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Barry McGee

(American, born 1966)

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Barry McGee

Untitled, 2020

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Biography

Timeline

1966
Born in San Francisco, CA
1989
Sobel Scholarship, San Francisco Art Institute
1990
Merit Scholarship, San Francisco Art Institute
Carson Paper Award
1991
Reed, John. Review, Time out New York, September 29
Merit Scholarship, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
McClymonds High School, Visiting Artist Program, Oakland, CA
BFA in Painting & Printmaking, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
Mural, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
California Conservation Corps, Franklin Park Mural

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

Literature

2010
Barry McGee, Alleged Press, Damiani
2008
Glasner, Barbara, Patterns 2. Design, Art and Architecture. pp. 208-209
Kuo, Michelle. Barry Mcgee, Artforum, April 2008: 338-339.
Gateshead: Barry McGee, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, The Art Newspaper, March, p. 53
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
Azkarraga, Joseba. Punto de Mira, La Razon, February 10, p. 3
Torres, G. David. The Power of Urban Art, ABCDARCO, February 12, p. 13
Virus, El Zirus. _One More Thing, Series B, p. 78-81
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