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    Previous shows:
    Carrall Dunham – Recent Paintings, 2008
    Carroll Dunham – Monotypes, 2007
    Carroll Dunham – Dead Space, 2005
    Carroll Dunham – Prints, 2004
    Carroll Dunham – Meso-kingdom, The Search for 
    Orgone 2002
Biography
     
    Born 1949, New Haven, Connecticut
    Lives and works in New York
    
    
    Education
    
    1972 Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut
    
    
    Awards
    
    2004 Skowhegan Medal for Distinction in Painting
    
    
    Selected Solo Exhibitions
    
    2008 
    Carroll Dunham, 2004–2008 Paintings and Sculpture, Millesgården, 
    Lidingö/Stockholm (cat.)
    Carroll Dunham Recent Paintings, c/o – Atle Gerhardsen, Berlin
    Carroll Dunham, Paintings on Wood 1982–1987, Skarstedt Gallery, New 
    York (cat.)
    Carroll Dunham Prints: A Survey, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover; 
    Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin (cat.)
    Carroll Dunham, Works from the Ophiuchus collection, Hydra Workshop, Hydra
    
    2007 
    Carroll Dunham Monotypes, c/o – Atle Gerhardsen, Berlin
    Carroll Dunham Paintings, Gladstone Gallery, New York (cat.)
    
    2006 
    Carroll Dunham, White Cube, London (cat.)
    MGM, Oslo
    Small Drawings 1991–2005, Drammens Museum, Drammen (cat.)
    Carroll Dunham – Monotypien, Fred Jahn Studio, Munich
    
    2005 
    Dead Space, c/o – Atle Gerhardsen, Berlin
    Carroll Dunham. A Survey of Drawings 1984–2004, Galerie Judin, Zürich 
    (cat.)
    
    2004 
    Prints, c/o – Atle Gerhardsen, Berlin
    Composite Images: Paintings, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles
    Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York
    He, She and It, Gladstone Gallery, New York (cat.)
    
    2003 
    White Cube, London
    Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO
    
    2002 
    The Search for Orgone and Meso-Kingdom, c/o – Atle Gerhardsen, Berlin
    Carroll Dunham, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (cat.)
    Carroll Dunham: Drawings 1985–2002, Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York
    Mesokingdom, Metro Pictures, New York
    Drawings, Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich
    The Paintings of Carroll Dunham, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
    
    2001 
    The Search for Orgone, Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York
    Carroll Dunham, New Paintings, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills
    Carroll Dunham: Recent Prints and Related Works, Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich
    
    2000 
    c/o – Atle Gerhardsen, Oslo
    N.e.g., Milan, Italy
    
    1999 
    Metro Pictures, New York
    Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris
    Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro
    No Limits Events Gallery, Milan
    
    1998 
    Nolan/Eckmann Gallery, New York (cat.)
    White Cube, London
    London Projects, London
    Pink Planets, c/o – Atle Gerhardsen, Oslo
    
    1997 
    Metro Pictures, New York
    
    1996 
    Carroll Dunham: Paintings and Drawings 1990–1996, Guild Hall, Easthampton, 
    NY; Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA; Forum for Contemporary 
    Art, St. Louis (cat.)
    Recent Drawings, Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York
    Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich
    
    1995 
    Bobbie Greenfield Gallery, Santa Monica
    Carroll Dunham: Selected Paintings 1990–95, School of the Museum of 
    Fine Arts, Boston (cat.)
    
    1994 
    Works on Paper, Lemburg Gallery, Birmingham (MI)
    Sonnabend Gallery, New York
    
    1993 
    Sonnabend Gallery, New York
    Galerie Lehmann, Geneva
    Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York
    
    1992 
    David Nolan Gallery, New York
    Jablonka Galerie, Cologne (cat.)
    Carroll Dunham: Selected Paintings and Prints, Wiedner Gallery, Trinity College, 
    Hartford
    
    1991 
    Carroll Dunham: Drawings, Gallery Mukai, Tokyo (cat.)
    Galerie Jahn und Fusban, Munich
    Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Santa Monica
    
    1990 
    Sonnabend Gallery, New York
    
    1989 
    Jablonka Galerie, Cologne (cat.)
    Sonnabend Gallery, New York
    
    1988 
    Selected Drawings, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Elkins Park
    Carroll Dunham: Drawings 1982–1983, Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich (cat.)
    
    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
    
    
    Selected Group Exhibitions
    
    2009 
    Strike a pose, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
    
    2008 
    Second Thoughts, Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson
    Passioniert Provokativ – Die Sammlung Stoffel, Pinakothek der Moderne, 
    Munich
    Listen Darling… The World is Yours, Ellipse Foundation, Alcoitão
    from nature – summer group show, Carolina Nitsch, New York
    Paper Trail II: Passing Through Clouds, The Rose Art Museum, Waltham
    Self selections show, Ober Gallery, Kent
    
    2007 
    Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now, MoMA – Museum of Modern Art, 
    New York
    Nordea´s Art Collection, Henie Onstad Art Centre, Høvikodden
    Counterparts: Contemporary Painters and Their Influences, Contemporary Art 
    Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach
    ULAE 50th Anniversary Exhibition, Larissa Goldston Gallery, New York
    What Is Painting? – Contemporary Art from the Collection, MoMA – 
    Museum of Modern Art, New York
    Size Matters – XXL-recent Large-scale paintings, HVCCA – Hudson 
    Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill
    
    2006 
    Making a Mark: Four Contemporary Artists in Print, Yale University Art Gallery, 
    New Haven
    Couples Discourse, Palmer Museum of Art, University Park, Pennsylvania 
    Possessed, Western Bridge, Seattle
    Nightmares of summer, Marvelli Gallery, New York
    Ele-Mental, David Nolan Gallery, New York
    Group show, David Nolan Gallery, New York
    Remote Viewing: Invented Worlds in Recent Painting and Drawing, cur. by Elisabeth 
    Sussman, Whitney Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis
    
    2005 
    Remote Viewing: Invented Worlds in Recent Painting and Drawing, cur. by Elisabeth 
    Sussman, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
    Dunham, Drawings 1984–2004 – Polke, Vintage Photographs, Haunch 
    of Venison – Zürich, Zurich
    Carroll Dunham, John Newman, Terry Winters, Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich
    
    2004 
    Fabulism, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, curated by Klaus Kertess
    Visions of America, Sammlung Essl – Kunsthaus, Klosterneuburg (cat.)
    Sets, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston
    Tear down this wall: Painting from the 1980s, MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles
    SITE – Santa Fe´s Fifth International Biennial, International 
    Biennial Exhibition Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe
    Is One Thing Better Than Another?, Galerie Aurel Scheibler, Berlin
    Art, Artists, and the Addison, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover
    Arbeiten auf Papier, Sprüth Magers Projekte, München
    
    2003 
    Funny Papers, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles
    We Love Painting, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
    160 Meisterzeichnungen, Oldenburger Kunstverein
    The Human Figure, Nolan / Eckman Gallery, New York
    Sommerausstellung 2003 – 20 zeitgenössische Künstler, white8 
    Galerie Dagmar Alchholzer, Villach
    Drawings, Metro Pictures Gallery, New York 
    
    2002 
    Metro Pictures, New York
    c/o – Atle Gerhardsen, Berlin
    Bildnis und Figur, Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich
    Under Pressure – Prints from Two Palms Press, The University Gallery 
    – Amherst, Amherst
    Urgent Painting, Musée d´Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris 
    (cat.)
    
    2001 
    Some Options in Abstractions, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard 
    University, 
    Cambridge, MA
    Pop & Post Pop (On Paper), Texas Gallery, Houston
    Locating Drawing, Lawing Gallery, Houston
    American Art, Galerie Rudolfinum, The Center for Contemporary Art, Prague 
    (catalogue)
    Olav Chr. Jenssen – Sarah Morris – Carroll Dunham, c/o – 
    Atle Gerhardsen, Berlin
    
    2000 
    End Papers, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY (catalogue) 
    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, 
    DC
    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, Gladstone Gallery, New York
    The Figure in the Landscape, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York
    Open Ends, Museum of Modern Art, New York
    Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York
    Selected Prints V, Brooke Alexander Editions, New York
    Arbeiten auf Papier, Michael Hasenclever, München
    
    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 (catalogue)
    Drawing into Paint, Foskick-Nelson Gallery, Alfred, NY
    Examining Pictures, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London; Museum of Contemporary 
    Art, Chicago (catalogue)
    Nolan / Eckman Gallery, New York
    
    1998 
    Young Americans 2: New Art in the Saatchi Collection, The Saatchi Gallery, 
    London< (catalogue)
    Exterminating Angel, Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris
    Pop Surrealism, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT (catalogue)	
    
    Codex USA: Works on Paper by Ameican 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, MO
    
    1997 
    Now on View, Metro Pictures, New York 
    Painting Project, Basillico Fine Arts and Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York 
    (cat.)
    Abstract Painting, Carrie Hadad Gallery, Hudson, NY
    
    1996 
    The Carpenter Center for Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
    How the Chicken Crossed the Road, Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich
    Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
    Nuevas Abstracciones, Museo Nacional Centro de Reina Sofia, Madrid; Kunsthalle 
    Bielefeld; Museu d’Art Contemporani, Barcelona: Sandra Gehring, New 
    York
    
    1995 
    The Whitney Biennial, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
    New York Abstract, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
    Carroll Dunham, Lari Pittman, Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York
    Contemporary Drawing: Exploring the Territory, The Aspen Art Museum, CO
    Under Glass, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York 
    
    1994 
    Collectively Speaking: A Sampling of Private Collections, The Art Museum of 
    Santa Cruz County, CA
    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, LA 
    Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York
    Summer Group Show, Baumgartner Galeries Inc., Washington, DC
    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, New York
    A Series of Anniversary Exhibitions: Part II, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Santa 
    Monica, CA
    Group Show, Postmasters, New York
    Extravagant: The Economy of Elegance, Russisches Kulturzentrum, Berlin
    Drawings: 30th Anniversary Exhibition, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
    Merce Cunningham Dance Company Benefit Art Sale, New York
    
    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
    Works on Paper,”David Nolan Gallery, New York 
    Carroll Dunham and Mel Kendrick: A Selection of Recent Work,”Addison 
    Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA
    Drawn in the ’90s, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY; Fine Art Gallery, 
    Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana; Illinworth Kerr Gallery, Alberta; 
    College of Art, Calgary, Alberta, Canada; Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, 
    AL; Worcester, MS; Lamont Gallery, Phillips Exeter Academy, New Hampshire; 
    University Art Gallery, San Diego State University, San Diego, California 
    (cat.)
    Emerging New York Artists, Fine Arts Building, College of Fine Arts, Omaha, 
    NE 
    
    1991 
    Carroll Dunham, Mike Kelley, Cindy Sherman, Metro Pictures, New York
    Sieben Amerikanische Maler, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlung, Munich
    Mel Bochner, Carroll Dunham, Barry Le Va, Galerie Faust, Geneva
    Whitney Biennial, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (cat.)
    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, The Whitney Museum of American 
    Art, Fairfield County, Stamford, CT; Whitney Museum of American Art at Phillip 
    Morris, New York
    Amerikanische Zeichnungen in den achtziger Jahren, Graphische Sammlung Albertina, 
    Museum Morsbriosh, Leverkusen, Vienna (cat.)
    Galerie Faust, Geneva
    Carroll Dunham and Terry Winters, Gallery Mukai, Tokyo
    Waterworks, ULAE, New York
    The Last Decade: American Artists of the ’80s, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, 
    New York
    Organic Abstraction, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City
    
    1989 
    Horn of Plenty, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
    Flanders Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota
    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
    Post-Abstract Abstraction, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Connecticut 
    (cat.)
    Schizophrenia, Josh Baer Gallery, New York
    Coleccion Sonnabend, Centro de Art Reina Sofia, Madrid; CAPC, Centre d’Art 
    Contemporain de Bordeaux, France, (catalogue); 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; The Miyagi Museum of Art, The Fukuyama Museum, The National 
    Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto (cat.)
    
    1986 
    Paintings & Sculpture: Recent Acquisitions, Museum of Modern Art, New 
    York
    “Private and Public: American Prints Today,” Brooklyn Museum of 
    Art, New York
    Intuitive Line, Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York
    Paravision, Margo Leavin Gallery, curated by Collins and Millazzo, Los Angeles
    Art on Paper (22nd Annual Exhibition), Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Reading, 
    PA
    Drawing: Carroll Dunham, John Newman, Terry Winters, Jeffrey Hoffeld & 
    Co., New York
    Monumental Drawing: Works by 22 Contemporary Americans, The Brooklyn Museum, 
    New York (cat.)
    
    1985 
    Painting as Landscape, Parrish Art Museum, Southhampton, NY; Baxter Gallery, 
    Pasadena, CA (curated by Klaus Kertess)
    Currents: Carroll Dunham, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
    International with Monument, New York
    BAM Benefit, Mary Boone Gallery, New York
    Whitney Biennial, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (catalogue)
    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, curated by Klaus Kertess, New York
    New York I Dag, Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum, Aalborg, Denmark
    10 Year Anniversary Exhibition, Artists Space, New York
    
    1983 
    Nine Painters, Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY
    Carroll Dunham & Terry Winters, Jan Bernier Gallery, Athens, Greece
    Tradition, Transition, New Vision, Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips 
    Academy, 
    Andover, MA
    New Biomorphism and Automatism, Patricia Hamilton Gallery, New York
    
    1981 
    Four Painters, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
    New Talent, New York, New Gallery, Cleveland; Hayden Gallery, Massachusetts 
    Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
    
    1980 
    Watercolors, Institute for Art & Urban Resources/P.S. 1, Long Island City, 
    NY
    
    1979 
    Selector’s Choice, Baltimore Museum of Art
    
    1978 
    Lineup, The Drawing Center, New York
    Young American Artists, Schema Gallery, Florence
    
    
    Museum and Public Collections
    
    Albertina Museum, Vienna
    Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
    Astrup Fearnley Museum for Modern Art, Oslo
    Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York
    Cleveland Center, Cleveland
    Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt a. Main
    Drammens Museum, Drammen
    Fort Wayne Art Museum, Indiana
    Kistefos, Oslo
    Museum of Modern Art, New York
    Nordea Art Collection, Oslo
    Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
    St. Louis Museum of Art, St. Louis, Missouri
    Tate Collection, London
    Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
    Whitney Museum of Art, New York