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