David King is a contemporary artist who focuses on translating photographic images into lush paintings, created with oil paint, oil stick, chalk pastel and acrylic. King works with images of people, often his family members and those in historic photographs, and develops stories of the past through his paintings and drawings. He received an MFA from Kent State University, has taught high school art for 30 years at Chagrin Falls High School, and currently works in his studio in Cleveland Heights.
David has a distinguished history of exhibitions, with a focus on realism, solo museum shows, and repeated inclusion in major national and regional juried exhibitions since the late 1980s.
Solo & Feature Exhibitions
2023 Show & Tell – Domestic Narratives Hedge Gallery, Cleveland, OH Recent solo exhibition.
2021 Time Travel (2 Exhibits) Erie Art Museum, Erie, PA AND Bay Arts, Bay Village, OH Major solo museum show and concurrent solo exhibition as a CAN Triennial Award Winner.
2019 Cleveland Creates – Time Travel ART NEO Museum, OH Award-winning solo presentation.
1991 / 1983 One Man Shows Hiram College, OH / Valley Savings, OH Early career solo presentations.

Key Juried & Museum Appearances
2022 / 2018 CAN Triennial Cleveland, OH Inclusion in the region's major triennial exhibition.
1997 / 1996 Annual Midyear Exhibition Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH Multiple showings at a premier American art museum.
1997 / 1995 / 1989 Realism Parkersburg Cultural Fine Arts Center, WV Repeat selection for this national realism exhibition.
1997 / 1996 / 1991 / 1981 Annual Open Exhibition Pastel Society of America, NYC Multiple inclusions in the prestigious national society show.
2018 Art Educators as Artists Riffe Gallery, Columbus, OH Statewide juried exhibition.