Exhibitions

2012

Sinister Pop, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

The Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY

Re-Source, Jean Albano Gallery, IL

Objets Extraordinaire, , Highland Park Art Center, Highland Park, IL

2011

: Hypercolon :, SMART Project Space, Amsterdam

Chicago Imagists, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI

Works on Paper: Selections from the Elmhurst College Collection, Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL

DRAWN, Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York, NY

Pretty on the Inside, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY

The Paper Show, Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, IL

Play Ball, Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster, PA

The Art of Collecting, the Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI

2010

Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, IL (solo)

Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY (solo)

2009

Cool! Cool! Cool! Cool!, Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, IL

2008 - 2007

On Line, Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York, NY

2008

The Baseball Show, Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, IL

Karl Wirsum: Paintings & Prints, Contemporary Art Center of Peoria, Peoria, IL (solo)

2007 - 2008

Winsome Works(some), Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL; Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, WI; Herron Galleries, Indiana University-Perdue University, Indianapolis, IN (solo)

2007

Karl Wirsum: Plays Missed It For You, Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, IL (solo)

2006

The Wirsum-Gunn Family Show, Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, IL (solo)

Drawn into the World, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL

The Artful Jester, The Painting Center, New York, NY & Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, Brattleboro, VT

181st Annual: An Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art, National Academy of Design, New York, NY

2005

Union Art Gallery, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI (solo)

The Cartoonist’s Eye, A + D Gallery, Colombia College, Chicago, IL

25th Anniversary Show, Block Museum, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL

2004

Hello Again Boom A Rang: Ten Years of Wirsum Art, Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, IL (solo)

2003 - 2006

Faces, Places, & Inner Spaces, Art Institute of Chicago, IL

Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, IL (solo)

2002

Paintings and Cutouts, Quincy Art Center, Quincy, IL (solo)

2001

Rockford College Gallery, Rockford, IL (solo)

2000

Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, IL (solo)

1998

Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, IL (solo)

University Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL (solo)

1997

The University of Iowa Museum of Art, Sculpture Court, Iowa City, Iowa (solo)

1994

Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, IL (solo)

J. Maddux Parker Gallery, Sacramento, CA (solo)

1992

Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, IL (solo)

1991

Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL (solo)

1989

Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, IL (solo)

1988

Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, IL (solo)

Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York, NY (solo)

College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, IL (solo)

Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York, NY (solo)

1986

Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, IL (solo)

1984

Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, IL (solo)

1983

Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York, NY (solo)

1982

Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, IL (solo)

Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC (solo)

1981

Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, IL (solo)

Hare Toddy Kong Tamari: Selected Objects by Karl Wirsum, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL (solo)

1980

Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, IL (solo)

1979

Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York, NY (solo)

1978

Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, IL (solo)

1977

Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York, NY (solo)

1976

Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, IL (solo)

1971

Wabash Transit Gallery, Chicago, IL (solo)

1970

St. Xavier College, Chicago, IL (solo)

1967

Dell Gallery, Chicago, IL (solo)