DAVID DAIGLE

ARTISTS

David Daigle's practice explores the intersections of desire, identity, and consumer culture through photography and sculpture. Working with found commercial imagery, he subjects technical images to acts of physical transformation that simultaneously damage and reveal them, challenging their authority, seduction, and presumed truthfulness. Through sculptural intervention and décollage, Daigle drills into magazine pages, bus shelter advertisements, and wallpaper murals, transforming them into perforated surfaces marked by constellations of openings.

"I am interested in sublimating technical images designed to generate desire. Through the subversive act of perforation, I search for the meanings trapped behind them. I want to see past the imagery, through the photograph itself and ask whether media can become so untruthful that it ultimately consumes both itself and us."



An artist, photographer, and educator, David Daigle received a BA from Hampshire College and an MFA from ArtCenter College of Design in 2022. Recent solo exhibitions include Trypophobic Panopticons at Track 16 (2023) and The Pink Opaque at the Broad Art Foundation, Pasadena, CA (2021). Recent group exhibitions include shows at Luis De Jesus Los Angeles (2024) and M+B (2023). His work is in the permanent collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).

Mask (Herb Ritts Photo). 2026. Herb Ritts Photo and Out magazine with punch cut holes. 10 x 8 inches.

SELECTED ARTWORKS

EXHIBITIONS

Track 16 Gallery – 2023

David Daigle: Trypophobic Panopticons

Solo Exhibition

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Track 16 Gallery – Upcoming 2026

David Daigle: The Death of Beauty

Solo Exhibition

PRESS

This is Colossal

David Daigle’s Elaborate Punch-Cut Paper Pieces Excavate Commercial Imagery

By Kate Mothes

June 21, 2026