Past Exhibition
- Julian Schnabel
Julian Schnabel
Greenwich November 11th to April 1st, 2014
JULIAN SCHNABEL
The Brant Foundation Art Study Center is pleased to present a major solo exhibition of works by Julian Schnabel − a comprehensive survey of almost fifty works including paintings, drawings, and sculptures from the mid-1970’s to the present. Since his first solo exhibition at Mary Boone Gallery in 1979, Schnabel has forged a singular pictorial language that embraces unconventional methods and materials. Beginning with his earliest works, Schnabel broke with the prevailing paradigm of Conceptual Art by forging a unique artistic practice that embraced figuration, personal narratives and references to history and mythology. Challenging the notion that there is any difference between figurative and abstract painting, Schnabel has founded his work on an infinite exploration of different ways of putting paint on a pictorial surface.
As Schnabel explained in his monograph CVJ (1987), “I don’t think the battle between figuration and abstraction is even an issue. Anything can be a model for a painting – a poplar tree, another painting, a smudge of dirt.”
The “Big Girl” paintings are emblematic of Schnabel’s radically un-hierarchical approach. Based on a small painting of a blonde girl by an unknown artist that he found in a Houston thrift shop in 1987, Schnabel drew inspiration for this iconic series in 2001. Two examples of this well-known series will be on view in The Brant Foundation’s exhibition. Alongside the “Big Girl” paintings will be two paintings on Kabuki theater backdrops from 1987; a 16 square foot painting, E o OEN (1988), recalling the name of Andy Warhol’s estate in Montauk, Long Island where Schnabel lived and worked and painted the painting; El Espontaneo, a 22 square foot painting from 1990; and a recent work, The Sky of Illimitableness (2012), where Schnabel painted on a transposed image of a stuffed goat with a rabbit on its head over 19th century Dufour wallpaper depicting George Washington accepting Cornwallis’s surrender.
One of the main tropes of this survey exhibition is Schnabel’s poetic use of found materials, his embrace of chance operations, and his sui generis inventive mark-making. Whether dragging a canvas on the ground, allowing a drop cloth to absorb environmental stains, or using printed images as supports for his paintings, Schnabel’s formally and conceptually wide-ranging work can be connected through the notion of the palimpsest. With this dense layering of cultural signifiers and imagery that drives his work, Schnabel forged a groundbreaking practice that can be seen echoed in the work of a subsequent generation of artists, including Joe Bradley, Dan Colen, Urs Fischer, Wade Guyton, Nate Lowman, Sergej Jensen and Mark Grotjahn among others.
The Brant Foundation’s Julian Schnabel exhibition will also feature rarely exhibited early works from 1975 onwards, including drawings and studies for his first mature bodies of works such as his “Wax Paintings” and “Plate Paintings” that would follow. Examples of these early wax paintings, such as St. Sebastian – Born in 1951 (1979), will be featured in the exhibition. In these works, Schnabel cut holes into the surface of the canvas and made ridges out of canvas and modeling paste in order to make them look and feel like found objects (as though he was painting on a garage door or a brick wall).
Schnabel’s “Plate Paintings” are perhaps his most distinctive contribution to twentieth century art. While these are arguably Schnabel’s best-known works, these plate paintings have not been exhibited in New York for decades. At the Brant Foundation one will have the opportunity to engage with some of the most important plate paintings being exhibited together for the first time. The exhibition will feature Schnabel’s first plate painting, The Patients and the Doctors (1978), Divan (1979) as well as other important works such as The Mud in Mudanza (1982) and The Walk Home (1985). In the monumental tableau entitled The Sea (1981) Schnabel used shards of broken Mexican vases to evoke an allegory of death and to suggest an image of cultural upheaval. These themes of death, time, and immortality are a common thread in all of Schnabel’s oeuvre. In addition to these more abstract plate paintings, the exhibition will also feature a selection of his portraiture executed on broken crockery such as Portrait of Jacqueline Beaurang (1984), Portrait of Tina Chow (1987), and Portrait of May Andersen (2013).
A plate portrait of Ryan Brant (2011) holding a copy of William Gaddis’s ‘JR’ accompanies two paintings from Schnabel’s “Recognitions Series” (1987), itself an ode to the great writer and friend William Gaddis, alongside Schnabel’s monumental, haunting painting, Mutant King (1981).
In all of Schnabel’s paintings, there is a method that opens up to many different kinds of appearances. While these appearances might seem disparate, they congeal into an undeniable thread that makes up the authenticity of the mark of a Julian Schnabel painting.
Julian Schnabel was born in New York City in 1951. In 1965 he moved with his family to Brownsville, Texas. He attended the University of Houston from 1969-73, receiving a BFA, and returned to New York to participate in the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. In 1978 Schnabel travelled throughout Europe and in Barcelona was particularly moved by the architecture of Antoni Gaudí. That same year he made his first plate painting, The Patients and the Doctors. His first solo painting exhibition took place at the Mary Boone Gallery in New York City in February 1979. Schnabel’s work has been exhibited all over the world. His paintings, sculptures, and works on paper have been the subject of numerous retrospective exhibitions at museums including: The Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 1982; Tate Gallery, London, 1982; Whitechapel Gallery, London, 1987; Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, 1987; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 1987; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1987; Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, 1995;; Galleria d’Arte Moderna di Bologna, Bologna, 1996;; The Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, 1997; Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt/Main, 2004; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, 2004; Palazzo Venezia, Rome, 2007; Rotonda della Besana, Milan, 2007; The Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 2010; and Museo Correr, Piazza San Marco, Venice, 2011.
In 1996 Schnabel wrote and directed the feature film Basquiat about fellow New York artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, produced by Peter Brant. Schnabel went on to receive great acclaim for Before Night Falls (2000), The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007), Berlin (2007), and Miral (2010).
Programs and Events:
Julian Schnabel Exhibition Announcement
Julian Schnabel Exhibition Opening
Julian Schnabel Exhibition Catalogue
The Brant Foundation Lecture Series: Julian Schnabel at NYU Steinhardt
Traveling Exhibition: Julian Schnabel at University of Michigan Museum of Art
Lecture: Julian Schnabel and Peter Brant at University of Michigan Museum of Art
Artist Biography
Julian Schnabel
Julian Schnabel was born in New York City in 1951. In 1965 he moved with his family to Brownsville, Texas. He attended the University of Houston from 1969-73, receiving a BFA, and returned to New York to participate in the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program.
In 1978 Schnabel travelled throughout Europe and in Barcelona was particularly moved by the architecture of Antoni Gaudí. That same year he made his first plate painting, The Patients and the Doctors. His first solo painting exhibition took place at the Mary Boone Gallery in New York City in February 1979.
Schnabel’s work has been exhibited all over the world. His paintings, sculptures, and works on paper have been the subject of numerous exhibitions: The Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 1982; Tate Gallery, London, 1982; Whitechapel Gallery, London, 1987; Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, 1987; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 1987; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1987; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, 1987; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1987; Musée d’Art Contemporain, Nîmes, 1989; Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich, 1989; Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, 1989; Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, 1989; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 1989; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Monterrey, 1994; Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, 1995; Galleria d’Arte Moderna di Bologna, Bologna, 1996; Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt/Main, 2004; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, 2004; Rotonda della Besana, Milan, 2007; Tabakalera, Donostia-San Sebastián, 2007; Museo di Capodimonte, Naples, 2009; The Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 2010; Museo Correr, Piazza San Marco, Venice, 2011; J.F. Willumsens Museum, Frederikssund, 2013; The Brant Foundation Art Study Center, Greenwich, 2013; Dallas Contemporary, Dallas, 2014; Gagosian Gallery, New York, 2014; Dairy Art Centre, London, 2014; Museu de Arte de São Paulo, São Paulo, 2014, NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale, Fort Lauderdale, 2014; University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, 2015; Almine Rech Gallery, Paris, 2015; Vito Schnabel Gallery, St. Moritz, 2016; and Blum & Poe, LA, 2016.
In 1996 Schnabel wrote and directed the feature film Basquiat about fellow New York artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. The film was in the official selection of the 1996 Venice Film Festival. Schnabel’s second film, Before Night Falls, based on the life of the late exiled Cuban novelist Reinaldo Arenas, won both the Grand Jury Prize and the Coppa Volpi for best actor, Javier Bardem, at the 2000 Venice Film Festival. In 2007 Schnabel directed his third film, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. Schnabel received the award for Best Director at the Cannes Film Festival as well as Best Director at the Golden Globe Awards, where the film won Best Film in a Foreign Language. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly was nominated for four Oscars. That same year, 2007, he made a film of Lou Reed’s Berlin concert at St. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn. His most recent film, Miral, won the UNESCO as well as the UNICEF award at the 2010 Venice Film Festival. Miral was shown at the General Assembly Hall of the United Nations.
His work is included in the public collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Guggenheim Museum, New York and Bilbao; Tate Gallery, London; Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; Kunstmuseum, Basel; Fondation Musée d’Art Moderne, Luxembourg; and Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.
Julian Schnabel currently lives and works in New York City and Montauk, Long Island.
The Brant Foundation Loan Program: Julian Schnabel – Plate Paintings 1978-86
SOLO
| 2017 |
The Pace Gallery, New York |
| 2016 |
Blum & Poe, Los Angeles / Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO |
| 2015 |
Julian Schanbel: Jack's Climb up the Beanstalk to the Sky of Illimtableness Where Everything Went Backwards. Almine Rech Gallery, Paris, France.Julian Schnabel. University of Michigan Art Museum, Ann Arbor, MI.Julian Schnabel: Portrait of Olatz. NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale, Fort Lauderdale, FL. |
| 2014 |
Julian Schnabel: LA NIL – Pinturas 1988–2014. Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, São Paulo, Brazil.The Dizziness of Freedom. Galeria Raquel Arnaud, S ão Paulo, Brazil.Julian Schanbel: View of the Dawn in the Tropics: Paintings, 1989–1990. Gagosian Gallery, W. 24th St., New York, NY.An Artist Has A Past (Puffy Clouds and Strong Cocktails): 15 Paintings Over The Last Decade. Dallas Contemporary, Dallas, TX.Julian Schnabel: Every Angel has a Dark Side. The Dairy Center for the Arts, London, England. |
| 2013 |
Julian Schnabel. The Brant Foundation Art Study Center, Greenwich, CT.Julian Schnabel. Centro Italiano Arte Contemporanea, Foligno, Italy. |
| 2012 |
Julian Schnabel. Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany.Guy Pierters Gallery, Knokke-Heist, Belgium. |
| 2011 |
Julian Schnabel: Polaroïds. 18Gallery at Bund18, Shanghai, China.Julian Schnabel: Polaroïds. Galerie Magda Danysz, Paris, France.Julian Schnabel. Forma - Centro Internazionale di Fotografia, Milan, Italy.Julian Schnabel: Permanently Becoming and the Architecture of Seeing. Museo Correr, Venice, Italy.Julian Schnabel: Polaroids. Fotomuseum Den Haag, The Hague, Netherlands. |
| 2010 |
Julian Schnabel. Colnaghi, London, England.Julian Schnabel. Nikola Rukaj Gallery, Toronto, Canada.Julian Schnabel: Art and Film. Art Gallery of Ontario’s Vivian & David Cambell Centre of Contemporary Art, Toronto, Canada.Julian Schnabel: Polaroids. Bernheimer Fine Art Photography, Munich, Germany.Julian Schnabel: Polaroids. NRW-Forum Kultur und Wirtschaft, Dusseldorf, Germany. |
| 2009 |
Julian Schnabel. Museo di Capodimonte, Naples, Italy.Navigation Drawings. Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland. |
| 2008 |
The Conscious Gaze of Frightened Young Nuns. Contemporary Art Museum Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland.Julian Schnabel: Untitled (Chinese Paintings). The Saatchi Gallery, London, England. Julian Schnabel. Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, South Korea.Julian Schnabel. Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA.Julian Schnabel. Himalayas Art Museum (the former Zendai Museum of Modern Art), Shanghai, China.Navigation Drawings. Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York, NY. |
| 2007 |
Schnabel in Hong Kong. 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong, SAR.Schnabel in Beijing. Beijing World Art Museum, Beijing, China.Summer: Julian Schnabel. Tabacalera - International Contemporary Culture Center,San Sebastián, Spain.Julian Schnabel: Paintings 1968-2006. Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy.Julian Schnabel: Paintings 1978-2006. Museo Nazionale del Palazzo di Venezia, Rome, Italy.Julian Schnabel: Versions of Chuck and Other Works. Schloss Derneburg, Derneburg, Germany.Julian Schnabel: Paintings 1976-2006. Palazzo Venezia, Rome, Italy. |
| 2006 |
Julian Schnabel. Galeria Enrique Guerrero, Mexico City, Mexico. Julian Schnabel. MetLife Building, New York, NY. |
| 2005 |
Julian Schnabel: opere grafiche. LipanjePuntin Artecontemporanea, Trieste, Italy. Julian Schnabel. Galerie Sabine Knust, Munich, Germany.Julian Schnabel: Great Big Paintings. Galerie Daniel Blau and Galerie Sabine Kunst, Munich, Germany.Julian Schnabel: Selected Paintings. Mnuchin Gallery, New York, NY.Julian Schnabel: Selected Painting. L&M Arts, New York, NY. |
| 2004 |
Julian Schnabel: Sculpture. Mnuchin Gallery, New York, NY.Julian Schnabel: Sculpture. L&M Arts, New York, NY.Julian Schnabel: Pinturas 1978-2003. The Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain.Julian Schnabel: new paintings. Galleria Cardi, Milan, Italy.Julian Schnabel: paintings 1978-2003. Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt/Main, Germany. Julian Schnabel: Malerei / Paintings 1978-2003. The Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain. |
| 2003 |
Julian Schnabel: New Indian Paintings and Selected Sculpture. The Pace Gallery, New York, NY.Julian Schnabel: Inverleith House. Edinburgh, Scotland. |
| 2002 |
Julian Schnabel: Big Girl Paintings. Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. Julian Schnabel: Big Girl Paintings. Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY. |
| 2001 |
Julian Schnabel. Galleria Cardi, Milan, Italy. |
| 2000 |
Julian Schnabel: Prints. Edition Schellmann, Munich, Germany.Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland.Galeria Ramis Barquet, Mexico City, Mexico. |
| 1999 |
Julian Schnabel: Works on paper. Nikolaus Sonne Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany.Julian Schnabel: Plate Paintings 1978–1997. The Pace Gallery, New York, NY. Julian Schnabel: Plate Paintings 1978–1997. PaceWildenstein, New York, NY. Julian Schnabel. Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, England.Julian Schnabel: New paintings. Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria. Julian Schnabel: Paintiings. SLG South London Gallery, London, England. Julian Schnabel: Selected Works. 1000 eventi, Milan, Italy |
| 1998 |
Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY.Julian Schnabel: Portrait Paintings. Pace Wildenstein, Los Angeles, CA. |
| 1997 |
Julian Schnabel: Portrait Paintings. PaceWildenstein, New York, NY. |
| 1996 |
Julian Schnabel: The Conversion of St. Paolo Malfi. PaceWildenstein, New York, NY.Sperone Westwater, New York, NY.Modern Art Gallery, Bologna, Italy.Julian Schnabel: Paintings and Sculpture. Waddington Galleries, London, England. Fruhe Werke, 1972-1982. Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich, Switzerland.The Conversion of St. Paolo Malfi. Galerie Kyoko Chirathivat, Bangkok, Thailand. Retrospective of Paintings, Sculpture and Works on Paper. Galleria D'Arte Moderna di Bologna, Bologna, Spain. |
| 1995 |
Julian Schnabel: 200 Paintings for CRIA. Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY. Julian Schnabel. Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France.Julian Schnabel: Retrospectiva. Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico.Fundacio Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain.'The Conversion of Saint-Paul Malfi, the pink blouse I like the most and other pink paintings’. Jablonka Gallery, Cologne, Germany.New Paintings. Herning Kunstmuseum, Herning, Denmark. Des and Gina Paintings. Daniel Templon Gallery, Paris, France. Works on Paper. Sala Rekalde, Bilbao, Spain. |
| 1994 |
ulian Schnabel: Retrospective. Museo de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico. Julian Schnabel. Sala Rekalde, Bilbao, Spain.Julian Schnabel: Jane Birkin Paintings. Pace Wildenstein, New York, NY. Opere recenti. Gian Ferrari Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy.Cy and Olmo. Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich, Switzerland. |
| 1993 |
Julian Schnabel: Works on Paper 1976-1992. Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, NY. Jason Rubell Gallery, New York, NY and Miami, FL.Los Patos del Buen Retiro. Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain. |
| 1992 |
Julian Schnabel: The End of Summer. The Pace Gallery, New York, NY.Julian Schnabel: Hurricane Bob. The Pace Gallery, New York, NY. Olatz. The Pace Gallery, New York, NY.Prints. Pace Editions, New York, NY. |
| 1991 |
Julian Schnabel. Galerie Daniel Blau, Munich, Germany.Julian Schnabel. Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO.Galerie de Poche, Paris, France.Early Tapestries. Galerie Feuer, Cologne, Germany.Gian Enzo Sperone, Rome, Italy.Virginia de lujo (Sculptures). Galeria de arte Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid, Spain. |
| 1990 |
Julian Schnabel: Works on Paper 1975-88. Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland. Julian Schnabel: Tati Paintings. Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France.Julian Schnabel. Maison Carrée, Nîmes, France.Julian Schnabel. Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, St. Moritz, Switzerland, open airsculpture exhibition at Chantarella, Switzerland. |
| 1989 |
Julian Schnabel. Centro per l ́Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy.Julian Schnabel: The Kabuki Paintings. Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan. Julian Schnabel: Arbeiten auf Papier 1975-1988. Museum für Gegenwartskunst -Emanuel Hoffmann-Stiftung, Basel, Switzerland.Julian Schnabel: Oevres Nouvelles (Cheers to an Empty Glass). Musee d’Arte. contemporanae, Bordeaux, France.Julian Schnabel: Fox Farm Paintings. The Pace Gallery, New York, NY. |
| 1988 |
Julian Schnabel: Crows Flying the Black Flag of Themselves. Blaffer Art Museum of the University of Houston, Houston, TX.Julian Schnabel: Reconocimientos Pinturas del Carmen. Cuartel de Carmen, Seville, Spain.Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel.Waddington Galleries, London, England. |
| 1987 |
Julian Schnabel. Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany.Julian Schnabel. Centre Pompidou - Musée National d ́Art Moderne, Paris, France. Julian Schnabel. Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France.Mario Diacono Gallery, Boston, MA.The Pace Gallery, New York, NY.Julian Schnabel. MATRIX 52 - Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive BAM/PFA, Berkeley, CA.Julian Schnabel: Recent Paintings and Drawings. Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. |
| 1986 |
Julian Schnabel: Works on Paper 1975-1988. Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, England. Traveled to Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, Franciso Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX.Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich, Switzerland. Angelo d ́Oro. Galleria Gian Enzo Sperone, Rome, Italy. Weddington Galleries, London, England. |
| 1985 |
Printed Velvet. Akira Ikeda Gallery, Nagoya and Tokyo, Japan. The Pace Gallery, New York, NY.The Aluminum Paintings. Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo, Japan. |
| 1984 |
New Paintings and Sculpture. Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich, Switzerland.Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY.Akron Museum, Ohio, OH.Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France. Galleria Mario Diacono, Rome, Italy.Wadding Galleries, London, England.Drawings. Akir Ikeda Gallery, Nagyoa, Japan. |
| 1983 |
Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany. Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands.Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich, Switzerland. Margo Leaving Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA. University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA.The Tate Gallery, London, England. |
| 1982 |
Julian Schnabel. Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY.Julian Schnabel. Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland. Julian Schnabel. Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY. Julian Schnabel. Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY. |
| 1981 |
Young/Hoffmann Gallery, Chicago, IL. |
| 1980 |
Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich, Switzerland. |
| 1979 |
Julian Schnabel: Plate paintings. Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY.Julian Schnabel: The Death of Fashion. Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY.Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco, CA. |
| 1978 |
December Gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany. |
| 1975 |
Julian Schnabel. Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX. |
GROUP
| 2015 |
The Avant-Garde Won’t Give Up: Cobra and Its Legacy. Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA. The Mannequin of History: Art After Fabrications of Critique and Culture. Expo 2015 Modena, Modena, Italy. First Show / Last Show. 190 Bowery, New York, NY. Enigmas: Martin Barré, David Ostrowski, Julian Schnabel, Reena Spaulings. Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY. The Shell (Landscapes, Portraits & Shapes). Almine Rech Gallery, Paris, France. |
| 2014 |
Urban Theater: New York Art in the 1980s. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX. Café Dolly: Picabia, Schnabel, Willumsen. NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale, Fort Lauderdale, FL. Georg Baselitz, Anselm Kiefer, Harmony Korine, Robert Rauschenberg, Julian Schnabel, Rudolf Stingel, Franz West. Gagosian Gallery, West 24th St., New York, NY. |
| 2013 |
Signs / Words. Sperone Westwater Gallery, Lugano, Switzerland. Empire State. Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy. Accrochage. Contemporary Fine Arts - CFA, Berlin, Germany. |
| 2012 |
Oriental Mirages, Pomegranates and Prickly Pears. Collection Lambert, Avignon, France. Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY. Group Show. Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL. Not even for a million dollars would I paint a tree. Linn Lühn, Cologne, Germany. Artandpress. Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany. Brucennial 2012 - Harder. Betterer. Fasterer. Strongerer. Brucennial, New York, NY. The Old, The New, The Different. Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland. "GARDEN MOON" AND "MALFI." White8 showrooms, Villach, Austria. John Hoyland - Garden Moon - Painting, Works On Paper / Julian Schnabel - Malfi - Works On Paper. white8 gallery, Vienna, Austria. Sammlung Marx - Eine Auswahl. Muzeum Narodowe w Szczecin, Szczecin, Poland. |
| 2011 |
Jean-Michel Basquiat and the Rat pack. BURKHARD EIKELMANN GALERIE, Dusseldorf, Germany. Paris Forever, 100th exhibition of the gallery. Galerie Magda Danysz, Paris, France. Die Sammlung Marx, Eine Auswahl. Atlas Sztuki, Lodz, Poland. Schlaglichter 3 - Schlaglichter 3. Museum der Stadt Ratingen, Ratingen, Germany. Alusiones ilusiones. Galería Miguel Marcos, Barcelona, Spain. Circa 1986. HVCCA - Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY. JORGE GALINDO / JULIAN SCHNABEL. Galería Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid, Spain. Pasiones Contemporáneas. Museo de Arte de Ponce, Ponce, Puerto Rico. From Classical To Contemporary. Galerie Miro, Prague, Czech Republic. MMK 1991-2011: 20 Jahre Gegenwart. Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK), Frankfurt/Main, Germany. Avant Première. Art Plural Gallery Pte Ltd, Singapore. Provisional Painting. Stuart Shave / Modern Art, London, England. The 80s Revisited. Sammlung Bischofberger II - Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany. Deutscher Fotobuchpreis 2011. Forum für Fotografie, Cologne, Germany. |
| 2010 |
Apocalypse: Monumental Paintings of the 1980's, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA. I Believe in Miracles - 10th anniversary of the Lambert Collection. Collection Lambert, Avignon, France. THE BIENNIAL WINTER SALON 2010. Elga Wimmer PCC, New York, NY. Works from the Collection of Frank K. Ribelin. McClain Gallery, Houston, TX. Schlaglichter - von Beuys bis Twombly... Museum der Stadt Ratingen, Ratingen, Germany. Beauty is Diamond. Laleh June Galerie, Basel, Switzerland. XXL / Omar Ba. 1000 Eventi, Milan, Italy. Pastiche. The Pace Gallery, New York, NY. Your History is not Our History. Haunch of Venison, New York, NY. Quartet–Four Biennials Reflected in Prints. International Centre of Graphic Arts (MGLC), Ljubljana, Slovenia. Collecting Biennials. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY. |
| 2009 |
3rd AiM International Biennale. Marrakech Biennale, Marrakech, Morocco. MOCA ́s First Thirty Years. MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA. Paint Made Flesh. Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY. Sans—titre # 1 oeuvres de la Collection Lambert peintures des années 1970 — 1980. Painting of the 80s. Matthew Bown Gallery, Berlin, Germany. El tiempo del Arte. Fundación PROA, Buenos Aires, Argentina. A Tribute To Ron Warren. Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY. New York Contemporary. Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin, Republic of Ireland. Paint Made Flesh. The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC. Collect With Us. Armand Bartos Fine Art, New York, NY. Happy Birthday: The First Anniversary of the Gallery, Group Show, GALLERY 2, Black Cube Gallery, Sant Antoni Maria Claret, Barcelona, Spain. New Acquisitions: Rarely Seen Works. Ludwig Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art Budapest, Budapest, Hungary. Collected Visions. Bronx Museum of the Arts (BxMA), New York, NY. Image Matter. Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY. Paint Made Flesh. Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN. |
| 2008 |
UBS Openings: Paintings from the 1980s. Tate Modern, London, England. Dalla Presitoria al Futuro. Capolavori dalla collezione Bischofsberger. Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli, Turin, Italy. De Mirò à Warhol La Collection Berardo à Paris. Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, France. NAO TE POSSO VER NEM PINTADO. Berardo Museum - Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art, Lisbon, Portugal. Pretty Ugly. Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York, NY. FATTO BENE! Centro per l ́Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy. New Sculptures. Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland. Bad Painting - good art. Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig - MUMOK, Vienna, Austria. OHO – What a Collection! Contemporary Art from Pekka Halonen’s Collection - Kuopio THE OLYMP: Works on Paper. Burkhard Eikelmann Com, Dusseldorf, Germany. Le Grand Tour: Académie de France à Rome. Villa Médicis, Rome, Italy. You Dig the Tunnel, I'll Hide the Soil. White Cube - Hoxton Square, London, England. |
| 2007 |
Selection 2007: Proje4L. Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art, Istanbul, Turkey. Doppio sogno: 2RC tra artista e artifice. Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro, Milan, Italy. Not For Sale. MoMA PS1, New York, NY. Lights, Camera, Action: Artists ́ Films for the Cinema. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY. |
| 2006 |
Ausgewählte Arbeiten aus der eigenen Sammlung. Museum der Stadt Ratingen, Ratingen, Germany. NEW ACQUISITIONS. Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich, Switzerland. Radical NY! The Downtown show: the New York art scene, 1974-1984 and abstract expressionism: 1940-1960 . The Contemporary Austin, Austin, TX. DEFINING THE CONTEMPORARY. Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, England. CORRISPONDENZE. Centro per l ́Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy Druckgrafik - Raab Galerie, Berlin, Germany. Sunscreen 2006. Newzones Gallery of Contemporary Art, Calgary, Canada. Eldorado. MUDAM - Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg, Luxembourg. Sedu ão Cinema e Pintura. Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna, Sintra, Portugal. Summer Stock. Russell Bowman Art Advisory, Chicago, IL. Recent Acquisitions: Part I. Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art - SMoCA, The Downtown Show: The New York Art Scene, 1974–1984. The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburg, PA. Chairs. Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich, Switzerland. Sound & Vision. Museo della Città, Perugia, Italy. Im Kabinett: Frühling! Raab Galerie, Berlin, Germany. Presses, Pop, and Pomade: American Prints Since the Sixties. The Frances Lehman The Downtown Show: The New York Art Scene, 1974–1984. Grey Art Gallery, NYU, New York, NY. |
| 2005 |
IT ́s FRAMED - Exclusive Pop Art. Burkhard Eikelmann Com, Dusseldorf, Germany. Nudes in Vogue. Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, NY. Basquiat - Schnabel: Works on Paper. Fabien Fryns Fine Arts, Marbella, Spain. Schnabel / Basquiat: works on Paper. F2 Gallery, Beijing, China. Looking at Words. Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY. In The Company Of Old Master. Bernheimer-Colnaghi, London, England. Sammlung Rainer Wild. Die Frucht in der Kunst - Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg, Germany. Dust. The University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Canada. American artists. Galleria Alessandro Bagnai, Florence, Italy. Drawings: 1945 to now. Russell Bowman Art Advisory, Chicago, IL. Collettiva. Galleria Alessandro Bagnai, Florence, Italy. On Form an Figure. Newzones Gallery of Contemporary Art, Calgary, Canada. |
| 2004 |
Surprise! Galleria Cardi - Milano, Milan, Italy. Araki, Kabakov, Masi, Schnabel. Centro per l ́Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy. What ́s modern? Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY. Visions of America . Sammlung Essl - Kunsthaus, Klosterneuburg, Austria. Ear Down This Wall: Paintings From The 1980s. MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA. Political Satire Then and Now. ASU Art Museum - Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ. Summer Jam. Burkhard Eikelmann Com, Dusseldorf, Germany. Summer Group Show. Russell Bowman Art Advisory, Chicago, IL. ...So Fresh, So Cool! Galleria Cardi - Milano, Milan, Italy. Why not live for Art? Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan. Particular view. Galleria Alessandro Bagnai, Florence, Italy. An International Legacy. Selections from Carnegie of Art - Nevada Museum of Art NMA, Reno, NV. |
| 2003 |
Embracing the Present. The UBS Art Collection - Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ. Painting Lesson. Galleria Cardi, Milan, Italy. Crimes and Misdemeanors - Politics in U.S. Art of the 1980s. CAC - Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH. Artsonje Collection Highlights. Artsonje Museum, Gyeongju, South Korea. Open 2003 arte & cinema, venice, Italy. Arte Communications, Venice, Italy. Sommerausstellung 2003 - 20 zeitgenössische Künstler. White8 showrooms, Villach, Austria. Imagine: Selections from the permanent collection. Museum of Contemporary Art - North Miami (MOCA), Miami, FL. Pop thru out. Arario Cheonan, Cheonan-si, South Korea. Group Show. Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, England. 50th International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale. Biennale di Venezia - La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy. Graphic Works from the Lopez Collection. Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. |
| 2002 |
Primal Screams and Songs. Museum of Contemporary Art - North Miami (MOCA), Miami, FL. Good News. Galleria Cardi, Milan, Italy. Group Exhibition. IKON Ltd, Santa Monica, CA. |
| 2001 |
Rendez-vous #3. Collection Lambert, Avignon, France. DIE VÖGEL. Galerie Kühn, Berlin, Germany. Summer in the City. The Pace Gallery, New York, NY. MOCA - Selections from the Permanent Collection. Museum of Contemporary Art - North Miami (MOCA), Miami, FL. Hero. IKON Ltd, Santa Monica, CA. Pop Art & Co - Uniques, Graphics and Multiples. Burkhard Eikelmann Com, Dusseldorf, Germany. Mythic Proportions - Painting in the 1980’s. Museum of Contemporary Art - North Miami (MOCA), Miami, FL. |
| 2000 |
KölnSkulptur 2. Skulpturenpark Köln, Cologne, Germany. Around 1984 - A Look at Art in the Eighties. MoMA PS1, New York, NY. Art at Work: Forty Years of the Chase Manhattan Collection. Queens Museum of Art (QMA), New York, NY. |
| 1999 |
The first view. Sammlung Essl - Kunsthaus, Klosterneuburg, Austria. Monsters of the '80s. Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Winter Park, FL. The American Century: Art & Culture 1900-2000 Part II. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY. Summer 99. The Pace Gallery, New York, NY. 17 Contemporaries: Artists from America, Italy, and Mexico—the Eighties. The Menil Collection, Houston, TX. Heads Up - Highlights from the Permanent Collection. Museum of Contemporary Art - North Miami (MOCA), Miami, FL. Dreaming II: Contemporary American Art and Ancient Korea. Akira Ikeda, New York, NY. Group Exhibition of Gallery Artists. Pace Wildenstein, New York, NY. |
| 1998 |
Cleveland Collects Contemporary Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH. Art of Four Decades: 1958 – 1998. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA. Tillbaka till åttiotalet — redan? / Isn't It Too Early for the Eighties Yet? Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö, Sweden. Exhibition of the century. Wellington City Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand. Pasajes de la Colección en Santa Fe y Granada. CaixaForum Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain. Dreaming II: Contemporary American Art and Ancient Korea. Akira Ikeda, New York, NY. "Beyond Studio 54" Grafikarbeiten von Andy Warhol und Julian Schnabel Öffnungsze. Nikolaus Sonne Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany. |
| 1997 |
Winter Group Exhibition. The Pace Gallery, New York, NY A Lasting Legacy: Selections From The Lannan Foundation Gift. The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, CA. 47th International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale / Biennale di Venezia. La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy. Papiers Contemporains. Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, Paris, France. |
| 1995 |
A Benefit Exhibition for D.E.A.F., Inc. Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY. |
| 1994 |
Tutti Questi Mondi. Galleria Carini & Donatini, San Giovanni Valdarno, Italy. 22° Bienal de São Paulo. Bienal de Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. Nuevas adquisiciones de artistas extranjeros. Adquisiciones, donaciones y daciones. |
| 1993 |
1982-83, Ten Years After. Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY. Visiones paralelas. Artistas modernos y arte marginal. Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain. Julian Schnabel, Francesco Clemente. Akira Ikeda, New York, NY. |
| 1992 |
Group Show. Galerie Max Hetzler, Cologne, Germany. Slow Art/ Painting in New York Now. MoMA PS1, New York, NY. Allegories of Modernism. MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY. |
| 1991 |
Works on Paper. Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, CA. Metropolis. Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany. Word As Image: American Art 1960–1990. Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX. |
| 1990 |
Group Show. Galerie Max Hetzler, Cologne, Germany. La Collezione 88-90. Centro per l ́Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy. Large Works on Paper. Center for Art and Visual Culture, Baltimore, MD. 8th Biennale of Sydney 1990. The Readymade Boomerang - Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, NSW. |
| 1989 |
Basquiat — Schnabel. Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö, Sweden. |
| 1988 |
Les années 80 : à la surface de la peinture. Abbaye St André - Centre d'art contemporain Meymac, Meymac, France. |
| 1987 |
Ross Bleckner, Albert Oehlen, Julian Schnabel. Galerie Max Hetzler, Cologne, Germany. |
| 1986 |
What It Is. Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY. Group Exhibition. Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, IL. 75th American Exhibition. The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL. |
| 1985 |
XIII BIENNALE DE PARIS. Biennale de Paris, Paris, France. Exhibition - Dialogue / Exposi ão – Diálogo. Centro de Arte Moderna – CAM, Funda ão Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal. |
| 1984 |
The Heroic Figure. Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX. International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture. MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY. Via New York. Musée d ́art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, Canada. The Meditative Surface. The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago, |
| 1983 |
New Image/Pattern and Decoration from the Morton G. Neumann Family Collection. Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, IL. Southern Fictions. Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX. Whitney Biennial 1983. Whitney Biennial, New York, NY. |
| 1982 |
In Our Time: Houston’s Contemporary Arts Museum 1948–1982. Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX. Zeitgeist. Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany. 25th Anniversary Exhibition of Leo Castelli. Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY. The Americans: The Collage. Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX. New Paintings. Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London, England. La Biennale di Venezia : Settore Arti Visive : 1982. La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy. American Painting and Sculpture 74th Annual. The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL. 25th Anniversary Exhibition. Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY. Group Show. Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY. |
| 1981 |
New Work. Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London, England. Group Show. Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY. A new Spirit of Painting. Royal Academy of Arts, London, England. |
| 1980 |
Ross Bleckner, David Salle, Julian Schnabel. Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY. |
| 1979 |
Group Show. Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY. Visionary Images. The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL. |
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It is a pleasure to open Julian Schnabel's exhibition following our Andy Warhol show. This is a great opportunity to show a contemporary master painter and to review his oeuvre. I have known Julian for close to thirty years, spent a great deal of time with him in his studio and have collected his work continuously. It is clear how important Julian is to the landscape of contemporary art, and remains a pivotal figure and a huge influence to the younger artists of today.
– Peter Brant
I called the first painting The Patients and the Doctors because Artaud wrote an essay about Van Gogh, the artist's suicide by society. And I thought, who are the patients, and who are the doctors?
– Julian Schnabel, Brant Foundation Lecture Series, New York University
