rome Prize Fellow catalogue
1995 Pollock- Krasner Foundation
Minnesota State Arts Board Fellowship
1994 Minnesota State Arts Board Career Opportunities Grant
1992 McKnight Foundation Fellowship
1991 Minnesota State Arts Board Fellowship
1990 Jerome Foundation Travel and Study Grant
1988 Bush Foundation Fellowship
1987 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
1986 McKnight Foundation fellowship
1984 Jerome Foundation Fellowship
Artist Statement
There are many different histories in the world, in both art and politics, and we often see things in the current moment, yet have no idea what lies beneath. One language is always turning into another, one generation is always rising and another falling, there is no still moment. I am trying to express this flux—this constant shifting of one thing over another, like a veil over the moment itself.