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Kenny Scharf (American, 1958)
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Kenny Scharf
Agua Pollination 1983
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Kenny Scharf
Black is Beautiful 2007
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Kenny Scharf
Blob N' Globs 2007
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Kenny Scharf
Blurple 2007
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Kenny Scharf
Bujungle 2002
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Kenny Scharf
Chickendala 2007
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Biography |
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1958 |
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Born: in Los Angeles, CA |
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1980 |
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BFA, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY |
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1984 |
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Fabric Design for Todd Oldham Creations, New York, NY |
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1985 |
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Outdoor Mural at 57th Street and Lexington Avenue, New York, NY |
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1985 |
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Installation, The Palladium, New York, NY |
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2002 |
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Cartoon Network airs “The Groovenians” Scharf’s first animated film |
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Exhibitions |
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2008 |
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"Kenny Scharf : Superdeluxa", Waddington Gallery, London, UK (solo) |
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2007 |
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"Four Friends", Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York City, NY
"Strange weight", Martos Gallery, New York City, NY
"News on Paper", Galerie Burkhard Eikelmann, Dusseldorf, Germany
"Kenny Scharf", Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York City, NY (solo) |
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2006 |
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Kunstverein Manheim, Manheim, Germany (solo)
"Kenny Scharf", Kevin Bruk Gallery, Miami, FL (solo)
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2005 |
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"Super Pop and Closet #24", Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
"Outer Limits", Patrick Painter Inc, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
“Cross Section,” Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY |
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2004 |
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"100 Artists See Satan", Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana, CA
Kevin Bruk Gallery, Miami, FL (solo)
"California Grown", Pasadena Museum of Contemporary Art, Pasadena, CA (solo)
"SchaBlobz, Kenny Schachter ConTEMPorary", New York, NY (solo) |
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2003 |
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"Night Light", Patrick Painter, Inc, Santa Monica, CA (solo) |
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2002 |
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"Muted", Chac Mool Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo) |
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2001 |
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"Made in the USA 1970-2001", Ludwig Galerie, Oberhausen, Germany
"Pulcherrimae Strade Installation", Pordenone, Italy
"Animation", P.S. 1, Long Island City, NY
"Portraits", Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York (solo)
"Hollywood Stars", LACE, Los Angeles (solo) |
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2000 |
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Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles (solo)
Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
"Universal Offspring", PUCCI International Ltd., New York, NY
"Lowbrow Art: Up From The Underground", The Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, Hollywood, FL
"Kenny Scharf's Permanent Closet #18:Young", Art Children's Museum, Davie, FL |
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1999 |
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"Kenny Scharf: New Sculpture", PICA, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland, OR (solo)
"Mannequins & Rugs", PUCCI International, New York, NY
"Portrait Collection of Mr. Chow", Galerie Enrico Navarra, Paris, France
"Acquisitions", Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
"The American Century: Art & Culture, 1950-2000", The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
"The Road Show", DFN Gallery, New York, NY
"On the Air", San Francisco International Airport North Terminal Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"A room with a view", Sixth@Prince Fine Art, New York, NY
Galerie Hans Mayer, Dusseldorf, Germany (solo) |
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1998 |
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Galeria Ramis Barquet, Monterrey, Mexico (solo)
McIntosh Gallery, Atlanta, GA (solo)
Kantor Gallery, Los Angeles (solo)
"Kenny Scharf (new paintings)", Cotthem Gallery, Barcelona, Spain (solo)
"Vivid Vision", Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
"Closet #16", Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA
"Fashion at the Beach", Bass Museum, Miami, FL
"Pop Surrealism", The Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT
"80 Artistes Autour du Mondial", Galerie Enrico Navarra, Paris, France
"New Acquisitions: Dream Collection...part three", Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
Galeria Ramis Barquet, Monterrey, Mexico |
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1997 |
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"Grins: Humor and Whimsy in Contemporary Art", Millard Sheets Gallery, Pomona, CA
"Art and Provocation: Images From Rebels", Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, CO
"In Your Face: Haring, Basquiat, Scharf", Leo Malca Fine Art, New York, NY
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1996 |
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"Heads", Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, FL (solo)
MARCO, Monterrey, Mexico |
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1995 |
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Yoshii Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Gallery Cotthem, Knokke, Belgium (solo)
Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
"Scharf-O-Rama Vision: 1978-1995", Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL (solo) |
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1994 |
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Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
"New York Unplugged", Gallery Cotthem-Hedwig Van Impe, Knokke, Belgium (solo) |
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1993 |
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"About Nature", Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH
"Art and Environment", The National Arts Club, New York, NY
"Extravagant: The Economy of Elegance", Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY; Russisches Kulturzentrum, Berlin, Germany
"1982-1983: Ten Years After", Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY
"Mating Instinct", Penine Hart Gallery, New York, NY
"Reanimator", WLRN, Miami, FL
"Small Paintings and Works on Paper", Galerie Eikelmann, Essen, Germany
"Closet #10", World Gallery, Miami Beach, FL (solo)
"Jaffe, Baker", Blau Gallery, Boca Raton, FL (solo)
"Closet #11", Click Gallery Essen, Germany |
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1992 |
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"1492", Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico
"Variations Gitanes", La Grande-Villette, Paris, France
"Objects Trouvées", Galerie du Jour, Agnès B, Paris, France
"Balade de l'Amour", Halle de l'Union des Arts Décoratifs, Palais de Louvre, Paris, France
Edward Totah Gallery, London, UK (solo)
Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Hokin Gallery, Bay Harbor Islands, FL (solo)
Galleria Rocca 6, Torino, Italy (solo)
Galleria Seno, Milan, Italy (solo) |
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1991 |
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Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Studio Trisorio, Naples, Italy (solo)
AC&T Corporation, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
"American Art of the 80's", Palazzo delle Albere, Trento, Italy
"To Benefit Fashion Moda", Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York, NY
"Children in Crisis", A Benefit Exhibition, Lorence Monk Gallery New York, NY
"The 1980's: A Selected View from the Permanent Collection", The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
"Just What Is It That Makes Today's Home So Different, So Appealing?", The Hyde Collection Glens Falls, New York, NY
"Closet No. 9", Queens Museum of Art Flushing, Queens, NY
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1990 |
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Galerie Beaubourg, Paris, France (solo)
Galerie Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf, Germany
Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
"The Last Decade: American Artists of the 80's", Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY |
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1989 |
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"Don't Bungle the Jungle", Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY
"The Studio American Collection", Witkacy Theatre; BWA Art Exhibition Bureau Zakopane, Suwalki, Poland
Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo) |
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1988 |
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Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
"Figure as Subject: Revival of Figuration since 1975", Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
"The Weisman Collection", Travelling Exhib, California State University at Fullerton Fullerton, CA |
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1987 |
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"Comic Iconoclasm", ICA London, UK
Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY (solo) |
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1986 |
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Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zürich, Switzerland (solo)
Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
"An American Renaissance: Painting and Sculpture from 1940 to the Present", Museum of Art Ft. Lauderdale, FL
"Homage to Nicholas A. Moufarrage", Gabrielle Bryers Gallery New York, NY
"Pictures from the Inner Mind", The Palladium, New York, NY
Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
Thomas Cohn Gallery, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
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1985 |
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Biennale 1985, The Whitney Museum, New York, NY
"Drawings", Leo Castelli Graphics, New York, NY
"Eight Artists/ Eight Years/ SVA", School of Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY
"East Village Artists", Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY
"Investigations", Institute of Contemporary Art University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
"Sights for Small Eyes", Heckscher Museum Long Island, NY
"Photography and Sculpture", Patrick Fox Gallery New York, NY
Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"Vernacular Abstraction", Wacoal Art Center Tokyo, Japan
"Art in Action", Sogetsu Museum, Tokyo, Japan
"Works on Paper", Galerie Barbara Farber, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY (solo) |
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1984 |
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"Via New York", Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art, Montreal, Canada
"The Innovative Landscape", Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY
"New Hand Painted Dreams: Contemporary Surrealism", Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY
"Arte di Frontiera", Galeria d'Arte Moderna Bologna, Italy
"Aperto", Venice Biennale Venice, Italy
"The Human Condition", Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
"New Idioms", Robert Fraser Gallery, London, UK
"New Attitudes: Paris/ New York", Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA
Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Larry Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
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1983 |
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"Champions", Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY;Fay Gold Gallery New York, NY
"Surrealist Show", Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY
"Morton G. Neuman Family Collection", Kalamazoo Institute of Art Kalamazoo, MI
"Intoxication", Monique Knowlton Gallery, New York, NY
"Paintings, Sculpture, Totems and 3D", Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY
"The Comic Art Show", Whitney Museum, New York, NY
"Back to the U.S.A.", Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern, Switzerland
"Tendencias en Nueva York", Palacio de Cristal Madrid, Spain
"Paintings into Sculpture", Bonlow Gallery, New York, NY
Bienalle de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Salvatore Ala Gallery, Milan, Italy
"References", Palais des Beaux-Arts de Charleroi, Charleroi, Belgium
Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
American Graffiti Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (solo)
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1982 |
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Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY
"Fun Gallery", New York, NY (solo)
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1981 |
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"National Studio Artists", P.S. 1, Long Island City, NY (solo)
"The Jetsons", Fun Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
"Customized Appliances", Club 57, New York, NY (solo)
"The Times Square Show", Times Square, New York, NY
"New York, New Wave", P.S. 1, Long Island City, NY
"Drawing Show", Mudd Club, New York, NY
"Beyond Words", Mudd Club, New York, NY
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1979 |
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"Paintings at Fiorucci", Fiorucci, New York, NY (solo)
"Celebration of the Space Age", Club 57, New York, NY (solo) |
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Selected public collections: |
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Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Germany
Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico
Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
The Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL
The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
Museum of Art, Ft. Lauderdale, FL |
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Literature |
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1998 |
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Radcliff, Carter and Robert Farris Thompson. Kenny Scharf. New York, NY : Tony Shafrazi Gallery, 1998
Barry Blinderman, Gregory Bowen, Bill McBride, and Ann Magnuson. Kenny Scharf. Normal, IL: University Galleries, 1998 |
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1997 |
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Kenny Scharf: Pop-surrealist. St. Petersburg, FL: Salvatore Dali Museum, 1997 |
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1996 |
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El Mundo de Kenny Scharf. Monterrey, Mexico: Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey, Mexico, 1996
James, Jamie. Pop Art. London, UK: Phaidon Press Limited, 1996 |
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1990 |
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Kenny Scharf. Paris, France: Galerie Beaubourg, 1990 |
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