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Leon Golub

The Estate of Leon Golub

Biography

Born

Chicago IL, 1922

Education

University of Chicago, Chicago IL, BA, 1942

School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago IL, BFA, 1949

School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago IL, MFA, 1950

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2024

Hauser & Wirth, 'Leon Golub. Et In Arcadia Ego', cur. Rashid Johnson, New York NY

2018

The Met Breuer, ‘Leon Golub: Raw Nerve’, New York NY

Selected Group Exhibitions

2025

White Columns, 'Looking Back / White Columns Annual', New York NY

2024

Addison Gallery of American Art, 'Americans in Paris: Artists Working in Postwar France, 1946–1962', Andover MA (Traveling Exhibition)
Grey Art Gallery, New York University, 'Americans in Paris: Artists Working in Postwar France, 1946–1962', New York NY (Traveling Exhibition)

Lectures

1999

Carnegie Mellon School of Art/ Carnegie Museum of Art, ‘The Fourteenth Robert Lepper Distinguished Lecture in Creative Inquiry’ (with Nancy Spero), Pittsburgh PA, 11 March 1999

Awards & Grants

2002

Member of The American Academy of Arts and Letters

2000

Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn NY

Bibliography

Publications

2024

Carstensen, Claus, 'Red Publica', Berlin: Hatje Cantz, 2024, pp. 202-203, ill. (exh. cat.)

2023

Gumpert, Lynn, Bricker Balken, Debra, 'Americans in Paris: Artists Working in Postwar France', New York: Grey Art Gallery, New York University, 2023, pp. 39, 144-152, 167, 267-268, 270, 275, ill. (exh. cat.)

Press

2025

Panicelli, Ida, '"Leon Golub: Et in Arcadia Ego'" [review], in: Artforum, New York, January 2025, pp. 114-115, ill.

2024

Haddad, Natalie, Vartanian, Hrag, Di Liscia, Valentina, 'Art Shows to See in New York Right Now', on: hyperallergic.com, 10 September 2024, ill.
Sullivan, Jack, 'Leon Golub: Et In Arcadia Ego', on: airmail.news, 5 September 2024, ill.
Carollo, Elisa, 'The Must-See Gallery Shows Opening During Armory Week', on: observer.com, 3 September 2024, ill.
Yablonsky, Linda, 'New York exhibition places brutality of Leon Golub's paintings in dialogue with contemporary artists', on: theartnewspaper.com, 3 September 2024, ill.
Carollo, Elisa, 'Rashid Johnson Is Curating a Show Around Leon Golub’s Work at Hauser & Wirth', on: observer.com, 1 August 2024, ill.
___, '"Et In Arcadia Ego,'" conceived by Rashid Johnson to open at Hauser & Wirth New York', on: artdaily.com, 31 July 2024, ill.

Publications by the artist

2004

'Dog', Paris: Onestar Press, 2004

Writings by the artist

1988

'Surviving Visions: The Art of Iri and Toshi Maruki', Boston: Massachusetts College of Art, 1988

1990

Golub, Leon, 'Split Infinities', in: Artforum, New York NY, January 1990, pp. 118 – 20

Video and Film

1994

'War And Memory: Nancy Spero and Leon Golub: Retrospective at the American Center in Paris', Video documentary by Irene Sosa, music by A.E. McClelland, Paris, 1994

1988

'Golub', Chicago: Kartemquin Films, 1988