Collection > Condo, George

b. 1957 Concord NH

EDUCATION:
1976-78
Lowell University, Massachusetts

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

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

2011:
Drawing Paintings, Skarstedt Gallery, New York, NY
George Condo, Mental States, New Museum, New York, US (exh. cat). This exhibition travelled to Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Hayward Gallery, London, UK; and Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany (2012)
Drawings, Sprüth Magers, London, UK
George Condo: a collection of etchings, Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles, US

2010
The Lost Civilization, Galerie Andrea Caratsch, Zurich, Switzerland
Cartoon Abstractions, Galerie Jérome de Noirmont, Paris, France
Family Portraits, Sprüth Magers, Berlin, Germany

2009
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Art But Were Afraid to Ask, Massimo De Carlo, Milan, Italy
George Condo, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium
La Civilisation Perdue, Musée Maillol, Paris, France

2008
George Condo: Drawings, Sprüth Magers, Berlin, Germany
George Condo, Gary Tatintsian Gallery, Inc., Moscow, Russia
Christ: The Subjective Nature of Objective Representation, Luhring Augustine, New York, NY, USA

2007
George Condo, Simon Lee, London, Great Britain
Galerie Andrea Caratsch, Zurich, Switzerland
George Condo: Paintings from the Last Ten Years, Nicholas Robinson Gallery, New York, NY, USA

2006
Wrong Gallery, Tate Modern, London, Great Britain
Existential Portraits, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium
Existential Portraits, Luhring Augustine, New York, NY, USA

2005
George Condo: Sculptures, Skarstedt Fine Art, New York, NY, USA
George Condo, Monica Sprüth Philomene Magers, Munich, Germany
Disassembled Objects, Power House Memphis, TN, USA
One Hundred Women. Retrospective, curated by Margrit Brehm, Museum of Modern Art, Salzburg, Austria. Travelled to Bielefeld, Germany

2004
George Condo. Paintings From the Eighties, Biggs Robinson, New York, NY, USA
Religious Paintings, curated by Simon Lee, Sprüth Magers Lee Gallery, London, Great Britain
George Condo, Eleni Koroneou Gallery, Athens, Greece
George Condo. Memories of Manet and Velazquez, Galerie Jerome de Noirmont, Paris, France
George Condo, Monika Sprüth Philomene Magers, Cologne, Germany

2003
George Condo: Sculpture. Expanded Portraits, Extended Forms and Jazz Sculptures, Caratsch de Pury & Luxembourg, Zurich. Travelled to Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich, Switzerland
George Condo, The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridge, MA, USA

2002
George Condo, Luhring Augustine, New York, NY, USA
George Condo, Schlosspark Wendlinghausen, Landscape Garden Ost Westfalenlippe, Westfalen, Germany

2001
Physiological Abstraction, Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, Paris, France
George Condo, Monika Sprüth Philomene Magers, Munich, Germany

2000
Portraits, 11 Duke Street, London, Great Britain
Mental States, Patrick Painter, Inc., Santa Monica, CA, USA

1999-2000
George Condo: Jazz Paintings, PaceWildenstein, New York, NY, USA
Portraits Lost In Space, Deitch Projects, New York, NY, USA

1999
George Condo. Silkscreen Paintings, PaceWildenstein, Los Angeles, CA, USA
George Condo, Texas Gallery, Houston, TX, USA
New Paintings, Galerie Monika Sprüth, Cologne, Germany
George Condo. New Paintings, Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich, Switzerland

1999-98
George Condo. Televised Silkscreens, Sandra Gering Gallery, New York, NY, USA

1998-97
William Burroughs George Condo Collaborations 1988-1996, Pat Hearn Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Collage Paintings, PaceWildenstein, 142 Greene Street, New York, NY, USA
Pages de Garde/End Papers, PaceWildenstein, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Pages de Garde/End Papers, PaceWildenstein, New York, NY, USA
George Condo, Monika Sprüth Galerie, Cologne, Germany
The Horse and the Cardinal: George Condo and William Burroughs Collaborative Works 1988-1996, Pat Hearn, NewYork, NY, USA

1997
Collage Abstractions, PaceWildenstein, Los Angeles, CA, USA

1996
Drawings 1976-1996, PaceWildenstein, Los Angeles, CA, USA
George Condo, IT Park Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan

1995
Palais des Congrès de Paris, Paris, France
Zeichnungen, Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich, Switzerland
Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France
Paintings and Drawings, PaceWildenstein, New York, NY, USA

1995-94
McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, TX, USA; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX, USA

1994
Recent Paintings, PaceWildenstein, 142 Greene Street, New York, NY, USA

1993
Galeria Fernando Latorre, Zaragoza, Spain
Sculpturen, Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich, Switzerland

1993-92
Galeria Salvador Riera, Barcelona, Spain

1992
Monika Sprüth Galerie, Cologne, Germany
Obra 1990-1992, Galería Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid, Spain
Stuart Regen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Neue Bilder, Galerie Pfefferle, Munich, Germany
Gravats, Galeria Joan Prats, Barcelona, Spain

1991
Recent Paintings, The Pace Gallery, New York, NY, USA

1990
Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Peintures récentes 1989-90, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France
Drawings, Galerie Kaj Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland
Paintings, Drawings, Prints, Michael Maloney Contemporary Art, Inc., Santa Monica, CA, USA
Galerie de Poche, Paris, France
Monika Sprüth Galerie, Cologne, Germany

1989
Waddington Galleries, London, Great Britain

1988
Neue Arbeiten, Monika Sprüth Galerie, Cologne, Germany
Paintings and Drawings, The Pace Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Galeria Leyendecker, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain
Works on Paper, Vrej Baghoomian Inc., New York, NY, USA

1988-97
Monika Sprüth Galerie, Cologne, Germany

1987
Neue Bilder, Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich, Switzerland
Monika Sprüth Galerie, Cologne, Germany
Gemälde/Paintings 1984-1987, Kunstverein, Munich, Germany
Paintings 1983-1987, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Nagoya, Japan

1985
Schilderijen en Tekeningen, Galerie ‘t Venster, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Neue Arbeiten, Monika Sprüth Galerie, Cologne, Germany
Major new works, Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich, Switzerland
Paintings, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Recent Paintings, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Larry Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA

1985-84
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Pat Hearn Gallery, New York, NY, USA

1984
Galería Leyendecker, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain
Bilder - Zeichnungen, Monika Sprüth Galerie, Cologne, Germany

1983
Paintings and Works on Paper, Ulrike Kantor Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

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, curated by Stacey Schmidt, Washington DC, USA 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
Malerei 7, Monika Sprüth Philomene Magers, Cologne, Germany (2003-2004)

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

1986-85
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 p. E34

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, p. 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, p. 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

1998-97
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 1985-87
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

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