Sevil Dolmacı Istanbul is pleased to present the first solo exhibition of the internationally renowned American artist David Salle in Turkey. The exhibition, entitled ‘Un-Accompanied Minors’, will run from 29 May to 25 July 2024, and will present 21 new works created by Salle this year at his studio in New York. These will include new paintings from the artist's celebrated Tree of Life series, the brand-new Window series as well as a diverse range of works in various media and sizes

Salle first came to public attention in New York City in the 1980s as a leading figure of the Pictures Generation, questioning the status of the image through appropriation and exploration of mass media. Salle's first solo museum exhibition was held at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam in 1983, followed by his first retrospective in 1999 at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.This exhibition subsequently traveled to the Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna; Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy; and Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain. His paintings have been exhibited in important institutions around the world, including the Albertina Museum in Vienna;the Art Institute of Chicago; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles; the Guggenheim Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York; the National Gallery of Art in Washington; the Kestnergesellschaft Museum in Hannover; the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid, and the Tate Gallery in London, among many others. His most recent retrospective was held at the Brant Foundation in Greenwhich, Ct. in 2022. Salle's paintings are in the permenant collections of major museums and foundations the world over. Salle is also an esteemed writer and critic whose essays and interviews have been published in Artforum, Art News, The Paris Review , Blau Magazine (Berlin), and The New York Review of Books, as well as in numerous exhibition catalogs and anthologies. He was the art critic for Town & Country Magazine for three years in the mid-2,000s, and is now a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books. His collection of critical essays, How to See, was published by W. W. Norton in 2016. Salle lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.