PAUL McCARTHY

Biography

Born

Salt Lake City UT, 1945

Education

Weber State College, Ogden UT, 1965

University of Utah, Salt Lake City UT, 1966 – 1968

San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco CA, 1968 – 1969

University of Utah, Salt Lake City UT, 1969 – 1970

University of Southern California, Los Angeles CA, 1970 – 1973

Solo Exhibitions

2025

Jeffrey Deitch, 'Paul McCarthy: Tomato Head', West Hollywood CA

2024

The Pit, 'Cognitive Surge: Stage Coach. Paul McCarthy & Benjamin Weissman', Los Angeles CA

Group Exhibitions

2025

Kunsthalle Nürnberg, 'The Best Show Ever', Nuremberg, Germany 

Centre Pompidou-Metz, 'Copistes', Metz, France

Amant, 'On Education', New York NY

Pace Gallery, 'The Monster', Los Angeles CA

Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, 'BUSTED: Contemporary Sculpture Busts', Grand Rapids MI

2024

GODMODADOGGEREL, 'GODMODADOGGEREL', cur. Anna Wittenberg and Nick Herman, Los Angeles CA 

Pinakothek der Moderne, 'Eccentric. Ästhetik der Freiheit', Munich, Germany

Kunsthaus Zurich, 'Born Digital. Video art in the new millennium', Zurich, Switzerland 

Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, 'The Living End: Painting and Other Technologies, 1970 – Present', Chicago IL 

Jeffrey Deitch, 'Post Human', Los Angeles CA 

Marlborough, 'Matthew Schreiber. Possession: Experiments and Holography', New York NY 

Bibliography

Monographs

2020

Moshayedi, Aram, Butler, Connie, ‘Paul McCarthy. Head Space. Drawings 1963-2019’, Los Angeles: Hammer Museum, Munich/New York: DelMonico Books – Prestel, 2020, ill. (exh. cat.)

2018

McCarthy, Paul, Law, Emma, GS Young (et al.), ‘Paul McCarthy. Innocence (Video Works 1970-2013)’, Beijing: M Woods, 2018, ill. (exh. cat.)

Artist’s Books & Writings

2022

McCarthy, Paul, 'Paul McCarthy: A&E Blue Book Edition', Zurich: Hauser & Wirth Publishers, 2022, ill.

McCarthy, Paul, 'Paul McCarthy. "It wasn’t planned, I didn’t have a plan"', in: Grau, Donatien, 'A Tribute to Sylvère Lotringer', on: brooklynrail.org, March 2022, ill.

2021

McCarthy, Paul, 'NV Night Vater. Shit, Eat, Ear, Dick. Portraiture 2019', in: Diaphanes, Zurich/Berlin, no. 10, Fall 2021, pp. 66-75, ill.

Publications

2023

Jessen, Ina, Luckow, Dirk (eds.), 'Dix und die Gegenwart. Dix and the Present', Hamburg: Snoeck, 2023, pp. 290-291, ill. (exh. cat.) 

2022

Dimaki, Alkistis, Spyrou, Andrew (eds.), 'Dream On', Athens: Neon, 2022, ill. (exh. cat.)

Storr, Robert, 'Writings On Art. 2006-2021', London: Heni Publishing, 2022, pp. XII, 236, 439-453, 693, ill.

Meyer, James, Mitchell, W. J. T., Solomon, Andrew (et al.), 'The Double. Identity and Difference in Art since 1900', Washington: National Gallery of Art, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022, p. 212, ill. (exh. cat.)

Press

2025

Lowery, Jack, 'For LA Artists, Getting Back to Work Means Playing the Long Game' [interview] on: artnews.com, 14 April 2025, ill.

Kupper, Oliver, 'Is That All There Is To A Fire?', in: Autre Magazine, Los Angeles, April 2025, pp. 338-339, ill.

Westall, Mark, 'Paul McCarthy To Open Summer Exhibition in London', on: fadmagazine.com, 7 April 2025, ill.

Griffin, Jonathan, 'What a Mess', in: Frieze Magazine, London, no. 248, January/February 2025, pp. 18-19, ill. 

___, 'How David Lynch Gave Generations of Artists Permission to Be Weird' [interview], on: artnews.com, 27 February 2025, ill.

2024

Conti, Riccardo, 'The Technological Sublime' [interview], in: StellaPublication Magazine, Fall/Winter 2024, pp. 34-43, ill.

Angerame, Nicola Davide, 'Paul McCarthy incontra l'IA, ed è subito sesso. Intervista con l'artista decano della sessualità multi-specie e non binaria', on: ilgiornaledellarte.com, 9 October 2024, ill.

Emina, Seb, 'Paul McCarthy. My Work can be Confusing' [Interview], in: Middle Plane, London, no. 9, June 2024, pp. 184-193, supplement [32 pages booklet], cover, ill.

Lai, Eugenia, 'The Artwork is Always Right: Christian Scheidemann', on: spikeartmagazine.com, 16 May 2024, ill. 

McKinnon, Kelsey, Varnell, Elizabeth, '12 Unmissable Shows for Art Week', on: magazinec.com, 21 February 2024, ill. 

Audiovisuals

1992

Museum in Progress: Künstlerporträt, Paul McCarthy (interview with Timothy Martin), November 1992 (VHS, 10 min.)