Dave Muller’s practice treats art as a social form rather than simply an object. From the Three Day Weekend gatherings (mid-1990s – present), holiday-weekend exhibitions staged in houses and itinerant spaces from Los Angeles to Tokyo and Berlin, through watercolor announcements made for peers and later Top Ten commission portraits that portray sitters through the spines of their records, he has used music’s logic of sharing, sampling, and bringing people together to assemble temporary communities. Identity appears not as an interior essence but as something negotiated in lists, playlists, worn sleeves, and rooms where people listen together and interact. The hand-rendered image and the hosted event are two versions of the same relational act: authorship is deliberately porous, and culture is something shared rather than owned.

Dave Muller(b. 1964, San Francisco) lives and works in Pasadena, California. His work has been presented widely in the United States and internationally, with solo exhibitions at Blum & Poe, Los Angeles; the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Spain, among many others. He recently had a major survey show at the museum of the ArtCenter College of Design, Pasadena, CA (2026). His work has also been included in important group exhibitions such as the Whitney Biennial and Prospect, New Orleans. Public collections include the Dallas Museum of Art; the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; the Henry Art Gallery, Seattle; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York and more.

The fair runs October 2 to 4 with a VIP reception by invitation Thursday, October 1st. The booth is located at A14 / SP1.

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