David Held

David Held (b. 1954, NY] is an interdisciplinary artist based in New Paltz, NY. He received his degree from the Center for Media Studies from SUNY Buffalo.

He has shown his work at numerous exhibitions including the International Computer Music Conference and the Minneapolis Institute of the Arts. Locally, he has exhibited at Jane Street Gallery in Saugerties, Arts Society of Kingston, O+ Festival and ArtBuoy in Kingston, WAAM in Woodstock and Arts Mid-Hudson, Poughkeepsie.

His audio work was featured in Nam June Paik's video on Merce Cunningham entitled “Merce by Merce by Paik”.

He was honored with two Mid-Hudson Arts Grants and a NYS Council of the Arts Grant. Held’s work has been written about in MIT's Journal of Computer Music.