PAUL McCARTHY
Widely understood as one of the most influential living American artists, Paul McCarthy (b. 1945) has developed a multimedia practice which tests the limits of genre, medium and taboo. Spanning performance, photography, sculpture, video, drawing and painting, McCarthy’s oeuvre draws from politics and popular culture to investigate themes of sexuality, death and cultural subconscious. From performances incorporating bodily fluids and foods to elaborately staged installations and drawings executed by the artist’s alter egos, McCarthy’s works confront the human capacity for ugliness. The myths and absurdities of everyday life – among them the artist’s own psyche, the fairy tales of Walt Disney, and the fallacies of the American Dream – are used as source materials with which to question what it is to be human.
‘McCarthy has been inspirational to several generations of artists and pioneered methods that are fairly common today. His way of creating sculptural video installations out of the sets he used in performance works, for instance, has been adopted by many others. […]
Paul McCarthy moves in and out of his own oeuvre in a way that makes it hard to discern the chronology. Many themes return throughout his production, from the early years at art school to the present day. He repeats and recreates many works, and the repetition and translation, the transferral of certain works into other media, has emerged as a theme in itself.’
M. af Petersens, ‘Paul McCarthy’s 40 years of hard work – an attempt at a summary’‚ in Paul McCarthy: Head Shop / Shop Head. Works 1966–2006, exh. cat., Moderna Museet, Stockholm, and travelling; Göttingen: Steidl, 2006
Image: Santa Claus, 2001, bronze, dimensions variable. Photo: © Jannes Linders, collection: Sculpture International Rotterdam
Artist Talk
Selected Works
Solo Exhibitions
Group Exhibitions
Selected Institutional Exhibitions
Biography
VITA
1945
Born in Salt Lake City, USA
1965
Weber State College, Ogden
1966–1968
University of Utah, Salt Lake City
1968–1969
San Francisco Art Institute
1969–1970
University of Utah, Salt Lake City
1970–1973
University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Lives and works in Los Angeles, USA
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin
Museion, Bolzano
FRAC – Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain, Languedoc-Roussilon, Montpellier
FRAC – Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain, Poitou-Charentes, Angoulème
Frans Hals Museum / De Hallen, Haarlem
Fundación ‘la Caixa‘, Barcelona
Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art
Instituto Inhotim, Brumadinho
Kunsthaus Zürich
Kunstmuseen Krefeld
Kunstsammlung NRW, Dusseldorf
MONA - Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart
mumok - Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
MOCA - The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen
MoMA - The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham
National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens
P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Tate, London
University of Colorado Art Museum
Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
Cognitive Surge: Coach Stage (with Benjamin Weissman)
The Pit, Los Angeles
2023
Christa Dichgans | Paul McCarthy: (Un)Schuldiges Spiel? Miteinander gegenüber #9
Kunsthalle Bielefeld
Them as Was Is, organised by Cornelius Tittel
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
Xavier Hufkens, Brussels
2022
A&E Drawings: A&E Drawing Session 2021 with Lilith Stangenberg
Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles
Paul McCarthy: Pirates Stew Pot
Hauser & Wirth, Monaco
2021
Dead End Hole
KODE Art Museum, Bergen
Parts Make Up a Hole
The Box, Los Angeles
Painted Pirate Heads
Peder Lund, Oslo
A&E Sessions: Drawing and Painting
Hauser & Wirth, New York
2020
Paul McCarthy. Alpine Stories and other Dystopias
Tamark 22 / Hauser & Wirth, Gstaad
Paul McCarthy: Head Space, Drawings 1963–2019
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
2019
Mixed Bag
Xavier Hufkens, Brussels
2018
360: Paul McCarthy
Zabludowicz Collection, London
Paul McCarthy: Innocence
M Woods, Beijing
2017
Cut Up and Silicone, Female Idol, WS
Kukje Gallery, Seoul
Paul McCarthy. WS Spinoffs, Wood Statues, Brown Rothkos
Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles
WS & CSSC, Drawings and Paintings
Fundació Gaspar, Barcelona
2016
Raw Spinoffs Continuations
Hauser & Wirth, New York
White Snow & Coach Stage Stage Coach, Spinoffs
Xavier Hufkens, Brussels
Lokremise, St. Gallen
Paul McCarthy: White Snow, Wood Sculptures
Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle
2015
Full Exposure: Paul and Damon McCarthy’s Pirate Party
Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham
Paul McCarthy: Drawings
The Renaissance Society, Chicago
Paul McCarthy and Damon McCarthy: Rebel Dabble Babble
Volksbühne, Berlin
Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin
Spin Offs: White Snow WS, Caribbean Pirates CP
Hauser & Wirth, Zurich
Paul McCarthy: Photographs 1977–1996
Art & Public, Cabinet P.H., Geneva
2014
Chocolate Factory
Monnaie de Paris
Paul McCarthy: WS SC
Hauser & Wirth, London
Paul McCarthy: Ketchup and Blod
Galleri F15, Moss
Paul McCarthy: Black and White Tapes
Space Studios, London
2013
Paul McCarthy: WS
Park Avenue Armory, New York
Paul McCarthy & Damon McCarthy: Rebel Dabble Babble
Hauser & Wirth, New York
Paul McCarthy: Life Cast
Hauser & Wirth, New York
Paul McCarthy: Sculptures
Hauser & Wirth, New York
2012
PROPO
Hauser & Wirth, Zurich
White Snow
Peder Lund, Oslo
Paul McCarthy: The Box
Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
Rebel Dabble Babble
The Box, Los Angeles
Paul McCarthy: Nine Dwarves
Kukje Gallery, Seoul
2011
The Dwarves, The Forests
Hauser & Wirth, New York
The King, The Island, The Train, The House, The Ship
Hauser & Wirth, London
Skulptur: Paul McCarthy “Henry Moore Bound to Fail”
Kunst im öffentlichen Raum, Kunsthalle Wien
White Snow Dwarf (Dopey #1)
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Paul McCarthy: Selected Works
Charles Riva Collection, Brussels
2010
Caribbean Pirates (with Damon McCarthy)
Sammlung Friedrichshof, Zurndorf
Three Sculptures
L&M Arts, Los Angeles
Pig Island
Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Milan
2009
Paul McCarthy: White Snow
Hauser & Wirth, New York
Air Pressure
De Uithof, Utrecht
Hauser & Wirth, Zurich
Contemporary trends in video art: Paul McCarthy
Salt Lake Art Center
2008
Central Symmetrical Rotation Movement: Three Installations, Two Films
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
2007
PETER PAUL CHOCOLATES. Edibles by Paul McCarthy
Maccarone Gallery, New York
Paul McCarthy: Tokyo Santa 1996/2004
Essl Museum Kunst der Gegenwart, Klosterneuburg
Paul McCarthy: Air Born / Air Borne / Air Pressure
Middelheim Sculpture Museum, Antwerp
Paul McCarthy, Damon McCarthy: Portfolios
Hauser & Wirth, Zurich
2006
Between Beauty and the Beast. Sculptures, Drawings and Photographs
Nyehaus, New York
Paul McCarthy: Head Shop / Shop Head. Works from 1966–2006
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, travelled to:
ARoS Aarhus Art Museum;
Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent
2005
Paul McCarthy: LaLa Land Parody Paradise
Haus der Kunst, Munich, travelled to:
Whitechapel Gallery, London
2004
Paul McCarthy: Brain Box Dream Box
Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, travelled to:
Centro de Arte Contemporáneo, Malaga
2003
Paul McCarthy: Piccadilly Circus
Hauser & Wirth, London
Tate, London
Paul McCarthy: Films and Video Works
The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo
Zoe Leonard und Paul McCarthy: Werke aus der Sammlung Schürmann
Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Siegen
2002
Propposition (with Jason Rhoades)
Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg
Paul McCarthy & Jason Rhoades: Shit Plug
Hauser & Wirth, Zurich
Paul McCarthy: Clean Thoughts
Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York
Paul McCarthy: Videowerken 1971–1999
De Hallen, Haarlem
Paul McCarthy: Videos
Butler Gallery, Kilkenny
2001
Paul McCarthy: Videos und Fotografien
Kunstverein Hamburg
Tate Liverpool
Paul McCarthy: Pirate Drawings
Hauser & Wirth, Zurich
Villa Arson, Nice
New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
Paul McCarthy: The Garden
Deitch Projects, New York
Paul McCarthy: The Box
Public Art Fund, IBM Building, New York
Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York
2000
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Heidi File
Patrick Painter Inc., Santa Monica
Eleni Koroneou Gallery, Athens
Projekt Fassade
Secession, Vienna
Mike Kelley and Paul McCarthy: Collaborative Works
The Power Plant, Toronto
1999
Propposition, (with Jason Rhoades)
David Zwirner Gallery, New York
Dimensions of the Mind
Sammlung Hauser & Wirth, Lokremise St. Gallen
Dead H and Early Performance Photographs
Studio Guenzani, Milan
Tokyo Santa Santa’s Trees
Blum & Poe, Santa Monica
Paul McCarthy and Mike Kelley: Videos 1970–1998
Kunstbunker Tumulka, Munich
1998
Painter, Video and Drawings
Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna
Paul McCarthy: 1969–1983
Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York
Paul McCarthy: Combination Photographs, Video, and Objects
Patrick Painter Inc., Santa Monica
Sod and Sodie Sock (with Mike Kelley)
Secession, Vienna
1997
Santa Chocolate Shop
Hauser & Wirth, Zurich
1996
Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo
Salon
Air de Paris
Yaa-Hoo
Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York
Video Works
Galerie Drantmann, Brussels
Video and Drawings
Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen
1995
5 Photographic Works, 1970–1974
Blum & Poe, Santa Monica
Projects 51: Paul McCarthy
MoMA - The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Art and Public, Geneva
Tomato Head
Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
Mike Kelley and Paul McCarthy
Kunstverein Hamburg
1994
Pinocchio Pipenose Householddilemma
Air de Paris, travelled to:
Galeria Antoni Estrany, Barcelona;
Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York;
Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen;
Esther Schipper Galerie, Cologne;
Studio Guenzani, Milan;
McKinney Art Center, Dallas;
City Art Gallery, Auckland;
Oberösterreichische Landesmuseum, Linz
FRAC - Fonds Regional d’Art Contemporain, Poitou-Charentes, Angoulème
Air de Paris, Nice
Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles
Galerie George-Philippe Vallois, Paris
Studio Guenzani, Milan
1993
Video
Ynglingagatan 1, Stockholm
Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna
The Dead Viking
Buchholz und Buchholz, Cologne
Luring Augustine Gallery, New York
1991
Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles
1990
Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles
1987
Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles
1986
Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles
1985
AAA Art, Los Angeles
1983
Paintings
Cirque Divers, Liège
1982
Human Object
LACE - Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions
1979
Contemporary Cure All
Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Exhibitions
Deadening
Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Exhibitions
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Nothing Is: Sun Ra and Others’ Covers
JUBG, Cologne
2023
GRUPPENAUSSTELLUNG: A celebration of the gallery's heritage and family origins
Hauser & Wirth, Somerset
Before Tomorrow – Astrup Fearnley Museet 30 Years
Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo
the ömen: Albert Oehlen paintings and Paul McCarthy sculptures
Gagosian, New York
Richard Jackson + Paul McCarthy
The Maria Leuff Foundation, New York
Lee Lozano and Paul McCarthy
NEST - ZHdK Zürcher Hochschule der Künste, Zurich
2022
Claustrophobia Alpina II: Subliminal Illuminations & the Shadows of Flight
Forde, Geneva
The Animal Within. Creatures in (and outside) the mumok Collection
Mumok - Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien
Amitiés, créativité collective
Mucem - Musée des civilisations de l'Europe et de la Méditerranée, Marseille
An Uncertain Pleasure
MAMBO - Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogota
Summer Season 2022 Presentation
Skulpturenpark Schwante, Oberkrämer
Mirror Mirror. Fashion & The Psyche
MoMu - ModeMuseum, Antwerp
The Double: Identity and Difference in Art Since 1900'
The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
A Century of the Artist’s Studio 1920–2020
Whitechapel Gallery, London
Luncheon on the Grass
Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles
something new, something old, something desired
Hamburger Kunsthalle
Stahl Collection, second exhibition
Stahl Collection, Norrkoping
2021
The Greek Gift
DESTE Foundation Project Space, Hydra
Facing the Crowd
West Den Haag
Mother!
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, travelled to:
Kunsthalle Mannheim
Drawing on the Mind
Hauser & Wirth, Hong Kong
Albrecht Fuchs. A
Galerie Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman, Innsbruck
Albert Oehlen – "Big Paintings by Me with Small Paintings by Others"
Museo d’Arte della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano
The Impermanent Display
LUMA Arles
Beyond Colour. Black and white in the Pinault Collection
The Pinault Collection, Couvent des Jacobins, Rennes
Arcimboldo Face to Face
Centre Pompidou-Metz
American Art 1961–2001
Palazzo Strozzi, Florence
NOT I: Throwing Voices (1500 BCE–2020 CE)
LACMA - Los Angeles County Museum of Art
New Iconography: Artists Raising Children
The Landing, Los Angeles
2020
Untitled, 2020. Three Perspectives on the Art of the Present
Punta della Dogana, Venice
On the Razor’s Edge
Museo Jumex, Mexico City
2019
Self-Perception. Portrait Identities
Sprengel Museum, Hannover
Mike Bouchet & Paul Mccarthy: Upper Double Decker
Marlborough, London
Des mots et des choses
FRAC Bretagne, Châteaugiron
The Red Bean Grows in the South
Faurschou Foundation, New York
ART STRIKES BACK: From John to Banksy
Jorn Museum, Silkeborg
My Garden of Eden
Christophe Guye Galerie, Zurich
Hyperrealism Sculpture: Ceci n’est pas un corps
La Boverei, Liège
Fuzzy Dark Spot: Video Art from Hamburg
Falckenberg Collection, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
People
Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles
Personal Private Public
Hauser & Wirth, New York
Making Knowing: Craft in Art, 1950–2019
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Lust auf mehr. Neues aus der Sammlung Würth zur Kunst nach 1960
Kunsthalle Würth, Schwäbisch Hall
Enigma Pinocchio. From Giacometti to LaChapelle
Villa Bardini, Florence
Hyperrealism Sculpture. Ceci n'est pas un corps
Museum La Boverie, Liège
2018
Michael Jackson: On the Wall
National Portrait Gallery, London, travelled to:
Grand Palais, Paris;
Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn;
EMMA - Espoo Museum of Modern Art
Paul McCarthy & Christian Lemmerz: Reality Virtual Reality
Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig
My Colour on Your Plate
Serendipity Arts Festival, Goa
RE.USE: Waste, Objects, Ecology in Contemporary Art
Museo di Santa Caterina, Treviso
Bodyscan: Anatomy in the Arts and Sciences
ERES-Stiftung, Munich
Local Histories
Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Berlin
Tables, Carpets & Dead Flowers
Hauser & Wirth, Zurich
Remote Castration
LAXART, Los Angeles
Class Reunion: Works from the Gaby and Wilhelm Scürmann Collection
mumok - Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien
Portable Art: A Project by Celia Forner
Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles
I Still Believe in Miracles: Works from Selvage Art Collection
Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo
Hello World: Revising a Collection
Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Berlin
PLAY Kontrijk 2018
City of Kontrijk
Bronze Age
Firstsite, Colchester
Walking On the Fade Out Lines
Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai
Art & Entertainment
Musée d’art moderne et contemporain, Geneva
Like Life: Sculpture, Color, and the Body (1300–Now)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
If So, What?
Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco
The Land We Live In – The Land We Left Behind
Hauser & Wirth Somerset, Bruton
Travelers: Stepping into the Unknown
National Museum of Art, Osaka
2017
Paul McCarthy & Christian Lemmerz, New Media (Virtual Reality Art)
Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice
Paul McCarthy & Mike Kelley: Heidi, Midlife Crisis Trauma Center and Negative Media-Engram Abreaction Release Zone 1992
Deitch Projects, New York
ISelf Collection: The Upset Bucket Whitec
apel Gallery, London
I am you, you are too
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
The Everywhere Studio
Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami
Vitual Reality Art
Faurschou Fondation, Beijing
Soledad Lorenzo Collection
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid
Hyper Real
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Half a Tank of Gas
Kunsthaus Glarus and Swiss Institute
Animals
Charles Riva Project, Brussels
Recent Acquisitions
Faurschou Fondation, Copenhagen
White Trash
Luhring Augustine, New York
PoïPoï, une Collection Privée à Monaco
Nouveau Musée National de Monaco
Portable Art: A Project by Celia Forner
Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles
Unpacking: The Marciano Collection
Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles
Serialities
Hauser & Wirth, New York
Mourning and Melancholia
Faurschou Foundation, Copenhagen
2016
Hyperrealist Sculpture 1973–2016
Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, travelled to:
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey;
ARKEN Museum for Moderne Kunst, Ishøj
Los Angeles: A Fiction
Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, travelled to:
Musée d’art contemporain de Lyon
The Billboard Creative Show
Billboard Creative, Los Angeles
5 Years at Heddon Street
Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London
The Power and the Glory
Charles Riva Collection, Brussels
The Eighties – A Decade of Extremes
M HKA, Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp
Human Figure
Charles Riva Project, Brussels
Art from Los Angeles: 1990–2010
Studio Guenzani, Milan
Human Interest: Portraits from The Whitney’s Collection
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Don’t Look Back: The 1990s at MOCA
The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles
Heroes
Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois, Paris
Objects Do Things
Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
Punk: Its Traces in Contemporary Art
Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona
Performing for the Camera
Tate Modern, London
Double Act
Metropolitan Arts Centre, Belfast
The Natural Order of Things
Museo Jumex, Mexico City
MashUp: The Birth of Modern Culture
Vancouver Art Gallery
impromptu (with Damon McCarthy)
The Box, Los Angeles
2015
Inbetween: Baselitz-McCarthy
The George Economou Collection, Athens
Salon d’Hiver
Hauser & Wirth, Zurich
The Worlds Turned Upside Down
BPS22, Charleroi
Die Kunst, die Kunst, ich pfeife auf die Kunst: Arthur Cravan im Ring mit 13 Künstlern unserer Zeit
8. Salon, Hamburg
About Trees
Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern
Voices of 20 Contemporary Artists at Idem Paris, a Lithography Studio in Montparnasse
Tokyo Station Gallery
Art Strikes Back
Fundació Gaspar, Barcelona
Picasso.Mania
Grand Palais, Paris
A Few Free Years: from Absalon to Zobernig. Donations by Friedrich Christian Flick to the Nationalgalerie
Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Berlin
Marlborough Lights
Marborough Chelsea, New York
Geometries On and Off the Grid. Art from 1950 to the Present
The Warehouse, Dallas
Drawing in L.A.: The 1960s and 70s
LACMA - Los Angeles County Museum of Art
America Is Hard to See
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
My Body Is the Event: Vienna Actionism and International Performance
mumok - Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien
Self-Inflicted Justice By Bad Shopping: New Acquisitions of the Falckenberg Collection 2011–2014
Falckenberg Collection, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
Eagles II: Contemporary American Artists
Galeria Marlborough, Madrid
HE: The Hergott Shepard Photography Collection
The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor
Thorn in the Flesh
The George Economou Collection, Athens
ROLL UP, ROLL UP! An Anatomical Waxwork Cabinet meets Art
Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden
Une histoire, art, architecture et design, des années 80 à aujourd’hui
Centre Pompidou, Paris
Proper Nouns
Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York
Open This End: Contemporary Art from the Collection of Blake Byrne
Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, travelled to:
Ohio State University Urban Arts Space, Columbus;
Ronna and Eric Hoffman Gallery of Contemporary Art, Lewis & Clark College, Portland;
Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York
2014
Mike Bouchet & Paul McCarthy: DOUBLE DECK Monty Carlo
Marlborough Monaco
Mike Bouchet & Paul McCarthy
Portikus, Frankfurt
Mike Bouchet & Paul McCarthy
Galerie Parisa Kind, Frankfurt
Something old, Something new, Something Borrowed, Something blue
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino
The Betty And Edward Marcus Sculpture Park At Laguna Gloria
The Contemporary Austin
Disturbing Innocence
The FLAG Art Foundation, New York
Bruna Aickelin 1970–2014
Galleria Il Capricorno, Venice
Décors à vivre: Les Arts Décoratifs accueillent AD Intérieurs 2014
Musée Des Arts Décoratifs, Paris
Art as a Verb
Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne
Post Pop: East Meets West
Saatchi Gallery, London
Titans of the Stratosphere
Patrick Painter Inc., Santa Monica
Body Doubles
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
Use Me
Herbert Foundation, Ghent
Thorn in the Flesh
The George Economou Collection, Athens
Secret Passions: Private Flemish Collections
Tripostal, Lille
Retro active: Performance Art From 1964–1987
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington
do it Moscow
Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow
Hybrid Creatures
Galerie Sophie Scheidecker, Paris
Knock! Knock!
Galeria Javier Lopez, Madrid
Men in LA: Three Generations of Drawers
The Box, Los Angeles
Beg, Borrow and Steal
Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke
Blicke! Körper! Sensationen! Ein anatomisches Wachskabinett und die Kunst
Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden
The Nakeds
The Drawing Room, London
The Human Factor: Use of the Figure in Contemporary Sculpture
Hayward Gallery, London
Remembering is not enough: MAXXI Collection
MAXXI – Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome
Franz Graf: Siehe was dich sieht
Belvedere, Vienna
1984–1999. The Decade
Centre Pompidou-Metz
Macht. Wahn. Vision. Rapunzel & Co. Von Türmen und Menschen in der Kunst
Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck, Remagen
Artlovers: Stories of Art in the Pinault Collection
Grimaldi Forum Monaco
Trash & Art
Galerie Hummel, Vienna
Binding Desire: Unfolding Artists Books
Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles
Take It or Leave It: Institution, Image, Ideology
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
2013
Andy Hope 1930, Paul McCarthy: Down Show Show Down
8. Salon, Hamburg
Confusion in the Vault
Museo Jumex, Mexico City
PAINT(erly)
MAB society, BANK gallery, Shanghai
Der schein: Glanz, Glamour, Illusion
Kestnergesellschaft, Hanover
Somos Libres
MATE - Mario Testino Museum, Lima
Comic Future
Ballroom Marfa, travelled to:
Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus
On Paper
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Helga de Alvear, Cáceres
Body Pressure. Sculptures since the 1960s
Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Berlin
White: Photography, Art, Design, Fashion, Film
Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam
Macht. Wahn. Vision. Der Turm und urbane Giganten
Städtischen Museen Heilbronn
El Teatro del Arte
Centro de Arte Caja de Burgos
Disturbing the Piece: An expedition through the World of Collage
Marta Herford Museum;
Kunstmuseum Ahlen
Dead Inside
Bleecker Street Arts Club, New York
Middle Gate Geel 13
De Halle, Geel
Le Surréalisme et l’objet
Centre Pompidou, Paris
The Humors
Perry Rubenstein Gallery, Los Angeles
The Estate
Galerie Micky Schubert, Berlin
Van Gogh Live!
Fondation Vincent van Gogh, Arles
The Weak Sex – How Art Pictures the New Male
Kunstmuseum Bern
Il Palazzo Enciclopedico
55th Venice Biennial
Mobile M+: Inflation, M+
West Kowloon Cultural District, Hong Kong
Mondo Utah: The Folkloric of the Beehive State
Utah Biennial of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City
From Page to Space
Kunsthaus Kaufbeuren
Riotous Baroque: From Catelan to Zurbarán. Tributes to Precarious Vitality
Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao;
Kunsthaus Zürich
Drawing Line into Form: Works on Paper by Sculptors from the Collection of BNY Mellon
Tacoma Arts Museum
From Figuration
Skarstedt Gallery, London
People
Parkett Ausstellungsraum, Zurich
L’art à l’épreuve du monde
Communauté Urbaine de Dunkerque
NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star
New Museum, New York
Beg, Borrow and Steal: Rubell Family Collection
Palm Springs Art Museum
Language Games. An Introduction to the Art of Our Times
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Helga de Alvear, Caceres
The Naked Man
Ludwig Múzeum, Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest
Do or Die. The Human Condition in Painting and Photography
Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden
2012
Vidéo Vintage 1963–1983
Centre Pompidou, Paris, travelled to:
Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe;
Oi Futuro Cultural Center, Rio de Janeiro;
Beirut Art Center;
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul;
Oi Futuro Cultural Center, Rio de Janeiro
Number Six: Flaming Creatures
Julia Stoschek Collection, Dusseldorf
Painting
The Box, Los Angeles
Enlightened: Electric light as the Fairy of Art
Artipelag, Gustavsberg
Fruits of Passion
Centre Pompidou, Paris
Language Games: An Introduction to the Art of our Times
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Helga de Alvear, Cáceres
Mike Kelley — Paul McCarthy
Espace Croisé, centre d’art contemporain, Roubaix
Explosion! The legacy of Jackson Pollock
The Joan Miró Foundation, Barcelona
California
Charles Riva Collection, Brussels
Der Nackte Mann
Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz
Metamorphosis: The transformation of being
All Visual Arts, London
From Death to Death and Other Small Tales: Masterpieces from the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and the D. Daskalopoulos collection
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
The Art of Chess
Saatchi Gallery, London
The Big Bang
The Watermill Center
Explosion! Painting in Action
Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Number six: Flamming Creatures
Julia Stoschek Collection, Dusseldorf
Safari, Le Lieu Unique
Scène Nationale de Nantes
A la vie délibérée! Une histoire de la performance sur la Côte d’Azur de 1951 à 2011
Villa Arson, Nice
Mythos Atelier. Künstlerräume von Carl Spitzweg bis Bruce Nauman
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart
ART AND THE CITY: Das Festival für Kunst im öffentlichen Raum in Zürich-West
City of Zurich
Mash Up: Collage from 1930 to the present
L&M Arts, Los Angeles
Exquisite Corpses: Drawing and Disfiguration
MoMA - The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Move: Choreographing you
National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul
This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, travelled to:
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis;
The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
Art with Chocolate
Museum Ritter, Waldenbach
Struggel(s)
Maison Particulière, Brussels
Rebel: James Franco, Douglas Gordon, Harmony Korine, Damon McCarthy, Paul McCarthy, Terry Richardson, Ed Ruscha, Aaron Young
MOCA - The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
The Best of Times, The Worst of Times: Rebirth and Apocalypse in Contemporary Art
Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kiev
Common Ground
City Hall Park, New York
Ends of the Earth: Land Art to 1974
The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, travelled to:
Haus der Kunst, Munich
Bye Bye American Pie
Museo de Arte Latinoamericano, Buenos Aires
Art Histories
VOX Contemporary Image Centre, Montreal
Utopia Gesamtkunstwerk, 21er Haus
Museum und Schloss Belvedere, Vienna
Atelier + Kitchen = Laboratories of the Senses
Marta Herford Museum
Hotel California II
Mitterrand + Cramer, Geneva
Los Angeles Free Music Society: Beneath the Valley of the Lowest Form of Music
The Box, Los Angeles
LA Raw: Abject Expressionism in Los Angeles 1945–1980, From Rico Lebrun to Paul McCarthy
PMCA - Pasadena Museum of California Art
Big Picture III (Szenen / Figuren)
K21 Ständehaus, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf
Do or Die. The Human Condition in Painting and Photography
Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden
2011
100 Years (Version #4 Boston, 2012)
Boston University Art Gallery
American Exuberance
Rubell Family Collection / Contemporary Arts Foundation, Miami
Recollecting Performance
LACE - Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions
In the first Circle. A Project by Imogen Stidworthy
Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona
Farbe im Fluss/Color in Flux
Weserburg Museum für moderne Kunst, Bremen
Welcome in the Dark!
Herning Museum of Contemporary Art
Walter Van Beirendonck: Dream the World Awake
MoMu - ModeMuseum Antwerpen
The Collectors Show
Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
Zwei Sammler: Thomas Olbricht und Harald Falckenberg
Deichtorhallen Hamburg
Das Atelier: Werkstatt und Mythos
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart
Out of Storage: Provisoire & Définitif
Marres, House for Contemporary Culture, Maastricht
Off the Wall / Fora da Parede
Serralves Museum, Porto
He disappeared into complete silence: Rereading a Single Artwork by Louise Bourgeois
De Hallen, Haarlem
Dance You Life
Centre Pompidou, Paris
LA Raw: Abject Expressionism in Los Angeles 1945-1980. From Rico Lebrun to Paul McCarthy
PMCA - Pasadena Museum of California Art
State of Mind: New California Art Circa 1970
OCMA - Orange County Museum of Art, Newport, travelled to:
Berkeley Art Museum;
Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver;
SITE Santa Fe;
The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York;
Smart Museum of Art, Chicago
Under the Big Black Sun: California Art 1974–1981
MOCA - The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Los Angeles Goes Live: Performance Art in Southern California 1970–1983
LACE - Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions
Another Kind of Vapor
White Flag Projects, Saint Louis
Glimmer
Fundación/Colección Jumex, Ecatepec
Two Colors
Kathleen Cullen Fine Art & Elisabeth Ivers Gallery, New York
Unpainted Paintings
Luxembourg & Dayan, New York
Eating Art
Fundacón Caixa Catalunya, Barcelona
TEXT/VIDEO/FEMALE: Art after 60s
PKM Trinity Gallery, Seoul
The Luxury of Dirt
Galerie Bob van Orsouw, Zurich
De Kooning, De Kooning, De Kooning...
David Risley Gallery, Copenhagen
Zwischen Film und Kunst: Storyboards von Hitchcock bis Spielberg
Kunsthalle Emden
The Luminous Interval
Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao
In Praise of Doubt
Punta della Dogana, Francois Pinault Foundation, Venice
Kompass: Zeichnungen aus dem Museum of Modern Art New York
Gropius Bau, Berlin
Festival der Tiere
Essl Museum, Klosterneuburg
Move: Kunst und Tanz seit den 1960er Jahren
Haus der Kunst, Munich
From the collection: Unreal
Vancouver Art Gallery
Disorder in the house
Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels
8 1⁄2
Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Florence
Living Archives: Cooperation Van Abbemuseum
Kunsthaus Bregenz
2010
200 Artworks: 25 Years
Hangaram Museum, Seoul
Cosa fa la mia anima mentre sto lavorando? Opere d’arte contemporanea dalla collezione Consolandi
GAM - Civica Galleria d’Arte Moderna di Gallarate
What’s New, Pussycat?
Torrance Art Museum
Compass in hand: Selections from the Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection
Institut Valencià d’Art Modern
Move: Choreographing You
The Hayward Gallery, London, travelled to:
Haus der Kunst, Munich;
Kunstsammlung NRW, Dusseldorf
THE PRIVATE MUSEUM: The passion for Contemporary Art in the Collections in Bergamo
Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bergamo
Exquisite Corpse Project: Leading Artists Recreate Surrealist Parlor Game
Klemes Gasser & Tanja Grunert Gallery, New York
Where Do We Go From Here? Selections from La Colección Jumex
Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati
Covering the Wall: Contemporary Wallpapers
Musée de design et d’arts appliqués contemporains, Lausanne
¡Sin techo está pelón!
Galerías Hermenegildo Bustos, Guanajuato
The Artist’s Museum
MOCA - The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
The Right to Protest
Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem
TAPS: Improvisations with Paul Burwell
Matts Gallery, London
Collecting Biennials
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Postmonument
14th Biennale of Carrara
Off the Wall: Part 1. Thirty Performative Actions
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Gestures and Procedures
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
Permanent Trouble: Kunst aus der Sammlung Kopp München
Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie, Regensburg
Sexuality and Transcendence
Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev
Crash: Homage to JG Ballard
Gagosian, London
The Beauty of Distance: Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age
17th Sydney Biennale
Soaps, Flukes, and Follies
Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art, Nashville
Think Pink
Gavlak Gallery, Palm Beach
Skin Fruit: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection
New Museum, New York
Gestures: Performance and Sound
Museet for Samtidskunst, Roskilde
The 8th Gwangju Biennale
Happy End
Kunsthalle Goeppingen
Childish Things
The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
Do or Die: The Human Condition in Painting and Photography
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne
Hydrarchy: Power and Resistance at Sea
Gasworks, London
Hareng Saur: Ensor and Contemporary Art
S.M.A.K. - Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent;
Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent
Barbaric FreedomSimon Lee Gallery, London
Disquieted
Portland Art Museum
FischGrätenMelkStand
Temporäre Kunsthalle, Berlin
Resonance
Suntory Museum Osaka
Abstract Resistance
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Sonic Youth etc.: Sensational Fix
Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Móstoles
I love you
ARoS Aarhus Art Museum
2009
Paul McCarthy’s Low Life Slow Life: Part 2
CCA - Wattis Institute of Contemporary Arts, San Francisco
Eating The Universe: Vom Essen in der Kunst
Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, travelled to:
Kunstmuseum Stuttgart;
Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck
Investigations of a Dog
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, travelled to:
Ellipse Foundation, Cascais;
La maison rouge Fondation Antoine de Galbert, Paris;
Magasin III Stockholm Konsthall;
DESTE Foundation, Athens
Die Kunst ist super
Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Berlin
Beg Borrow and Steal
Rubell Family Collection, Miami
MOCA’s First Thirty Years
MOCA - The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Where Do We Go From Here? Selections from La Colección Jumex
Bass Museum of Art, Miami
Target Practice: Painting Under Attack 1949–78
Seattle Art Museum
GAGARIN the Artists in their Own Words: The First Decade
S.M.A.K. - Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent
Attraction (Voyage sentimental)
FRAC - Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain, Poitou-Charentes, Angoulème
Beyond Black, White and Gray
L&M Arts, New York
Boule to Braid
Lisson Gallery, London
A Guest + A Host = Ghost
DESTE Foundation, Athens
Quand la première ivresse des succès bruyants...
Château Guiraud, Sauternes
Now New: New Works
Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art, Istanbul
My Generation
Kurimanzutto, Mexico City
Live Art
Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo
Who’s afraid of the Artist?
Palais des Arts de Dinard
Un Certain Etat du Monde?
The Garage Centre for Contemporary Culture in Moscow
Compass in Hand: Selections from the Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Culture
MoMA - The Museum of Modern Art, New York
The Same River Twice: Part 2
Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
N’importe quoi
Musée d’Art Contemporain, Lyon
Mapping the Studio: Artists from the François Pinault Collection
Palazzo Grassi/Punta della Dogana, Venice
The Puppet Show
Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, travelled to:
Frye Art Museum, Seattle
The Art of Chess
Reykjavik Art Museum
No Sound of Music
Salzburger Kunstverein
The Theatre of Performance
Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin
The Artist’s Studio
Compton Verney, Warwickshire
I Use Perfume to Occupy more Space
Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City
2008
Paul McCarthy’s Low Life Slow Life: Part 1
CCA - Wattis Institute of Contemporary Arts, San Francisco
Paul McCarthy & Benjamin Weissman: Quilting Sessions
Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Trento, travelled to:
Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw;
Eesti Kunstimuuseum, Tallinn
Group show
1031PE, Los Angeles
Helga de Alvear und Harald Falckenberg im Dialog
Phoenix Kulturstiftung, Hamburg
The Practice of Everyday Life. Fundación / Colección Jumex
Museo Nacional de Arte, Mexico City
Looking Back: The White Columns Annual
White Columns, New York
Stars and Stripes Forever
Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
The Cult of Personality: Portraits and Mass Culture
Galerie Erna Hécey, Brussels
The Rocky Mountain People Show
Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Trento
FuturARTextiel
Museum voor beeldende en toegepaste kunst, Kortrijk
Weighing and Wanting: Selections from the Collection
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego
The Same River Twice Part 1
Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
Time Crevasse
Yokohama Triennale 2008
Index: Conceptualism in California from the Permanent Collection
MOCA - The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Here Is Every: Four Decades of Contemporary Art
MoMA - The Museum of Modern Art, New York
I’ve Got Something in My Eye
Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson
A Sorry Kind of Wisdom
Perry Rubenstein Gallery, New York
The Puppet Show
Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, travelled to:
Santa Monica Museum of Art;
The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu
Not Quite How I Remembered it
The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto
Peripheral Vision and Collective Body
Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Bozen, Bolzano
Collectie XXII Fantasy
Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerp
In the Land of Retinal Delights: The Juxtapoz Factor
Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach
Blood on Paper: The Art of the Book
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Hotel California
Galerie Vallois, Paris
Cult of the artist: “I can’t just slice off an ear every day” Deconstructing the Myth of the Artist
Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Berlin
Nothing But Sculpture
XIII Biennale Internazionale di Scultura di Carrara
Pretty Ugly
Maccarone Gallery and Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York
Lustwarande 08: Wanderland
Park de Oude Warande and Museum De Pont, Tilburg
Sonic Youth etc.: Sensational Fix
LIFE, Saint-Nazaire, travelled to:
Museion, Bozen;
Kunsthalle Düsseldorf;
Malmö Konsthall
No Images of Man
Gering-Lopez Gallery, New York
The Hague Sculpture 2008: FREEDOM. American Sculpture
Grote Zaal Koninklijke Schouwburg, The Hague
Die Hände der Kunst: Mehr als 190 Zeichnungen, Drucke und Collagen mit Händen zeitgenössischer Künstler
Marta Herford Museum
La dégelée Rabelais
FRAC - Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain Languedoc-Roussillon, Montpellier
Hotel Marienbad 002: Sammlung Rausch
KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
Lost Paradise: Der Blick des Engels
Paul Klee Zentrum, Bern
Less is Less, More is More, That’s All
Musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux Entrepôt
Electronic Lounge: La donazione Halevim al museo del Novecento
ExhibAir Malpensa, Milan
Entschleunigung
Kramer Amthaus, Munster
Eclipse: Art in a Dark Age
Moderna Museet, Stockholm
On Procession
Indianapolis Museum of Art
Depletion: Works from the Doron Sebbag Art Collection
Tel Aviv Museum of Art
Southern Exposure: Works from the Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Faces
Eleni Koroneou Gallery, Athens
Ne pas jouer avec des choses mortes
Villa Arson, Nice
Other than Yourself: An Investigation Between Inner and Outer Space
Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna
Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art
Barbican Art Gallery, London
California Video
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
The Sound of Art: TONSPUR expanded
Freiraum, MuseumsQuartier, Vienna
The Art of Chess
Sebastian Guinness Gallery, Dublin
2007
Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
MoMA - The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Performance on Demand
EFA Gallery, New York
No, Future
Bloomberg SPACE, London
Fit to Print: Printed Media in recent Collage
Gagosian, New York
Evidence of Movement
Getty Center, Los Angeles
Bare Life
Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem
Who’s got the big picture?
Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerp
Art since the 1960s: California Experiments
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach
A Point in Space is a Place for an Argument
David Zwirner, New York
Disorder in the House
Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels
Foto.Kunst
Essl Museum Kunst der Gegenwart, Klosterneuburg
Reboot: The Jim Barr and Mary Barr CollectionChristchurch Art Gallery
There Is Never A Stop and Never a Finish. In memoriam Jason Rhoades
Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Berlin
Panic Attack! Art in the Punk Years
Barbican Center, London
Dream & Trauma: Works from the Dakis Joannou Collection Athens
mumok - Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien
Guggenheim Collection: 1940s to Now. New York-Venice-Bilbao-Berlin
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Passion for Art
Essl Museum Kunst der Gegenwart, Klosterneuburg
The Fractured Figure
DESTE Foundation, Athens
Live / Work: Performance into Drawing
MoMA - The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Nothing Else Matters
De Hallen, Haarlem
IDYLLE
Domus Artium 2002, Salamanca
100 Jahre Kunsthalle Mannheim
Kunsthalle Mannheim
Bodycheck
10th Fellbach Triennial of Contemporary Sculpture
Die Kunst zu Sammeln
Museum Kunstpalast, Dusseldorf
Omission
Perry Rubenstein Gallery, New York
Final Cut: Medienkunst und Kino
European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück
Into Me / Out of Me
Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma
2006
Kunst aus Los Angeles der 60er bis 90er Jahre
Kunstverein Braunschweig
Scope 2006
New York
Full House
Kunsthalle Mannheim
Wiener Aktionismus
mumok - Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien
Transforming Chronologies 2
MoMA - The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Work Zones
San Francisco Art Institute
Open House
Instituto Inhotim, Minas Gerais
Sammlung Dahlmann
Leopold Hoesch Museum, Dueren
FASTER! BIGGER! BETTER!
Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe
With the Artists: New Paintings by Jake, Paul, George and Dinos
RS&A Ltd., London
Galerie Patrick Seguin invites Hauser & Wirth
Galerie Patrick Seguin, Paris
Where are we going? The Francois Pinault collection: A Post-Pop Selection
Palazzo Grassi, Venice
Wrestle
Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson
Renegades: 25 Years of Performance Art
Exit Art, New York
Figures de l’acteur: Le paradoxe du comédien
Collection Lambert en Avignon
Yes Bruce Nauman
Zwirner & Wirth, New York
People: from the Collection of Ernesto Esposito
Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Donnaregina, Naples
Highlights from the Photography Collection: Contemporary Complexities
Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville
Another Fine Mess: Video Works from 1967–2005
Ruskin School at Oxford
Idylle: Traum und Trugschluss
Sammlung Falckenberg / Phoenix Kulturstiftung, Hamburg
On second thought
Perry Rubenstein Gallery, New York
Full House: Views of the Whitney’s Collection at 75
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Implosion: 10 Year Anniversary
Anton Kern Gallery, New York
Conversations
Naturalis, Leiden
Red Eye: Los Angeles Artists from the Rubell Family Collection
Rubell Family Collection, Miami
Into Me / Out of Me
MoMA PS1, New York, travelled to:
KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
100 Artists See God
Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville
Surprise Surprise
Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
Studio
Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane
Action
FRAC - Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain, Marseille
Dada’s Boys
Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
Sip My Ocean
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk
Infinite Painting
Villa Manin Centre for Contemporary Art, Codroipo
Of Mice and Men
4th Berlin Biennial
Los Angeles 1955–1985: Birth of an Artistic Capital
Centre Pompidou, Paris
Sixteen Tons
UCLArts, Los Angele
Faites vos jeux: Art and game since Dada / Kunst und Spiel seit Dada
Museum für Gegenwartkunst, Siegen
2005
John McCracken, Paul McCarthy
Hauser & Wirth, Zurich
100 Artists See God
Albright College Freedman Art Gallery, Reading, travelled to:
Contemporary Art Center of Virginia
Domestic Violence
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid
Art Athina 2005, Athens
De Zomer van Middelburg
Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerp
The Gesture
Quarter, Florence
Collection Automne/HiverMusée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux
Private View 1980–2000
Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne
Big Bang
Centre Pompidou, Paris
Sammlung 2005: Neupräsentation
Kunstsammlung im Ständehaus, Dusseldorf
The Gesture
Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki
KunstFilm Biennale
Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne
Polymorph Pervers
ACC Weimar
Video II: Allegorie
NRW-Forum, Dusseldorf
From the Electronic Eye
Castello di Rivoli, Turin
L’humanité mise à nu...
Casino Luxembourg
Multiplo 2
N.O. Gallery, Milan
MULTIPLE RÄUME (3): FILM
Kunsthalle Baden-Baden
Falckenberg Collection
Helsinki City Art Museum
The Art of Chess
Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York
The Blake Byrne Collection
MOCA - The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Looking at Words
Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
Superstars
BA-CA Kunstforum, Vienna
After the Act
mumok - Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien
Figur / Skulptur
Essl Museum Kunst der Gegenwart, Klosterneuburg
Lichtkunst aus Kunstlicht
Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe
Important Modern and Contemporary Art
Coleccion Gary Nader, Miami
Faites vos jeux! Art and game since Dada / Kunst und Spiel seit Dada
Akademie der Künste, Berlin, travelled to:
Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz
Multiple Strategies
Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati
Speaking with Hands
Guggenheim Museum, New York, travelled to:
Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao;
Museum Folkwang, Essen
Mythologies
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Drawings from the Modern, 1975–2005
MoMA - The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Conversations
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
A Walk to Remember
LACE - Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions
Faces in the Crowd
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, travelled to:
Castello di Rivoli, Turin
Bidibidobidiboo: La Collezione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo per i dieci anni della
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin
Les grands spectacles: 120 Jahre Kunst und Massenkultur
Museum der Moderne, Salzburg
Die obere Hälfte: die Büste von August Rodin bis heute
Kunsthalle Emden, travelled to:
Städtische Museen Heilbronn;
Museum Liner, Appenzell
Figure It Out: New Directions in Figurative Sculpture
The Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill
New York-Paris 1945–2005
Tajan, Paris
Superstars: The Principle of Renown
Kunsthalle Wien
Puppets & Heavenly Creatures
Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna
Spielräume
Stiftung Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg
Miradas y Conceptos en la Colección Helga de Alvear
Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo, Badajoz
Dionysiac
Centre Pompidou, Paris
Girls on film
Zwirner & Wirth, New York
John McCracken — Paul McCarthy
Hauser & Wirth, Zürich
Homage to the Square
Galerie Mezzanin, Vienna
2004
Das Grosse Fressen: Von Pop bis heute
Kunsthalle Bielefeld
Video and After
Centre Pompidou, Paris
One on One
Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
Uses of the image: Film, Photography and Video in the Jumex Collection
Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires
Fantasy Iceland
Reykjavik Arts Festival 2004
I am the Wrath of God
MOT London
Bewegliche Teile / Steirischer Herbst 2004
Kunsthaus Graz
Visions of America
Essl Museum Kunst der Gegenwart, Klosterneuburg
Vision einer Sammlung
Museum der Moderne, Salzburg
Einleuchten
Museum der Moderne, Salzburg
About Painting
Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Saratoga Springs
15 Jahre Deichtorhallen
Deichtorhallen Hamburg
Blast
SASSAS Benefit, Beverly Hills
Drafting Deceit
Apexart, New York
White
International Center of Photography, New York
Faces in the Crowd
Whitechapel Gallery, London
The Great Parade
Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, travelled to:
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Sheep Plug
Kling & Bang Gallery, Reykjavik
Institute for Contemporary Art University of Philadelphia
Is There a Curator to Save the Show?
Gallery Georges-Phillipe & Nathalie Vallois, Paris
Schatzhäuser Deuschlands
Haus der Kunst, Munich
Friedrich Christian Flick Collection im Hamburger Bahnhof
Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
Klütterkammer: An Exhibition by John Bock
Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
Disparities and Deformations: Our Grotesque
SITE Santa Fe
Fantasy Island
Hallormsstadur National Forest
Monument to Now
DESTE Foundation, Athens
I am The Walrus
Cheim & Read, New York
Evidence of Impact: Art and Photography 1963–1978
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Die Neue Kunsthalle III
Kunsthalle Mannheim
L’Intime
Maison Rouge, Fondation Antoine de Galbert, Paris
Artist’s Favourite
Institute of Contemporary Art, London
Point of View: An Anthology of the Moving Image
MOCA - The Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, travelled to:
Le Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris;
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
L’action restreinte
MACBA - Museo d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona
In Search of the Perfect Lover
Hauser & Wirth, London
Playlist
Palais de Tokyo, Paris
MegaAmerica
Galerie Loyal, Kassel
Whitney Biennial 2004
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
100 Artists See God
Naples Museum of Art, travelled to:
The Jewish Museum San Francisco;
Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach;
Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester;
Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
Planet B: The Aesthetic of B Movies in Art
Magazin 4, Bregenz
I Hate You: The Falckenberg Collection
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk
2003
Spiritus
Magasin III Stockholm Konsthall, travelled to:
Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin;
Göteborgs Konstmuseum;
Länsmuseet Gävleborg, Gävle;
Jönköpings Läns Museum;
Bomuldsfabriken Kunsthall, Arendal;
Sundsvalls Museum
bankett / banquete
MediaLab, Madrid, travelled to:
Palau de la Virreina, Barcelona
Stunt: Videos
Helsinki City Art Museum
Live Culture
Tate, London
Influence, Anxiety and Gratitude
MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge
Orange: Contemporary Art Event of Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec
Das lebendige Museum
Museum Moderner Kunst, Frankfurt
Les 20 ans des FRAC
FRAC - Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain, Paris
Video Acts: Kramlich Collections
Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
MARS: Art and War
Gesellschaft der Freunde der Neuen Galerie, Graz
Micropolitics. Art and Everyday Life
Espai d’Art Contemporani, Valencia
The Art of Chess
Gilbert Collection, Somerset House, London
Partners
Haus der Kunst, Munich
Fuori Uso: Contemporary Art Exhibition
Ferrotel, Pescara
Sitings: Installation Art 1969–2002
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Neuankäufe 2003
Essl Museum Kunst der Gegenwart, Klosterneuburg
De Collectie
Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerp
(In Search of) The Perfect Lover: Werke auf Papier aus der Sammlung Hauser und Wirth
Kunsthalle Baden-Baden
C’est arrivé demain
7th Lyon Biennial
Zoe Leonhard und Paul McCarthy: Werke aus der Sammlung Schürmann
Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Siegen
Banquet: Metabolism and Communication
Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe
A Whitney for the Whitney at Philip Morris
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
High Performance: The First Five Years
LACE - Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions
Video Acts: Single Channel Works from the Collections of Pamela and Richard Kramlich and New Art Trust
Institute of Contemporary Art, London
Into Your Face
Frahm Ltd., London
Phantom der Lust. Visionen des Masochismus in der Kunst
Neue Galerie Graz
2002
Trans-positions
Centre d’Art Passerelle, Brest
Kunst nach Kunst
Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen
Outer and Inner Space: A Video Exhibition in Three Parts
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
Cadavre exquis
Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois, Paris
Apparition: The Action of Appearing
Arnolfini Gallery
Video Acts: Single Channel Works from the Collections of Pamela and Richard Kramlich and New Art Trust
MoMa PS1, New York
Les Années 70: L’art en cause
Musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux Entrepôt
A Show That Will Show That A Show Is Not Only A Show
The Project, Los Angeles
De Kooning to Today: Highlights from the Permanent Collection
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Continuos Play
Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York
Shopping: 100 Jahre Kunst und Konsum
Tate Liverpool, travelled to:
Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt
Ahead of the 21st century: The Pisces Collection
Fürstenberg Sammlungen, Donaueschingen
Comer o no Comer: To Eat or Not to Eat, Or, the Relations Between Art and Questions of Eating
Centro de Arte de Salamanca
Plus Ultra
Kunstraum Innsbruck
Mapping the Process
Essor Gallery Limited, London
House of Fiction: Sammlung (3)
Sammlung Hauser und Wirth, St. Gallen
Héroes Caídos: Masculinidad y representación
Espai d’Art Contemporani de Castello, Madrid
Walk Around Time: Selection from the Permanent Collection
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
The First Decade: video from the EAI Archives
MoMA - The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Das Tier in mir: Die Mensch-Tier- Verwandtschaft in der Zeitgenössischen Kunst
Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden
Pulchierrimae Strade, Direzione regionale per i beni culturali e paesaggistici del Friuli Venezia Giulia
Trieste, Italy
Ten Years Galerie Hauser & Wirth
Hauser & Wirth, Zurich
Sans consentement
Centre d’Art Neuchâtel
Passenger: The Viewer as Participant
Astrup Fearnly Museum of Modern Art, Oslo
Outer and Inner Space
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
2001
Abbild: Recent Portraiture and Depiction
Steiermärkisches Landesmuseum Joanneum, Vienna
Drawing Towards an End
California State University, Fullerton
Exhibition for the Prague Steam Roller 2000 Festival
Spala Gallery, Czech Republic
Ausgesucht von Eva Schlegel und Erwin Wurm
Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna
Heads or Tails
Praz Delavallade, Paris
Masculinities
Nicolaj Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center
Le Printemps de Septembre
Cloître des Jacobins, Toulouse
The Artist’s World
California College of the Arts, San Francisco
Chairs in Contemporary Art
Castello di Rivoli, Udine
Extreme Connoisseurship
Harvard University Art Museum, Cambridge
Turas Amuebladas
Galeria OMR, Mexico City
Chac Mool Gallery, West Hollywood
Play’s The Thing: Critical and Transgressive Practices in Contemporary Art
Graduate Center Art Gallery, City University of New York
En el cielo, Sky writing
49th Venice Biennale
Uniform & Disorder
Stazione Leopolda, Florence
My Reality: Contemporary Art and the Culture of Japanese Animation
Des Moines Art Center, travelled to:
The Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, travelled to:
Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati;
Tampa Museum of Art;
Chicago Cultural Center;
Norton Museum of Art, Palm Beach;
Museum of Glass, Tacoma;
Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville
La Coleccion Jumex
Jumex Centro de Distribucion, Mexico City
Talking Heads
Cotthem Gallery, Barcelona
Painting at the Edge of the World
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Begijnhof III
Galería Estrany-de La Mota, Barcelona
Ziviler Ungehorsam: Die Sammlung Falckenberg
Kestner Gesellschaft, Hanover
2000
Paul McCarthy: Selected Works, Mark Lewis: New Works
Patrick Painter Inc., Los Angeles
Mike Kelley and Paul McCarthy: Collaborative Works
The Power Plant, Toronto
Drawings
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
Let’s Entertain: Life’s Guilty Pleasures
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, travelled to:
Portland Art Museum, Portland;
Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris;
Museo Rufino Tamayo, Oaxaca;
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg;
Miami Art Museum
Open Ends
MoMA - The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Le jeu des 7 families
Musée d’art contemporain, Geneva
Diálogos con la fotografía
Galeria Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid
Video Work
Lisson Gallery, London
In-Between
Expo 2000, Hanover
Downtown Opening
Side Street Project, Los Angeles
Projekt Fassade
Secession, Vienna
Funsize
Miller Durazo Contemporary Artists Projects, Los Angeles
American Dreams
Umetnostna Galerija Maribor
LA
Monika Sprüth, Cologne
Carnivalesque
Hayward Gallery, London, travelled to:
Castle Museum and Art Gallery, Nottingham;
City Art Center Edinburgh
The other side of Zero: Video Positive 2000
Bluecoat Chambers, Liverpool
Around 1984: A Look at Art in the Eighties
MoMA PS1, New York
Sammlung (1): The Oldest Possible Memory
Hauser & Wirth at Lokremise St. Gallen
The 12th Sydney Biennial
Lost
Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
I Am Making Art
Anthony Wilkinson Gallery, London
Performing Bodies
Tate, London
Air Air
Grimaldi Forum, Monaco
Positionen der 80er Jahre
Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz
The Fashion Show
George’s, Los Angeles
1999
Propposition Proposal (with Jason Rhoades)
La Biennale di Venezia, Venice
Applebroog / Brunner / McCarthy
Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck
Vergiss den Ball und spiel’ weiter: Das Kind in der zeitgenössischen Kunst
Kunsthalle Nürnberg
Une histoire parmi d’autres
FRAC - Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain Nord-Pas de Calais, Dunkerque
Recent Acquisitions
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Moving Images: Film. Reflexion in der Kunst
Galerie für zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig
Puppen Körper Automaten- Phantasmen der Moderne
Kunstsammlung NRW, Dusseldorf
Subjectivity and Narration
Castello di Rivoli, Torino
Ruralia: Art of the Countryside
Pori Art Museum
Atto I opere scelte
Spazio Erasmus Brera, Milan
Pink for Boys, Light Blue for Girls
Kunstamt Kreuzberg Bethanien, Berlin
Sweet & Sour
Art & Public, Geneva
Stuff
Contemporary Arts Council, Chicago
Trailer
Galerie Kampl im Kunstforum, Munich
Life is Elsewhere
Massimo Lauro Gallery, Milan
Parallel Lines: Mix and Match
Karen McCready Fine Art, New York
Radical Past: Contemporary Art & Music in Pasadena 1960–74
The Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena
Richtung Museumsquartier. Die neue Sammlung (2)
mumok - Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien
My Name: Sammlung Falckenberg
Museum der Bildenden Künste Leipzig
Paul McCarthy-Mike Kelley Videos 1970–1998
Kunstbunker Tumulka, Munich
1998
Let’s Play Risk
Juice, London
Presumed Innocence
Virginia Commonwealth University
Mise en Scène
Grazer Kunstverein
American Playhouse
The Power Plant, Toronto
Making it Real
Baylor Art Museum, University of Virginia
Damenwahl
Portikus, Frankfurt
New Works: Roy Arden, Glenn Brown, Roni Horn, Mike Kelley, Mark Lewis, Paul McCarthy, Jorge Pardo, Diana Thater
Patrick Painter Inc., Santa Monica
Double Trouble
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
Pop Surrealism
The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield
Crossings
Kunsthalle Wien am Karlsplatz, Vienna
Antoni, Forg, McCarthy, Miyajima, Morimura, Oehlen, Rae, Rist, Tunga, Whiteread, Wolfe, Wool
Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York
LA Times
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin
Acquisitions Récentes
FRAC - Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain Nord-Pas de Calais, Dunkerque
REMAKE: art / cinema / appropriation, Austriatitudes
L’École d’Art de Grenoble
Kunstausstellung Holderbank
Making It Real
Portland Museum of Art
Out of Actions: Between Performance and the Object, 1949–1979
MOCA - The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, travelled to:
MAK - Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna
Figurative Sculpture
Patrick Painter Inc., Santa Monica
Beyond the Pink Performance Festival
The Cortical Foundation, Los Angeles
L.A. on Paper 1 Re-lax
Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna
Works on Paper by American Artists
Entwistle, London
Bathroom
Thomas Healy Gallery, New York
1997
Paul McCarthy & Benjamin Weissman
Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica
Von Kopf bis Fuss. Fragmente des Körpers
Kunstraum Innsbruck
Alpenblick
Kunsthalle Wien
Art Calls
Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen
Dramatically Different
Centre National d’Art Contemporain de Grenoble
Making it Real
Reykjavik Municipal Art Museum
Tableaux
Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston
Performatrix: Performance Konferenz
Hamburg
KünstlerInnen: 50 Positionen
Kunsthaus Bregenz
Performance Anxiety
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, travelled to:
SITE, Santa Fe
Body
The New Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Sunshine & Noir
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, travelled to:
Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg;
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Castello di Rivoli, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Turin
Unmapping the Earth
Kwangju Biennale, Korea
Scene of the Crime
Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
L’Autre
4th Lyon Biennale
Per Forma 97
Berlin
Deep Storage
Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, travelled to:
MoMa PS1, New York;
Kunstmuseum, Dusseldorf;
Haus der Kunst, Munich;
Nationalgalerie, Berlin
Meg Cranston, Paul McCarthy, Barry McGee, Raymond Pettibon, Jason Rhoades
Galerie Tanya Rumpff, Haarlem
Observations & Observances
Ydessa Hendeles Art Foundation, Toronto
Tableaux
MoCA - The Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami
Performance Anxiety
MCA - The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Rooms with a View: Environments for Video
Guggenheim Museum, New York
Cruising LA
Soledad Lorenzo Gallery, Madrid
1997 Biennial Exhibition
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Joy Joy
Transmission Gallery, Glasgow
Natural Habitat
The Tannery, London
Making It Real
The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield
Popoccultural
Southampton City Art Gallery
Connexions Implicites
Ecole nationale superieure des Beaux Arts, Paris
Video (desnudo)
Art & Idea, Mexico City
1996
Paul McCarthy, Paul Noble, Allen Ruppersberg
Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York
Romper Room
Thread Waxing Space, New York
a / drift
Center for Curatorial Studies Museum / Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson
Objekt: Video Oö
Landesgalerie Linz
Painting: The Extended Field
Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmo
American Film & Video: Whitney Biennial / Electronic Undercurrents
Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen
Shit
Baron/Boisanté Gallery, New York
The Art Embodied / l’ art au corps
Musée d’Art Contemporain, Marseille
The Aggression of Beauty
Galerie Arndt & Partner, Berlin
How will we behave
Robert Prime Gallery, London
Chimériques Polymères
Le Conseil Municipal de la ville de Nice
Exposure
Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York
Portraits
Ydessa Hendeles Art Foundation, Toronto
Paranoid Machine
Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica
Transformers
Auckland Art Gallery
The Garage Project
Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles
Non! Pas comme ça!
Centre d’Art Neuchâtel
Reel Works, Artists’ Film and Video of the 1970
MoCA - The Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami
Controfigura
Studio Guenzani, Milan
Sex & Crime
Sprengel Museum Hannover
Low Cool
San Francisco Art Institute
Variations, op. 96
FRAC - Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain, Poitou-Charentes, Angoulème
(nude)
Trans Hudson Gallery, San Fransisco
Les Plaisirs Et Les Ombres
La Fondation pour l’Architecture, Brussels
Group Show
Bloom Gallery, Amsterdam
Vito Acconci Video Performances
Atheneum Campus Universitaire, Dijon
Image of Self as Another
Pori Art Museum
Comic and Sex in American Art
Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich
Everything That’s Interesting Is New
Dakis Joannou Collection, Athens
Sampler 2: More Videos from Southern California
David Zwirner Gallery, New York
1995
Video Screening: Painter and Heidi
Cinematheque, San Francisco
Marcel Broodthaers: Correspondence
David Zwirner Gallery, New York
Raw
Postmasters Gallery, New York
Stereo-Tip
Soros Center for Contemporary Arts, Ljubljana
Fémininmasculin: Le sexe de l’art
Centre Pompidou, Paris
Collisions
Arteleku, San Sebastian
Familiar Places
Institute of Contemporary Arts, Boston
Autres victoires
FRAC - Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain Auvergne, Montluçon
New Visions for Historic Neighborhoods
Weingart Galleries, Los Angeles
Video News
The American Center, Paris
LA International
Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica
Fuori USO ‘95
Associazione Culturale Arte Nova, Pescera
Histoire de l’infamie
FRAC - Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain Auvergne, Montluçon
Marcel Broodthaers: Correspondence
Hauser & Wirth, Zurich
Le Mille e una Volta
Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, San Marino
Identita e Alterita
La Biennale di Venezia
Five separate locations
FRAC - Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain, Poitou-Charentes, Angoulème
The Reflected Image
Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Prato
Whitney Biennial Exhibition
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Bruce Nauman, Mike Kelley, Franz West and Paul McCarthy
David Zwirner Gallery, New York
Murder
Bergamot Station Arts Center, Santa Monica
EnduranceExit Art, New York
1994
Cocido y Crudo
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid
Opera Prima, Fuori USO ‘94
Associazione Culturale Arte Nova, Pescera
Hors limites: L’art et la vie 1952–1994
Centre Pompidou, Paris
Transformers: The Art of Multiphrenia
Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on Hudson
Investigations into the Physical and Metaphorical Hole
Gallery 2, School of the Art Institute Chicago
Oh Boy, It’s a Girl
Kunstverein München, travelled to:
Kunstraum Wien
Altered Egos
Santa Monica Museum of Art
World Wide Video Festival
The Hague
Group Show
Gimpel Fils, London
Kus Me Kus Me Zeeman
De Vishal, Haarlem
Group Show
Galerie Asbaek, Copenhagen
Gifts
Inter Art Center, New York
Dirty
John Good Gallery, New York
Scratching the Belly
Film Forum, Los Angeles
pen & ink
Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum
Group Show
Galleri K, Oslo
Paul McCarthy, Mike Kelley, Charlemagne Palestine, Dirk Larsen
Torch Gallery, Amsterdam
Babies and Bambis
Arti et Amicitae, Amsterdam
Outside the Frame of the Object
Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art
1993
Self Winding
Namba City Hall, Osaka, travelled to:
Sphere Max, Tokyo
Everyday Life
Kim Light Gallery, Los Angeles
Figure as Fiction
Cincinnati Contemporary Art Center
Identity and Home
MoMA - The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Sampler: Southern California Video Tape Collection, 1970–1993
Studio Guenzani, Milan, travelled to:
David Zwirner Gallery, New York
Down the Stairs Diagonally
Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles
Drawing the Line Against AIDS
Guggenheim Museum, New York
The Language of Art
Kunsthalle Wien
Trancesex, A State of Mystical Absorption
Mondrian Hotel, Los Angeles
Utopian Art: Artificial Utopia
Verein Kunst-Werk, Zurndorf
Patrick Painter Editions
Johnen & Schöttle, Cologne
Aperto
La Biennale di Venezia
Sonsbeek ‘93: The Uncanny
Gemeentemuseum, Arnhem
Paul McCarthy, Arnulf Rainer, Joyce Pensato
Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York
Mr. Sterling’s Neighborhood
Christopher Grimes Gallery, Los Angeles
The Eidetic Image: Contemporary Works on Paper
The Newport Harbor Art Museum, travelled to:
The Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse;
Kramer Art Museum, Champaign
Action Performace and the Photograph
Turner/Krull Galleries, Los Angeles
The Elegant, the Irreverent and the Obsessive: Drawings in Southern California
Visual Art Center, California State University, Fullerton
I am the Enunciator
Thread Waxing Space, New York
Poliset
Videoarte at Palazzo Diamanti, Ferrara
Privacy
Spazio Opos, Milan
1992
Into the Lapse
FAR Bazaar, Federal Reserve Building, Los Angeles, travelled to:
1301, Santa Monica;
Société des Expositions, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels;
The Royal Danish Academy of Art, Copenhagen;
Bruno Brunnet Fine Arts, Berlin;
Dogenhaus, Leipzig;
Friesenwall 120, Cologne;
Karsten Schubert, London
CHARTAE
Capricorna Gallery, Venice
Spielhölle
Akademie der Kunst, Frankfurt
LAX
Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna
Viaggio a Los Angeles
Castello di Rivara, Torino
Group Show
Galerie Max Hetzler, Cologne
Greatest Hits
Daniel Buchholz, Cologne
Post Human
DESTE Foundation, Athens, travelled to:
Castello di Rivoli, Turin;
Musée d’art contemporain, Fondation Asher Edelman, Lausanne;
Israel Museum;
Deichtorhallen Hamburg
Strange Developments
Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London
Rosamund Felsen Clinic and Recovery Center
Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles
Group Show
Esther Schipper Gallery, Cologne
Paul McCarthy, Lari Pittman, Jeffrey Vallance at Studio Guenani
Studio Guenzani, Milan
Excess: Power, Pain and Pleasure
Muu Media Festival, Helsinki
LAX
Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco
Roy Dowell, Paul McCarthy, Renée Petropoulos
Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles
Helter Skelter: L.A. Art in the 1990s
MOCA - The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
1991
Quick Coagulation Forms the August Corpse
Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles
Out of Control
Video Violence, Ars Electronica, Linz
The Family Romance: A Videotape Program
Simon Watson, New York
The Body: A Videotape Program
Simon Watson, New York, travelled to:
The Renaissance Society, Chicago;
Peter Pakesch Gallery, Vienna
Ha-Ha
Roy Boyd Gallery, Santa Monica
Ovarian Warriors vs. Knights of Crissum
Parker Zanic Gallery, Los Angeles
Presenting Rearwards
Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles
Body and Body
Grazer Kunstverein
1990
Past and Present: Selected Works by Gallery Artists
Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles
New California Video: A Survey of Open Channels 1985–1990
Long Beach Museum of Art
1989
Video Festival and Area-wide Screenings
American Film Institute, Los Angeles
1988
New Works on Paper
Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles
Tactical Positions: Video Tapes
LACE - Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions
Open Channels Video
Long Beach Museum of Art
1985
B & W Drawings
Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art
1984
Assault Video
Anti Club, Los Angeles
Crap
Orwell Memorial Gallery, Los Angeles
Contemporary Eccentrics
Edge Gallery, Fullerton
1974–1984 Video: A Retrospective
Long Beach Museum of Art
1983
Video by Performance Artists: Terry Allen, Tony Labat, Paul McCarthy
Hallwalls, Buffalo
14 Artists Out of Line
Gallery 8336, Los Angeles
1982
Works by Richard Newton & Paul McCarthy
Exile Gallery, Los Angeles
Video Tapes America
American Center, Paris
1981
Objects by Paul McCarthy & Barbara Smith
Espace Gallery, Los Angeles
California Performance Now and Then
MCA - The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Lately in LA
Washington Project for the Arts
Video, Aufzeichnungen von Performances
Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
1980
Per/for/mance: American Art Performance Festival
Theatre Circo Spazio Zero, Rome, travelled to:
Theatre Affrate Ilamento, Florence
Audio Works
Sixto Notes, Milan
Video 80
The Public Eye, San Francisco
1978
Video Tapes From Los Angeles
Nan Hoover Atelier, Amsterdam
1976
Commissioned Video
University of California Berkeley Art Museum
Second Southern California Video, Part II
Long Beach Museum of Art
Outside Video Tapes
M. L. d’Arc Gallery, New York
Southern California Video Anthology
Long Beach Museum
1974
Newspace Gallery, Los Angeles
1973
Conceptual Art
Libra Gallery, Pomona
Festival of the Arts
University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Videos
Publications
Selected Press
Blau International Summer 2022
Artnet November 2021
The Brooklyn Rail April 2021
Kaleidoscope Spring/Summer 2021
The New York Times February 2021
The Brooklyn Rail October 2020
The Art Newspaper February 2020
Artnet January 2020
Frieze December 2019
Issue Magazine 2008
BOMB Magazine July 2003
Artforum 1994