 Artist's arttributes:
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Lowbrow |
Most exhibitions in: |
| Country |
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| USA | 73 |
| United Kingdom | 18 |
| Germany | 8 |
| France | 7 |
Most exhibitions held at: |
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Andrea Rosen Gallery, USA |
13 |
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Regen Projects, USA |
6 |
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Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego - MCASD La Jolla, USA |
4 |
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Sadie Coles HQ, United Kingdom |
4 |
Biography: 
1962 Born in Boulder, CO (US)
Lives and works in New York, NY (US)
External links: | | Public exhibitions (Selection) 128
until 31.8.
Solo shows 21
2010
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| JOHN CURRIN - New Paintings - Gagosian Gallery , New York City, NY |
2009
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| John Currin - Works on Paper - A Fifteen Year Survey of Women - Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York City, NY |
2008
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| John Currin - Sadie Coles HQ, London (England) |
2006
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| John Currin - Gagosian Gallery , New York City, NY |
2004
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| PAINTING NOW - SELECTIONS FROM THE PERMANENT COLLECTION - Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego - MCASD Downtown, San Diego, CA |
2003
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| John Currin - Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY |
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| John Currin: Works on Paper - Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI |
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| John Currin - Sadie Coles HQ, London (England) |
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| New Work 7: John Currin, works on paper - Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO |
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| John Currin Selects - MFA - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA |
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| John Currin - Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA), Chicago, IL |
2002
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| John Currin - Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA |
2001
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| John Currin - Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York City, NY |
2000
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| John Currin - - Monika Sprüth Philomene Magers, Cologne (closed) |
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| John Currin - Sadie Coles HQ, London (England) |
1999
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| John Currin - Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| John Currin - New Paintings - Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA |
1997
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| John Currin - Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York City, NY |
1996
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| John Currin - Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA |
1994
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| John Currin - Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York City, NY |
1992
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| John Currin - Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York City, NY |
Group shows 106
2013
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| Nyc 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash And No Star - New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York City, NY |
2012
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| Don't Be Shy, Don't Hold Back - The Logan Collection At Sfmoma - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA |
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| Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years - The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY |
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| Group exhibit (gallery2) - Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York City, NY |
2011
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| The Deer - Le Consortium, Dijon |
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| Grisaille - Luxembourg & Dayan, New York City, NY |
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| mémoires du futur - la collection Olbricht - La Maison Rouge, Paris |
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| Creating the New Century - Contemporary Art from the Dicke Collection - Fort Collins Museum of Contemporary Art (FCMOCA), Fort Collins, CO |
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| Berlinde De Bruyckere / John Currin - DHC/ART Foundation for Contemporary Art, Montreal, QC |
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| Absentee Landlord - Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN |
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| Compass - Drawings from the Museum of Modern Art New York - Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin |
2010
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| Gagosian Pop-Up! - Gagosian Gallery, London (England) |
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| Lebenslust und Totentanz - Kunsthalle Krems, Krems |
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| Kupferstichkabinett: Between Thought and Action - White Cube - Hoxton Square, London (England) |
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| In the Company of Alice - Victoria Miro Gallery, London (England) |
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| Pleasure Point: Celebrating 25 Years Of Contemporary Collectors - Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego - MCASD La Jolla, La Jolla, CA |
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| Crash - Gagosian Gallery, London (England) |
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| Tha Visible Vagina - David Nolan Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Connecticut - D'Amelio Terras, New York City, NY |
2009
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| Slow Paintings - Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen |
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| Paint Made Flesh - Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY |
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| The Figure and Dr Freud - Haunch of Venison - New York, New York City, NY |
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| Paint Made Flesh - The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC |
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| Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
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| Fatal Attraction: Diana and Actaeon – The Forbidden Gaze - Compton Verney, Compton Verney, Warwickshire (England) |
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| Talk Dirty to Me... - Larissa Goldston Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Paint Made Flesh - Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN |
2008
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| Weighing and Wanting - Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego - MCASD La Jolla, La Jolla, CA |
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| Pretty Ugly - Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York City, NY |
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| Bad Painting - good art - Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig - MUMOK , Vienna |
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| THE OLYMP - Works on Paper - - Burkhard Eikelmann Com, Dusseldorf (closed, 2010) |
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| L´Homme Merveilleux - Château de Malbrouck , Manderen |
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| Second Thoughts - Hessel Museum of Art & Center for Curatorial Studies Galleries at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY |
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| Out of Shape:Stylistic Distortions of the Human Form in Art - The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY |
2007
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| Photopeintries - FRAC - Limousin, Limoges |
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| What Is Painting? - Contemporary Art from the Collection - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
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| Old School - - Zwirner & Wirth, New York City, NY (closed, 2009) |
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| Zurück zur Figur - Malerei der Gegenwart - KunstHaus Wien, Vienna |
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| Old School - - Hauser & Wirth, London (England) (closed, 2011) |
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| News on Paper - - Burkhard Eikelmann Com, Dusseldorf (closed, 2010) |
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| Rockers Island - Olbricht Collection - Museum Folkwang Essen, Essen |
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| Timer 01 - Triennale Bovisa, Milan |
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| Very Abstract and Hyper Figurative - Thomas Dane Gallery, London (England) |
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| Leve de Schilderkunst! Terug naar de figuur - Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam |
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| Painting now! Back to figuration - Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam |
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| Jake & Dinos Chapman and John Currin - Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm |
2006
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| In the darkest hour there may be light - Brandler Galleries, Brentwood, Essex (England) |
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| In the darkest hour there may be light - Works from Damien Hirst’s murderme collection - Serpentine Gallery, London (England) |
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| zurück zur figur, malerei der gegenwart - museum franz gertsch, Burgdorf |
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| Dryden Goodwin - Portrait Perspectives - Stephen Friedman Gallery, London (England) |
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| Surprise, Surprise - ICA - Institute of Contemporary Arts London, London (England) |
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| Summer Show 2006 - Sadie Coles HQ, London (England) |
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| Zurück zur Figur - Malerei der Gegenwart - Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich |
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| Painting Codes - GC.AC - Galleria Comunale d'Arte Contemporanea di Monfalcone, Monfalcone |
2005
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| The Figurative Impulse - Works from the UBS Art Collection - Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, Santurce |
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| Girls on film - - Zwirner & Wirth, New York City, NY (closed, 2009) |
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| BIG BANG - Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris |
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| Getting Emotional - ICA - Institute of Contemporary ArtBoston, Boston, MA |
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| Fondos Regionales de Arte Contemporáneo Île-de-France y Poitou-Charentes - MAMBA - Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires |
2004
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| 15 year anniversary of Regen Projects. - Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Fifth International Biennial Exhibition: Disparities and Deformations: Our Grotesque - Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM |
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| SITE Santa Fe's Fifth International Biennial - SITE Santa Fe Biennial, Santa Fe, NM |
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| She´s Come Undone - Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Selections from the Collection of William and Ruth True - Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA |
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| Now is a good time - Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York City, NY |
2003
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| Fast Forward (twenty years of white rooms) - White Columns, New York City, NY |
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| Reverie - Works from the Collection of Douglas S. Cramer - Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY |
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| 50th International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale / Biennale di Venezia - La Biennale di Venezia, Venice |
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| Inaugural Exhibition - Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Lieber Maler, male mir... Radikaler Realismus nach Picabia - Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt/Main |
2002
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| It's Unfair! - Museum De Paviljoens, Almere |
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| "Lieber Maler, male mir..." - Kunsthalle Wien (Museumsquartier), Vienna |
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| Cher peintre - Peintures figuratives depuis l'ultime Picabia - Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris |
2001
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| Forms Follows Fiction - Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Turin |
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| Naked since 1950 - L&M Arts, New York, New York City, NY |
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| Lateral Thinking - Art of the 1990s - Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego - MCASD La Jolla, La Jolla, CA |
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| Works on Paper - Victoria Miro Gallery, London (England) |
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| Drawings - Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Painting at the Edge of the World - Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN |
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| A Room of Their Own From Arbus to Gober - The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, CA |
2000
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| Art On Paper 2000 - Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC |
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| Salon - - Delfina Project Space, London (England) (closed) |
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| Kin - Kerlin Gallery, Dublin |
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| Of the Moment - Contemporary Art from the Permanent Collection - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA |
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| Drawing on the Figure: Works on Paper of the 1990s from the Manilow Collection - Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA), Chicago, IL |
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| CONTEMPORARY COLLECTORS XV - Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego - MCASD La Jolla, La Jolla, CA |
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| Couples - Cheim & Read, New York City, NY |
1999
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| Examining Pictures - Exhibition of 56 artists links generations of painters - Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA), Chicago, IL |
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| The nude in contemporary art - The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT |
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| 7 Women, 7 Years later - Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Trouble spot - painting - MuHKA Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp |
1998
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| From Here to Eternity: Painting in 1998 - Meulensteen (Former Max Protetch), New York City, NY |
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| Pop Surrealism - The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT |
1997
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| Project Painting - Lehmann Maupin, New York City, NY |
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| Projects: John Currin, Elizabeth Peyton, Luc Tuymans - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
1996
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| a/drift - Hessel Museum of Art & Center for Curatorial Studies Galleries at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY |
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| Pittura - Castello di Rivara - Centro d´arte contemporane, Rivara (TO) |
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| Face to Face - Victoria Miro Gallery, London (England) |
1995
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| Wild Walls - Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam |
1994
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| A Series of Rotating Installations - John Currin and Andrea Zittel - Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Passing Through - Kunstraum Walcheturm, Zurich |
1993
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| Look at the Window : over representatie in hedendaagse schilderkunst - Stedelijk Museum ’s-Hertogenbosch, 's-Hertogenbosch |
1991
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| 7 Women - Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| John Currin and Robin Kahn - Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York City, NY |
1990
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| John Currin, Tony Fehr, Tony Greene & John Lindell - Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York City, NY |
| Dealer Directory 6 |
Italy
| | Lindig in Paludetto, Turin
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United Kingdom
| | Sadie Coles HQ, London (England)
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| | Sprüth Magers London, London (England)
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USA
| | Gagosian Gallery , New York City, NY
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| | Carolina Nitsch, New York City, NY
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| | Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York City, NY
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Collections 13
France
| | FRAC - Poitou-Charentes, Angoulême
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| | Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris
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Germany
| | me Collectors Room Berlin, Berlin
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United Kingdom
| | Hiscox Art Projects, London (England)
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| | The David Roberts Art Foundation, London (England)
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| | Tate Britain, London (England)
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| | Tate Modern, London (England)
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USA
| | Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
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| | Indianapolis Museum of Art - IMA, Indianapolis, IN
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| | MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA
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| | MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY
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| | Broad Contemporary Art Museum, Santa Monica, CA
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