Education

2010 — MFA, Painting, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
2005 — BFA, Painting, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA

Solo & Two-Person Exhibitions

2024 — Performance Anxiety, Telematic Media Arts, San Francisco, CA
2021 — The Virion Transit, Telematic Media Arts, San Francisco, CA
2020 — Human-To-Be-In, Premiere Jr., San Francisco, CA
2019 — Blue Monster, Et al. etc., San Francisco, CA
2017 — Chapel Perilous, Bass & Reiner, San Francisco, CA
2017 — Material Art Fair, Alter Space booth (with KOAK), Mexico City, Mexico
2016 — Hermit, curated by Luca Antonucci, Vacancy, Los Angeles, CA
2015 — Big Winner, www.cloque.org
2014 — Sights and Sounds of Stage and Screen (with Ben Bigelow), City Limits, Oakland, CA
2013 — Precious, Water McBeer, San Francisco, CA
2011 — Bad Casserole, Gallery Hijinks, San Francisco, CA
2010 — MFA Thesis Exhibition, Herbst Pavilion, San Francisco, CA

Residencies

2022 — Recology Artist in Residence Program, San Francisco, CA (Thank You, Saint Anthony)

Selected Group Exhibitions

2025 — Immediate Mooncalf Retrospective+, curated by Ryan Bock, Mooncalf, New York, NY
2025 — otherwise, Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art & Design, Portland, ME
2024 — Slipper, curated by Lisa Rybovich Crallé, Personal Space, Vallejo, CA
2023 — Group Shoe 3, curated by Mario Ayala, House of Seiko, San Francisco, CA
2020 — The Archive to Come, Telematic Media Arts, San Francisco, CA
2018 — The Private Collection of Water McBeer, Deitch Projects, New York, NY
2018 — Bay Area Now 8, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2016 — New Video Work, Et al., San Francisco, CA
2016 — An Honest Mimic, Field Contemporary, Vancouver, BC
2016 — Chain Reaction 12, San Francisco Arts Commission Main Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2015 — Kunst-Haul, Parking Lot Art Fair, San Francisco, CA
2015 — Some New American Paintings, Ever Gold, San Francisco, CA
2015 — Spelunking for Success, SFAQ Project Space, San Francisco, CA
2014 — Humor Risk, Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts, New York, NY
2014 — Opera Buffa, Field Contemporary, Vancouver, BC
2014 — Anniversary Show, Ever Gold, San Francisco, CA
2013 — Low Subject, curated by Luca Antonucci, Popular Workshop, San Francisco, CA
2013 — Practicing to Pretend, curated by Melissa Dickenson and William Emmert, Alter Space, San Francisco, CA
2012 — Adobe Exhibitions, Adobe Systems, San Francisco, CA
2010 — Boom!, 18th Juried Exhibition of Northern California Artists, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
2009 — Interrupting a Beam of Light, curated by Rachel Adams, David Cunningham Projects, San Francisco, CA

Commissions & Public Art

2023 — POLIS, San Francisco Arts Commission, 49 South Van Ness, San Francisco, CA (Civic Art Collection)

Collections

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
San Francisco Arts Commission Civic Art Collection, San Francisco, CA
SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

Selected Bibliography

2024 — Sarah Hotchkiss, "A Vallejo Gallery Hosts a Slippery Show of Thrilling Distortions," KQED, November 5
2024 — Brian Karl, "David Bayus's AI-Infused Gender Burlesque," Hyperallergic, October 24
2021 — Michael Fox, "Now Playing! COVID Paranoia Hops on BART in The Virion Transit," KQED, September 23
2019 — Jonathan Curiel, "YBCA's Bay Area Now 8 Is Unafraid of the Intersection of Race and Class," SF Weekly, January 10
2017 — Loney Abrams, "10 Best Artworks From Mexico City's Material Art Fair 2017," Artspace, February 10
2015 — Amelia Rina, "Excerpts from Hermit," Blunderbuss Magazine, October 29
2014 — Luca Antonucci, "In Conversation: David Bayus with Luca Nino Antonucci," SFAQ, Issue 16, July 18

Publications

2026 (forthcoming) — Performance Anxiety, Blu-ray edition, Colpa Press
2018 — Psyman's Acres, Colpa Press (edition of 100)
2015 — Stroke Vol. 3 (Hermit), Colpa Press (edition of 100)
2014 — Stroke Vol. 2, Colpa Press (edition of 20)
2013 — Stroke Vol. 1, Colpa Press (edition of 20)

Filmography

2024 — Performance Anxiety, 10 min
2023 — POLIS, 3 min
2022 — Thank You, Saint Anthony, 6 min
2021 — The Virion Transit, 14 min
2019 — Blue Monster, 21 min 40 sec
2018 — Psyman's Acres, 23 min 3 sec
2017 — Session One & Two, 27 min 35 sec
2016 — Hermit, 24 min
2014 — Stroke on VHS, 30 min

Teaching

2019–present — Faculty, Digital Media Art, CADRE Laboratory, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
2018–2020 — Lecturer, Art & Technology Department, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
2016–2018 — Guest Lecturer, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
2017 — Guest Lecturer, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
2013–2014 — Visiting Professor, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA