George Condo Concord, MA, USA, b. 1957

The artist describes his style as psychological cubism, aiming not so much to dismantle traditional form as to convey a multiplicity of emotional and mental experiences coexisting within a single image. His characters evoke both empathy and unease; they appear familiar yet distorted. Their dual nature — at once alluring and unsettling — reflects the inner contradictions of human psychology.

Condo’s painting strikes a subtle balance between refinement and destruction. Positioned between cultural memory and the visual aggression of the present, he reimagines the portrait genre, turning the human figure into a graphic reflection of inner conflict and fragmented consciousness. What emerges in his work is not unity or narrative but the reverse side of reality — a heightened perception that exposes illusion and reveals the complex spectrum of emotional and psychological states.

Selected solo exhibitions include:

George Condo at Cycladic Museum (Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens, 2018), The Way I Think (The Phillips Collection, Washington, 2017), Confrontation (Museum Berggruen, Berlin, 2016–2017), George Condo. Selections from a Private Collection (The Heydar Aliyev Center, Baku, 2016), and Mental States (New Museum, New York, 2011–2012).

Condo’s works are represented in major public and private collections, including the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) (New York), Whitney Museum of American Art (New York), Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York), Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), National Gallery of Art (Washington), Museum of Fine Arts (Houston), Tate (London), Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris), Fonds National d’Art Contemporain (Paris), Städel Museum (Frankfurt), Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art (Oslo), Museu d’Art Contemporani (Barcelona), The Broad Art Foundation (Los Angeles), Albright-Knox Art Gallery (Buffalo), Moderna Museet (Stockholm), Judith Rothschild Foundation (Philadelphia), and Marciano Art Foundation (Los Angeles).