Genre
Using text, paint, various printmaking techniques and handmade marks, Wool makes paintings about paintings, paintings about printmaking, and paintings about slogans and advertisement, about aggression, nonsense and disillusion.
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Born 1955 in Chicago. Lives and works in New York.
Studied at Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York.
Solo exhibitions (selection) 2004 | New York, Luhring Augustine | | London, Camden Arts Centre, Christopher Wool | | Antwerp, Galerie Micheline Szwajcer | 2003 | Cologne, Galerie Gisela Capitain,
Christopher Wool | | Dundee, Dundee Contemporary Arts,
Crosstown Crosstown | 2002 | Dijon, Le Consortium, Crosstown Crosstown | | Berlin, Galerie Max Hetzler,
Christopher Wool - Paintings | 2001 | Vienna, Secession | | New York, London, Luhring Augustine | | Antwerp, Galerie Micheline Szwajcer | 2000 | New York, Skarstedt Fine Art,
Black Book Drawings 1989 | | New York, Barbara Gladstone Gallery | | New York, Whitney Museum of American Art at Phillip Morris, A Way with Words | | Athens, Eleni Koroneou Gallery | 1999 | Geneva, Centre d`Art Contemporain | 1998 | Los Angeles, Museum of Contempary Art, travelled to Pittsburgh, Carnegie Museum of Art; Basel, Kunsthalle | | Berlin, Galerie Max Hetzler | 1997 | New York, Luhring Augustine Gallery | | Tokyo, Taka Ishii Gallery | 1996 | Cologne, Galerie Gisela Capitain | 1995, 1992 | New York, Luhring Augustine Gallery | 1991 | Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen | | Cologne, Kölnischer Kunstverein | | Berne, Kunsthalle | 1989 | San Francisco, Museum of Modern Art,
New Work: Christopher Wool | 1988 | New York, Luhring, Augustine & Hodes Gallery | 1987 | Cologne, Galerie Gisela Capitain | 1984 | New York, Cable Gallery |
Group exhibitions (selection) 2004 | Cologne, Galerie Daniel Buchholz,
Teil 2 Quodlibet | | Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Taschen Collection | | Goteborg, Museum of Art, Hasselblad Center, The Open Book | | New York, Roth Horowitz, Power,
Corruption and Lies | | New York, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, William Gedney-Christopher Wool: Into the Night | | New York, Robert Miller Gallery, Ground-Field-Surface | | Munich, Pinakothek der Moderne, Robert Gober - Mike Kelley - Christopher Wool | | Karlsruhe, ZKM, Malerei: Herbert Brandl - Helmut Dorner - Adrian Schiess - Christopher Wool | | New York, Danese, Disturbing the Peace | | New York, Cheim&Read, I am the Walrus | | New York, Stellan Holm Gallery, Pixels | | Lille, Palais des Beaux-Arts et Musée de l'Hospice Comtesse, Flower Power | | Hamburg, Kunsthalle, Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie, Ice Hot-Recent Paintings from the Scharpff Collection | 2003 | Lyon, Biennale de Lyon | | Cambridge, Institute of Visual Culture,
Because if it's not love, then it's the bomb that will bring us together | | Leverkusen, Museum Morsbroich,
Talking Pieces | 1992 | Kassel, Documenta 9 | 1991 | Berlin, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Metropolis |
Collections (selection)
Migros Museum, Zurich
Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Sammlung Goetz, Munich
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