short biography

Paul McCarthy (b. 1945, Salt Lake City/Utah), based in Los Angeles, is one of the most important and influential contemporary American artists. In his art he deals with the mechanisms of power, politics and desire. McCarthy studied at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles; at the San Francisco Art Institute and at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City.

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collection/s

Art Gallery NSW, Sydney Belvedere, Wien CCS BARD Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson D. Daskalopoulos Collection Deichtorhallen Hamburg & Sammlung Falckenberg Deste Foundation EKEBERGPARKEN Oslo Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art, Istanbul . FRAC Grand Large - Hauts-de-France, Dunkerque FRAC OCCITANIE Montpellier Frac Ile-de-France / Le Plateau Paris Frac Sud, Marseille Herzliya Museum of Art Inhotim Centro de Arte Contemporanea, Brumadinho JULIA STOSCHEK FOUNDATION DÜSSELDORF K20/K21 - Kunstsammlung Nordrhein Westfalen ' Kunsthalle zu Kiel Kunstmuseen Krefeld Kunstmuseum Basel / Museum für Gegenwartskunst Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk MACBA Barcelona ' MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge / MA ° MuHKA - Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp ' Museum der Moderne Salzburg / Rupertinum Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego RUBELL MUSEUM Miami Saatchi Gallery, London Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville Sculpture International Rotterdam TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza, Wien Teutloff Museum The Vleeshal, Middelburg Walker Art Center, Minneapolis Ydessa Hendeles Art Foundation, Toronto
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galleries

1301PE, Los Angeles Air de Paris fuorizona artecontemporanea, Macerata Gary Tatintsian Gallery, Moscow ° Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois, Paris HAUSER & WIRTH Hong Kong HAUSER & WIRTH London HAUSER & WIRTH Los Angeles HAUSER & WIRTH New York HAUSER & WIRTH Somerset HAUSER & WIRTH Zürich Koyama Gallery, Tokyo Studio Guenzani. Milan
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