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Christopher Wool

(American, born 1955)

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Christopher Wool

Untitled, 1990

140,000–150,000 GBP

untitled by christopher wool

Christopher Wool

Untitled

570,000–630,000 USD

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Christopher Wool

Rip Rig Panic, 2001

2,200,000–2,600,000 EUR

untitled by christopher wool

Christopher Wool

Untitled, 1987

2,200,000–2,400,000 USD

Biography

Timeline

1955
Born in Chicago, IL
Currently lives and works in New York, NY

Exhibitions

2013
Christopher Wool. Guggenheim, New York, NY (solo)
East Broadway Breakdown - Graphische Sammlung der ETH, Zurich
Andratx on Paper - CCA Andratx, Andratx
Don't Be Shy, Don't Hold Back - The Logan Collection At Sfmoma - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
Beg, Borrow and Steal - Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA
REMEMBER EVERYTHING: 40 Years Galerie Max Hetzler. Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany
Destruction to Utopia. Patrick Painter Inc., Santa Monica, CA. 2012 Dogma, Metro Pictures, New York, NY.
The Painting Factory: Abstraction After Andy Warhol, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA.
Contemporary Painting, 1960 to Present, Selections from the SFMOMA Collection. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA.
Phantom Limb: Approaches to Painting Today. Museum of Contemporary Art Chicaco, Chicago,IL.
Print/Out: 20 Years in Print. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY.
Open for the Stones, Vol. 2. Harper’s Books, East Hampton, NY.
Mix/Remix. Luhring Augustine, New York, NY.
Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY.
This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s. Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL.
A Window on the World from Durer to Mondrian and Beyond: Looking Through the Window of Art from the Renaissance to Today. Museo Cantonale d’Arte e Museo d’Arte, Lugano, Switzerland. Traveled to: Fondation de l’Hermitage, Lausanne, Switzerland.
2012
Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France (solo)
Phantom Limb: Approaches to Painting Today, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
DOGMA, Metro Pictures, New York
Mix/Remix, Luhring Augustine, New York
The Painting Factory: Abstraction After Andy Warhol, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Print/Out: 20 Years in Print, Museum of Modern Art, New York
This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
2011
Musical Moves, Rice Media Center, Houston, Texas
ILLUMinations, curated by Bice Curiger, Venice Biennale, Italy
It’s Great To Be In New Jersey, curated by Toby Mott, Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles
The Minimal Gesture, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London
Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne, Germany (solo)
Accrochage, Carolina Nitsch Project Room, New York
American Exuberance, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, Florida
Dark Christmas, Leo Koenig Inc., New York
2010
Skin Fruit: Selections from Dakis Joannou Collection, New Museum, New York, NY, USA
Barbaric Freedom, Simon Lee Gallery, London, UK
Changing Soil: Contemporary Landscape Painting (Za Fukei), Nagoya/Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Nagoya, Japan
Crash: Homage to JG Ballard, Gagosian Gallery, London, UK
Destroy Design: Art Contemporain et/ou Design, Collection du FRAC Nord Pas De Calais Musee de Design et D'Arts Appliques Contmporains, Lausanne, Suisse
Nachleben, Goethe Institute, New York, NY, USA
Outside the Box: Edition Jacob Samuel, 1988-2010, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Picture Industry (Goodbye to all that), Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Process/Abstraction, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY
Gagosian Gallery, Rome, Italy (solo)
Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago, IL (solo)
Summer Group Show, Skarstedt Gallery, New York, NY
Your History is Not Our History, Haunch of Venison, New York, NY
2009
Christopher Wool: Editions - Artelier Contemporary, Graz
Christopher Wool Porto - Köln - Museum Ludwig, Cologne
Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp
Just what is it... - ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe
Beg Borrow and Steal - Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL
Learn to Read Art: A History of Printed Matter - MoMA PS1, Long Island City, NY
Warhol Wool Newman - Painting Real - Kunsthaus Graz, Graz
American Printmaking since 196 - Museum of Modern Art Dubrovnik, Dubrovnik
Paintings by - Simon Lee Gallery, London (England)
"stages" - Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin - Paris, Paris
LEARN TO READ ART: A History of Printed Matter - Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe
Serralves 2009 - The Collection, 1st Part - Museu Serralves - Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Porto
SONIC YOUTH etc.: Sensational Fix - Malmö Konsthall, Malmö
FLOWER POWER - Craa Centro di ricerca arte attuale Villa Giulia, Verbania
1992009 - D'Amelio Terras, New York, NY
The End - The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburg, PA
SONIC YOUTH etc. : SENSATIONAL FIX - Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Dusseldorf
A Wild Night and a New Road - Altman Siegel Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2008
Museu Serralves - Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Porto
Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York, NY
Oranges and Sardines: Conversations on Abstract Painting - Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Kunst Im Heim - Capitain Petzel Gallery, Berlin
FEAR - Wedel Fine Art, London (England)
Sonic Youth etc. - Sensational Fix - MUSEION - Museum für moderne und zeitgenössische Kunst , Bolzano
Communication Breakdown - Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York, NY
Here Is Every. Four Decades of Contemporary Art - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
NOLEFTOVERS - Kunsthalle Bern, Bern
Painting Now and Forever Part II - The Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, NY
SONIC YOUTH etc. : SENSATIONAL FIX - LiFE - International Space for Emerging Arts, Saint-Nazaire
Degree Zero - Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
Meet Me Around the Corner - Works from the Astrup Fearnley Collection - Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo
Sammlung / Collection - Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich
Pintura (aun), Painting, still - Galería Elba Benítez, Madrid
Blasted Allegories - Werke aus der Sammlung Ringier - Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne
Who's Afraid of Jasper Johns? - Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY
+ de réalité - Galerie de l´ Erban, Nantes
Always There Part 2 - Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
35% Vrai 60% Faux - Simon Lee Gallery, London (England)
Beyond the lens - Galerie Dominique Fiat, Paris
...di carta - Galleria Cardi - Milano, Milan
Fighting Words: Voices of Dissent: Social, Political and Environmental Statements - Fisher Landau Center For Art, New York, NY
2007
Pattern Paintings, 1987–2000 - Skarstedt Fine Art, New York, NY
Eleni Koroneou Gallery, Athens
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
Invisible/Invincible - Curators Without Borders, Berlin
POP ART 1960's to 2000's - Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima
What Is Painting? - Contemporary Art from the Collection - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Door Cycle - Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, NY
Degree Zero - Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
Make Your Own Life: Artists In and Out of Cologne - Museum of Contemporary Art - North Miami (MOCA), Miami, FL
Painting as Fact - Fact as Fiction - de Pury & Luxembourg, Zurich
HUNKY DORY - Gary Tatintsian Gallery Inc., Moscow
Make Your Own Life - Artists in & out of Cologne - Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
For the People of Paris - Sutton Lane - Paris, Paris
2006
Simon Lee Gallery, London (England)
Christopher Wool Retrospective - Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain (MAMCS), Strasbourg
IVAM - Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, Valencia
Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA
The Francois Pinault Collection - A Post-Pop selection - Palazzo Grassi - Francois Pinault Foundation, Venice
THE 1980s - A TOPOLOGY - Museu Serralves - Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Porto
Color Aside - Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York, NY
Defamation of Character - MoMA PS1, Long Island City, NY
Interstellar Low Ways - Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
Make Your Own Life - Artists In & Out of Cologne - The Power Plant, Toronto, ON
Projektion. Chan, Fischli&Weiß, Gander, Gillick, Graham, Knoebel, Parker, Streul - Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne
Once upon a Time in the West - Part One - Contemporary Fine Arts - CFA, Berlin
Flowers in Contemporary Art - Benaki Museum, Athens
Idée de la Peinture - Hommage à Martin Barré - Galerie Nathalie Obadia - Paris, Paris
Make Your Own Life - Artists In and Out of Cologne - ICA - Institute of Contemporary Art - University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Not Quite Ten Years Without Martin Kippenberger' - MOT International, London (England)
The Dimes of March - Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York, NY
"Broken Surface" - Galerie Sabine Knust, Munich
2005
Christopher Wool: Recent Editions - Johan Deumens, Haarlem
Giò Marconi Gallery, Milan
KIOSK:' Modes Of Multiplicaation ' & Liam Gillick - ‘Edgar Schmitz’ - ICA - Institute of Contemporary Arts London, London (England)
Looking at Words - Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY
Dialogue - Perry Rubenstein Gallery, New York, NY
"Translation" - Palais de Tokyo, Paris
BIG BANG - Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris
Private View 1980-2000 - Collection Pierre Huber - Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne
Works on Paper - Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
The Shape of Time - Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
2004
Taka Ishii Gallery - Tokyo, Tokyo
Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp
Camden Arts Centre, London (England)
Paintings - Galleri K, Oslo
Central Station, Collection Harald Falckenberg - La Maison Rouge, Paris
COLECCIÓN TASCHEN - Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid
Quodlibet - Galerie Daniel Buchholz - Köln, Cologne
Group Exhibition - Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY
Group Show: George Condo, Albert Oehlen and Christopher Wool - Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York, NY
William Gedney – Christopher Wool - Into the Night - MoMA PS1, Long Island City, NY
Power, Corruption and Lies - Andrew Roth Gallery, New York, NY

Public Collections

Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
Collezione Marmotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdamn, Netherlands
Astrup fearnley Museet for Modern Kunst, Oslo, Norway
Graphische Sammlung der ETH, Zurich, Switzerland
Kunsthaus Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Emanuel Hoffman Foundation, Basel, Switzerland
Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Tate Modern, London, UK

Literature

2012
Christopher Wool: Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. Berlin: Holzwarth Publications, 2012. Texts by John Corbett, Fabrice Hergott, John Kelsey.
2010
Sound on Sound. Chicago: Corbett vs. Dempsey, 2010. Text by John Corbett.
2009
Christopher Wool, Art Edition, (Taschen Books, 2008)
2008
Christopher Wool. Cologne: Taschen, 2008. Edited by Hans Werner Holzworth. Texts by Eric Banks, Ann Goldstein, Richard Hell, Jim Lewis, Glenn O'Brien, Anne Pontégnie.
2007
Christopher Wool. Berlin: Galerie Max Hetzler, 2007. Text by Friedrich Meschede.
Can Your Monkey Do The Dog, With Josh Smith. Brussels: MFC- Michele Didier, 2007.
2006
Christopher Wool. London: Simon Lee Gallery, 2006.
Christopher Wool. Valencia: Institute Valencia d'Art Modern; Strasbourg: Editions des Musees de Strasbourg, 2006. Texts by Consuelo Cisar Casaban, Marga Paz, David Rimanelli.
Christopher Wool 2004 Camden Arts Centre. London: Camden Arts Centre, 2004.
Christopher Wool. New York: Luhring Augustine Gallery, 2004.
English (US)

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