Barry McGee (American, born )

Timeline

1966
Born in San Francisco, CA
1989
Sobel Scholarship, San Francisco Art Institute
1990
Merit Scholarship, San Francisco Art Institute
1990
Carson Paper Award
1991
Reed, John. Review, Time out New York, September 29
1991
Merit Scholarship, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
1991
McClymonds High School, Visiting Artist Program, Oakland, CA
1991
BFA in Painting & Printmaking, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
1992
McClymonds High School, Artist Resident Program, Oakland, CA
1992
Life on the Water/School of the Arts, Installation, San Francisco, CA
1992
California Conservation Corps, Franklin Park Mural
1992
Mural, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
1992
S.F. Art Commission, Art In Transit Program, San Francisco, CA
1993
Eureka Fellowship, Fleishaker Foundation
1993
Lila Wallace, Readers Digest International Artist Program
1994
The Creative Work Fund, Walter and Elise Haas Fund
1994
509 Cultural Center/San Francisco Redevelopemnt Agency, San Francisco, CA
1994
Lila Wallace Readers Digest Travel Grant
1995
Muni Key Stop Program, San Francisco Art Commission, San Francisco, CA
1995
Wall Installation, 1035 Howars St., Creative Work Fund, San Francisco, CA
1996
SECA Art Award San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
1996
Young Mission Power, Mission Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA
1996
SECA Art Award, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
1998
Creative Work Fund Project-Luggage Store Gallery
1999
Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant
Lives and works in San Francisco, CA

Exhibitions

2013
FOCUS: Barry McGee, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX (solo)
Barry McGee, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA (solo)
2012
Postcards From the Edge. 14th Annual, Cheim and Read Gallery, New York, NY
Contemporary Arts Centre, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco
The Road Ahead, Roberts & Tilton, Culver City, CA
Barry McGee, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA (solo)
Barry McGee, Prism, West Hollywood, CA (solo)
2011
Barry McGee – New Work, Modern Art, London, England (solo)
Art in the Streets, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, CA
After Hours: Murals on the Bowery, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
Freeflow, Roberts & Tilton, Culver City, CA
I Love Art 11, Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
New York Minute, Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow, Russia
In the Moment: Artists, The Luggage Store, San Francisco, CA
50 Years of Bay Area Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
2010
Muddguts Meets Homebase, MAMA Rotterdam, the Netherlands
DRAW, Museo de la Cludad de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico
Brush Strokes, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
They Knew What They Wanted, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Outside The Box, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
The Last Night (two person show with HuskMitNavn), Alice Gallery, Brussels (solo)
Transfer, Brazilian Cultural Pavilion, Ibirapuera Park, São Paulo, Brazil
Barry McGee & Clare Rojas, Bolinas Museum, Bolinas, California
Outside The Box, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Paper!Awesome, Baer Ridgway Exhibitions, San Francisco, CA
2TheWall, New Image Art Gallery, West Hollywood, CA
Leave It Alone & Together At Last - Barry McGee & Clare Rojas. Bolinas Museum, Bolinas, CA
Brush Strokes, Todd James & Lydia Fong ,V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
The Last Night, Lydia Fong & Huskmitnavn, Alice Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
The 75th Anniversary Show, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Viva la Revolucion: A Dialogue with the Urban Landscape - Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego - MCASD Downtown, San Diego, CA
DRAW - Muestra de dibujo contemporáneo - Museo de la Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico City
Orde di segnatori - Antonio Colombo Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
2009
Mr Brown, Bonomo Gallery, Rome, Italy (solo)
Mind The Gap, Barry, McGee & Phil Frost, Prism Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Born in the Streets, Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain, Paris, France
American Realities, Lydia Fong, Clare Rojas & Andrew Jeffrey Wright, New Image Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
McGee, Templeton, Pettibon, curated by Aaron Rose, CC: Circle Culture Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Work Now, Z33 Hasselt Art Centre, Hasselt, Belgium
75 Years Looking Forward: The Anniversary Show, San Francisco Museum of Modern
Art mindthegap, Prism, Los Angeles, LA
New York Minute, MACRO FUTURE, Rome, Italy
Installations Inside/Out, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
When Crooks Roam The Streets, Galerie Olivier Robert, Paris, France
Lyon Biennale, Lyon, France
Born in the streets-Graffiti, Foundation Cartier, Paris, France
San Francisco Art Institute Alumni & Faculty: A Thin Slice, Baer Ridgway Exhibitions, San Francisco, CA
Get Rich Quick, Carmichael Gallery of Contemporary Art, Culver City, CA
Liberation Upon Contact, Ratio 3, San Francisco
Galaxy: A Hundred or So Stars Visible to the Naked Eye, University of California, Berkeley Art Museum
Business is (still) business, Centre Culture Les Chiroux, Liege, Belgium
2008
The Big Sad: Barry McGee & Clare Rojas, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
Street Art, Tate Modern, London, UK
And Then Again… Printed Sets and Series, 1550-2007, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
15 Year Anniversary Exhibition, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Kopenhagen, Denmark
Beautiful Losers: Arte Actual y Cultura Urbana, La Casa Encendida, Valencia, Spain
Draw, Stolenspace Gallery, London, UK
Pacific Light: California Watercolor Refracted, 1907 – 2007, Nordic Watercolor Museum (Nordiska Akvarellmuseet), Skärhamn, Sweden
Gravity. Coleccion Ernesto Esposito, ARTIUM Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporaneo, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
Len Lye : A Colour Box, Arcade Fine Arts, London, England
A Moment for Reflection – New Work by Lydia Fong, Ratio 3, San Francisco, CA (solo)
They Don’t Make this Anymore, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, United Kingdom (solo)
Barry McGee & Clare Rojas, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA (solo)
Dripsy, Galerie Olivier Robert, Paris, France
Life on Mars, the 55th Carnegie International, Pittsburgh, PA
2007
Alpha, Ratio 3, San Francisco, CA
EUPHORION, Pierogi Gallery, Leipzig, Germany
Kinky Sex (Makes the World Go ‘Round, Lizabeth Oliveria Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
Butler Gallery, Kilkenney Castle, Ireland (solo)
Redcat Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
Existencias, MUSAC, Leon, Spain
Mapping the Self, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Four Large Works: Ben Jones, Robert Pimple, Matt Leines, Taylor McKimins Community Outreach, London, Ontario, Canada
Silly Adults Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark
Mad Love—Young Art from Danish Private Collections ARKEN Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
Pacific Light: California Watercolor Refracted, 1907 – 2007, The International Center for the Arts at San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
Drawing is a Fine Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
Sign Language, Des Moines Center for the Arts, Des Moines, IA
American Art in China, organized by the Guggenheim Museum, MoCA, Los Angeles, CA
Shanghai, Shanghai, China
Advanced Mature Work, Redcat, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
2006
We Have a Friend in Common, Nicolai Wallner Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark (solo)
The Art of Robert Pimple, Paule Anglim Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
Meditations In An Emergency, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, MI
Spank the Monkey, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, United Kingdom
Summer Show, Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London, England
Do Not Stack Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
Sound Zero, kunst Meran, Merano, Italy
Beautiful Losers, La Triennale de Milano, Italy
Beautiful Losers, Le Tri Postal, Lille, France
Don’t Abandon the Ship, Allston Skirt Gallery, Boston, MA
Pure Land / Liquid Paper, Ratio 3, San Francisco, CA
Work Zones – Three Decades of Contemporary Art, Walter and McBean Galleries, San Francisco Art institute, San Francisco, CA
Clare Rojas & project space by Barry McGee, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark
I Love Art 8, Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Portraits, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
2005
On Line, The Louisiana Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark
Easy Tonto, Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London, England (solo)
One More Thing, Deitch Projects, New York, NY (solo)
John Kaldor Art Projects, Metropolitan Meat Market, Melbourne, Australia (solo)
Things Are Really Getting Better, Museum Het Domein, Sittard, Netherlands (solo)
Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid, Spain
Beautiful Losers, contemporary Art and Street Culture, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD
Untitled, Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles, CA
Beautiful Losers, contemporary Art and Street Culture, University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL
2004
Barry McGee, Josh Lazcano & Friends: In the Project Space Headlands Center for the Arts, Fort Barry-Sausalito, CA
Color Wheel Oblivion, Marella Arte Contemporanea Milan, Italy
Between Art and Life, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Other Artistocrats, Alexander and Bonin, New York, NY
Barry McGee and Josh Lazcano, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
Prada Foundation, Milan, Italy (solo)
Modern Art, London, United Kingdom (solo)
Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA(solo)
Meat Market Gallery, Melbourne, Australia (solo)
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Boston, MA (solo)
John Kaldor Projects, Sydney, Austraila (solo)
Monument to Now, The Dakis Joannou Collection, Athens, Greece
Beautiful Losers, The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinatti, OH
2003
Ten by Twenty, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Surf Style, 111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco, CA
A Way With Words, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Outerspace Hillbilly, The Luggage Store, San Francisco, CA
Scribble & Scripture, Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles, CA
Session the Bowl, Deitch Projects, New York, NY
2002
The Broken Down Mysterious Doors of the Impossible, Lump Gallery, Raleigh, NC
Liverpool Biennale, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Drawing Now, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Prada Foundation, Milan , Italy (solo)
Modern Art, London, England (solo)
Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA (solo)
2001
Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
Holdfast, Barry McGee & Margaret Kilgallen, Deste Foundation Centre for Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
Un Art Populaire, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris, France
Widely Unknown, Deitch Projects, New York, NY
Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy
2000
Street Market, Parco Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Street Market, Deitch Projects, New York, NY
Indelible Market, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
Alleged Galleries, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
Made in California, Los Angels County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
1999
Hoss, Rice Universtiy Art Gallery, Houston, TX (solo)
The Buddy System, Deitch Projects, New York, NY (solo)
Robert Crumb, Phillip Guston, Barry McGee, Paul Morris Gallery, New York, NY
1998
Regards, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN (solo)
Art From Around the Bay, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
1997
Drawing Installation-Galerie Tanya Rumpff, Harlem, Netherlands
Drawing Today, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA
John Bergruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Bay Area Now, Center for the Arts at Yerba Buena, San Francisco, CA
1996
SECA Art Award, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
WAVEFORMS, Santa Cruz, CA
Figureheads & Red Herrings, Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Acme Custom, Acme Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Wall Drawings, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
City Folk, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY
1995
Installation, Art & Design Studio/ K&T Lionheart LTD, Boston , MA(solo)
Degenerate Art, The Lab, San Francisco, CA
Post No Bills, Acme Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland, CA
Missed Connections, Market Street Installation, Luggage Store/509 Cultural Center Annex, San Francisco, CA
Installation, Street Art Exhibition, Los Angeles, CA
The Library, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
Big Jesus Trash Can, Victoria Room, San Francisco, CA
Center Annex, San Francisco, CA
Installation, Art & Design Studio/ K&T Lionheart LTD, Boston, MA (solo)
1994
Installation, Center for the Arts Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco, CA(solo)
1993
Installation, Museum Laser Segall, Sao Paulo, Brasil (solo)
Twelve Bay Area Painters: The Eureka Fellowship Winners, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose
Texture of Nature, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
Folklore, Luggage Store, 509 Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA
Installation, La Raza Graphics Center, San Francisco, CA
1992
U.C. Santa Cruz, Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA
Maseu Lasar Segall, Sao Paulo, Brasil (solo)
1991
Wet Paint, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
3/Play, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
Wall of Resistance, Wall of Shame, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Art Against the War. A.T.A. Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Multicultural Show, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Literature

2010
Barry McGee, Alleged Press, Damiani
2008
Glasner, Barbara, Patterns 2. Design, Art and Architecture. pp. 208-209
2008
Kuo, Michelle. Barry Mcgee, Artforum, April 2008: 338-339.
2008
Gateshead: Barry McGee, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, The Art Newspaper, March, p. 53
2008
Barry McGee, MUSAC, Volume II, p. 318-321
2007
Sarica, Frederico. Don’t Stop: Dumbo and Barry McGee in Conversation, Mousse, September-November, p. 83-85
2006
La ley de la calle se impone en ARCO, que tira de artistas urbanos, de spray y de graffity, El Pais, February 11, p. 60
2006
Azkarraga, Joseba. Punto de Mira, La Razon, February 10, p. 3
2006
Torres, G. David. The Power of Urban Art, ABCDARCO, February 12, p. 13
2006
Virus, El Zirus. _One More Thing, Series B, p. 78-81
2006
Fallah, Amir H. Barry McGee, Beautiful Decay, December 2006, p. 90-98
2005
Things are Really Getting Better, Museum Het Domein Sittard
2005
Kold, Anders. Noget tegner sig, Louisana Magasin, November, p. 34
2005
Mendelsohn, Adam E. Review, Time Out New York, July 14
2005
Steyck, C.R. One More Thing, Juxtapoz, Fall special
2005
Deitch Projects, Artnews, October, p. 164
2005
Beck, Olly. Nightmare on Vyner Street, The Critical Friend, p. 6-9
2005
Deitch Projects, The New Yorker, July
2005
Smith, Roberta. Urban Outsider Artists Evoke Society’s Margins, The New York Times, August 3
2005
Lack, Jessica. Riot On An Empty Street, i-D, September
2005
Johnson, Dominic. Review, frieze, September
2005
J.L. The Guide, Guardian, September 17, p. 37
2005
Heuer, Megan. Barry McGee: One More Thing, The Brooklyn Rail, July/August
2004
Barry McGee, Rose Art Museum of Brandeis University
2004
Safe, Georgina. From a Different Cloth, The Weekend Australian, October 30-31
2004
Perez, Christopher. Review, Contemporary
2004
Barclay, Alison. Just Spraying Alive, Herald Sun, October 26
2004
Roberts, Jo. How’s this for a Twist?, the Age, October 27, pg. 73
2004
Pheasant, Bill. Melbourne’s Meat Market a Work for Modern Art, The Australian Financial Review, October 28, pg. 48
2004
Prada, Progetto. Fondazione Prada, Milan
2004
Bennett, Oliver. The Quality of Mersey, The Observer Review, September 15
2004
Platow, Raphaela, Barry McGee, The Rose Art Museum of Brandeis University.
2002
Mandrini, Riccarda. Street Art, L’Uomo Vogue, August
2002
Baker, Alex. Stickers, Street Markets, Fantasy Folks Ruminations from Philadelphia, Tokyo, May/June
2002
Joo, Eungie, The New Folk, Flash Art, May/June
2002
Helfand, Glen. Barry McGee, Artforum.com, May 16
2002
Giovannini, Stefano. Talent Show, Nylon, February
2002
Heartney, Eleanor. Speaking for Themselves, Art in America, February, p. 53-55
2002
Joo, Eungie. The New Folk, Flash Art, May/June
2002
Powers, Bill. Quiet! Dad is Dusting His G.I Joes, The New York Times, December 30
2002
Smith, Roberta. Widely Unknown, The New York Times, December 14
2001
Aletti, Vince. Top 10 of 2001, ArtForum, December
2001
Juxtapoz, September/October, p. 6
2001
Schmidt, Jason. The Venice Biennale, V Magazine, September/October
2001
Birnbaum, Daniel. More is Less, ArtForum, September, p. 55-57
2001
Cohen, Michael. Street Market, Flash Art, January/February
2001
Strength, March
2001
Amos, Sandy. Street Market, zingmagazine
2001
Valdez, Sarah. Street Market at Deitch Projects, Art in America, December
2001
Avgikos, Jan. Street Market, ArtForum, December
2001
Oliver, Suzanne. Bombs Away, The Face, November, p. 50
2001
Yablonsky, Linda. Street Market, Time Out New York, November 2-9
2001
Powers, Bill. Quiet! Dad is dusting his G.I Joes, The New York Times, December 30 2001: 1, 8.
2001
Smith, Roberta. Widely Unknown, The New York Times, December 14, 2001.
2000
Valdez, Sarah. Street Market at Deitch Projects, Art in America, December
2000
Avgikos, Jan. Street Market, Artforum, December
2000
Oliver, Suzanne. Bombs Away, The Face, November 2000: 50.
2000
Yablonsky, Linda. Street Market, Time Out New York, November 2-9 2000
2000
Street Market exhibition catalogue, Japan: Little More Publishers
2000
Baker, Alex. Indelible Market exhibition catalogue, Philadelphia: Institute of Contemporary Art
2000
Flannigan, Eileen. SoHO Exhibit Sparks Mental Flames, New York Amsterdam News, October 26-November 1
2000
Juicy Fruits, Tokion, November-December 2000
2000
Tokyo Jammin’, October 2000
2000
Siegal, Nina. Exhibit Becomes Opportunity for Arrest, The New York Times, October 10, p. B4
2000
Stecyk, C.R. Some Other Small Planet, Super X Media, April
2000
Venus, Rosa. The Artists in Their Studios, Flaunt Magazine, March
1999
Buddy System exhibition catalogue, New York: Deitch Projects
1999
Mccormick, Carlo. Barry McGee’s Twist of Faith, Paper, p. 33
1999
Leffingwell, Edward. Barry McGee at Deitch Projects, Art in America
1999
Scherr, Apollinaire. Stealing Beauty, San Francisco Magazine, November
1999
Smith, Roberta. The New York Times, April
1999
Blake, Nayland. Barry McGee, Interview Magazine, February, p. 44-46
1999
Kalm, James. Old School, New School, NY Arts
1998
Caniglia, Julia. ArtForum, 1998
1996
Bonetti, David. San Francisco Examiner, September 1996
1994
Baker, Kenneth. San Francisco Chronicle, June 1994
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