George Condo

Born in 1957 in New Hampshire in New York Click to look into! >> Read More... City, George Condo is an American Contemporary Visual artist. He does Painting, drawing, sculptures, and printmaking. He studied Art History and Music Theory at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, where he became inspired explicitly by a course on Baroque and Rococo Painting. His work is populated by peculiar characters with bulging eyes, bulbous cheeks, proliferating limbs, and hideous over-and-under bites. He calls his style “psychological cubism.” His unique and imaginative visual language pays tribute to art-historical traditions and genres, drawing together elements of Old Master portraiture with allusions to contemporary American culture. 

He worked under several artists until 1983 when George had his first solo show at the Ulrike Kantor Gallery in Los Angeles. Since then, his work has appeared in several solo exhibitions. For nearly forty years, he has occupied a central position in the landscape of American Painting. His works combine beauty with madness, asserting that art’s potential is not inventing but innovating. At present, Condo lives in the City and his works feature in important public collections, including The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo; and the Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Paris.