Doron Langberg
Nisan

Doron Langberg (b. 1985, Israel) is a New York-based figurative painter whose intimate portraits of friends, lovers, family, and himself evoke an immediate sense of intimacy. Queer in a manner that extends beyond sexuality, they rely on basic human truths: our interiority, our relationships, our being embodied. Physicality appears both in the work and the making of the work, with various methods of mark-making communicating different notes of emotional information, textures that feel dynamic and sensual as we follow his figures from beach to bar to bed. Langberg’s contribution to Art for Black Lives, “Nisan,” is a portrait of his brother, painted during a recent trip home after many months’ absence. Langberg holds an MFA from Yale University School of Art, a BFA from the University of Pennsylvania, a Certificate from PAFA, and attended the Yale Summer School of Music and Art, Norfolk. He is the recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters John Koch award for painting, the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant, and the Yale Schoelkopf Travel Prize. Langberg’s work has been exhibited at the Yossi Milo Gallery in New York, the Schwules Museum in Berlin, Carl Freedman Gallery in Kent, and will be included in a major group exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston in 2022. He is represented by Victoria Miro Gallery, which will open their first solo exhibition of his work in September, 2021. His work has also been shown at institutional venues including the LSU Museum, American Academy of Arts and Letters, Leslie-Lohman Museum and The PAFA Museum.  He is an alum of A4BL partner Queer|Art’s mentorship program.