NEW YORK, NY.- On the heels of George Condo’s internationally acclaimed 2025 career survey at Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris a five-decade immersion described by the Financial Times as ‘accentuating not just Condo’s sustained virtuosity, but his diverse forms of expression, techniques, recurring invented characters and art historical allusions’. Hauser & Wirth has announced it will present two major exhibitions in 2027 with the renowned American artist in its Paris and Palo Alto locations. Featuring new and historical works, this pair of exhibitions will continue the gallery’s history of important solo shows with George Condo held in New York, Los Angeles and London.
In a statement, Condo wrote: ‘I’m very excited to be looking toward 2027 and my next exhibitions with Hauser & Wirth in distinct locations that hold such resonance and allure for me. My love affair with Paris may be decades long but it’s endlessly self-renewing. I’ve always been inspired by the art, literature and creative thinking that was born out of the Parisian atmosphere. At the same time, I am extremely curious about the prospect of Palo Alto and bringing new art to the birthplace of technology. Creative production is at the core of both cities’ identities; this is all very thrilling and inspirational’
George Condo is a defining figure of contemporary American painting. Over more than four decades, he has forged a relentlessly inventive path, deploying technical skill and canonical art historical knowledge to channel the painterly modes of American and European art history into works of astonishing originality. Condo synthesizes past pictorial languages and motifs to create, as he has put it, ‘composites of various psychological states painted in different ways.’ Oftentimes, the influence of multiple historical moments can be felt in a single work. Most of Condo’s paintings feature the human figure, these are not portraits of living individuals but are invented characters, captured in ways that reveal their humanity.
Marc Payot, President, Hauser & Wirth said: ‘It’s wonderful to be starting the next chapter in our collaboration with George Condo by planning ambitious shows in places identified with cultural breakthroughs. George is, and always has been, a true pioneer. With his uncanny ability to synthesize past and present into a completely new artistic language, we know these exhibitions will dazzle.’
