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Born in 1985 in Yokneam Moshava, Israel, Doron Langberg lives and works in Queens, N.Y. He received his MFA in painting in 2012 from Yale University School of Art and holds a BFA from the University of Pennsylvania (2010), a Certificate from PAFA (2010) and he attended the Yale Summer School of Music and Art, Norfolk (2009).

“I see my paintings as a conduit between the viewer and me, through which my experiences become theirs. In my process, I search for affinities between textures, marks or color relationships and moments in my life, ranging from banal to sexual. I focus on love and desire in my work because they are both fundamental human experiences, but also what mark me as different. When I’m confronted with views about queerness, whether in a conversation, on the street, publicly expressed in the media, or embedded in institutional policy, I often feel that they do not reflect my own experience of sexuality. Through their visual impact, I want my paintings to bridge this gap between how I see myself and how others see me. By foregrounding color, gesture, and the tactility of paint I try to create a connection with a viewer that speaks to the shared sensations of the bodies we inhabit rather than the social categories that constrict us.”

Langberg creates paintings that focus on love, desire, sexuality, and closeness that depict close friends, lovers, and family members. By foregrounding color, gesture, and the tactility of paint, his work speaks to shared feelings and sensations in contrast to divisive social definitions and functions. His reductive style renders gestures and facial features in simple lines and washes of color, drawing the viewer into the intimacy of each relationship and moment. Langberg’s work asserts the validity and necessity of queerness in sexuality and identity narratives, responding to the subtle but pervasive rejection or dismissal of queer forms of sexuality within the social structures that we inhabit, and aims to humanize queer pleasure, friendship, and intimacy.