Christian Schumann
1970 born in
Rhode Island
Lives in New York, United States
Education
B.F.A., San Francisco Art Institute, 1992 AICA New York
Studio Program, Spring 1991
Solo Exhibitions
2007 Patrick Painter Inc., Los Angeles
2006 Land and Air”, carlier | gebauer, Berlin
2005 “Variations and Suppositions”, Leo Koenig Inc., New York
2004 Patrick Painter, Santa Monica, CA
2003 “Levels, Platforms, paths and obstacles.” Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX
“Energy Regulations” Sandra Gering, NY (collaborative work with Gary Panter)
carlier | gebauer
Armory Show
2001 Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles
2000 Galerie Gebauer, Berlin
1999 Postmasters Gallery, New York
1998 “Works on paper”, Postmasters Gallery, New York
1997 White Cube/Jay Jopling, London
1996 Il Capricorno, Venice, Italy
1995 Postmasters Gallery, New York
Ruth Bloom Gallery, Los Angeles
Postmasters Gallery (project room), New York
1994 Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco
1993 Postmasters Gallery, New York
1992 “Works On Paper,” Project room, Postmasters Gallery, New York Anti-Matter Gallery, San Francisco
1991 “Arid Flowers of Gongorism,” DOG, San Francisco
Group Exhibitions
2006 “works on paper”, Patrick Painter Inc., Los Angeles
2004 “Drawing under the Influence: Lee Baxter Davis and his Proteges”, Dallas Center for Contemorary Art
“From Aural Sculpture to Sound by Ink”, Galerie Art : Concept, Paris, France, June 5 - July 24
“the black album”, Antonio Colombo Arte Contemporanea,
Milano, Italy
2003 Patrick Painter, Santa Monica, CA
“Split” Sandra Gearing, NY
“Flip” Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX
“Metastasize,” Bronx River Art Center, NY
“Topography,” Geoffery Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
“Funny Papers,” Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles
“Sweet Tooth,” Mixture Contemporary Art, Houston, TX
“Comic Release: Negotiating Identity for a New Generation,”
Contemporary Arts center, New Orleans, LA; Regina Gougar
Miller Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
“Recession 2003 $99 Show,” Cynthia Broan Gallery, NY
2002 “Next”, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas
“Jay Davis, Inka Essenhigh, Christian Schumann”, Angstrom Gallery, Dallas
2001 “Ink Studs”, Ten in One Gallery, New York
“10 Years”, Galerie Gebauer, Berlin
New Acquisitions” Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
“Self-Made Men”, DC Moore Gallery, New York (curated by Alexi Worth)
2000 “Drawings and Photographs”, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
“Collector’s Choice, selected by Norman Dubrow, Exit Art, New York
“Full Serve”, curated by Kenny Schachter, New York
“00”, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
“Pet Show 2000”, Cynthia Broan Gallerym, New York
“No Rhyme or...”, Postmasters Gallery, New York
“The Figure: Another Side of Modernism”, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island
“Post-POP, Post-Punk” M.O.C.A., D.C., Wahsington
1999 “Art Lovers” (collaboration with Jovi Schnell), curated by Marcia Fortes, Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, England
“ex-Tex,” Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, TX
“Proliferation”, los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, LA
“Parallel Lines: Mix and Match”, karen McCready Fine Art, New York
1998 “Recent Acquistions,” Whitney Museum of American Art “More Fake, More Real, Yet Ever Closer: Drawings By Some Younger Painters,” curated by Robert Evern, Castle Gallery, The College of New Rochelle, NY
“Son-of-a-Guston”, curated by Nina Bovasso, Clementine Gallery, New York
“Bang on a Can”, benefit curated by Patrick Callery, Gaga Gallery, New York
“1960/2000 L’arte Contemporanea Nelle Collezioni Private Modenesi”, Galeria Civica, Modena, Italy
“Pop Surrealism”, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Ct.
“hanging”, curated by Marcia Fortes, Galeria Camargo Vilaca, Sao Paulo, Paco Imperial, Rio de Janeiro, and Museum of Modern Art, Recife
“View III,” curated by Klaus Kertess, Mary Boone Gallery, NY
1997 “Multiple Identity”, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
“Project Painting”, Lehmann Maupin Gallery & Basilico Fine Arts, New York
“Allegory”, Helman Gallery, New York
“Dissolution: Made in the USA”’ curated by Margaret Murray, Laurent Delaye Gallery, London
“Patterns of Excess”, Beaver College of Art Gallery, Glenside
“Nu-Glu,” Joseph Helman Gallery, New York
“Link”, Gerald Peters gallery, Dallas
1996 “Experimenters,” curated by Kenny Schachter, Lombard Fried Fine Arts, New York
“Emerging,” benefit for CRIA, Radix Gallery, New York “Men’s World,” curated by Russell Ferguson, MoCA, Los Angeles
“What I Did On My Summer Vacation,” White Columns, New York “96 Works on Paper,” Geoffrey Young Gallery, Gt. Barrington, MA
“Norfolk 96,” Yale Summer Program ,Norfolk, CT Postmasters Gallery, New York
“Art at the End of the Century: Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art,” traveling exhibition: National Gallery, Alexandros Soutzos Museum, Athens; Museu d’Art Contemporani, Barcelona; Kunstmuseum, Bonn
“Drawings,” Sandra Gering Gallery, New York
“Comic Inspirations,” Adam Baumgold Fine Art / Simon Capstick-Dale Fine Art, New York
“low cool,” Walter/McBean Gallery, SFAI, San Francisco “Selections,” Adam Baumgold Fine Art, New York
1995 “La Belle et La Bête,” Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
“Raw”, Postmasters Gallery, New York
“Komix,” Brooke Alexander Editions, New York
“Biennial Exhibition,” curated by Klaus Kertess,
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
“Promising Suspects”, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
“Unholy Wars,” Postmasters Gallery, New York
1994 “Selections,” Adam Baumgold Fine Art, New York
“Artychoke TV,” organized by Kenny Schachter, Flamingo East, New York
“Redefining the Pop Icon in the Nineties,” Auchincloss Gallery, New York
1994 Jack Hanley Gallery, (with Fred Tomaselli and Michael Gonzalez), San Francisco
1993 “Drawing Pairs,” Adam Baumgold Fine Art, New York “Exquisite Corpse,” Drawing Center, New York
“BOMB Magazine Benefit,” Fawbush Gallery, New York “Group Grope,” curated by Kenneth Goldsmith & Geoffrey Young, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
“What’s Wrong with This Picture?,” Postmasters Gallery,
New York
1992 “Binging,” curated by Kenny Schachter, P.S.1 Museum, L.I.C., New York
“Morality Cafe,” curated by Kenny Schachter, Postmasters Gallery, New York
Kunsthall, New York
1991 “Decorous Beliefs”, Natalie Rivera Gallery, New York “Open Bar,” Flamingo East Gallery, New York
Bibliography
-Jonathan Finenberg, “Art Since 1940, Strategies of Being,” second edition, Prentice Hall 2000
-Edward Leffingwell, “Christian Schumann”, review, Art in America, February 2000
-”Best Gallery Exhibitions”,Best Of Manhattan, New York Press, September 22- 28,1999
-Gregory Montreuil, “Christian Schumann” Review, New Art Examiner, September 1999
-”Christian Schumann” Review, The New Yorker, June 7,1999
-Michael Kimmelman,”Christian Schumann”Review,The New York Times, June 4,1999
-Jerry Saltz, “Pattern & Dissipation”, The Village Voice, June 22,1999
-”Christian Viveros-Faune”, New York Press, June 2-8,1999
-Scott Dietsch, “Comic Book-Style Elevates Everyday Objects To Art”, The Villager, June 2,1999
-”Christian Schumann Cloud Art”, (project for the magazine) Interview, April 1999
-William Zimmer, “7 Artists Integrate Color and Rudeness”,The New York Times, January 10,1999.
-”Show of Drawings” -art guide,The New York Times, November 8,1998.
-Neville Wakefield, “Christian Schumann: A Cross pollination of High and Low, Via Sophomoric Wit and Arch Sophistication,” Elle Decor, October ‘98.
-Max Henry, “Christian Schumann, Dialogue,” Zingmagazine, Summer ‘98.
-Kathleen Magnan, “Twisted Cube,” World Art, issue #17, Summer ‘98. -Michael Thompson-Noel, “A Portrait of the young man as artist,” Financial Times, London, November 15-6, 1997.
-Martin Coomer, “Christian Schumann at White Cube’”, Time Out, London, November 12-19, 1997.
-Calvin Tomkins, “Finely Tooned’”, The New Yorker, October 20 and 27, 1997.
-Ellise Pierce “Christian Schumann: Color Me Complicated”, POV, March 1997
-Sabrina Zannier, “Christian Schumann, Il Capricorno,” Flash Art Italia, December ‘96/January ‘97
-Christian Schumann, artist’s essay in “Ripple Effects: Painting and Language,” New Observations, #113, Winter 1996.
-Linda Jablonsky,”Christian Schumann”, review, Time Out, November 23, 1995
-Susanne Lingemann, “Bunte Bilderwelt des Grauens,” Art, October 1995
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-Michael Kimmelman, “A Quirky Whitney Biennial,” The New York Times, March 24, 1995.
-Holland Cotter, “A Critic’s Dozen to Catch at the Biennial,” New York Times, March 12, 1995.
-Paul Goldberger, “The Art Of His Choosing,” The New York Times Magazine, Sunday, February 26, 1995.
-”According To Christian Schumann,” Might magazine, Feb/Mar 1995.
-Jerry Saltz, “Meridiano Pittura,” Flash Art Italian, Feb/Mar 1995.
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-John Martin Newsom, “Connections...-Christian Schumann”, Manhattan File, November 1994.
-Barry Rosenberg, “Promising Suspects”, (catalog essay), The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut, October 1994.
-Jerry Saltz, “A Year in the Life: Tropic of Painting,” Art in America, October 1994.
-Dan Cameron, “Ode to Discernment,” Frieze, February 1994.
-Mary Haus, “Christian Schumann,” ArtNews, January 1994. Goings On About Town, The New Yorker, October 4, 1993.
-Roberta Smith, “A New Painter’s Way With Image and Text,” review/Art, The New York Times, October 1, 1993.
-Angela Choon, “Openings,” Art & Antiques, September 1993.
-Kim Levin, Voice Choices: Christian Schumann, The Village Voice, Sept. 21, 1993.
-Roberta Smith, “Shades of a Rebirth for Painting,” The New York Times, June 17, 1993.
-Jerry Saltz,”Ten Artists for the Nineties,” Art & Auction, May 1993
-Jerry Saltz, “Christian Schumann,” review, Art in America, March 1993.
-Roberta Smith, “Seven Rooms/Seven Shows,” review, New York Times, Jan. 8, 1993. San Francisco Weekly, review, May 13, 1992.
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