Born 1955. Lives and works in New York City and Marfa Texas.
One-Person Exhibitions
Cable Gallery, New York
Cable Gallery, New York
Robbin Lockett Gallery, Chicago
Luhring, Augustine and Hodes Gallery, New York
Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne
Jean Bernier, Athens
Luhring, Augustine and Hodes Gallery, New York
"New Work : Christopher Wool," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (catalogue)
"Monotypes," Edition Julie Sylvester, New York
Galerie Max Hetzler, Cologne
"Works on Paper," Luhring Augustine, New York (catalogue)
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles
Galerie Christian Stein, Torino
Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam; traveled to Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland and Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne (catalogue)
Luhring Augustine, New York
Eli Broad Family Foundation, Los Angeles
Galerie Peter Pakesch, Vienna
Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne
Luhring Augustine, New York
Galerie Max Hetzler, Cologne
Bruno Brunnet Fine Arts, Berlin
Luhring Augustine, New York
Galerie Samia Saouma, Paris
Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne
Portofolio Kunst AG, Vienna
Eleni Koroneou, Athens
Luhring Augustine, New York
Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; traveled to Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Kunsthalle Basel, Basel (catalogue)
Ophiuchus Collection, The Hydra Workshop, Greece (catalogue)
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
Centre d'Art Contemporain Geneve, Geneva
"Black Book Drawings 1989," Skarstedt Fine Art, New York
Eleni Koroneou Gallery, Athens
"9th Street Run Down," 11 Duke Street, London; traveled to Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp
Secession, Vienna (catalogue)
Luhring Augustine, New York
"Crosstown Crosstown," Le consortium, Dijon; traveled to Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, Scotland (catalogue)
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne
Camden Arts Centre, London (catalogue)
Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp
Luhring Augustine, New York (catalogue)
Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
Gio Marconi, Milan
Christian Stein, Milan
Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno, Valencia; traveled to Musee d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, Strasbourg (catalogue)
ETH (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), Zurich
Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles (catalogue)
Simon Lee Gallery, London (catalogue)
"Pattern Paintings, 1987-2000," Skarstedt Gallery, New York (catalogue)
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin (catalogue)
Eleni Koroneou Gallery, Athens
Luhring Augustine, New York
"Porto-Köln," Museum de Arte Contemporanea de Serralves, Porto, traveled to Museum Ludwig, Köln; (catalogue)
Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp
"Christopher Wool: Editions," Artelier Contemporary, Graz (catalogue)
Gagosian Gallery, Rome (catalogue)
Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago (catalogue)
Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne
Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris (catalogue)
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; traveled to Art Institute of Chicago (catalogue)
Luhring Augustine and Luhring Augustine Bushwick, New York
"Text Without Message," Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
“Christopher Wool: Highlights from the Hill Art Collection,” H Queens, G/F, Hong Kong
"A New Sculpture," Luhring Augustine Bushwick, New York
"New Work, New Space," Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago
"Maybe Maybe Not: Christopher Wool and the Hill Collection," Hill Art Foundation, New York
Galerie Max Hetzler, London
East Broadway Breakdown, Public Access, New York, NY
Christopher Wool, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium
"See Stop Run," 101 Greenwich Street, New York, NY
Selected Group Exhibitions
"Robert Gober and Christopher Wool: A Project," 303 Gallery, New York (artists' book)
"The Bi-national: American Art of the Late 80s," Institute for Contemporary Art and The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Städtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf Bremen; Minneapolis Institute of Arts (catalogue)
"Horn of Plenty," Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (catalogue)
"Georg Herold, Albert Oehlen, Christopher Wool," The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago (catalogue)
"Whitney Biennial," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (catalogue)
"Gober, Halley, Kessler, Wool: Four Artists From New York," Kunstverein München (catalogue)
"Metropolis," Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
"Strange Abstraction," The Touko Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (catalogue)
"Carnegie International 1991," Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (catalogue)
"Allegories of Modernism: Contemporary Drawing," The Museum of Modern Art, New York (catalogue)
Documenta IX, Kassel (catalogue)
"Herbert Brandl, Albert Oehlen, Christopher Wool," National Gallery, Prague (catalogue)
"Birth of the Cool: American Painting From Georgia O'Keeffe to Christopher Wool," Kunsthaus Zurich (catalogue)
"On the Edge: Contemporary Art from the Werner and Elaine Dannheisser Collection," The Museum of Modern Art, New York (catalogue)
"The American Century: Art and Culture 1950-2000," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (catalogue)
"The Passion and the Waves," 6th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul (catalogue)
"Mixing Memory and Desire," New Museum of Art Lucerne, Lucerne (catalogue)
"A New York Renaissance: Masterworks from the Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art," Palazzo Reale, Milan (catalogue)
"To Be Looked At: Painting and Sculpture from the Collection," Museum of Modern Art, New York (catalogue)
"It Happened Tomorrow," Biennale d'Art Contemporain De Lyon 2003, Lyon (catalogue)
"William Gedney - Christopher Wool: Into the Night," P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York
"Monument To Now: The Dakis Joannou Collection," DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens (catalogue)
"Contemporary Voices: Works from the UBS Art Collection," Museum of Modern Art, New York (catalogue)
"Big Bang, Creation and Destruction in the 20th Century," Pompidou Center, Paris (catalogue)
"Drawing from the Modern, 1975-2005," Museum of Modern Art, New York (catalogue)
"La Collezione François Pinault: Una Selezione Post-Pop," Palazzo Grassi, Venezia
"The 80s: A Topology," Museu Serralves, Porto (catalogue)
"Wrestle: Marieluise Hessel Collection," Hessel Museum of Art, Center for Cultural Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson (catalogue)
"Lines, Grids, Stains, Words," The Museum of Modern Art, New York; traveled to Museum de Arte Contemporanea de Serralves, Porto; Museum Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden (catalogue)
"Oranges and Sardines: Conversations on Abstract Painting with Mark Grotjahn, Wade Guyton, Mary Heilmann, Amy Sillman, Charline von Heyl, and Christopher Wool," Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (catalogue) 2009
"Warhol Wool Newman Painting Real ," Kunsthaus Graz, Graz (catalogue)
"Skin Fruit: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection," New Museum, New York
"The 54th International Art Exhibition: ILLUMInations," Venice Biennale, Venice (catalogue)
"Le Printemps de Septembre - a Toulouse," Les Abattoirs, Toulouse
"Print/Out: 20 Years in Print," The Museum of Modern Art, New York (catalogue)
"This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s," Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (catalogue)
"The Painting Factory: Abstraction After Andy Warhol," The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA (catalogue)
"Taking a Line for a Walk," Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern (catalogue)
"Pretty Raw: After and Around Helen Frankenthaler," The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
"Taaffe-Wool", Casamadre Arte Contemporanea, Naples, Italy
"Painting 2.0: Expression in the Information Age," Museum Brandhorst, Munich (catalogue)
"New Skin: Selections from the Tony and Elham Salamé Collection-Aïshti Foundation," Aïshti Foundation, Beirut, Lebanon, (catalogue)
"Collected by Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner," Whitney Museum of American Art. Traveled to Centre Pompidou, Musee national d'art moderne Paris, (catalogue)
"Painting Paintings (David Reed) 1975," Gagosian Gallery, New York, (catalogue)
“majerus wool warhol…”cold beer” the “smudge tool” and other stories”, Michel Majerus Estate, Berlin, Germany
“majerus wool warhol… skulls and rorschachs chapter 2”, Michel Majerus Estate, Berlin, Germany
"Coming Attractions : The John Waters Collection" , Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
"New Ground: Jacob Samuel and Contemporary Etching", Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY