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.
Christian Schumann
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.
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
