biography

George Condo, born 1957 in New Hempshire, studied musical theory and art history at the University of Lowell. Later he moved to New York to be one of Andy Warhol’s assistants, where he also got to know Julian Schnabel, David Salle, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring. Condo is seen as one of the most influential american artists, his works both surprise and sometimes horrify:  In the paintings Condo mixes the technique of European Old Master Paintings with reference to American culture and achieves grotesquely distorted but classically executed motifs. Condo calls his approach the „Artificial Realism“.

 

Condo’s works were shown at The Phillips Collection (Washington), Museum Berggruen (Berlin), The Museum of Modern Art (New York), The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), The Whitney Museum of American Art (New York) and Astrup Fearnley Museet (Oslo) amongst others.

 

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2023

Entrance to the Mind: Drawings by George Condo in the Collection of the Morgan Library & Museum, Morgan Library & Museum, New York

 

2021

The Picture Gallery, Long Museum, Shanghai

 

2018

George Condo at Cycladic, Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens

Georges Condo, Charles Riva Collection, Ixelles

Expanded Portrait Compositions, Hong Kong Maritime Museum, Hong Kong

 

2017

The Way I Think, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek

The Way I Think, Phillips Collection, Washington D.C.

 

2016

Confrontation, Museum Berggrün, Berlin

Selection From a Private Collection, Heydar Aliyev Foundation, Baku

 

2013

George Condo Jesters, Gallery Met at the Metropolitan Opera, New York

 

2012

George Condo. Mental States, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt

 

2011

George Condo. Mental States, Museum Boijmans Van Neuningen, Rotterdam

George Condo. Mental States, New Museum, New York

 

2010

George Condo. The Lost Civilization, Fondation Dina Vierny-Musée Maillol, Paris

 

2007

George Condo – New Works, Galerie Andrea Caratsch, Zurich

George Condo, Simon Lee Gallery, London

 

2006

Georges Condo, Wrong Gallery, Tate Modern, London

 

2005

George Condo. Sculptures, Skarstedt Fine Art, New York

One Hundred Women, Kunsthalle, Bielefeld

 

2003

Not Afraid, Rubell Family Collection, Miami

Georges Condo, Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich

George Condo, The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridge

 

2002

George Condo, Garten-Landschaft Ostwestfalen-Lippe, Schlosspark, Wendlinghausen, Dörentrup

 

1999/00

George Condo. Jazz Paintings, Pace Wildenstein Gallery, New York

George Condo. Silkscreen Paintings, Pace Wildenstein, Los Angeles

George Condo, Texas Gallery, Houston

George Condo. New Paintings, Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich

 

1998/97

Collage Paintings, Pace Wildenstein Gallery, New York

Pages de Garde/End Papers, Pace Wildenstein Gallery, Los Angeles

 

1997

Collage Abstractions, Pace Wildenstein Gallery, Los Angeles

 

1996

Drawings 1976-1996, Pace Wildenstein, Los Angeles

 

1995

Georges Condo, Palais des Congrès, Paris

Zeichnungen, Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich

Georges Condo, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris

Paintings and Drawings, Pace Wildenstein Gallery, New York

 

1995/94

Georges Condo, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston

 

1994

Georges Condo, Recent Paintings, Pace Wildenstein Gallery, New York

 

1993

Georges Condo, Skulpturen, Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich

 

1991

Recent Paintings, The Pace Gallery, New York

 

1990

Peintures récentes 1989-90, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris

 

1987

Neue Bilder, Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich

Gemälde/Paintings 1984-87, Kunstverein, Munich

 

1985

Major New Works, Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich

Georges Condo, Larry Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles