George Condo

George Condo. Photo: Stefan Ruiz

 

The paintings, drawings and sculptural work of George Condo (*1957) offer a virtuosic examination of a wide range of art-historical idioms, which he transforms into his own visual language. He depicts grotesque, tragicomic and sometimes monstrous subjects with stylistic elements from seventeenth-century Venetian or Dutch painting, but also Cubism, Surrealism and Pop Art. The New York-based artist has been associated with the gallery for over three decades, having mounted one of the first solo exhibitions of his career at Galerie Monika Sprüth in 1984.

 

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For all their copious references, Condo’s paintings are not quotations, pastiches or appropriations. They are products of a painterly project that mines the history of art while simultaneously challenging the justification for contemporary painting. The historically coded, painterly idioms he uses extend from the religious light of the Baroque to the iridescent tones of Florentine cangiante, to techniques he finds in Dürer, Rembrandt or Caravaggio. There is also the vocabulary of modernism and abstraction—echoes of de Kooning’s lines, Matisse’s colors and, of course, Picasso. Yet regardless of the formal vocabulary he uses, be it Old Masters or abstraction, Condo’s choice of subject systematically destroys familiar pictorial structures and demolishes the painting’s semantic field. His oeuvre is like a wild, technically brilliant art historical delirium that reconfigures past and present in a complex synthesis. He himself has termed this process “Artificial Realism.”

Condo’s career encompasses not only a variety of formal vocabularies, but also a variety of media, including collage, drawing, and sculpture. Time and again he has returned to the medium of drawing to not only shed new light on the territory between the abstract and the figurative, but also to disrupt preconceived notions about the difference between drawing and painting. Developing a method he calls “psychological Cubism,” he composes his figures and portraits not from the Cubist technique of different perspectives, but rather in a range of simultaneous emotional and psychological states.

One unifying aspect of Condo’s works is their shared dystopian, yet empathic take on humanity and our time. His oeuvre teems with cartoonish portraits, grotesque grimaces, absurd group sex scenes and detached, oddly animated body parts. In his dark, psychological landscapes, beauty and horror usually go hand in hand, and his damaged figures thrive on melodrama, seesawing between seduction and rejection. Bearing traits of both ecstasy and madness, they are forever on the verge of an uncontrollable frenzy. And yet they appear to meet with surprising sanguinity the desolation of their time and world.

 

 

George Condo: The Way I Think
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, November 11, 2017–April 2, 2018
© Louisiana Channel, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2017

 

Works
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George Condo
Shorty and His Gang, 2018

George Condo
Shorty and His Gang, 2018
Acrylic, gesso, metallic paint and pigment stick on linen
254 × 594.4 cm
100 × 234 inches
(in three parts)

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George Condo
Prismatic Portrait, 2019

George Condo
Prismatic Portrait, 2019
Oil on linen
193 × 188 × 3.2 cm
76 × 74 × 1 1/4 inches

George Condo
George Condo
Modern Caveman, 2019

George Condo
Modern Caveman, 2019
Oil and pigment stick on linen
193 × 188 × 3.2 cm
76 × 74 × 1 1/4 inches

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George Condo
George Condo
Double Heads on Red, 2014

George Condo
Double Heads on Red, 2014
Acrylic, charcoal, pastel on linen
121.9 × 279.4 cm
48 × 110 inches

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George Condo
George Condo
Green and Purple Head Composition, 2018

George Condo
Green and Purple Head Composition, 2018
Acrylic, charcoal, pastel and pigment stick on linen
208.3 × 198.1 cm
82 × 78 inches

George Condo
George Condo
Birdbrain, 2018

George Condo
Birdbrain, 2018
Oil and pigment stick on linen
289.6 × 289.6 cm
114 × 114 inches

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George Condo
George Condo
What's the point?, 2018

George Condo
What's the point?, 2018
Oil on linen
289.6 × 289.6 cm
114 × 114 inches

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George Condo
George Condo
Irish Girl, 2002

George Condo
Irish Girl, 2002
Oil on canvas
100 × 73.7 cm
39 3/8 × 29 inches

George Condo
George Condo
Impressions of Goya 3, 2016

George Condo
Impressions of Goya 3, 2016
Oil on linen
233.7 × 195.6 cm
92 × 77 inches

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George Condo
George Condo
Your Friendly Neighborhood Robot, 2019

George Condo
Your Friendly Neighborhood Robot, 2019
Oil on linen
198.1 × 254 cm
78 × 100 inches

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George Condo
George Condo
Red Antipodular Portrait, 1996

George Condo
Red Antipodular Portrait, 1996
Oil on canvas
152.4 × 121.9 cm
60 × 48 inches

George Condo
George Condo
St. Patrick’s Day, 2020

George Condo
St. Patrick’s Day, 2020
Oil and pigment stick on canvas
152.4 × 121.9 cm
60 × 48 inches

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George Condo
George Condo
Pacific Coast Highway, 2012

George Condo
Pacific Coast Highway, 2012
Acrylic, charcoal, pastel on linen
182.9 × 188 cm
72 × 74 inches

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George Condo
George Condo
Nude homeless man, 2010

George Condo
Nude homeless man, 2010
Oil on linen
127 × 127 cm
50 × 50 inches

George Condo
George Condo
God 2, 2014

George Condo
God 2, 2014
Gold patinated bronze
71.1 × 61 × 55.9 cm
28 × 24 × 22 inches

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George Condo
George Condo
Spanish Head Composition, 1988

George Condo
Spanish Head Composition, 1988
Oil and paper collage on canvas
300 × 250 cm
118 × 98 3/8 inches

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George Condo
George Condo
Trying to escape from planet earth, 1984

George Condo
Trying to escape from planet earth, 1984
Oil on canvas
150 × 150 cm (framed)
59 × 59 inches (framed)

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George Condo

George Condo
Shorty and His Gang, 2018
Acrylic, gesso, metallic paint and pigment stick on linen
254 × 594.4 cm
100 × 234 inches
(in three parts)

George Condo
Shorty and His Gang, 2018
George Condo
George Condo

George Condo
Shorty and His Gang, 2018 (detail)

George Condo
Shorty and His Gang, 2018
George Condo
George Condo

George Condo
Shorty and His Gang, 2018 (detail)

George Condo
Shorty and His Gang, 2018
George Condo
George Condo

George Condo
Shorty and His Gang, 2018 (detail)

George Condo
Shorty and His Gang, 2018
George Condo

George Condo
Prismatic Portrait, 2019
Oil on linen
193 × 188 × 3.2 cm
76 × 74 × 1 1/4 inches

George Condo
Prismatic Portrait, 2019
George Condo

George Condo
Modern Caveman, 2019
Oil and pigment stick on linen
193 × 188 × 3.2 cm
76 × 74 × 1 1/4 inches

George Condo
Modern Caveman, 2019
George Condo
George Condo

George Condo
Modern Caveman, 2019 (detail)

George Condo
Modern Caveman, 2019
George Condo
George Condo

George Condo
Modern Caveman, 2019 (detail)

George Condo
Modern Caveman, 2019
George Condo

George Condo
Double Heads on Red, 2014
Acrylic, charcoal, pastel on linen
121.9 × 279.4 cm
48 × 110 inches

George Condo
Double Heads on Red, 2014
George Condo
George Condo

George Condo
Double Heads on Red, 2014 (detail)

George Condo
Double Heads on Red, 2014
George Condo
George Condo

George Condo
Double Heads on Red, 2014 (detail)

George Condo
Double Heads on Red, 2014
George Condo
George Condo

George Condo
Double Heads on Red, 2014 (detail)

George Condo
Double Heads on Red, 2014
George Condo

George Condo
Green and Purple Head Composition, 2018
Acrylic, charcoal, pastel and pigment stick on linen
208.3 × 198.1 cm
82 × 78 inches

George Condo
Green and Purple Head Composition, 2018
George Condo

George Condo
Birdbrain, 2018
Oil and pigment stick on linen
289.6 × 289.6 cm
114 × 114 inches

George Condo
Birdbrain, 2018
George Condo
George Condo

George Condo
Birdbrain, 2018 (detail)

George Condo
Birdbrain, 2018
George Condo

George Condo
What's the point?, 2018
Oil on linen
289.6 × 289.6 cm
114 × 114 inches

George Condo
What's the point?, 2018
George Condo
George Condo

George Condo
What's the point?, 2018 (detail)

George Condo
What's the point?, 2018
George Condo
George Condo

George Condo
What's the point?, 2018 (detail)

George Condo
What's the point?, 2018
George Condo
George Condo

George Condo
What's the point?, 2018 (detail)

George Condo
What's the point?, 2018
George Condo
George Condo

George Condo
What's the point?, 2018 (detail)

George Condo
What's the point?, 2018
George Condo

George Condo
Irish Girl, 2002
Oil on canvas
100 × 73.7 cm
39 3/8 × 29 inches

George Condo
Irish Girl, 2002
George Condo

George Condo
Impressions of Goya 3, 2016
Oil on linen
233.7 × 195.6 cm
92 × 77 inches

George Condo
Impressions of Goya 3, 2016
George Condo
George Condo

George Condo
Impressions of Goya 3, 2016 (detail)

George Condo
Impressions of Goya 3, 2016
George Condo
George Condo

George Condo
Impressions of Goya 3, 2016 (detail)

George Condo
Impressions of Goya 3, 2016
George Condo

George Condo
Your Friendly Neighborhood Robot, 2019
Oil on linen
198.1 × 254 cm
78 × 100 inches

George Condo
Your Friendly Neighborhood Robot, 2019
George Condo
George Condo

George Condo
Your Friendly Neighborhood Robot, 2019 (detail)

George Condo
Your Friendly Neighborhood Robot, 2019
George Condo
George Condo

George Condo
Your Friendly Neighborhood Robot, 2019 (detail)

George Condo
Your Friendly Neighborhood Robot, 2019
George Condo
George Condo

George Condo
Your Friendly Neighborhood Robot, 2019 (detail)

George Condo
Your Friendly Neighborhood Robot, 2019
George Condo

George Condo
Red Antipodular Portrait, 1996
Oil on canvas
152.4 × 121.9 cm
60 × 48 inches

George Condo
Red Antipodular Portrait, 1996
George Condo

George Condo
St. Patrick’s Day, 2020
Oil and pigment stick on canvas
152.4 × 121.9 cm
60 × 48 inches

George Condo
St. Patrick’s Day, 2020
George Condo
George Condo

George Condo
St. Patrick’s Day, 2020 (detail)

George Condo
St. Patrick’s Day, 2020
George Condo
George Condo

George Condo
St. Patrick’s Day, 2020 (detail)

George Condo
St. Patrick’s Day, 2020
George Condo
George Condo

George Condo
St. Patrick’s Day, 2020 (detail)

George Condo
St. Patrick’s Day, 2020
George Condo

George Condo
Pacific Coast Highway, 2012
Acrylic, charcoal, pastel on linen
182.9 × 188 cm
72 × 74 inches

George Condo
Pacific Coast Highway, 2012
George Condo
George Condo

George Condo
Pacific Coast Highway, 2012 (detail)

George Condo
Pacific Coast Highway, 2012
George Condo
George Condo

George Condo
Pacific Coast Highway, 2012 (detail)

George Condo
Pacific Coast Highway, 2012
George Condo

George Condo
Nude homeless man, 2010
Oil on linen
127 × 127 cm
50 × 50 inches

George Condo
Nude homeless man, 2010
George Condo

George Condo
God 2, 2014
Gold patinated bronze
71.1 × 61 × 55.9 cm
28 × 24 × 22 inches

George Condo
God 2, 2014
George Condo
George Condo

George Condo
God 2, 2014 (detail)

George Condo
God 2, 2014
George Condo
George Condo

George Condo
God 2, 2014 (detail)

George Condo
God 2, 2014
George Condo
George Condo

George Condo
Arrival, 1997 (detail)

George Condo
Arrival, 1997
George Condo
George Condo

George Condo
Arrival, 1997 (detail)

George Condo
Arrival, 1997
George Condo
George Condo

George Condo
Arrival, 1997 (detail)

George Condo
Arrival, 1997
George Condo
George Condo

George Condo
Arrival, 1997 (detail)

George Condo
Arrival, 1997
George Condo
George Condo

George Condo
Arrival, 1997 (detail)

George Condo
Arrival, 1997
George Condo

George Condo
Spanish Head Composition, 1988
Oil and paper collage on canvas
300 × 250 cm
118 × 98 3/8 inches

George Condo
Spanish Head Composition, 1988
George Condo
George Condo

George Condo
Spanish Head Composition, 1988 (detail)

George Condo
Spanish Head Composition, 1988
George Condo
George Condo

George Condo
Spanish Head Composition, 1988 (detail)

George Condo
Spanish Head Composition, 1988
George Condo
George Condo

George Condo
Spanish Head Composition, 1988 (detail)

George Condo
Spanish Head Composition, 1988
George Condo

George Condo
Trying to escape from planet earth, 1984
Oil on canvas
150 × 150 cm (framed)
59 × 59 inches (framed)

George Condo
Trying to escape from planet earth, 1984
George Condo
George Condo

George Condo
Trying to escape from planet earth, 1984 (detail)

George Condo
Trying to escape from planet earth, 1984
George Condo
George Condo

George Condo
Trying to escape from planet earth, 1984 (detail)

George Condo
Trying to escape from planet earth, 1984
George Condo
George Condo

George Condo
Trying to escape from planet earth, 1984 (detail)

George Condo
Trying to escape from planet earth, 1984
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Current and Upcoming
George Condo
Sarah Lucas, Titti Doris, 2017 (detail)
© Sarah Lucas, 2024. Courtesy Sadie Coles HQ, London and Contemporary Fine Art, Berlin. Photo: Jochen Littkemann

If not now, when?
Group Exhibition
Museum Beelden aan Zee, Den Haag
April 12–September 8, 2024

If not now, when? presents an international selection of over seventy sculptures and installations from the collection of art collector Max Vorst. The exhibition gives an impressive overview on the developments in contemporary sculpture in the twenty-first century and demonstrates the diversity, originality and high quality of one of the most important private art collections in The Netherlands, and it connects themes such as the contemporary image of the human form, abstraction, rhythm and construction while also showing the blurring of time.

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Exhibitions at Sprüth Magers
George Condo

GO FIGURE!?
Henni Alftan, John Baldessari, Cao Fei, George Condo, Diane Dal-Pra, Thomas Demand, Alex Foxton, Lenz Geerk, Elizabeth Glaessner, Matthew Angelo Harrison, Oscar yi Hou, Gary Hume, Clementine Keith-Roach, Karen Kilimnik, Barbara Kruger, Louise Lawler, Jo Messer, Pamela Rosenkranz, Sterling Ruby, Thomas Scheibitz, Cindy Sherman, Rosemarie Trockel, Kara Walker, Andro Wekua
May 19–May 26, 2021

GO FIGURE!? is an online exhibition in collaboration with Ed Tang and Jonathan Cheung. It presents works by artists from Sprüth Magers roster alongside a selection of emerging artists from around the globe and across various media, aiming to welcome a playful dialogue between the exhibiting artists and works.

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George Condo
Linear Expression
April 28–August 25, 2021
Berlin

Linear Expression, George Condo’s first solo exhibition at the Berlin gallery in over eight years, presents new works on canvas and paper. The artist’s compositions are well known for their intricate renderings of faces and figures, made possible by his virtuosic use of line, color and volume. Often begun using quick, linear gestures, then overlaid with rich tones and brushwork, Condo's imaginary portraits invoke the kaleidoscopic range of human emotion. In this new body of work, abstracted characters hold space together but rarely connect through eye contact or touch—a reflection, perhaps, of the past year of uncertainty and distance. At times tender, at times violent, Condo's new works illustrate his long-standing pursuit to capture the complex and often contradictory nature of human life.

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George Condo

George Condo
What's the point?
April 9–June 1, 2019
Los Angeles

What’s the Point of consistency in art?

Every time I put a brushstroke down on a canvas I ask myself, “What’s the Point?

What’s the Point of each and every mark going onto the painting? It is important for an artist to ask themselves that question. I am intentional with every move I make as a painter. Even if it appears to be random or an accident, or just a part of a painting that seems less important than another, it is not and cannot ever be.

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George Condo
George Condo

George Condo
Entrance to the Void
April 20–June 11, 2016
Los Angeles

In Entrance to the Void, George Condo condenses the disparate styles of his previous artistic periods into individual paintings that broach the void between figuration and abstraction. Moreover, his new body of work becomes a philosophical exercise in counteracting ideas of ‘nothingness’ through the visual consolidation of a personal, and in this case, artistic history. Condo’s exhibition at Sprüth Magers in Los Angeles marks over three decades with the gallery since his very first solo show at Monika Sprüth Gallery in Cologne, 1984.

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George Condo
Paintings and Sculptures
April 27–June 22, 2013
Berlin

Condo has been connected with the gallery for almost thirty years now. In February 1984, when he lived for a short time in Cologne, the Monika Sprüth Galerie hosted one of the first solo exhibitions of the artist's career. Today Condo is considered to be one of the pioneers of the international revival of figurative painting. With a sensibility schooled in Pop Art, he single-handedly reintroduced the pictorial language of the Old Masters into the discussion concerning contemporary art.

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George Condo
George Condo

George Condo
Drawings
October 12–December 11, 2011
London

George Condo emerged out of the dynamism of the New York art scene of the early 1980s, swiftly establishing himself as an unparalleled draftsman with an at once distinctive and arresting painterly style. Condo travelled to Europe where he associated with the Mülheimer Freiheit cohort of Cologne, a collective of so-called ‘Young Wild Ones’, with Walter Dahn and Jiri Georg Dokoupil being amongst the most influential painters on Condo.

George Condo
Family Portraits
January 30–April 1, 2010
Berlin

George Condo, who in 1984 had his first solo exhibition at the Monika Sprüth Galerie in Cologne, resided at the beginning of the 1980s for an extended period in Cologne and moved within the context of the 'Jungen Wilden'. The style of this group of young painters, to which such artists as Walter Dahn and Jiri Dokupil belonged, was typified by an emphatically painterly and expressive character which deliberately distanced itself from the artistic movements in vogue at that time, such as Minimalism and Concept Art.

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George Condo
George Condo

George Condo
Drawings
October 18–November 22, 2008
Berlin

Condo’s work is marked by the unification of perceived contradictions; it combines the formal language of classical painting such as Diego Velazquez and Pablo Picasso with the aesthetics of modern cartoons and mass media. While Condo refrains from citing images directly, subtly integrating art historical references into his own image world, his work is unique. Condo contaminates the legacy of the art historical canon through dark humor and the grotesque.

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George Condo
March 16–May 7, 2005
Munich

George Condo
Religious Paintings
October 13–November 13, 2004
London

Condo’s new series of paintings investigate the collision of public and private values in a world where we have been led astray. Taking as his objects of scrutiny zealous newsmakers (including the clergy and business practitioners), the idea of family and our lost hope (in vegetable form), Condo finds in arranging subjects on canvas a glorification of the human figure despite all by which we are misled.

George Condo
George Condo

Malerei
George Condo, Axel Kasseböhmer, Thomas Scheibitz, Andreas Schulze
May 4–June 19, 2004
Munich

George Condo
April 24–June 19, 2004
Cologne

George Condo

Shadow and Light
Richard Artschwager, John Baldessari, Matthew Barney, George Condo, Walter Dahn, Olafur Eliasson, Martin Fengel, Peter Fischli David Weiss, Dan Flavin, Sylvie Fleury, Gilbert & George, Dan Graham, Thomas Grünfeld, Andreas Gursky, Stefan Hirsig, Jenny Holzer, Axel Kasseböhmer, Stefan Kern, Karen Kilimnik, Astrid Klein, Louise Lawler, Anne Loch, Paul Morrison, Jean-Luc Mylayne, Bruce Nauman, Manuel Ocampo, Nam June Paik, Hirsch Perlman, Lari Pittman, Barbara Probst, Gerhard Richter, Ed Ruscha, Robert Ryman, Frances Scholz, Andreas Schulze, Cindy Sherman, Paul Sietsema, Rosemarie Trockel, Kara Walker, Andy Warhol, Christopher Wool, Martin Wöhrl, Philip-Lorca diCorcia
July 26–August 31, 2003
Salzburg

Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers will open a temporary space in Salzburg together with their London partner Simon Lee for the duration of the Salzburg Festival. One of the main reasons for this was the fact that the galleries are traditionally closed in August and that exhibition operations are shut down, but at the same time cultural life is at its peak in Salzburg, not far from our Munich location. It makes sense to contribute something to the cultural climate with a precisely formulated group exhibition and at the same time to reach a sophisticated international audience.

George Condo
George Condo

20th Anniversary Show
John Baldessari, Alighiero Boetti, George Condo, Walter Dahn, Thomas Demand, Thea Djordjadze, Peter Fischli David Weiss, Sylvie Fleury, Andreas Gursky, Jenny Holzer, Gary Hume, Axel Kasseböhmer, Karen Kilimnik, Astrid Klein, Barbara Kruger, Louise Lawler, Jean-Luc Mylayne, Nina Pohl, Richard Prince, Ed Ruscha, Frances Scholz, Andreas Schulze, Cindy Sherman, Rosemarie Trockel, Andrea Zittel, Philip-Lorca diCorcia
April 25–October 18, 2003
Cologne

In 1983, Monika Sprüth opened her Cologne based gallery with a solo show by Andreas Schulze. Starting from the idea to establish a forum for young and unknown artists, the central focus of the gallery concept was developed in the discourse of the 80s. The gallery program was completed by recourses to artistic attitudes of the last 40 years. This research, motivated by reflection on contemporary art history, was more and more realized in cooperation with Philomene Magers who directed her Bonn gallery since 1992. After a few years of loose cooperation, Monika Sprüth Gallery and Philomene Magers Gallery aligned with each other after, and together the Monika Sprüth / Philomene Magers Gallery opened up in Munich in 1999.

George Condo
September 14–October 27, 2001
Munich

George Condo
George Condo

Künstler der Galerie
Peter Fischli David Weiss, Rosemarie Trockel, George Condo, Axel Kasseböhmer, Cindy Sherman, Jenny Holzer, Barbara Kruger, Anne Loch, Andreas Schulze, Thomas Wachweger, Milan Kunc, Ina Barfuss
June 13–July 15, 1987
Cologne

Press

“Everything That Could Go Wrong, Did Go Wrong”: George Condo on the Difficult Path to His Most Personal Exhibition to Date 
Artnet, article by Pac Pobric, December 3, 2019

For His First Public Sculpture, George Condo Matched His Concept With Its Grand Location
Observer, article by Helen Holmes, October 30, 2019

A Sun God? A Cyborg? No, It’s a George Condo Creation
The New York Times, review by Hilarie M. Sheets, October 29, 2019

George Condo Tells Art & Object “What’s the Point?”
Art & Object, article by Jordan Riefe, April 26, 2019

George Condo Gets to the Point at His New Los Angeles Exhibition
LA Weekly, review by Jordan Riefe, April 17, 2019

Raf Simons and his friend, the artist George Condo, on Warhol and the rest of the world
Interview, interview by Nick Haramis, September 11, 2018

Mondo Condo: Exploring the Extreme of George Condo’s Work
Ran Dian, interview by Chris Moore, March 20, 2018

Picasso’s Woman in a Red Armchair 1932: An appreciation by fellow artist George Condo
TATE, text by George Condo, March 7, 2018

George Condo with Joachim Pissarro
The Brooklyn Rail, interview by Joachim Pissarro, November 2017

George Condo
Vanity Fair, article by Dorian May, November 2017

The Artificial Realism of George Condo
BmoreArt, article by Jordannah Elizabeth, May 15, 2017

Kalkulierte Konfrontation
Schirn Mag, review by Julia Schmitz, March 29, 2017

Biography

George Condo (*1957, Concord, NH) lives in New York. Selected solo exhibitions include Nouveau Musée National de Monaco – Villa Paloma (2023), The Morgan Library & Museum, New York (2023), Long Museum, Shanghai (2021), Cycladic Art Museum, Athens and Maritime Museum, Hong Kong (both 2018), Phillips Collection, Washington, DC (2017, traveled to Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark), Staatliche Museen zu Berlin – Museum Berggruen, Berlin (2016), New Museum, New York (2010), traveled to Hayward Gallery, London (2011), Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (2011), Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt (2012) and Kunstmuseum Luzern (2008). Selected group exhibitions include Venice Biennale (2019, 2013), 13th Biennale de Lyon (2015), 10th Gwangju Biennale (2014), Whitney Biennial (2010, 1987) and the 48th Corcoran Biennial, Washington DC (2005).

Education
1976–78 University of Massachusetts Lowell
Teaching
2004 Visiting Lecturer on Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard
Awards, Grants and Fellowships
2018 BOMB Magazine 2018 Anniversary Gala Honoree
2013 New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture Honoree
2008 National Artist Award, Anderson Ranch Arts Center
Annual Artist’s Award from ArtsConnection, New York
2005 Francis J. Greenberger Award
1999 Academy Award in Art, the American Academy of Arts and Letters
Public Collections
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo
Citigroup Art Advisory Service Collection, New York
Deste Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Athens
Dakis Joannou Collection Foundation, Athens
Doron Sebbag Art Collection, ORS Ltd., Tel Aviv
Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Ministère de la Culture, Paris
Fonds Regional d’Art Contemporain, Ile de France, Paris
Fonds Regional d’Art Contemporain, Auvergne
Kunsthalle Bielefeld
Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Museu d’Art Contemporani, Barcelona
Norton Gallery, Palm Beach
Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt
Stedeljik Museum, Amsterdam
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Tate, London
The Broad Art Foundation, Los Angeles
The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
The Judith Rothschild Foundation, Tel Aviv
The Karpidas Family Collection, Dallas
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
The National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
The Olbricht Collection, Berlin
The Pisces Collection, Donaueschingen
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York