16. JOHN CURRIN
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Honeymoon Nude
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1998
Oil paint on canvas
1168 x 914 x 33 mm
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Thanksgiving
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2003
Oil paint on canvas
1729 x 1323 mm
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Maenads, 2015
Oil on canvas (121.9 x 91.4 x 3.2 cm) |
BIO & STEPS
Born:
In 1962 in Boulder, Colorado (USA)
Studies:
-In 1984 he obtained the BFA at Carnegie Mellon
University in Pittsburgh (USA)
- In 1986, he received a MFA from Yale University
(USA)
-In 1989 he exhibited, at White Columns, a series of portraits of
young girls derived from the photographs in a high school yearbook, and
initiated his efforts to distill art from traditionally clichéd subjects.
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Nowadays:
Lives and works in New York city ( NY,
USA)
Themes and style:
John Currin's ambitious paintings seduce,
repel, surprise, and puzzle. His masterful technique is achieved through the
scrutiny and emulation of the compositional devices, graphic rhythms and
refined surfaces of sixteenth and seventeenth century Northern European
painting, while his eroticized subjects exist at odds with the popular dialogue
and politics of contemporary art. With inspirations as diverse as Old Master
portraits, pin-ups, pornography, and B-movies, Currin paints ideational yet challengingly
perverse images of women, from lusty nymphs and dour matrons to more ethereal
feminine prototypes. Consistent throughout his oeuvre is his search for the
point at which the beautiful and the grotesque are held in perfect balance.
Techniques:
Oil on canvas paintings
Solo
Exhibitions
2015 John Currin.
Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA.
2013 John Currin.
Gagosian Gallery, Paris, France.
2012 John Currin.
Sadie Coles HQ, London, England.
2011 John Currin.
DHC/Art, Montreal, Canada.
John Currin meets Cornelis van Haarlem. Frans
Hals Museum, Haarlem, Netherlands.
2010 John Currin: New
Paintings. Gagosian Gallery, Madison Avenue, New York, NY.
2009 John Currin:
Works on Paper, A Fifteen Year Survey of Women. Andrea Rosen
Gallery, New York,
NY.
2008 John Currin: New
Paintings. Sadie Coles HQ, London, England.
2006 John Currin.
Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY.
2003 John Currin. The
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL. Traveled to The
Serpentine Gallery,
London, England; The Whitney Museum of American Art,
New York, NY.
New Work 7: John Currin, Works on Paper. The
Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO.
2002 Regen Projects,
Los Angeles, CA.
2001 Andrea Rosen
Gallery, New York, NY.
2000 Monika Spruth
Galerie, Koln, Germany.
Sadie Coles HQ, London, England.
1999 Andrea Rosen
Gallery, New York, NY.
Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA.
1997 Andrea Rosen
Gallery, New York, NY.
Sadie Coles HQ, London, England.
1996 Regen Projects,
Los Angeles, CA.
1995 Institute of
Contemporary Art, London, England.
Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY.
Fonds Regional d’Art Contemporain, Limousin,
Limoges, France.
Donald Young Gallery, Seattle, WA.
Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
1994 Galerie Jennifer
Flay, San Francisco, CA.
Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY.
1993 Critical
Distance , Ado Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium.
Galerie Monika Spruth, Koln, Germany.
1992 Andrea Rosen
Gallery, New York, NY.
1989 White Columns,
New York, NY.
Selected
Group Exhibitions:
2015 Unrealism. Moore
Building, Miami, FL.
America Is Hard to See.
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY.
Dans un Intérieur.
Meubles, œuvres murales & textiles d'artistes. Almine Rech Gallery,
Brussels, Belgium.
As Is Is. Altman
Siegel, San Francisco, CA.
La Peregrina. Royal
Academy of Arts, London, England.
The Shell
(Landscapes, Portraits & Shapes). Almine Rech Gallery, Paris, France.
Sleepless — The bed
in history and contemporary art. 21er Haus, Österreichische
Galerie Belvedere,
Vienna, Austria.
2014 She: Picturing
Women at the Turn of the 21st Century. David Winton Bell Gallery and
the Cohen Gallery,
Brown University, Providence, RI.
Somos Libres II:
Works from the Mario Testino Collection. Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli,
Turin, Italy.
FIERCE CREATIVITY.
Pace Gallery, New York, NY.
2013 NYC1993: Experimental
Jet Set, Trash and No Star. New Museum, New York, NY.
2012 The Deer. Le
Consortium Dijon, Dijon, France.
2010 Crash: Homage to
JG Ballard. Gagosian Gallery, Britannia Street, London, England.
In the Company of
Alice. Victoria Miro Gallery, London, England.
2009 Mary Magdelene.
The Metropolitan Opera, New York, NY.
2008 Diana And
Actaeon-The Forbidden Sight of Nudity. Stiftung Museum Kunst Palast.
Bad Painting. Good Art, MUMUK, Museum of
Modern Art, Vienna, Austria.
2007 Old School.
Hauser & Wirth Colnaghi, London, England. Traveled to Zwirner & Wirth,
New York, NY.
Very Abstract and
Hyper Figurative. Thomas Dane Gallery, London, England.
2006 In the Darkest
Hour there may be light. Work’s from Damien Hirst’s Murderme
Collection,
Serpentine Gallery, London, England.
Surprise, Surprise. ICA., London, England.
Zurück zur Figur: Marlerei der Gegenwart,
Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung.
Munich, Germany.
Traveled to Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The
Netherlands.
Painting Codes: I Codici della Pittura.
Galleria Comunale d’Arte Contemporanea di
Monfalcone,
Monafalcone, Italy.
Prints. Sadie Coles HQ, London, England.
2005 Girls on Film.
Zwriner and Wirth Gallery, New York, NY.
Drawing from the
Modern, 1975-2005, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY.
Idols of Perversity. Bellwether, New York, NY.
In Limbo. Victoria H. Myhren Gallery,
University of Denver, CO.
Getting Emotional. Institute of Contemporary
Art, Boston, MA.
2004 SITE Sante Fe’s
Fifth International Biennial: Disparities and Deformations: Our
Grotesque. SITE Santa
Fe, NM.
She’s Come Undone. Artemis Greenberg Van Doren
Gallery, New York.
Supernova: Art of the 1990s From the Logan
Collection: Painting, sculpture and
photography. San
Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA.
2002 Drawing Now:
Eight Propositions. The Museum of Modern Art, Queens, New York.
Liebe Maler, male mir…Dear Painter, paint
me…Cher Peintre, peins-moi, Centre
Pompidou, Paris.
Traveled to Kunsthalle Wien, Austria, Kunsthalle, Frankfurt,
Germany.
2001 Naked Since
1950. C & M Arts, New York, NY.
About Faces. C & M Arts, New York, NY.
The Way I See It. Galerie Jennifer Flay,
Paris, France.
Drawings, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA.
Works on Paper from Acconci to Zittel.
Victoria Miro Gallery, London, England.
2000 Kin, Kerlin Gallery,
Dublin, Ireland.
00. Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY.
Innuendo. Dee/Glasoe
Gallery, New York, NY.
Biennial. The Whitney Museum of American Art,
New York, NY.
Couples. Cheim & Read, New York, NY.
1999 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 Drawings 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, CO.
Troublespot Painting. Museum van Hedendaagse
kunst Antwepren (MUIIKA), Antwerp,
Belgium.
Examining Pictures: exhibiting paintings.
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London. Traveled to
Museum of
Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL.
Etcetera. Spacex, Exeter, England.
John Currin and Elizabeth Peyton. Capenter
Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard
University,
Cambridge, MA.
Salome: Images of Women in Contemporary Art.
Castle Gallery, The College of New
Rochelle, New York,
NY.
Positioning. Center for Curatorial Studies
Museum, Bard College, Annandale-onHudson,
NY.
1998 More Fake, More
Real, Yet Ever Closer. Castle Gallery, The College of New Rochelle,
NY.
The Risk of Existence. Phyllis Kind Gallery,
New York, NY.
Young Americans 2, Part Two. Saatchi Gallery,
London, England.
From Here to Eternity: Paintings in 1998. Max
Protetch Gallery, New York, NY.
Hungry Ghosts. Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin,
Ireland.
Portraits: People, Places and Things. Marianne
Boesky Gallery, New York, NY.
Pop Surrealism. Aldrich Museum of Contemporary
Art, Aldrich, CO.
Now and Later. Yale University Art Gallery,
New Haven, CO.
1997 Heart, Body,
Mind, Soul: American Art in the 1990’s, Selections from the Permanent
Collection. The
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY.
The Tate Gallery Selects: American Realities,
Views from Abroad, European
Perspectives on
American Art 3. The Whitney Museum of American Art, New
York, NY.
Painting Project. Basilico Fine Arts and
Lehmann Maupin, New York, NY.
Projects # 60:
Currin, Peyton, Tuymans. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY.
Feminine Image. Nassau County Museum of Art,
Roslyn Harbor, New York, NY.
1996 a/drift: Scenes
from the Penetrable Culture. Bard College Center for Curatorial
Studies,
Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, NY.
Figure. Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo.
Pittura. Castello di Rivara, Torino, Italy.
Variations, op. 96: une selection d’oeuvres du
Fonds Regional d’Art Contemporain,
Poitou-Charentes. Musee
de Cognac, France.
1996 Answered
Prayers. Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany.
Sugar Mountain. White Columns, NY.
Face to Face. Victoria Miro Gallery, London,
England.
Controfigura. Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy.
narcissism: Artists Reflect Themselves.
California Center for the Arts Museum,
Escondido, CA.
Screen. Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York,
NY.
1995 Wild Walls.
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Traveled to the Institute
of Contemporary Art,
London, England.
25 Americans: Paintings in the 90’s. Milwaukee
Museum of Art, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Collection, fin XXe. Fonds Regional d’Art
Contemporain Poitou-Charentes, Angouleme.
White Columns Benefit, New York, NY.
B-Movie. Phoenix Hotel, San Francisco, CA.
1994 A series of rotating
installations: Week 1: John Currin and Andrea Zittel. Andrea Rosen
Gallery, New York,
NY.
summer group show. Donald Young Gallery,
Seattle, WA.
Up the Establishment. Sonnabend Gallery, New
York, NY.
Galleria Galliani, Genova, Italy.
Don’t Postpone Joy or Collecting Can Be Fun!
Neue Galerie, Graz, Austria. Traveled to Austrian Cultural Institute, New York,
NY.
Intercourse. Mustard, Brooklyn, New York, NY.
Passing Through, Galerie Walcheturm, Zurich,
Switzerland.
1993 Medium Messages.
Wooster Gardens, New York, NY.
Look at the Window. Museum Het Kruithuis,
Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands.
One of Us (Since You Stayed Here). Kunsthal
Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Aperto 93. (in conjunction with the Venice
Biennale, section curated by Mike Hubert),
Venice, Italy.
Just what is it that makes today’s home so
different, so appealing. Galerie Jennifer
Flay, Paris, France.
Project Unite Firminy. Unite D’Habitation Le
Corbusier, Firminy, France.
Prospect ’93. Eine
Ausstellung des Frankfurter Kunstvereins im Steinernen Hans und
der Schirn
Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany.
SOHO at Duke IV. Duke University Museum of
Art, Durham, NC.
1992 Art Under 30.
The Fiar International Prize, organized by Fiar, Milan. Traveled to Rome,
Italy; Paris, France;
London, England; New York, NY; Los Angeles, CA.
Figurative Work from the Permanent Collection.
The Whitney Museum of American
Art, New York, NY.
Double Identity.
Johnen & Schottle, Koln, Germany.
Dead Cat Bounce. Robbin Lockell Gallery,
Chicago, IL.
Galerie Rudiger Schottle, Munich, Germany.
Traveled to Galerie Rudiger Schottle,
Paris, France.
1991 Malerei. Johnen
& Schottle, Koln, Germany (through 1992).
Shared Skin: Sub-Social Identifiers. Dooley Le
Cappellaine Gallery, New York, NY.
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Violence and
Knowledge in Recent American Art.
Ezra and Cecile
Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Wesleyan, MA.
Gulliver’s Travels. Sophia Ungers Galerie,
Koln, Germany.
Women.
Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY.
John Currin and Robin Kahn. Andrea Rosen
Gallery, New York, NY.
1990 (not so) Simple
Pleasures. MIT List Visual Arts Center, Boston, MA.
Total Metal, Simon Watson Gallery, New York,
NY.
White Columns Benefit, New York, NY.
Program Update White Columns. White Columns,
New York, NY.
1989 Amerikarma.
Hallwalls, Buffalo, New York, NY.
Awards:
2005 Shortlist, South
Bank Show Awards.
2000 Shortlist,
Turner Prize, Tate Britain, London, England.
Special Projects:
2013 Momart Gift,
London, England.
2012 Cover art for
Richard Beaudoin’s Microtimings, featuring Mark Knoop and the Keuzter
Quartet, New Focus
Records, Boston, MA.
2011 Large-scale
banner for the season-opening opera Anna Bolena, at The Metropolitan
Opera, Lincoln
Center, New York, NY.
Collections:
Museum of
Modern Art, New York
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Hirshhorn
Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Art Institute of Chicago
Des Moines Art Center
Tate Collection, London
and Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.
"John
Currin: Works on Paper," Des Moines Art Center (2003, traveled to Aspen
Art Museum)
"John Currin," Museum of
Contemporary Art, Chicago (2003, traveled to Serpentine Gallery, London; and
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, through 2004)
"John Currin," DHC/ART, Montreal
(2011); and "John Currin meets Cornelis van Haarlem," Frans Hals
Museum, Haarlem, the Netherlands (2011–12)
In his own words:
“I think my strategy is going to be to put
on a happy face. [both laugh] There are these ridiculous cycles in the art
world of shame and exuberance, shame and exuberance. And also embarrassment and
righteousness, embarrassment and righteousness.I suppose the good artists, the
righteous artists, somehow manage to be exuberant, and the embarrassed artist
has this idea that everybody has to stop being so excited, which I find so
distasteful. That idea that we should recycle instead of make art or something
like that . . . I don’t know. [laughs] We all have to go to a monastery now,
everybody’s getting religious.”
Representative
Galleries:
Gagosian Gallery
Andrea Rosen Gallery
Tate Gallery
For
more Information:
www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/john-currin-2694
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