Dave Muller (b. 1964, San Francisco, CA) is a Los Angeles–based artist whose multifaceted practice spans painting, drawing, watercolor, and social sculpture. He received a BA from the University of California at Davis in 1989, where he also served as a DJ and Music Director at KDVS. He briefly studied at the School of Visual Arts in New York before earning an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia in 1993.

Muller’s work has been presented widely in the United States and internationally. He has had solo exhibitions at Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA; the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, León, Spain; the Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO; and, most recently, the Williamson Gallery, ArtCenter College of Design, Pasadena, CA, among others. His work has also been featured in important group exhibitions such as the 2004 Whitney Biennial.

His work is represented in the public collections of the Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX; the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; the Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, among others.