JULIAN SCHNABEL

Julian Schnabel  (b. 1951, Brooklyn, NY)  is an American currently living and working in NYC.

His multidisciplinary practice extends beyond painting to include sculpture, film, architecture and furniture. 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. Resisting the turn to traditional conventions of painting and sculpture that characterized the 1980s, he began his series of Plate Paintings, representational works with sculptural surfaces produced by layering shards of found pottery with thick applications of pigment.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.

 

 Selected past exhibitions: ​

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Guild Hall, East Hampton, New York (2024)

The Brant Foundation, New York (2021)

Aros Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Denmark (2018)

Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France (2018)

The Glass House, New Canaan, Connecticut (2017)

Aspen Art Museum, Colorado (2016)

Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt (2004)

Fundación Joan Miró, Barcelona (1995)

Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt (2004)

Biennale di Venezia (1980)

 

Permanently collected by: 

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Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, USA

Museum of Modern Art, NY, USA

Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, USA

(MOCA), Los Angeles, USA

LACMA, LA, USA 

Reina Sofia, Madrid, SPain

Tate Modern London, UK

Centre G. Pompidou, Paris., France

Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest

Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan

Rubell Family Collection, Miami, USA

Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland

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