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1957

Born in Concord, USA

Lives and works in New York, USA

Education

1976 – 1978

Studied art history and music theory at Lowell University, Massachusetts, USA

Awards

1999

Academy Award in Art from the American Academy of Arts and Letters

2005

Francis J. Greenberger Award

2008

Annual Artist’s Award from ArtsConnection, New York
Anderson Ranch National Artist Award

Selected public collections

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Olso, Norway
Citigroup Art Advisory Service Collection
Dakis Joannou Collection Foundation
Doron Sebbag Art Collection, ORS Ltd.
Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Ministère de la Culture, Paris, France
Fonds Regional d’Art Contemporain, Ile de France, Paris, France
Museu d’Art Contemporani, Barcelona, Spain
Norton Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida
The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
The Judith Rothschild Foundation
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Selected group exhibitions

2022
Artists for New York. Hauser & Wirth, New York City, USA
mixed Feelings. G2 Kunsthalle, Leipzig, Germany

2021

Black/White. Skarstedt, East Hampton, USA
Closer to Life: Drawings and Works on Paper in the Marieluise Hessel Collection. Hessel Museum of Art, New York City, USA
Faces and Figures.. Skarstedt, New York City, USA
Painter/Sculptor. Skarstedt, London, United Kingdom

2020

To Form a More Perfect Union. Hauser & Wirth, New York City, USA
Show Me the Signs. Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, USA
Drawing 2020. Gladstone Gallery, New York City, USA
Words. Simon Lee Gallery, London, United Kingdom

2019

Inaugural Exhibition. Rubell Museum, Miami, USA
Reflections – Matt Black x Gana Art. Gana Art, Seoul, South Korea
Naturally Naked. Gary Tatintsian Gallery, Moscow, Russia
La Source. Foundation Garmignac, Paris, France
BEYOND. me Collectors Room Berlin, Berlin, Germany

2018

Paintings. Mary Boone Gallery, New York City, USA
Condo, Fischl, Kaws, Kippenberger, Salle, Sherman, Williams. Skarstedt Gallery, New York City, USA
It’s Personal. Edward Ressle, New York City, USA
Approaching the Figure. Skarstedt Gallery, New York City, USA

2017

New Pleasure. Simon Lee Gallery – New York, New York City, NY USA
New York 1980S: Part I. Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York City, NY USA
The Human Form – John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA USA
Cher(e)s Ami(e)s : Hommage aux donateurs des collections contemporaines. Centre Pompidou – Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris, France

2016

A quoi tient la beauté des étreintes – FRAC – Auvergne, Clermont Ferrand, France
Condo, de Kooning, Kippenberger, Muñoz, Salle, Warhol. Skarstedt, London. London, UK
Mystifiers, NCCA, Moscow, Russia
Bittersüße Zeiten – Barock und Gegenwart. Edwin Scharff Museum, Neu-Ulm, Germany
Nice Weather. Skarstedt Fine Art, New York City, NY, USA
Les Fleurs Du Mal. Nahmad Contemporary, New York City, NY, USA
Comic Inspirations. Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York City, NY, USA
Passion. Fan Behaviour and Art – Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art – Budapest, Budapest, Hungary
Spring Group Exhibition. Condo, Kippenberger, Oehlen, Salle. Skarstedt Gallery, New York City, NY, USA
Passion. Fan-Verhalten und Kunst Stadtgalerie Kiel, Kiel, Germany
Biennale of Painting 2016. Biennale of Painting, Zagreb, Croatia
Biënnale Van De Schilderkunst – YOKNAPATAWPHA. Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens (MDD), Deurle, Belgium

2015

Passion – Kunsthaus Nürnberg, Nuremberg
MUTATED REALITY – Gary Tatintsian Gallery Inc., Moscow
The Funnies – MOTInternational Brussels, Brussels

Picasso in Contemporary Art, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany

13th Biennale de Lyon “La Vie Moderne (The Modern Life)”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon, France

Picasso and Contemporary Art, Grand Palais, Paris, France
NUDE, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague, Netherlands

The Unknown, Eden Rock Gallery and Art Saint Barth, Saint Barthélemy, France

Disturbing Innocence, Curated by Eric Fischl, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, USA
Stillleben. gestern und heute” – Galerie Michael Haas, Berlin
Passion – Fan behavior and art – Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
Intimate Painting – Half Gallery, New York City, NY
Drawings from the Ringier Collection Chapter I – Villa Flora Winterthur – Sammlung Hahnloser, Winterthur
Bittersüße Zeiten – Barock und Gegenwart in der Sammlung SØR Rusche Berlin/Oelde – Kunsthalle Jesuitenkirche, Aschaffenburg
As Is Is – Altman Siegel Gallery, San Francisco, CA
The Pellizzi Family Collections – Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ
7 Deadly Sins: Lust – Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art (HVCCA), Peekskill, NY
Contemporary Art, My Favorite Things – Galleria Torbandena, Trieste
Andy Warhol sul comò – Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Villa Croce, Genoa
Accrochage – Galerie Andrea Caratsch, Zurich


h3. 2014


The 10th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea

In Homage, Skarstedt, London, UK
The Nakeds, Drawing Room, London, UK
Cast from Life, Skarstedt, New York

No Problem, Cologne / New York 1984 – 1989, David Zwirner gallery, New York, USA

William S. Burroughs: Creative Observer, Lawrence Arts Center, Lawrence, Kansas
, USA
Bad Thoughts, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands



2013


Somos Libres, MATE – Asociación Mario Testino, Lima, Peru

Island, Dairy Art Centre, London, UK
DSM-V, The Future Moynihan Station, New York, USA

From Figuration, Skarstedt Gallery, London, UK
Group Exhibition, Skarstedt Gallery, New York, USA

Venice Biennale, The Encyclopedic Palace, Venice, Italy

2010

Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA

2008

Against All Odds: Keith Haring in the Rubell Family Collection, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA, USA
It’s Not Over Yet, Invisible-Exports, New York, NY, USA
God & Goods: Spirituality and Mass Confusion, Villa Manin Centre for Contemporary Art, Passariano – Codroipo, Italy
How to Cook a Wolf: Part One, Dinter Fine Art, New York, NY, USA
The Luxury of Love, Vanina Holasek, New York, NY, USA
Summer Exhibition, Skarstedt Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Wall Rockets, curated by Lisa Dennison, The Flag Art Foundation, New York, NY, USA

2007

The Beholder’s Eye, Salmagundi Club of New York, New York, NY, USA
Create your own Museum: Highlights of a Private Collection, Gary Tatintsian Gallery, Inc., Moscow, Russia
Negotiating Reality: Recent Works from the Logan Collection, University of Denver Victoria H.
Myhren Gallery, Denver, CO, USA
Meet the Artists, Deitch Projects, New York, NY, USA
Still Life and Kicking: A project with Vogue, curated by Dodie Kazanjian, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY, USA

2006

Colo Aside, Luhring Augustine, New York, NY, USA
Group Exhibition, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium
Infinite Painting. Contemporary Painting and Global Realism, curated by Francesco Bonami and Sarah Cosulich Canarutto, Villa Manin Centro d’Arte Contemporanea, Codroipo, Italy
Vous êtes ici (You are here), FRAC Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain d’Auvergne, France
Redefined, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., USA

2005

Self Portraits, Skarstedt Fine Art, New York, NY, USA
East Village USA, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY, USA
Happy Birthday!, Galerie Jerome de Noirmont, Paris, France
48th Corcoran Bienniale. Closer to Home, Washington DC, USA Curator Stacey Schmidt

2005 – 2004

Perspectives @ 25. A Quarter Century of New Art in Houston, Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, TX, USA

2004

… As Time Goes By, Leo Koenig Inc. & Gordian Weber Kunsthandel, Leo Koenig Inc., New York, NY, USA

2004 – 2003

Malerei 7, Monika Sprüth Philomene Magers, Cologne, Germany

2003

Splat Boom Pow! The Influence of Cartoons in Contemporary Art, Contemporary Arts Museum,
Houston, TX, USA.Travelled to Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA, USA; Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH, USA
Not Afraid, Rubell Familly Collection, Miami, FL, USA

2002

Paintings 1993-2001, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO, USA
Ahead of the 21st Century. The Pisces Collection, Donaueschingen, Switzerland
New York Expression, Bergen Art Museum, Bergen, Norway

2001

Monika Sprüth Philomene Magers, Munich, Germany

1991

The 1980’s: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA
Contemporary Art from the Collection of Jason Rubell, Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, NC, USA
Myth and Magic in the Americas: The Eighties, Museo de Arte Contemporanoe de Monterrey,
Monterrey, Mexico

1990

Academy-Institute Invitational Exhibition of Painting & Sculpture, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY, USA
Le Visage dans l’art contemporain, Musee Des Jacobins, Toulouse. Travelled to Musee du
Luxembourg, Paris, France
Pharmakon ’90, Nippon Convention Center, Makuhari Messe, International Exhibition Halle,
Makuhari, Japan
The Last Decade: American Artists of the 80’s, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Drawings of the Eighties: Part II, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA

1989

1979-1989 American, Italian, Mexican Art from the Collection of Francesco Pellizzi, Hofstra Museum, Hempstead, New York, NY, USA
I triennal de Dibuix – Joan Miro, La Fundacio Joan Miro, Barcelona, Spain
Sculpture by Painters, The Pace Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Exposition Inaugurale, Fondation Daniel Templon, Musée Temporaire, Frejus, France
Summer Installation, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA
Aldo Crommelynck Master Prints with American Artists, Whitney Museum of American Art at the Equitable Center, New York, NY, USA
Painting Beyond the Death Of Painting, Koznetzky Most Exhibition Hall, Moscow, Russia

1988

Recent Drawings, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA

1987

Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA

1986 – 1985

Drawings, Knight Gallery, Charlotte, NC, USA

1984

East Village Painters, Artists Space, New York, NY, USA

1983

Terminal Show, Artists Library, Brooklyn, NY, USA

Selected monographs and exhibition catalogues

2008

HOLZWARTH Hans Werner (ed.). Art Now Vol. 3. Taschen, Köln, pp. 96 – 99
George Condo: Artificial Realism. Gary Tatintsian Gallery Inc., Moscow
Influence. Mary-Kate Olsen and Ashley Olson, Razorbill, New York, pp. 50 – 59, 260
Out of Shape: Stylistic Distortions of the Human Form in Art From the Logan Collection. The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, pp. 19, 54

2007

Impulse: Works on Paper from the Logan Collection, The Logan Collection, Vail, pp. 8-9, 22, 36, 38
CARUSO Laura (ed). Radar: Selections from the Collection of Vicki and Kent Logan. Denver Art Museum, Denver, pp. 76 – 79
Create your own museum: Highlights from a private collection. Gary Tantintsian Gallery, Inc., Moscow, pp. 38 – 43
Negotiating Reality: Recent Works from the Logan Collection. University of Denver, Denver, pp. 24 – 25, 68
WILLBERG Peter. George Condo. Simon Lee Gallery, London

2006

40 ans : Galerie Daniel Templon. Communicart, Paris, 2006. pp. 359 – 360, 476
Existential Portraits. Luhring Augustine & Gottingen, New York; Steidl, Germany, 2006
Infinite Painting: Contemporary Painting and Global Realism. Villa Manin Centro d’Arte
Contemporanea, Codroipo, Italy, pp. 54 – 55
Over the Limit: Christopher Wool & George Condo. Portalakis Collection, Athens, Greece
RICHER Francesca and ROSENSWEIG Matthew. No.1: First Works by 362 Artists, d.a.p., New York
Vous êtes ici (You are here). FRAC (Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain d’Auvergne, Clermont – Ferrand, pp. 86 – 89

2005

BINSTOCK Jonathan P., SCHMIDT Stacey. Closer To Home. The 4th Corcoran Biennal, Corcoran Gallery of Art, 2005, pp. 36 – 39, 86
SCHMIDT Stacey. George Condo. One Hundred Woman, Hatje Cantz Publishers, 2005
MODERN PAINTERS October 2005, pp. 100 – 103
SMITH Roberta. George Condo. New York Times, Friday May 27, 2005 page 34

2004

A New Modernism for a New Millennuim: Abstraction and Surrealism Are Reinvented in the Internet Age. The Logan Collection, Vail, 2004
CAMERON Dan, KIRWIN Liza, MOORE W. Alan. East Village USA. New Museum of
Contemporary Art, page 26
COETZEE Mark. Not Afraid. Rubell Family Collection, Phaidon, pp. 50 – 51
FLEISSIG Peter. George Condo. Memories of Manet and Velazquez. Galerie Jerome de Noirmont, Paris, France
Perspective@25. A Quarter Century of New Art in Houston. Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, 2004

2003
Splat Boom Pow! The Influence of Cartoons in Contemporary Art, Contemporary Arts Museum,
Houston, page 93

2002

Ahead of the 21st Century. The Pisces Collection, Hatje Cantz Publishers, 2002, pp. 43-53
RUGOFF, Ralph. The Imaginary Portraits of George Condo, Fall 2002, PowerHouse Books
Jasper Johns to Jeff Koons: Four Decades of Art from the Broad Collection, The Los Angeles County of Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA

2001

Condo Televised Silkscreens. Abaton Book Company, Newton, NJ, USA
George Condo Physiognomical Abstraction. Galerie Jerome De Noirmont, Paris, France
Mythic Proportions. Painting in the 1980’s. Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL, USA

2000

DICKHOFF Wilfried. After Nihilism. Essays on Contemporary Art. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, Great Britain
00: Drawings 2000 at Barbara Gladstone Gallery. Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY, USA

1999

CONDO George, et al. George Condo: Portraits Lost in Space. PaceWildenstein and Deitch Projects, New York, NY, USA

1998 – 1997

William Burroughs. George Condo. Collaborations 1988 – 1996. Pat Hearn Gallery, New York, NY, USA

1998

FITZGERALD Michael. George Condo: Collage Paintings, PaceWildenstein, 1998, interview with the artist
COLLINGS Matthew. It Hurts. New York Art from Warhol to Now, 21 Publishing, pp. 139 – 143
RUIZ PICASSO, Bernard. Pages de Garde / End Papers, poems by Ruiz Picasso, illustrations by George Condo, PaceWildenstein, New York, NY, USA

1997

DAVVETAS Demosthenes. Dialogues, France: Au Même Titre, published by Jouve
GINSBERG, Allen, Selected Poems, cover portrait by George Condo Harper Collins, New York, NY, USA

1996

LE THOREI-DAVIOT Pascale. Petit dictionnaire des artistes contemporains. Bordas, Paris, France
Myths and Magical Fantasies. California Center for the Arts Museum, Escondido, CA, USA

1995

KUSPIT Donald. George Condo: Paintings and Drawings. PaceWildenstein, New York, NY, USA

1994

BURROUGHS Willam S. George Condo: Recent Paintings. The Pace Gallery, New York, NY, USA

1993

Drawing the Line Against AIDS. American Foundation for AIDS Research (AmFAR) International. WILSON Adolfo and MONDOLFI Namia. Materia, Imagen y Concepto: Un Recorrido por el Arte Contemporáneo Internacional. Galería Namia Mondolfi, Caracas, Spain

1992

BONET Juan Manuel, CONDO George. George Condo. Galeria Salvador Riera, Barcelona, Spain
CONDO George. La Línea Quebrada y Extractos de ‘El Gran Jefe’. George Condo: Obra 1990-
1992, Galeria Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid, Spain
DICKHOFF Wilfried, SPECK Reiner. Ars Pro Domo. Gesellschaft für Moderne Kunst am Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
Le Portrait Dans L’Art Contemporain. Musée d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain, Nice, France
ROSE Bernice. Allegories of Modernism: Contemporary Drawing. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA

1991

BURROUGHS William S., CONDO George. Ghost of Chance. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA
CONDO George. Art Random, Kyoto Shoin, Kyoto, Japan
CERVANTES Miguel, MEREWETHER Charles, PELLIZZI Francesco, RUY SANCHEZ Alberto, SCHJELDAL Peter, SULLIVAN Edward J. Mito y Magia en América: Los Ochenta. Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico
DICKHOFF Wilfried. In Ictu Oculi: The Post-Nondeconstructive Paintings of George Condo. George Condo: Recent Paintings. The Pace Gallery, New York, NY, USA
George Condo. Art Random, Kyoto Shoin International, Co., Ltd., Kyoto, Japan
HONNEF Klaus. Kunst der Gegenwart. Taschen, Germany
RILEY Charles A. II. Sélection. Musée d’Art Contemporain, Pully/Lausanne, Switzerland Gallery, New York, NY, USA
WEINBERG Adam D. Aldo Crommelynck Master Prints with American Artists. Whitney Museum of American Art at Equitable Center, New York, NY, USA

1987

CONDO George, DAGLEY Mark. Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY, USA
ARMSTRONG Richard, HANHARDT John, MARSHALL Richard, PHILLIPS Lisa. Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA
DICKHOFF Wilfried. Expanding Canvas or The Alter-Ego Strikes Back, George Condo: Paintings & Drawings 1985 – 1987
George Condo: Gemälde / Paintings 1984-1987. Kunstverein München, Edition Gallery Bruno
Bischofberger, Excerpts from the novel Orest and interview with the artist by Demosthenes Davvetas

1986

DICKHOFF Wilfried. The Being of Nothingness – Notes on the existential abstraction in George Condo’s paintings. George Condo, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY, USA
DICKHOFF Wilfried. Primer Salòn Irrealiste, Tenerife, Galeria Leyendecker, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain George Condo, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
DICKHOFF Wilfried. What it is. Tony Shafrazi Gallery, September-October 12, Wilfried Dickhoff & Tony Shafrazi Gallery New York, NY, USA
GODFREY Tony. The New Image, Paintings in the 1980’s, New York, NY, USA
SALTZ Jerry, Beyond Boundaries, New York, NY, USA
THOMAS Karin, Bis Heute, Cologne, Germany

1985

DICKHOFF Wilfried. Vor – Schein oder Aschenglanz, Künstliche Paradiese. Kunstverein München and Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
DICKHOFF Wilfried W., DRECHSLER Wolfgang. Phase II. Steirischer Herbst ’85, Stadtmuseum Graz, Graz, Austria
FLOOD Richard. Das Veritgo Paradigma, Künstliche Paradiese. Kunstverein München and
Museum Folkwang Essen, Germany

1984

DICKHOFF Wilfried, et al. Nouveau Boheme, Cologne, Germany
Perspective 1984, Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland