Paul McCarthy

• Born in 1945, Salt Lake City, US
  Lives and works in Los Angeles, US

Education

• 1973      University of Southern California, Los Angeles, US
  1969      San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, US
  1966-68 University of Utah, Salt Lake City, US

Selected Solo Exhibitions

• 2021
  Paul McCarthy. Stage Coach, KODE, Bergen, Norway
  Painted Pirate Heads, Peder Lund, Oslo, Norway
  Paul McCarthy. A&E Sessions – Drawing and Painting, Hauser & Wirth, New York, US
  
  2020
  Paul McCarthy Alpine Stories and other Dystopias, Tamark 22 / Hauser & Wirth, Gstaad, Switzerland
  Head Space, Drawings 1963-2019, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, US
  
  2019
  Mixed Bag, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium
  
  2018
  Paul McCarthy 360: VR Room, Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK
  Paul McCarthy & Christian Lemmerz: Reality Virtual Reality, Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
  Paul McCarthy: Innocence, M Woods, Beijing, China
  
  2017
  Cut Up and Silicone, Female Idol, WS, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  Paul McCarthy & Christian Lemmerz, New Media (Virtual Reality Art), Faurschou Foundation in Venice, Venice, Italy
  Paul McCarthy. WS Spinoffs, Wood Statues, Brown Rothkos, Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles, CA, US 
  WS & CSSC, Drawings and Paintings, Fundació Gaspar, Barcelona, Spain
  
  2016
  White Snow & Coach Stage Stage Coach Spinoffs, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium
  Raw Spinoffs Continuations, Hauser & Wirth, New York, US
  Paul McCarthy, Kulturzentrum Lokremise, St.Gallen, Switzerland
  White Snow, Wood Sculptures, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, US
  
  2015
  Full Exposure: Paul and Damon McCarthy’s Pirate Party, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, US
  Drawings, The Renaissance Society, Chicago, US
  Volksbühne, Berlin, Germany
  Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin, Germany
  Inbetween. Baselitz - McCarthy, Economou Collection, Athens, Greece
  Spin Offs: White Snow WS, Caribbean Pirates CP, Hauser & Wirth, Zurich, Switzerland
  Paul McCarthy. Photographs 1977–1996, Art & Public — Cabinet P.H., Geneva, Switzerland
  
  
  2014
  Chocolate Factory, Monnaie de Paris, Paris, France
  Paul McCarthy — WS SC, Hauser & Wirth, London, UK
  Paul McCarthy .Ketchup and Blod, Galleri F15, Moss, Norway
  Mike Bouchet & Paul McCarthy — DOUBLE DECK Monty Carlo, Marlborough Monaco, Monaco, Monaco
  Paul McCarthy: Black and White Tapes, Space Studios, London, UK
  Mike Bouchet & Paul McCarthy, Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany, travelled to Galerie Parisa Kind, Frankfurt, Germany
  
  2013
  Andy Hope 1930, Paul McCarthy. Down Show Show Down, 8. Salon, Hamburg, Germany
  WS, Park Avenue Armory, New York, US
  Rebel Dabble Babble, Hauser & Wirth, New York, US
  Life Cast, Hauser & Wirth, New York, US
  Sculptures, Hauser & Wirth, New York, US
  
  2012
  ROPO, Hauser & Wirth, Zurich, Switzerland
  White Snow, Peder Lund, Oslo, Norway
  Paul McCarthy. The Box, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany
  Rebel Dabble Babble, Los Angeles, US
  Nine Dwarves, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  2011
  The Dwarves, The Forests, Hauser & Wirth, New York, US
  The King, The Island, The Train, The House, The Ship, Hauser & Wirth, London, UK
  Skulptur: Paul McCarthy “Henry Moore Bound to Fail”, KÖR Kunst im öffentlichen Raum, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
  White Snow Dwarf (Dopey # 1), Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, US
  Paul McCarthy — Selected Works, Charles Riva Collection, Bruxelles, Belgium
  
  2010
  Caribbean Pirates — in collaboration with Damon McCarthy, Sammlung Friedrichshof, Zurndorf, Austria
  Three Sculptures, L&M Arts, Los Angeles, US
  Pig Island, Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Milan, Italy
  
  2009
  White Snow, Hauser & Wirth, New York, US
  Air Pressure, De Uithof, City of Utrecht, The Netherlands
  Hauser & Wirth, Zurich, Switzerland
  Contemporary trends in video art — Paul McCarthy, Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City, US
  
  2008
  Central Symmetrical Rotation Movement — Three Installations, Two Films, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US
  Paul McCarthy & Benjamin Weissman — Quilting Sessions, Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Trento, Italy, travelled to Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland; KUMU Eesti Kunstimuuseum, Tallinn, Estonia
  
  2007
  PETER PAUL CHOCOLATES, Edibles by Paul McCarthy, Maccarone Gallery, New York, US
  Tokyo Santa 1996/2004, Essl Museum Kunst der Gegenwart, Klosterneuburg, Austria
  Air Born / Air Borne / Air Pressure, Middelheim Sculpture Museum, Antwerp, Belgium
  Paul McCarthy — Damon McCarthy. Portfolios, Hauser & Wirth Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
  
  2006
  Between Beauty and the Beast. Sculptures, Drawings and Photographs, Nyehaus, New York, US
  Head Shop / Shop Head, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden, travelled to ARoS — Aarhus Museum of Art, Denmark; S.M.A.K. Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent, Belgium
  
  2005
  LaLa land parody paradise, Whitechapel, London, UK, travelled to Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
  
  2004
  Brain Box — Dream Box, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands, travelled to CAC — Centro de Arte Contemporàneo, Malaga, Spain
  
  2003
  Piccadilly Circus, Hauser & Wirth London, London, UK
  Paul McCarthy at Tate Modern, Tate Modern, London, UK
  Films and Video Works, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo, Norway
  
  2002
  Propposition, with Jason Rhoades, Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg, Germany
  Shit Plug, with Jason Rhoades, Hauser & Wirth Zürich, Switzerland
  Clean Thoughts, Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York, US
  Videowerken 1971-1999, De Hallen, Haarlem, The Netherlands
  Videos, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland
  
  2001
  Paul McCarthy: Videos und Fotografien, Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
  Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
  Pirate Drawings, Hauser & Wirth Zürich, Switzerland
  Villa Arson, Nice, France
  New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, US
  The Garden, Deitch Projects, New York, US
  The Box, Public Art Fund, New York, US
  Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York, US
  
  2000
  MOCA — The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, US
  Heidi File, Patrick Painter Inc., Santa Monica, US
  Eleni Koroneou Gallery, Athens, Greece
  Projekt Fassade, Wiener Secession, Wien, Austria
  
  1999
  Proposition, with Jason Rhoades, David Zwirner Gallery, New York, US
  Dimensions of the Mind, Sammlung Hauser und Wirth in der Lokremise St.Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland
  Dead H and Early Performance Photographs, Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy
  Tokyo Santa — Santa’s Trees, Blum and Poe, Santa Monica, US
  
  1998
  Painter, Video and Drawings, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria
  Photographs-Performance Photographs and Video, 1969 — 1983, Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York, US, travelled to Patrick Painter Inc., Santa Monica, US
  
  1997
  Santa Chocolate Shop, Hauser & Wirth, Zurich, Switzerland
  
  1996
  Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
  Saloon, Air de Paris, Paris, France
  Yaa-Hoo, Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York, US
  Video Works, Galerie Drantmann, Brussels, Belgium
  Video and Drawings, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark
  
  1995
  5 Photographic Works, 1970—1974, Blum & Poe, Santa Monica, US
  Painter, Projects Room, Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
  Art and Public, Geneva, Switzerland
  Tomato Head, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
  Pinocchio Pipenose Housholddilemma Tour, Galeria Antoni Estrany, Barcelona, Spain, travelled to Luhring and Augustine, New York, US; Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark; Esther Schipper Galerie, Cologne, Germany; Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy; McKinney Art Center, Dallas, US; Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand; Ooe Landesmuseum, Linz, Austria
  
  1994
  Pinocchio Pipenose Housholddilemma Tour, Air de Paris, Paris, France
  Le Fonds Regional d’Art Contemporain Poitou-Charentes, Angoulême, France
  Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, US
  Galerie George-Philippe Vallois, Paris, France
  Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy
  
  1993
  Video, Ynglingagatan 1 Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
  Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria
  The Dead Viking, Buchholz und Buchholz, Cologne, Germany
  Luring Augustine Gallery, New York, US
  
  1991
  Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, US
  
  1990
  Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, US
  
  1987
  Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, US
  
  1986
  Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, US
  
  1985
  AAA Art, Los Angeles, US
  
  1983
  Paintings, Cirque Divers, Liège, Belgium
  
  1982
  Human Object, LACE — Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, US
  
  1979
  Contemporary Cure All, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, US
  Deadening, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, US

Selected Group Exhibitions

• 2021
  American Art 1961-2001, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy
  Espressioni, Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli, Italy
  
  2020
  On a Knife-edge, curated by Patricia Marshall, Museo Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico
  Untitled, 2020, Punta della Dogana / Palazzo Grassi, François Pinault Foundation, Venice, Italy
  Das Gedächtnis der Bilder / The Memory of Images, Haus Lange, Kunstmuseen Krefeld, Krefeld, Germany
  NOT I: Throwing Voices (1500 BCE–2020 CE), LACMA Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, US
  New Proposals 3, Item Gallery, Paris, France
  La rivoluzione siamo noi. Collezionismo italiano contemporaneo / We are the Revolution. Contemporary Italian Collecting, XNL Piacenza Contemporanea, Piacenza, Italy
  Valley of Gold. Southern California and the Phantasmagoric, Kasmin Gallery, New York, US
  Dream Baby Dream, Haus Mödrath – Räume für Kunst, Kerpen, Germany
  To Paint is To Love Again, Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles, US
  
  
  2019
  Enigma Pinocchio. From Giacometti to LaChapelle, Villa Bardini, Florence, Italy
  Hyperrealism Sculpture. Ceci n'est pas un corps, Museum La Boverie, Liège, Belgium
  Lust auf mehr – Neues aus der Sammlung Würth zur Kunst nach 1960, Kunsthalle Würth, Schwäbisch Hall, Germany
  The Extreme Present, Gagosian and Jeffrey Deitch, Miami, US
  Personal Private Public, Hauser & Wirth, New York, US
  Sick Monday, The Horse Hospital, London, UK
  Des mots et des choses, FRAC Bretagne, Châteaugiron, France
  Michael Jackson. On the Wall, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Germany (Travelling Exhibition)
  The Red Bean Grows in the South, Faurschou Foundation, New York, US
  Self-Perception. Portrait Identities, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany
  Michael Jackson. On the Wall, EMMA Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Espoo, Finland (Travelling Exhibition)
  DÉTOURNEMENT, Jorn Museum, Silkeborg, Denmark
  My Garden of Eden, Christophe Guye Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
  Fuzzy Dark Spot – Video art from Hamburg, Deichtorhallen / Falckenberg Collection, Hamburg, Germany
  People, Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles, US
  
  2018
  My Colour on Your Plate, Serendipity Arts Festival, Goa, India
  RE.USE – Waste, objects, ecology in contemporary art, Museo di Santa Caterina, Treviso, Italy
  Bronze Age c. 3500 BC - AD 2018, Firstsite, Colchester, UK
  Bodyscan – Anatomy in the Arts and Sciences, ERES-Stiftung, Munich, Germany
  Remote Castration, LAXART, Los Angeles, US
  Class Reunion. Works from the Gaby and Wilhelm Schürmann Collection, mumok Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna, Austria
  Portable Art. A Project by Celia Forner, Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles, US
  I Still Believe in Miracles – Works from Selvaag Art Collection, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norway
  People, Deitch Projects, New York, US
  Hello World. Revising a Collection, Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany
  PLAY Kortrijk, PLAY Kortrijk – Circuit for contemporary Art, Kortrijk, Belgium
  Bronze Age, Firstsite, Colchester, UK
  Animals, Riva Project, Brussels, Belgium
  Walking On The Fade Out Lines, Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, China
  Art & Entertainment, MAMCO Musée d'art moderne et contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
  Like Life. Sculpture, Color, and the Body (1300-Now), The Met The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York NY
  The Land We Live In – The Land We Left Behind, Hauser & Wirth, Bruton, UK
  Travelers. Stepping into the Unknown, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
  Personal Private Public, Hauser & Wirth, New York, US
  
  2017
  The Everywhere Studio, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, US
  Vitual Reality Art, Faurschou Fondation, Beijing, China
  Recent Acquisitions, Faurschou Fondation, Copenhagen, Denmark
  ISelf Collection. The Upset Bucket, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
  The Everywhere Studio, Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, US
  Soledad Lorenzo Collection, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
  Animals, Charles Riva Project, Brussels, Belgium
  Unpacking: The Marciano Collection, Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles, US
  Serialities, Hauser & Wirth, New York, US
  Mourning and Melancholia, Faurschou Foundation, Copenhagen, Denmark
  White Trash, Luhring Augustine, Bushwick, New York, US
  
  2016
  The Power and the Glory, Charles Riva Collection, Brussels, Belgium
  The Eighties – A Decade of Extremes, M HKA – Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
  Human Figure, Charles Riva Project, Brussels, Belgium
  Human Interest: Portraits from The Whitney’s Collection, The Whitney Museum of American Art, US
  Don’t Look Back: The 1990s at MOCA, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, US
  Heros, Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois, Paris, France
  Objects Do Things, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
  Performing for the Camera, Tate Modern, London, UK
  Double Act, MAC — Metropolitan Arts Centre, Belfast, UK
  
  2015
  The Worlds Turned Upside Down, BPS22, Charleroi, Belgium
  Die Kunst, die Kunst, ich pfeife auf die Kunst: Arthur Cravan im Ring mit 13 Künstlern unserer Zeit, 8. Salon, Hamburg, Germany
  About Trees, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Switzerland
  Voices of 20 Contemporary Artists. at Idem Paris, Tokyo Station Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
  Art Strikes Back, Fundació Gaspar, Barcelona, Spain
  Picasso.Mania, Grand Palais, Galeries nationales, Paris, France
  A Few Free Years — From Absalon to Zobernig: Donations by Friedrich Christian Flick to the Nationalgalerie, Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Berlin, Germany
  Marlborough Lights, Marborough Chelsea, New York, US
  Geometries On and Off the Grid. Art from 1950 to the Present, The Warehouse, Dallas, US
  Drawing in L.A.: The 1960s and 70s, LACMA — Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, US
  America Is Hard to See, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US
  My Body ist he Event. Vienna Actionism and International Performance, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria
  Self-Inflicted Justice By Bad Shopping — New Acquisitions of the Falckenberg Collection 2011-
  2014, Sammlung Falckenberg/ Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
  Eagles II. Contemporary American Artists, Galeria Marlborough, Madrid, Spain
  HE. The Hergott Shepard Photography Collection, The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, US
  Thorn in the Flesh, The George Economou Collection, Athens, Greece
  Body Doubles, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, US
  ROLL UP, ROLL UP! An Anatomical Waxwork Cabinet meets Art, Deutsches Hygiene Museum, Dresden, Germany
  Une histoire, art, architecture et design, des années 80 à aujourd’hui, Centre Pompidou — Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris, France
  1984-1999 The Decade, Centre Pompidou — Metz, Metz, France
  Proper Nouns, Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York, US
  Open This End: Contemporary Art from the Collection of Blake Byrne, Ronna and Eric Hoffman
  Gallery of Contemporary Art, Lewis & Clark College, Portland, US, travelled to Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York, US
  
  2014
  Something old Something borrowed Something blue, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
  The Betty And Edward Marcus Sculpture Park At Laguna Gloria, The Contemporary Austin, Austin, US
  Disturbing Innocence, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, US
  Galleria Il Capricorno, Bruna Aickelin 1970 — 2014, Venice, Italy
  Décors à vivre: Les Arts Décoratifs accueillent AD Intérieurs 2014, Musée Des Arts Décoratifs — La Nef, Paris, France
  Art as a Verb, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, Australia
  Post Pop: East Meets West, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
  Titans of the Stratosphere, Patrick Painter Inc., Santa Monica, US
  Body Doubles, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, US
  Use Me, Herbert Foundation, Ghent, Belgium
  Thorn in the Flesh, George Economou Collection Space, Athens, Greece
  Open This End: Contemporary Art from the Collection of Blake Byrne, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, US, travelled to Ohio State University Urban Arts Space, Columbus, US
  Secret Passions — Private Flemish Collections, Tripostal, Lille, France
  Retro active: Performance Art From 1964-1987, Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, US
  do it Moscow, Garage Center for Contemporary Culture — GCCC, Moscow, Russia
  Hybrid Creatures, Galerie Sophie Scheidecker, Paris, France
  Knock! Knock!, Galeria Javier Lopez, Madrid, Spain
  Men in LA: Three Generations of Drawers, The Box, Los Angeles, US
  Beg, Borrow and Steal, Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, US
  Blicke! Körper! Sensationen! Ein anatomisches Wachskabinett und die Kunst, Deutsches Hygiene Museum, Dresden, Germany
  The Nakeds, The Drawing Room, London, UK
  The Human Factor: Use of the Figure in Contemporary Sculpture, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
  Remembering is not enough- MAXXI Collection, MAXXI, Rome, Italy
  Franz Graf — Siehe was dich sieht, Belvedere, Vienna, Austria
  1984 — 1999 The Decade, Centre Pompidou — Metz, Metz Cedex, France
  Macht. Wahn. Vision. Rapunzel & Co. Von Türmen und Menschen in der Kunst, Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck, Remagen, Germany
  Artlovers — Stories of Art in the Pinault Collection, Grimaldi Forum Monaco, Monaco
  Trash & Art, Galerie Hummel, Vienna, Austria
  Binding Desire: Unfolding Artists Books, Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, US
  Take It or Leave It: Institution, Image, Ideology, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, US
  Comic Future, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio
  
  2013
  Confusion in the Vault, Museo Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico
  PAINT(erly), MABsociety BANK gallery, Shanghai, China Kestnergesellschaft, der schein — glanz, glamour, illusion, Hanover Deutschland
  Somos Libres, Mario Testino’s cultural foundation MATE, Lima, Peru
  Comic Future, Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, US
  On Paper, Centro de Arte Visuales. Fundacion Helga Alvear, Cáceres, Spain
  Body Pressure. Sculputres since the 1960s, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany
  State of Mind. New California Art Circa 1970, Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, US
  White- Photography, Art, Design, Fashion, Film, Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
  Macht.Wahn.Vision. Der Turm und urbane Giganten, Städtischen Museen Heilbronn, Heilbronn, Germany
  El Teatro del Arte, CAB Centro de Arte Caja de Burgos, Burgos, Spain
  Disturbing the Piece. An expedition through the World of Collage, MARTa Herford and Kunstmuseum Ahlen, Herford and Ahlen, Germany
  Dead Inside, Bleecker Street Arts Club, New York, US
  Middle Gate Geel 13, De Halle, Geel, Belgium
  Le Surréalisme et l’objet — La sculpture au défi, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
  The Humors, Perry Rubenstein Gallery, Los Angeles, US
  The Estate, Galerie Micky Schubert, Berlin, Germany
  Van Gogh Live!, Fondation Vincent van Gogh, Arles, France
  The Weak Sex—How Art Pictures the New Male, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland
  Il Palazzo Enciclopedico, 55th Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy
  Mobile M+: Inflation, M+, West Kowloon Cultural District, Hong Kong, China
  Mondo Utah: The Folkloric of the Beehive State, Utah Biennial of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, US
  From Page to Space, Kunsthaus Kaufbeuren, Kaufbeuren, Gemany
  Riotous Baroque. From Catelan to Zurbarán — Tributes to Precarious Vitality, Guggenheim Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain (Travelling Exhibition)
  Drawing Line into Form: Works on Paper by Sculptors from the Collection of BNY Mellon, Tacoma Arts Museum, Tacoma, US
  From Figuration, Skarstedt Gallery London, London, UK
  People, Parkett Ausstellungs-Raum, Zurich, Switzerland
  L’art à l’épreuve du monde, Communauté Urbaine de Dunkerque, Dunkerque, France
  Vidéo Vintage 1963 — 1983, Oi Futuro Cultural Center, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil travelled to National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea; Oi Futuro Cultural Center, Belo Horizonte, Brazil; Beirut Art Center, Beirut, Lebanon; Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
  From Death to Death and Other Small Tales - Masterpieces from the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and the D.Daskalopoulos Collection, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland
  NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star, New Museum, New York, US
  Beg, Borrow and Steal — Rubell Family Collection, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, US
  State of Mind: Art from California Circa 1970, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico
  Language Games. An Introduction to the Art of Our Times, Centro de Artes Visuales, Fundación Helga de Alvear, Caceres, Spain
  The Naked Man, Ludwig Múzeum, Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest, Hungary
  Do or Die. The Human Condition in Painting and Photography, Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden, Germany
  California, Charles Riva Collection, Brussels, Belgium
  State of Mind: Art from California Circa 1970, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, US
  This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, US
  
  2012
  This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, US
  Number Six: Flaming Creatures, Julia Stoschek Collection, Dusseldorf, Germany
  Painting, The Box, Los Angeles, US
  Enlightened: Electric light as the Fairy of Art, Artipelag, Gustavsberg, Sweden
  Fruits of Passion, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
  Language Games. An Introduction to the Art of our Times, Centro de Artes Visuales, Fundación Helga de Alver, Ceres, Spain
  Vidéo Vintage 1963–1983, ZKM Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany
  Mike Kelley — Paul McCarthy, Espace Croisé, centre d’art contemporain, Roubaix, France
  Explosion! The legacy of Jackson Pollock, The Joan Miró Foundation, Barcelona, Spain
  Der Nackte Mann, Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Linz, Austria
  Metamorphosis: The transformation of being, All Visual Arts, London, UK
  From Death to Death — Masterpieces from the Scottish National Gallery and the D. Daskalopoulos collection, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland
  The Art of Chess, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
  The Big Bang: the 19th Annual Watermill Center Summer Benefit, The Watermill Center, Watermill, US
  Explosion! Painting in Action, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
  Numer six: Flamming Creatures, Julia Stoschek Collection, Dusseldorf, Germany
  Safari, Le Lieu Unique, Scène Nationale de Nantes, Nantes, France
  A la vie délibérée! Une histoire de la performance sur la Côte d’Azur de 1951 à 2011, Villa Arson, Nice, France
  Mythos Atelier Künstlerräume von Carl Spitzweg bis Bruce Nauman, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
  Ends of the Earth — Land Art bis 1974, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
  ART AND THE CITY: Das Festival für Kunst im öffentlichen Raum in Zürich- West, City of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
  Mash Up: Collage from 1930 to the present, L&M Arts, Los Angeles, US
  Deftig Barock. Von Cattelan bis Zubaran. Manifeste des prekär Vitalen, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
  This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s, ICA The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, Boston, US
  Exquisite Corpses: drawing and Disfiguration, Museum of Modern Art MOMA, New York, US
  State of Mind: Art from California Circa 1970, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
  Move: Choreografing you, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
  Ends of the Earth — Land Art bis 1974, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
  Art with Chocolate, Museum Ritter, Waldenbach, Germany
  Struggels(s), Maison particulière art center, Brussels, Belgium
  Rebel — James Franco, Douglas Gordon, Harmony Korine, Damon McCarthy, Paul McCarthy, Terry Richardson, Ed Ruscha, Aaron Young, Museum of Contemporary Art MOCA, Los Angeles, US
  First International Biennale of Contemporary Art: The Best of Times, The Worst of Times. Rebirth and Apocalypse in Contemporary Art, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kiev, Ukraine
  Common Ground, Public Art Fund, City Hall Park, New York, US
  Ends of the Earth. Land Art to 1974, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, US
  Bye Bye American Pie, MALBA — Fundacion Costantini, Museo de Arte Latinoamericano, Buenos Aires, Argentina
  Art Histories, VOX Contemporary Image Centre, Montreal, Canada
  Utopia Gesamtkunstwerk, 21er Haus, Museum und Schloss Belvedere, Vienna, Austria
  Atelier + Kitchen — Laboratories of the Senses, Marta Herford, Herford, Germany
  Hotel California II, Mitterrand + Cramer, Geneva, Switzerland
  Los Angeles Free Music Society: Beneath the Valley of the Lowest Form of Music, The Box, Los Angeles, US
  State of Mind: New California Art circa 1970, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, US
  100 Years (version 4 Boston, 2012), Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, US
  This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, US
  LA Raw: Abject Expressionism in Los Angeles 1945-1980, From Rico Lebrun to Paul McCarthy, PMCA Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena, US
  Big Picture III (Szenen / Figuren), K21 Ständehaus, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein Westfalen, Dusseldorf, Germany
  Do or Die. The Human Condition in Painting and Photography, Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden, Germany
  
  2011
  100 Years (Version #4 Boston, 2012), Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, US
  American Exuberance, Rubell Family Collection / Contemporary Arts Foundation, Miami, US
  Recollecting Performance, LACE Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, California
  In the first Circle. A Project by Imogen Stidworthy, Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona, Spain
  MUMO Mobile Museum (mobile exhibition for children which travels throughout France and Africa supported by UNESCO)
  Farbe im Fluss/Color in Flux, Weserburg Museum für moderne Kunst, Bremen, Germany
  Welcome in the Dark!, Herning Museum of Contemporary Art, Herning, Denmark
  Walter Van Beirendonck: Dream the World Awake, MoMu ModeMuseum Provencie Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium
  The Collectors Show, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
  Zwei Sammler — Thomas Olbricht und Harald Falckenberg, Deichtorhallen Internationale Kunst und Fotografie, Hamburg, Germany
  Das Atlelier — Werkstatt und Mythos, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
  Out of Storage. Provisoire & Définitif, Marres Maastrich — Centre for Contemporary Culture, Maastricht, Netherlands
  Off the Wall / Fora da Parede, Museu Serralves — Museu de Arte Cantemporânea, Porto, Portugal
  He disappeared into complete silence — rereading a single artwork by Louise Bourgeois, De Hallen, Haarlem, The Netherlands
  Dance You Life, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
  LA Raw: Abject Expressionism in Los Angeles 1945-1980. From Rico Lebrun to Paul McCarthy, PMCA Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena, US
  State of Mind: New California Art Circa 1970, OCMA Orange County Museum of Art, Newport, US
  Under the Big Black Sun: California Art 1974-1981, MOCA The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, US
  Los Angeles Goes Live: Performance Art in Southern California 1970-1983, LACE Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, US
  Another Kind of Vapor, White Flag Projects, Saint Louis, US
  Glimmer, Fundación/Colección Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico
  Two Colors, Kathleen Cullen Fine Art & Elisabeth Ivers Gallery, New York, US
  Unpainted Paintings, Luxembourg & Dayan, New York, US
  Eating Art, Fundación Caixa Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
  TEXT/VIDEO/FEMALE — Art after 60’s, PKM Trinity Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  The luxury of dirt, Galerie Bob van Orsouw, Zurich, Switzerland
  DeKooning, DeKooning, DeKooning..., David Risley Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
  Zwischen Film und Kunst — Storyboards von Hitchcock bis Spielberg, Kunsthalle Emden, Emden, Germany
  The Luminous Interval, Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain
  In Praise of Doubt, Punta della Dogana, Francois Pinault Foundation, Venice, Italy
  Investigations of a Dog, DESTE Foundation, Athens, Greece
  Kompass — Zeichnungen aus dem Museum of Modern Art New York, Martin Gropius Baus, Berlin, Germany
  Festival der Tiere, Essl Museum, Klosterneuburg, Austria
  Investigations of a Dog, Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
  Move — Kunst und Tanz seit den 1960er Jahren, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
  From the collection: Unreal, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
  Disorder in the house, Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels, Belgium
  8 1⁄2, Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Stazione Leopolda, Florence, Italy
  Living Archives — Cooperation Van Abbemuseum, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austri
  
  2010
  Resonance, Suntory Museum, Osaka, Japan
  Gestures and Procedures, ACCA Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia
  Permanent Trouble, Kunst aus der Sammlung Kopp, Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie
  München, Regensburg, Germany
  Sexuality and transcendence, Pinchuk ArtCentre, Kiev, Ukraine
  Crash – Homage to JG Ballard, Gagosian Gallery, London, UK
  The Beauty of Distance: Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age, Sydney, Australia
  17th Biennale of Sydney, Eating The Universe – Vom Essen in der Kunst, Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck, Austria
  Think Pink, Gavlak Gallery, Palm Beach, US
  The imaginary Museum: Dakis Joannou Collection, New Museum, New York, US
  Investigations of a Dog, La Maison Rouge – Foundation Antoine de Galbert, Paris, France
  (Travelling Exhibition)
  Investigations of a Dog, Ellipse Foundation, Cascais, Portugal
  Gestures – Performance and Sound, Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde, Denmark
  
  2009
  Investigations of a Dog, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy (Travelling Exhibition)
  Collection: MOCA’s First Thirty Years, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, US
  Beg, Borrow and Steal, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, US
  Where Do We Go From Here? Selections from La Colección Jumex, Bass Museum of Art, Miami, US
  GAGARIN the Artists in their Own Words – The First Decade, SMAK Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent, Belgium
  Attraction (Voyage sentimental), FRAC Poitou-Charentes – Site de Linazay, Angouleme, France
  Beyond Black, White and Gray, L & M Arts, New York, US
  Boule to Braid, Lisson Gallery, London, UK
  A Guest + A Host = Ghost, Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece
  Boule to Braid, Lisson Gallery, London, UK
  Quand la première ivresse des succès bruyants…, Château Guiraud, Sautrenes, France
  Now New: New Works, New Space, Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art, Istanbul, Turkey
  My Generation, Kurimanzutto, Mexico City, Mexico
  Live Art, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway
  Who’s afraid of the Artist?, Palais des Arts de Dinard, France
  Un Certain Etat du Monde?, The Garage Centre for Contemporary Culture in Moscow, Russia
  Compass in Hand: Selections from the Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Culture, MoMA – Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
  Paul McCarthy’s Low Life Slow Life: Part 2, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, US (curated by the artist)
  The Same River Twice: Part 2, IMA – Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
  N’importe quoi, Musée d’Art Contemporain, Lyon, France
  Sonic Youth etc., Kunsthalle Düseldorf, Sensational Fix’, Germany
  Mapping the Studio, Palazzo Grassi / Punta della Dogana, Venice, Italy
  The Puppet Show, Houston, US (Travelling Exhibition)
  The Puppet Show, Frye Art Museum, Seattle, US (Travelling Exhibition)
  The Art of Chess, Reykjavik Art Museum, Iceland (Travelling Exhibition)
  No Sound of Music, Salzburger Kunstverein, Austria
  The Theatre of Performance, Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Torino, Turin, Italy
  Eat the Universe – Vom Essen in der Kunst, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany
  The Artist’s Studio, Compton Verney, Warwickshire, UK
  I Use Perfume to Occupy more Space, MACG – Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico
  
  2008
  Helga de Alvear und Harald Falckenberg im Dialog, Phoenix Kulturstiftung, Hamburg, Germany
  The Practice of Everyday Life. Fundación / Colección Jume, MUNAL – Museo Nacional de Arte, Mexico City, Mexico
  Looking Back: The White Columns Annual, White Columns, New York, US
  Stars and Stripes Forever, Vanabbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
  The Cult of Personality – Portraits and Mass Culture, Galerie Erna Hécey, Bruxelles, Belgium
  FuturARTextiel, Broelmuseum Kortrijk – Museum voor beeldende en toegepaste kunst, Kortrijk, Belgium
  The Same River Twice Part 1, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
  Time Crevasse, Yokohama Triennale 2008, Japan
  Here Is Every. Four Decades of Contemporary Art, MoMA – Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
  I’ve got something in my eye, CCS Bard Hessel Museum, Annandale-on-Hudson, US
  Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now, MoMA – Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
  A Sorry Kind of Wisdom, Perry Rubenstein Gallery, New York, US
  The Puppet Show, ICA – Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, US (Travelling Exhibition) Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, US (Travelling Exhibition)
  The Puppet Show, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii, US (Travelling Exhibition)
  Peripherer Blick und kollektiver Körper – Peripheral Vision and collective body, Museion – Museum für moderne und zeitgenössische Kunst, Bolzano, Italy
  Collectie XXII Fantasy, MuHKA – Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerp, Belgium
  In the Land of Retinal Delights: The Juxtapoz Factor, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, US
  I can’t just slice off an ear every day – Deconstructions of the Myth of the Artist, Hamburger Bahnhof Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany
  XIII Biennale Internazionale di Scultura di Carrara, Italy
  Pretty Ugly, Maccarone Gallery and Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York, US
  Lustwarande 08 – Wanderland. 3rd edition international sculpture exhibition in Baroque pleasure-garden, Park de Oude Warande & Museum De Pont, Tilburg, Netherlands
  No Images of Man, Gering-Lopez Gallery, New York, US
  The Hague Sculpture 2008. FREEDOM – American Sculpture, Grote Zaal Koninklijke Schouwburg Den Haag, The Hague, The Netherlands
  Die Hände der Kunst – Mehr als 190 Zeichnungen, Drucke und Collagen mit Händen zeitgenössischer Künstler, MARTa Herford, Germany
  La dégelée Rabelais, FRAC – Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain Languedoc-Roussillon, Montpellier, France
  Hotel Marienbad 002: Sammlung Rausch, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
  Lost Paradise – Der Blick des Engels, Paul Klee Zentrum, Bern, Switzerland
  Less is less, more is more, that’s all, CAPC – Musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux Entrepôt, France
  Electronic Lounge. La donazione Halevim al museo del Novecento, ExhibAir Malpensa, Milan, Italy
  Entschleunigung, Kramer Amthaus, Münster, Germany
  Eclipse – Art in a Dark Age, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
  On Procession, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, US
  Depletion: Works from the Doron Sebbag Art Collection, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
  Southern Exposure: Works from the Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, MCA – Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
  Faces, Eleni Koroneou Gallery, Athens, Greece
  Ne pas jouer avec des choses mortes, Villa Arson, Nice, France
  Other than Yourself. An Investigation Between Inner and Outer Space, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, Austria
  Paul McCarthy’s Low Life Slow Life: Part 1, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, US (curated by the artist)
  Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK
  California Video, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, US
  The Sound of Art – TONSPUR expanded, Freiraum, MuseumQuartier, Vienna, Austria
  The Art of Chess, Sebastian Guinees Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
  Ne pas jouer avec des choses mortes, Villa Arson, Nice, France
  
  2007
  Disorder in the House Vanhaerents, Art Collection, Brussels, Belgium
  Reboot – The Jim Barr and Mary Barr Collection, Christchurch Art Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand
  There is never a stop and never a finish. Werke aus der Friedrich Christian Flick Collection im Hamburger Bahnhof. In memoriam Jason Rhoades, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany
  Panic Attack! Art in the Punk Years, Barbican Center, London, UK
  Traum und Traumata Werke aus der Sammlung Dakis Joannou, Athen, Kunsthalle Wien & MUMOK, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Wien, Austria
  Guggenheim Collection: 1940s to Now. New York - Venice - Bilbao - Berlin, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
  The Fractured Figure, Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece
  Live/Work : Performance into Drawing, Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
  Nothing Else Matters, De Hallen Haarlem, Haarlem, The Netherlands
  Fine Art Fair Frankfurt 2007, Frankfurt, Germany
  IDYLLE, Domus Artium 2002, Salamanca, Spain
  100 Jahre Kunsthalle Mannheim, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany
  Bodycheck, 10. Triennale Kleinplastik Fellbach, Fellbach, Germany
  Die Kunst zu Sammeln, Kunstpalast Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
  Kunst aus Los Angeles der 60er bis 90er Jahre, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany
  Guggenheim Collection: 1940s to Now, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
  Into Me/Out of Me, MACRO - Museo d´Arte Contemporanea Roma, Rome, Italy
  Final Cut – Medienkunst und Kino, European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, Germany
  
  2006
  Scope New York 2006, New York, US
  Full House, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany
  Wiener Aktionismus, MUMOK Vienna, Vienna, Austria
  Transforming Chronologies 2, Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
  Work Zones, San Fransisco Art Institute, San Francisco, US
  Speaking with Hands, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
  Speaking with Hands, Guggenheim Museum, New York, US
  Sammlung Dahlmann, Leopold Hoesch Museum, Düren, Germany
  FASTER! BIGGER! BETTER!, ZKM Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany
  Galerie Patrick Seguin invites HAUSER & WIRTH, Galerie Patrick Seguin, Paris, France
  Where are we going? - The Francois Pinault collection. A post pop selection, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy
  Wrestle, Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, New York, US
  Renegades: 25 Years of Performance Art at Exit Art, Exit Art, New York, US
  Figures de l'acteur - Le paradoxe du comédien, Collection Lambert en Avignon, France
  Yes Bruce Nauman, Zwirner & Wirth, New York, US
  Highlights from the Photography Collection - Contemporary Complexities, Samuel P. Harn
  Museum of Art, Gainesville, US
  Idylle. Traum und Trugschluss, Sammlung Falckenberg / Phoenix Kulturstiftung, Hamburg, Germany
  
  2006
  Full House: Views of the Whitney’s Collection at 75, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US
  Implosion: 10 Year Anniversary, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, US
  Red Eye: Los Angeles Artists from the Rubell Family Collection, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, US
  Into Me/Out of Me, curated by Klaus Biesenbach, P.S.1, New York, US
  Surprise Surprise, curated by Jens Hoffman, CA Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK
  Studio, curated by Jens Hoffman, Dublin City Gallery, The Hugh Lane, Christina Kennedy, Dublin, Ireland
  Dada’s Boys, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
  Sip My Ocean, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark
  Infinite Painting, curated by Francesco Bonami, Villa Manin Center for Contemporary Art, Codroipo, Italy
  Of Mice and Men, curated by Ali Subotnick, Kunstwerke, Massimiliano Gioni, Maurizio
  Cattelan, 4th Berlin Biennial, Berlin, Germany
  Los Angeles - Paris, curated by Catherine Grenier, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
  Sixteen Tons, curated by Michael Darling, UCLArts, Los Angeles, US
  
  2005
  Domestic Violence, Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
  Art Athina 2005, Athens, Greece
  de Zomer van Middelburg, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerp, Belgium
  100 Artists See God, Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, US
  The Gesture, Quarter, Florence, Italy
  Private View 1980-2000, Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland
  Big Bang, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
  Sammlung 2005 - Neupräsentation, Kunstsammlung im Ständehaus, Düsseldorf, Germany
  The Gesture, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece
  Polymorph Pervers, ACC Weimar, Weimar, Germany
  Video II: Allegorie, NRW-Forum, Düsseldorf, Germany
  From the Electronic Eye, Castello di Rivoli, Torino, Italy
  L’humanité mise à nu..., Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg
  Multiplo 2, N.O. Gallery, Milan, Italy
  MULTIPLE RÄUME (3): FILM, Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden, Germany
  Falckenberg Collection, Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
  The Art of Chess, Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York, US
  Looking at Words, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, US
  Superstars, BA-CA Kunstforum, Wien, Austria
  After the Act, MUMOK, Wien, Austria
  Lichtkunst aus Kunstlicht, ZKM Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany
  Faites vos jeux! Kunst und Spiel seit Dada, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany
  Multiple Strategies, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, US
  Speaking with Hands, Bilbao Guggenheim, Bilbao, Spain
  Mythologies, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, US
  Drawings from the Modern, 1975-2005, Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
  Conversations, Natural History Museum of L.A. County, Los Angeles, US
  A Walk to Remember, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), Los Angeles, US
  Faces in the Crowd, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, Great Britain - Castello di Rivoli, Torino, Italy
  Bidibidobidiboo: La Collezione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo per i dieci anni della Fondazione, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino, Italy
  Les grands spectacles: 120 Jahre Kunst und Massenkultur, Museum der Moderne, Margrith Brehm & Roberto Ohrt, Salzburg, Austria
  Figure It Out: New Directions in Figurative Sculpture, HVCCA The Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, US
  New York – Paris 1945–2005, Tajan, Paris, France
  Superstars: The Principle of Renown, Kunsthalle Wien, Wien, Austria
  Faites vos jeux: Art and game since Dada, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Liechtenstein
  Puppets & Heavenly Creatures, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Wien, Austria
  Spielräume, Stiftung Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, Germany
  Miradas y Conceptos en la Colección Helga de Alvear, MEIAC Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo, Badajoz, Spain
  Dionysiac, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
  Girls on film, Zwirner & Wirth, New York, US
  JOHN McCRACKEN – PAUL McCARTHY, Hauser & Wirth, Zürich, Switzerland
  Homage to the Square, Galerie Mezzanin, Wien, Austria
  
  2004
  Das Grosse Fressen. Von Pop bis heute, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
  Point of View: An Anthology of the Moving Image, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, US
  One on One, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
  Reykjavik Arts Festival 2004, Reykjavik, Iceland
  Mike Kelley – Das Unheimliche, MUMOK Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Wien, Austria
  I am the Wrath of God, MOT London, London, UK
  Bewegliche Teile / Steirischer Herbst 2004, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria
  Visions of America, Sammlung Essl, Klosterneuburg, Austria
  Vision einer Sammlung, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria
  Einleuchten, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria
  15 Jahre Deichtorhallen, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
  DRAFTING DECEIT / Marta Kuzma, Apexart, New York, US
  White, International Center of Photography, New York, US
  Faces in the Crowd, Whitechapel, London, UK
  100 Artists See God, ICA, London, UK
  The Great Parade, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, France - National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
  Spiritus, Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden - Jönköpings Läns Museum, Jönköping, Sweden - Bomuldsfabriken Kunsthall, Arendal, Norway - Sundsvalls Museum, Sundsvall, Sweden - Länsmuseet Gävleborg, Gävle, Sweden - Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Gothenburg, Sweden
  An Exhibition by John Bock, ICA, Klütterkammer, London, UK
  Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany
  Disparities and Deformations: Our Grotesque, SITE Santa Fe, The 5th International Biennial, Santa Fe, US
  Fantasy Island, Hallormsstadur forest, Hallormsstadur, Iceland
  Monument to Now, DESTE Foundation, Athens, Greece
  
  2003
  Bankett / Banquete, Palau de la Virreina, Barcelona, Spain
  Stunt - Videos, Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
  Live Culture, Tate Modern, London, UK
  Influence, Anxiety and Gratitude, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, US
  Das lebendige Museum, MMK Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
  Les 20 ans des FRAC, FRAC – Regions, Paris, France
  Spiritus, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
  Video Acts – Kramlich Collections, ICA London, London, UK
  Bankett / Banquete, MediaLab, Madrid, Spain
  MARS-Art and War, Gesellschaft der Freunde der Neuen Galerie, Graz, Austria
  Micropolitics. Art and Everyday Life, Espai d’Art Contemporani, Valencia, Spain
  The Art of Chess, Gilbert Collection, Somerset House, London, UK
  
  2002
  Cadavre exquis, Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois, Paris, France
  Kunst nach Kunst, Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen, Germany
  de Kooning to Today, Whitney Museum, New York, US
  Outer and Inner Space, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, US
  Cadavre exquis, Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois, Paris, France
  Apparition – The Action of Appearing, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, UK
  Video Acts: Single Channel Works from the Collections of Pamela and Richard Kramlich and New Art Trust, P.S.1, New York, US - Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), London, UK
  Les Années 70: L’art en cause, Capc Musée d’Art Contemporain Entrepôt, Bordeaux, France
  Assortments – Part of De Kooning to Today: Highlights from the Permanent Collection, Whitney   Museum of American Art, New York, US
  Continuos Play, Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York, US
  Shopping: 100 Jahre Kunst und Konsum, Schirn-Kunsthalle Frankfurt‚ Frankfurt, Germany - Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
  Comer o no Comer: To Eat or Not to Eat, Or, the Relations Between Art and Questions of Eating, Centro de Arte de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain
  Plus Ultra, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
  Mapping the Process, Essor Gallery Limited, London, UK
  House of Fiction, Sammlung Hauser und Wirth, St. Gall, Switzerland
  PROPPOSITION, together with Jason Rhoades, Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg, Germany
  Heroes Caidos – Masculinidad y representacion, Espai d’Art Contemporani de Castello (EACC), Madrid, Spain
  Walk Around Time: Selection from the Permanent Collection, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, US
  The First Decade: video from the EAI Archives, MOMA Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
  Das Tier in mir – Die Mensch-Tier-Verwandtschaft in der zeitgenössischen Kunst: Teil III in der Trilogie, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden, Germany
  Ten Years Galerie Hauser & Wirth, Hauser & Wirth, Zürich, Switzerland
  Passenger: The Viewer as Participant, Astrup Fearnly Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway
  
  2001
  Ausgesucht von Eva Schlegel und Erwin Wurm, Galerie Krinzinger, Wien, Austria
  Heads or Tails, Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France
  Masculinities, Nicolaj, Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
  Le Printemps de septembre, Toulouse, France
  The Artist’s World, Logan Galleries of the CCAC San Francisco Campus, San Francisco, US
  Chairs in Contemporary Art, Castello di Rivoli, Udino, Italy
  Extreme Connoisseurship, Harvard University Art Museum, Cambridge, US
  Group Show, Chac Mool Gallery, West Hollywood, US
  Play’s The Thing: Critical and Transgressive Practices in Contemporary Art, City University of New York’s Graduate Center Art Gallery (CUNY), New York, US
  En el cielo, Sky writing, Venice Biennial, organized by TRANS, Venice, Italy
  My Reality, Contemporary Art and the Culture of Japanese Animation, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, US
  La Coleccion Jumex, Jumex Centro de Distribucion, Mexico City, Mexico Painting at the Edge of the World, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, US Galería Estrany - De La Mota, Begijnhof III, Barcelona, Spain
  Ziviler Ungehorsam: Die Sammlung Falckenberg, Kestner Gesellschaft, Hanover, Germany
  
  2000
  Drawings, Barbara Gladstone Gallery 2000, New York, US
  Open Ends, MOMA Museum of Modern Art, Video Time, New York, US
  Le jeu des 7 familles, Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain (in collaboration with the FRAC Nord Pas-de-Calais), Geneva, Switzerland
  Dialogos con la fotograpfia, Galeria Goledad Lorenzo, Madrid, Spain
  In Between, Hanover WORLD EXPO 2000, Hanover, Germany Presumed Innocent, Musée d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, France
  Carnivalesque, touring exhibition, Brighton Museum, Art Gallery, London, UK
  The Oldest Possible Memory, Lokremise, St Gallen, Switzerland
  Sydney Biennial, International Festival of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
  Around 1984: A Look at Art in the eighties, P.S.1, Long Island, US
  Mike Kelley and Paul McCarthy, Selected Works, The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada
  The Other Side of Zero : Video Positive 2000, Patrick Painter Inc., Los Angeles, US
  The Fashion Show, George’s, Los Angeles, US

Selected Public and Private Collections

• Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, US
  Collection of Contemporary Art Fundacio “la Caixa”, Barcelona, Spain
  CU Art Museum, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, US
  Foundation Museion, Bolzano, Italy
  FRAC Languedoc-Roussilon, Montpellier, France
  FRAC Poitou-Charentes, Angoulème, France
  Frans Hals Museum / De Hallen, Haarlem, The Netherlands
  Hessel Museum of Art & CCS Galleries, Bard Centre for Curatorial Studies, Annandale-on-Hudson, US
  Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
  Inhotim, Brumadinho, MG, Brazil
  Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
  Kunstmuseen Krefeld, Krefeld, Germany
  MONA Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart, Australia
  MUMOK Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria
  Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, US
  Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, US
  Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
  Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
  Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, US
  National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
  P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, US
  Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York, US
  Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
  Tate Modern, London, US
  Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, US
  Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, US
  Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US