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.