Carroll Dunham New Haven, CT, USA, b. 1949

Over his four-decade-long career, Dunham has developed his unique pictorial language. His formal vocabulary initially took the form of quasi-psychedelic biomorphic abstractions and has since evolved to include well-defined concrete figures—such as women, men, and suns—that possess the clarity of images found in coloring books. Dunham has masterfully constructed a graphic world of “nameable things” like trees, flowers, houses, and guns, deliberately avoiding subtlety and striving to distill a subject to its essential visual archetype.

Artist’s works are presented in world most influential art institutions and public collections, such as Albertina Museum (Vienna, Austria), Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, IL, USA), Brooklyn Museum (New York, NY, USA), The Judith Rothschild Foundation (New York, NY, USA), Museum Ludwig (Cologne, Germany), Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) (New York, NY, USA), Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) (Chicago, IL, USA), Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA) (Los Angeles, CA, USA), Olbricht Collection (Essen, Germany), Philadelphia Museum of Art (Philadelphia, PA, USA) and Whitney Museum of American Art (New York, NY, USA).