KARL HAENDEL

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KARL HAENDEL
born 1976
lives and works in Los Angeles, California
 
EDUCATION
2003 MFA, University of California, Los Angeles, California
1998 BA, Art-Semiotics and Art History, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
 
SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2025
Frederick Weisman Museum, Pepperdine University, Malibu, California
2024 
Less Bad, Kimball Art Center, Park City, Utah
Love and Capital, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, Texas
2023 
Daily Act of Sustained Empathy, Susanne Vielmetter Projects, Los Angeles, California
The Suburban, with Mike Glier, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 
2022 
Praise New York, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, New York
Praise Berlin, Wentrup Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2021 
Feeble Synapse, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
2020
Double Dominant, Susanne Vielmetter Projects, Los Angeles, California
2019
Masses & Mainstream, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, New York
Mazel Tov Group by Karl Haendel, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, Washington
Art Basel Feature, Basel, Switzerland
2018 Doppelgänger, Wentrup Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2017
Pink Cup and the Facts, with Jay DeFeo, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, New York
By and By, Susanne Vielmetter Projects, Los Angeles, California 
2016
Karl Haendel and Tony Lewis, LAXArt, Los Angeles, California
½ Einstein’s Brain, ½ Moon Rock, Galleria Raucci/Santamaria, Naples, Italy
Unwinding, Unboxing, Unbending, Uncocking, Wentrup, Berlin, Germany
The Suburban, with Peter Ringbom, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
2015
Organic Bedfellow, Feral Othello, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, New York
Unwinding, Unboxing, Unbending, Uncocking, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Weeks in Wet Sheets, Barbara Seiler, Zurich, Switzerland
2014
People Who Don’t Know They’re Dead, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
Water Works, with Adam Helms, Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton, New York
Fresh Musk, Eastern Star Gallery, the Archer School, Los Angeles, California
2013
The Competition Myth, Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
High Performance Stiffened Structures, Museo de Arte de El Salvador, San Salvador, El Salvador; traveled to Locust Projects, Miami, Florida
2012
Oral Sadism and the Vegetarian Personality, Human Resources, Los Angeles, California
Questions for My Father, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, Utah; traveled to the Box, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio
Informal Family Blackmail, Susanne Vielmetter Projects, Los Angeles, California
2011
Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
Celestial Spectacular, with Jennifer Bornstein, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Questions for My Father, with Peter Ringbom, Harris Lieberman, New York, New York
Fiddle the Cooperation, Galleria Raucci/Santamaria, Naples, Italy
2010
Lever House, New York, New York
Sir Ernest Shackleton and All the Clocks in My House, Susanne Vielmetter Projects, Los Angeles, California 
2009
Displeasure, Milliken Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
Plug n’ Play, with Walead Beshty, Redling Fine Art, Los Angeles, California
How to Have a Socially Responsible Orgasm and Other Life Lessons, Harris Lieberman, New York
2008
Kommitment Karl, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
2007
The Suburban, Chicago, IllinoisI Need Work, Harris Lieberman, New York, New York
Last Fair Deal Gone Down, Anna Helwing Gallery, Los Angeles, California 
2006
MOCA Focus: Karl Haendel, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
Makes a Long Time Man Feel Bad, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
Make Me Down a Pallet on Your Floor, Sorcha Dallas, Glasgow, United Kingdom
2005
Grits Ain’t Groceries (All Around the World), Anna Helwing Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2003
You Can’t Lose What You Ain’t Never Had, Anna Helwing Gallery, Los Angeles, California
 
PUBLIC PROJECTS
2024 
Hands Holding History, LA METRO, Wilshire/Fairfax train station, Los Angeles, California
2021
Christine Lynn Rehab Center, Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami, Florida
2015
Plow Pose, I-70 Sign Show, St. Louis, Missouri
2011
Questions for Marfa, building façade, part of Nothing Beside Remains, LAND, Marfa, Texas
2010
A Year From Now, Art Moves, 3rd International Festival of Billboards, Torun, Poland
2009
Public Scribble #2, façade of LAXART, Los Angeles, California
Scribble, with Art Production Fund, 411 Broadway, New York, New York
2008
A Year From Now, California Biennial 2008, billboard on La Cienega Boulvard, Los Angeles, California
1998
Desires, Kennedy Plaza Bus Terminal, Providence, Rhode Island
Simple Symbols, Radding Billboards, Providence, Rhode Island
 
SELECTED AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
2015
California Community FoundationPollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
2011
Chinati Foundation Artist-in-Residence, Marfa, Texas
2004
Penny McCall Foundation AwardDurfee Foundation Grant
2000
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine
 
COLLECTIONS
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway
Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, New York
Colección Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico
Collection Lambert, Avignon, France
Deutsche Bank Collection, Frankfurt, Germany
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts
Guggenheim Museum, New York
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California
Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, Washington
Kadist Art Foundation, San Francisco, California
Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany
Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles, California
Miami-Dade County Art in Public Places, Miami, Florida
Museo d’arte della Svizzera italiana, Lugano, Switzerland
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Alicante, Spain
Museum of Modern Art, New York
North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, North Dakota
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California
Perez Art Museum, Miami, Florida
Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma
Public Art Collection, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
RISD Museum, Providence, Rhode Island
Rubell Family Collection, Miami, Florida
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Wemhöner Collection, Berlin, Germany
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York