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Kenny Scharf

(American, born 1958)

Kenny Scharf

Subliminalabubly, 2021

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Kenny Scharf

HI GUY!, 1986–2021

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Kenny Scharf

ROSE 'N NOIR, 2023

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Biography

Timeline

1958: Born: in Los Angeles, CA
1980: BFA, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
1984: Fabric Design for Todd Oldham Creations, New York, NY
1985: Outdoor Mural at 57th Street and Lexington Avenue, New York, NY
: Installation, The Palladium, New York, NY
2002: Cartoon Network airs “The Groovenians” Scharf’s first animated film

Exhibitions

2013: Kenny Scharf: Kolors, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Kenny Scharf: Eric, Firestone Gallery, East Hampton, NY (solo)
Futures Project, Center for the Living Arts, Mobile Alabama
Contemporary Magic: A Tarot Deck Art Project: The Dali Museum, St. Pete FL
Virginia MOCA Virginia Beach
2012: Kenny Scharf "Hodgepodge," Honor Fraser Gallery Los Angeles (solo)
Thank You Andy Warhol, Benrimon Contemporary, New York, NY
Times Square Show Revisited, Leubsdorf Gallery, Hunter College, New York, NY
Portrait of a Generation, The Hole Gallery, New York, NY
All For Your, Eric Fireston Gallery, East Hampton, NY
2011: Naturafutura, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
The Artist Museum, MOCA Los Angeles
Art in the Streets, MOCA Los Angeles
New York Minute, Garage Center for Contemporary Culcutre, Moscow
Facemaker, Curated by Kathy Grayson Royal-T, Culver City
Unfinished Paintings, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions
Nose Job, Eric Firestone Gallery, East Hampton, NY
East Village West, Royal T Lounge, Los Angeles
From Here to Eternity, Curated by Kenton Parker, Scion Installation Space, Culver City
2010: Pause, Cosmopolitan Hotel, Las Vegas, NV
Art Shack, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
Mutant Pop, Loyal Gallery, Malmo, Sweden
Bowery Wall Mural (special project)
2009: Kenny Scharf "Barberadise" Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
Wynwood Walls, Outdoor Mural Project produced by Deitch Projects, Art Basel Miami
Primary Flight, Site-Specific Street Level Mural, Art Basel Miami
Loveable Like Orphan Kitties and Bastard Children, Green Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
Just What Are They Saying, Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans, LA
Nude Show, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY
Stages Touring Exhibit, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris, France (special project)
2008: Kenny Scharf : Superdeluxa, Waddington Gallery, London, UK (solo)
2007: Four Friends, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York City, NY
Strange weight, Martos Gallery, New York City, NY
News on Paper, Galerie Burkhard Eikelmann, Dusseldorf, Germany
Kenny Scharf, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York City, NY (solo)
2006: Kunstverein Manheim, Manheim, Germany (solo)
Kenny Scharf, Kevin Bruk Gallery, Miami, FL (solo)
2005: Super Pop and Closet #24, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Outer Limits, Patrick Painter Inc, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
Cross Section, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY
2004: 100 Artists See Satan, Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana, C
Kevin Bruk Gallery, Miami, FL (solo)
California Grown, Pasadena Museum of Contemporary Art, Pasadena, CA (solo)
SchaBlobz, Kenny Schachter ConTEMPorary, New York, NY (solo)
2003: Night Light, Patrick Painter, Inc, Santa Monica, CA (solo)
2002: Muted, Chac Mool Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
2001: Made in the USA 1970-2001, Ludwig Galerie, Oberhausen, Germany
Pulcherrimae Strade Installation, Pordenone, Italy
Animation, P.S. 1, Long Island City, NY
Portraits, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York (solo)
Hollywood Stars, LACE, Los Angeles (solo)
2000: Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles (solo)
Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Universal Offspring, PUCCI International Ltd., New York, NY
Lowbrow Art: Up From The Underground, The Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, Hollywood, FL
Kenny Scharf's Permanent Closet #18:Young, Art Children's Museum, Davie, FL
1999: Kenny Scharf: New Sculpture, PICA, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland, OR (solo)
Mannequins & Rugs, PUCCI International, New York, NY
Portrait Collection of Mr. Chow, Galerie Enrico Navarra, Paris, France
Acquisitions, Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
The American Century: Art & Culture, 1950-2000, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
The Road Show, DFN Gallery, New York, NY
On the Air, San Francisco International Airport North Terminal Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Galerie Hans Mayer, Dusseldorf, Germany (solo)
1998: Galeria Ramis Barquet, Monterrey, Mexico (solo)
McIntosh Gallery, Atlanta, GA (solo)
Kantor Gallery, Los Angeles (solo)
Kenny Scharf (new paintings), Cotthem Gallery, Barcelona, Spain (solo)
Vivid Vision, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Closet #16, Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA
Fashion at the Beach, Bass Museum, Miami, FL
Pop Surrealism, The Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT
80 Artistes Autour du Mondial, Galerie Enrico Navarra, Paris, France
New Acquisitions: Dream Collection...part three, Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
Galeria Ramis Barquet, Monterrey, Mexico
1997: Grins: Humor and Whimsy in Contemporary Art, Millard Sheets Gallery, Pomona, CA
Art and Provocation: Images From Rebels, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, CO
In Your Face: Haring, Basquiat, Scharf, Leo Malca Fine Art, New York, NY
1996: Heads, Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, FL (solo)
MARCO, Monterrey, Mexico
1995: Yoshii Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Gallery Cotthem, Knokke, Belgium (solo)
Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Scharf-O-Rama Vision: 1978-1995, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL (solo)
1994: Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
New York Unplugged, Gallery Cotthem-Hedwig Van Impe, Knokke, Belgium (solo)
1993: About Nature, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH
Art and Environment, The National Arts Club, New York, NY
Extravagant: The Economy of Elegance, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY; Russisches Kulturzentrum, Berlin, Germany
1982-1983: Ten Years After, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY
Mating Instinct, Penine Hart Gallery, New York, NY
Reanimator, WLRN, Miami, FL
Small Paintings and Works on Paper, Galerie Eikelmann, Essen, Germany
Closet #10, World Gallery, Miami Beach, FL (solo)
Jaffe, Baker, Blau Gallery, Boca Raton, FL (solo)
Closet #11, Click Gallery Essen, Germany
1992: 1492, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico
Variations Gitanes, La Grande-Villette, Paris, France
Objects Trouvées, Galerie du Jour, Agnès B, Paris, France
Balade de l'Amour, Halle de l'Union des Arts Décoratifs, Palais de Louvre, Paris, France
Edward Totah Gallery, London, UK (solo)
Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Hokin Gallery, Bay Harbor Islands, FL (solo)
Galleria Rocca 6, Torino, Italy (solo)
Galleria Seno, Milan, Italy (solo)
1991: Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Studio Trisorio, Naples, Italy (solo)
AC&T Corporation, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
American Art of the 80's, Palazzo delle Albere, Trento, Italy
To Benefit Fashion Moda, Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York, NY
Children in Crisis, A Benefit Exhibition, Lorence Monk Gallery New York, NY
The 1980's: A Selected View from the Permanent Collection, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Just What Is It That Makes Today's Home So Different, So Appealing?, The Hyde Collection Glens Falls, New York, NY
Closet No. 9, Queens Museum of Art Flushing, Queens, NY
A Passion for Art: Watercolors and Works on Paper, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY
1990: Galerie Beaubourg, Paris, France (solo)
Galerie Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf, Germany
Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
The Last Decade: American Artists of the 80's, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY
1989: Don't Bungle the Jungle, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY
The Studio American Collection, Witkacy Theatre; BWA Art Exhibition Bureau Zakopane, Suwalki, Poland
Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
1988: Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
Figure as Subject: Revival of Figuration since 1975, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
The Weisman Collection, California State University at Fullerton Fullerton, CA
1987: Comic Iconoclasm, ICA London, UK
Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1986: Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zürich, Switzerland (solo)
Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
An American Renaissance: Painting and Sculpture from 1940 to the Present, Museum of Art Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Homage to Nicholas A. Moufarrage, Gabrielle Bryers Gallery New York, NY
Pictures from the Inner Mind, The Palladium, New York, NY
Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
Thomas Cohn Gallery, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1985: Biennale 1985, The Whitney Museum, New York, NY
Drawings, Leo Castelli Graphics, New York, NY
Eight Artists/ Eight Years/ SVA, School of Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY
East Village Artists, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY
Investigations, Institute of Contemporary Art University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Sights for Small Eyes, Heckscher Museum Long Island, NY
Photography and Sculpture, Patrick Fox Gallery New York, NY
Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Vernacular Abstraction, Wacoal Art Center Tokyo, Japan
Art in Action, Sogetsu Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Works on Paper, Galerie Barbara Farber, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1984: Via New York, Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art, Montreal, Canada
The Innovative Landscape, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY
New Hand Painted Dreams: Contemporary Surrealism, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY
Arte di Frontiera, Galeria d'Arte Moderna Bologna, Italy
Aperto, Venice Biennale Venice, Italy
The Human Condition, Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
New Idioms, Robert Fraser Gallery, London, UK
New Attitudes: Paris/ New York, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA
Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Larry Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
1983: Champions, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY;Fay Gold Gallery New York, NY
Surrealist Show, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY
Morton G. Neuman Family Collection, Kalamazoo Institute of Art Kalamazoo, MI
Intoxication, Monique Knowlton Gallery, New York, NY
Paintings, Sculpture, Totems and 3D, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY
The Comic Art Show, Whitney Museum, New York, NY
Back to the U.S.A., Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern, Switzerland
Tendencias en Nueva York, Palacio de Cristal Madrid, Spain
"Paintings into Sculpture", Bonlow Gallery, New York, NY
Bienalle de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Salvatore Ala Gallery, Milan, Italy
References, Palais des Beaux-Arts de Charleroi, Charleroi, Belgium
Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
American Graffiti Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (solo)
1982: Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY
Fun Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1981: National Studio Artists, P.S. 1, Long Island City, NY (solo)
The Jetsons, Fun Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Customized Appliances, Club 57, New York, NY (solo)
The Times Square Show, Times Square, New York, NY
New York, New Wave, P.S. 1, Long Island City, NY
Drawing Show, Mudd Club, New York, NY
Beyond Words, Mudd Club, New York, NY
1979: Paintings at Fiorucci, Fiorucci, New York, NY (solo)
Celebration of the Space Age, Club 57, New York, NY (solo)

Public Collections

: Museum of Art, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
: Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
: The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
: The Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL
: Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
: Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico
: Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Germany
: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
: Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
: Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY

Literature

1998: Radcliff, Carter and Robert Farris Thompson. Kenny Scharf. New York, NY : Tony Shafrazi Gallery, 1998
Barry Blinderman, Gregory Bowen, Bill McBride, and Ann Magnuson. Kenny Scharf. Normal, IL: University Galleries, 1998
1997: Kenny Scharf: Pop-surrealist. St. Petersburg, FL: Salvatore Dali Museum, 1997
1996: El Mundo de Kenny Scharf. Monterrey, Mexico: Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey, Mexico, 1996
James, Jamie. Pop Art. London, UK: Phaidon Press Limited, 1996
1990: Kenny Scharf. Paris, France: Galerie Beaubourg, 1990

Kenny Scharf

(American, born 1958)

Kenny Scharf

Kenny Scharf

Kenny Scharf

Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Public Collections

Literature

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