The Vanishing Bridegroom, 2024, Watercolor on rag paper 11.75 x 11.75 inches 18 x 18 inches framed by Darren Waterston

Darren Waterston has been exhibiting his paintings, works on paper, and installations in the U.S. and abroad since the early 1990s. Recent exhibition highlights include: Darren Waterston's Filthy Lucre: Whistler's Peacock Room Reimagined at Victoria and Albert Museum (2020); Peacock Room REMIX: Darren Waterston's Filthy Lucre at The Smithsonian Institution's Freer/Sackler Galleries (2016); Uncertain Beauty at Massachusetts Museum of Modern Art (2014); Forest Eater at The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu (2011); and Splendid Grief: The Afterlife of Leland Stanford Jr. (2009), an installation at The Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, CA. Darren Waterston: Filthy Lucre was published by Skira Rizzoli in association with MASS MoCA and the Freer/Sackler in 2014. Waterston's artwork is in numerous permanent collections including a site-specific mural at The Frick Collection, New York; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; New York Public Library, New York City; The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle; and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. He graduated with a BFA from the Otis Art Institute in 1988 he now lives and works in Kinderhook, New York.