George Condo
George Condo’s work contains references to previous art movements and yet defies any simple categorization. Born in Concord, New Hampshire in 1957, Condo studied art history and music theory at Lowell University in Massachusetts for two years. He first exhibited in 1981, and earned his first solo exhibit, in Los Angeles, in 1983. Comic, scary, sensuous, and startling are all qualities that one finds in Condo’s paintings, from his portraits to abstract figures. He won the Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters (1999), and has been a Visiting Lecturer on Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University. His works have been displayed at France’s Fond Régional d’Art Contemporain d’Auvergne, Guggenheim, New York’s Museum of Modern Art, Salzburg’s Museum of Modern Art, Tate, and Whitney museums.
