George Condo
1957
New Hampshire, United States
New Hampshire, United States
1 Works exhibited on Kooness
Current location
New York
Represented by
Opera Gallery
, Paris -
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Works by George Condo
George Condo is a contemporary American artist known for his unique figurative paintings and prints. Featuring fractured portraits and aggressive imagery, Condo often recontextualizes paintings from the Old Masters with allusions to contemporary American culture, blending their imagery and techniques with aesthetics that echo Pablo Picasso and Willem de Kooning. “I describe what I do as psychological Cubism,” the artist has explained of his work. Born in 1957, in Concord, NH, he studied art history and music theory at the University of Massachusetts in Lowell. A member of the band The Girls during the late 1970s, Condo met Jean-Michel Basquiat in New York at a show, it was Basquiat that suggested he move down to New York to pursue a career in art. Condo’s first public exhibitions were held in East Village galleries between 1981 and 1983. After a brief stretch working in Andy Warhol’s Factory, Condo decamped to Paris in 1985 for a decade. His influence can be seen in a range of contemporary painters, including John Currin, Glenn Brown and Lisa Yuskavage. In 2010, Condo collaborated with the musician Kanye West in producing cover art for his album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. A year later, the artist was the subject of a major retrospective exhibition “Mental States,” at the New Museum. Condo currently lives and works in New York, NY. Today, his paintings are held in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Rubell Family Collection in Miami, and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., among others.
Exhibitions
- 2013
- Intimate Distance, Arario Gallery, Seoul, Korea
55th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
Paintings & Sculpture, Sprüth Magers London, London, England
Paintings & Sculpture, Sprüth Magers Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Inner Journeys, Maison Particulière Art Center, Brussels, Belgium - 2012
- Richard Koh Fine Art, Singapore
George Condo, Schim Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany (solo)
George Condo, Mental States, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany (solo) - 2011
- Drawing Paintings, Skarstedt Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
George Condo, Mental States, New Museum, New York, USA (solo) (travelled to Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Hayward Gallery, London, England; and Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany)
Drawings, Sprüth Magers, London, England (solo)
George Condo: a collection of etchings, Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles, USA (solo)
George Condo, Mental States, New Museum, New York, USA (solo)
George Condo, Boijmans van Beuingen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands (solo)
George Condo, Hayward Gallery, London, England (solo) - 2010
- Cartoon Abstractions, Galerie Jérome de Noirmont, Paris, France (solo)
Beauty is Diamond, Laleh June Galerie, Basel, Switzerland
Family Portraits, Sprüth Magers, Berlin, Germany (solo)
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
The Lost Civilization, Galerie Andrea Caratsch, Zurich, Switzerland (solo) - 2009
- Wall Rockets: Contemporary Artisits and Ed Ruscha, FLAG Art Foundation, Berlin, Germany
George Condo, Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milan, Italy (solo)
KolnSkulptur 4, Skulpturenpark Koln, Cologne, Germany (solo)
Just what is it that makes today's painting so different, so appealing?, Gering & López Gallery, New York, USA
George Condo, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium (solo)
La Civilisation Perdue, Musée Maillol, Paris, France (solo) - 2008
- George Condo: Drawings, Sprüth Magers, Berlin, Germany (solo)
George Condo, Gary Tatintsian Gallery, Inc., Moscow, Russia (solo)
Against All Odds: Keith Haring in the Rubell Family Collection, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, USA
It’s Not Over Yet, Invisible-Exports, New York, 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, USA
The Luxury of Love, Vanina Holasek, New York, USA
Summer Exhibition, Skarstedt Gallery, New York, USA
Wall Rockets, The Flag Art Foundation, New York, USA
Blasted Allegories, Werke aus der Sammlung Ringier, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Switzerland
Out of Shape: Stylistic Distortion of the Human Form in Art, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie, USA
Live Undead, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
Christ: The Subjective Nature of Objective Representation, Luhring Augustine, New York, USA (solo)
Artificial Realism, Gary Tatintsian Gallery, Moscow, Russia (solo) - 2007
- Nicholas Robinson Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
The Beholder’s Eye, The Salmagundi Club of New York, New York, USA
Create your own Museum: Highlights from 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, USA
Meet the Artists, Deitch Projects, New York, USA
Still Life and Kicking: a project with Vogue, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, USA
...Und immer fehlt mir was, und das qualt mich, Werkstadt Graz, Graz, Austria
Hold the line, Ferenbalm - Gurbru Station, Karlsruhe, Germany
My sweet sixteen party, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium
Effigies, Modern Art Inc. and Stuart Shave/ Modern Art, London, England
Fractured Figure, Works from the Dakis Jannou Collection, Deste Foundation - Center for Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
Block Party II, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, New York, USA
Automatic, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, USA
Contemporary and Modern Masters, Richard Gray Gallery, New York, USA
The Present: The Monique Zajfen Collection, Stedelijik Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Zuruch zer Figur - Malerei der Gegenward, KunstHaus Wien, Vienna, Austria
Rockers Island: Olbricht Collection, Museum Folkwang Essen, Essen, Germany
Poetics Country, Ferenbalm-Gurbru Station, Karlsruhe, Germany
Contemporary Art, Skarstedt Fine Art, New York, USA
Simon Lee, London, England (solo)
New Works, Galerie Andrea Caratsch, Zurich, Switzerland (solo) - 2006
- Wrong Gallery, Tate Modern, London, England (solo)
Existential Portraits, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium (solo)
Existential Portraits, Luhring Augustine, New York, USA (solo)
Infinite Painting, Villa Manin Centro d’Arte Contemporanea, Codroipo, Udine, Italy
Zurück zur Figur. Malerei der Gegenwart, Kunsthalle der Hypo Kulturstiftung, München, Germany
Surrealism: Then and Now, Paul Kasmin Gallery & Edelmann Arts, Inc., New York, USA
Memento Mori, Mireille Mosler Ltd., New York, USA
Color Aside, Luhring Augustine, New York, USA
Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium - 2005
- George Condo: Sculptures, Skarstedt Fine Art, New York, USA (solo)
George Condo, Monica Spruth Philomene Magers, Munich, Germany (solo)
Disassembled Objects, Power House, Memphis, USA (solo)
One Hundred Women: Retrospective, Museum of Modern Art, Salzburg, Austria (solo) - 2004
- George Condo: Paintings From the Eighties, Briggs Robinson Gallery, New York, USA
George Condo, Eleni Koroneou Gallery, Athens, Greece
George Condo: Memories of Manet and Velazquez, Galerie Jerome de Noirmont, Paris, France
George Condo, Monika Spruth / Philomene Magers, Cologne, Germany
Religious Paintings, Sprueth Magers Lee, London, England
…As Time Goes By, Leo Koenig Inc. & Gordian Weber Kunsthandel, Leo Koebig Inc., New York, USA
Malerei 7, Monika Spruth Philomene Magers, Cologne, Germany - 2003
- Depury Luxembourg, Zurich, Switzerland
Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich, Switzerland
George Condo: The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridge, USA - 2002
- Luhring Augustine, New York, USA
Schlosspark Wendlinghausen, Landscape Garden OstWestfalenlippe, Westfalen, Germany
Paintings 1993-2001, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, USA
Ahead of the 21st Century: The Pisces Collection, Donaueschingen, Switzerland
New York Expression, Bergen Art Museum, Bergen, Norway - 2001
- Monika Spruth-Philomene Magers, Munich, Germany
Physiological Abstraction, Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, Paris, France
George Condon: Monika Spruth-Philomene Magers, Munich, Germany
Physiognomical Abstraction, Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, Paris, France - 2000
- George Condo: Jazz Paintings, Pace Wildenstein, 142 Greene Street, New York, USA
Portraits Lost In Space, Deitch Projects, New York, USA
Portraits, 11 Duke Street, London, England
Mental States, Patrick Painter, Inc., Santa Monica, USA - 1999
- George Condo: Silkscreen Paintings, Pace Wildenstein, Los Angeles, USA
George Condo, Texas Gallery, Houston, USA
New Paintings, Galerie Monika Sprüth, Cologne, Germany
George Condo: New Paintings, Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich, Switzerland
George Condo: Televised Silkscreens, Sandra Gering Gallery, New York, USA - 1998
- George Condo, Monika Sprüth Galerie, Cologne, Germany
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, USA
Collage Paintings, PaceWildenstein, 142 Greene Street, New York, USA
Pages de Garde/End Papers, PaceWildenstein, Los Angeles, USA - 1997
- Collage Abstractions, PaceWildenstein, Los Angeles, USA
- 1996
- Collage Paintings, PaceWildenstein, 142 Greene Street, New York, USA
Pages de Garde/End Papers, Pace Wildenstein, 142 Greene Street, New York, USA
Drawings 1976-1996, PaceWildenstein, Los Angeles, USA
Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France
IT Park Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan - 1995
- McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, USA
Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, USA
Palais des Congrès de Paris, Paris, France
Zeichnungen, Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich, Switzerland
Paintings and Drawings, PaceWildenstein, New York, USA - 1994
- Recent Paintings, PaceWildenstein, 142 Greene Street, New York, USA
- 1993
- Galeria Salvador Riera, Barcelona, Spain
Galeria Fernando Latorre, Zaragoza, Spain
Sculpturen, Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich, Switzerland - 1992
- Monika Sprüth Galerie, Cologne, Germany
Obra 1990-1992, Galerìa Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid, Spain
Stuart Regen Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Neue Bilder, Galerie Pfefferle, Munich, Germany
Gravats, Galeria Joan Prats, Barcelona, Spain
Galeria Salvador Riera, Barcelona, Spain - 1991
- Recent Paintings, The Pace Gallery, New York, USA
Galerie de Poche, Paris, France
Monika Sprüth Galerie, Cologne, Germany
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, USA
The 1980’s: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
Contemporary Art from the Collection of Jason Rubell, Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, USA
Myth and Magic in the Americas: The Eighties, Museuo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey, Mexico - 1990
- Academy-Institute Invitational Exhibition of Painting & Sculpture, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, USA
Le Visage dans l’art contemporain, Musee Des Jacobins, Toulouse, traveled to Musee du Luxembourg, Paris, France
Pharmakon 90, Nippon Convention Center, Makuhari Messe, International Exhibition Halle, Japan
The Last Decade: American Artists of the80’s, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, USA
Drawings of the Eighties: Part II, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA - 1989
- 1979-1989 American, Italian, Mexican Art from the Collection of Francesco Pellizi, Hofstra Museum, Hempstead, USA
I triennial de Dibuix – Joan Miro, La Fundacion Joan Miro, Barcelona, Spain
Sculpture by Painters, Pace Gallery, New York, USA
Exposition Inaugurale, Fondation Daniel Templon, Musee Temporaire, Frejus, France
Summer Installation, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
Aldo Crommelynck Master Prints with American Artists, Whitney Museum of American Art at the Equitable Center, New York, USA
Painting Beyond the Death of Painting, Koznetzky Most Exhibition Hall, Moscow, Russia
Waddington Galleries, London, England - 1988
- Monika Sprüth Galerie, Cologne, Germany
Neue Arbeiten, Monika Sprüth Galerie, Cologne, Germany
Paintings and Drawings, Pace Gallery, New York, USA
Galeria Leyendecker, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain
Works on Paper, Vrej Baghoomian Inc., New York, USA
Recent Drawings, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
Biennal Exhibition, Whitney Museum of Americna Art, New York, USA - 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
Monika Sprüth Galerie, Cologne, Germany - 1986
- Paintings, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Recent Paintings, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, USA
Larry Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Drawings, Knights Gallery, Charlotte, USA - 1985
- Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, USA
Pat Hearn Gallery, New York, USA
Schilderijen en Tekeningen, Galerie `t Venster, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Neue Arbeiten, Monika Sprüth Galerie, Cologne, Germany
Major new works, Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich, Switzerland - 1984
- Galerìa Leyendecker, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain
Bilder - Zeichnungen, Monika Sprüth Galerie, Cologne, Germany
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, USA
East Village Painters, Artists Space, New York, USA - 1983
- Terminal Show, Artists Library, Brooklyn, New York, USA
Paintings and Works on Paper, Ulrike Kantor Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Literature
- 2007
- George Condo, Simon Lee Gallery, London, UK
- 2006
- Existential Portraits, New York: Luhring Augustine & Gottingen, Germany: Steidl.
- 2006
- 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)
- 2006
- Richer, Francesca and Matthew Rosenzweig, No.1: First Works by 362 Artists, d.a.p., New York, NY.
- 2006
- 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
- 2004
- 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
- 2002
- Rugoff, Ralph. The Imaginary Portraits of George Condo, Fall 2002, Power House Books
- 2002
- 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
- 2001
- Mythic Proportions. Painting in the 1980’s, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami
- 2001
- Condo Televised Silkscreens, Abaton Books Company, Newton, New Jersey
- 2000
- Drawings 2000 at Barbara Gladstone Gallery, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
- 2000
- Dickhoff, Wilfried. After Nihilism: Essay son Contemporary Art, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press
- 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
- 1998
- Ruiz Picasso, Bernard, Pages de Garde/End Papers, PaceWildenstein, 1998, poems by Ruiz Picasso, illustrations by Condo
- 1998
- 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
- 1996
- 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
- 1993
- Wilson, Adolfo and Namia Mondolfi, Materia, Imagen y Concepto: Un Recorrido por el Arte Contemporáneo Internacional. Galería Namia Mondolfi, Caracas
- 1992
- Condo, George. La Línea Quebrada y Extractos de 'El Gran Jefe', George Condo: Obra 1990-1992, Galeria Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid
- 1992
- Dickhoff, Wilfried and Reiner Speck, Ars Pro Domo. Gesellschaft für Moderne Kunst am Museum Ludwig, Cologne
- 1992
- Le Portrait Dans L'Art Contemporain, Musée d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain, Nice
- 1992
- Rose, Bernice, Allegories of Modernism: Contemporary Drawing. The Museum of Modern Art, New York
- 1992
- Bonet, Juan Manuel and Gorge Condo, Galeria Salvador Riera, Barcelona
- 1991
- Schjeldahl, and Edward J. Sullivan, Mito y Magia en América: Los Ochenta. Monterrey: Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey
- 1991
- Dickhoff, Wilfried, In Ictu Oculi: The Post-Nondeconstructive Paintings of George Condo, George Condo: Recent Paintings. The Pace Gallery, New York
- 1991
- George Condo, Art Random, Kyoto Shoin International, Co., Ltd., Kyoto
- 1991
- 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
- 1989
- George Condo, Waddington Galleries, London
- 1988
- Geldzahler, Henry, On George Condo, George Condo: Paintings and Drawings. The Pace Gallery, New York
- 1988
- Honnef, Klaus, Kunst der Gegenwart. Taschen
- 1988
- Weinberg, Adam D, Aldo Crommelynck Master Prints with American Artists. Whitney Museum of American Art at Equitable Center, New York
- 1987
- Armstrong, Richard, John Hanhardt, Richard Marshall and Lisa Phillips, Excerpts from the novel Orest and interview with the artist by Demosthenes Davvetas
- 1987
- Biennial Exhibition, New York, Whitney Museum of American Art
- 1987
- Dickhoff, Wilfried, Expanding Canvas or The Alter-Ego Strikes Back, Edition
- 1987
- George Condo: Paintings & Drawings, Kunstverein München, excerpts from the novel Oret and
- 1986
- Dickhoff, Wilfried, The Being of Nothingness - Notes on the existential abstraction in George Condo's paintings, George Condo, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
- 1986
- Dickhoff, Wilfried, Primer Salòn Irrealiste, Tenerife. Galeria Leyendecker, Santa Cruz de
- 1986
- George Condo, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo
- 1986
- Godfrey, Tony, The New Image, Paintings in the 1980's, New York
- 1986
- Saltz, Jerry, Beyond Boundaries, New York
- 1986
- Thomas, Karin, Bis Heute, Cologne
- 1985
- Dickhoff, Wilfried, Vor-Schein oder Aschenglanz, Künstliche Paradiese, Kunstverein München
- 1985
- Dickhoff, Wilfried W. and Wolfgang Drechsler, Phase II. Steirischer Herbst '85
- 1985
- Flood, Richard, Das Veritgo Paradigma, Künstliche Paradiese. Kunstverein München and
- 1984
- Dickhoff, Wilfried, Nouveau Boheme, Cologne
- 1984
- Perspective 1984, Basel Art Fair, Basel
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