Doron Langberg (b. 1985, Yokneam Moshava, Israel) is an Israeli-American painter based in New York whose work centers on love, desire, and intimacy as fundamental human experiences. He received a BFA and Certificate from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 2010 and an MFA from Yale University School of Art in 2012.
Working from direct observation of friends, family, and lovers, Langberg builds paintings in which carefully rendered passages of description open into loose, abstract surfaces, so that the image holds both the specificity of a person and the impermanence of memory. His practice addresses queer sexuality and domestic life not as marginal subjects but as the full, complex terrain of contemporary existence. Langberg's work has been presented at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Frick Collection, and Kunsthal Rotterdam, where he held his first solo institutional exhibition in Europe in 2024.
In 2017, Doron Langberg was artist-in-residence at 68projects by KORNFELD Galerie Berlin, and has been part of the gallery's program since his earliest group exhibition there in 2015.
Doron Langberg (b. 1985, Yokneam Moshava, Israel) lives and works in New York. He received a BFA and Certificate from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) in 2010 and an MFA from Yale University School of Art in 2012. He also attended the Yale Summer School of Music and Art in Norfolk. Langberg has been painting since childhood, and early encounters with retrospectives by Lucian Freud and Avigdor Arikha shaped his commitment to figurative work and his understanding of how paint can carry both physical presence and psychological depth.
Langberg's paintings are made from direct observation of the people closest to him: friends, family, and lovers who pose for extended periods, lending the work an intimacy that resists both idealization and detachment. His surfaces move between careful description and abstraction, with edges that blend and passages that are wiped or scraped back to reveal the canvas beneath. This technique conveys a sense of fading memory and impermanence even within scenes of warmth and closeness. His work addresses queer sexuality and domestic life as central rather than peripheral subjects, situating love and desire within the full complexity of contemporary existence. Langberg is associated with a loosely affiliated group of LGBTQ painters sometimes described as the New Queer Intimists, whose work collectively insists on joy, tenderness, and the erotic as legitimate and serious pictorial territory.
Langberg has received significant institutional recognition. His work has been presented at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Frick Collection in New York. In 2020, he was commissioned by the Public Art Fund to create a portrait displayed on bus shelters throughout New York City. In 2024, he debuted Part of Your World at Kunsthal Rotterdam, his first solo institutional exhibition in Europe. He has also participated in the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program in New York. His work has been reviewed and discussed in Art in America, Hyperallergic, The Brooklyn Rail, Artsy, and L'Officiel, among other publications.
Doron Langberg's relationship with KORNFELD Galerie Berlin began in 2015, when he participated in the group exhibition You don't bring me flowers (+ Mistress Project) at 68projects (24 January to 11 April 2015), a three-part exhibition devoted to flowers, love, and desire. In 2017, he was artist-in-residence at 68projects, living and working in Berlin as part of the residency program. The following year, his work appeared in Moments of Intimacy at 68projects (14 September to 19 October 2018), alongside Kyle Coniglio and Anthony Cudahy. He later appeared in the anniversary group exhibition Berlin on my Mind. Celebrating 10 Years of Artistic Residency at 68projects by KORNFELD (21 June to 24 August 2024). His practice continues to deepen its engagement with the painted figure as a site of love, memory, and shared human experience.
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Berlin on my Mind. Celebrating 10 Years of Artistic Residency at 68projects by KORNFELD – Groupshow
21 Jun - 24 Aug 2024 68projectsARTISTSRead more
Dawit Abebe, Olasunkanmi Akomolehin, Cristina BanBan, Yevgeniya Baras, William Bradley, Giorgio Celin, Chris Engman, Kimia Ferdowsi Kline, Seong Joon Hong, Chris Hood, Michael John Kelly, Alexander Kroll, Doron Langberg, Sandeep Mukherjee, Jennifer Packer, Adrianne Rubenstein, Kyungmi Shin, Levan Songulashvili, Panos Tsagaris, Rachel Eulena Williams & Liat Yossifor
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On 21 June, we will showcase 21 works by the 21 artists who have been our guests as artists-in-residence over the past 10 years of 68projects by KORNFELD – with ‘Berlin on My Mind’. We are celebrating our 10 years with 68projects by KORNFELD and the 10 years of our artist-in-residence program, but also our future, which we hope to keep creating in Berlin. In Berlin, international artists look for new perspectives, a place where ideas mingle
Opening: June 21 2024, 6 pm
Exhibition: June 21 – August 24 2024, Tue – Sat, 11 am – 6 pm
68projects by KORNFELD, Fasanenstr. 68, 10719 Berlin -
Moments of Intimacy – Groupshow
14 Sep - 19 Oct 2018 68projectsKyle Coniglio, Anthony Cudahy, Doron Langberg Moments of Intimacy GroupshowRead more -
You don’t bring me flowers ( + Mistress Project ) – Groupshow
24 Jan - 11 Apr 2015 68projectsTom Anholt, Kevin Baker, Donald Baechler, Amy Bessone, Maya Bloch, Matt Bollinger, Ann Craven, Jared Deery, Baris Gokturk, MacGregor Harp, Vera Iliatova, Max Janson, Egill Kalevi, Doron Langberg, Alissa McKendrick, Aliza Nisenbaum, Giacinto Occhionero, Nadia Haji Omar, Jennifer Packer, Jennifer Steinkamp etc.Read more
68projects opens our third exhibition in frigid, wintry temperatures with three interlinked exhibitions devoted to flowers and love.
Exhibition 1: Much like still life paintings or individual portraits, flowers might appear too antique as a possible subject for art, especially during a period when art is generated from any idea or the absence of an idea.
Exhibition 2: The Garden of Eden represents innocence, a time before our existence and is lodged deep into the western cultural consciousness. It is also a confusing, mythical place.
Exhibition 3: A mistress is a complicated figure. At first glimpse, she seems pathetic or delusional with the constant longing, undying patience and commitment to an unavailable man who schedules and habitually cancels visits. Society is too quick to judge a mistress, and it is easy to take a high moral stance regarding other people’s affairs.
