1945

Lives in Los Angeles

Lala Land Parodie Paradies, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London

Santaclaus, Musuem Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Lala Land Parodie Paradies, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany

Brain Box Dream Box, CAC Malaga, Centro de Arte Contemporaneo de Malaga, Spain

Open, Arcadia University Art Gallery, Glenside, PA
Brain Box Dream Box, Vanabbe Museum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

Piccadilly, Hauser & Wirth, London
Film and Video Works,
The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Norway

Clean Thoughts, Luhring Augustine, New York
Video Tapes, Butler Gallery, The Castle, Kilkenny, Ireland
Complete videowerken 1971-1999, De Hallen, Haleem, The Netherlands
Retrospective, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden

Video & Photography, Kunstverein Hamburg, Germany
Villa Arson, Nice, France
The Garden, Deitch projects, New York, NY
Luhring Augustine, New York
Galerie Hauser & Wirth, Zurich, Switzerland
The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
The Box, IBM Building, New York, NY
Group Show, Chac Mool Gallery, West Hollywood, CA
Dialogues in Contemporary Art, MOCA at the Geffen Contemporary, Los Angeles

Eleni Koroneou Gallery, Athens
Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art
Heidi File, MOCA Geffen Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
Heidi File, Patrick Painter, Inc., Santa Monica, CA
The Fashion Show, George’s, Los Angeles, CA
The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
Tokyo Santa Santa’s Trees, Blum & Poe, Santa Monica, CA

Proposition, Collaboration with Jason Rhoades, David Zwirner Gallery, New York
Dimensions Of The Mind: The Denial and the Desire in the Spectacle, Sammlung Hauser und Wirth in
Der Lokremise, St. Gallen, Switzerland
Tokyo Santa Santa’s Trees, Blum & Poe, Santa Monica,CA
Death H and Early Performance Photographs, Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy

Photographs-Performance Photographs and Video, 1969-1983, Patrick Painter, Inc., Santa Monica, CA,
Luhring Augustine, New York
Painter. Video and Drawings, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria
Sod and Sodie Sock, Mike Kelley & Paul McCarthy, Secession, Vienna, Austria

Santa’s Chocolate Shop, Galerie Hauser & Wirth, Zurich, Switzerland

Yaa-Hoo, Luhring Augustine, New York
Video Works, Galerie Drantmann, Brussels, Belgium
Videos and Drawings Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark
SALOON, Air de Paris, Paris, France
Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Luhring Augustine, 2nd gallery, New York
Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg
Art & Public, Geneva
Tomato Head, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
Pinocchio Pipenose Householddilemma Tour, Travels to: Air de Paris, Paris, France;
Galeria Antoni Estra, Barcelona, Spain; Luhring Augustine, New York; Galleria Nicolai
Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark; Esther Schipper Galerie, Koln, Germany; Studio
Guenzani, Milan Italy; McKinney Art Center, Dallas, TX; Auckland City Art Gallery,
Auckland, New Zealand.
Painter, Projects Room, Museum of Modern Art, New York
5 Photographic Works, 1970-1974, Blum & Poe, Santa Monica, CA

Altered, Austrian Cultural Institute, New York (two-person exhibition with Rudolf Schwarzkogler)
Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles
Galerie Georges-Philippe Vallois, Paris
FRAC Poitou Charentes, Angouleme
Air de Paris, Nice and Air de Paris, Paris
Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy
Le Fonds Regional d’Art Contemporain, Poitou-Charente, Angouleme, France

Luhring Augustine, New York
Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna
The Dead Viking, Bucholz und Bucholz, Cologne
Video, Ynglingagaten I, Sweden

Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles

Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles

Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles

Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles

AAA Art, Los Angeles

Paintings, Cirque Divers, Liege, Belgium

Human Object, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles

Contemporary Cure-All and Deadening, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Exhibitions, Los
Angeles

Mixed-Up Childhood, Aukland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, New Zealand
John McCracken Paul McCarthy, Hauser & Wirth Zurich, Switzerland
Dionysiac, Centre Georges Pompidou, Galerie Sud, Paris, France
Girls on Film, Zwirner & Wirth, New York
Figure it Out, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY

White: Whiteness and Race in Contemporary Art, International Center of Photography, The Center for
The Art and Visual Culture, UMBC, Baltimore, Maryland.
CACMalaga,Centro de Arte Contemporaneo de Malaga, Spain
Friedrich Christian Flick Collection Im Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany

Los Usos de la Imagen. Fotografia, film y video en la Coleccion Jumex, Espacio Fundacion Telefonica,
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Evidence of Impact: Art and Photography 1963-1978, Sondra Gilman Gallery, Whitney Museum of
American Art, New York
Drafting Deceit, Apexart, New York, NY
Accrochages: Selected Works, Marc Jancou Fine Art, New York, NY
Disparities & Deformitions our Grotesque, The Fifth International Site Santa Fe Biennal, Site Santa Fe
Publication Fund
Sculpture and Form,  John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
I am the Walrus, Cheim & Read, New York
(In Search of) The Perfect Lover, Hauser & Wirth London, UK
Point of View: An Anthology of the Moving Image, MAC, Miami Art Center, Miami, FL
Monument To Now, The Dakis Joannou Collection, Athens, Greece. An Official part of  Athens 2004,
Culture, Olympic Games Cultural Program.
Public Art Fund Projects in Central Park. A Collaboration with the Whitney Biennal, Central Park, New
York
Speaking with Hands: Photographs from the Buhl Collection, Guggenheim Museum, New York

Spiritus, Magasin 3, Stockholm Konstall, Sweden. Traveling to: Jonkopings Lans Museum;
Bomuldsfabriken Kunstall, Arendal, Norge; Sundsvalls Museum; Lansmuseet Gavleborg;
Goteborgs Konstmuseum

Not Afraid, Rubell Familly Collection, Miami, FL
Sitings: Installation Art 1969-2002.  The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles
Biennale d’Art Contemporain de Lyon 2003,” Lyon, France
The Art of Chess, The Gilbert Collection, Somerset House, London, UK
Orange, Expression Centre d’expostion de Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec, Canada
Twilight, London, UK
Micro Politicas. Arte en Contidianida 2001- 1968. Art and Everyday Life 2001 - 1968, EACC ESPAI
McCarthy, Paul
d’Art Contemporani de Castello, Valencia, Spain
Chang, Emin, Fisher and McCarthy, The Moore Space, Miami, Florida
(In Search of) The Perfect Lover, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany
My Reality: Contemporary Art and the Culture of Japanese Animation, Independent Curators
International (ICI), New Traveling Exhibitions of Contemporary Art, Des Moines Art Center
Spiritus, Magasin 3, Riksutstallningar, Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
The Forth Sex. Adolescent Extremes, Fondazione Pitti Immagine Discovery, Stazione Leopolda,
Florence , Italy
In Your Face, FRAHM LTD, London
Imagine, You Are Standing Here In Front Of Me, Caldic Collection, Boijmans Van Beuningen
Museum, Roterdam, The Netherlands

Plus Ultra, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Austria
Shit Plug,  Paul McCarthy / Jason Rhoades, Galerie Hauser & Wirth, Zurich, Switzerland
To Eat or Not to Eat or Relationship of Art with Food in the 20th Century, Centro de Arte de Salamanca,
CASA, Salamanca, Spain
Proposition: Jason Rhoades and Paul McCarthy, Santa Monica Museum of Art, CA
Art Unlimited, Art 33 Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Blind Mirror. Selections from a Contemporary Collection, Museu de Arte Moderna de Sao Paulo, Brazil
Art After Art, Neues Museum Weseberg, Bremen, Germany
Ahead of the 21st Century. The Pisces Collection, Donaueschingen, Switzerland
Art Downtown, Wall Street Rising, New York
Cadavre Exquis, Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois, Paris, France
Fallen Heroes:Masculinity and Representation ESPAI d’Art Contemporani de Castello, Castello, Spain

Depiction, curated by Peter Pakesch for the Steirisc[:her:]bst Festival, Graz, Austria
Amused, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago
ABBILD Recent Portraiture and Depiction, Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz
Paul McCarthy in Person, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, England
TRANS> editions, Chac Mool Gallery, West Hollywood, CA
My Reality: Contemporary Art and the Culture of Japanese Animation, ICI Travelling Exhibition
Play’s The Thing: Critical and Transgressive Practices in Contemporary Art, Whitney Museum of
American Art, New York

Let’s Entertain: Life’s Guilty Pleasures, Walker Art Center, traveling to Portland Art Museum, Musee
National d’art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Museon Rufino Tamayo, Miami Art Museum
Art at MoMA since 1980”, MoMa, New York
Video Time, survey of Videos from the Museum of Modern art, NY
The Oldest Possible Memory, Sammlung Hauser and Wirth, St Gallen

Parallel Lines: Mix and Match, Karen McCready Fine Art, New York, NY
Bloom: Contemporary Art Garden, curated by Gianni Romano, Milan, Italy
La Biennale di Venezia, 48 Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte, dapertutto, Venice
Ruralia. Maaseudun taide. Art of the Countryside, Porin Taidmuseo, Pori, Finland
Horse Play, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
The American Century: Art & Culture 1950-2000, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Lost, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Mike Kelley and Paul McCarthy: Collaborative Works, The Power Plant Contepmorary Art Gallery,
Toronto, Canada

Presumed Innocence, Virginia Commonwealth University
Collection un autre regard, capcMusée d’art contemporain, Bordeaux
Figurative Sculpture, Patrick Painter, Inc., Santa Monica, CA
L.A. Times, curated by Francesco Bonami, Palazzo Re Rebaudengo per l’Arte Contemporanea, Guarene
d’Alba
New Works, Patrick Painter, Inc., Santa Monica, CA
Pop Surrealism, Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT
Damenwahl: Monika Baer & Paul McCarthy, Portikus, Frankfurt am Main (catalogue)
American Presentation, The Theater of Self-Presentation, The Power Plant, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Veronica’s Revenge, Stedelijk Museum, Sittard
Luhring Augustine, New York, NY

Performance Anxiety, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Out of Actions: Performance and the Object, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Sunshine & Noir. Art in LA 1960-1997, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
Whitney Biennial, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Natural Habitat, The Tannery. London, England
Observations, Ydessa Hendeles Foundation, Toronto, Canada
Deep Storage Arsenale der Erinnerung Haus der Kunst Munich, Munich; traveling to Berlin and the U.S.
Scene of the Crime, Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center
Display, Charlottenborg Exhibition Hall, Copenhagen, Denmark
Painting - The Extended Field, Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Sweden
Tableaux, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, Florida.
Un bel été, Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Paul McCarthy and Benjamin Weissman, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Dramatically Different, Centre National d’Art Contemporain de Grenoble, France
4e Biennale d”art contemporain de Lyon, Lyon, France
Surveying the First Decade: Video Art and Alternative Media in the United States, SFMOMA, San
Francisco

(nude), Trans Hudson Gallery
World Wide Video Festival, five locations in The Hague
The Garage Project, MAK Center for Art abd Architecture L.A.
Non! Pas Comme Ca!, Centre d’art Neuchatel, Neuchatel Switzerland
Sex & Crime, Sperengel Museum Hannover
Low Cool, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
Image of Self as Another, Porin Taidemuseo, Finland
Reel World Artists’ Fim and Video of the 1970’s, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL
Controfigura, Studio Guenzani, Milano, Italy
SAMPLER 2 - More Videos from Southern California, David Zwirner Gallery, New York
Les plastirs et Les Ombres, La Fondation pour l’Architecture, Brussels, Belgium
Vito Acconci videos performances viewing Fresh Acconci, Antheneum Campus Universitaire, Dijon,
France
Portraits, Ydessa Hendeles Art Foundation, Toronto, Canada
Comic Depiction of Sex in American Art, Galerie Andreas Binder
The Paranoid Machine, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angeles
Everything That’s Interesting Is New, Athens School of Fine Arts, Athens, Greece
Art at Home: Ideal Standard Life, Tokyo, Japan
Exposure, Luhring Augustine, New York
From Figure to Object: A Century of Sculpture’s Drawings, Frith Street Gallery and Karsten Schubert,
London
Shit, Baron/Boisante Gallery, New York, NY
a/drift: Scenes From the Penetrable Culture, Bard Center for Curatorial Studies, New York
Popcultural, South London Gallery, London, England.
Paul McCarthy, Paul Noble and Allen Ruppersberg Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York
Romper Room, Thread Waxing Sapce, New York

Kelley, McCarthy, Nauman, West, David Zwirner Gallery, New York
Murder, Thread Waxing Space, New York
Toys, Galerie Jousse Seguin, Paris
Sites of Being, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
The Raw, Postmaster Gallery, New York
Video Screening Painter and “Heidi, Cinematheque, San Francisco, CA
New Visions for Historic Neighborhoods, Weingart Galleries, Occidental College
Stereo-Tip, Soros Center for Contemporary Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Femininmasculin:le sexe de l’art, Musee National d’Arte Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Video News, the American Center
Collisions, Arteleku, San Sebastian, Spain
Familiar Places, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
infamie Autres vicoires, Montlucon,Chateau de la Louvire, France
Marcel Broodthaers — Correspondence, Gallery Hauser & Wirth, Zurich, David Zwirner, New York
LA International, Correspondence, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
New History of the Infamy, FRAC Auvergne, Montlucon, France
Fuori USO’95, Associazione Culturale Arte Nova, Pescara, Italy
Le Mille e una Volta, Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporaenea, Repubblica Di San Marino
Identita e Alterita, The Venice Biennial
Collection, fin XX Five Separate locations, in conjunction with FRAC, Poitou-Charentes, France
Whitney Bienniel, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Mike Kelley and Paul McCarthy, Curates by Stephen Schmitt-Wolfen, Kunstverein, Hamburg,
Germany
Bruce Nauman, Mike Kelley, Franz West and Paul McCarthy, David Zwriner, New York
Endurance, Exit Art, New York

Luhring Augustine, New York
Galleri K, Oslo
Outside the Frame: Performance and the Object, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art; Blaffer
Gallery, University of Houston; Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island Porch Gallery,
Amsterdam (three-person exhibition with Mike Kelley and Charlemagne Palestine)
Dirty, John Good Gallery, New York
GIFT, The InterArt Center, New York
Hors Limites, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Transformers, travelling exhibition through 1997
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid
Oh boy, it’s a girl, Kunstverein Munchen, Munchen
Cocido y Crudo, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid
Sculpture, Luhring Augustine, New York
Galerie Asbaek, Copenhagen, Denmark, Daniel Oates, Lincoln Tobier, Larry Johnson, Jeff Wall, Dan
Graham, Richard Prince, Meyer Vaisman, Rodney Graham and Paul McCarthy
Altered, Two-person show, Rudolf Schwarzkogler and Paul McCarthy, Austrain Cultural Institute, New
York
Paul McCarthy - Mike Kelley - Charlemagne Palestine - Dirk Larsen Torch Gallery, Amsterdam, The
Netherlands
Kus Me Kus Me Zeeman De Vishal, Haarlem, The Netherlands
[cut] - Los Angeles - 90’ernes kunstscene, Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Privacy, Spazio Opos, Milan, January
Poliset, Centrovideoarte-Palazzo Diamanti, Ferrara
I am the Enunciator, Thread Waxing Space, New York, Kunstelerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
The Elegant, The Irreverent, and the Obsessive: Drawings in Southern California, Visual Art Center,
California State University, Fullerton, CA
The Eidetic Image: Contemporary Works on Paper, Kramer Art Museum, Champaigne, IL; Newport
Harbor Art Museum, Champaigne, Il; Newport Harbor Art Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA;
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse
The Mere Interchange, Aperto ’93, Venice Biennale, Venice
Sonsbeek, Arnhem, The Netherlands
Action/Performance and the Photograph, Turner/Krull Gallery, Los Angeles
United Film Project, Firminy, France
Mr. Serling’s Neighborhood, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica
The Language of Art, Kunsthalle Wien, Wien
Drawing the Line Against AIDS, Guggenheim Museum SoHo, New York
Sampler: Southern California Video Collection, David Zwirner Gallery; Studio Guenzani, Milan;
Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Koln
Everyday Life, Kim Light Gallery, Los Angeles

Helter Skelter: L.A. Art in the 1990s, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Roy Dowell paintings, Paul McCarthy drawings, Renee Petropoulos studies, Rosamund Felsen Gallery,
Los Angeles
Paul McCarthy, Joyce Pensato, Arnulf Rainer, Luhring Augustine, New York
Post Human, FAE Musee d’Art Contemporain, Lausanne; Castello di Rivoli, Torino; Deste
Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens; Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg
Galerie Max Hetzler, Koln
Rosamund Felsen Clinic and Recovery Center, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles
Into the Lapse, 1301, Santa Monica, July-August
Strange Developments, Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London, September-October, Jack Hanley Gallery,
San Francisco, November
Lax, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, November

Ovarian Warriors vs. Knights of Crissum, Parker Zanic Gallery, Los Angeles; Sue Spaid Fine Arts, Los
Angeles
The Body, Simon Watson, New York
The Body (2), The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Chicago
Someone or Somebody, Meyers/Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica
The Family Romance, Simon Watson, New York
Video Violence, Ars Electronica, Ling, Austria
Quick Coagulation Forms the August Corpse, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles
Presenting Rearwords, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles
Ha-Ha, Roy Boyd Gallery, Santa Monica
Body and Body, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, Austria

New California Video: A Survey of Open Channels, 1985-90, Long Beach
Past and Present: Selected Works by Gallery Artists, Rosamund Felson Gallery, Los Angeles

L.A. Freewaves, American Film Institute Video Festival and area-wide screenings, Los Angeles

Open Channels Video, Long Beach Museum, Long Beach
Tactical Positions, Los Angeles Contemporary
New Works on Paper, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles

B&W Drawings, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

Contemporary Eccentrics, Edge Gallery, Los Angeles
Assault Video, Anti Club, Los Angeles

13/14 Artist Out of Line, Gallery 8336, Los Angeles
Video by Performance Artists, Hallwalls, Buffalo

Works by Richard Newton and Paul McCarthy, Exile Gallery, Los Angeles
Video Tapes America, American Center, Paris

Lately in L.A. Washington Project for the Arts, Washington D.C.
Objects by Paul McCarthy and Barbara Smith, Espace Gallery, Los Angeles
California Performance Now and Then, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

Video 80, The Public Eye, San Francisco
Audio Works, Sixto Notes, Milan

Video Tapes from Los Angeles, California, Nan Hoover Atelier, Amsterdam

Outside Video Tapes, M.L. d’Arc Gallery, New York
Southern California Video Anthology Part II, Long Beach Museum, Long Beach
Commissioned Video, University Art Museum, Berkeley

Southern California Video Anthology, Long Beach Museum, Long Beach
Newspace Gallery, Los Angeles

Newspace Gallery, Los Angeles

Festival of the Arts, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Conceptual Art, Libra Gallery, Pomona