Michelle Rosenfeld Gallery

George Condo

(American, b. 1957)

George Condo

Cardinal Construction, 1988

George Condo

Untitled, 1985–1986

Biography

Timeline

1957: Born: Concord, NH
1976 - 1978: Studied Art History and Music Theory at University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA
1999: Academy Award in Art, American Academy of Arts and Letters
2000: Release of "Condo Painting,” a feature film directed by John McNaughton
2004: Visiting Lecturer on Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
2005: Francis J. Greenberger Award
2008: Annual Artist’s Award from ArtsConnection, New York
: Anderson Ranch National Artist Award
: Lives and works in New York, NY

Exhibitions

2013: Intimate Distance, Arario Gallery, Seoul, Korea
: Biennale di Venezia - 55th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia, Venice
: Paintings & Sculpture - Sprüth Magers London, London, UK
: Paintings & Sculpture - Sprüth Magers Berlin, Berlin
: Inner Journeys - Maison Particulière Art Center, Brussels
2012: Richard Koh Fine Art, Singapore
: George Condo, Schim Kunsthalle, Frankfurt (solo)
: George Condo, Mental States, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany (solo)
: George Condo, Hayward Gallery, London, UK (solo)
: George Condo, Boijmans van Beuingen, Rotterdam (solo)
: George Condo, Mental States, New Museum, New York, NY, USA (solo)
: Drawings, Sprüth Magers, London, UK (solo)
: George Condo, Mental States, New Museum, New York, NY (solo) ( travelled to Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Hayward Gallery, London, UK; and Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany 2012)
2011: Drawing Paintings, Skarstedt Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
: George Condo: a collection of etchings, Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
2010: Family Portraits, Sprüth Magers, Berlin, Germany (solo)
: Whitney Biennial, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA
: The Lost Civilization, Galerie Andrea Caratsch, Zurich, Switzerland, (solo)
: Cartoon Abstractions, Galerie Jérome de Noirmont, Paris, France (solo)
: Beauty is Diamond, Laleh June Galerie, Basel, Switzerland
: George Condo, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium (solo)
: Just what is it that makes today's painting so different, so appealing?, Gering & López Gallery, New York
: La Civilisation Perdue, Musée Maillol, Paris, France (solo)
: George Condo, Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milan, Italy (solo)
2009: Wall Rockets: Contemporary Artisits and Ed Ruscha, FLAG Art Foundation, Berlin, Germany
: KolnSkulptur 4, Skulpturenpark Koln, Cologne, Germany (solo)
: Artificial Realism, Gary Tatintsian Gallery, Moscow, Russia (solo)
: Christ: The Subjective Nature of Objective Representation, Luhring Augustine, New York, NY, USA (solo)
: Live Undead, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, UK
: Out of Shape: Stylistic Distortion of the Human Form in Art, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY, USA
: Wall Rockets, curated by Lisa Dennison, The Flag Art Foundation, New York, NY, USA (group)
: Summer Exhibition, Skarstedt Gallery, New York, NY, USA (group)
: The Luxury of Love, Vanina Holasek, New York, NY, USA (group)
: Blasted Allegories - Werke aus der Sammlung Ringier, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Switzerland
: God & Goods: Spirituality and Mass Confusion, Villa Manin Centre for Contemporary Art, Passariano – Codroipo, Italy (group)
: It’s Not Over Yet, Invisible-Exports, New York, NY, USA (group)
: Against All Odds: Keith Haring in the Rubell Family Collection, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA, USA (group)
: George Condo, Gary Tatintsian Gallery, Inc., Moscow, Russia (solo)
: George Condo, Gary Tatintsian Gallery, Inc., Moscow, Russia (solo)
2008: George Condo: Drawings, Sprüth Magers, Berlin, Germany (solo)
: How to Cook a Wolf: Part One, Dinter Fine Art, New York, NY, USA (group)
: Simon Lee, London, (solo)
: New Works, Galerie Andrea Caratsch, Zurich, Switzerland, (solo)
: Nicholas Robinson Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
: The Beholder’s Eye, The Salmagundi Club of New York, New York, NY
: Meet the Artists, Deitch Projects, New York, NY
: Negotiating Reality: Recent Works from the Logan Collection, University of Denver Victoria H. Myhren Gallery (exhibition catalogue).
: Still Life and Kicking: a project with Vogue, curated by Dodie Kazanjian, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
: Contemporary Art, Skarstedt Fine Art, New York, NY, USA
: Create your own Museum: Highlights from a Private Collection, Gary Tatintsian Gallery, Inc., Moscow (exhibition catalogue).
: Poetics Country, Ferenbalm-Gurbru Station, Karlsruhe, Germany
: Effigies, Modern Art Inc., London, UK and Stuart Shave/ Modern Art, London UK
: Zuruch zer Figur - Malerei der Gegenward, KunstHaus Wien, Vienna, Austria
: The Present - The Monique Zajfen Collection, Stedelijik Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
: Contemporary and Modern Masters, Richard Gray Gallery, New York, NY, USA
: Automatic, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY, USA
: Block Party II, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, New York, NY, USA
: Fractured Figure - Works from the Dakis Jannou Collection, Deste Foundation - Center for Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
: Rockers Island - Olbricht Collection, Museum Folkwang Essen, Essen, Germany
: My sweet sixteen party, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium
: Hold the line, Ferenbalm - Gurbru Station, Karlsruhe, Germany
2007: ...Und immer fehlt mir was, und das qualt mich, Werkstadt Graz, Graz, Austria
: Color Aside, Luhring Augustine, New York, NY, USA
: Wrong Gallery, Tate Modern, London, UK (solo)
: Memento Mori, Mireille Mosler Ltd., New York
: Surrealism: Then and Now, Paul Kasmin Gallery & Edelmann Arts, Inc.,New York
: Group exhibition, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussel, Belgium
: Infinite Painting, Villa Manin Centro d’Arte Contemporanea, Codroipo (Udine)
: Existential Portraits, Luhring Augustine, New York, (solo)
2006: Existential Portraits, Xavier Hufkens, Brüssel, (solo)
: Zurück zur Figur. Malerei der Gegenwart, Kunsthalle der Hypo Kulturstiftung, München
2005: George Condo: Sculptures, Skarstedt Fine Art, New York (solo)
: George Condo, Monica Spruth Philomene Magers, Munich, Germany (solo)
: Disassembled Objects, Power House Memphis, TN (solo)
: One Hundred Women - Retrospective, Museum of Modern Art, Salzburg, Austria. Curator Margrit Brehm, traveled to Bielefeld (Curator Thomas Kellein) (solo)
: Malerei 7, Monika Spruth Philomene Magers, Cologne, Germany
: …As Time Goes By, Leo Koenig Inc. & Gordian Weber Kunsthandel, Leo Koebig Inc., New York
: ‘Religious Paintings’ George Condo, Sprueth Magers Lee, London
: George Condo - Memories of Manet and Velazquez,Galerie Jerome de Noirmont, Paris, France
: George Condo, Eleni Koroneou Gallery, Athens, Greece
2004: George Condo. Paintings From the Eighties, Briggs Robinson Gallery, New York, NY
: George Condo, Monika Spruth / Philomene Magers, Cologne, Germany
2003: Splat Boom Pow! The Influence of Cartoons in Contemporary Art, Contemporary Arts
: Museum Houston, TX. Travelling to: Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH
: Depury Luxembourg, Zurich
: Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich
: George Condo: The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridge MA
: New York Expression, Bergen Art Museum
: Ahead of the 21st Century. The Pisces Collection,” Donaueschingen, Switzerland (June)
: Paintings 1993-2001, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO
: Schlosspark Wendlinghausen, Landscape Garden OstWestfalenlippe, Westfalen, Germany
2002: Luhring Augustine, New York
2001: Monika Spruth-Philomene Magers, Munich, Germany
: Physiological Abstraction, Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, Paris
: George Condon: Monika Spruth-Philomene Magers, Munich, Germany
: Physiognomical Abstraction (Catalogue available), Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, Paris, France
2000: George Condo: Jazz Paintings, Pace Wildenstein, 142 Greene Street, New York
: Portraits Lost In Space, Deitch Projects, New York
: Portraits, 11 Duke Street, London
: Mental States, Patrick Painter, Inc., Santa Monica
: George Condo: New Paintings, Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich
: New Paintings, Galerie Monika Sprüth, Cologne
1999: George Condo: Televised Silkscreens, Sandra Gering Gallery, New York
: George Condo: Silkscreen Paintings, Pace Wildenstein, Los Angeles
: George Condo, Texas Gallery, Houston
1998: George Condo, Monika Sprüth Galerie, Cologne
: The Horse and the Cardinal: George Condo and William Burroughs Collaborative Works 1988 – William Borroughs George Condo Collaborations 1988-1996, Pat Hearn Gallery, New York
: Collage Paintings, PaceWildenstein, 142 Greene Street, New York
: Pages de Garde/End Papers, PaceWildenstein, Los Angeles
1997: Collage Abstractions, PaceWildenstein, Los Angeles
: IT Park Gallery, Taipei
: Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris
: Drawings 1976-1996, PaceWildenstein, Los Angeles
: Pages de Garde/End Papers, Pace Wildenstein, 142 Greene Street, New York
1996: Collage Paintings, PaceWildenstein, 142 Greene Street, New York
1995: McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas
: Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston
: Palais des Congrès de Paris, Paris
: Zeichnungen, Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich
: Paintings and Drawings, PaceWildenstein, New York
1994: Recent Paintings, PaceWildenstein, 142 Greene Street, New York
: Galeria Fernando Latorre, Zaragoza
: Sculpturen, Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich
1993: Galeria Salvador Riera, Barcelona
1992: Monika Sprüth Galerie, Cologne
: Obra 1990-1992, Galerìa Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid
: Stuart Regen Gallery, Los Angeles
: Neue Bilder, Galerie Pfefferle, Munich
: Gravats, Galeria Joan Prats, Barcelona
: Galeria Salvador Riera, Barcelona
: Paintings, Drawings, Prints, Michael Maloney Contemporary Art, Inc., Santa Monica
: Myth and Magic in the Americas: The Eighties, Museuo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey, Mexico
: Contemporary Art from the Collection of Jason Rubell, Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, North Carolina
: The 1980’s: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
: Drawings, Galerie Kaj Forsblom, Helsinki
: Peintures récentes 1989-90, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris
: Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo
: Monika Sprüth Galerie, Cologne
: Galerie de Poche, Paris
1991: Recent Paintings, The Pace Gallery, New York
1990: Academy-Institute Invitational Exhibition of Painting & Sculpture, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York
: Le Visage dans l’art contemporain, Musee Des Jacobins, Toulouse, traveled to Musee du Luxembourg, Paris
: Pharmakon 90, Nippon Convention Center, Makuhari Messe, International Exhibition Halle, Japan
: The Last Decade: American Artists of the80’s, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York
: Drawings of the Eighties: Part II, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
: Waddington Galleries, London
: Painting Beyond the Death of Painting, Koznetzky Most Exhibition Hall, Moscow, Russia
: Aldo Crommelynck Master Prints with American Artists, Whitney Museum of American Art at the Equitable Center, New York
: Summer Installation, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1989: 1979-1989 American, Italian, Mexican Art from the Collection of Francesco Pellizi, Hofstra Museum, Hempstead
: Sculpture by Painters, The Pace Gallery, New York
: I triennial de Dibuix – Joan Miro, La Fundacion Joan Miro, Barcelona, Spain
: Exposition Inaugurale, Fondation Daniel Templon, Musee Temporaire, Frejus, France
: Recent Drawings, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
: Biennal Exhibition, Whitney Museum of Americna Art, New York
: Galeria Leyendecker, Santa Cruz de Tenerife
: Works on Paper, Vrej Baghoomian Inc., New York
: Neue Arbeiten, Monika Sprüth Galerie, Cologne
1988: Monika Sprüth Galerie, Cologne
: Paintings and Drawings, The Pace Gallery, New York
1987: Neue Bilder, Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich
: Monika Sprüth Galerie, Cologne
: Gemälde/Paintings 1984-1987, Kunstverein, Munich
: Paintings 1983-1987, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Nagoya
: Monika Sprüth Galerie, Cologne
: Drawings, Knights Gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina
: Larry Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles
1986: Paintings, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo
: Recent Paintings, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
1985: Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
: Pat Hearn Gallery, New York
: Schilderijen en Tekeningen, Galerie `t Venster, Rotterdam
: Neue Arbeiten, Monika Sprüth Galerie, Cologne
: Major new works, Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich
: Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
1984: Galerìa Leyendecker, Santa Cruz de Tenerife
: Bilder - Zeichnungen, Monika Sprüth Galerie, Cologne
: East Village Painters, Artists Space, New York
1983: Terminal Show, Artists Library, Brooklyn, New York
: Paintings and Works on Paper, Ulrike Kantor Gallery, Los Angeles

Public Collections

: Fonds National d'Art Contemporain, Ministére 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, FL, USA
: The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, USA
: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, USA
: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA
: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, NY, USA

Literature

2007: George Condo, Simon Lee Gallery, London, UK
2006: Existential Portraits, New York: Luhring Augustine & Gottingen, Germany: Steidl.
: Over the Limit, Christopher Wool & George Condo. Athens: Portalakis Collection, Athens, Greece Over the Limit”, Christopher Wool & George Condo. Athens: Portalakis Collection, Athens, Greece Over the Limit”, Christopher Wool & George Condo. Athens: Portalakis Collection, Athens, Greece (exhibition catalog)
: Richer, Francesca and Matthew Rosenzweig, No.1: First Works by 362 Artists, d.a.p., New York, NY.
: Vous êtes ici (You are here), Auvergne: FRAC (Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain d’Auvergne), (exhibition catalog), pp. 86-89
2005: Kellein, Thomas, George Condo - One Hundred Women, Hatze Cantz Publishers, Germany
2004: Fleissig, Peter, George Condo, Memories of Manet and Velazquez, Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, Paris
: Kellein, Thomas, George Condo : sculptures, Galerie Bischoffberger, Caratsch, De Pury, Luxembourg, Zurich
2002: Splat Boom Pow! The Influence of Cartons in Contemporary Art, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, p. 93
: Rugoff, Ralph. The Imaginary Portraits of George Condo, Fall 2002, Power House Books
: Ahead of the 21st Century, The Pisces Collection, Hadjie Cantz Publishers, 2002, pp 43-53 (exhibition catalogue)
2001: George Condo Physiognomical Abstraction, Galerie Jerome De Noirmont, Paris
: Mythic Proportions. Painting in the 1980’s, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami
: Condo Televised Silkscreens, Abaton Books Company, Newton, New Jersey
: Dickhoff, Wilfried. After Nihilism: Essay son Contemporary Art, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press
2000: Drawings 2000 at Barbara Gladstone Gallery, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
1999: George Condo: Portraits Lost In Space, PaceWildenstein and Deitch Projects, New York
1998: FitzGerald, Michael. George Condo, Collage Paintings, PaceWildenstein, 1998, interview with the artist
: Ruiz Picasso, Bernard, Pages de Garde/End Papers, PaceWildenstein, 1998, poems by Ruiz Picasso, illustrations by Condo
: Matthew Collings, It Hurts, New York Art from Warhol to Now, 21 Publishing, pp. 139-143, illustrated by Condo
1997: Davvetas, Demosthenes, Dialogues, France: Au Même titre, Imprimé par Jouve.
1996: Le thorei-Daviot, Pascale, Petit dictionnaire des artistes contemporains, Paris, Bordas
: Myths and Magical Fantasies, California Center for the Arts Museum, Escondido
1995: Kuspit, Donald, George Condo: Paintings and Drawings, PaceWildenstein, New York
1994: Burroughs, Willam S., George Condo: Recent Paintings, The Pace Gallery, New York
1993: Drawing the Line Against AIDS, American Foundation for AIDS Research (AmFAR) International
: Wilson, Adolfo and Namia Mondolfi, Materia, Imagen y Concepto: Un Recorrido por el Arte Contemporáneo Internacional. Galería Namia Mondolfi, Caracas
: Bonet, Juan Manuel and Gorge Condo, Galeria Salvador Riera, Barcelona
: Rose, Bernice, Allegories of Modernism: Contemporary Drawing. The Museum of Modern Art, New York
: Dickhoff, Wilfried and Reiner Speck, Ars Pro Domo. Gesellschaft für Moderne Kunst am Museum Ludwig, Cologne
1992: Condo, George. La Línea Quebrada y Extractos de 'El Gran Jefe', George Condo: Obra 1990-1992, Galeria Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid
: Le Portrait Dans L'Art Contemporain, Musée d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain, Nice
1991: Schjeldahl, and Edward J. Sullivan, Mito y Magia en América: Los Ochenta. Monterrey: Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey
: Dickhoff, Wilfried, In Ictu Oculi: The Post-Nondeconstructive Paintings of George Condo, George Condo: Recent Paintings. The Pace Gallery, New York
: George Condo, Art Random, Kyoto Shoin International, Co., Ltd., Kyoto
: Riley, Charles A, II. Sélection. Musée d'Art Contemporain, Pully/Lausanne, Switzerland
1990: Guattari, Félix, Introduction and Discussion, George Condo, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris.
1989: Bilderstreit, Museum Ludwig, Cologne
: George Condo, Waddington Galleries, London
1988: Geldzahler, Henry, On George Condo, George Condo: Paintings and Drawings. The Pace Gallery, New York
: Honnef, Klaus, Kunst der Gegenwart. Taschen
: Weinberg, Adam D, Aldo Crommelynck Master Prints with American Artists. Whitney Museum of American Art at Equitable Center, New York
: Biennial Exhibition, New York, Whitney Museum of American Art
: George Condo: Paintings & Drawings, Kunstverein München, excerpts from the novel Oret and
1987: Armstrong, Richard, John Hanhardt, Richard Marshall and Lisa Phillips, Excerpts from the novel Orest and interview with the artist by Demosthenes Davvetas
: Dickhoff, Wilfried, Expanding Canvas or The Alter-Ego Strikes Back, Edition
1986: Dickhoff, Wilfried, The Being of Nothingness - Notes on the existential abstraction in George Condo's paintings, George Condo, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
: Dickhoff, Wilfried, Primer Salòn Irrealiste, Tenerife. Galeria Leyendecker, Santa Cruz de
: George Condo, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo
: Godfrey, Tony, The New Image, Paintings in the 1980's, New York
: Saltz, Jerry, Beyond Boundaries, New York
: Thomas, Karin, Bis Heute, Cologne
: Dickhoff, Wilfried W. and Wolfgang Drechsler, Phase II. Steirischer Herbst '85
1985: Dickhoff, Wilfried, Vor-Schein oder Aschenglanz, Künstliche Paradiese, Kunstverein München
: Flood, Richard, Das Veritgo Paradigma, Künstliche Paradiese. Kunstverein München and
1984: Dickhoff, Wilfried, Nouveau Boheme, Cologne
: Perspective 1984, Basel Art Fair, Basel