DAVID JOHN ATTYAH is a public artist and printmaker based in Los Angeles.

Attyah
has two distinct art lives. In his outward identity, Attyah is a political artist and activist, and
is co-founder of the collaborative THINK AGAIN. His large-scale public works use action
and humor to tackle hot button social issues like homophobia, political violence, and
economic justice.

In his private, contemplative world, his projects use traditional print techniques and
drawing to explore aspects of the psychological and existential self. His somber and muted
etchings examine eroticism, intimacy, stigma, male vitality, fragility and vulnerability from
the queer perspective. Attyah spends a lot of time trying to resolve his two selves.

Attyah is currently full-time Professor of Studio Art at Glendale Community College, where
he teaches drawing, design and printmaking. Attyahs work has been exhibited nationally
and internationally, including Worcester Art Museum (Boston); Museu dArt Contemporani
de Barcelona; Arizona State University Art Museum, and Maryland Institute College of Art.
Attyahs public projects are documented in the monograph, A Brief History of Outrage
(DAP/2003).

In 2012, Attyah opened a design studio, print shop, and community exhibition in Los
Angeles, entitled PhlatPhile. PhPhs mission is to support meaningful print-based projects
via design consultation, production assistance, and exhibition.

Prior to coming to the visual arts, Attyah worked for a decade in public health with
emphasis on community development, HIV prevention, and human rights. He received his
Masters of Fine Arts from the Boston Museum School, his Masters of Arts in Cultural
Anthropology from Harvard University, and his Bachelors of Arts from Princeton University
in Public and International Affairs.

DAVID JOHN ATTYAH

ONLINE ARCHIVES AND PROJECTS
Printmaking, drawing, experimental photography: www.davidjohnattyah.com
Print studio: www.ph-ph.org
Public projects: www.agitart.org


CURRENT POSITIONS
Professor of Studio Art, Glendale Community College, 2005 present.
Proprietor, PhlatPhile: Art on Paper, FPC, a design studio, print shop, and exhibition space in Los
Angeles, CA, 2012 present.
Co-Founder, THINK AGAIN (David John Attyah + S.A. Bachman), an artist-activist collaborative,
1999 present.

EDUCATION
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. MFA, Studio Art, 1999.
Harvard University, Department of Anthropology. MA, Social Anthropology, 1996. ABD 1994.
Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. BA, Public Affairs, 1989.

MUSEUM, SOLO, AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2014 The Jugular, book launch, PhlatPhile, Los Angeles

2012 Advocate and Gochis Gallery, THINK AGAIN: Selected Public Work, Advocate and Gochis
Gallery, Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center
2011 Glendale Area Temporary Exhibitions, Punch/Utopia: Prints by David John Attyah, Constructions
by Mark Gens. Street installation on Brand Blvd.

2009/2010 Worcester Art Museum, Actions Speak, Worcester, MA. Interior wall mural through 2010.
2009 Aidekman Art Center, Politics, Protest, Posters: The Art of Chaz Maviyane-Davies, Favianna
Rodriguez and THINK AGAIN, Tufts University, Boston, MA.
2007 Axiom Gallery, Witnesses, Boston, MA (with Denise Marika).
2005 Loyola Marymount University Art Museum, Not for Prot: Designing Across The Social Divide,
Los Angeles, CA.
2004 Printed Matter, A Brief History of Outrage, New York, NY.
Arizona State University Art Museum, Democracy in America, Tempe, AZ.
2003 16:1 Gallery, A Brief History of Outrage, Los Angeles, CA.
2002 Museum of New Art, New Season, Detroit, MI.
2001 Museo d ! Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Antagonisms, Barcelona, Spain.
2000 Maryland Institute College of Art, The Culture of Class: Issues of Class in North American
Culture, Baltimore, MD.
Hampshire College, THINK AGAINs Agitart, Northhampton, MA.
1999 The Peace Museum, Messages For The Millennium, Chicago, IL.
Aidekman Art Center, Tufts University, Economic Boom For Whom?, Boston, MA.

SELECTED PUBLIC PROJECTS
2013 Launch: Phlat Phile: Art on Paper. Design studio, print shop, exhibition space.
2011 The International Desk, International Conference on AIDS, Washington, DC.
Mural installation.
2009/2010 Actions Speak, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA. Exterior public projection through
continuing through October 2010.
2006/2007 The NAFTA Effect, Los Angeles, Boston. Mobile public projection project funded by Outpost
for Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
2001/2004 Protestgraphics. Download-click-print web-resource and poster campaign. Reproduced in
Graphic Agitation 2 (Liz McQuiston, ed., Phaidon, 2004).
2001/2002 Target Marketing Is Not A Social Movement, Los Angeles, Boston, San Francisco. Mobile
billboard and poster project.
2000 Economic Boom For Whom?, Boston, San Francisco. Billboard and poster in collaboration with
United For A Fair Economy.
1997 The AIDS Crisis Is Not Over (Redux), Boston, MA. Street graphic intervention.

ARTIST MONOGRAPH

2014 The Jugular by David John Attyah, seventy full color plates, limited edition of 50 books, 2014.
Distributed by PhlatPhile: Art on Paper, Los Angeles
2003 A Brief History of Outrage, by THINK AGAIN (David John Attyah and S.A. Bachman),
Politicizing Pictures Press, 2003. Distributed by Distributed Art Publishers/D.A.P.

SELECTED AWARDS AND GRANTS
Massachusetts Cultural Council
LEF Foundation
New England Foundation For the Arts
Tanne Foundation
The Funding Exchange
GUNK Foundation
Pufn Foundation
Resist Foundation
Harvard University Danforth Center of
Teaching and Learning Award

RESIDENCIES
2009 Banff Center for the Arts, Calgary, Canada. Residency in Printmaking.


SELECTED BOOKS
BABA Studio, Spiritus Mundi: A Global Response, Prague, Czechoslovakia, 2002.
Balliet, Barbara and Heffernan, Kerrissa, The Practice of Change, AAHE Press, 2000.
Baumgardner, Jennifer and Richards, Amy, Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future, Farrar,
Straus and Giroux, 2000.
Frostig, Karen and Halamka Kathy, Editors, Blaze: Discourse on Art, Women and Feminism,
Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007.
Haas, Gilda and Strategic Actions For A Just Economy, We Shall Not Be Moved, 2004.
Latner, Teishan, The Quotable Rebel: Political Quotations for Dangerous Times, Common Courage
Press, 2006.
Mann, James, Peace Signs: The Anti-War Movement Illustrated, English, French, German edition;
George Olms Verlag AG, Posters Against A War, Spanish edition; Gustavo Gili, 2003/2004.
McQuiston, Liz, Graphic Agitation 2, Phaidon, London, 2004 .
Power, Marcus, Rethinking Development Geographies, Routledge, 2003.
Thompson, Cooper, White Men Challenging Racism, Duke University Press, 2003.

PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, Mexico
Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow, Scotland
New York Public Library, Midtown Y Collection of Photography, New York, NY
Center for the Study of Political Graphics, Los Angeles, CA
Huntington Museum, Austin, TX
Self Help Graphics, Los Angeles, CA
Center for Justice, Tolerance, and Community, University of California Santa Cruz CACARIDAD/California
Ethnic Multi-Cultural Archive, University of California Santa Barbara Library
Institute of Texas Culture, University of Texas, San Antonio, TX
Institute of Latino Inter-University Project Research, University of Notre Dame, ID
Hispanic Resource Center, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ