Galerie Anke Schmidt

Education

1996 M.F.A. Yale School of Art / New Haven, CT (USA)

1983 B.F.A. Boston University, School for the Arts / Boston, MA (USA)

1982 Yale / Norfolk / Norfolk, CT (USA)

Solo Exhibitions

2017 Carl Ostendarp / Kunstverein Heilbronn / Heilbronn (Germany)

 Carl Ostendarp - Paintings / Galerie Anke Schmidt / Cologne (Germany)

 Carl Ostendarp / Elizabeth Dee Gallery / New York, NY (USA)

2014 Blanks / Elizabeth Dee Gallery / New York, NY (USA)

2012 Fat Cakes / Myopic Void / Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University / Ithaka, NY (USA) / curated by Andrea Inselmann

 Some Noises / Galerie Schmidt Maczollek / Cologne (Germany)

 Works by Carl Ostendarp from the Museum Ludwig Collection / Museum Ludwig / Cologne (Germany) / curated by Julia Friedrich

2009 Pulled Up / RISD Museum of Art / Providence, RI (USA)

2007 Carl Ostendarp 1989–2007 / Elizabeth Dee / New York, NY (USA)

 Sayin’it and Doin – it / Museum Ludwig / Cologne (Germany)

 Works on Paper / Galerie Schmidt Maczollek / Cologne (Germany)

 All Tomorrow’s Parties / Museum für Moderne Kunst / Frankfurt (Germany)

2006 Hands & Fleets / PROJEX-Mtl / Montreal (Canada)

2005 OHT Gallery / Boston, MA (USA)

2004 Elizabeth Dee Gallery / New York, NY (USA)

 Mario Diacono Gallery / Boston, MA (USA)

2003 Carl Ostendarp: 189 Drawings / The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art / Ridgefield, CT (USA)

 Carl Ostendarp: Drawings, 198 to 2003 / Elizabeth Dee Gallery / New York, NY (USA)

2002 Galerie Rolf Ricke / Cologne (Germany)

 Gilles Peyroulet et Cie / Paris (France)

2001 Dee Glasoe / New York, NY (USA)

1999 XL/Xavier LaBoulbenne Gallery / New York, NY (USA)

 Paintings on Paper / Renezans Gallery / Houston, TX (USA)

 Shoshanna Wayne Gallery / Los Angeles, CA (USA)

1998 Galerie Rolf Ricke / Cologne (Germany)

1997 Studio Notes / Schmidt Contemporary Art / St.Louis, MO (USA)

1995 Galerie Rolf Ricke / Cologne (Germany)

 Jay Gorney Modern Art / New York, NY (USA)

1993 Rena Bransten Gallery / San Francisco, CA (USA)

 Jay Gorney Modern Art / New York, NY (USA)

1992 Daniel Weinberg Gallery / Los Angeles, CA (USA)

 Works on Paper / Stephanie Theodore Gallery / New York, NY (USA)

 Jay Gorney Modern Art / New York, NY (USA)

1991 John Post Lee Gallery / New York, NY (USA)

1990 Wolff Gallery / New York, NY (USA)

1989 Tom Solomon’s Garage / Los Angeles, CA (USA)

 White Columns / New York, NY (USA)

Group Exhibitions

2023 Paper Pulp / Galerie Anke Schmidt / Cologne (Germany)

2022 - 2023 Coming Attractions: The John Waters Collection / Baltimore Museum of Art / Baltimore (USA)

2021 Group Show / Hesse Flatow / New York (USA)

2020 DIE BILDER DER BRÜDER / Eine Sammlungsgeschichte der Familie Burda / Museum Frieder Burda / Baden-Baden (Germany)

 ...Hallo Köln! / Galerie Anke Schmidt / Cologne (Germany) / curated by Rolf Ricke

 Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary Art / Santa Barbara Museum of Art / Santa Barbara (USA)

2019 INGRID CALAME, FABIAN MARCACCIO, CARL OSTENDARP, DAVID REED Frozen Gesture - Gesten in der Malerei von Roy Lichtenstein bis Katharina Grosse / Kunst Museum Winterthur - Beim Stadthaus / Winterthur (Switzerland)

2018 Theodore: Art / Brooklyn / New York (USA)

 Strategies d’abstraction / Galerie Laroche / Joncas, Montreal / Quebec (Canada)

2017 Cooper Hofmann Lenk Ostendarp Werres / Galerie Anke Schmidt / Cologne (Germany)

 Zane und Ostendarp / Carroll und Söhne / South End / Boston / Massachusetts (USA)

2016 Hey You! - Who Me?! / Yale University 32 Edgewood Gallery / New Haven (USA) / curated by Robert Storr

 Abstract New York / Beijing (China)

 BIG ART SMALL SCALE / Philip Slein Gallery / St. Louis (USA)

2015 Paul Klee / Underdonk / Brooklyn, NY (USA)

 Industriale Immaginario / Collezione Maramotti / Reggio Emilia (Italy)

 abstract index / galerie ruth leuchter / Dusseldorf (Germany)

 I LIKE AMERICA / Schauwerk Sindelfingen / Sindelfingen (Germany)

 RE(a)D / Nathalie Karg Gallery / New York (USA) / curated by Ryan Steadman

 INFLUENCE / Kleinert/James Center for the Arts / Woodstock, NY (USA) / curated by Oliver Wasow

2014 Everything Falls Faster than an Anvil / Pace Gallery / London (UK) / curated by Tobias Czudej

 This One's Optimistic: Pincushion / New Britain Museum of America Art / New Britain, CT (USA) / curated by Cary Smith

 Concurrent / Windsor Gallery / Vancouver (Canada)

 Higher Learning / Lehman College, Art Department Office # 009 / New York, NY (USA) / curated by Danielle Tegeder

 Allen Graham/Carl Ostendarp: Works from the collection of Count Giuseppe di Buomo Panza / Como NExT, Scientifico Technologico di Llamas / Como (Italy)

2013 Autocorrect / Josee Bienvenu Gallery / New York (NY)

2012 The Indiscipline of Painting / Warwich Arts Center / Coventry (UK)

 Paper Jam / Neuburger Museum of Art, Purchase College / New York (NY)

 Cornell Art Faculty / Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art / Ithaca (NY)

 Aldrich Undercover / The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum / Ridgefield, CT (USA)

 Smile: Amerikanische Kunst / Galerie Thomas Zander / Cologne (Germany) / curated by Rolf Ricke

2011 If we cannot free ourselves, we can free our mind / oqbo / Berlin (Germany)

 Itsy Bitsy Spider / Galerie Schmidt Maczollek / Cologne (Germany)

2008 Scene/Seen: 1980–2000 Recent Acquisitions / Luckman Fine Arts Complex / Los Angeles, CA (USA)

 Carl Ostendarp, Peter Schuyffm, Yves Tessier / Projex-MTL Galerie / Montreal (Canada)

 Aldrich Undercover / The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum / Ridgefield, CT (USA)

 Reloaded: Einflüsse der 1960er Jahre auf aktuelle Kunsttendenzen Künstlerhaus Bethanien / Berlin (Germany)

2007 Recent Acquisitions / Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art / Ithaca, NY (USA)

 Pull My Finger / Allston Skirt Gallery / Boston, MA (USA)

 Lust for Life – The Ricke Collection / Kunst Museum Liechtenstein / Vaduz (Liechtenstein) / cat.

 Critical Art / Faculty of Cornell University, Department of Art / Tsinghua University Gallery / Beijing (China) / cat.

 Paper Ball / Neuberger Museum of Art / Purchase College, NY (USA)

 Sammlung Rolf Ricke / MMK / Frankfurt (Germany)

2006 Two Friends and So On / Andrew Kreps Gallery / New York, NY (USA)

 Process and Promise / 92nd Street Y Art Center / New York, NY (USA)

 Clear Cuts / Sammlung Wolkenlos - Die Privatsammlung von Michael Stankiewicz / Schloss Raabs / Raabs a.d.Thaya (Austria)

2005 Field Questions / Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery - The University of the Arts / Philadelphia, PA (USA)

 Group Show / Elizabeth Dee Gallery / New York, NY (USA)

 A wonderful view / Vous Etes Ici / Amsterdam (The Netherlands)

 Especial / Galerie Schmidt Maczollek / Cologne (Germany)

 Sweet Temptations – Dialoge mit der Sammlung Rolf Ricke / Kunstverein St. Gallen Kunstmuseum / St. Gallen (Switzerland)

2004 Couleurs et formes / Galerie Evelyne Canus / Basel (Switzerland)

 Joyhouse / Barbara Davis Gallery / Houston, TX (USA)

 Hot + Cool Summer / Gallery West 52 / New York, NY (USA)

 Toys in the Attic / Lennon, Weinberg, Inc. / New York, NY (USA) / curated by Stephanie Theodore

 Off the Wall: Work from the JPMorgan Chase Art Collection / Bruce Museum of Arts and Science / Greenwich, CT (USA)

 Happy / OH+T Gallery / Boston, MA (USA) / curated by Ryan Steadman

 Yellow Pages / Kunsthalle Palazzo / Liestal (Switzerland)

 Strip: Images in Line Studioblock Voltmerstr. / Hannover (Germany) / curated by Rolf Bier

2003 Schokolade, Was Denn Sonst: Sammlung Rolf Ricke / Kunstraum / Innsbruck (Austria)

 Faculty Exhibition / Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art / Cornell University / Ithaca, NY (USA)

 Perpetuum Mobile / Galerie Rolf Ricke / Cologne (Germany) / curated by Günter Umberg

2002 Einfach Kunst – Sammlung Rolf Ricke / Neues Museum, Staatliches Museum fur Kunst und Design / Nuremberg (Germany)

 Inheriting Matisse: The Decorative Contour in Contemporary Art / Rocket Gallery / London (UK) / curated by Michelle Grabner

2001 Paint Land / Schmidt Contemporary Art of Los Angeles / Los Angeles, CA (USA) / curated by Terry Myers

 Delicious / Roger Smith Gallery / New York, NY (USA)

 Galerie Rolf Ricke / Cologne (Germany)

 Concepts of Images / Galerie Academia / Salzburg (Austria)

 Faculty Exhibition / Herbert Johnson Art Museum, Cornell University / Ithaca, NY (USA)

 First There was a Drawing / Santa Fe College Art Gallery / Santa Fe, NM (USA) / curated by Michael St. John

 The Male Self Portrait / D. C. Moore Gallery / New York, NY (USA) / curated by Alexi Worth

2000 Back to Nature / Derek Eller Gallery / New York, NY (USA)

 What’s So Funny About Color? / Dan Elias Fine Art / Allston, MA (USA)

 Faculty Exhibition / Herbert Johnson Art Museum, Cornell University / Ithaca, NY (USA)

 Face to Face / Concordia College Art Gallery / Bronxville, NY (USA)

 The Figure: Another Side of Modernism / Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art / Staten Island, NY (USA) / curated by Lilly Wei

 Gallery Artists Dee/Glasoe / New York, NY (USA)

1999 Size Matters / Gale Gates Contemporary Art / Brooklyn, NY (USA)

 Small Things Come in Good Packages / Kathryn Markel Fine Art / New York, NY (USA) / curated by Stephanie Theodore

 Color Me Blind / Wurttemburgischer Kunstverein / Stuttgart (Germany) / Stadish Ausstellungshalle AM Haverkamp / Munster (Germany) / Dundee Contemporary Art / Dundee (UK) / curated by Ralf Christofori

 Hard Cell: 5 New York Artists Show Work on Paper / Vilma Gold Gallery / London (UK)

 The Child Within: Innocence and Anxiety in Contemporary Art / Louis Stern Fine Arts / Los Angeles, CA (USA) / curated by Maurice Tuchman and Mariana Amatullo

 Benefit Exhibition and Auction / White Columns / New York, NY (USA)

 Mixed Bag / Schmidt Contemporary Art / St. Louis, MO (USA)

 The Stroke / Exit Art / New York, NY (USA) / curated by David Reed

 Stuff / T.B.A. Exhibition Space / Chicago, IL (USA) / curated by James Yood and Jeanne Dunning

 Love Evolution / Gallery XL and Xavier LaBoulbenne / New York, NY (USA)

 The Conversation / Jack Shainman Gallery / New York, NY (USA)

 Free Coke / Greene Naftali Gallery / New York, NY (USA)

 Protoplasm / Bob Van Orsouw Galerie / Zurich (Switzerland)

 Fitzgerald, Ostendarp / Ohio State University / Athens, OH (USA)

 Special Offer / Kassel Kunstverein / Kassel (Germany) / curated by Rolf Ricke

1998 Biomorphic Abstraction / Curt Marcus Gallery / New York, NY (USA)

 Paper View / Geoffrey Young Gallery / Great Barrington, MA (USA)

 White / Mitchell Algus Gallery / New York, NY (USA)

 From Here to Eternity: Painting in 1998 / Max Protetch Gallery / New York, NY (USA) / curated by Ruth Kaufman

 Cluster Bomb / Morrison/Judd Gallery / London (UK)

 Utz / Lennon Weinberg Gallery / New York, NY (USA) / curated by Stephanie Theodore

 Pop/Abstraction / The Museum of American Art, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts / Philadelphia, PA (USA) / curated by Sid Sachs

 Group Show / Museum Dhondt / Dhaenens (Belgium) / curated by Gunther Umberg

1997 Moving Towards the Millenium / Schmidt Contemporary Art / St.Louis, MO (USA)

 Vertical Painting – mural installation / Institute of Contemporary Art, P.S. 1 Museum / Long Island City, NY (USA)

 All The Things You Are / Geoffrey Young Gallery / Great Barrington, MA (USA)

 Ca-Ca, Poo-Poo / Kunstmuseum / Cologne (Germany) / curated by Udo Kittelman

 Art Writing: Words in Works on Paper / Geoffrey Young Gallery / Great Barrington, MA (USA)

 Group Exhibition / Galerie Evelyn Canus / La Colle-Sur-Loire, France Jay Gorney Modern Art / New York, NY (USA) / curated by Gunther Umberg

 Benefit Auction / White Columns / New York, NY (USA)

1996 Unconditionally Abstraction Schmidt Contemporary Art / St. Louis, MO (USA)

 Form als Ziel mundet immer in Formalismus (Mies van der Rohe) / Galerie Rolf Ricke / Cologne (Germany)

 Transformal / Wiener Secession / Vienna (Austria) / curated by Maia Damianovic

 Model Home / The Clock Tower, Institute of Contemporary Art / New York, NY (USA) / curated by Alanna Heiss & Sabina Streeter

 Benefit Auction / White Columns / New York, NY (USA)

1995 Una Nuova Tradizione Americana / Galleria Oddi Baglioni / Rome (Italy)

 Made in USA / Bob Van Orsouw Galerie / Zurich (Switzerland)

 Re-Fab: Painting Abstracted, Fabricated and Revised / Contemporary ArtMuseum, University of South Florida / Tampa, Fl (USA) / traveled to Wolfson Galleries, Miami-Dade Community College / Miami, Fl (USA) / Robert Hull Fleming Museum, University of Vermont / Burlington, VT (USA) / curated by Rochelle Feinstein, Shirley Kaneda and Margaret Miller

 Smells Like Vinyl / Roger Merians Gallery / New York, NY (USA) / organized by Sarah Seager and Thaddeus Strode

 Fancy That / The Workspace / New York, NY (USA) / curated by Leslie Heller

 Altered States: American Art in the 90’s / Forum for Contemporary Art, / St.Louis, MO (USA) / curated by Jeanne Greenberg & Robert Nickas

 Pittura-Immedia / Neue Galeri am Landesmuseum Joanneum / Graz (Austria) / curated by Peter Weibel

 Acquiring Art in the 90’s: The Inside Story / Wadsworth Atheneum / Hartford, CT (USA)

 Benefit Auction / White Columns / New York, NY (USA)

1994 DepArt / Bernard Toale Gallery / Boston, MA (USA) / curated by Daniel Elias

 Critical Mass / A&A Gallery - Yale University School of Art / New Haven, CT (USA) / McKinney Avenue Contemporary Art / Dallas, TX (USA) / curated by Charles Long

 David’s Friends / Bernard Toale Gallery / Boston, MA (USA) / curated by Timothy Fichtner

 On Paper / Schmidt Contemporary Art / St. Louis, MO (USA)

 Faith in Doubt / University at Buffalo Art Gallery / Buffalo, NY (USA)

 Current Abstraction: Jody Lomberg & Carl Ostendarp / Rena Bransten Gallery / San Francisco, CA (USA)

 Carl Ostendarp, Matthew Weinstein / Studio La Citta / Verona (Italy)

 Painting / Rhona Hoffman Gallery / Chicago, IL (USA)

 Carl Ostendarp, Charles Long / Schmidt Contemporary Art / St. Louis, MO (USA)

 Tom Tavelli Gallery / Aspen, CO (USA)

 Possible Things: A Drawing Show / Bardamu Gallery / Publishing House / New York, NY (USA) / curated by Vik Muniz

 Basically Silver / Studio La Citta / Verona (Italy)

 Press On / I.C. Editions / New York, NY (USA) / curated by Daniel Elias

 S.I.B.: Swelling Itching Brain / Satellite Gallery / New York, NY (USA)

 Benefit Auction / The New Museum of Contemporary Art / New York, NY (USA)

1993 Color / Pamela Auchincloss Gallery / New York, NY (USA)

 The Medium is the Medium / Barbara Toll Gallery / New York, NY (USA)

 Rena Bransten Gallery / San Francisco, CA (USA)

 Charles Long, Carl Ostendarp / Schmidt Contemporary Art / St. Louis, MO (USA)

 Italia-America/l’Astrazione Ridefinita / Museo di Stato / San Marino (USA) / curated by Demetrio Paparoni

 Toolbox / Studio la Citta / Verona (Itlay) / curated by Anthony Iannaci

 Irony & Ecstacy / Salama-Caro Gallery / London (UK) / curated by Klaus Ottman

 Teddy and Other Stories / Galleria in Arco / Torino (Italy)

 I Am the Enunciator / Thread Waxing Space / New York, NY (USA) / curated by Christian Leigh

 Interzone / John Post Lee Gallery / New York, NY (USA) / curated by Karin Bravin

 20 Years Daniel Weinberg Gallery / Los Angeles, CA (USA)

 A Painting for Every Ticket / Benefit for BOMB Magazine / Fawbush Gallery / New York, NY (USA)

 Benefit Auction / White Columns / New York, NY (USA)

 Benefit Auction / The New Museum of Contemporary Art / New York, NY (USA)

 RenBen 93 / The Renaissance Society / Chicago, IL (USA)

1992 Gegen den Strich – Against the Grain / Galerie Theuretzbacher / Vienna (Austria) / curated by Klaus Ottman & Josef Ramaseder

 The Mechanical Drip: C. Ostendarp, D. Powley, N. Rule, R. Stingel / Greenberg Gallery / St.Louis, MO (USA)

 Multiple Grounds / Systema Galleries / Baarn (The Netherlands)

 Bedroom Pictures / Asher/Faure Gallery / Los Angeles, CA (USA) / curated by Terry R. Myers

 Paintings / Jack Hanley Gallery / San Francisco, CA (USA)

 Abstract painting: 1992 / Schmidt Contemporary Art / St. Louis, MO (USA)

 Gallery Artists / Jay Gorney Modern Art / New York, NY (USA)

 Off Balance / Jason Rubell Gallery / Palm Beach, FL (USA)

 Kinder!macht Neues! / Galerie Rolf Ricke / Cologne (Germany)

 Contextures & Constructures / Rubenstein/Diacono / New York, NY (USA) / curated by Jonathan Seliger

 Summer Becomes Eclectic / Mars Gallery / Toky ( Japan)

 Emerging New York Artists / University of Omaha Art Gallery / Omaha, NB (USA)

 Benefit for the AIDS Action / Committee International Place, Artcetera / Boston, MA (USA)

 WFMU Exhibition, Auction / Germans Van Eck / New York, NY (USA)

 Dupuis, Lucas, Ostendarp, Weinstein / Planita Gallery / Rome (Italy) / curated by Mario Diacono

 Benefit Auction / White Columns / New York, NY (USA)

 Benefit Auction / New Museum of Contemporary Art / New York, NY (USA)

1991 Slow Art: Painting in New York Now / P.S.1 Museum / Long Island, City, NY (USA) / curated by Alanna Heiss

 Psycho / Kunsthalle / New York, NY (USA) / curated by Christian Leigh

 Elizabeth Murray, John Newman, Carl Ostendarp / Jay Gorney Modern Art / New York, NY (USA)

 How It Is / Tony Shafrazi Gallery / New York, NY (USA) / curated by Jonathan Seliger

 David Dupuis, Christopher Lucas, Carl Ostendarp, Matthew Weinsten / Mario Diacono Gallery / Boston, MA (USA)

 Process—Material / Patterson College Art Gallery / Patterson, NJ (USA)

 Strategies for the Next Painting / Wolff Gallery / New York, NY: Feigen Contemporary, Chicago (USA) / curated by Saul Ostrow

 Synthesis / John Good Gallery / New York, NY (USA)

 Jacqueline Humphries, John Millei, Carl Ostendarp / Rena Bransten Gallery / San Francisco, CA (USA)

 Hybrid Abstraction / Bennington College Art Gallery / Bennington, VT (USA) / organized by Joshua Decter

 Rope / Fernando Alcolea Gallery / Barcelona (Spain) / curated by Christian Leigh

 The Thing / Perry Rubenstein Gallery / New York, NY (USA) / curated by Vik Muniz

 Summer Group Show / John Good Gallery / New York, NY (USA)

 Preview / Stux Gallery / New York, NY (USA)

 The Lick of The Eye / Shoshanna Wayne Gallery / Los Angeles, CA (USA) / curated by David Pagel

 Gail Fitzgerald, Carl Ostendarp / Galerie Marc Jancou / Zurich (Switzerland)

 Benefit Auction / White Columns / New York, NY (USA)

 Ornament; Ho Hum All Ye Faithful / John Post Lee Gallery / New York, NY (USA)

1990 Total Metal / Simon Watson Gallery / New York, NY (USA) / curated by Richard Phillips

 Emerging Art 1990: Commodities Corporation Collection / New Jersey State Museum / Trenton, NJ (USA) / curated by Sam Hunter

 A Question of Paint / Hallwalls / Buffalo, NY (USA) / curated by Charles Wright Jr.

 Update 90 / White Columns / New York, NY (USA)

 Recent Acquisitions / Chase Manhattan Bank / SoHo / New York, NY (USA)

 Summer Group Exhibition / Wolff Gallery / New York, NY (USA)

 Work on Paper / Paula Allen Gallery / New York, NY (USA)

 Process and Materials / Julian Pretto Warehouse / New York, NY (USA)

 David Dupuis, Carl Ostendarp, Rudolph Stingel / Andrea Rosen Gallery / New York, NY (USA)

 White Columns Twentieth Anniversary Benefit Exhibition / White Columns / New York, NY (USA)

 Benefit Auction / The New Museum of Contemporary Art / New York, NY (USA)

1989 Drawings / Wolff Gallery / New York, NY (USA)

 Outer Limits / Holly Solomon Gallery / New York, NY (USA) / curated by Tom Solomon