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Paul McCarthy    (American, 1945)
Paul McCarthy - Ass Hole (Works on Paper (Drawings, Watercolors etc.)) h: 24 x w: 18 in / h: 61 x w: 45.7 cm
Paul McCarthy
Ass Hole 1996
 
Paul McCarthy - Blow Blow (Works on Paper (Drawings, Watercolors etc.)) h: 24 x w: 18 in / h: 61 x w: 45.7 cm
Paul McCarthy
Blow Blow 1996
 
Paul McCarthy - Camera Hole (Works on Paper (Drawings, Watercolors etc.)) h: 24 x w: 18 in / h: 61 x w: 45.7 cm
Paul McCarthy
Camera Hole 1996
 
Paul McCarthy - Daddy Fucked You (Works on Paper (Drawings, Watercolors etc.)) h: 24 x w: 18 in / h: 61 x w: 45.7 cm
Paul McCarthy
Daddy Fucked You 1996
 
Paul McCarthy - Pecker Leg (Mixed Media) h: 29.5 x w: 16 x d: 16 in / h: 74.9 x w: 40.6 x d: 40.6 cm
Paul McCarthy
Pecker Leg 1992
 		  

Biography
1945 Born in Salt Lake City
1966 - 1968 University of Utah
1969 San Francisco Art Institute
1973 University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Lives and works in Altadena, California

Exhibitions
2007 National Gallery of Victoria, 'Guggenheim Collection: 1940s to Now. New York – Venice – Bilbao – Berlin', Melbourne/AU
2007 Deste Foundation, 'The Fractured Figure', Athens/GR
2007 Museum of Modern Art, 'Live/Work: Performance into Drawing', New York NY
2007 De Hallen Haarlem, 'Nothing Else Matters', Haarlem/NL
2007 Fine Art Fair Frankfurt 2007, Frankfurt/DE
2007 Domus Artium 2002, 'IDYLLE', Salamanca/ES
2007 Kunsthalle Mannheim, '100 Jahre Kunsthalle Mannheim', Mannheim/DE
2007 10. Triennale Kleinplastik Fellbach, 'Bodycheck', Fellbach/DE
2007 Kunstpalast Düsseldorf, 'Die Kunst zu Sammeln', Düsseldorf/DE
2007 Kunstverein Braunschweig, 'Kunst aus Los Angeles der 60er bis 90er Jahre', Braunschweig/DE
2007 Gagosian Gallery, 'Fit to Print – Printed Media in recent Collage', New York NY
2007 Getty Center, 'Evidence of Movement', Los Angeles/CA
2007 Museum on the Seam, 'Bare Life', Jerusalem/IL
2007 Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, 'Who’s got the big picture?', Antwerp/BE
2007 David Zwirner, 'A Point in Space is a Place for an Argument', New York NY
2007 Vanhaerents Art Collection, 'Disorder in the House', Brussels/BE
2007 Christchurch Art Gallery, 'Reboot – The Jim Barr and Mary Barr Collection', Christchurch/NZ
2007 Hamburger Bahnhof, 'There is never a stop and never a finish. Werke aus der Friedrich Christian Flick Collection im Hamburger Bahnhof. In memoriam Jason Rhoades', Berlin/DE
2007 Barbican Center, 'Panic Attack! Art in the Punk Years', London/GB
2007 Kunsthalle Wien & MUMOK, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, 'Dream & Trauma – Works from the Dakis Joannou Collection, Athens', Vienna/AT
2007 Maccarone Gallery, 'Paul McCarthy’s Chocolate Factory', New York, NY (solo)
2007 S.M.A.K. Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, 'Paul McCarthy – Head Shop/Shop Head', Gent/BE (solo)
2007 The Essl Collection, 'Paul McCarthy: Tokyo Santa 1996/2004', Klosterneuburg/AT (solo)
2007 Middelheim Sculpture Museum, 'Paul McCarthy – Air Born / Air Borne / Air Pressure', Antwerp/BE (solo)
2007 Hauser & Wirth Zürich, 'Paul McCarthy – Damon McCarthy. Portfolios', Zurich/CH (solo)
2007 ARoS Aarhus Museum of Art, 'Paul McCarthy – Head Shop/Shop Head', Aarhus/DK (solo)
2007 European Media Art Festival, 'Final Cut – Medienkunst und Kino', Osnabrück/DE
2006 Moderna Museet, 'Paul McCarthy’, Stockholm
2005 Haus der Kunst, 'Paul McCarthy', Munich/D
2004 CAC, 'Paul McCarthy', Malaga/ES
2004 Van Abbemuseum, 'Paul McCarthy. Brain Box – Dream Box', Eindhoven/NL
2003 Hauser & Wirth London, Paul McCarthy, Piccadilly Circus, London/GB
2003 Lyon Biennal, Lyon/F
2003 Tate Modern, 'Paul McCarthy at Tate Modern', London/GB
2002 Galerie Hauser & Wirth, 'Paul McCarthy & Jason Rhoades. Shit Plug', Zurich/CH
2002 Luhring Augustine Gallery, 'Paul McCarthy. Clear Thoughts', New York NY
2002 De Hallen, Frans Halsmuseum, 'Paul McCarthy. Videos und Fotografien', Haarlem/NL
2002 Butler Gallery, 'Paul McCarthy. Videos', Kilkenny/IRE
2002 Astrup Fearnly Museum of Modern Art, 'Passenger. The Viewer as Participant', Oslo/N
2002 Essor Gallery Limited, 'Mapping The Process', London/GB
2002 Kunstraum Innsbruck, 'Plus Ultra', Innsbruck/A
2001 Museo Rufino Tamayo, 'Let's Entertain: Life's Guilty Pleasures', Mexico City
2001 Harvard University Art Museum, 'Extreme Connoisseurship', Cambridge MA
2001 Chac Mool Gallery, 'Group Show', West Hollywood CA
2001 Tate Liverpool, 'Paul McCarthy', Liverpool/GB
2001 Galerie Hauser & Wirth, 'Paul McCarthy, Pirate Drawings', Zurich/CH
2001 Kunstverein Hamburg, 'Paul McCarthy. Videos und Fotografien', Hamburg/D
2001 Villa Arson, 'Paul McCarthy', Nice/F
2001 Deitch Projects, 'Paul McCarthy The Garden', New York NY
2001 Public Art Fund (IBM Building), 'The Box', New York NY
2001 Luhring Augustine Gallery, 'Paul McCarthy', New York NY
2000 MOCA Geffen Contemporary, 'Heidi File', Los Angeles CA
2000 MOCA, 'Paul McCarthy', Los Angeles CA
2000 Patrick Painter, Inc., 'Heidi File', Santa Monica CA
2000 George's, 'The Fashion Show', Los Angeles CA
2000 New Museum of Contemporary Art, 'Paul McCarthy', New York NY
2000 Barbara Gladstone Gallery, 'Drawings 2000', New York NY
2000 Galeria OMR, 'Pinturas amuebladas', Mexico
2000 Ikon Gallery, 'Lost', Birmingham/GB
1999 Sammlung Hauser und Wirth in der Lokremise St. Gallen, ‘Dimensions of the Mind', St. Gall/CH
1998 Museum of Contemporary Art, ‘Out of Actions: Between Performance and the Object, 1949-1979', Los Angeles

Literature
2008 Barret, Terry, 'Why is that Art?. Aesthetics and criticism of Contemporary Art', Oxford, University Press, 2007, pp. 186-197, ill.
2007 Franke Melanie, Knapstein, Gabriele, 'there is never a stop and never a finsh. In memoriam Jason Rhoades', Cologne: Dumont, 2007, ill. (exh. cat.) Heiser, Jörg, 'Plötzlich diese Uebersicht. Was gute Zeitgenössische Kunst ausmacht', Berlin, claassen/ Ulstein Buchverlage, 2007, pp. 74-82
2006 Lewis, Angharad, '2006 - A Year in Exhibitions', Grafik, London, December 1, 2006, pp. 80-83, ill.
2006 Hultkrans, Andrew, Schambelan, Elizabeth (eds.), 'Where are we going?' Palazzo Grassi, Skira editore PA, Italy, 2006, pp. 238-9, ill. (exh. cat)
2006 Mezil, Eric (ed.), 'Figures de l'acteur. Le Paradoxe du Comedian', Collection Lambert en Avignon, Editions Gallimard, Paris, 2006, p. 218, ill. (exh. cat.)
2006 Af Petersens, Magnus; McCarthy Paul (eds.), 'HEAD SHOP/SHOP HEAD', Germany, Steidl/Moderna Museet, 2006, ill. (exh. cat)
2006 Hopkins, David, 'Dada's Boy's', Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, 2006, pp 77-84, ill. (exh. cat)
2006 Nemitz, Barbara, 'Pink: The Exposed Color in Contemporary Art and Culture', Ostfildern-Ruit/GER: Hatje Cantz, 2006, pp. 216-219, ill.
2006 Cattelan, Gioni, Subotnick (eds.), 'Of Mice and Men - (4th Berlin Biennial)', Germany: Hatje Cantz/KW Berlin, 2006, pp.174-175 ill. (exh. cat)
2006 Bonami. Francesco. Canarutto, Sarah, 'Infinite Painting', Villa Manin Centro d' Arte Contemporanea, Italy, 2006, pp.114-177, ill. [exh. cat.]
2006 Hol, Michael Juul, Kold, Anders (eds.), 'Sip My Ocean', Denmark: Louisiana Museum of Art, 2006, pp. 94-99, ill. (exh. cat)
2006 Grenier, Catherine (ed.), 'Los Angeles - 1955-1985', Paris: Editions du Centre Pompidou, 2006, pp. 217, 239, 262, 279, 278, 331 ill.(exh. cat)
2005 Rosenthal, Stephanie [ed.), 'LaLa Land Parody Paradise', Ostfildern-Ruit: Haus der Kunst/Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2005, ill (exh. cat.)
2005 'Figur Skulptur', [texts by Essl, Karlheinz, Fleck, Robert, Hoffer, Andreas, Binder, Lucia], Klosterneuburg: Edition Sammlung Essl Privatstiftung, 2005, ill. (exh. cat.)
2005 Bätzer, Nike, Kunstmuseum Lichtenstein (ed.), 'Faites vos jeux: Kunst und Spiel seit Dada', Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz Verlag, pp. 126¡V127, ill. (exh. cat.)
2005 Macel, Christine (ed.), 'Dionysiac', Paris: Éditions du Centre Pompidou, 2005 (exh.cat.), ill.
2005 Blazwick, Iwona, Christov-Bakargiev, Carolyn, Coen, Ester (et al.), 'Faces in the Crowd: Picturing Modern Life from Manet to Today', Milan: Skira, 2005 (exh. cat.), p. 237, ill.
2005 Grosenick Uta, Riemschneider Burkhard (ed.), 'ART NOW, Vol. 2', Cologne: Taschen, 2005, pp. 276-279, ill.
2005 Husslein-Arco Agnes (ed.), 'Les Grands Spectacles', Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2005, p. 66, p. 244, p. 253, ill.
2005 Kraus Chris, Tumlir Jan, McFadden Jane (ed.), 'LA Artland', London: Black Dog Publishing Limited, 2005, pp. 204¡V205, ill.
2005 Nobus, Dany, Quinn Malcolm, Knowing Nothing, 'Staying Stupid', London/New York: Routledge, 2005, ill. (cover)
2005 Stiles, Christine, 'Paul McCarthy: Kristine Stiles in Conversation' [interview], Press PLAY: Contemporary Artists in Conversation, London: Phaidon Press Limited, 2005, pp. 449-461, ill.
2005 Bidner, Stefan, Feuerstein, Thomas (eds.), 'Plus ultra: Jenseits der Moderne?/Beyond Modernity?', Frankfurt am Main: Revolver, 2005, pp. 83-87, ill.
2004 La maison rouge - fondation Antoine de Galbert (ed.), 'Central Station: La collection Harald Falckenberg', Paris: La maison rouge, Fage éditions, 2004, pp. 62-63, ill.
2004 Karabelnik, Marianne (ed.), 'Stripped Bare: The Body Revealed in Contemporary Art', New York: Merrell, 2004, pp. 244-249, ill.
2004 McCarthy, Paul, 'Tokyo Santa' [artist's book], Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2004
2004 Meyer-Hermann, Eva, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga (ed.), 'Paul McCarthy: Brain Box Dream Box', Málaga: Ayuntamiento, 2004 (exh. cat.)
2004 Kellein, Thomas, Lampe, Angela (ed.), 'Das grosse Fressen: Von Pop bis heute', Bielefeld: Kunsthalle Bielefeld, pp. 82-87, ill. (exh. cat.)
2004 Clair, Jean (ed.), 'The Great Parade', New Haven/London: Yale University Press/Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2004 (exh. cat.), p. 40, pp. 164-165, ill.
2004 Vissault, Maïté/Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte Münster (ed.), .cremers.haufen, Bielefeld: Kerber Verlag, 2004, p. 208, p. 233, ill. (exh. cat.)
2003 Biesenbach, Klaus, London, Barbara (ed.), 'Video Acts: Single Channel Works from the Collections of Pamela and Richard Kramlich and New Art Trust', Long Island City: P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, 2003, pp. 199–205, ill. (exh. cat.)
2003 Dziewior, Yilmaz (ed.), 'Paul McCarthy: Video', Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2003 (exh. cat.)
2003 Espai d’art Contemporanei de Castello, 'Micropolitics: Art and Everyday Life', Vanecia: Espai d’art Contemporanei de Castello, 2003 (exh. cat.)
2003 Raspail, Thierry (ed.), Avant, Dijon: Les Presses du Réel/Fage Éditions, 2003, pp. 100–105, pp. 188–199, ill. (exh. cat.)
2003 Tate Modern, Paul McCarthy at Tate Modern, London: Tate Publishing, 2003 (exh. cat.)
2003 Unterdörfer, Michaela, Winzen, Matthias (ed.), (In the Search of) The Perfect Love, Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz Publishers, 2003, pp. 96–125, ill. (exh. cat.)
2003 Dercon, Chris, Weski, Thomas (ed.) Partners, Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2003
2003 Engelbach, Barbara, Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen (ed.), McCarthy, Paul, Hammer, Oranges, Apple [Artist’s book] Frankfurt am Main: Revolver Verlag 2003
2003 Jouannais, Jean-Yves, L’Idiotie: Art, vie, politique – méthode, Paris: Beaux Arts Magazine/Livres, 2003, pp. 33, 67, 212, 221, 256, 270
2003 McCarthy, Paul, “Témoignages”, Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris (ed.), Francis Picabia: Singulier Idéal, Paris/Arles: Actes Sud, 2003
2002 Butler Gallery (ed.), Paul McCarthy: Video tapes, Kilkenny: Butler Gallery, 2002 (exh. cat.)
2002 CAN (ed.), “Sans consentement”, Crash, no. 22, Paris, 2002, pp. 84–85, ill. (exh. cat.)
2002 De Pury & Luxembourg (ed.), Ahead of the 21st Century: The Pisces Collection, Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2002, pp. 8–9, 110–119, ill. (exh. cat.)
2002 Neues Museum Weserburg (ed.), Kunst nach Kunst, Bremen: Neues Museum Weserburg, 2002, p. 148–152, ill. (exh. cat.)
2002 Schirn-Kunsthalle Frankfurt/Hollein, Max, Grunenberg, Christoph (ed.), Shopping: 100 Jahre Kunst und Konsum, Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz, 2002, p. 244, ill. (exh. cat.)
2002 Unterdörfer, Michaela (ed.), The House of Fiction: Sammlung Hauser und Wirth/3, Nuremberg: Verlag für moderne Kunst, 2002, pp. 42, 105, ill. (exh. cat.)
2002 Villa Arson (ed.), Paul McCarthy, Nice: Pinocchio, 2002, ill. (exh. cat.)
2002 Archer Michael, Art Since 1960: New Edition, London: Thames & Hudson, 2002
2002 Beil, Ralf, Künstlerküche, Lebensmittel als Kunstmaterial – von Schiele bis Jason Rhoades, Cologne: Dumont Verlag, 2002
2002 Fundacion “la Caixa”, ___ [Catalogue Raisonne – Collection of Fundacion “la Caixa”], Barcelona: Grafiques Iberia, 2002 (2 volumes)
2002 Luc, Virginie, ART à MORT, Paris: Éditions Leo Scheer, October 2002
2002 Morris, Simon, Sinning: De-centering the Self [no publisher-art piece, book dedicated to Paul McCarthy], November 2002
2001 Association le printemps de septembre (ed.), Printemps de septembre: Théâtres du Fantastique, Arles/Paris: Éditions Actes Sud, 2001, pp. 44–45, 72, ill. (exh. cat.)
2001 Des Moines Art Center (ed.), My Reality: Contemporary Art and the Culture of Japanese Animation, Iowa: Des Moines Art Center, 2001, ill. (exh. cat.)
2001 Haenlein, Carl, Ahrens, Carsten (ed.), Ziviler Ungehorsam: Sammlung Falckenberg, Hanover: Kestner Gesellschaft, 2001, pp. 78, ill. (exh.cat.)
2001 Secession (ed.), Projekt Fassade: 28.2.–16.10.2000/Wiener Secession, Isolde Charim: Eleonora Louis, Vienna: Wiener Secession, 2001, pp. 30–31, ill. (exh. cat.)
2001 Parfait, Françoise, Vidéo: Un art contemporain, Paris: Édition du Regard, 2001
2001 Pellegrin, Julie, “L’Objet humain: Simulation et manipulation dans l'oeuvre de Paul McCarthy”, Centre Choréographique National de Grenoble (ed.), Corps/objet: Sur le rapport du corps artificiel, Grenoble: Centre Choréographique National de Grenoble, October 2001, pp. 10–13, ill.
2001 Sties, Kristine, Uncorrupted Joy: Art Actions, Art History and Social Values, 2001
2001 Wege, Astrid, Art Now, Cologne: Taschen, 2001, pp. 106–107, ill.
2001 ___, A Creative Legacy: A History of the National Endowment for the Arts, Visual Artists Fellowship Program 1966–1995, New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2001
2000 Capc – Musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux (ed.), Présumés innocents: L'art contemporain et l'enfance, Bordeaux, 2000, pp. 24, 31, 58, ill. (exh. cat.)
2000 Dickhoff, Wilfried, König, Kasper (ed.), In Between: Das Kunstprojekt der EXPO 2000, Cologne: DuMont Verlag, 2000, pp. 68–81, ill. (exh. cat.)
2000 IKON Gallery (ed.), Lost, Birmingham: IKON Gallery, 2000, p. 69, ill. (exh. cat.)
2000 Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein (ed.), Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, [text by Friedemann Malsch, Christine Meyer-Stoll + et al.], Zurich: ProLitteris, 2000, pp. 43–44, ill. (exh. cat.)
2000 Meyer-Hermann, Eva (ed.), Paul McCarthy “Dimensions of the Mind”: The Denial and the Desire in the Spectacle, Cologne: Oktagon/ St. Gallen: Sammlung Hauser und Wirth, 2000, ill. (exh. cat.)
2000 New Museum of Contemporary Art (ed.), Paul McCarthy, New York/Ostfildern-Ruit: New Museum of Contemporary Art/Hatje Cantz, 2000, ill. (exh. cat.)
2000 The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery (ed.), Mike Kelley and Paul McCarthy Collaborative Works [text by Phillip Monk, Ann Goldstein + et al.], Toronto, 2000 (exh. cat.)
2000 Walker Art Center (ed.), Let's Entertain: Life's Guilty Pleasures, Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 2000, ill. (exh. cat.)
2000 Barth, Miles, Merritt, Raymond (ed.), A Thousand Houndes, Cologne: Taschen, 2000
2000 Bauman, Gillick, Grosz, Groys, Kay, Rushkoff [et al.], Fresh Cream: Contemporary Art in Culture, London: Phaidon Press Limited, 2000, p. 394
2000 Bonami, Francesco, Frisa, Maria Luisa, Tonchi, Stefano (ed.), Uniform Order and Disorder, Milan: Edizioni Charta/Pitti Immagine, 2000, pp. 244–245, ill.
2000 Buck, Louisa, Moving Targets 2: A User’s Guide to British Art Now, London: Tate Publishing, 2000
2000 Fineberg, Jonathan, Art Since 1940: Strategies of Being, New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2000
2000 Franzen, Brigitte, Die Vierte Natur: Garten in der zeitgenössischen Kunst, Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2000
2000 Guasch, Anna Maria, El arte último del siglo XX: Del posminimalismo al lo multicultural, Madrid: Alianza Forma, 2000, cover, ill.
2000 Montano, Linda M., Performance Artists Talking in the Eighties, Barkeley: University of California Press, 2000
2000 Sanders, Mark, Star Culture, London: Phaidon Press Limited, 2000
2000 Warr, Tracey, Jones, Amelia (ed.), The Artist’s Body, London: Phaidon Press Limited, ill.
2000 ___, Dazed/Confused, London: Booth-Clibborn Editions, 2000
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