Born in San Francisco, California, USA
Lives and works in San Francisco, California, USA

Chronology

1991 - B.F.A. in Painting & Printmaking, San Francisco Art Institute

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2023 - Earthworm, Perrotin, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2022 - Everyday sunrise, Perrotin, Seoul, South Korea
2021 - Fuzz Gathering, Perrotin, Paris, France
2021 - TAR PIT, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
2020 - Potato Sack Body, Perrotin, Tokyo, Japan
2019 - The Other Side, Perrotin, Hong Kong, China
2018 - Little Savage, Eighteen, Copenhagen, Denmark
2018 - Auto Body, Bellport-Brookhaven Historical Society, Bellport, NY, USA
2018 - SB Mid-Summer Intensive, Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
2018 - Cheim & Read, New York, NY, USA
2016 - Untitled, Sites Unseen, Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA, USA
2016 - MC06, Monster Children Magazine, Sydney, Australia
2015 - China Boo, Ratio 3, San Francisco, CA, USA
2013 - FOCUS: Barry McGee, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX, USA
2013 - Barry McGee, Mid-Career Survey, Institute of Contemporary Art / Boston, Boston, MA, USA
2013 - Cheim & Read, New York, NY, USA
2012 - Barry McGee, Mid-Career Survey, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA, USA
2011 - Workshop Arte Contemporanea, Venice, Italy
2011 - New Work, Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London, UK
2010 - Leave it Alone, Barry McGee & Clare Rojas, Bolinas Museum, Bolinas, CA, USA
2010 - The Last Night (two person show with HuskMitNavn), Alice Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2009 - Mr. Brown, Galleria Alessandra Bonomo, Rome, Italy
2008 - A Moment for Reflection: New Work by Lydia Fong, Ratio 3, San Francisco, CA, USA
2008 - The Big Sad: Barry McGee & Clare Rojas, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA, USA
2008 - They Don’t Make this Anymore, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK
2007 - The Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
2007 - Butler Gallery, Kilkenney Castle, Ireland
2007 - Advanced Mature Work, Redcat Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2006 - Loft, Roberts & Tilton, Culver City, CA, USA
2006 - We Have a Friend in Common, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark
2006 - The Art of Robert Pimple, Paule Anglim Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
2005 - Easy Tonto, Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London, UK
2005 - One More Thing, Deitch Projects, New York, NY, USA
2005 - John Kaldor Art Projects, Metropolitan Meat Market, Melbourne, Australia
2005 - Things Are Really Getting Better, Museum Het Domein Sittard, Sittard, Netherland
2004 - The stars were aligned..., Metropolitan Meat Market Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2004 - Barry McGee, curated by Raphaela Platow, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Boston, MA, USA
2004 - John Kaldor Projects, Sydney, Australia
2002 - Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy
2002 - Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London, UK
2002 - Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA, USA
2000 - Hammer Projects: Barry McGee, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, USA
1999 - Hoss, Rice University Art Gallery, Houston, TX, USA
1999 - The Buddy System, Deitch Projects, New York, NY, USA
1998 - Regards, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, USA
1995 - Installation, Art & Design Studio/ K&T Lionheart LTD, Boston, MA, USA
1994 - Installation, Center for the Arts at Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco, CA, USA
1993 - Installation, Museum Laser Segall, São Paulo, Brazil

Selected Group Exhibitions

2023 - Exit Through The Surf Shop, Ancillary Studios, Costa Mesa, CA, USA
2022 - Aichi Triennale, Ichinomiya, Aichi, Japan
2022 - De Renava Biennale, Corsica, France
2021 - R3DTLA, Ratio 3, San Francisco, CA, USA
2021 - Sea Change, Ratio 3, San Francisco, CA, USA
2020 - Messenger, Perrotin, Shanghai, China
2020 - Kaleidoscopes: Contemporary Portraiture, Perrotin, Hong Kong, China
2018 - Beyond the Streets, multi-media installations spread throughout Los Angeles, CA, USA
2018 - People, Deitch Projects, New York, NY, USA
2018 - Magic, Roberts & Tilton, Culver City, CA, USA
2017 - 10th Anniversary, Gallery Target, Tokyo, Japan
2017 - The Present Tense: R. Crumb / Barry McGee, Ratio 3, San Francisco, CA, USA
2017 - Sea Sick in Paradise, curated by Amy Yao, Malibu Village and Dean & Deluca, Malibu, CA, USA
2017 - Stay Gold – Todd James, Geoff McFetridge, Barry McGee and Thomas Campbell, VI Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
2017 - Big Sky Little Moon, Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
2016 - New to the Cantor, Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
2015 - FUD, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
2015 - SCAPES, Auto Body, Bellport, NY

Awards

1996 - SECA Art Award San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
1994 - The Creative Work Fund, Walter and Elise Haas Fund
1993 - Lila Wallace, Readers Digest International Artist Program Eureka Fellowship, Fleishhacker Foundation
1991 - Merit Scholarship, San Francisco Art Institute
1990 - Carson Paper Award Merit Scholarship, San Francisco Art Institute
1989 - Sobel Scholarship, San Francisco Art Institute

Collections

Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), San Francisco, CA, USA
Berkeley Museum of Art and Pacific Film Archive, Berkely, CA, USA
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, USA
The New Art Gallery, Walsall, UK
Fondazione Prada, Venice, Italy
The Margulies Collection at the WAREhOUSE, Miami, FL, USA
UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Powerlong Museum, Shanghai, China

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