David Spriggs

Arsenal Contemporary New York is pleased to present a selection of works by David Spriggs, coinciding with his inclusion in the current Iris van Herpen exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum. Bringing together works that move between atmosphere, space, and immaterial form, the exhibition foregrounds Spriggs’s long-standing investigation into how images become spatial events. David Spriggs has developed a distinctive method of layering painted or printed transparent images in space to produce ethereal three-dimensional forms. His work explores perception, movement, color, space-time, surveillance, and the visual languages of power and control. Hovering between material object and immaterial phenomenon, his installations ask viewers to experience images as spatial events rather than fixed surfaces. David Spriggs is a British-Canadian artist known for large-scale installations that operate between painting, sculpture, and optics. Born in Manchester, England, in 1978, he immigrated to Canada in 1992. He received a BFA from Emily Carr University in Vancouver and an MFA from Concordia University in Montreal, with additional student residencies at Central Saint Martins in London and Bauhaus University in Weimar. Spriggs has exhibited internationally, with projects and exhibitions in Canada, the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. He is currently based in Vancouver Island, British Columbia. In 2024, David Spriggs was awarded the Prix artistique de l’espace of the Académie des beaux-arts and the Fondation Jacques Rougerie.