CARROLL DUNHAM

Since the 1970s, Carroll Dunham (b. 1949) has developed a unique pictorial language in a significant oeuvre encompassing painting, drawing, print and sculpture. Employing a formal mastery of line, texture and colour, Dunham’s distinctive body of work continually engages new and recurring modes of art-making.
Drawing on the art historical canon but also on pop culture including sci-fi and cartoons, Dunham revisits enduring themes that comprise our existence – trees, guns, the planet, bathers and wrestlers amongst others – while simultaneously exploring the formal attributes of painting. Riding the line between abstraction and figuration, planes of strong colour and Dunham’s curvilinear line activate the energetically-charged works.
Through anthropomorphic forms, vivid abstractions, surreal landscapes and archetypal figures, the artist demonstrates his fascination and unique ability to play with scale, orientation and composition to give physical form to psychologically challenging imagery. Dunham’s careful choreography provides insight into his subjects’ complex internal world.
‘Dunham’s paintings conjure everyday realities as both more and less than real; the so-called ordinary is unfamiliar, new terrain, politically, sexually, environmentally. Fictional portraits of the known moving into an unknown, they show vivacity, even about the incapacity to know the future. I mean, they have a vitality, these frank, beautiful misfits, or funny, smart disturbances. Not stories but wordless pictures.’
L. Tillman, 2016
Image: Qualiascope: Female and Male kept together, 2020–2022, urethane, water soluble crayon and pencil on gessoed linen, 208.6 x 241.3 cm.; 82 x 95 in.; 228.3 x 261.3 x 7.3 cm.; 89 7/8 x 102 7/8 x 2 7/8 in. (framed). Photo: David Regen
Artist Talk
Solo Exhibitions
Group Exhibitions
Selected Institutional Exhibitions
Biography
VITA
1949
Born in New Haven, CT, USA
1972
Trinity College, Hartford
2004
Skowhegan Medal for Distinction in Painting
Lives and works in Connecticut, USA
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Albertina, Vienna
Art Institute of Chicago
Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo
The British Museum, London
Brooklyn Museum, New York
Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland
Drammens Museum, Drammen
Ellipse Foundation, Cascais
Fort Wayne Art Museum, Fort Wayne, Indiana Hudson Valley
Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill
Inhotim Institute, Brumadinho
The Judith Rothschild Foundation, New York
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
Museum Ludwig, Cologne
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City
Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park
Olbricht Collection, Essen
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence
Tate, London
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025
Open Studio & Empty Spaces
Galerie Max Hetzler, London
2024
Le Consortium, Dijon (duo show with Laurie Simmons)
Studio Visit / Recent Paintings
Gerhardsen Gerner, Oslo
2023
Drawings
Gladstone Gallery, New York
Carrol Dunham, Where am I? Prints 1985–2022
Nasjonalmuseet Oslo
Selected Drawings,
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
2022
Somatic Transmission & Qualiascope (Recent Paintings)
Galerie Max Hetzler, Paris
2021
Qualiascope Paintings and Related Drawings
Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich
Arbeiten 1980 bis Heute
Kunstparterre, Munich
Carroll Dunham | Albert Oehlen
Galerie Max Hetzler, London
2020
Paintings
Gerhardsen Gerner, Oslo
Carroll Dunham / Albert Oehlen: Bäume / Trees
Sprengel Museum Hannover, Hanover, travelled from:
Kunsthalle Düsseldorf(catalogue)
Gladstone, New York
Gladstone, Brussels
Drawings: 1990–2009
James Barron Art, Kent
2019
Carroll Dunham / Michael Williams: Drawings, curated by Cornelius Tittel
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
Carroll Dunham / Albert Oehlen: Bäume / Trees
Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, travelled to:
Sprengel Museum Hannover 2020 (catalogue)
Recent Paintings
Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich
2018
Gladstone Gallery, New York
2017
Blum & Poe, Los Angeles (catalogue)
Prints
Gerhardsen Gerner, Oslo
2016
Inigo Philbrick, London
Drawings 1982–96
Gladstone 64, New York
Monotypes
Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich
2015
Gladstone Gallery, New York
2014
Gerhardsen Gerner, Oslo
Drawings: Carroll Dunham
Denver Art Museum, Denver
Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich
2012
Gladstone Gallery, New York (catalogue)
A Drawing Survey (catalogue)
Blum & Poe, Los Angeles
Bernier/ Eliades Gallery, Athens
2011
Gerhardsen Gerner, Berlin
Gladstone Gallery, Brussels
Patrick de Brock Gallery, Knokke
2010
Gladstone Gallery, Brussels
Patrick de Brock Gallery, Knokke
Paintings
Blum & Poe, Los Angeles
Carroll Dunham Prints: A Survey
University Art Gallery, State University of New York
Paintings
Baldwin Gallery, Aspen
2009
Gladstone Gallery, New York
Works on Paper
Museum Ludwig, Cologne
Small Packages
Art Production Fund Lab, New York
2008
Carroll Dunham Prints: A Survey
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover
Recent Paintings
Atle Gerhardsen, Berlin
Paintings on Wood, 1982–1987
Skartstedt Gallery, New York (catalogue)
Hydra Workshop, Hydra
Painting and Sculpture 2004–2008
Millesgården, Stockholm
2007
Paintings
Gladstone Gallery, New York (catalogue)
Carroll Dunham Prints: A Survey
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin
Carroll Dunham Monotypes
Atle Gerhardsen, Berlin
2006
In Red Space
White Cube, London (catalogue)
Monotypien
Galerie Fred Jann, Munich
Small Drawings 1991–2005
Drammens Museum, Drammen (catalogue)
Galleri MGM, Oslo
2005
Drawing
Judin Gallery, Zurich (catalogue)
Dead Space
Atle Gerhardsen Gallery, Berlin
2004
Composite Images: Paintings
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, LosAngeles
Nolan/ Eckman Gallery, New York
prints
Atle Gerhardsen Gallery, Berlin
He, She, and It
Gladstone Gallery, New York (catalogue)
2003
White Cube, London
Personal Distance
Baldwin Gallery, Aspen
2002
New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (catalogue)
Drawings 1985–2002
Nolan/ Eckman Gallery, New York
Mesokingdom
Metro Pictures, New York
Drawings
Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich
2001
The Search for Orgone
Nolan/ Eckman Gallery, New York, travelled to:
Atle Gherhardsen Gallery, Berlin
Carroll Dunham, New Paintings
Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills
Recent Prints and Related Works
Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich
2000
Atle Gerhardsen Gallery, Oslo
N.E.G., Milan
1999
Metro Pictures, New York
Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris
Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro
No Limits Events Gallery, Milan
1998
Nolan/ Eckman Gallery, New York (catalogue)
White Cube, London
London Projects, London
Atle Gerhardsen Gallery, Oslo
1997
Metro Pictures, New York
1996
Paintings and Drawings 1990–1996
Guild Hall, Easthampton, New York, travelled to:
Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum;
Forum for Contemporary Art, St. Louis (catalogue)
Nolan/ Eckman Gallery, New York
Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich
1995
Bobbie Greenfield Gallery, Santa Monica
Selected Paintings 1990 – 95
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
1994
Works on Paper
Lemburg Gallery, Ferndale
Sonnabend Gallery, New York
1993
Sonnabend Gallery, New York
Galerie Lehmann, Geneva
Nolan/ Eckman Gallery, New York
1992
Works on Paper
David Nolan Gallery, New York
Jablonka Galerie, Cologne
Selected Paintings and Prints
Wiedner Gallery, Trinity College, Hartford
1991
Drawings
Gallery Mukai, Tokyo
Galerie Jahn und Fusban, Munich
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Santa Monica
1990
Sonnabend Gallery, New York
1989
Jablonka Galerie, Cologne
Sonnabend Gallery, New York
1988
Selected Drawing
Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Elkins Park
Drawings 1982–1983
Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich
1987
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles
Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York
1986
Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston
Baskerville & Watson Gallery, New York
1985
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles
Baskerville & Watson Gallery, New York
1981
Artists Space, New York
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025
Stories of Your Lives, Eugenio Re Rebaudengo
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
On Paper
Galerie Max Hetzler, London
2024
On Paper
Galerie Max Hetzler, Paris
2023
Melencolia
Galeria Eva Presenhuber, Zurich
das gelbe Licht 6 Uhr nachmittags
Remembering, envisioning, sensing landscape, curated by Christian Malycha
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
2022
The Drawing Centre Show
Le Consortium, Dijon (catalogue)
Mix & Match. Die Sammlung neu entdecken
Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
Art on Paper since 1960: The Hamish Parker Collection
British Museum, London
Obertura. Más allá de los mapas
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Alicante, Alicante
2021
Closer to Life: Drawings and Works on Paper in the Marieluise Hessel Collection
CCS Bard galleries, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY (catalogue)
and I will wear you in my heart of heart
FLAG Art Foundation, New York
Parallel Phenomena: Works on Paper by Carroll Dunham, Susan Te Kahurangi King, Gladys Nilsson and Peter Saul
Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York
2020
Duro Olowu: Seeing Chicago
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago
All In One
Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich
New Images of Man, curated by Alison Gingeras
Blum & Poe, Los Angeles
2019
Samaritans
Eva Presenhuber, New York
Some Trees
Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles
Driving Forces: Contemporary Art from the Collection of Ann and Ron Pizzuti
Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus
2018
Four Rooms
Blum & Poe, New York
Original Behavior
Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln
Gun Country
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover
Syphilis: Curated by Adam Cohen and Anton Kern
Rental Gallery, East Hampton
Out of Control
Venus Over Manhattan, New York
Art Crush 2018
Aspen Art Museum, Aspen
2018 White Columns Benefit Auction
White Columns, New York
2017
Discomposure
Telles Fine Arts, Los Angeles
Vanishing Point
James Cohan Gallery, New York
Artists as Innovators: Celebrating Three Decades of NYSCA/ NYFA Fellowships
Dorsky Museum, SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, travelled to:
Dowd Gallery, SUNY Cortland;
Fosdick-Nelson Gallery, Alfred University;
UNY Plattsburgh
Drawing Island
The Journal Gallery, New York
Fast Forward: Painting from the 1980s
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
2016
Olympia
Galerie Patrick Seguine, Paris
Two Palms
Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin
Before Sunrise
Karma, Amagansett
Nice Weather
Skarstedt Gallery, New York
In the Making: Artists, Assistants, and Influence
Luxembourg & Dayan, New York
A Shape That Stands Up
Hammer Museum, Art + Practice, Los Angeles
2015
Light/ Dark, White/ Black
Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover
Pretty Raw: After and Around Helen Frankenthaler
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham
Works on Paper
Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich
True Monotypes
International Print Center, New York
America is Hard to See
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
The Guston Effect
Steven Zevitas Gallery, Boston
Des histoires sans fin
Musée d’art moderne et contemporain, Geneva
Coleccion Jumex, In Girum Imus Nocte et Consumimur Igni
Museo Jumex, Mexico City
Painting 2.0: Expression in The Information Age
Museum Brandhorst, Munich
2014
Disturbing Innocence
FLAG Art Foundation, New York
Ileana Sonnabend: Ambassador for the New
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Room by Room: Monographic Presentations from the Faulconer and Rachofsky Collections
The Warehouse, Dallas
Post Picasso: Contemporary Reactions
Museu Picasso de Barcelona
2013
The Age of Small Things
Dodge Gallery, New York
Hello Goodbye Thank You, Again, and Again, and Again
Castillo/ Corrales, Paris
Summer Drawings
The Journal Gallery, New York
Comic Future
Ballroom Marfa, travelled to:
Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus
Reinventing Abstraction
Cheim & Read, New York
Post Picasso: Contemporary Artists Reactions
Museu Picasso, Barcelona
Legacy: The Emily Fisher Landau Collection
Norton Museum of Art, Palm Beach
This Will Have Been: Art, Love, and Politics in the 1980s
The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
Der Zweite Blick (The Second Chance)
Stadtische Galerie, Nordhorn
Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out
White Flag Projects, St. Louis
FULL HOUSE
Schönewald Fine Arts, Düsseldorf
2012
Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out
White Flag Projects, St. Louis
Twenty Days Later
Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York
Group Shoe
Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York
Print/Out
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Painting Now
Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich
2011
FACEMAKER
Royal/T, Culver City
Seeing Is a Kind of Thinking: A Jim Nutt Companion
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
2010
Nature
Gerhardsen Gerner, Berlin
The Visible Vagina
David Nolan, New York
Your History is not Our History
Haunch of Venison, New York
Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Pastorale
80WSE, New York University, New York
2009
Jr. and Son’s
Zach Feuer Gallery, New York
Collection: MOCA’s First Thirty Years
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
15th Anniversary Inaugural Exhibition
Blum & Poe, Los Angeles
Small Packages
The Art Production Fund Lab, New York
2008
Listen Darling... The World is Yours
Ellipse Foundation, Alcoitão
Faces and Figures (Revisited)
Marc Jancou Contemporary, New York
Second Thoughts
Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson
Nordea's Art Collection
Henie Onstad Art Centre, Høvikodden
From nature
Carolina Nitsch Project Room, New York
Red Wind
Blum & Poe, Los Angeles
Spring Selections Show
Ober Gallery, Kent
Photographic works to Benefit the Foundation for Contemporary Arts
Cohan and Leslie, New York
2007
Contemporary Painters and Their Influences
Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach
ULAE: New Editions
Larissa Goldston Gallery, New York
What Is Painting? Contemporary Art from the Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Counterparts: Contemporary Painters and Their Influences
Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach
2006
XXL: Size Matters
Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill
Couples Discourse
Palmer Museum of Art, University Park, Pennsylvania
Ele-Mental
Nolan/ Eckman Gallery, New York
2005
Remote Viewing
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Arbeiten auf Papier
Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich
2004
Fabulism (catalogue)
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha
SITE Santa Fe Biennial, Santa Fe
Sets
Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston
Tear Down This Wall: Paintings from the 1980s
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Works on Paper
Sprüth Magers Projekte, Munich
Disparities and Deformations: Our Grotesque (catalogue)
5th International Biennial Exhibition, SITE Santa Fe Biennial, New Mexico
Art, Artists, and the Addison
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover
2003
Funny Papers
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles
We Love Painting
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
160 Meisterzeichnungen
Oldenburger Kunstverein
2002
Metro Pictures, New York
Bildnis und Figur
Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich
2001
Some Options in Abstractions
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge
Pop & Post Pop (On Paper)
Texas Gallery, Houston
Locating Drawing
Lawing Gallery, Houston
American Art
Galerie Rudolfinum, The Center for Contemporary Art, Prague
2000
End Papers
Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase
Superorganic, Hydroponic Warfare: Carroll Dunham, David Dupuis, Alexander Ross
Derek Eller Gallery, New York
Art in America 2000
US Department of Art in Embassies Program, Washington, D.C.
Land & Houses, Two Sequences of Drawings
Nolan/ Eckman Gallery, New York
The Figure: Another Side of Modernism
Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, New York
00
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
The Figure in the Landscape
Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York
Open Ends
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Olav Chr. Jensen, Sarah Morris, Carroll Dunham
Atle Gerhardsen Gallery, Berlin
1999
Drawn By...
Metro Pictures, New York
Gorney, Bravin + Lee, New York
Art at Work: Forty Years of the Chase Manhattan Collection
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
American Century, Part II
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Drawing into Paint
Foskick-Nelson Gallery, Alfred
Examining Pictures
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (travelled to Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago)
1998
Young Americans 2: New Art in the Saatchi Collection
Saatchi Gallery, London
Exterminating Angel
Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris
Pop Surrealism
Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield
Codex USA: Works on Paper by American Artists
Entwistle, London
Now and Forever Part 1
Pat Hearn Gallery and Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
The New Surrealism
Pamela Auchincloss, New York
Art and the American Experience
Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo
1997
Now on View
Metro Pictures, New York
Painting Project
Basillico Fine Arts and Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York
Abstract Painting
Carrie Hadad Gallery, Hudson
1996
How the Chicken Crossed the Road
Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich; travelled to Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
Nuevas Abstracciones
Museo Nacional Centro de Reina Sofia, Madrid
1995
The Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
New York Abstract
Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans
Carroll Dunham, Lari Pittman
Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York
Contemporary Drawing: Exploring the Territory
Aspen Art Museum, Aspen
Under Glass
Charles Cowles Gallery, New York
1994
Collectively Speaking: A Sampling of Private Collections
The Art Museum of Santa Cruz County, Santa Cruz
What’s wrong with this Picture?
Zolla/ Lieberman Gallery, Inc., Chicago
In the Spirit of Things
Stux Gallery, New York
Dysfunction
Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans
Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York
Summer Group Show
Baumgartner Galeries, Inc., Washington D.C.
Deadpan
The Work Space at Dolgenos Newman & Cronin, New York
Sonnabend Gallery, New York
1993
Projects
Betsey Senior Contemporary Prints, New York
What’s wrong with this Picture?
Postmasters Gallery, New York
A Series of Anniversary Exhibitions: Part II
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Santa Monica
Group Show
Postmasters Gallery, New York
Extravagant: The Economy of Elegance
Russisches Kulturzentrum, Berlin
Drawings: 30th Anniversary Exhibition
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
1992
American Art of the '80s
Museo d’ Arte Modernae Contemporani di Trento e Rovereto
Carroll Dunham + Nicola De Maria
Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston
Works on Paper
David Nolan Gallery, New York
Carroll Dunham and Mel Kendrick: A Selection a Recent Work
Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover
Drawn in the ’90s
Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, New York
Illinworth Kerr Gallery, Alberta Gallery of Art, Calgary
Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville
Emerging New York Artists
Fine Arts Building, College of Fine Arts, Omaha
1991
Carroll Dunham, Mike Kelley, Cindy Sherman
Metro Pictures, New York
Sieben Amerikanische Maler
Bayerischen Staatgemaldesammlungen, Munich
Mel Bochner, Carroll Dunham, Barry Le Va
Galerie Faust, Geneva
The Whitney Biennial, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Paintings and Drawings
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Santa Monica
The Thing
Perry Rubenstein Gallery, New York
Fall & Winter: 1991–1992
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Santa Monica
Ralph Humphrey, Matthew Weinstein, and Carroll Dunham
Perry Rubinstein, New York
1990
With the Grain: Contemporary Panel Paintings
Whitney Museum of American Art, Fairfield County, Stamford, travelled to:
Whitney Museum of American Art at Phillip Morris, New York
Amerikanische Zeichnungen in den achtziger Jahren
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna, travelled to:
Museum Morsbriosh, Leverkusen;
Galerie Faust, Geneva
Carroll Dunham and Terry Winters
Gallery Mukai, Tokyo
Waterworks
Universal Limited Art Editions, Bay Shore
The Last Decade: American Artists of the ’80s
Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York
Organic Abstraction
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City
1989
Horn of Plenty
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Flanders Contemporary Art, Minneapolis
Wiener Diwan: Sigmund Freud-heute
Museum des 20 Jahrhunderts, Vienna
A Decade of American Drawing: 1980–1989
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles
First Impressions: Early Prints by Forty-Six Contemporary Artists
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
New Works by Gallery Artists
Sonnabend Gallery, New York
ULAE Prints
Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich
1988
NY Art Now: Part II
Saatchi Collection, London
Group Show: Carroll Dunham, Kenji Fujita, Peter Nadin, Laurie Simmons, Meyer Vaisman
Jablonka Galerie, Cologne
Vital Signs: Organic Abstraction from the Permanent Collection
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Altered States
Kent Fine Arts, New York
Scott Hanson Gallery, New York
Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston
Amerikanische Druckgraphik: Recent American Prints
Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich
1987
Drawing Acquisitions
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Schizophrenia
Josh Baer Gallery, New York
Coleccion Sonnabend
Centro de Art Reina Sofia, Madrid, travelled to:
Centre d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux;
Art Köln, Cologne;
Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin;
Galleria Nazionale D’Arte Moderna, Rome;
Museo D’ Arte Moderna e Contemporani, Trento;
Musée Rath, Geneva;
Sezon Museum of Art, Tokyo;
Miyagi Museum of Art, The Fukuyama Museum, Fukuyama;
National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
1986
Paintings & Sculpture: Recent Acquisitions
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Private and Public: American Prints Today
Brooklyn Museum, New York
Intuitive Line
Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York
Paravision
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
Art on Paper
Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Reading
Drawing: Carroll Dunham, John Newman, Terry Winter
Jeffrey Hoffeld & Co., New York
1985
Painting as Landscape
Parrish Art Museum, South Hampton, New York, travelled to
Baxter Gallery, Pasadena
Currents: Carroll Dunham
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
International with Monument, New York
BAM Benefit
Mary Boone Gallery, New York
The Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Real Surreal
Lorence-Monk Gallery, New York
1984
Brilliant Color
Baskerville & Watson, New York
Wedge Magazine Benefit Exhibition
Nature Morte Gallery, New York
Inner Vision: Drawing
Barbara Krakow, Boston
Drawing Show
Barbara Toll Gallery, New York
Summer International
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles
Figure in Paint
Cable Gallery, New York
New York I Dag
Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum, Aalborg
10 Year Anniversary Exhibition
Artists Space, New York
1983
Nine Painters
Hallwalls, Buffalo, New York
Tradition, Transition, New Vision
Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover
New Biomorphism and Automatism
Patricia Hamilton Gallery, New York
Carroll Dunham & Terry Winters
Jan Bernier Gallery, Athens
1981
Four Painters
List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge
New Talent, New York
New Gallery, Cleveland, travelled to:
Hayden Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
1980
Watercolors
Institute for Art & Urban Resources, travelled to:
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York
1979
Selector’s Choice
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore
1978
Lineup
Drawing Center, New York
Young American Artists
Schema Gallery, Florence
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Walter König (Ed.): Albert Oehlen & Carroll Dunham: Bäume / Trees, Düsseldorf/Hannover, 2019/2020
Galerie Eva Presenhuber (Ed.): Carroll Dunham: Green Evening, Clouds, Orange Sky, Red Ending, Blue Ending, Zürich, 2019
Gladstone Gallery (Ed.): Carroll Dunham: Any Day, Mud Men, Green Hills of Earth, Dusk, Last Rites, Left for Dead, New York, 2018
Blum & Poe (Ed.): Carroll Dunham: Wrestlers, New York, 2017
Badlands Unlimited (Ed.): Into Words: The Selected Writings of Carroll Dunham, New York 2017
Gladstone Gallery (Ed.): Carroll Dunham: Drawings 1982-96, New York, 2016
Two Palms, Prestel (Ed.): Carroll Dunham: Monotypes 2005-2015, New York/London, 2016
Gladstone Gallery (Ed.): Bathers Trees: Carroll Dunham, New York, 2013
PictureBox (Ed.): Carroll Dunham: Thought Process, Brooklyn 2013
Blum & Poe (Ed.): Carroll Dunham: A Drawing Survey, Los Angeles, 2012
The Journal / Entry 31: Carroll Dunham: Bathers, 2011
Yale University Press (Ed.): Carroll Dunham Prints: Catalogue Raisonné, 1984-2006, New Haven, 2008
Sadie Coles HQ (Ed.): Hydra Workshop, 2008: Carroll Dunham, London, 2008
JRP|Ringier (Ed.): Carroll Dunham: Painting and Sculpture 2004-2008, Zürich, 2008
Skarstedt Gallery (Ed.): Carroll Dunham: Paintings on Wood 1982-1987, New York, 2008
Strzelecki Books (Ed.): Carroll Dunham: Arbeiten auf Papier, Cologne, 2008
Gladstone Gallery (Ed.): Carroll Dunham: Dead, Yellow, Mule. Garbage, Ratio. Giant, New York, 2007
Koenig Books (Ed.): X#*@(ING)INDEX! Who is pointing at who - and why - in Carroll Dunham's Drawings, London, 2006
White Cube (Ed.): Carroll Dunham, London, 2006
Edition & Verlag Judin, Nolan/Eckman Gallery (Ed.): Carroll Dunham: Line That Never Ends: Drawings 1984-2004, Zürich/New York, 2005
Gladstone Gallery (Ed.): Carroll Dunham: He, She and It, New York, 2004
White Cube (Ed.): Carroll Dunham, London, 2003
David Nolan/Eckman Gallery (Ed.): Carroll Dunham: Land, New York, 1998
Basilico Fine Arts and Lehmann Maupin (Ed.): Project Painting, New York, 1997
Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum (Ed.): Carroll Dunham: Paintings and Drawings, Santa Barbara, 1996
School of the Museum of Fine Arts (Ed.): Carroll Dunham: Selected Paintings, 1990-1995, Boston, 1995
Akira Ikeda Gallery (Ed.): Carroll Dunham, Tokyo, 1995
David Nolan Gallery (Ed.): Carroll Dunham: Drawings, 1988-1991, New York, 1992
Jablonka Galerie (Ed.): Carroll Dunham: New Paintings, Cologne, 1992
Jablonka Gallery, Sonnabend Gallery (Ed.): Carroll Dunham: Paintings and Drawings/Bilder und Zeichnungen, Cologne/New York, 1990
Verlag Fred Jahn (Ed.): Carroll Dunham: Zeichnungen – Drawings 1982-1983, Munich, 1988
Videos
Publications
Selected Press
Blau Spring/Summer 2022
Frog April 2022
The New Yorker April 2022
The Art Newspaper June 2021
BLAU International 2019
The New York Times September 2018
The Brooklyn Rail November 2016
Art in America January 2016
ARTnews December 2015
Art in America March 2012
Village Voice March 2007
BOMB Magazine 1990