Born in 1966 in San Francisco, USA
Lives and works in San Francisco

SELECTED SOLO SHOWS

2020 – Potato Sack Body, Perrotin, Tokyo, Japan
2019 – The Other Side, Perrotin, Hong Kong, China
2018 – Little Savage, Eighteen, Copenhagen, Denmark
2018 – Bellport-Brookhaven Historical Society, Bellport, USA
2018 – SB Mid-Summer Intensive, Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, USA
2018 – Cheim & Read, New York, USA
2016 – Untitled, Sites Unseen, Moscone Center, San Francisco, USA
2016 – MC06, Monster Children Magazine, Sydney, Australia
2015 – China Boo, Ratio 3, San Francisco, USA
2013 – FOCUS: Barry McGee, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, USA
2013 – Barry McGee, Mid-Career Survey, Institute of Contemporary Art / Boston, Boston, USA
2013 – Cheim & Read, New York, USA
2012 – Barry McGee, Mid-Career Survey, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, USA
2011 – Workshop Arte Contemporanea, Venice, Italy
2011 – New Work, Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London, UK
2010 – Leave it Alone, Barry McGee & Clare Rojas, Bolinas Museum, Bolinas, USA
2010 – The Last Night (two person show with HuskMitNavn), Alice Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2009 – Mr. Brown, Galleria Alessandra Bonomo, Rome, Italy
2008 – A Moment for Reflection: New Work by Lydia Fong, Ratio 3, San Francisco, USA
2008 – The Big Sad: Barry McGee & Clare Rojas, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, USA
2008 – They Don’t Make this Anymore, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK
2007 – The Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
2007 – Butler Gallery, Kilkenney Castle, Ireland
2007 – Advanced Mature Work, Redcat Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2006 – Loft, Roberts & Tilton, Culver City, USA
2006 – We Have a Friend in Common, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark
2006 – The Art of Robert Pimple, Paule Anglim Gallery, San Francisco, USA
2005 – Easy Tonto, Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London, UK
2005 – One More Thing, Deitch Projects, New York, USA
2005 – John Kaldor Art Projects, Metropolitan Meat Market, Melbourne, Australia
2005 – Things Are Really Getting Better, Museum Het Domein Sittard, Sittard, Netherlands
2004 – The stars were aligned…, Metropolitan Meat Market Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2004 – Barry McGee, curated by Raphaela Platow, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Boston, USA
2004 – John Kaldor Projects, Sydney, Australia
2002 – Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy
2002 – Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London, UK
2002 – Paule Anglim, San Francisco, USA
2000 – Hammer Projects: Barry McGee, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA
1999 – Hoss, Rice University Art Gallery, Houston, USA
1999 – The Buddy System, Deitch Projects, New York, USA
1998 – Regards, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA
1995 – Installation, Art & Design Studio/ K&T Lionheart LTD, Boston, USA
1994 – Installation, Center for the Arts at Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco, USA
1993 – Installation, Museum Laser Segall, São Paulo, Brazil

SELECTED GROUP SHOWS

2018 – Beyond the Streets, multi-media installations spread throughout Los Angeles, USA
2018 – People, Deitch Projects, New York, USA
2018 – Magic, Roberts & Tilton, Culver City, USA
2017 – 10th Anniversary, Gallery Target, Tokyo, Japan
2017 – The Present Tense: R. Crumb / Barry McGee, Ratio 3, San Francisco, USA
2017 – Sea Sick in Paradise, curated by Amy Yao, Malibu Village and Dean & Deluca, Malibu, USA
2017 – Stay Gold – Todd James, Geoff McFetridge, Barry McGee and Thomas Campbell, VI Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
2017 – Big Sky Little Moon, Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
2016 – New to the Cantor, Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Stanford, USA
2015 – FUD, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
2015 – SCAPES, Auto Body, Bellport, NY
2014 – Green Circle, Black Diamond, Ratio 3, San Francisco, USA
2014 – ENERGY THAT IS ALL AROUND/Mission School, Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York, USA
2014 – Fertile Found: Art and Community in California, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, USA
2014 – Clare Rojas and Barry McGee, Galleria Alessandra Bonomo, Rome, Italy
2014 – ..And Color, Anglim Gilbert Gallery, San Francisco, USA
2013 – Theatrical Gestures, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya, Israel
2013 – Proximities 2: Knowing Me, Knowing You, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, USA
2013 – Wood, Glass, Paper, Galleria Alessandra Bonomo, Rome, Italy
2012 – Street, The New Art Gallery Walsall, West Highlands, UK
2012 – The Art of the Joke, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
2012 – DFW, Arts Le Havre 2012 – Biennale d’Art Contemporain, Le Havre, France
2011 – Sydney Laneways, Sydney, Australia
2011 – Art in The Streets, The Geffen Contemporary at Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA
2011 – Let’s Go Bombing Tonight, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
2011 – 50 Years of Bay Area Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
2011 – New York Minute, Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow, Russia
2011 – I Love Art 11, Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
2010 – DRAW, Museo de la Cludad de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico
2010 – Muddguts Meets Homebase, MAMA Rotterdam, Netherlands
2010 – Leave It Alone & Together At Last, Bolinas Museum, Bolinas, USA
2009 – 75 Years Looking Forward: The Anniversary Show, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
2009 – Mindthegap, Prism, Los Angeles, USA
2009 – New York Minute, MACRO FUTURE, Rome, Italy
2009 – Lyon Biennale, Lyon, France
2009 – Born in the Streets-Graffiti, Foundation Cartier Paris, France
2009 – Galaxy: A Hundred or So Stars Visible to the Naked Eye, University of California, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, USA
2009 – When Crooks Roam the Streets, Galerie Olivier Robert, Paris, France
2008 – Life on Mars: The 55th Carnegie International, Pittsburgh, USA
2008 – 15 Year Anniversary Exhibition, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark
2008 – Macrocosm, Roberts & Tilton, Culver City, USA
2007 – EUPHORION, Pierogi Gallery, Leipzig, Germany
2007 – Mapping the Self, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA
2007 – Art in America, Now, Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China
2007 – Silly Adults, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark
2007 – Hammer Contemporary Collection: Part II, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA
2006 – Meditations in an Emergency, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, USA
2006 – Spank the Monkey, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK
2006 – Beautiful Losers: Contemporary Art and Street Culture, La Triennale de Milano, Italy
2006 – Pure Land / Liquid Paper, Ratio 3, San Francisco, USA
2006 – I Love Art 8, Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
2006 – Portraits, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles, USA
2006 – Panic Room: Works from the Dakis Joannou Collection, DESTE Foundation, Center for Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
2005 – On Line, The Louisiana Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark
2005 – Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid, Spain
2005 – Untitled, Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles, USA
2004 – Barry McGee / Josh Lazcano, Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, USA
2003 – Scribble & Scripture, Roberts & Tilton, Culver City, USA
2002 – Liverpool Biennale, Liverpool, UK
2002 – Drawing Now: Eight Propositions, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
2002 – Session the Bowl, Jeffrey Deitch, New York
2001 – Holdfast: Barry McGee & Margaret Kilgallen, Deste Foundation Center for Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
2001 – Un art populaire, Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain, Paris, France
2001 – 49th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
2000 – Street Market, Parco Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2000 – Indelible Market, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, USA
1999 – Robert Crumb, Philip Guston, Barry McGee, Paul Morris Gallery, USA
1998 – Art from Around the Bay, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
1997 – Drawing Installation, Galerie Tanya Rumpff, Haarlem, Netherlands
1997 – New Work: Drawings Today, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, USA
1996 – SECA Art Award, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
1996 – Wall Drawings, The Drawing Center, New York,USA
1995 – Degenerate Art, The Lab, San Francisco, USA
1993 – Twelve Bay Area Painters: The Eureka Fellowship Winners, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, USA
1993 – Texture of Nature, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, USA
1992 – U.C. Santa Cruz, Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery, Santa Cruz, USA
1991 – Wall of Resistance, Wall of Shame, UC Berkeley, Berkeley Art, USA

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), San Francisco, USA
Berkeley Museum of Art and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, USA
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA
The New Art Gallery, Walsall, UK
Fondazione Prada, Venice, Italy
The Margulies Collection at the WAREhOUSE, Miami, USA
UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA

AWARDS

1996 – SECA Art Award San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
1994 – The Creative Work Fund, Walter and Elise Haas Fund
1993 – Lila Wallace, Readers Digest International Artist Program
1993 – Eureka Fellowship, Fleishaker Foundation
1991 – Merit Scholarship, San Francisco Art Institute
1990 – Carson Paper Award
Merit Scholarship, San Francisco Art Institute
1989 – Sobel Scholarship, San Francisco Art Institute

EDUCATION

1991 – B.F.A. Painting & Printmaking, San Francisco Art Institute, USA