Christopher Wool

Christopher Wool (b. 1955) is one of the most important and influential American artists of his generation. His practice incorporates photography, screen-printing, spray painting as well as more direct brushwork. He lives and works in New York City. Since the mid-80s he has had numerous solo exhibitions in the USA and Europe, showing regularly with Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York. He has also shown frequently with Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne and Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin and Cologne. In 1991 he had a major one-person exhibition at the Museum Boymans van Beuningen, Rotterdam which toured to the Kunsthalle Bern and the Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne. Subsequent solo museum shows have taken place at MoCA, Los Angeles (touring to the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh and Kunsthalle Basel) in 1998; at the Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève in 1999 and at Le Consortium, Dijon, a show which travelled to Contemporary Arts, Dundee in 2002 — surprisingly his first solo show in the UK.

In 1988 he showed with Robert Gober at 303 Gallery, New York and his work was included in The Bi-national: American Art of the Late 80s at the ICA and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, which travelled to Dusseldorf, Bremen and Minneapolis. Subsequently, he has been represented in many group exhibitions, notably in the Whitney Biennial, New York (1989); the Carnegie International 1991, Pittsburgh; Documenta IX, Kassel (1993) and in overviews of 20^th century American art at the Kunsthaus Zurich (1997) and at the Whitney (1999 and 2002). Last year, his work was included in the 7^th Lyon Biennale of Contemporary Art.