Carroll Dunham (b. 1949) lives and works in New York and Connecticut.
Institutional solo and two person exhibitions by Dunham include Where am I? Prints 1985–2022, National Museum, Oslo (2023); Carroll Dunham/Albert Oehlen: Bäume/Trees, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf and Sprengel Museum, Hannover (2019–2020); Carroll Dunham: Works on Paper, Museum Ludwig, Cologne (2009); Carroll Dunham: Painting and Sculpture 2004 – 2008, Millesgården, Stockholm (2008); Carroll Dunham Small Drawings 1991 – 2005, Drammens Museum, Drammen (2006); and a mid-career retrospective was held at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (2002).
Dunham has been included in notable group exhibitions including the Whitney Biennial, New York (1985, 1991, 1995); This Will Have Been: Art, Love, and Politics in the 1980s, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (2013); Print/Out, The Museum of Modern Art, New York (2012); What Is Painting? Contemporary Art from the Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York (2007); Remote Viewing, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2005); Tear Down This Wall: Paintings from the 1980s, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2004); American Century, Part II, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (1999); Drawings: 30th Anniversary Exhibition, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York (1993); and First Impressions: Early Prints by Forty-Six Contemporary Artists, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (1989).
He has held solo exhibitions at galleries around the world including Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Paris; Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich; Blum & Poe, Los Angeles; Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, Los Angeles, Brussels; Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles; Metro Pictures, New York; Skartstedt Gallery, New York; White Cube, London; Gerhardsen Gerner, Oslo, Berlin; Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, Colorado; Atle Gerhardsen, Berlin; Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich; Judin Gallery, Zürich; and Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles.
Dunham’s work is included in the collections of Albertina Museum, Vienna; Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago; Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo; The British Museum, London; Brooklyn Museum, New York; Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland; Drammens Museum, Drammen, Norway; Fort Wayne Art Museum, Fort Wayne, IN; Inhotim Institute, Brumadinho, Brazil; The Judith Rothschild Foundation, New York; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX; Museum Ludwig, Cologne; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, MO; Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS; Olbricht Collection, Essen, Germany; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia; Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence; Tate, London; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
His forthcoming drawing retrospective will open at the Art Institute of Chicago in January, 2026.