George Condo

Quick Facts

Full Name	George Condo
Occupation	Painter
Date Of Birth	Dec 10, 1957(1957-12-10)
Age	67
Birthplace	Concord
Country	United States
Birth City	New Hampshire
Horoscope	Sagittarius

George Condo Biography

George Condo is one of the most popular and richest Painter who was born on December 10, 1957 in Concord, New Hampshire, United States. George Condo (born 1957 in Concord, New Hampshire) is a American contemporary artist. He is a painter and drawing, sculpture, and printmaking. He lives and is at New York City.

Condo has been showing alongside Spruth Magers ever since 1984. Simon Lee since 1998, Skarstedt since 2005, and Xavier Hufkens since 2006. Its work Nude as well as forms (2014) set the record for auctions at $6.16 Million during Christie’s New York in May 2018.

Between 1985 and 1995 Condo lived and worked mostly in hotels and rented studios between Paris and New York, while continuing to exhibit extensively in the United States and Europe. In Paris, Haring introduced Condo to the American writer and artist Brion Gysin, who in turn later introduced him to William S. Burroughs. Condo and Burroughs collaborated on numerous paintings and sculptures between 1988 and 1996. Selected works from their collaborations were exhibited in 1997 at Pat Hearn Gallery, New York. Condo and Burroughs also worked together on a collection of writings and etchings titled Ghost of Chance, which was published by the Whitney Museum in 1991.

Condo married actress Anna Achdian in 1989. They have two daughters, Eleonore and Raphaelle. The couple divorced in 2016. Soon afterward, Condo dated Ashley Olsen.

The first public exhibits of his work were held at New York City at various East Village galleries from 1981 until 1983. In that time, he worked in the factory of Andy Warhol, mostly in the silkscreen production studio , where he applied Diamond dust on the Warhol’s Myths series. He was briefly relocated from Los Angeles and had his first solo show in 1983 at the Ulrike Kantor Gallery. Following his return back to New York later that year Condo made his first visit to Europe. Condo was then moved into Cologne, Germany, where he worked and met with several artists of The Mulheimer Freiheit group, including Walter Dahn and Jiri Georg Dokoupil. The first solo exhibition he had of his work in Europe occurred in 1984 at the Monika Spruth Gallery.

George Condo Net Worth

George Condo is one of the richest Painter from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, George Condo 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Condo was a student of music theory and art history during his time at his school, the University of Massachusetts Lowell. Through his childhood, he was a student of the guitar and music composition, while also exploring his love of drawing and painting. In the following two years, he attended UMass Lowell he moved to Boston where was employed in a silk screen workshop and then joined proto-synth/punk outfit The Girls as a bassist together with abstract painter Mark Dagley, avant-garde musician Daved Hild as well as Robin Amos, founding member of Cul de Sac. Their sole single “Jeffrey You”/ “Elephant Man,” You”/”Elephant Man” (1979) was recorded by David Thomas of Pere Ubu. Condo was introduced to Jean-Michel Basquiat for the first time in 1979 when Basquiat’s group Gray performed at his group the Girls at the nightclub in downtown Tier 3. Following this encounter, Condo relocated into Ludlow Street in New York City to pursue a profession as an artist. He was an original band member in the punk/blues duo Hi Sheriffs of Blue in 1980.

As he emerged from his time in the East Village art scene in the 1980s in the beginning, Condo coined the term Artificial Realism, “the realistic representation of that which is artificial” to refer to his fusion of the traditional European Old Master painting with an aesthetic influenced by American pop culture. Alongside Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring, Condo was instrumental in the global revival of painting that took place from the 1980s and onwards. Condo’s work was influential to artists of his generation as well as those who followed him which included Nigel Cooke, Sean Landers, John Currin, Lisa Yuskavage as well as Glenn Brown.

While still in Europe Condo met and began working with American art dealer Barbara Gladstone, and in 1984 he had a simultaneous two-gallery exhibition in New York at Pat Hearn and Barbara Gladstone Galleries. Already close friends with Basquiat by this time, Condo met Keith Haring on returning to New York, and the two remained lifelong friends until Haring’s death from AIDS in 1990. Several of Condo’s most significant works from this period, such as Dancing to Miles (1985), which was included in the 1987 Whitney Biennial and is now in the collection of the Broad Foundation in Los Angeles, were painted in Haring’s East Village studio.

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Who is George Condo Dating?

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Throughout his career as an artist, Condo’s work has served as an influence and inspiration to contemporary writers including Burroughs, Guattari, Demosthenes Davvetas, Donald Kuspit, Wilfried Dickhoff, and Salman Rushdie, whose 2001 novel Fury includes a chapter inspired by Condo’s 1994 oil painting The Psychoanalytic Puppeteer Losing His Mind. American fiction writer David Means also used a Condo painting, The Fallen Butler (2010), as inspiration for his short story “The Butler’s Lament”, which appears in the catalogue for the exhibition Mental States, a mid-career survey of the artist’s paintings and sculptures organized by the Hayward Gallery, London, and the New Museum, New York, in 2011. Allen Ginsberg, a close friend and frequent visitor to Condo’s Paris studio, where he photographed the artist on several occasions, asked Condo to paint his portrait for the cover of his Selected Poems: 1947-1995, published in 1996 by HarperCollins.

Facts & Trivia

George Ranked on the list of most popular Painter. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. George Condo celebrates birthday on December 10 of every year.

In 2005 the Museum der Moderne Salzburg and Kunsthalle Bielefeld co-organized the exhibition George Condo: One Hundred Women, curated by Dr. Thomas Kellein. The exhibition was accompanied by a monograph featuring essays by Margrit Brehm, Stacey Schmidt, and Kellein. In 2009 the Musee Maillol, Paris, organized the exhibition George Condo: The Lost Civilization featuring paintings, drawings, and sculpture created between 2003 and 2008. The monograph published by Gallimard in conjunction with the exhibition featured new writings on the artist’s work by Didier Ottinger, Bertrand Lorquin, and Massimiliano Gioni, as well as a reprinting of Felix Guattari’s original text from 1990.

Top Facts about George Condo

1. George Condo is an American contemporary artist.
2. He was born in New Hampshire in 1957.
3. Condo studied art at the University of Massachusetts and Boston’s Museum School.
4. He worked as a studio assistant for Andy Warhol in the 1980s.
5. Condo’s work has been exhibited internationally since the 1980s.
6. His paintings often feature distorted, cartoonish figures and pop culture references.
7. In 2019, his painting “The Fool” sold for $6 million at auction.
8. Condo has collaborated with musicians such as Kanye West and Pharell Williams.
9. He has also designed album covers for bands like The Rolling Stones and Jack White.
10. Condo currently lives and works in New York City.

What is George Condo known for?

(American, born 1957) George Condo is a contemporary American artist known for his unique figurative paintings and prints.

How much is a George Condo painting?

George Condo’s work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 126 USD to 6,857,530 USD , depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 1998 the record price for this artist at auction is 6,857,530 USD for Force Field, sold at Christie’s Hong Kong in 2020.

Who represents George Condo?

George Condo, Painter of Picasso-Inspired Tableaux, Is Now Represented by Hauser & Wirth.

What kind of art does George Condo make?

George Condo (born 1957) is an American visual artist who works in painting, drawing, sculpture and printmaking.

What does Condo mean in America?

The term ‘condominium’ or ‘condo’ is used in North America and some other English speaking areas such as Australia, to refer to a building in which individual units are separately owned, but common areas are owned jointly.