JULIAN SCHNABEL
Born in 1951 in New York, USA.
Lives and works in New York, Montauk, USA, and San Sebastian, Spain.
Julian Schnabe is one of the most seminal and virtuosic artists working today. His multidisciplinary practice extends beyond painting to include sculpture, film, architecture and furniture. He is an award winning movie director but primarily a painter. His use of preexisting materials not traditionally used in art making, varied painting surfaces and inventive modes of construction were pivotal in the reemergence of painting in the United States in the late 1970’s and the rest of the world. In 1978, he began to make Plate Paintings, imagic works with sculptural surfaces produced by layering shards of broken dishes with thick applications of auto body putty, dental plaster and oil paint on wooden structures. His unorthodox, highly experimental approach to use of materials, gestures and form and large scale and shaped paintings have blurred the distinction between abstraction and figuration, making the battle between the two obsolete. Throughout his practice, he sustained the use of objet trouvé and chance-based processes, transforming painting and opening the door for new generations of young painters today.
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EDUCATION
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1969 - 1972
Bachelor of Fine Arts. at the University of Houston, USA
1973 - 1974
Attended the Whitney Museum’s Independent Study program for young artists, New York, USA
SOLO SHOWS (SELECTION)
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2021
Julian Schnabel. Victory, The Pace Gallery, Palm Beach, USA
2020
Julian Schnabel. The Sad Lament of the Brave, Let the Wind Speak and Other Paintings, New York, The Pace Gallery, USA
Julian Schnabel. The Patch of Blue the Prisoner Calls the Sky, The Pace Gallery, New York, USA
2018
Orsay vu par Julian Schnabel, Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France
Polaroids, OstLicht Gallery, Vienna, Austria
Aktion Paintings 1985-2017, ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, Aarhus, Denmark
The re-use of 2017 by 2018. The re-use of Christmas, birthdays. The re-use of a joke. The re-use of air and water, Pace Gallery, London, UK
Symbols of Actual Life, Legion of Honor, San Francisco, USA
2017
Re-Reading, Almine Rech Gallery, New York, USA
Julian Schnabel. New plate paintings, The Pace Gallery, New York, USA
Paintings That I Hope Philip and David Would Like, The Glass House, New Canaan, USA
Hall Art Foundation, Schloss Derneburg, Germany
2016
Infinity on Trial, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, USA
6 Rose Paintings, Vito Schnabel Gallery, St. Moritz, Switzerland
Plate Paintings 1978–1986, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, USA
Palimpsest Printed Works, 1983-2016, Ludwig Museum, Koblenz, Germany
2015
Jack Climbed Up the Beanstalk to the Sky of Illimitableness Where Everything Went Backwards, Almine Rech Gallery, Paris, France
Julian Schnabel, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, USA
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, São Paulo, Brazil
Julian Schanbel: View of the Dawn in the Tropics: Paintings, 1989–1990, Gagosian Gallery, New York, USA
An Artist Has A Past (Puffy Clouds and Strong Cocktails): 15 Paintings Over The Last Decade, Dallas Contemporary, Dallas, USA
Julian Schnabel: Every Angel has a Dark Side, Dairy Art Centre, London, UK
Julian Schanbel: Flag Painting Karma, New York, USA
2013
Julian Schnabel, Centro Italiano Arte Contemporanea, Foligno, Italy
The Brant Foundation, Connecticut, USA
2012
Julian Schnabel, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany
Guy Pieters 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, USA
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, German
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, UK
Julian Schnabel, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, South Korea
Julian Schnabel, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, USA
Julian Schnabel, Himalayas Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Navigation Drawings, Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York, USA
2007
Schnabel in Hong Kong, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong
Schnabel in Beijing, Beijing World Art Museum, Beijing, China
Summer, 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
MetLife Building, New York, USA
2005
Julian Schnabel - opere grafiche, LipanjePuntin Artecontemporanea, Trieste, Italy
2004
Julian Schnabel - Sculpture, L&M Arts, New York, USA
2001
Julian Schnabel, Galleria Cardi, Milan, Italy
2000
Galerie Forsblom, Helsinky
Galeria Ramis Barquet, Mexico City, Mexico
1998 - 1999
Pace Wildenstain, Los Angeles, USA
Guid Hall, East Hampton, USA
South London Gallery, London, UK
1000 eventi, Milan, Italy
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
1996 - 1997
The Conversion of Saint-Paul Malfi, Pace Wildenstein, New York, USA
Sperone Westwater, New York, USA
Waddington Gallery, London, UK
Bruno Bishofberger Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
Modern Art Gallery, Bologna, Italy
1995
Joan Miro Foundation, Barcelona, Spain
Ramis Barquet Gallery, Mexico
The Conversion of Saint-Paul Malfi, the pink blouse I like the most and other pink paintings, Jablonka Gallery, Cologne
1993 - 1994
Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, USA
Jason Rubell Gallery, New York, Miami, USA
National Museum of the Art Center Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
Gian Ferrari Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
Jane Birkin Paintings, Pace Wildenstein Gallery, New York, USA
Major Retrospective of Paintings and Works on Paper from 1977 to 1993, Monterrey Museum, Monterrey, Mexico
Biennial of Sao Paulo
1979
Mary Boone Gallery, New York, USA
GROUP SHOWS (SELECTION)
2018
In the light of spring, Podgorny Robinson Gallery, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France
Albert Oehlen | Julian Schnabel, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany
2016
Tom Wesellman, Keith Sonnier, Jim Dine, Julian Schnabel, Podgorny Robinson Gallery, Paris, France
Art Basel, Almine Rech Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
Art Basel, Pace Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
Art Basel Hong Kong, Blum & Poe, Hong Kong, China
In Different Ways, Almine Rech Gallery, London, UK
Julian Schnabel, série d'impressions pigmentaires & Arik Lévy, Podgorny Robinson Gallery, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France
2015
Julian Schnabel: Portrait of Olatz, NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale, Fort Lauderdale, USA
First Show / Last Show, 190 Bowery, New York, USA
Enigmas: Martin Barré, David Ostrowski, Julian Schnabel, Reena Spaulings, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, USA
The Shell (Landscapes, Portraits & Shapes), Almine Rech Gallery, Paris, France
Café Dolly: Picabia, Schnabel, Willumsen, NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale, Fort Lauderdale, USA
2014
Urban Theater: New York Art in the 1980s, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, USA
Georg Baselitz, Anselm Kiefer, Harmony Korine, Robert Rauschenberg, Julian Schnabel, Rudolf Stingel, Franz West Gagosian Gallery, West 24th St., New York, USA
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, USA
Group Show, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, USA
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, USA
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, USA
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, Australia
Provisional Painting, Stuart Shave / Modern Art, London, UK
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, USA
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, USA
Schlaglichter - von Beuys bis Twombly…, Museum der Stadt Ratingen, Ratingen, Germany
Beauty is Diamond, Laleh June Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
XXL / Omar Ba, 1000 Eventi, Milan, Italy
Pastiche, The Pace Gallery, New York, USA
Your History is not Our History, Haunch of Venison, New York, USA
Quartet–Four Biennials Reflected in Prints, International Centre of Graphic Arts (MGLC), Ljubljana, Slovenia
Collecting Biennials, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
2009
3rd AiM International Biennale, Marrakech Biennale, Marrakech, Morocco
MOCA´s First Thirty Years, MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, USA
Paint Made Flesh, Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, Rochester, USA
Sans—titre # 1 oeuvres de la Collection Lambert peintures des années 1970 — 1980, Collection Lambert, Avignon, France
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, USA
New York Contemporary, Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Paint Made Flesh, The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C., USA
Collect With Us, Armand Bartos Fine Art, New York, USA
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, USA
Image Matter, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, USA
Paint Made Flesh, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, USA
2008
UBS Openings: Paintings from the 1980s, Tate Modern, London, UK
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, USA
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 Art Museum, Kuopio, Finland
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, UK
Doppio sogno: 2RC tra artista e artifice, Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro, Milan, Italy
Not For Sale, MoMA PS1, New York, USA
Lights, Camera, Action: Artists Films for the Cinema, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
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 expresionism: 1940-1960, The Contemporary Austin, Austin, USA
DEFINING THE CONTEMPORARY, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK
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
Sedução Cinema e Pintura, Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna, Sintra, Portugal
Summer Stock, Russell Bowman Art Advisory, Chicago, USA
Recent Acquisitions: Part I, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art - SMoCA, Scottsdale, USA
The Downtown Show: The New York Art Scene, 1974–1984, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburg, USA
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 Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY
The Downtown Show: The New York Art Scene, 1974–1984, Grey Art Gallery, New York City University, New York, USA
1975
Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston
FILMOGRAPHY
2018
At Eternity's Gate
2010
Miral
2007
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Lou Reed's Berlin
2000
Before Night Falls
1996
Basquiat