George Condo
George Condo
For this year’s amfAR Gala Cannes, George Condo will create a one-of-a-kind artwork, made exclusively for auction at the Hôtel du Cap-Eden-Roc on the evening of the gala. This unique work underscores Condo’s longstanding commitment to artistic innovation and philanthropic causes.
Born in 1957 in Concord, New Hampshire, George Condo lives and works in New York City. He studied Art History and Music Theory at the University of Massachusetts in Lowell before launching a multifaceted career that began in New York’s East Village with his contemporaries Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring. In the early 1980s, he immersed himself in Old Master techniques in Los Angeles and traveled to Europe for the first time where he created most of the works for his first one- man exhibition at the Barbara Gladstone and Pat Hearn galleries in 1984.
Condo spent a decade in Europe, primarily in Paris, where he developed his signature style of “artificial realism” and began experimenting with sculpture. Since returning to New York in 1995, he has been the recipient of multiple awards, including the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Academy Award in Art.
A leading influence in the contemporary art world for over four decades, Condo has had numerous major solo museum exhibitions worldwide. His 2011 exhibition Mental States toured four separate institutions: the New Museum in New York, the Hayward in London, the Schirn in Frankfurt, and the Boijmans in Rotterdam. Recent highlights include Humanoids at the Nouveau Musée National de Monaco (2023), The Picture Gallery at the Long Museum in Shanghai (2021), and The Way I Think (2017), a traveling retrospective of his works on paper as well as numerous works on canvas borrowed from prestigious collections, originating from the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., and traveling to the Louisiana in Denmark. His work has appeared in prestigious biennials such as Venice (2013, 2019), Lyon, Gwangju, and the Whitney.
Condo’s paintings are held in the world’s leading public collections, including MoMA, the Whitney, the Guggenheim, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Centre Pompidou, Tate Modern, and The Broad among many others.
He has an upcoming retrospective at the Musée d’Art Moderne in Paris in October of 2025, encompassing Condo’s creative evolution from the early 80s to the present.
Courtesy of the artist (@artistgeorgecondo)
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