Christopher Wool

Christopher Wool
1955 born in United States, United States
Lives in New York City, United States
Solo Exhibitions

2005

Gio Marconi and Christian Stein, Milan


2004

Christopher Wool 2004
Camden Arts Centre, London (catalog)

Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp

Luhring Augustine, New York (catalog)

Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo


2003

Christopher Wool
Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne

Crosstown Crosstown
Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee


2002

Crosstown Crosstown
Le Consortium, Dijon

Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin


2001

Secession, Vienna (catalog)

9th Street Run Down
Luhring Augustine, New York;
11 Duke Street, London

Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp


2000

Black Book Drawings 1989
Skarstedt Fine Art, New York

Eleni Koroneou Gallery, Athens

11 Duke Street, London


1999

Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva (catalog)


1998

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles;
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh;
Kunsthalle Basel, Basel (catalog)

Ophiuchus Collection
The Hydra Workshop, Greece (catalog)

Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin


1997

Portofolio Kunst AG, Vienna

Eleni Koroneou, Greece

Luhring Augustine, New York

Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo


1996

Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne


1995

Luhring Augustine, New York

Galerie Samia Saouma, Paris


1994

Bruno Brunnet Fine Arts, Berlin


1993

Galerie Max Hetzler, Cologne


1992

Eli Broad Family Foundation, Los Angeles

Galerie Peter Pakesch, Vienna

Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne

Luhring Augustine, New York


1991

Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam;
Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne;
Kunsthalle Bern, Bern
(catalog)

Luhring Augustine, New York


1990

Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles

Galerie Christian Stein, Torino

Works on Paper
Luhring Augustine, New York (catalog)


1989

Monotypes
Edition Julie Sylvester, New York

New Work
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco (catalog)

Galerie Max Hetzler, Cologne


1988

Jean Bernier, Athens

Luhring Augustine & Hodes Gallery, New York

Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne (catalog)


1987

Luhring Augustine & Hodes Gallery, New York


1986

Cable Gallery, New York

Robbin Lockett Gallery, Chicago


1984

Cable Gallery, New York

Group Exhibitions

2005

Works on Paper
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin (catalog)

Contemporary Voices: Works from the UBS Art Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York (catalog)

Big Bang, Creation and Destruction in the 20th Century
Pompidou Center, Paris (catalog)

Translation
Palais de Tokyo, Paris

The Continuous Mark: 40 Years of the New York Studio School
New York Studio School, New York


2004

Paintings
Gallery K, Oslo

Monument To Now: The Dakis Joannou Collection
DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens

Nicole Klagsbrun, New York

Quodlibet
Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne

Taschen Collection
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid (catalog)

The Open Book
Hasselblad Center, Museum of Art Goteborg

Trafic d'influences: Art & Design (Collection Frac Nord - Pas de Calais)
Tri Postal, Lille

Power Corruption and Lies
Roth Horowitz, New York

William Gedney - Christopher Wool: Into The Night
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York

Ground - Field - Surface
Robert Miller Gallery, New York

Indigestible Correctness II
Kenny Schachter/ROVE, New York

Malerei: Herbert Brandl, Helmut Dorner, Adrian Schiess, Christopher Wool
ZKM: Museum fur Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe (catalog)

Disturbing the Peace
Danese, New York

I am the Walrus
Cheim & Read, New York

Pixels
Stellan Holm Gallery, New York

Flower Power
Palais des Beaux-Arts et Musee de L'Hospice Comtesse, Lille (catalog)

Ice Hot - Recent Paintings from the Scharpff Collection
Hamburger Kunstalle;
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart
(catalog)


2003

Not Afraid
Rubell Familly Collection, Miami

Biennale d'Art Contemporain de Lyon 2003, Lyon (catalog)

A Way With Words
John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco

Stranger in the Village: Contemporary Drawings and Photographs from the Museum of Modern Art
Guild Hall, East Hampton

Family Ties. A Contemporary Perspective
Peabody Essex Museum, Salem

Visual Poetics: Art and the Word
Miami Art Museum, Miami

The Great Drawing Show; 1550 - 2003 A.D.
Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles


2002

The Broad Art Foundation, Santa Monica

A Thousand Hounds
Paine Webber Art Gallery, New York;
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach

Copy
Roth Horowitz, New York

A New York Renaissance: Masterworks from the Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art
Palazzo Reale, Milan (catalog)

Five by Five: Contemporary Artists on Contemporary Art
Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, New York

Hello to Handmade Words
K.S. Art, New York

Painting on the Move
Kunstmuseum Basel, Museum fur Gegenwartskunst Basel and Kunsthalle Basel, Basel (catalog)

Ahead of the 21st Century- The Pisces Collection
Fürstenberg Sammlungen, Donaueschingen (catalog)

To Be Looked At: Painting and Sculpture from the Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York (catalog)


2001

W
Musee des Beaux Arts, Dole

Trauma
National Touring Exhibitons, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee

New Acquisitions from the Dakis Joannou Collection
Deste Foundation, Center for Contemporary Art, Athens

Christopher Wool, New Paintings, Herbert Brandl, Neue Bilder
Sabine Knust, Munich

A Way with Words
Whitney Museum of American Art at Phillip Morris, New York

Patterns: Between Object and Arabesque
Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense


2000

On Language
Sean Kelly Gallery, New York

La prima idea
Graphische Sammlung de ETH, Zurich

Malerei
Charim Klocker, Vienna

Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York

Le Jeu des 7 Familles
mamco: Musee d'art moderne et contemporain, Geneve

La Prima Idea: Aktuelle Malerei auf Papier
Graphische Sammlung der ETH Zürich

Mixing Memory and Desire
New Museum of Art Lucerne, Lucerne

The Swamp: On the Edge of Eden
University of Florida, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville

To Infinity and Beyond
Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York

Counter Editions at the Chelsea Hotel, New York

Art at MoMA since 1980
MoMa, New York

A Way with Words
Whitney Museum of American Art at Phillip Morris, New York


1999

Free Coke
Greene Naftali, New York

Art at the End of the Century - Contemporary Art from the Milwaukee Art Museum
Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama (catalog)

Multiplicity
Angles Gallery, Santa Monica

Silent Treatment: Projecting Narrative
Curated by Thea Westreich, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen

Collection Frac Nord-Pas de Calais

Visualizing Digiteracy: Considering Current Technologies
Memphis College of Art

Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris

Bloom: Contemporary Art Garden
curated by Gianni Romano, Milanl (catalog)

Reverse Impressions
City Gallery, New York

The Great Drawing Show 1550 to 1999
Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles

The Passion and the Waves
6th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul

The American Century: Art and Culture 1950-2000
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (catalog)


1998

Real Stories
Marianne Boesky Gallery & Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York

Exterminating Angel
curated by Joshua Decter, Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris

Exploiting the Abstract
Feigen Contemporary, New York

Double Trouble: The Patchett Collection
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego (catalog)

Elements of the Natural
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Weather Everything
Galerie fur Zeitgenossische Kunst Leipzig, Leipzig

Scratches on the Surface of Things - Acquisitions of Contemporary American Art
Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Harriet Craig
Curated by David Rimanelli, Apex Art C.P., New York

Die Parkett-Kunstlereditionen im Museum Ludwig
Museum Ludwig, Cologne

Six Americans
Skarstedt Fine Art, New York

Luhring Augustine, New York


1997

Birth of the Cool: American Painting From Georgia O'Keeffe to Christopher Wool
Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland, travelling to Hamburg (catalog)

Painting Photography Drawing
Anton Kern Gallery, New York

Group Show (Robert Gober, Mike Kelley, Jeff Koons, Moke, Stephen Prina, Cheri Samba, Cindy Sherman, Christopher Wool)
Galerie Samia Saouma, Paris

Serial Imagery (Andy Warhol, Christopher Wool, Philip Taaffe)
Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles

American Realities, Views from Abroad, European Perspectives on American Art 3
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (catalog)

Family Values
Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg

On the Edge: Contemporary Art from the Werner and Elaine Dannheisser Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York


1996

New Art on Paper, 2
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania

Screen
Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York

Kingdom of Flora
Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica

Fellows of the American Academy in Rome
The Equitable Center, New York (catalog)

The Sense of Order
Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Gray Matter
Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica

Peinture - Peinture
Galerie Samia Saouma, Paris

Thinking Print: Books to Billboards, 1980-95
Museum of Modern Art, New York (catalog)

Cenas Domesticas
Modulo, Lisbon

Art at Home, Ideal Standard Life
Spiral Gallery 1F, Tokyo (catalog)

Everything That's Interesting Is New: The Dakis Joannou Collection
Athens School of Fine Arts;
The factory, Athens;
Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen;
Guggenheim Museum SoHo, New York


1995

Duck
Edward Thorp Gallery, New York

100 Works on Paper
Galerie de la Tour, Amsterdam

Galleria Alessandra Bonomo, Rome

Pittura Immedia
Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum und Kunstlerhaus, Graz (catalog)

Articulations: Forms of Language in Contemporary American Art
The Whitney Museum, New York

James Nares & Christopher Wool
Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles

25 Americans: Painting in the 90s
Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin (catalog)

XL
Galerie Borgmann Capitain, Cologne

Luhring Augustine, New York

Malerei
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin

Wallpaper Works
Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas (catalog)

Made in U.S.A.-Original works on Paper
Bob van Orsouw Gallery, Zürich (catalog)

Images Against AIDS
Art Metropole, Toronto

Drawing on Chance: Selections from the Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York


1994

The Museum of Modern Art, Syros, Greece

Gallerie K, Oslo

Lousy Fear
Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago

Ossuary
Luhring Augustine, New York

Contemporary Art from the Collection of the Migros Cooperatives
Museo Cantonale d'Arte, Lugano, Switzerland

Gift
The InterArt Center, New York

Supershadows of Understatement: Christopher Wool and Ulli Strothjohann
Eleni Koroneou Gallery, Athens

Some Like It Cool
Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston

Herbert Brandl, Albert Oehlen, Christopher Wool
National Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic

On Paper
Schmidt Contemporary Art, St. Louis

Ground
Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Violence/Business - Gewalt/Geschäfte
Neue Gesellschaft fur Bildende Kunst, Berlin (catalog)

25 Americans: Painting in the 90s
Milwaukee Art Museum, USA (catalog)


1993

Works by Younger Artists from the Collection of Richard Brown Baker
The Century Association, New York

Zeitsprunge: Collection of Rudolf und Ute Scharpff
Wilhelm-Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen

The Brushstrike: Painting in the 90's
Ruth Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica

Gober, Kelley, Kippenberger, Koons, Sherman, Wool
Galerie Schurr, Stuttgart

Reading Prints
The Museum of Modern Art, New York

20th Anniversary Exhibition Part II
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Santa Monica

Black & White
Schmidt Contemporary Art, St. Louis

Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston

Drawing the Line Against AIDS
The Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy;
The Guggenheim Museum SoHo, New York
(catalog)

The Language of Art/Die Sprache der Kunst
Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna;
Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt
(catalog)

New York Painters
Sammlung Goetz, Munich


1992

Allegories of Modernism: Contemporary Drawing
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Works on Paper: Forg, Gonzalez-Torres, Kilimnik, Kippenberger, Nares, Oehlen, Pensato, Prina, Wool
Luhring Augustine, New York

Herold, Oehlen, Wool: Works on Paper
Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco

Luhring Augustine, New York

Documenta IX
Kassel

Fifth Anniversary Show
Karsten Schubert Ltd., London

Somewhere Between Image & Text
Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston

Prints in Portfolios
Susan Sheehan Gallery, New York

Dark Decor
Organized by Independent Curators Inc.;
DePree Art Center, Hope College, Holland, USA;
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, USA;
Florida Gulf Coast Art Center, Belle, USA;
The Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, USA;
The Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Alberta, USA
(catalog)

The Word-Image in Contemporary Art
The James Howe Gallery, Kean College of New Jersey

Gober, Kawara, Kelley, Kippenberger, Koons, Oehlen, Schnabel, Sherman, Struth, Taaffe, Wool
Galerie Max Hetzler, Cologne

Landscape Untitled: Halley, Oehlen, Wool
Galerie Senda, Barcelona

Drawings
Stuart Regen Gallery, Los Angeles

Robbin Lockett, Chicago

Slow Art: Painting in New York Now
P.S.1 Museum, New York

Dirty Data: Collection of Wilhelm Schurmann
Ludwig Forum fur internationale Kunst, Aachen (catalog)

Ars Pro Domo: Contemporary Art from Koln Private Collections
Museum Ludwig, Cologne

Drawn in the Nineties
traveling exhibition organized by ICI;
Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, USA;
Fine Arts Gallery, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA;
Illingworth Kerr Art Gallery, Alberta College of Art, Calgary, Canada;
Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, USA
(catalog)

Oh! Cet Echo
Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris (catalog)

Plakate
Grazer Kunstverein, Graz

Spielhölle
Akademie der Künste und Wissenschaften, Frankfurt am Main;
Grazer Kunstverein, Graz;
Galerie Sylvana Lorenz, Paris

Multiplicity: An Exhibition of Recent Editions
Thea Westreich, New York


1991

New American Art: Mary Beyt, Greg Colson, Christopher Wool
Ho Gallery World Art, Hong Kong

Metropolis
Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin (catalog)

Gulliver's Travels
Galerie Sophia Ungers, Cologne

Words & #'s
Wright State University, Dayton, USA

Strange Abstraction
The Touko Museum of Art, Tokyo

Herbert Brandl, Albert Oehlen, Christopher Wool
Galerie Peter Pakesch, Vienna,

Drawing Acquisitions, 1980-1991: Selections from the Permanent Collection
Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, New York

Druckgrafik
Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne

Carnegie International 1991
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (catalog)


1990

Michael Craig-Martin, Gary Hume, Christopher Wool
Karsten Schubert Ltd., London

New Work: A New Generation
San Francisco MoMA, San Francisco (catalog)

Stephen Prina, Sam Samore, Christopher Wool
Galerie Ursula Schurr, Stuttgart

Drawings
Luhring Augustine Hetzler, Santa Monica

American Geometric Abstraction and Other Works from the Richard Brown Baker Collection
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven

Language in Art
Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield

Donald Baechler, Günther Förg, Georg Herold, Martin Kippenberger, Jeff Koons, Albert Oehlen, Julian Schnabel, Terry Winters, Christopher Wool
Galerie Max Hetzler, Cologne

In the Beginning...
Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland

American Artists of the Eighties
Palazzo delle Albere, Trento, Italy

Selections from the Elaine and Werner Dannheisser Collection: Painting and Sculpture From the 80's and 90's
The Parrish Art Museum, East Hampton

At the end of the day
Randy Alexander Gallery, New York

51st Carnegie International
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (catalog)

Museum of Natural History
Galerie Barbara Farber, Amsterdam


1989

Abstraction in Question
John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, USA;
Center for the Fine Arts, Miami
(catalog)

Horn of Plenty
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (catalog)

Repetition
Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York (catalog)

Prospect 89
Frankfurt Kunstverein, Frankfurt (catalog)

Herold, Oehlen, Wool
The Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Chicago (catalog)

Whitney Biennial
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (catalog)

Drawings
Förg, Herold, Ruscha, Wool
Karsten Schubert, London

Group Show
Schmidt/Markow Gallery 1709, St. Louis

Prints
Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York

On Kawara: Again and Against
Portikus, Frankfurt am Main;
The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago;
Institute of Contemporary Arts, Nagoya;
Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney
(catalog)

Gober, Halley, Kessler, Wool; Four Artists From New York
Kunstverein München, Munich (catalogue)

Förg, Iglesias, Spalletti, Verdcruysse, West, Wool
Joost Declercq, Gent;
Max Hetzler, Cologne;
Luhring Augustine, New York;
Peter Pakesch, Vienna;
Marga Paz, Madrid;
Mario Pieroni, Rome

A Decade of American Drawings 1980-1989
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles


1988

James Casebere, Stephen Prina, Christopher Wool
Robbin Lockett Gallery, Chicago

Robert Gober and Christopher Wool, An Installation
303 Gallery, New York (catalog)

Six Americans
Bleckner, Halley, Levin, Taaffe, Wool, Welling, Galerie Lelong, New York

A Drawing Show
Cable Gallery, New York

Een keuze/A Show
Amsterdam

Information as Ornament
Feature Gallery, Chicago;
Rezac Gallery, Chicago

The Light from the Other Side
Monika Spruth Galerie, Cologne (catalog)

The Binational - American Art of the Late 80's
ICA & MFA Boston, USA;
Stadtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf;
Kunstverein, Bremen;
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
(catalog)

Bickerton, Gober, Halley, Koons, Prince, Vaisman, Wool
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles


1987

Painting, Abstraction Rediscovered
Rosa Esman Gallery, New York

Jamie Wolff Gallery, New York

Ange Leccia, Christopher Wool
Cable Gallery, New York

Alexander, Bolande, Ebner, Kane, Wool
Robbin Lockett Gallery, New York

New Territories in Art Europe/America
Michetti Foundation, Chieti, Italy

Johnson, Tasset, Wool
Kuhlenschmidt/Simon, Los Angeles

Facture
Laurie Rubin Gallery, New York

Industrial Icons
University Art Gallery, San Diego State University, San Diego, USA

Drawn Out
Kemper Gallery, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City


1986

Inaugural Exhibition
Robbin Lockett Gallery, Chicago

The Gallery Show
Exit Art, New York

The Hidden Surface
Middendorf Gallery, Washington D.C.

Signs of Painting
Donald Young Gallery, Chicago

Fortuyn/O'Brien, Lemieux, Mullican, Wool
Luhring, Augustine & Hodes Gallery, New York

Fabricated, Not Found
Loughelton Gallery, New York


1985

AIDS Benefit
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles

Painting, Sculpture, Photography
Cable Gallery, New York

Factura
Gallery Schlesinger-Boisante, New York

Botts, Lee, Miller, Wool
Barbara Toll Fine Arts, New York

Stigmata
Bond Street Gallery, New York

Drawings 1975-1985
Barbara Toll Fine Arts, New York

Apfelschnitt, Bills, Chamberlain, Lucas, Nares, Wool
Anne Plumb Gallery, New York


1984

Group Show
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York

Chill Out New York
Kenkeleba Gallery, New York

Drawings
Barbara Toll Fine Arts, New York

Sex
Cable Gallery, New York

Saloon Salon
Bill Rice Gallery, New York


1983

Big American Figure Drawings
Visual Arts Museum, New York

Abbott, Fink, Lieber, Wool
Delahunty Gallery, New York

Selected Drawings
Jersey City Museum, New Jersey


1982

Group Exhibition
White Columns, New York

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