Barry McGee

BORN 1966 San Francisco, CA

EDUCATION

1991 B.F.A., San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2005
“Easy Tonto,” Modern Art, London, England
“One More Thing,” Deitch Projects, NY
“Things Are Really Getting Better,” March Museum Het Domein Sittard, Netherlands

2004
“Barry McGee: The Ruth Ann Perlmutter Artist-in-Residence”
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Meat Market Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
“Barry McGee,” John Kaldor Projects, Sydney, Australia

2002
Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy
Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
Modern Art Inc., London, England

2000
UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angles, CA
Alleged Galleries, Tokyo, Japan

1999
“The Buddy System,” Deitch Projects, New York, NY
“Hoss,” Rice University Art Gallery, Houston, TX

1998
“Regards,” Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN

1995
K& T Lionheart LTD, Boston, MA

1994
Center for the Arts at Yerba Buena, San Francisco, CA

1992
Maseu Lasar Segall, Sao Paulo, Brasil

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2004
“Barry McGee, Josh Lazcano & Friends: In the Project Space” Headlands Center for the Arts, Fort Barry-Sausalito, CA
“Color Wheel Oblivion”, Marella Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
“Beautiful Losers: Contemporary Art and Street Culture,” Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnnati, OH
“Between Art and Life,” San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
“Other Artistocrats,” Alexander and Bonin, New York, NY
“Barry McGee and Josh Lazcano,” Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA

2003
“Ten by Twenty,” Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
“Surf Style,” 111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“A Way With Words,” John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Outerspace Hillbilly,” The Luggage Store, San Francisco, CA
“Scribble & Scripture,” Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles, CA
“Session the Bowl,” Deitch Projects, New York, NY

2002
“Drawing Now: Eight Propositions,” Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, England
“The Broken Down Mysterious Doors of the Impossible,” Lump Gallery, Raleigh, NC

2001
Venice Biennale, Venice Italy
“Widely Unknown,” Deitch Projects, New York, NY
“Holdfast,” Barry McGee & Margaret Kilgallen, Deste Foundation Centre for Contemporary Art, Athens
“Un Art Populaire,” Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris

2000
“Street Market,” Deitch Projects, New York, NY
“Street Market,” Parco Gallery, Tokyo
“Made in California,” Los Angels County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
“Indelible Market,” Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA

1999
“Robert Crumb, Phillip Guston, Barry McGee,” Paul Morris Gallery, New York, NY

1998
“Art from Around the Bay,” San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA

1997
“Bay Area Now,” Center for the Arts at Yerba Buena, San Francisco, CA
Galerie Tanya Rumpff, Haarlem, Netherlands
"Drawing Today,” San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1996
“SECA Art Award,” San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
“Wall Drawings,” The Drawing Center, New York, NY
“City Folk,” Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY

1995
“Degenerate Art,” The Lab, San Francisco, CA
“Post No Bills,” Acme Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland, CA
“Missed Connections,” Market Street Annex Installation, Luggage Store, San Francisco, CA
New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
“Big Jesus Trashcan,” Victoria Room, San Francisco, CA

1993
“Twelve Bay Area Painters: The Eureka Fellowship Winners,” San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA

SELECTED AWARDS

1999 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant
1998 Creative Work Fund Project-Luggage Store Gallery
1996 SECA Art Award, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
1994 Lila Wallace Readers Digest Travel Grant

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

2003
Westbrook, Lindsay, “ Outerspace Hillbilly at Luggage Store Gallery,” Artweek, July/August 2003
Cotter, Holland, “Session the Bowl,” New York Times, January 10, 2023

2002
Hamlin, Jesse, “Artists Stays Street Savy,” San Francisco Chronicle, May 2, 2023

2002
“Barry McGee,” The Art Newspaper, May 2002
Heartney, Eleanor, “Speaking for Themselves,” Art in America, March 2002
Carson, Andrea, “ Barry McGee: Fondazione Prada,” Contemporary, 2002
Meneguzzo, Marco, “ Barry McGee, Fondazione Prada,” ArtForum, December 2002
Cash, Stephanie, “Report from San Francisco: Surviving and Thriving,” Art in America, November 2002

1999
Blake, Nayland, “ Barry McGee,” Interview Magazine, February 1999

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