John Currin
1962
Born Boulder (CO)
1986
MFA, Yale University, New Haven (CT)
1984
BFA, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh (PA)
Solo Exhibitions
2008
John Currin: New Paintings, Sadie Coles HQ, London
2006
Gagosian Gallery, New York
2003
Sadie Coles HQ, London
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, touring to Serpentine Gallery, London; Whitney Museum of Art, New York (cat.)
John Currin: Works on Paper, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines (IA), touring to Aspen Art Museum, Aspen (CO); Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee (WI)
2002
Regen Projects, Los Angeles (CA)
The Honeymooners, Hydra Workshops, Greece (with Rachel Feinstein), July-Sept. (cat.)
2001
Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
2000
Monika Spruth Galerie, Cologne, Germany
Sadie Coles HQ, London
1999
Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
Regen Projects, Los Angeles (CA)
1997
Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
Sadie Coles HQ, London
1996
Regen Projects, Los Angeles (CA)
1995
ICA, London
Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
Fonds Regional d’Art Contemporain, Limousin, Limoges, France (cat.)
Donald Young Gallery, Seattle (WA)
Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco (CA)
1994
Galerie Jennifer Flay, Paris, France
Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
1993
‘Critical Distance’ (curated by Luk Lambrecht), Ado Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium, (cat.)
Galerie Monika Spruth, Cologne, Germany
1992
Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
1989
White Columns, New York
Group Exhibitions
2008
Bad Painting, Good Art, MUMUK, Museum of Modern Art, Vienna, Austria
2007
Old School, Hauser & Wirth Colnaghi, London (traveling to Zwirner & Wirth, New York)
Very Abstract and Hyper Figurative, Thomas Dane Gallery, London (curated by Jens Hoffman)
2006
In the Darkest Hour there may be light, Work’s from Damien Hirst’s Murderme Collection, Serpentine Gallery, London (cat.)
Surprise, Surprise, ICA., London
Zurück zur Figur: Marlerei der Gegenwart, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung,
Munich, Germany (cat.) touring to Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Painting Codes: I Codici della Pittura, Galleria Comunale d’Arte Contemporanea di Monfalcone, Monafalcone, Italy (cat.)
Prints, Sadie Coles HQ, London
2005
Girls on Film, curated by Kristine Bell, Zwriner and Wirth Gallery, New York
Drawing from the Modern, 1975-2005, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Idols of Perversity, Bellwether, New York.
In Limbo. Victoria H. Myhren Gallery, University of Denver, CO.
Getting Emotional, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA.
2004
Disparities and Deformations: Our Grotesque (curated by Robert Storr),
SITE Santa Fe Biennial, Santa Fe (NM)
She’s Come Undone, Artemis, Greenberg van Doren Gallery, New York
Now Is a Good Time, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
2003
Inaugural Exhibition, Regen Projects, Los Angeles (CA)
20th Anniversary Show, Monika Spruth / Philomene Magers, Cologne, Germany
An International Legacy: Selections from Carnegie Museum of Art, Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma City (OK), touring to Nevada Museum of Art, Reno (NV); Mobile Art Museum, Mobile (AL)
Supernova: Art of the 1990s from the Logan Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco (CA)
2002
Liebe Maler, male mir…Dear Painter, paint me…Cher peintre, peins-moi (curated by Alison Gingeras), Pompidou Centre, Paris, touring to Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna; Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany (cat.)
Drawing Now: Eight Propositions, Museum of Modern Art, New York, (cat.)
American Standard (Para) Normality and Everyday Life, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
2001
Form Follows Fiction, Castello di Rivoli, Turin
Azerty, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
About Faces, C & M Arts, New York
Naked Since 1950, C & M Arts, New York (cat.)
The Way I See It, Galerie Jennifer Flay, Paris
Drawings, Regen Projects, Los Angeles (CA)
Works on Paper from Acconci to Zittel, Victoria Miro Gallery, London
2000
Kin, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
OO, Barbara Gladstone Gallery; NYC
Innuendo, Dee/Glasoe Gallery, New York
Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Couples, Cheim & Read, New York
1999
artLovers, Compton House, Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool
I’m Not Here: Constructing Identity at the Turn of the Century, The Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg (PA)
Carnegie International 1999/2000, CI:99/00, The Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh (PA)
The Great Drawing Show: 1550 to 1999, Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles (CA)
Malerei, INIT-Kunsthalle, Berlin,
The Nude in Contemporary Art, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield (CT) (cat.)
Troublespot Painting, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwepren (MUHKA), Antwerp, Belgium
Examining Pictures: exhibiting paintings (curated by Francesco Bonami), Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, tour to Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (IL) (cat.)
Etcetera (curated by Tommaso Corvi-Mora), Spacex, Exeter, England
John Currin and Elizabeth Peyton (curated by Peter Schjeldahl) Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge (MA)
Salome: Images of Women in Contemporary Art (curated by Katherine Gass), Castle Gallery, The College of New Rochelle (NY)
Positioning, Center for Curatorial Studies Museum, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson (NY)
1998
More Fake, More Real, Yet Ever Closer (curated by Robert Evren), Castle Gallery, The College of New Rochelle (NY) (cat.)
The Risk of Existence, Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York
“Young Americans 2; Part Two”, Saatchi Gallery, London, (cat.)
From Here to Eternity: Painting in 1998, Max Protetch Gallery, New York
Hungry Ghosts, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, (cat.)
Portraits: People, Places and Things, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
Pop Surrealism, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Aldrich (CT) (cat.)
Now and Later, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven (CT)
1997
Heart, Body, Mind, Soul: American Art in the 1990s, Selections from the Permanent Collection,The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
The Tate Gallery Selects: American Realities - Views from Abroad: European Perspectives on American Art 3 (curated by Nicolas Serota and Sandy Nairne), The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, (cat.)
Painting Project, Basilico Fine Arts and Lehmann Maupin, New York (cat.)
Projects #60: Currin, Peyton, Tuymans (curated by Laura Hoptman), The Museum of Modern Art, New York (pamphlet)
Feminine Image (curated by Donald Kuspit), Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor (NY)
1996
a/drift: Scenes from the Penetrable Culture ( curated by Joshua Decter) Bard College Center for Curatorial Studies, Annandale-on-Hudson (NY) (cat.)
Figure, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
Pittura, Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy
Variations, op. 96: une selection d’oeuvres du Fonds Regional d’Art Contemporain, Poitou-Charentes
Musée de Cognac, Cognac, France
Answered Prayers, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin
Sugar Mountain (curated by Paul Ha and Andrea Scott), White Columns, New York
Face to Face, Victoria Miro Gallery, London
Controfigura, Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy
narcissism: Artists Reflect Themselves, California Center for the Arts Museum, Escondido (CA) (cat.)
Screen (curated by Joshua Decter), Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
1995
Wild Walls, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, tour to the ICA, London (cat.)
25 Americans: Painting in the 90’s, Milwaukee Museum of Art, Milwaukee (WI) (cat.)
Collection, fin XXe, Fonds Regional d’Art Contemporain Poitou-Charentes, Angouleme, France (cat.)
White Columns Benefit, New York
B-Movie (curated by Sarah Morris), Phoenix Hotel, San Francisco (CA)
1994
A series of rotating installations: Week 1: John Currin and Andrea Zittel, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
Summer Group Show, Donald Young Gallery, Seattle (WA)
Up the Establishment (Benefit sale for Independent Curators Incorporated) (curated by Dan Cameron)
Sonnabend Gallery, New York
Galleria Galliani, Genoa, Italy
Don’t Postpone Joy or Collecting Can Be Fun! (curated by Rudi Molacek and Barbara Steffen), Neue Galerie, Graz, Austria, tour to Austrian Cultural Institute, New York
Intercourse (curated by Pedro Gomez and Daniel Carello), Mustard, New York
Passing Through (curated by Ugo Rondinone), Galerie Walcheturm, Zurich, Switzerland
1993
Medium Messages (curated by Vik Muniz), Wooster Gardens, New York
Look at the Window (curated by Jose Lebrero Stals) Museum Het Kruithuis, Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands, (cat.)
One of Us (Since You Stayed Here) (curated by Mark Wilson & Cokkie Snoei), Kunsthal Rotterdam, The Netherlands
After the Event (curated by Mike Hubert) Aperto 93, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy (cat.)
Just what is it that makes today’s home so different, so appealing?, Galerie Jennifer Flay, Paris
Project Unite Firminy (curated by Yves Aupetitalot), Unité D’Habitation Le Corbusier, Firminy, France (cat.)
Prospect ‘93: Eine Ausstellung des Frankfurter Kunstvereins im Steinernen Hans und der Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (cat.)
SOHO at Duke IV, Duke University Museum of Art, Durham (NC)
1992
Figurative Work from the Permanent Collection, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Double Identity, Johnen & Schottle, Cologne, Germany
Dead Cat Bounce, Robbin Lockett Gallery, Chicago (IL)
Galerie Rudiger Schottle, Munich, Germany, tour to Galerie Rudiger Schottle, Paris,
1991
Malerei, Johnen & Schottle, Cologne, Germany
Art Under 30, The Fiar International Prize, Milan, Italy, tour to Rome, Paris, London, New York, Los Angeles (cat.)
Shared Skin: Sub-Social Identifiers (organized by Janet Biggs), Dooley Le Cappellaine Gallery, New York
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Violence and Knowledge in Recent American Art (curated by Klaus Ottman), Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Wesleyan (MA)
Gulliver’s Travels, Sophia Ungers Galerie, Cologne, Germany
7 Women, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
Andrea Rosen Gallery (two person exhibition with Robin Kahn), New York
1990
(not so) Simple Pleasures, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Boston (MA) (cat.)
Total Metal (curated by Richard Phillips), Simon Watson Gallery, New York (cat.)
White Columns Benefit, New York
Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
Program Update White Columns, White Columns, New York (cat.)
1989
Amerikarma (curated by Dan Levine) Hallwalls, Buffalo (NY)