Paul McCarthy

Biography

°1945, Salt Lake City, UT, United States
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA, United States

	Selected Solo Exhibitions
2022	'I Can Live Forever', Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, New South, Antwerp, BE 'Paul McCarthy. Pirates Stew Pot', Hauser & Wirth, MC
2021	'Dead End Hole', KODE, Bergen, NOR 'Painted Pirate Heads', Peder Lund, Oslo, NOR 'A&E Sessions — Drawing and Painting' Hauser & Wirth, New York, USA
2020	'Head Space, Drawings 1963-2019' Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA
2019	'Mixed Bag', Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, BE
2018	'Paul McCarthy & Christian Lemmerz : Reality Virtual Reality', Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig, Leipzig, DE 'Paul McCarthy: Innocence', M Woods, Beijing, CN
2017	Cut Up and Silicone, Female Idol, WS, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, South Korea Paul McCarthy & Christian Lemmerz, New Media (Virtual Reality Art), Faurschou Foundation in Venice, Venice, Italy Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles, CA, US WS & CSSC, Drawings and Paintings, Fundació Gaspar, Barcelona, Spain
2016	White Snow & Coach Stage Stage Coach Spinoffs, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium Raw Spinoffs Continuations, Hauser & Wirth, New York, NY, US Paul McCarthy, Kulturzentrum Lokremise, St.Gallen, Switzerland White Snow, Wood Sculptures, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA, US
2015	Full Exposure: Paul and Damon McCarthy’s Pirate Party, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC, US Drawings, The Renaissance Society, Chicago, IL, US Volksbühne, Berlin, Germany Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin, Germany Inbetween. Baselitz — McCarthy, Economou Collection, Athens, Greece Spin Offs: White Snow WS, Caribbean Pirates CP, Hauser & Wirth, Zurich, Switzerland Paul McCarthy. Photographs 1977–1996, Art & Public — Cabinet P.H., Geneva, Switzerland
2014	Chocolate Factory, Monnaie de Paris, Paris, France Paul McCarthy — WS SC, Hauser & Wirth, London, UK Paul McCarthy.Ketchup and Blod, Galleri F15, Moss, Norway Mike Bouchet & Paul McCarthy — DOUBLE DECK Monty Carlo, Marlborough Monaco, Monaco, Monaco Paul McCarthy: Black and White Tapes, Space Studios, London, UK Mike Bouchet & Paul McCarthy, Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany, travelled to Galerie Parisa Kind, Frankfurt, Germany
2013	Andy Hope 1930, Paul McCarthy. Down Show Show Down, 8. Salon, Hamburg, Germany WS, Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY, US Rebel Dabble Babble, Hauser & Wirth, New York, NY, US Life Cast, Hauser & Wirth, New York, NY, US Sculptures, Hauser & Wirth, New York, NY, US
2012	PROPO, Hauser & Wirth, Zurich, Switzerland White Snow, Peder Lund, Oslo, Norway Paul McCarthy.The Box, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany Rebel Dabble Babble, The Box, Los Angeles, CA, US Nine Dwarves, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
2011	The Dwarves, The Forests, Hauser & Wirth, New York, NY, US The King, The Island, The Train, The House, The Ship, Hauser & Wirth, London, UK Skulptur: Paul McCarthy “Henry Moore Bound to Fail”, KÖR Kunst im öffentlichen Raum, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria White Snow Dwarf (Dopey # 1), Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, US Paul McCarthy — Selected Works, Charles Riva Collection, Bruxelles, Belgium
2010	Caribbean Pirates — in collaboration with Damon McCarthy, Sammlung Friedrichshof, Zurndorf, Austria Three Sculptures, L&M Arts, Los Angeles, CA, US Pig Island, Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Milan, Italy
2009	White Snow, Hauser & Wirth, New York, NY, US Air Pressure, De Uithof, City of Utrecht, The Netherlands Hauser & Wirth, Zurich, Switzerland Contemporary trends in video art — Paul McCarthy, Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City, UT, US
2008	Central Symmetrical Rotation Movement — Three Installations, Two Films, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, US Paul McCarthy & Benjamin Weissman — Quilting Sessions, Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Trento, Italy, travelled to Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland; KUMU Eesti Kunstimuuseum, Tallinn, Estonia
2007	PETER PAUL CHOCOLATES, Edibles by Paul McCarthy, Maccarone Gallery, New York, NY, US Tokyo Santa 1996/2004, Essl Museum Kunst der Gegenwart, Klosterneuburg, Austria Air Born / Air Borne / Air Pressure, Middelheim Sculpture Museum, Antwerp, Belgium Paul McCarthy — Damon McCarthy. Portfolios, Hauser & Wirth Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
2006	Between Beauty and the Beast. Sculptures, Drawings and Photographs, Nyehaus, New York, NY, US Head Shop / Shop Head, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden, travelled to ARoS — Aarhus Museum of Art, Denmark; S.M.A.K. Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent, Belgium
2005	LaLa land parody paradise, Whitechapel, London, UK, travelled to Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
2004	Brain Box — Dream Box, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, travelled to CAC — Centro de Arte Contemporàneo, Malaga, Spain
2003	Piccadilly Circus, Hauser & Wirth London, London, UK Paul McCarthy at Tate Modern, Tate Modern, London, UK Films and Video Works, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo, Norway
2002	Propposition, with Jason Rhoades, Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg, Germany Shit Plug, with Jason Rhoades, Hauser & Wirth Zürich, Switzerland Clean Thoughts, Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York, NY, US Videowerken 1971-1999, De Hallen, Haarlem, The Netherlands Videos, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland
2001	Paul McCarthy: Videos und Fotografien, Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK Pirate Drawings, Hauser & Wirth Zürich, Switzerland Villa Arson, Nice, France New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY, US The Garden, Deitch Projects, New York, NY, US The Box, Public Art Fund, New York, NY, US Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York, NY, US
2000	MOCA — The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, US Heidi File, Patrick Painter Inc., Santa Monica, CA, US Eleni Koroneou Gallery, Athens, Greece Projekt Fassade, Wiener Secession, Wien, Austria
1999	Proposition, with Jason Rhoades, David Zwirner Gallery, New York, NY, US Dimensions of the Mind, Sammlung Hauser und Wirth in der Lokremise St.Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland Dead H and Early Performance Photographs, Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy Tokyo Santa — Santa’s Trees, Blum and Poe, Santa Monica, CA, US
1998	Painter, Video and Drawings, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria Photographs-Performance Photographs and Video, 1969 — 1983, Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York, NY, USA, travelled to Patrick Painter Inc., Santa Monica, CA, US
1997	Santa Chocolate Shop, Hauser & Wirth, Zurich, Switzerland
1996	Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Saloon, Air de Paris, Paris, France Yaa-Hoo, Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York, NY, US Video Works, Galerie Drantmann, Brussels, Belgium Video and Drawings, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark
1995	5 Photographic Works, 1970—1974, Blum & Poe, Santa Monica, CA, US Painter, Projects Room, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, US Art and Public, Geneva, Switzerland Tomato Head, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany Pinocchio Pipenose Housholddilemma Tour, Galeria Antoni Estrany, Barcelona, Spain, travelled to Luhring and Augustine, New York, NY, US; Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark; Esther Schipper Galerie, Cologne, Germany; Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy; McKinney Art Center, Dallas, TX, USA; Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand; Ooe Landesmuseum, Linz, Austria
1994	Pinocchio Pipenose Housholddilemma Tour, Air de Paris, Paris, France Le Fonds Regional d’Art Contemporain Poitou-Charentes, Angoulême, France Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA Galerie George-Philippe Vallois, Paris, France Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy
1993	Video, Ynglingagatan 1 Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria The Dead Viking, Buchholz und Buchholz, Cologne, Germany Luring Augustine Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1991	Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, US
1990	Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, US
1987	Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, US
1986	Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, US
1985	AAA Art, Los Angeles, CA, US
1983	Paintings, Cirque Divers, Liège, Belgium
1982	Human Object, LACE — Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA, US
1979	Contemporary Cure All, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA, US Deadening, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA, US