Biography

Born in 1970 in Rhode Island, Christian Schumann is known for the Expressionist cartoon-like imagery that he works into complex paintings and drawings, featuring intricate blends of fantastic landscapes, still lifes, and figures.

Biography

Born in 1970 in Rhode Island, Christian Schumann is known for the Expressionist cartoon-like imagery that he works into complex paintings and drawings, featuring intricate blends of fantastic landscapes, still lifes, and figures. Drawing on influences from both the underground art scene and the realms of cartooning and video art, Schumann creates works that are at once imaginative and grotesque, underground and mainstream. Living and working in New York, Los Angeles, and Austin, Texas, during his career, Schumann often combines text, abstraction, and figuration to create work that evokes not only a sense of imagination, but also of political and social commentary. He has shown with galleries around the United States and Europe, including solo shows at Gagosian Gallery in Los Angeles and White Cube in London.

His work is included in the collections of major art museums such as the Dallas Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, and has been featured in magazines across the art world spectrum, including Art in America and Juxtapoz.


Education

1991 – AICA New York Studio Program

1992 – B.F.A., San Francisco Art Institute


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Exhibitions

2007

Patrick Painter Inc, Los Angeles
Pilar Parra & Romero, Madrid

2006

carlier | gebauer, Berlin

2005

Leo Koenig Inc, New York

2004

Patrick Painter Inc, Los Angeles

2003

“Levels, Platforms, Paths and Obstacles,” Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX
“Being inside the building, eating the hall of records before watching bystanders.” carlier | gebauer, Berlin

2001

Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles

2000

carlier | gebauer, Berlin

1999

Postmasters Gallery, New York

1998

Works on paper, Postmasters Gallery, New York

1997

White Cube, London

1996

“Circles and Satellites,” Il Capricorno, Venice, Italy

1995

Postmasters Gallery, New York
Ruth Bloom Gallery, Los Angeles
Postmasters Gallery (project room), New York

1994

Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco

1993

Postmasters Gallery, New York

1992

Works on paper, Postmasters Gallery, New York
Anti-Matter Gallery, San Francisco

1991

Arid Flowers of Gongorism, DOG, San Francisco, CA

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