David Byrd • Catalogue Raisonné

Catalogue entry

P40

Awoken Person

1984

Oil on canvas

24 x 31 in. (61 x 78.7 cm)

Signed and dated lower right pencil: BYRD

Private collection

Provenance

David Byrd Estate

White Columns Gallery

Private collection

Exhibitions

2015 Edgewood College Gallery

Edgewood College Gallery, Madison, Wisconsin, David Byrd: War Is Always With Us, August 20–October 18, 2015. Traveled to: St. Catherine University, Catherine G. Murphy Gallery, St Paul, Minnesota, November 7–December 20, 2015.

2015 Zieher, Smith and Horton

Zieher Smith and Horton, New York, David Byrd and Peter Gallo, The Doctors and the Patients, November 17–December 19, 2015.

2015 St. Catherine University, Catherine G. Murphy Gallery

St. Catherine University, Catherine G. Murphy Gallery, St. Paul, Minnesota, David Byrd: War Is Always With Us, November 7–December 20, 2015.

2017 Ten Stops: Franklin Stage Company

Franklin Stage Company, Franklin, New York, The Dramatic Gesture: Paintings of David Byrd, July 1–31, 2017.

2018 Fleisher/Ollman Gallery

Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, Patient Pondering, September 13–November 10, 2018.

2019 White Columns

White Columns, 91 Horatio St, New York, David Byrd, January 17–March 9, 2019.

Literature

Ananya Dance Theatre 2015

"Violence, madness, breath' in gallery movement meditation." (St. Paul, Minnesota)December 10, 2015.

Feigen 2018

Feigen, Lev. "A Psych Ward-Inspired Trove of Outsider Art Finally Sees the Light." Hyperallergic, November 1, 2018.

Heskes 2019

Heskes, Nicholas. "Art Seen: David Byrd." Brooklyn Rail (Brooklyn, NY) (March 7, 2019).

Higgs and Hull 2024

Higgs, Matthew, Andrea Hull. "Interview: Videographer Andrea Hull speaks with Matthew Higgs, director of White Columns." In David Byrd Catalogue Raisonné, by Jody Isaacson and Jessica Farrell. Sidney Center, NY: David Byrd Estate, 2024.

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Theme: VA Hospital

Record last updated July 15, 2024. Please note the catalogue is an evolving project and continually updated with new information that best reflects David Byrd's legacy.

Citation: Isaacson, Jody and Jessica Farrell. "Awoken Person, 1984 (P40)." In David Byrd Catalogue Raisonné. Sidney Center, NY: David Byrd Estate. www.davidbyrdcatalogue.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=38 (accessed on September 29, 2026).