Christopher Wool

1955 born in Chicago
  lives and works in New York

 

Solo Exhibitions

2008 Christopher Wool, Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York
Christopher Wool, Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp, Belgium
2007 Christopher Wool, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
  Christopher Wool, Skarstedt Gallery, New York
2006 Christopher Wool, Livres d'artiste, affiches et stampes, Christophe Daviet-Thery, Paris
  Christopher Wool, IVAM, Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno, travelling to Musée d'Art contemporain de Strasbourg
  Christopher Wool, Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles
  Christopher Wool, Simon Lee, London
2005 Christopher Wool, Gio Marconi, Christian Stein, Milano
2004 Galerie Micheline Swajcer, Antwerpen
  Christopher Wool 2004, Camden Arts Centre, London
  Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York
  Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
2003 Crosstown Crosstown, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, UK (cat.)
  Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne
2002 Le Consortium, Dijon
  Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
2001 Secession, Vienna
  Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerpen
  9th Street Run Down, Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York
  11, Duke Street Gallery, London
2000 Black Book Drawings, Skarstedt Fine Arts, New York
  Eleni Koroneou, Athens
  Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp
1999 Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva
1998 Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, traveling to
  Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
  Heinz Galleries, Pittsburgh
  Kunsthalle Basel, Basel
  Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
  Ophius Collection, The Hydra Workshop, Greece
1997 Eleni Koroneou Gallery, Athens
  Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York
  Taka Ishi Gallery, Tokio
  Portfolio Kunst AG, Vienna
1996 Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne
1995 Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York
  Galerie Samia Saouma, Paris
1994 Bruno Brunnet, Berlin
1993 Galerie Max Hetzler, Cologne
1992 Eli Broad Family Foundation
  Galerie Peter Pakesch, Vienna
  Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne
  Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York
1991 Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
  Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne
  Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York
  Kunsthalle Bern, Bern
1990 Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles
  Galerie Christian Stein, Torino
  Works on Paper, Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York
1989 Monotypes, Edition Julie Sylvester, New York
  New York: Christopher Wool, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
  Galerie Max Hetzler, Cologne
1988 Jean Bernier, Athens
  Luhring, Augustine & Hodes Gallery, New York
  Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne
1987 Luhring, Augustine & Hodes Gallery, New York
1986 Cable Gallery, New York
  Robbin Lockett Gallery, Chicago
1984 Cable Gallery, New York

 

Group Exhibitions

2008 Always There, Part 2, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
Psychopts: Richard Hell & Christopher Wool, Glenn Horowitz Bookseller and Art Gallery, New York
Oranges and Sardines: Conversation on Abstract Painting with Mark Grotjahn, Wade Guyton, Mary Heilmann, Amy Sillman, Charline von Heyl and Christopher Wool, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
2007 Degree Zero, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles
  For the people of Paris, Sutton Lane, Paris
  on paper, Amerikanische Zeichnung ab 1960, Gesellschaft für Gegenwartskunst e.V., Augsburg
  Künstlerplakate, Von Picasso bis heute, Seedamm Kulturzentrum, Pfäffikon SZ, Käthe Kollwitz Museum Köln, Cologne
  Part II, Christopher Wool & Josh Smith, Gallery&: Christophe Daviet-Thery, Paris
  Prints, Albert Oehlen Christopher Wool, New York
  Painting as Fact – Fact as Fiction, Galerie de Pury, Luxemburg, Zurich
  Künstlerplakate, Von Picasso bis heute, Seedamm Kulturzentrum, Pfäffikon SZ, Käthe Kollwitz Museum Köln, Cologne
2006 Defamation of Character, P.S.1 MoMA, New York
  Make Your Own Life: Artists In & Out of Cologne, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, The Power Plant, Toronto
  Artist in Residence, The Chinati Foundation, Judd Foundation, Marfa, Texas
  Color Aside, Luhring Augustine, New York
2005 The Continuous Mark: 40 Years of the New York Studio School, Studio School, New York
  Works on Paper, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
  Contemporary Voices: Works from the UBS Art Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York
  Big Bang, Creation and Destruction in the 20th Century, Pompidou Center, Paris
  Translation, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
  Baldessari, Prince, Ruscha, Wool, Perry Rubinstein Gallery, New York
2004 Quodlibet, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne
  Malerei, ZKM, Museum für neue Kunst/ZKM Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe
  Into the Night, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Cente
  Paintings, Gallery K, Oslo
  Monument To Now, The Dakis Joannou Collection, DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens
  Nicole Klagsbrun, New York
  Taschen Collection Museo Nacional, Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid
  The Open Book, Hasselblad Center, Musuem of Art Goteborg, Sweden
  Trafic d'influences: Art & Design, (Collection Frac Nord - Pas de Calais), Tri Postal, Lille
  Power Corruption an Lies, Roth Horowitz, New York
  Ground - Field - Surface, Robert Miller Gallery, New York
  Indigestible Correctness II, Kenny Schachter/ROVE, New York,
  Disturbing the Peace, Danese Gallery, New York
  I am the Walrus, Cheim & Read, New York
  Pixels, Stellan Holm Gallery, New York
  Indigestible Correctness II, Kenny Schachter/ ROVE, New York
  Flower Power, Palais des Beaux-Arts et Musee de L’Hospice Comtesse, Lille, France
  Ice Hot, Recent Paintings from the Scharpff Collection, Hamburger Kunstalle; Staatsgalerie Stuttgart
2003 A Way With Words, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco
  Stranger in the Village: Contemporary Drawings and Photographs from the Museum of Modern Art, Guild Hall, East Hampton
  Family Ties. A Contemporary Perspective, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA
  Visual Poetics: Art and the Word, Miami Art Museum, Miami
  The Great Drawing Show; 1550 - 2003 A.D., Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles
  Not Afraid, Rubell Familly Collection, Miami
  Biennale d’Art Contemporain de Lyon 2003, Lyon (cat.)
2002 The Broad Art Foundation, Santa Monica
  A Thousand Hounds, Paine Webber Art Gallery, New York;
  Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
  Copy, Roth Horowitz, New York
  A New York Renaissance: Masterworks from the Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, Palazzo Reale, Milan
  Five by Five: Contemporary Artists on Contemporary Art, Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, New York
  Hello to Handmade Words, K.S. Art, New York
  Painting on the Move, Kunstmuseum Basel, Museum fur Gegenwartskunst Basel, and Kunsthalle Basel, Basel
  Ahead of the 21st Century- The Pisces Collection, Furstenberg Sammlungen, Donaueschingen
  To Be Looked At: Painting and Sculpture from the Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York
2001 W, Musée des Beaux-Artes, Dole
  New Paintings, Sabine Knust, Munich
  Trauma, National Touring Exhibitons, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, UK
  New Acquisitions from the Dakis Joannou Collection, Deste Foundation, Center for Contemporary Art, Athens
  Christopher Wool, New Paintings, Herbert Brandl, Neue Bilder, Sabine Knust, Munich
  A Way with Words, Whitney Museum of American Art at Phillip Morris, New York
  Patterns: Between Object and Arabesque, Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense, Denmark
2000 Malerei, Luhring Augustine, New York
  Galerie Charimklocker Ava-Hof (Hanuschplatz), Salzburg
  Patrick Painter Inc., Santa Monica
  On Language, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York
  La prima idea, Graphische Sammlung de ETH, Zurich
  Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
  Le Jeu des 7 Familles, mamco: Musee d'art moderne et contemporain, Geneve
  La Prima Idea: Aktuelle Malerei auf Papier, Graphische Sammlung der ETH Zurich
  Mixing Memory and Desire, New Museum of Art Lucerne, Lucerne
  The Swamp: On the Edge of Eden, University of Florida, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL
  To Infinity and Beyond, Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York
  Counter Editions at the Chelsea Hotel, New York
  Art at MoMA since 1980, MoMa, New York
  Malerei, Charim Klocker Wien, Austria
1999 Malerei, INIT Kunst-Halle, Berlin
  Free Coke, Greene Naftali, New York
  Art at the End of the Century - Contemporary Art from the Milwaukee Art Museum, Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama
  Multiplicity, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica
  Silent Treatment: Projecting Narrative, Curated by Thea Westreich, Aspen Art Museum
  Collection Frac Nord-Pas de Calais, Een Keuze
  Visualizing Digiteracy: Considering Current Technologies, Memphis College of Art, TN
  Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris
  Bloom: Contemporary Art Garden, curated by Gianni Romano, Milan
  Reverse Impressions, City Gallery, New York, NY
  The Great Drawing Show 1550 to 1999, Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
  The Passion and the Waves, 6th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul
1998 Real Stories, Marianne Boesky Gallery and Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
  Exterminating Angel, Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris
  Exploiting the Abstract, Feigen Contemporary, New York
  Weather Everything, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig
  Double Trouble: The Patchett Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
  Elements of the Natural, Museum of Modern Art, New York
  Scratches on the Surface of Things - Acquisitions of Contemporary American Art, Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
  Harriet Craig, Curated by D. Rimanelli, Apex Art C.P., New York
  Die Parkett-Kunstlereditionen im Museum Ludwig, Museum Ludwig, Cologne
  The Patchett Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
  Six Americans, Skarstedt Fine Art, New York
  Luhring Augustine, New York
1997 Birth of the Cool, Amerikanische Malerei, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
  Hamburg, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich
  American Realities. Views from Abroad: European Perspectives
  on American Art 3, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
  Painting Photography Drawing, Anton Kern Gallery, New York
  Group Show, Galerie Samia Saouma, Paris
  Serial Imagery, Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles
  Family Values, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg
  On the Edge: Contemporary Art from the Werner and Elaine Dannheisser Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York
1996 Peinture - Peinture, Galerie Samia Saouma, Paris
  Thinking Print Books to Billboards 1980-95, The Board of Trustees, Museum of Modern Art, New York
  New Art on Paper, 2, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania
  Screen, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
  Kingdom of Flora, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica
  Fellows of the American Academy in Rome, The Equitable Center, New York
  The Sense of Order, Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia
  Gray Matter, Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica
  Cenas Domesticas, Modulo, Lisbon
  Art at Home, Ideal Standard Life, Spiral Gallery 1F, Tokyo
  Everything That's Interesting Is New: The Dakis Joannou Collection, Athens School of Fine Arts the factory, Athens; Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen; Guggenheim Museum SoHo, New York
1995 25 Americans: Painting in the 90's, Milwaukee Art Museum,
  Notes on Print with and after Robert Morris, Cabinet des
  estampes du Musée d'art et d'histoire, Geneva
  Duck, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York
  100 Works on Paper, Galerie de la Tour, Amsterdam
  Galleria Alessandra Bonomo, Rome
  Pittura Immedia, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum und Künstlerhaus Graz
  Articulations: Forms of Language in Contemporary American Art, The Whitney Museum, New York
  James Nares & Christopher Wool, Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles
  XL, Galerie Borgmann Capitain, Cologne
  Luhring Augustine, New York
  Malerei, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
  Wallpaper Works, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas
  Made in U.S.A. - Original works on Paper, Bob van Orsouw Gallery, Zurich
  Images Against AIDS, Art Metropole, Toronto
  Drawing on Chance: Selections from the Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York
1994 Herbert Brandl, Albert Oehlen, Christopher Wool, National Gallery, Prague
  Empty Dress, Organized by Independent Curators International, traveling to: Neuberger Museum, Virginia Beach Center for the Arts, University if North Texas, Mackenzie Art Gallery, The Gallery/Stratford, Selby Gallery
  The Museum of Modern Art; Martin Kippenberger, director; Syros, Greece
  Gallerie K, Oslo
  Lousy Fear, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago
  Ossuary, Luhring Augustine, New York
  Contemporary Art from the Collection of the Migros Cooperatives, Museo Cantonale d'Arte, Lugano, Switzerland
  Gift, The InterArt Center, New York
  Supershadows of Understatement: Christopher Wool and Ulli Strothjohann, Eleni Koroneou Gallery, Athens
  Some Like It Cool, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston
  On Paper, Schmidt ContemporaryArt, St. Louis
  Ground, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam
  Violence/Business-Gewalt/Geschafte, Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin
1993 The Language of Art, Kunsthalle Wien; Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt/M.
  Works by Younger Artists from the Collection of Richard Brown Baker, The Century Association, New York
  Zeitsprunge: Collection of Rudolf und Ute Scharpff, Wilhelm-Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen
  The Brushstrike: Painting in the 90's, Ruth Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica
  Gober, Kelley, Kippenberger, Koons, Sherman, Wool, Galerie Schurr, Stuttgart
  Reading Prints, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
  20th Anniversary Exhibition Part II, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Santa Monica
  Black & White, Schmidt Contemporary Art, St. Louis
  Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston
  Drawing the Line Against AIDS, The Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice; The Guggenheim Museum SoHo, New York
  New York Painters, Sammlung Goetz, Munich
1992 documenta IX, Kassel
  Allegories of Modernism: Contemporary Drawing, Museum of Modern Art, New York
  Works on Paper: Forg, Gonzalez-Torres, Kilimnik, Kippenberger, Nares, Oehlen, Pensato, Prina, Wool, Luhring Augustine, New York
  Herold, Oehlen, Wool works on paper, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco
  Luhring Augustine, New York
  Fifth Anniversary Show, Karsten Schubert Ltd., London
  Somewhere Between Image & Text, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston
  Prints in Portfolios, Susan Sheehan Gallery, New York
  Dark Decor, Organized by Independent Curators Inc.; DePree Art Center, Hope College, Netherlands, MI; San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA; Florida Gulf Coast Art Center, Belle, FL; The Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, NJ; The Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Alberta College of Art, Calgary
  The Word-Image in Contemporary Art, The James Howe Gallery, Kean College of New Jersey
  Gober, Kawara, Kelley, Kippenberger, Koons, Oehlen, Schnabel, Sherman, Struth, Taaffe, Wool, Galerie Max Hetzler, Cologne
  Landscape Untitled: Halley, Oehlen, Wool, Galerie Senda, Barcelona
  Drawings, Stuart Regen Gallery, Los Angeles
  Robbin Lockett, Chicago
  Slow Art: Painting in New York Now, P.S.1 Museum, New York
  Dirty Data: Collection of Wilhelm Schurmann, Ludwig Forum fur internationale Kunst, Aachen
  Ars Pro Domo: Contemporary Art from Koln Private Collections, Museum Ludwig, Cologne
  Drawn in the Nineties, traveling exhibition organized by ICI; Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah; Fine Arts Gallery, Indiana University, Bloomington; Illingworth Kerr Art Gallery, Alberta College of Art, Calgary; Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL
  Oh! Cet Echo, Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris
  Plakate, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz
  Spielholle, Akademie der Kunste und Wissenschaften, Frankfurt/M.; Grazer Kunstverein, Graz; Galerie Sylvana Lorenz, Paris
  Multiplicity: An Exhibition of Recent Editions, Thea Westreich, New York
1991 Metropolis, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin
  Strange Abstraction, The Touko Museum of Art, Tokyo
  51st Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg
  New American Art: Mary Beyt, Greg Colson, Christopher Wool, Ho Gallery World Art, Hong Kong
  Gulliver's Travels, Galerie Sophia Ungers, Cologne
  Words & #'s, Wright State University, Dayton, OH
  Herbert Brandl, Albert Oehlen, Christopher Wool, Galerie Peter Pakesch, Vienna
  Drawing Acquisitions, 1980-1991: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, New York
  Druckgrafik, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne
  American Artists of the Eighties, Palazzo delle Albere, Trento, Italy
  Selections from the Elaine and Werner Dannheisser Collection: Painting and Sculpture From the 80's and 90's, The Parrish Art Museum, East Hampton, NY
  At the end of the day, Randy Alexander Gallery, New York
  Museum of Natural History, Galerie Barbara Farber, Amsterdam
1990 Michael Craig-Martin, Gary Hume, Christopher Wool, Karsten Schubert Ltd., London
  New Work: A New Generation, San Francisco MoMA, San Francisco
  Stephen Prina, Sam Samore, Christopher Wool, Galerie Ursula Schurr, Stuttgart
  Drawings, Luhring Augustine Hetzler, Santa Monica
  American Geometric Abstraction and Other Works from the Richard Brown Baker Collection, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven
  Language in Art, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
  Donald Baechler, Gunther Forg, Georg Herold, Martin Kippenberger, Jeff Koons, Albert Oehlen, Julian Schnabel, Terry Winters, Christopher Wool, Galerie Max Hetzler, Cologne
  In the Beginning..., Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland
1989 Horn of Plenty, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
  Herold, Oehlen, Wool, The Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Chicago
  Whitney Biennal, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
  Gober, Halley, Kessler, Wool; Four Artists From New York
  Kunstverein München, Munich
1988 Robert Gober and Christopher Wool, An installation, 303 Gallery, New York
  The BiNational - American Art of the Late 80's, ICA & MFA Boston; Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf; Kunstverein Bremen; Institute of Arts, Minneapolis
  James Casebere, Stephen Prina, Christopher Wool, Robbin Lockett Gallery, Chicago
  Six Americans, Bleckner, Halley, Levin, Taaffe, Wool, Welling, Galerie Lelong, New York
  A Drawing Show, Cable Gallery, New York
  Een keuze/A Show, Amsterdam
  Information as Ornament, Feature Gallery, Chicago; Rezac Gallery, Chicago
  The Light from the Other Side, Monika Spruth Galerie, Cologne
  Bickerton, Gober, Halley, Koons, Prince, Vaisman, Wool, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles
1987 Painting, Abstraction Rediscovered, Rosa Esman Gallery, New York
  Jamie Wolff Gallery, New York
  Ange Leccia, Christopher Wool, Cable Gallery, New York
  Alexander, Bolande, Ebner, Kane, Wool, Robbin Lockett Gallery, New York
  New Territories in Art Europe/America, Michetti Foundation, Chieti, Italy
  Johnson, Tasset, Wool, Kuhlenschmidt/Simon, Los Angeles
  Facture, Laurie Rubin Gallery, New York
  Industrial Icons, University Art Gallery, San Diego State University, San Diego
  Drawn Out, Kemper Gallery, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City
  A Decade of American Drawings 1980-1989, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles
1986 Inaugural Exhibition, Robbin Lockett Gallery, Chicago
  The Gallery Show, Exit Art, New York
  The Hidden Surface, Middendorf Gallery, Washington D.C.
  Signs of Painting, Donald Young Gallery, Chicago
  Fortuyn/O'Brien, Lemieux, Mullican, Wool, Luhring, Augustine & Hodes Gallery, New York
  Fabricated, Not Found, Loughelton Gallery, New York
1985 AIDS Benefit, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles
  Painting, Sculpture, Photography, Cable Gallery, New York
  Factura, Gallery Schlesinger-Boisante, New York
  Botts, Lee, Miller, Wool, Barbara Toll Fine Arts, New York
  Stigmata, Bond Street Gallery, New York
  Drawings 1975-1985, Barbara Toll Fine Arts, New York
  Apfelschnitt, Bills, Chamberlain, Lucas, Nares, Wool, Anne Plumb Gallery, New York
1984 Group Show, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
  Chill Out New York, Kenkeleba Gallery, New York
  Drawings, Barbara Toll Fine Arts, New York
  Sex, Cable Gallery, New York
  Saloon Salon, Bill Rice Gallery, New York
1983 Big American Figure Drawings, Visual Arts Museum, New York
  Abbott, Fink, Lieber, Wool, Delahunty Gallery, New York
  Selected Drawings, Jersey City Museum, New Jersey
1982 Group Exhibition, White Columns, New York

 

 

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