Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects
Karl Haendel
1976 Born in New York
Lives and works in Los Angeles
2003 University of California, Los Angeles, MFA
2000 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
1999 Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, New York, NY
1998 Brown University, Providence, RI, BA in Art Semiotics and Art History
2011
Galleria Raucci/Santamaria, Naples, Italy
Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
Harris Lieberman, New York, NY
2010
Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
Lever House, New York
Tony Wight Gallery, Chicago, IL
2009
Lever House, New York
"Displeasure", Milliken Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
"How to Have a Socially Responsible Orgasm and Other Life Lessons", Harris Lieberman, New York, NY
Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
2008
"Kommitment Karl”, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
2007
The Suburban, Chicago, IL
"I Need Work”, Harris Lieberman, New York, NY
"Last Fair Deal Gone Down”, Anna Helwing Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2006
"MOCA Focus Series”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
"Makes a Long Time Man Feel Bad”, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
"Make Me Down a Pallet on Your Floor”, Sorcha Dallas Contemporary Art, Glasgow, Scotland
2005
"Grits Ain’t Groceries (All Around the World)” Anna Helwing Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2003
"You Can’t Lose What You Ain’t Never Had”, Anna Helwing Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2011
“In the Name of the Artists - American Contemporary Art from the Astrup Fearnley Collection”, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Bienal Pavillion, São Paulo, Brazil (link)
“Arrêt sur Image: Collection du MAMAC”, Galerie des Ponchettes, Musée d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain, Nice, France (link)
“American Exuberance”, Rubell Family Collection/Contemporary Arts Foundation, Miami, FL
“Nothing Beside Remains”, LAND, Marfa, Tx, curated by Shamim Momin
Prospect II, curated by Dan Cameron, New Orleans, LA
“Drawn from Photography”, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
“Greater LA”, curated by Benjamin Godsill, Eleaonor Cayre and Joel Mesler, New York, NY
“Graphite”, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
“The New Verisimilitude”, Francois Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“The Unbearable Lightness of Being”, Yvon Lamber, Paris, France
2010
“Collection: MOCA’s First Thirty Years (1980 – Now)”, The Geffen Contemporary at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles, CA
“Karl Haendel & Walead Beshty, Sheree Hovsepian, and Barbara Kasten”, Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago, IL
“New Art for a New Century: Contemporary Acquisitions, 2000-2010”, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
“The Last Newspaper” The New Museum, New York, NY
“Image Transfer: Pictures in a Remix Culture”, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
"Blind Mirror", Galleria Raucci/Santamaria, Naples, Italy
"Haunted", Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, curated by Jennifer Blessing
2009
"Nothingness and Being", curated by Shamim Momin, Fundación/Colección Jumex, Mexico
“Play With Your Own Marbles”, Noma Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"Picturing the Studio”, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, curated by Michelle Grabner and Annika Marie
"Blind Mirror", Galleria Raucci/Santamaria, Naples, Italy
“This Is Killing Me”, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA (May 23, 2009–Apr 15, 2010)
"Beg, Borrow and Steal", The Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL
"Rotating Views #2 - Works from the Astrup Fearnley Collection", Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway
2008
"Going Out of Business”, Anna Helwing Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"Meet Me Around the Corner – Works from the Astrup Fearnley Collection”, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway
"2008 California Biennial”, Orange County Museum of Art, curated by Lauri Firstenberg, Newport Beach, CA
2007
"The New Authentics: Artists of the Post-Jewish Generation”, curated by Staci Boris. Spertus Museum, Chicago, IL and Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
"XXS (Extra Extra Small)”, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel-Aviv, Israel
"Lines, Grids, Stains, Words: Minimal Art Drawings from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art”, organized by Christian Rattemeyer, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, and traveling to: Museu Serralves, Porto, Portugal; Museum Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, Germany
"Hammer Contemporary Collection Part 1”, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
"HB – Works on Paper”, Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy
"Play”, Galleri Erik Steen, Oslo, Norway
"The Price of Everything…”, The Art Gallery, CUNY Graduate Center, The City University of New York, New York, NY
"Big Secret Cache”, Angstrom Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2006
"Red Eye: Los Angeles Artists from the Rubell Family Collection” The Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL
"Transforming Chronologies: An Atlas of Drawings, Part Two”, curated by Luis Perez Oramas, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
"Particulate Matter”, curated by Glen Helfand, Mills College of Art, Oakland, CA
"Pierre Bismuth, Ryan Gander, Karl Haendel, T.Kelly Mason”, Cohan and Leslie, New York
"A Brighter Day”, James Cohan Gallery, New York
"Down by law”, curated by the Wrong Gallery as a show within a show for The Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum, New York
2005
"Uncertain States Of America”, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Daniel Birnbaum and Gunnar B. Kvaran,
Astrup Fearnley Museet Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway; traveling to:
Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
Serpentine Gallery, London (catalogue)
Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
Reykjavik Museum of Art, Reykjavik, Iceland
Moscow Biennale
Herning Art Museum, Herning, Denmark
Center for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland
Le Musée de Sérignan, Sérignan, France
Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic
Songzhuan Art Centre, Beijing, China
"Drive Time”, Wingall Museum Chaffey College, Rancho Cucamonga, CA
"Fast Forward: A Passion for the New”, curated by Scenic, House of Campari, Venice, CA
"Rogue Wave”, curated by Christopher Pate and Peter Goulds, LA Louver, Venice, CA
"Hunch and Flail”, curated by Amy Sillman, Artists Space, New York, NY
"L.A.”, Lucas Schoorman Gallery, New York, NY
2004
"California Biennial 2004”, curated by Elizabeth Armstrong and Irene Hofmann, Orange County Museum of Contemporary Art, Newport Beach, CA
"Group Show”, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY, curated by Clarissa Dalrymple and Nicole Klagsbrun
"Gio Ponti: Furnished Settings & Figuration”, ACME, Los Angeles, CA
2003
"Richard Croft, Karl Haendel, Mitchell Syrop”, Rosamund Felsen, Santa Monica, CA
"Side Efffects”, The Latch, Los Angeles, CA
Anna Helwing Gallery, Los Angeles
"What do you see at night?” Track 16, Santa Monica, CA
2002
"Emily Jacir, Karl Haendel, Kevin Hooyman”, La Panaderia, Mexico City, Mexico
1999
"Moving Into Outside”, Holland Tunnel Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
"Xmas”, Kent Gallery, New York, NY
"100 Drawings”, P.S.1 Contemporary Arts Center, Long Island City, Long Island
"Open Studios”, Whitney Independent Study Program, New York, NY
1998
"David Winton Bell Gallery”, Brown University, Providence, RI
"Woods Gerry Gallery”, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
2011
Rosenberg, Karen, “Authorship or Translation? Notes Toward Redefining Creativity”, The New York Times, February 24
Smith, Roberta, “A Bit of Hollywood, Minus the Tinsel”, The New York Times, May 31
Douglas, Sarah, “All About My Father: Artist Karl Haendel and His Friends Have Lots of Questions”, The New York Observer, September 20
Smith, Roberta, “Questions for My Father”, The New York Times, October 27
2010
Moshayedi, Aram, “500 Words: Karl Haendel”, Art Forum, March 23
Goldstein, Andrew M., “In New York: Opening this Weekend”, Artinfo, March 25
Latimer, Quinn, “The High Modernist Drawing Board”, Art In America, March 31
Smith, Roberta, “In Fields of Art, Snapping Photos”, New York Times, April 1
Wahlquist , GF, “Time and the Trace: Karl Haendel at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects”, Arthood.com, April 22
Pulimood, Steve, “Now Showing: Karl Haendel at Lever House”, The New York Times Style Magazine, May 3
Harren, Natilee, “Karl Haendel”, Artforum, May 2010
“Karl Haendel Exhibition”, NY Art Beat, March
Moshayedi, Aram, “500 Words: Karl Haendel”, Art Forum, March 23
2009
Ewing, John, “No Bees, No Blueberries”, Art Lies, Fall, p 94-95
“Portfolio”, First Person, Issue 3, fall 2009, pp. 64-69
Zellen, Jody, “Karl Haendel, New York”, Art Papers, September/October
Baker, Kenneth, “Anno’s abstractions, ‘Marbles’ at Noma”, SFGate, Sept 26
Sperlinger, Mike. “Diminishing Returns, or is Robert Morris Cynical?”, Switch, Issue 1.2, Summer p.29
Szupinka, Joanna. “Play with Your Own Marbles,” Artslant, Sept. 14
Johnson, Ken. “How to Have a Socially Responsible Orgasm and Other Life Lessons” The New York Times, June 12
“Goings On About Town: Karl Haendel,” The New Yorker, June 8 & 15
Wilson, Michael. “Karl Haendel, ‘How to Have a Socially Responsible Orgasm and Other Life Lessons’,” TimeOut NY, Issue 714, June 4-10
“Medium Cool, Installation: Karl Haendel,” TimeOut NY Issue 710, May 7-13,
Vogel, Carol. “Karl Haendel’s Jottings, Writ Large, on a SoHo Wall.” The New York Times, May 7
Beshty, Walead, “Walead Beshty puts for questions to Karl Haendel”, Modern Painters, April, p. 80
Goldstein, Andrew, “The art of Appropriation remains at the forefront, as a major new show from the Rubells testitfies”, The Art Newspaper, Dec 2, p.11
2008
Beshty, Walead, "2008 On the Ground: Los Angeles”, Art Forum, December
Bryan-Wilson, Julia, "Signs and Symbols, On Billboard Projects in Los Angeles”, Artforum, October
Foumberg, Jason. "Review of The New Authentics: Artists of the Post-Jewish Generation, The Spertus Museum, Chicago, USA.” Frieze Magazine, January 8
Haramis, Nick, "The New Regime: Karl Haendel”, BlackBook, December
Watson, Simon. "New Artist Karl Haendel: Redrawing” Whitewall, Winter 2008, pp 68-69.
Whitehead, Vagner M., "An Interview with Karl Haendel (I)” Art Signal: Contemporary Art Magazine. January/March, Issue 3, pp 16-31
2007
Yahav, Galia, "XXS Review” Time Out Tel-Aviv, November 29, p. 86
Weinberg, Lauren, "Art stars of David: There isn’t a Chagall in sight in the ‘new’ Spertus Museum’s first show.” Time Out Chicago, November 29, 2007- December 5, 2007, Issue 144
Bell, Eugenia, "Karl Haendel”, Artforum. November
Saltz, Jerry, "Has Money Ruined Art”, New York Magazine, October 15
"Galleries- Downtown, Karl Haendel”, New Yorker, October 10
Smith, Roberta, "Karl Haendel”, The New York Times, October 5
"Goings on About Town, Art”, New Yorker, September 25
Cotter, Holland, "Quirks and Attitude to Burn”, The New York Times, June 8
Garcia, Kathryn, "Karl Haendel at MOCA Focus”, Textfield, Fall & Winter 2006-07, pp 112 – 113
"Karl Haendel”, The New Yorker, October 1
2006
Wullschlager, Jackie, "Bright, brash, unmissable: the US legacy” Financial Times UK, September 15
Searle, Adrian, "Rebels without a cause”, The Guardian, September 12
Bluhm, Erik, "Karl Haendel", ArtUS, Issue 13, May/June, pp 5
Thompson, Susannah, "Karl Haendel”, Contemporary Magazine, No. 83, pp60-63
Smith, Roberta, "Chelsea Is a Battlefield: Galleries Muster Groups", The New York Times, July 28
Smith, Roberta, "Endgame Art? It’s Borrow, Sample and Multiply in an Exhibition at Bard College”, The New York Times, July 7
Zellan, Jody, "Karl Haendel”, Art Press, April, Issue. 322, pp74-75
Blain, Francoise-Aline. "Los Angeles fait son show”, Beaux Arts magazine. March, pp 76
Pagel, David, "A late 80’s date gets penciled in”, Los Angeles Times, February 22, ppE2
Ng, Fiona, "Getting a Haendel on Things”, Los Angeles Downtown News, February 6, pp 22.
Dea, Cynthia, Los Angeles Times, February 2, ppE46
Schimmel, Paul, "Future Greats 2005”, ArtReview, December/January, pp 92.
"Focus Los Angeles”, Flash Art, January/February, pp70
2005
Jones, Leslie. "Karl Haendel at Anna Helwing Gallery”, Art on Paper, July/August, Vol 9, No 6. pp 65.
Pence, Elizabeth. "Karl Haendel at Anna Helwing Gallery”. Artweek, June, Vol 35, Issue 5. pp18
Ollman, Leah. Los Angeles Times, April 1
Kite, Kristina. Critic’s Pick, ArtForum.com, March 18
2004
Knight, Christopher. "Biennial arrives, and so does museum,” Los Angeles Times, 13 October
Chang, Richard. "The Art of the New,” The Orange County Register, October 10
Pincus, Robert L. "Tuning into the O.C.: ’Biennial" belly laughs," San Diego Tribune
2000
Kawalick, Erika. "Karl Haendel,” McSweeney’s, issue # 6
1999
Heon, Laura and Diggs, Peggy. Billboard: Art on the Road, MASS MoCA and MIT Press
1998
Van Siclen, William. "Bus Gallery,” Providence Journal Bulletin, March 20
Astrup Fearnly Collection, Oslo, Norway
Frank Cohen MoCA Manchester, England
Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
La Coleccion Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Boston, MA
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
2009
“Scribble”, 441 Broadway, New York, NY, with Art Production Fund
"Public Scribble #2", façade of LAXART, Los Angeles, CA
2008
"A Year From Now”, billboard on La Cienega Blvd., Los Angeles, in conjunction with the California Biennial 2008
1998
"Desires”, Kennedy Plaza Bus Terminal, Providence, RI
"Simple Symbols”, Radding Billboards, Providence, RI
2012
Chinati Foundation, Artist in Residence, Marfa, TX
2006
Katherine S. Marmor Award
2004
Penny McCall Foundation Award
Durfee Foundation Grant
2001
Lillian Levinson Scholarship, UCLA
1998
BCAT Residency, Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2009
"Beg, Borrow and Steal", The Rubell Collection, Miami, FL
The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection: Catalogue Raisonne, ed. By Christian Rattemeyer, Museum of Modern Art, NY
2008
"2008 California Biennial”, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
"Lines, Grids, Stains, Words: Minimal Art Drawings from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art”, Christian Rattemeyer, Museum of Modern Art, NY
2007
"The New Authentics: Artists of the Post-Jewish Generation”, Staci Boris, Spertus Museum, Chicago, IL
"Red Eye: Los Angeles Artists from the Rubell Family Collection”, Rubell Family Collection
2006
"Anna Helwing Gallery Conversations: Karl Haendel and Mario Ybarra Jr.”, Anna Helwing Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"Karl Haendel”, MOCA Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
"A Brighter Day”, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY
2005
"do it", edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist, e-flux and Revolver, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
"Uncertain States of America”, Astrup Fearnley Museum of ModernArt, Oslo, Norway
"Rogue Wave”, LA Louver, Venice, CA
2004
"La Panaderia: 1994-2002", edited by Yoshua Okon, Turner, Mexico City, Mexico
"California Bienniel 04”, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
"American Stars N’ Bars”, Chapman University, Orange, CA
2002
"to believe much more than that,” to believe much more than that, Los Angeles: UCLA
2001 "Beyond Relativism,” Wight Biennial Twothousandandone, Los Angeles: UCLA
"Columbia: A journal of Literature and Art #35”, New York, Columbia University, New York, NY
2000
"Mensch & Ubermensch," (with Amy Sillman), Extra, September Issue
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