Born 1949 in New Haven/CT, USA
Lives in New York/NY, USA
Lives in New York/NY, USA
Education
1972, Degree, Trinity College, Hartford/CT, USAAwards
2004, Skowhegan Medal for Distinction in PaintingSolo Exhibitions
2012“A Drawing Survey,” Blum & Poe, Los Angeles/CA, USA
“Carroll Dunham,” Bernier / Eliades Gallery, Athens, Greece
2011
“Carroll Dunham,” Gerhardsen Gerner, Berlin, Germany
“Carroll Dunham,” Gladstone Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
“Carroll Dunham,” Patrick de Brock Gallery, Knokke, Belgium
2010
“Carroll Dunham,” Gladstone Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
“Carroll Dunham,” Patrick de Brock Gallery, Knokke, Belgium
“Carroll Dunham: Paintings” Blum & Poe Gallery, Los Angeles/CA, USA
“Carroll Dunham Prints: A Survey,” University Art Gallery, State University of New York, Albany/NY, USA
“Carroll Dunham: Paintings,” Baldwin Gallery, Aspen/CO, USA
2009
“Carroll Dunham,” Gladstone Gallery, New York/NY, USA
“Carroll Dunham: Works on Paper,” Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
2008
“Carroll Dunham Prints: A Survey,” Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover/MA, USA
"Caroll Dunham: Recent Paintings," Atle Gerhardsen, Berlin, Germany
"Carroll Dunham Paintings on Wood 1982-1987," Skartstedt Gallery, New York/NY, USA
Hydra Workshop, Hydra, Greece
“Carroll Dunham: Painting and Sculpture 2004 – 2008,” Millesgarden, Stockholm, Sweden
2007
“Carroll Dunham Prints: A Survey,” Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin/OH, USA
"Carroll Dunham Monotypes," Atle Gerhardsen, Berlin, Germany
2006
"Carroll Dunham," White Cube, London, UK
“Monotypien,” Galerie Fred Jann, Munich, Germany
“Small Drawings,” Drammens Museum, Drammens, Norway
Galeri MGM, Oslo, Norway, Norway
2005
“Drawing,” Judin Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland, Switzerland
Atle Gerhardsen Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2004
“Composite Images: Paintings,” Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles/CA, USA
Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York/NY, USA
“prints,” Atle Gerhardsen Gallery, Berlin, Germany
“He, She, and It,” Gladstone Gallery, New York/NY, USA
2003
White Cube, London, UK
Baldwin Gallery, Aspen/CO, USA
2002
“Carroll Dunham,” New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York/NY, USA (Kat.)
"Carroll Dunham: Drawings 1985-2002,” Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York/NY, USA
“Mesokingdom,” Metro Pictures, New York/NY, USA
“Drawings,” Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich, Germany
2001
“The Search for Orgone,” Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York/NY, USA
“The Search for Orgone,” Atle Gherhardsen Gallery, Berlin, Germany
“Carroll Dunham, New Paintings,” Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills/CA, USA
“Carroll Dunham: Recent Prints and Related Works,” Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich, Germany
2000
Atle Gerhardsen Gallery, Oslo, Norway
N.e.g., Milan, Italy
1999
Metro Pictures, New York/NY, USA
Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, France, France
Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro/NC, USA
No Limits Events Gallery, Milan, Italy
1998
Nolan/Eckmann Gallery, New York/NY, USA (Kat.)
White Cube, London, UK
London, UK Projects, London, UK
Atle Gerhardsen Gallery, Oslo, Norway
1997
Metro Pictures, New York/NY, USA
1996
“Carroll Dunham: Paintings and Drawings 1990-1996,” Guild Hall, Easthampton/NY, USA; Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara/CA, USA; Forum for Contemporary Art, St. Louis/MO, USA
Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York/NY, USA
Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich, Germany
1995
Bobbie Greenfield Gallery, Santa Monica/CA, USA
“Carroll Dunham: Selected Paintings 1990-95,” School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston/MA, USA
1994
“Works on Paper,” Lemburg Gallery, Birmingham/MI, USA
Sonnabend Gallery, New York/NY, USA
1993
Sonnabend Gallery, New York/NY, USA
Galerie Lehmann, Geneva, Switzerland
Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York/NY, USA
1992
David Nolan Gallery, New York/NY, USA
Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany
“Carroll Dunham: Selected Paintings and Prints,” Wiedner Gallery, Trinity College, Hartford/CT, USA
1991
“Carroll Dunham: Drawings,” Gallery Mukai, Tokyo, Japan
Galerie Jahn und Fusban, Munich, Germany
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Santa Monica/CA, USA
1990
Sonnabend Gallery, New York/NY, USA
1989
Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany
Sonnabend Gallery, New York/NY, USA
1988
“Selected Drawing,” Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Elkins Park/PA, USA
“Drawings 1982-1983,” Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich, Germany
1987
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles/CA, USA
Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York/NY, USA
1986
Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston/MA, USA
Baskerville & Watson Gallery, New York/NY, USA
1985
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles/CA, USA
Baskerville & Watson Gallery, New York/NY, USA
1981
Artists Space, New York/NY, USA
Group Exhibitions
2012“Print/Out,” Museum of Modern Art, New York/NY, USA
“Painting Now,” Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland
2010
“Nature,” Gerhardsen Gerner, Berlin, Germany
“The Visible Vagina,” David Nolan, New York/NY, USA
“Your History is not Our History,” Haunch of Venison, New York/NY, USA
“Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection,” Hammer Museum, Los Angeles/CA, USA
“Pastorale,” curated by Klaus Kertess, 80WSE, New York University, New York/NY, USA
2009
“Jr. and Son’s,” Zach Feuer Gallery, New York/NY, USA
“Collection: MOCA’s First Thirty Years,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles/CA, USA
“15th Anniversary Inaugural Exhibition,” Blum & Poe, Los Angeles/CA, USA
“Small Packages,” The Art Production Fund Lab, New York/NY, USA
“Listen Darling… The World is Yours,” Ellipse Foundation, Alcoitão, Portugal
2008
"from nature," Carolina Nitsch Project Room, New York/NY, USA
"Red Wind," Blum & Poe, Los Angeles/CA, USA
2006
“XXL: Size Matters,” Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, New York/NY, USA
"Couples Discourse," Palmer Museum of Art, University Park/PA, USA
"Group Show," Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York/NY, USA
"Counterparts: Contemporary Painters and their Influences," CAC Virginia, Virginia Beach/VA, USA
2005
“Remote Viewing,” The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York/NY, USA
2004
“Fabulism,” Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha/NE, USA
SITE Santa Fe Biennial, Santa Fe/MN, USA
2003
“Funny Papers,” Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles/CA, USA
“We Love Painting,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; Japan
“160 Meisterzeichnungen,” Oldenburger Kunsteverein, Germany
2002
Metro Pictures, New York/NY, USA
"Bildmis und Figur,” Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich, Germany
2001
“Some Options in Abstractions,” Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge/MA, USA
“Pop & Post Pop (On Paper),” Texas Gallery, Houston/TX, USA
“Locating Drawing,” Lawing Gallery, Houston/TX, USA
“American Art,” Galerie Rudolfinum, The Center for Contemporary Art, Prague, Czech Republic
2000
“End Papers,” Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase/NY, USA
“Superorganic, Hydroponic Warfare: Carroll Dunham, David Dupuis, Alexander Ross,” Derek Eller Gallery, New York/NY, USA
“Art in America 2000,” US Department of Art in Embassies Program, Washington, DC, USA
“Land & Houses, Two Sequences of Drawings,” Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York/NY, USA
“The Figure: Another Side of Modernism,” Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, New York/NY, USA
“00,” Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York/NY, USA
“The Figure in the Landscape,” Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York/NY, USA
“Open Ends,” Museum of Modern Art, New York/NY, USA
“Olav Chr. Jensen, Sarah Morris, Carroll Dunham,” Atle Gerhardsen Gallery, Berlin, Germany
1999
“Drawn By…,” Metro Pictures, New York/NY, USA
Gorney, Bravin + Lee, New York/NY, USA
“Art at Work: Forty Years of the Chase Manhattan Collection,” Museum of Fine Arts, Houston/TX, USA
“American Century, Part II,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York/NY, USA
“Drawing into Paint,” Foskick-Nelson Gallery, Alfred/NY, USA
“Examining Pictures,” Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago/IL, USA
1998
“Young Americans 2: New Art in the Saatchi Collection,” The Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
“Exterminating Angel,” Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, France, France
“Pop Surrealism,” Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield/CT, USA
“Codex USA: Works on Paper by Ameican Artists,” Entwistle, London, UK
“Now and Forever Part 1,” Pat Hearn Gallery and Matthew Marks Gallery, New York/NY, USA
“The New Surrealism,” Pamela Auchincloss, New York/NY, USA
“Art and the American Experience,” Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo/MI, USA
1997
“Now on View,” Metro Pictures, New York/NY, USA
“Painting Project,” Basillico Fine Arts and Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York/NY, USA
“Abstract Painting,” Carrie Hadad Gallery, Hudson/NY, USA
1996
The Carpenter Center for Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge/MA, USA
“How the Chicken Crossed the Road,” Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France, France
“Nuevas Abstracciones,” Museo Nacional Centro de Reina Sofia, Madrid
1995
The Whitney Biennial, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York/NY, USA
“New York Abstract,” Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans/LA, USA
“Carroll Dunham, Lari Pittman,” Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York/NY, USA
“Contemporary Drawing: Exploring the Territory,” The Aspen Art Museum, Aspen/CO, USA
“Under Glass,” Charles Cowles Gallery, New York/NY, USA
1994
“Collectively Speaking: A Sampling of Private Collections,” The Art Museum of Santa Cruz County, Santa Cruz, CA
“What’s wrong with this Picture?,” Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Inc., Chicago/IL, USA
“In the Spirit of Things,” Stux Gallery, New York/NY, USA
“Dysfunction,” Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans/LA, USA
Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York/NY, USA
“Summer Group Show,” Baumgartner Galeries Inc., Washington, DC, USA
“Deadpan,” The Work Space at Dolgenos Newman & Cronin, New York/NY, USA
Sonnabend Gallery, New York/NY, USA
1993
“Projects,” Betsey Senior Contemporary Prints, New York/NY, USA
“What’s wrong with this Picture?,” Postmasters, New York/NY, USA
“A Series of Anniversary Exhibitions: Part II,” Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Santa Monica/CA, USA
“Group Show,” Postmasters, New York/NY, USA
“Extravagant: The Economy of Elegance,” Russisches Kulturzentrum, Berlin, Germany
“Drawings: 30th Anniversary Exhibition,” Leo Castelli Gallery, New York/NY, USA
1992
“American Art of the ’80s,” Museo d’Arte Moderna e Contemporani di Trento e Rovereto, Trento, Italy
“Carroll Dunham + Nicola De Maria,” Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston/MA, USA
“Works on Paper,” David Nolan Gallery, New York/NY, USA
“Carroll Dunham and Mel Kendrick: A Selection a Recent Work,” Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover/MA, USA
“Drawn in the ’90s,” Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah/NY, USA
Illinworth Kerr Gallery, Alberta Gallery of Art, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville/AL, USA
“Emerging New York Artists,” Fine Arts Building, College of Fine Arts, Omaha/NE, USA
1991
“Carroll Dunham, Mike Kelley, Cindy Sherman,” Metro Pictures, New York/NY, USA
“Sieben Amerikanische Maler,” Bayerischen Staatgemaldesammlungen, Munich, Germany
“Mel Bochner, Carroll Dunham, Barry Le Va,” Galerie Faust, Geneva, Switzerland
“Whitney Biennial,” The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York/NY, USA
“Paintings and Drawings,” Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Santa Monica/CA, USA
“The Thing,” Perry Rubenstein Gallery, New York/NY, USA
“Fall & Winter: 1991–1992,” Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Santa Monica
“Ralph Humphrey, Matthew Weinstein, and Carroll Dunham,” Perry Rubinstein, New York/NY, USA
1990
“With the Grain: Contemporary Panel Paintings,” The Whitney Museum of American Art, Fairfield County, Stamford/CT, USA; Whitney Museum of American Art at Phillip Morris, New York/NY, USA
“Amerikanische Zeichnungen inden achtziger Jahren,” Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Museum Morsbriosh, Leverkusen, Vienna, Austria
Galerie Faust, Geneva, Switzerland
“Carroll Dunham and Terry Winters,” Gallery Mukai, Tokyo, Japan
“Waterworks,” ULAE, New York/NY, USA
“The Last Decade: American Artists of the ’80s,” Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York/NY, USA
“Organic Abstraction,” The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City/MO, USA
1989
“Horn of Plenty,” Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Flanders Contemporary Art, Minneapolis/MN, USA
“Wiener Diwan: Sigmund Freud-heute,” Museum des 20, Jahrunderts, Vienna, Austria
“A Decade of American Drawing: 1980–1989,” Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles/CA, USA
“First Impressions: Early Prints by Forty-Six Contemporary Artists,” Walker Art Center, Minneapolis/MN, USA
“New Works by Gallery Artists,” Sonnabend Gallery, New York/NY, USA
“ULAE Prints,” Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich, Germany
1988
“NY Art Now: Part II,” Saatchi Collection, London, UK
“Group Show: Carroll Dunham, Kenji Fujita, Peter Nadin, Laurie Simmons, Meyer Vaisman,” Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany
“Vital Signs: Organic Abstraction from the Permanent Collection,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York/NY, USA
“Altered States,” Kent Fine Arts, New York/NY, USA
Scott Hanson Gallery, New York/NY, USA
Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston/MA, USA
“Amerikanische Druckgraphik: Recent American Prints,” Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich, Germany
1987
“Drawing Acquisitions,” Museum of Modern Art, New York/NY, USA
“Schizophrenia,” Josh Baer Gallery, New York/NY, USA
“Coleccion Sonnabend,” Centro de Art Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain; CAPC, Centre d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, France (Kat.); Art Köln, Cologne, Germany; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany; Galleria Nazionale D’Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy; Museo D’ Arte Moderna e Contemporani, Trento, Italy; Musée Rath, Geneva, Switzerland; Sezon Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan; The Miyagi Museum of Art, The Fukuyama Museum, Fukuyama, Japan;The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
1986
“Paintings & Sculpture: Recent Acquisitions,” Museum of Modern Art, New York/NY, USA
“Private and Public: American Prints Today,” Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York/NY, USA
“Intuitive Line,” Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York/NY, USA
“Paravision,” Margo Leavin Gallery, curated by Collins and Millazzo, Los Angeles/CA, USA
“Art on Paper,” Weatherspoon Art Gallery (22nd Annual Exhibition), Reading/PA, USA
“Drawing: Carroll Dunham, John Newman, Terry Winters,” Jeffrey Hoffeld & Co., New York/NY, USA
1985
“Painting as Landscape,” Parrish Art Museum, Southhampton, NY; Baxter Gallery, Pasadena/CA, USA
“Currents: Carroll Dunham,” Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston/MA, USA
International with Monument, New York/NY, USA
“BAM Benefit,” Mary Boone Gallery, New York/NY, USA
“Whitney Biennial,” The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York/NY, USA
“Real Surreal,” Lorence Monk Gallery, New York/NY, USA
1984
“Brilliant Color,” Baskerville & Watson, New York/NY, USA
“Wedge Magazine Benefit Exhibition,” Nature Morte Gallery, New York/NY, USA
“Inner Vision: Drawing,” Barbara Krakow, Boston/MA, USA
“Drawing Show,” Barbara Toll Gallery, New York/NY, USA
“Summer International,” Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles/CA, USA
“Figure in Paint,” Cable Gallery, New York/NY, USA
“New York I Dag,” Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum, Aalborg, Denmark
“10 Year Anniversary Exhibition,” Artists Space, New York/NY, USA
1983
“Nine Painters,” Hallwalls, Buffalo/NY, USA
“Carroll Dunham & Terry Winters,” Jan Bernier Gallery, Athens, Greece
“Tradition, Transition, New Vision,” Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover/MA, USA
“New Biomorphism and Automatism,” Patricia Hamilton Gallery, New York/NY, USA
1981
“Four Painters,” Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge/MA, USA
“New Talent, New York,” New Gallery, Cleveland; Hayden Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge/MA, USA
1980
“Watercolors,” Institute for Art & Urban Resources/P.S. 1, Long Island City/NY, USA
1979
“Selector’s Choice,” Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore/MD, USA
1978
“Lineup,” The Drawing Center, New York/NY, USA
“Young American Artists,” Schema Gallery, Florence, Italy
Museum Collections
Albertina Museum, Vienna, AustriaArt Institute of Chicago, Chicago/IL, USA
Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo, Norway
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn/NY, USA
Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland/OH, USA
Ellipse Foundation, Cascais, Portugal
Fort Wayne Art Museum, Fort Wayne/IN, USA
Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill/NY, USA
Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
Museum of Modern Art, New York/NY, USA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago/IL, USA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles/CA, USA
Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City/MO, USA
Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park/KA, USA
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia/PA, USA
Sammlung Olbricht, Essen, Germany
St. Louis Museum of Art, St. Louis/MO, USA
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis/MO, USA
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York/NY, USA