25. Eric Fischl



25. ERIC FISCHL

         
Bad Boy
66" by 96"
oil/canvas
1981


The Tire Store
109" by 75"
oil/linen
1989


The Bed, The Chair, The Sitter
78" by 93"
oil/linen
1999-2000

BIO & STEPS




Born:  
                  in 1948 in New York City and grew up in the suburbs of Long Island
Studies: 
 He studied at Phoenix College and earned his B.F.A. from the California Institute for the Arts in 1972.
He then spent some time in Chicago, where he worked as a guard at the Museum of Contemporary Art.

In 1974, he moved to Halifax, Nova Scotia, to teach painting at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design.

First Exhibition:
Fischl had his first solo show, curated by Bruce W. Ferguson, at Dalhousie Art Gallery in Nova Scotia in 1975.

Nowadays:
         Eric Fischl is a Fellow at both the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Science. He lives and works in Sag Harbor, NY with his wife, the painter April Gornik.
Themes and style: 
         Fischl has embraced the description of himself as a painter of the suburbs, not generally considered appropriate subject matter prior to his generation.Some of Fischl's earlier works have a theme of adolescent sexuality and voyeurism.


Techniques:      
         His work is developed in paintings and sculpture.

Selected solo Exhibitions

1980
Edward Thorp, NYC, NY.
Emily Davis Gallery, Akron, OH. "Eric Fischl: Paintings and Drawings", Catalog.
1981
Edward Thorp, NYC, NY. "Eric Fischl".
Sable-Castelli Gallery, Toronto, Canada. "Eric Fischl".
1982
Edward Thorp, NYC, NY. "Eric Fischl".
Sable-Castelli Gallery, Toronto, Canada. "Eric Fischl".
University of Colorado Art Galleries, Boulder, MA.
1983
Centre Saidye Bronfman, Montreal, Canada. "Eric Fischl: Dessins". Catalog.
Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. "Eric Fischl".
Galleria Mario Diacono, Rome, Italy. "Birthday Boy".
Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London, England. "Eric Fischl".
Sir George Williams Art Galleries,Concordia University Montreal, Canada. "Eric Fischl: Paintings". Catalog.
1984
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA. "Currents".
Mary Boone/Michael Werner Gallery, NYC, NY. "Eric Fischl". Catalog.
1985
Mario Diacono Gallery, Boston, MA. "Eric Fischl: The Works on Glassine, 1979-80".
Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. “Eric Fischl: Paintings,” 1985. Traveled to Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands, 1985; Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland, 1985; Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England, 1985; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada, 1985; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, 1985– 86; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, 1986. Catalog.
Sable-Castelli Gallery, Toronto, Canada. "Eric Fischl".
1986
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. "Eric Fischl".
Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. "Eric Fischl".
Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY. "Eric Fischl".
University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, CA. “Eric Fischl: Scenes Before the Eye,” 1986. Traveled to; Contemporary Arts Center, Honolulu, HI, 1987; Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD, 1987; St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO, 1987. Catalog.
1987
Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY. "Eric Fischl".
Sable-Castelli Gallery, Toronto, Canada. "Eric Fischl".
1988
Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY. "Eric Fischl". Catalog.
Michael Werner Gallery, Koln, West Germany. "Eric Fischl: Bilder und Zeichnungen". Catalog.
1989
Waddington Galleries, London, England. "Eric Fischl". Catalog.
1990
Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, University of California, Los Angeles, CA. “Scenes and Sequences,” 1990. Traveled to Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, 1990; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, 1990–91; Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, 1991. Catalog.
Koury-Wingate Gallery, NYC, NY. "Eric Fischl".
Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY. "Eric Fischl".
Mary Ryan Gallery, NYC, NY. "Eric Fischl - A survey of etchings, woodcuts
Akademie der Bildenden Künste. Vienna, Austria. "Eric Fischl". Traveled to: Musee Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland. 1990. Catalog.
1991
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI. “Eric Fischl: Drawings,” 1991. Traveled to Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, AL, 1992; Center for Fine Arts, Miami, FL, 1992. Catalog.
Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark. "Eric Fischl", 1990. Traveled to: Louisiana Museum for Moderne Kunst. Copenhagen, Denmark. 1991. Catalog.
1992
Michael Kohn Gallery, Santa Monica, CA. "Eric Fischl: St. Tropez, 1982-1988, Photographs".
1993
Galeria Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid, Spain. "Eric Fischl". Catalog.
1994
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. "Eric Fischl".
Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France. "Eric Fischl: Oeuvres Récentes".
Laura Carpenter Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM. "Eric Fischl: New Paintings and Watercolors".
Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY. "Eric Fischl". Catalog.
Off Shore Gallery, East Hampton, NY. "Eric Fischl: Watercolors".
1995
Michael Nagy Fine Art, Potts Point, Austrailia. "Eric Fischl".
Laura Carpenter Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM. “Eric Fischl: New Paintings and Watercolors”.
1996
Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY. "Eric Fischl". Catalog.
Numark Gallery, Washington, D.C.. "Eric Fischl: Prints & Monotypes".
1997
Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO. "Eric Fischl: New Works on Paper".
Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France. "Eric Fischl: Saint-Tropez Photographies".
1998
Gagosian Gallery, NYC, NY. "Eric Fischl: Sculpture". Catalog.
Galleria Lawrence Rubin, Milan, Italy. "Eric Fischl. Recent Paintings & Works on Paper". Catalog.
1999
Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France. "Eric Fischl".
Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY. "Portraits: Eric Fischl". Catalog.
Mary Ryan Gallery, NYC, NY. "Eric Fischl Unique Works".
2000
Gagosian Gallery, London, England. "Eric Fischl: The Bed, The Chair... New Paintings". Catalog.
Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY. "Eric Fischl".
2001
Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO. "Eric Fischl: Watercolors".
Jablonka Galerie, Koln, Germany. "Eric Fischl: The Bed, The Chair... Paintings and Works on Paper". Catalog.
2002
Mary Ryan Gallery, NYC, NY. "Eric Fischl: Photographs: St Tropez 1982-1988".
Rockefeller Center, NYC, NY. "Untitled (9/11 Memorial)".
2003
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany, Germany. "Eric Fischl, Paintings and Drawings 1979-2001". Catalog.
Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY. "Eric Fischl: Krefeld Project Studies".
Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY. "Eric Fischl"
Museum Haus Esters, Krefeld, Germany. "Eric Fischl; The Krefeld Project". Catalog.
2004
Fondazione Cassa Di Risparmio in Bologna, Bologna, Italy. "Eric Fischl". Catalog.
2005
Jablonka Galerie, Koln, Germany. "Eric Fischl: New Paintings". Catalog.
Jablonka Galerie, Basel Art Fair, Miami Beach, FL. “Dance”.
Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY. "Eric Fischl".
2006
Delaware Center of Contemporary Art, Wilmington, DE. "Eric Fischl: Prints and Drawings". Catalog.
Thomas Ammann Fine Art AG, Zurich, Switzerland. "Eric Fischl: Masterworks from the Early Eighties". Catalog.
Yoshii Gallery, NYC, NY. "Eric Fischl. Sculpture and Watercolor". Catalog.
2007
Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover, Germany. "Eric Fischl: Ten Breaths". Catalog.
Thomas Gibson Fine Art Limited, London, England, in conjunction with Jablonka Galerie. “Eric Fischl”. Catalog.
2008
Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY. "Eric Fischl:Ten Breaths".
2009
Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO. "Eric Fischl: Beach Scenes - New Work".
Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France. "Eric Fischl: Ten Breaths".
Jablonka Galerie, Koln, Germany. "Eric Fischl: Corrida in Ronda".
Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY. "Eric Fischl: Corrida in Ronda".
2010
Barbara Edwards Contemporary, Toronto, Ontario, CANADA. "Eric Fischl".
Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga, Málaga, Spain. "Eric Fischl: Corrida en Ronda". Catalog.
Jablonka Galerie, Koln, Germany. "Eric Fischl Drawings 1979-2009".
2011
Skarstedt Gallery, New York, NY, USA. "Eric Fischl Early Paintings".
2012
Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY. "Eric Fischl: Portraits". Catalog.
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA. “Dive Deep: Eric Fischl and the Process of Painting,” 2012-2013. Traveled to San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA, 2012–2013. Catalog.
Guild Hall of East Hampton, East Hampton, NY. “Eric Fischl: Beach Life”.
2014
Albertina, Vienna, Austria. "Eric Fischl: Friends, Lovers and other Constellations,". Catalog.
Jablonka Galerie Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland. “Eric Fischl”.
Victoria Miro Gallery, London, England. “Eric Fischl Art Fair Paintings”.


Selected Group Exhibitions:

1979
P.S.1, Long Island City, NY. “The Great Big Drawing Show,” 1979.
1982
P.S.1, Long Island City, NY. “Critical Perspectives,” 1982.
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY. “Focus on the Figure: Twenty Years,” 1982.
1983
Kunstmuseum, Lucerne, Switzerland. “Back to the USA,” 1983. Traveled to Rheinisches LandesMuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany, 1983–84; Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany, 1984.
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY. Biennial Exhibition, 1983. Catalog.
Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Dusseldorf, Germany. “New York Now,” 1983.
1984
Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy. “Paradise Lost/Paradise Regained: American Visions of the New Decade,” 1984. Catalog.
Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT. “American Neo-Expressionists,” 1984. Catalog.
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY. “An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture,” 1984. Catalog.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA. “The Human Condition,” Third SFMOMA Biennial, 1984.
1985
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY. Biennial Exhibition, 1985.
1986
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA. “Individuals: A Selected History of Contemporary Art, 1945–1986,” 1986.
1987
Independent Curators Inc., New York, NY. “Morality Tales: History Painting in the 1980s.” Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, New York University, New York, NY, 1987; Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA, 1987; Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA, 1988; Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT, 1988; Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, 1988; Goldie Paley Gallery, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA, 1988; Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, NC, 1989; Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, 1989; Musée de Quebec, Quebec, Canada, 1989. Catalog.
Kassel, Germany. “Documenta 8,” 1987. Catalog.
Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, New York, NY. “The Viewer as Voyeur,” 1987. Catalog.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA. “Avant Garde in the Eighties,” 1987. Catalog.
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN. “Past/Imperfect: Eric Fischl, Vernon Fisher, Laurie Simmons,” 1987. Traveled to Knight Gallery/ Spirit Square Center for the Arts, Charlotte, NC, 1987; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH, 1988; Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 1988. Catalog.
1988
Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. “Eighty/Twenty,” 1988. Traveled to Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, 1989; Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada, 1989; Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, 1990. Catalog.
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY. “Figure as Subject: The Revival of Figuration Since 1975,” 1988. Traveled to Erwing A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS, 1988; Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR, 1988; Amarillo Art Center, Amarillo, TX, 1988; Utah Museum of Fine Arts, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, 1988–89; Madison Art Center, Madison, WI, 1989. Catalog.
1989
Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, New York, NY. “Suburban Home Life: Tracking the American Dream,” 1989. Catalog.
1991
Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan. “American Realism and Figurative Art: 1952–1990,” 1991. Traveled to Sogo Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan, 1992; Tokushima Modern Art Museum, Tokushima, Japan, 1992; Museum of Modern Art, Shiga, Japan, 1992; Kochi Prefectural Museum of Folk Art, Kochi, Japan, 1992. Catalog.
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY. Biennial Exhibition, 1991.
1993
Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark. “Strange Hotel,” 1993. Catalog.
1994
Orangerie du Jardin du Luxembourg, Paris, France. “23 Artistes pour Médicins du Monde,” 1994. Traveled to Galerie Enrico Navarra, Paris, France; Galerie Enrico Navarra, New York, NY; Galerie Enrico Navarra, Tokyo, Japan; Harcourts Gallery, San Francisco, CA; Centre d’Art Graphique de la Métairie Bruyère, Parly, France; Molinar Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ; Jan Abrams Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Fondation Ebel, Villa Turque, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland.
1995
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI. “The PaineWebber Art Collection,” 1995. Traveled to Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, 1996; Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN, 1996; San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA, 1996–97; Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, FL, 1997. Catalog.
1999
Equitable Gallery, New York, NY. “Dreams 1900–2000: Science, Art, and the Unconscious Mind,” 1999–2000. Traveled to Historisches Museum der Stadt Wien, Vienna, Austria, 2000; Binghampton University Art Museum, Binghampton, NY, 2000; Passage de Retz, Paris, France, 2000–2001.
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY. “The American Century: Art and Culture, 1900–2000,” 1999–2000.
Ursula Blickle Foundation, Kraichtal, Germany. “Figuration: Outsider or a New Trend?,” 1999. Traveled to Museum der Moderne Rupertinum, Salzburg, Austria, 1999; Museion: Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy, 1999–2000.
2000
Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland. “Hypermental: Rampant Reality 1950–2000, from Salvador Dalí to Jeff Koons,” 2000–2001. Traveled to Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany, 2001. Catalog.
Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami, FL. “Modernism and Abstraction: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum,” 2000. Traveled to Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME, 2000; Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, NY, 2001; Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA, 2001; Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN, 2001; Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA, 2001–2; National Academy Museum, New York, NY, 2002; Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA, 2002; Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA, 2002.
2004
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ. “West to Wesselmann: American Drawings and Watercolors in the Princeton University Art Museum,” 2004–5. Traveled to Musée d’Art Américain Giverny, Giverny, France, 2005; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, 2006.
2005
Nagasaki Prefectural Museum, Nagasaki, Japan. “Picturing America: Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art,” 2005. Traveled to Fuchu Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan, 2005; 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan, 2005; Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Kitakyushu, Japan, 2005–6; Koriyama City Museum, Koriyama City, Japan, 2006.
2008
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany. “Living in Art: Interieur Exterieur,” 2008-2009. Catalog.
Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea. “Musee National de l’Art Moderne du Centre Pompidou,” 2008-2009. Catalog.
Museum Kunst Palast, Dusseldorf, Germany. “Diana und Actaeon: Der Verbotene Blick Auf Die Nacktheit,” 2008-2009. Catalog.
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO. “Focus: The Figure,” 2008-2010.
National Museum in Cracow, Poland. "First Step... Towards a Collection of Western Contemporary Arts," 2008-2009. Catalog.
2009
Mary Boone Gallery, New York City, NY. “A Tribute to Ron Warren,” 2009.
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI. “Figurative Prints: 1980s Rewind,” 2009.
Frist Center For the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN. “Paint Made Flesh,” 2009.
2010
Kunstmuseum Ahlen, Ahlen, Germany. “Intimacy! Bathing in Art,” 2010. Catalog.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA. “Calder to Warhol: Introducing the Fisher Collection,” 2010.
Haunch of Venison, New York, NY. “Your History is Not Our History,” 2010.
2011
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY. “Legacy: The Emily Fisher Landau Collection,” 2011. Catalog.
2012
Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Linz, Austria. “Der Nackte Mann,” 2012 - 2013.
Sperone Westwater, New York, NY. “Portraits / Self-Portraits from the 16th to the 21st Century,” 2012.
2013
Victoria Miro, London, England. “Cinematic Visions,” 2013.
Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY. “Eye to I: 3,000 Years of Portraits,” 2013 – 2014.
2014
Leila Heller Gallery, New York, NY. "Look At Me: Portraiture from Manet to the Present," 2014.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. "Modernism from the National Gallery of Art: The Robert and Jane MeyerhoffCollection," 2014. Catalog.
Winston Wächter Fine Art, Seattle, WA. "Dustin Yellin and Eric Fischl: Narratives in Glass," 2014.
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX. "Urban Theater: New York Art in the 1980s," 2014-2015.
The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY. "Disturbing Innocence," 2014-2015. Curated by Eric Fischl. Catalog.


Public Collections:

Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, CA
Arthur Ashe Commemorative Garden, USTA National Tennis Center, Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, NY
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
Basel Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland
Boca Raton Museum of Art
The Eli Broad Family Foundation, Santa Monica, CA
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, NY
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH
Douglas S. Cramer Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Constance Glenn Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, CA
Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY
High Art Museum, Atlanta, GA
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
Ho-Am Art Museum, Seoul, South Korea
ICA London, London, England
Kunstmuseen der Stadt, Krefeld, Germany
Lieu D'Art Contemporain, Sigean, France
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest, Hungary
Mars Museum, Marstown, NJ
The Menil Collection, Houston
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Musée National D'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Neue Galerie, Aachen, Germany
Oklahoma City Art Museum, Oklahoma, OK
PaineWebber Art Collection, New York, NY
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
The Rivendell Collection, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Charles Saatchi, London, England
Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington
Smart Museum, Chicago, IL
Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

In his own words:
“If you start with the premise,” Fischl says, “and I know it is a romantic and naive premise, but I none the less think it is true, that artists are looking for love, and they are expressing love in their commitment to what they have made. An art fair is designed so they never get any in return.” He speaks languidly and laughs broadly. “Love is complicated, obviously. But the reason artists do what they do on some level is to say: ‘Don’t look at me, look at this thing I made and you will know the true me.’”

Representative Galleries:

Victoria Miró Gallery
Mary Boone



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