George Condo
(Born 1957)
George Condo was born in Concord, New Hampshire in 1957. He attended the University of Massachusetts Lowell, where he studied Music Theory and Art History. Condo lives and works in New York.
Condo is currently the subject of a retrospective at the Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris, which represents the most comprehensive survey of his career to date. In 2019, Condo was selected to participate in the 58thInternational Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia: May You Live in Interesting Times, curated by Ralph Rugoff. Other noteworthy exhibitions include: The Mad and the Lonely, DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, Hydra (2024); Humanoids, Nouveau Musée National de Monaco (2023); The Picture Gallery, Long Museum, Shanghai (2021); George Condo at Cycladic, Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens (2018); The Way I Think, The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C., and Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek (2017); and Mental States, New Museum, New York, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Hayward Gallery, London, and Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt (2011-2012).
His work is in the permanent collections of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo; The Broad, Los Angeles; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek; The Menil Collection, Houston; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Museum of Modern Art, New York; National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Städel Museum, Frankfurt; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Tate, London; and Whitney Museum of American Art; New York, among many others.