David Gilbert is an artist and photographer currently living in Los Angeles; he was born in New York. He has had solo exhibitions at Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, New York; Chris Sharp Gallery, Los Angeles; Rebecca Camacho Presents, San Francisco; 12.26, Dallas; and The Finley, Los Angeles. His work is in the permanent collection of LACMA, and he has been an artist-in-residence at Yaddo, Lighthouse Works, and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. In 2015, he presented Duets (a performance with Pau Pescador) as part of Performa15 in New York.
 His work has been written about in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Art in America, XTRA Magazine, BOMB, and Art Review. In the February 2019 issue of Artforum, Wayne Koestenbaum wrote Gilbert is “a photographer whose beat is the afterlife as it takes place now, in this studio, this room, among these bedclothes and paint stains and wigs and strings.”