Christopher Wool
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Basic Data
Christopher Wool is a contemporary graphic artist and painter from the USA. Wool's artworks and edition are characterized by white-primed aluminum panels on which he paints word fragments or sentences in contrasting black color, lets them converge without punctuation, or unusually separates them.
- Born: 1955
- Place of birth: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Nationality: American
- Studied at: Sarah Lawrence College, New York Studio School
- Era: Contemporary art
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Exhibitions
- 22.06.21 - 31.10.21 THE GREEK GIFT - Deste Foundation, Nea Ionia.
- 18.06.21 - 18.04.22 Enjoy - The mumok Collection in Change – Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig (MUMOK), Vienna.
- 02.10.20 - 21.02.21 Freischwimmer: Fotografie der Sammlung Viehof und des Museum Kurhaus Kleve – Museum Kurhaus Kleve.
- 12.09.20 - 24.01.21 Technology Transformation: Fotografie und Video in der Kunstsammlung , K20. Düsseldorf.
- 11.03.20 - ∞ Christopher Wool – Galerie Max Hetzler, London.
- 26.06.19 - 22.09.19 Less Is a Bore: Maximalist Art & Design - Institute of Contemporary Art Boston (ICA).
- 25.05.19 - 04.08.19 Abstraction: Aspects of Contemporary Art - National Museum of Art, Osaka.
- 14.09.18 - 27.10.18 TRUE STORIES. A SHOW RELATED TO AN ERA - THE EIGHTIES - Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin.
Awards
- 2009: Wolfgang-Hahn-Prize Cologne.
Literature
- Swamp / Christopher Wool, Holzwarth Publications GmbH, Berlin 2019.
- Yard / Christopher Wool, Holzwarth Publications GmbH, Berlin 2018.
- Christopher Wool, Hans Werner Holzwarth (Publ.), Cologne 2012.
Collections
Germany
- Hamburg - Hamburger Kunsthalle
- Cologne – Museum Ludwig
- Stuttgart – Staatsgalerie Stuttgart
Austria
- Vienna - MUMOK Wien
England
- London - Tate Britain
USA
- New York City - Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
- New York City - Whitney Museum of American Art
- San Francisco - SFMOMA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Weblinks
- Christopher Wool Kunstaspekte Exhibition and collection overview.