Selected group exhibitions

2023

Shared Visions. Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Eugene, USA
The Milton and Sheila Fine Collection. Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA
The Inner Island. Villa Carmignac, Hyères, France
Vicolo della Penitenza 11/A. MACRO, Museum of Contemporary Art Of Rome, Rome, Italy
Beautiful, Vivid, Self-Contained, Hill Art Foundation, New York, NY, USA
Before Tomorrow. Astrup Fearnley Museet 30 Years. Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norway
To Bend the Ear of the Outer World: Conversations on Contemporary Abstract Painting, Gagosian,
London, UK

2022

Eat, Sleep, Paint, Repeat. Omer Tiroche Gallery (ex-OTCA), London, UK
Faking the Real. Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria
25 Years. Harper’s Books, East Hampton, USA
I Don. MNAC – Museu do Chiado, Lisbon, Portugal
Obertura: Más allá de los mapas. Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Alicante (MACA), Alicante, Spain

2021

In Absentia. Oliver Malingue, London, UK
Black/White. Skarstedt, East Hampton, USA
Enjoy – The mumok Collection in Change. Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig (MUMOK), Vienna, Austria
Eternal Seasons: Part II 春華秋實：第二篇章. Lévy Gorvy, Hong Kong

2020

00s. Cranford Collection: the 2000s. MO.CO Hôtel des collections, Montpellier, France
With Wings That Beat. Skarstedt, London, UK
Nur nichts anbrennen lassen – New Presentation of the Collection. Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Artist’s Choice: Amy Sillman – The Shape of Shape. Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York City, USA

2019

Inaugural Exhibition. Rubell Museum, Miami, USA
Surface Tension, Carolina Nitsch, New York City, USA
Prints and Editions, Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York City, USA
Push | Pull. Skarstedt, London, UK

2018

Fake As More, Simon Lee Gallery – New York, New York City, USA
Under the Night Sky, Albertz Benda, New York City, USA
Family Guy, Simon Lee Gallery – London, London, United Kingdom
Cote d Azur – Group show, Galerie Emmanuel Hervé, Paris, France
Sculpture, Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York City, USA
Gesture / Form / Pop / Process. Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

2017

New Pleasure. Simon Lee Gallery – New York, New York City, NY USA
Progressive Praxis. De La Cruz Collection Contemporary Art Space, Miami, FL USA
The World is Made of Stories. Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo Norway
Art Wynwood 2017. Art Wynwood, Tucson, AZ, USA. 16 February – 20 February
The Adaa Art Show 2017. The ADAA Art Show, New York City, NY, USA. 1 March – 5 March
The American Line. Skarstedt Gallery, New York City, NY, USA. 25 February – 22 April
Damage Control / Gallery Two. Ibid Projects – Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA USA
Warhol, Wool, Guyton. Nahmad Contemporary, New York City, NY, USA
Wall to Wall: Carpets by Artists. Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (MOCA), Cleveland, OH, USA
Museum Revisited – 1996-2016. Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland

2016

Revealed Terrain: The Semantics Of Landscape. The Center for Book Arts, New York City, NY, USA
In Different Ways. Almine Rech Gallery – London, London, UK
Konzett Konzept Konzert KKK Nr.7 PARAPHRASE. Galerie Philipp Konzett, Vienna, Austria
Fractured. Simon Lee Gallery – Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Painting 2.0 – Malerei im Informationszeitalter. Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig (MUMOK), Vienna, Austria
Fine Young Cannibals. Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York City, NY, USA
Paradise: Underground Culture In Nyc 1978-84. Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects, New York City, NY, USA

2015

The Shell (Landscapes, Portraits & Shape) A show by Eric Troncy, Almine Rech Gallery, Paris, France
Universal Limited Art Editions, Talley Dunn Gallery, Dallas, TX

2014

Beware Wet Paint, ICA, London
Beware Wet Paint, Fondazione Sandretto re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy

Deliverance, The Brant Foundation Art Study Centre, Greenwich, CT

Variations: Conversations in and Around Abstract Paintings, LACMA, Los Angeles, CA

Urban Theatre: New York Art in the 1980s, The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX

Beware Wet Paint, ICA, London, UK

Halftone: Through the Grid, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany; Paris, France

Made in New York, Charles Riva Collection, Brussels, Belgium

No Problem, Cologne/New York 1984-1989, David Zwirner, New York, NY

Dries Van Noten – Inspirations, Les Arts Decoratifs, Paris, France

Love Story – The Anne and Wolfgang Titze Collection, Belvedere, Vienna, Austria

Andratx on Paper, CCA Andratx, Mallorca, Spain
Damage Control: Art and Destruction since 1950, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C., USA

2013

REMEMBER EVERYTHING, 40 Years Galerie Max Hetzler, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany
Le Futur commence ici, FRAC, Dunkerque, France
The Show is over, Gagosian Gallery, London, UK
Xerography, Firstsite, Colchester, UK

Murdered Out, Skarstedt Gallery, New York, NY
In-Between, Skarstedt Gallery, London, UK
6 artists, Eleni Koroneou Gallery, Athens, Greece
Transforming the known: Works from the Bert Kreuk Collection, Gemeente Museum, The Hague, Netherlands

2012

Phantom Limb: Approaches to Painting Today, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL DOGMA, Metro Pictures, New York, NY, USA
Contemporary Painting, 1960 to the Present, Selections from the SFMOMA Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, USA 

Mix/Remix, Luhring Augustine, New York, NY, USA

The Painting Factory: Abstraction After Andy Warhol, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA (catalogue)
Print/Out: 20 Years in Print. The Museum of Modern Art, New York (catalogue)
This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s. Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, IL, USA (catalogue)
The Painting Factory: Abstraction After Andy Warhol. The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA (catalogue)

2011

The 54th International Art Exhibition: ILLUMInations. Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy (catalogue)
Le Printemps de Septembre – a Toulouse. Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, France

2010

Skin Fruit: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection. New Museum, New York, USA

2009

Warhol Wool Newman Painting Real. Kunsthaus Graz, Graz (catalogue)

2008

Oranges and Sardines: Conversations on Abstract Painting with Mark Grotjahn, Wade Guyton, Mary Heilmann, Amy Sillman, Charline von Heyl, and Christopher Wool. Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA (catalogue)

2007

Lines, Grids, Stains, Words. The Museum of Modern Art, New York; traveled to Museum de Arte Contemporanea de Serralves, Porto; Museum Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden (catalogue)
Lines, Grids, Stains, Words. The Museum of Modern Art, New York; traveled to Museum de Arte Contemporanea de Serralves, Porto; Museum Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden (catalogue)

2006

La Collezione François Pinault: Una Selezione Post-Pop. Palazzo Grassi, Venezia, Italy
The 80s: A Topology. Museu Serralves, Porto (catalogue)
Wrestle: Marieluise Hessel Collection. Hessel Museum of Art, Center for Cultural Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson (catalogue)

2005

Contemporary Voices: Works from the UBS Art Collection. Museum of Modern Art, New York (catalogue)
Big Bang, Creation and Destruction in the 20th Century. Pompidou Center, Paris (catalogue)
Drawing from the Modern, 1975-2005. Museum of Modern Art, New York (catalogue)

2004

Flower Power, Palais des Beaux-Arts et Musee de L’Hospice Comtesse, Lille, France
Ice Hot – Recent Paintings from the Scharpff Collection, Hamburger Kunstalle; Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (catalogue)

2003

A Way With Words, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Stranger in the Village: Contemporary Drawings and Photographs from the Museum of Modern Art, Guild Hall, East Hampton
Family Ties. A Contemporary Perspective, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA
Visual Poetics: Art and the Word, Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
The Great Drawing Show; 1550 – 2003 A.D., Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2002

The Broad Art Foundation, Santa Monica
A Thousand Hounds, Paine Webber Art Gallery, New York; Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
Copy, Roth Horowitz, New York
A New York Renaissance: Masterworks from the Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, Palazzo Reale, Milan (catalogue)
Five by Five: Contemporary Artists on Contemporary Art, Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, New York
Hello to Handmade Words, K.S. Art, New York
Painting on the Move, Kunstmuseum Basel, Museum fur Gegenwartskunst Basel, and Kunsthalle Basel, Basel (catalogue)
Ahead of the 21st Century- The Pisces Collection, Furstenberg Sammlungen, Donaueschingen (catalogue)
To Be Looked At: Painting and Sculpture from the Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York (catalogue)

2001

W, Musee des Beaux Arts, Dole, France
Trauma, National Touring Exhibitons. Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, UK
New Acquisitions from the Dakis Joannou Collection, Deste Foundation, Center for Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
Christopher Wool, New Paintings, Herbert Brandl, Neue Bilder, Sabine Knust, Munich
A Way with Words. Whitney Museum of American Art at Phillip Morris, New York, NY
Patterns: Between Object and Arabesque. Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense, Denmark

2000

On Language. Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, NY
Hotel Motel Holiday Inn, I-D Magazine, 196. April 2000, p. 195
La prima idea, Graphische Sammlung de ETH, Zurich, Switzerland
Malerei, Charim Klocker Wien, Austria
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
Le Jeu des 7 Familles, mamco: Musee d’art moderne et contemporain. Geneve, Switzerland
La Prima Idea: Aktuelle Malerei auf Papier, Graphische Sammlung derETH Zurich. Switzerland
Mixing Memory and Desire, New Museum of Art Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland
The Swamp: On the Edge of Eden. University of Florida, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL
To Infinity and Beyond. Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York
Counter Editions at the Chelsea Hotel. New York
Art at MoMA since 1980. MoMa, New York

1999

Free Coke. Greene Naftali, New York
Art at the End of the Century – Contemporary Art from the Milwaukee Art Museum. Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama
Multiplicity. Angles Gallery, Santa Monica
Silent Treatment: Projecting Narrative. Curated by Thea Westreich, Aspen Art Museum
Collection Frac Nord-Pas de Calais. Een Keuze
Visualizing Digiteracy: Considering Current Technologies. Memphis College of Art, TN
Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot. Paris
Bloom: Contemporary Art Garden. Curated by Gianni Romano, Milan, Italy
Reverse Impressions. City Gallery, New York, NY
The Great Drawing Show 1550 to 1999. Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Passion and the Waves. 6th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey

1998

Real Stories. Marianne Boesky Gallery & Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
Exterminating Angel. curated by Joshua Decter, Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris
Exploiting the Abstract. Feigen Contemporary, New York,
Double Trouble: The Patchett Collection. Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
Elements of the Natural. Museum of Modern Art, New York
Weather Everything. Galerie fur Zeitgenossische Kunst Leipzig, Leipzig
Scratches on the Surface of Things – Acquisitions of Contemporary American Art. Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
Harriet Craig. Curated by David Rimanelli, Apex Art C.P., New York
Die Parkett-Kunstlereditionen im Museum Ludwig. Museum Ludwig, Cologne
The Patchett Collection. Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
Six Americans. Skarstedt Fine Art, New York
Luhring Augustine, New York

1997

Birth of the Cool: American Painting From Georgia O’Keeffe to Christopher Wool. Kunsthaus Zurich, travelling to Hamburg
Painting Photography Drawing. Anton Kern Gallery, New York
Group Show (Robert Gober, Mike Kelley, Jeff Koons, Moke, Stephen Prina, Cheri Samba, Cindy Sherman, Christopher Wool). Galerie Samia Saouma, Paris
Serial Imagery (Andy Warhol, Christopher Wool, Philip Taaffe). Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles
American Realities. Views from Abroad, European Perspectives on American Art 3, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Family Values. Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg
On the Edge: Contemporary Art from the Werner and Elaine Dannheisser Collection. Museum of Modern Art, New York

1996

New Art on Paper, 2. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania
Screen. Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
Kingdom of Flora. Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica
Fellows of the American Academy in Rome. The Equitable Center, New York
The Sense of Order. Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Gray Matter. Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica
Peinture – Peinture, Galerie Samia Saouma, Paris
Thinking Print: Books to Billboards, 1980-95. Museum of Modern Art, New York
Cenas Domesticas. Modulo, Lisbon
Art at Home. Ideal Standard Life, Spiral Gallery 1F, Tokyo
Everything That’s Interesting Is New: The Dakis Joannou Collection. Athens School of Fine Arts the factory, Athens, Greece; Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen; Guggenheim Museum SoHo, New York

1995

Duck. Edward Thorp Gallery, New York
100 Works on Paper. Galerie de la Tour, Amsterdam
Galleria Alessandra Bonomo, Rome
Pittura Immedia. Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum und Kunstlerhaus Graz
Articulations: Forms of Language in Contemporary American Art. The Whitney Museum, New York
James Nares & Christopher Wool. Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles
25 Americans: Painting in the 90s. Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin
XL. Galerie Borgmann Capitain, Cologne
Luhring Augustine, New York
Malerei. Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
Wallpaper Works. Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas
Made in U.S.A.-Original works on Paper. Bob van Orsouw Gallery, Zurich
Images Against AIDS, Art Metropole, Toronto
Drawing on Chance: Selections from the Collection. Museum of Modern Art, New York

1994

Empty Dress. Organized by Independent Curators International, traveling to: Neuberger Museum, Virginia Beach Center for the Arts, University if North Texas, Mackenzie Art Gallery, The Gallery/Stratford, Selby Gallery
The Museum of Modern Art; Martin Kippenberger, director; Syros, Greece
Gallerie K, Oslo
Lousy Fear, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago
Ossuary. Luhring Augustine, New York
Contemporary Art from the Collection of the Migros Cooperatives. Museo Cantonale d’Arte, Lugano, Switzerland
Gift. The InterArt Center, New York
Supershadows of Understatement: Christopher Wool and Ulli Strothjohann. Eleni Koroneou Gallery, Athens
Some Like It Cool. Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston
Super Shadows of Understatement. Eleni Koroneou Gallery, Athens
Herbert Brandl, Albert Oehlen, Christopher Wool. National Gallery, Prague
On Paper. Schmidt ContemporaryArt, St. Louis
Ground. Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam
Violence/Business-Gewalt/Geschafte, Neue Gesellschaft fur Bildende Kunst, Berlin

1993

Works by Younger Artists from the Collection of Richard Brown Baker. The Century Association, New York
Zeitsprunge: Collection of Rudolf und Ute Scharpff. Wilhelm-Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen
The Brushstrike:Painting in the 90’s. Ruth Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica
Gober, Kelley, Kippenberger, Koons, Sherman, Wool. Galerie Schurr, Stuttgart
Reading Prints. The Museum of Modern Art, New York
20th Anniversary Exhibition Part II. Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Santa Monica
Black & White. Schmidt Contemporary Art, St. Louis
Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston
Drawing the Line Against AIDS. The Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice; The Guggenheim Museum SoHo, New York
The Language of Art. Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna; Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt
New York Painters. Sammlung Goetz, Munich

1992

Allegories of Modernism: Contemporary Drawing. Museum of Modern Art, New York
Works on Paper: Forg, Gonzalez-Torres, Kilimnik, Kippenberger, Nares, Oehlen, Pensato, Prina, Wool. Luhring Augustine, New York
Herold, Oehlen, Wool works on paper. Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco
Luhring Augustine, New York
Documenta IX, Kassel
Fifth Anniversary Show. Karsten Schubert Ltd., London
Somewhere Between Image & Text, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston
Prints in Portfolios. Susan Sheehan Gallery, New York
Dark Décor. Organized by Independent Curators Inc.; DePree Art Center, Hope College, Holland, MI; San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA; Florida Gulf Coast Art Center, Belle, FL; The Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, NJ; The Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Alberta College of Art, Calgary, Alberta
The Word-Image in Contemporary Art. The James Howe Gallery, Kean College of New Jersey
Gober, Kawara, Kelley, Kippenberger, Koons, Oehlen, Schnabel, Sherman, Struth, Taaffe, Wool. Galerie Max Hetzler, Cologne
Landscape Untitled: Halley, Oehlen, Wool. Galerie Senda, Barcelona
Drawings. Stuart Regen Gallery, Los Angeles
Robbin Lockett, Chicago
Slow Art: Painting in New York Now. P.S.1 Museum, New York
Dirty Data:Collection of Wilhelm Schurmann. Ludwig Forum fur internationale Kunst, Aachen
Ars Pro Domo:Contemporary Art from Koln Private Collections. Museum Ludwig, Cologne
Drawn in the Nineties. Traveling exhibition organized by ICI; Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah; Fine Arts Gallery, Indiana University, Bloomington; Illingworth Kerr Art Gallery, Alberta College of Art, Calgary, Canada; Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL
Oh! Cet Echo. Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris
Plakate. Grazer Kunstverein, Graz
Spielholle. Akademie der Kunste und Wissenschaften, Frankfurt am Main; Grazer Kunstverein, Graz; Galerie Sylvana Lorenz, Paris
Multiplicity: An Exhibition of Recent Editions. Thea Westreich, New York

1991

New American Art: Mary Beyt, Greg Colson, Christopher Wool. Ho Gallery World Art, Hong Kong
Metropolis. Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
Gulliver’s Travels. Galerie Sophia Ungers, Cologne
Words & #‘s. Wright State University, Dayton, OH
Strange Abstraction. The Touko Museum of Art, Tokyo
Herbert Brandl, Albert Oehlen, Christopher Wool. Galerie Peter Pakesch, Vienna
Drawing Acquisitions, 1980-1991: Selections from the Permanent Collection. Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, New York
Druckgrafik. Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne
51st Carnegie International. Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
American Artists of the Eighties. Palazzo delle Albere, Trento, Italy
Selections from the Elaine and Werner Dannheisser Collection: Painting and Sculpture From the 80’s and 90’s. The Parrish Art Museum, East Hampton, NY
At the end of the day. Randy Alexander Gallery, New York
Museum of Natural History. Galerie Barbara Farber, Amsterdam

1990

Michael Craig-Martin, Gary Hume, Christopher Wool. Karsten Schubert Ltd., London
New Work: A New Generation. San Francisco MoMA, San Francisco
Stephen Prina, Sam Samore, Christopher Wool. Galerie Ursula Schurr, Stuttgart
Drawings. Luhring Augustine Hetzler, Santa Monica
American Geometric Abstraction and Other Works from the Richard Brown Baker Collection. Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven
Language in Art. Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
Donald Baechler, Gunther Forg, Georg Herold, Martin Kippenberger, Jeff Koons, Albert Oehlen, Julian Schnabel, Terry Winters, Christopher Wool. Galerie Max Hetzler, Cologne
In the Beginning… Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland

1988

James Casebere, Stephen Prina, Christopher Wool. Robbin Lockett Gallery, Chicago
Robert Gober and Christopher Wool, An Installation. 303 Gallery, New York
Six Americans, Bleckner, Halley, Levin, Taaffe, Wool, Welling. Galerie Lelong, New York
A Drawing Show. Cable Gallery, New York
Een keuze/A Show, Amsterdam
Information as Ornament. Feature Gallery, Chicago; Rezac Gallery, Chicago
The Light from the Other Side. Monika Spruth Galerie, Cologne
The Binational – American Art of the Late 80’s. ICA & MFA Boston, Stadtische Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf Kunstverein, Bremen, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
Bickerton, Gober, Halley, Koons, Prince, Vaisman, Wool. Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles

1987

Painting, Abstraction Rediscovered. Rosa Esman Gallery, New York
Jamie Wolff Gallery, New York
Ange Leccia, Christopher Wool. Cable Gallery, New York
Alexander, Bolande, Ebner, Kane, Wool. Robbin Lockett Gallery, New York
New Territories in Art Europe/America, Michetti Foundation, Chieti, Italy
Johnson, Tasset, Wool. Kuhlenschmidt/Simon, Los Angeles
Facture. Laurie Rubin Gallery, New York
Industrial Icons. University Art Gallery, San Diego State University, San Diego
Drawn Out. Kemper Gallery, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City
A Decade of American Drawings 1980-1989. Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles