Karl Haendel | VIELMETTER LOS ANGELES

1976: Born in New York
: Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA

2003: University of California, Los Angeles, MFA
2000: Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
1999: Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, New York, NY
1998: Brown University, Providence, RI, BA in Art Semiotics and Art History

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2026: "Glass half," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2025: "Blind Faith, Hope, Pandora’s Box, Messiah," Wentrup Gallery Berlin, Germany
: "…but then again," Sommer Salon, Zurich, Switzerland
: "Less Bad," Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA
2024: "Less Bad," Kimball Art Center, Park City, UT
: "Love and Capital," Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, TX
2023: "Karl Haendel and Mike Glier," The Suburban, Milwaukee, WI
: "Daily Act of Sustained Empathy," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2022: "Praise Berlin," Wentrup Gallery, Berlin, Germany
: "Praise New York," Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, NY
2021: "Feeble Synapse," Sommer Tel-Aviv, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel-Aviv, Israel (Link)
2020: "Double Dominant," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2019: Art Basel Feature, Basel, Switzerland
: "Masses & Mainstream," Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, NY
: "Mazel Tov Group by Karl Haendel," Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
2018: "Doppelgänger," Wentrup Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2017: "BY AND BY," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
: "Pink Cup and the Facts," Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, NY
2016: "The Suburban," Riverwest, Milwaukee, WI (with Petter Ringbom)
: "Unwinding Unboxing, Unbending Uncocking," Wentrup Gallery, Berlin, Germany
: "Karl Haendel and Tony Lewis," LAXART, Los Angeles, CA
: “1/2 Einstein’s Brain, 1/2 Moon Rock,” Galleria Raucci/Santamaria, Naples, Italy
2015: "Unwinding Unboxing, Unbending Uncocking," Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
: "Organic Bedfellow, Feral Othello," Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, NY
: "Weeks in Wet Sheets," Barbara Seiler Gallery, 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, NY
: "Fresh Musk," Eastern Star Gallery at the Archer School for Girls, Los Angeles, CA
2013: "Oral Sadism and the Vegetarian Personality", Museo de Arte de El Salvador (MARTE), San Salvador, El Salvador
: "The Competition Myth," Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
: "High Performance Stiffened Structures, Locust Projects, Miami, FL
2012: "Oral Sadism and the Vegetarian Personality," Human Resources, Los Angeles, CA
: "Questions For My Father," Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, Utah
: "Questions for My Father," The Box, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH
: "Informal Family Blackmail," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
2011: Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
: "Celestial Spectacular," Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (with Jennifer Bornstein)
: "Questions for My Father," Harris Lieberman, New York, NY( with Petter Ringbom)
: "Fiddle the Cooperation," Galleria Raucci/Santamaria, Naples, Italy
2010: "Karl Haendel," Lever House, New York, NY
: "Sir Ernest Shackelton and All The Clocks in My House," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
: "My Invisible Friend," Tony Wight Gallery, Chicago, IL
2009: "Displeasure," Milliken Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
: "Plug n Play," Redling Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA (with Walead Beshty)
: "How to Have a Socially Responsible Orgasm and Other Life Lessons", Harris Lieberman, New York, NY
2008: "Kommitment Karl, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
2007: The Suburban, Chicago, IL
: "I Need Work," Harris Lieberman, New York, NY
: "Last Fair Deal Gone Down," Anna Helwing Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2006: "MOCA Focus Series," Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
: "Makes a Long Time Man Feel Bad," Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
: "Make Me Down a Pallet on Your Floor," Sorcha Dallas Contemporary Art, Glasgow, Scotland
2005: "Grits Aint Groceries (All Around the World)," Anna Helwing Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2003: "You Cant Lose What You Aint Never Had," Anna Helwing Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2026: "Into the Time Horizon," Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV
: "Model World," Tierra Del Sol, Los Angeles, CA
2025: "See it Now: Contemporary Art from the Ann and Mel Schaffer Collection," Tang Teaching Museum & Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
: "Alexa Almany, Karl Haendel, Pamela Ramos," Timeshare, Los Angeles, CA
: "Blissfully Miserable," Petah Tikva Museum of Art, Petah Tikva, Israel
: "Hold my hand in yours," Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA
: “Experience 61: GRIEF,” Experimentally Structured Museum of Art (EsMoA), Lawndale, CA
: "Crosscurrents: Works from the Contemporary Collection," Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
: "Who made the grasshopper?," Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, TX
2024: "Standpunkte. Blick in die Sammlung #7," Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
: "Flower Sound," Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, TX
: "The Art of Oscar," Jeffrey Deitch Projects, Los Angeles, CA
: "20 years – An Anniversary Show," Wentrup Gallery, Berlin, Germany
: "Dogs & Dads," Diane Rosenstein Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
: "Viewpoints, View into the Collection #7," Kunsthalle Bielefeld Wentrup Gallery, Bielefeld, Germany
: "The Art of Oscar," Jeffrey Deitch & The Hollywood Reporter, Los Angeles, CA
: "On the Passage of a Few People Through a Rather Brief Period of Time," Contemporary Arts Center Gallery, UC Irvine, Irvine, CA
2023: "Cowboy," MCA Denver, Denver, CO; Traveling to Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX (2024 – 2025)
: "Perpetual Portrait," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
: "New Acquisitions," North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND
2022: "Obertura: Más allá de los mapas," Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Alicante (MACA), Alicante, Spain
: "Among Friends: Three Views of a Collection," The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY
: "The Tale Their Terror Tells," Curated by Geena Brown & Lauren Guilford, Lyes and King, New York, NY
: "Works on Paper on Fridges," Harkawik, New York, NY
2021: "Fake News: Art, Fiction, Mensonge," EDF Group Foundation, Paris, France
: "20 Years," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
: "The Frog Show," Real Pain Fine Art, New York, NY
: "The Skin I Live In," Lyles & King, New York, NY
2020: "zoom in – zoom out," Wentrup, Berlin, Germany
: "20 Years," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
: "100 Drawings from Now," The Drawing Center, New York City, NY
2019: "Dreamhouse Vs. Punk House (Plus Cat House)," Serious Topics, Inglewood, CA
: "20 Years," Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
: "Drawn Together Again," FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY
: "Fake News-Fake Truth," Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel
: "Copines–Copains–Berlin," Wentrup, Berlin, DE
: "We are the people. Who are you?" Edel Assanti, London, UK
2018: "A Slice through the World: Contemporary Artists’ Drawings," Drawing Room, London, UK and Modern Art, Oxford, UK (Link)
: “The World on Paper,” Deutsche Bank KunstHalle, Berlin, Germany
: "Papier.Salon.," Wentrup Gallery, Berlin, Germany
: "INTO ACT!ON: A Celebration of Community Power & Cultural Resistance," Los Angeles, CA
: "Not Your Toy," Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, IL
: "Noi e il Masi, Donazione Giancarlo e Danna Olgiati," Museo d’arte della Svizzera Italiana (MASI Lugano), Lugano, Switzerland
2017: "Salon," Hauser & Wirth, Zürich, Switzerland
: "I who make mistakes on the eternal typewriter," Drawing Centre Diepenheim, The Netherlands (Link)
: “Unsere Amerikaner,” Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
: “Really?” curated by Beth Rudin DeWoody, Wilding Cran Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
: “Game On!,” Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK
: "Black Mirror," Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
: "Drawings & Sculptures," Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
: “American Dream: Paintings and Drawings of American Realism since 1965,” Kunsthalle Emden, Emden, Germany
2016: “Halftime in America,” Arturo Bandini, Los Angeles, CA
: “House Warming,” Adds Donna, Chicago, IL
: “Questions to My Father,” Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
2015: Biennial of the Americas, Denver, CO
: "SUNSET STRIP," organized by Night Gallery at The Batter, San Francisco, CA
: “The World is Made of Stories,” Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway
2014: Whitney Biennial, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, curated by Stuart Comer, Anthony Elms, and Michelle Grabner
: "Lone Tree," Marlborough Chelsea, New York, NY
: "Informal Forms," Aran Cravey Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
: "Life Transmissions," curated by Marcus Herse, Guggenheim Gallery at Chapman University, Orange, CA
: "Ghost Current," curated by Ryan Wallace, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
: "Manifest Intention. Drawing In All Its Forms," Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy, curated by Beatrice Merz with Marianna Vecellio
2013: "Meanwhile Suddenly and Then," 12th Biennale de Lyon, curated by Gunnar B. Kvaran, Lyon, France
2012: "The Residue of Memory," Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO, curated by Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson
: "Graphite," curated by Sarah Urist Green, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
: "True Stories," Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, curated by Lilly Wei
: "Kathryn Andrews, Darren Bader, and Karl Haendel," United Artists, Ltd., Marfa, TX
2011: "In the Name of the Artists – American Contemporary Art from the Astrup Fearnley Collection," The São Paulo Bienniale Pavillion, São Paulo
: "Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art," Bienal Pavillion, Sao Paulo, Brazil
: "Degenerate Art Lives (with Yael Bartana and Tomas Zipp)," Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
: "Benessere Temporaneo," Galleryia Six, Milan, Italy
: "Art sur Image:  Collection du MAMAC," Galerie des Ponchettes, Muse d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain, Nice, France
: "Verisimilitude," Francois Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
: "The Voyage, or Three Years at Sea, Part 2" Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
: "Prospect II," curated by Dan Cameron, New Orleans, LA
: "Drawn from Photography, The Drawing Center, New York, NY, and DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, IL, curated by Claire Gilman
: "Nothing Beside Remains," LAND, Marfa, TX, curated by Shamim Momin
: "Greater LA," curated by Benjamin Godsill, Eleaonor Cayre and Joel Mesler, New York, NY
: "The Unbearable Lightness of Being," Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
: "Ohlio," Country Club, Cincinati, OH
: "Prix Canson 2011," Htel de Sauroy, Paris, France
: "American Exuberance," Rubell Family Collection/Contemporary Arts Foundation, Miami, FL
2010: "Haunted", Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, curated by Jennifer Blessing
: "The Last Newspaper," The New Museum, New York, NY, curated by Richard Flood and Benjamin Godsill
: "Art Moves 2010," 3rd International Festival of Art Bilboards, Torun, Poland
: "Second Story," Pepin Moore, Los Angeles, CA
: "Karl Haendel & Walead Beshty," Sheree Hovsepian, and Barbara Kasten, Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago, IL
: "Held Up By Columns," Renwick Gallery, New York, NY
: "Image Transfer: Pictures in a Remix Culture," Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA; traveled to: Richard E. Peeler Art Center, DePauw University, Greencastle, IN; Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, University of Batimore, MD; Newcomb Art Gallery, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA; Salina Art Center, Salina, KS
: "Pictures and Statues," Country Club, Cincinati, OH
: "Blind Mirror," Galleria Raucci/Santamaria, Naples, Italy
: "New Art for a New Century: Contemporary Acquisitions, 2000-2010," Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
2009: "Collection: MoCA’s First Thirty Years (1980 Now)," The Geffen Contemporary at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles, CA, curated by Paul Schimmel
: "Beg Borrow and Steal," Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL; traveled to the Palm Springs Museum, Palm Springs, CA
: "Maximal Minimal," Primopiano, Lugano, Switzerland, curated by Nini Bonavoglia
: "Rotating Views #2 – Works from the Astrup Fearnley Collection", Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway
: "Play With Your Own Marbles: Walead Beshty, Karl Haendel & Patrick Hill," Noma Gallery, San Francisco, CA, curated by Betty Nguyen
: "No Bees, No Blueberries," Harris Lieberman Gallery, NY, cur. by Sarina Basta and Tyler Coburn
: "Nothingness and Being", curated by Shamim Momin, Fundacin/Coleccin Jumex, Mexico
: "Picturing the Studio, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, curated by Michelle Grabner and Annika Marie
: "This Is Killing Me," Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA
2008: "Going Out of Business, Anna Helwing Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
: "Meet Me Around the Corner Works from the Astrup Fearnley Collection," Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway
: "2008 California Biennial," Orange County Museum of Art, curated by Lauri Firstenberg, Newport Beach, CA
2007: "The New Authentics: Artists of the Post-Jewish Generation, curated by Staci Boris. Spertus Museum, Chicago, IL and Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
: "XXS (Extra Extra Small)," Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel-Aviv, Israel
: "Lines, Grids, Stains, Words: Minimal Art Drawings from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art," organized by Christian Rattemeyer, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, and traveling to: Museu Serralves, Porto, Portugal; Museum Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, Germany
: "Hammer Contemporary Collection Part 1," Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
: "HB Works on Paper," Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy
: "Play," Galleri Erik Steen, Oslo, Norway
: "The Price of Everything," The Art Gallery, CUNY Graduate Center, The City University of New York, New York, NY
: "Big Secret Cache," Angstrom Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2006: "Red Eye: Los Angeles Artists from the Rubell Family Collection," The Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL
: "Transforming Chronologies: An Atlas of Drawings, Part Two," curated by Luis Perez Oramas, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
: "Particulate Matter," curated by Glen Helfand, Mills College of Art, Oakland, CA
: "Pierre Bismuth, Ryan Gander, Karl Haendel, T.Kelly Mason," Cohan and Leslie, New York, NY
: "A Brighter Day," James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY
: "Down by law," curated by the Wrong Gallery as a show within a show for The Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum, New York, NY
2005: "Uncertain States Of America," Reykjavik Museum of Art, Reykjavik, Iceland; Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo; Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York; Serpentine Gallery, London, UK; Museé d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France; Moscow Biennale; Herning Art Museum, Herning, Denmark; Center for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland; Musée de Sérignan, Sérignan, France; Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic; Songzhuan Art Centre, Beijing, China
: "Drive Time," Wingall Museum, Chaffey College, Rancho Cucamonga, CA
: "Fast Forward: A Passion for the New," curated by Scenic, House of Campari, Venice, CA
: "Rogue Wave," curated by Christopher Pate and Peter Goulds, LA Louver, Venice, CA
: "Hunch and Flail," curated by Amy Sillman, Artists Space, New York, NY
: "L.A.," Lucas Schoorman Gallery, New York, NY
2004: "California Biennial 2004," curated by Elizabeth Armstrong and Irene Hofmann, Orange County Museum of Contemporary Art, Newport Beach, CA
: "Group Show," Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY, curated by Clarissa Dalrymple and Nicole Klagsbrun
: "Gio Ponti: Furnished Settings & Figuration," ACME, Los Angeles, CA
2003: "Richard Croft, Karl Haendel, Mitchell Syrop," Rosamund Felsen, Santa Monica, CA
: "Side Efffects," The Latch, Los Angeles, CA
: Anna Helwing Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
: "What do you see at night?" Track 16, Santa Monica, CA
2002: "Emily Jacir, Karl Haendel, Kevin Hooyman," La Panaderia, Mexico City, Mexico
1999: "Moving Into Outside," Holland Tunnel Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
: "Xmas," Kent Gallery, New York, NY
: "100 Drawings," P.S.1 Contemporary Arts Center, Long Island City, Long Island, NY
: "Open Studios," Whitney Independent Study Program, New York, NY
1998: David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI
: Woods Gerry Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

Public Projects

2026: "Hands Holding History," LA METRO, Wilshire/Fairfax Train Station, Los Angeles, CA
2021: Christine Lynn Rehab Center, Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami, FL
2015: "Plow Pose," I-70 Sign Show, St. Louis, MO
2011: "Questions for Marfa," building facade, part of Nothing Beside Remains, LAND, Marfa, TX
2010: "A Year From Now, Art Moves 2010," 3rd International Festival of Art of Billboards, Torun, Poland
2009: "Public Scribble #2," façade of LAXART, Los Angeles, CA
: "Scribble," 411 Broadway, New York, NY, with Art Production Fund
2008: "A Year From Now," California Biennial 2008, Billboard on La Cienega Blvd, Los Angeles, CA
1998: "Desires," Kennedy Plaza Bus Terminal, Providence, RI
: "Simple Symbols," Radding Billboards, Providence, RI

Bibliography

2026: Ferrell, Jaime. "After 12 years of waiting, L.A. opens its first D Line extension stations today with 3 months of free salsa classes, pickleball, and farmers markets," Secret LA, May 8
: Gray Painter, Alysia. "Art on the move: Look inside Wilshire Boulevard’s new Metro D Line stations," NBC Los Angeles, May 8 (Link)
: Kwok, Iris. "Meet four artists behind the public art you’ll see at L.A. Metro’s new D Line stations," LA Times, May 8 (Link)
: Metro Art. "5 things to know about artworks for the future Wilshire/Fairfax Station," LA Metro, April 3 (Link)
: Farfan, Isa. "These Are the Winners of the 2026 Guggenheim Fellowship," Hyperallergic, April 14 (Link)
: Wendt, Alyssa Taylor. ""Who made the grasshopper?" at Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, Glasstire, January 6
2025: Foucquet, Maxime. "Karl Haendel: Blind Faith, Hope, Pandora’s Box, Messiahs," Contemporary Art Issue, December 11
: Laster, Paul. "Highlights from Art Basel Miami Beach 2025," Art&Object, December 11 (Link)
: Simons, TeeDee. "Lora Reynolds’ Final Curtain Call," The Austin Chronicle, December 4
: Griffin, Jonathan. "Drawn to Life: Becoming ‘Less Bad’ with Karl Haendel," Ocula, July 17
: Laster, Paul. "It Starts with Zurich," Family Style, June 17
: Stromberg, Matt. "15 Art Shows to See in Los Angeles This Summer," Hyperallergic, June 4 (Link)
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: Brida, Giiliana. "From Wall Street to Wall Power: Collector Chad Leat Offers a Guide to Navigating the New York Art Scene," Cultured, January 10
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: Iwasaki, Scott. "Kimball Art Center exhibit tackles the idea of being ‘Less Bad’," The Park Record, August 27
: "Top Five: April 25, 2024," Glasstire, April 25 (Link)
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: Black, Ezhra Jean. "Picture of the Week: "Hand Holding Scribble"," Artillery, September 29 (Link)
: Wenzel, John. "It’s Cowboys Vs. Cowboys: Draw!," The Denver Post, October 6
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: Carnes, Tony. "RELIGIOUS HANDS OF NEW YORK CITY," A Journey Through NYC Religions, March 22
: Quintanilla, Nora. "’Praise New York’: Artist’s hand portraits pay homage to faith leaders," La Prensa Latina, March 10
2021: Travers, Andrew. "A Chelsea mega-gallery comes West," The Aspen Times, June 24
: Valentine, L. Victoria. "Latest News in Black Art: Zimbabwean Artist Portia Zvavahera Joins David Zwirner, Preston Pavlis Now Repped by Bradley Ertaskiran, Stained Glass Museum Acquires Kehinde Wiley Work & More," Culture Type, June 6 (Link)
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: David, Ben. "Why a New Yorker Cartoonist Is Up in Arms About Appropriation Art," Artnet News, February 12
: Moldan, Tessa. "Frieze Los Angeles: Shows to See," Ocula, February 7 (Link)
: Remenchik, Jennifer. "Strange and Subtle Portraits of Artists’ Hands," Hyperallergic, February 5
: Sipress, David. "Stop, Thief! My Cartoon Gets Appropriated," New Yorker, February 4 (Link)
: Macinnis, Emily. "John Baldessari’s former art students remember professor’s impact, kindness," Daily Bruin, January 16
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: Haiser, Arwa. “We Are the People. Who Are You?,” Elephant, January 29
: Heinrich, Will. "What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week," January 16 (Link)
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: "Inside Frieze London 2018," via Five iPhone Camera Rolls," AnOther, October 5 (Link)
: Da Silva, José. “All the president’s men (and one first lady) at Art Basel,” The Art Newspaper, June 15 (Link)
2017: Lüddemann, Stefan. "The American Dream: Risse im American Way of Life", Osnabrücker Zeitung, November 17
: Horst, Aaron. "Karl Haendel at Susanne Vielmetter", Carla, Winter
: Annemiek Rens, Katharian Henkel, Antje-Britt Mählmann. "The American Dream, Amerikaans Realisme 1945-2017," WBOOKS, Zwoll, The Netherlands
: Astorga, Elena. "Planes culturales para este Inauguration Day en Los Ángeles," La Opinión, January 18
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: McGarry, Kevin. "Review: 12th Lyon Biennale,” Frieze, November – December
: Packer, Matt. "The 12th Biennale de Lyon” Meanwhile…Suddenly, And Then," Kaleidoscope, November
: Bret, Par Cyrille. "Les artistes de la Biennale > Karl HAENDEL," Lyon Capitale, October 14
: Heurteloup, Laura. "Quand l’art fait des histories,” Arts Magazine, September 26, 2013, p. 129
: Lieu, Lynn. "’Beg Borrow Steal’ your way to these exhibits,” The Desert Sun, January 31
: Saati, Briana. "Locust Projects’ New Exhibits Force Viewers Outside Their Comfort Zones," Miami New Times, January 25
: Ng, David. "Whitney Biennial 2014 to include L.A. Artists, David Foster Wallace," Los Angeles Times, November 15
: Lardizabal, Abet. "10 Highlights from Expo Chicago," Complex, September 25
: Yablonsky, Linda. "The Neverending Story," Artforum, September 23
: "The Story at the heart of the 12th Biennale de Lyon," La Presse, September 12
: Dagen, Philippe. "Histories emerge in an ocean of images," Le Monde, September 11
: Grabner, Michelle. "Karl Haendel," Vitamin D2: New Perspectives in Drawing, Phaidon Press, London
: Fernandes, Annabel. "Karl Haendel’s The Competition Myth, at Yvon Lambert Gallery, Paris," Purple Diary, March
2012: MacCash, Dough. "Critic reviews Prospect.2 artist Karl Haendels drawings at CAC," The Times Picayune, January 5
: Wells, Georgina. "Portfolio: Graphites Spotlight," Modern Painters, December
: Shaw, Dan, "A Modern and Minimal New York City Apartment", Architectural Digest, September (Photo by Nikolas Koenig)
: Lipschutz, Yael, "Karl Haendel", Flash Art, July
: Caldwell, Ellen. "Karl Haendel at Susanne Vielmetter LA Projects," New American Painting, July 5
: Drohojowska-Philip, Hunter. "Karl Haendel`s Informal Family Blackmail," KCRW, June 19 (Link)
: Spee, Mitch. "The Voyage, or Three Years at Sea: Part II," Frieze, February
: Davis, Ben. "Karl Haendel," Modern Painters, February
: Frankel, David. "Karl Haendel," Artforum, January
2011: Rosenberg, Karen. "Authorship or Translation? Notes Toward Redefining Creativity," The New York Times, February 24
: Smith, Roberta. "A Bit of Hollywood, Minus the Tinsel," The New York Times, May 31
: Douglas, Sarah. "All About My Father: Artist Karl Haendel and His Friends Have Lots of Questions," The New York Observer, September 20
: Smith, Roberta. "Questions for My Father," The New York Times, October 27
: Appleton, Andrea. "Image Transfer: Pictures in a Remix Culture," City Paper, Baltimore, November 30
2010: Moshayedi, Aram. "500 Words: Karl Haendel," Art Forum, March 23
: Goldstein, Andrew M. "In New York: Opening this Weekend," ArtInfo, March 25
: Latimer, Quinn. "The High Modernist Drawing Board," Art In America, March 31
: Smith, Roberta. "In Fields of Art, Snapping Photos #148," New York Times, April 1
: Wahlquist, GF. "Time and the Trace: Karl Haendel at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects," Arthood.com, April 22
: Pulimood, Steve. "Now Showing: Karl Haendel at Lever House," The New York Times Style Magazine, May 3
: Harren, Natilee. "Karl Haendel," Artforum, May
: "Karl Haendel Exhibition," NY Art Beat, March
: Moshayedi, Aram. "500 Words: Karl Haendel," Art Forum, March 23
2009: Ewing, John. "No Bees, No Blueberries," Art Lies, Fall, pp. 94-95
: Portfolio, First Person, Issue 3, fall 2009, pp. 64-69
: Zellen, Jody. "Karl Haendel, New York," Art Papers, September/October
: Baker, Kenneth. "Annos abstractions," Marbles at Noma, SFGate, September 26
: Sperlinger, Mike. "Diminishing Returns, or is Robert Morris Cynical?," Switch, Issue 1.2, Summer p. 29
: Szupinka, Joanna. "Play with Your Own Marbles," Artslant, September 14
: Johnson, Ken. "How to Have a Socially Responsible Orgasm and Other Life Lessons," The New York Times, June 12
: "Goings On About Town: Karl Haendel," The New Yorker, June 8 & 15
: Wilson, Michael. "Karl Haendel, How to Have a Socially Responsible Orgasm and Other Life Lessons," Time Out New York, Issue 714, June 4-10
: Medium Cool. "Installation: Karl Haendel," Time Out New York, Issue 710, May 7-13
: Vogel, Carol. "Karl Haendel’s Jottings, Writ Large, on a SoHo Wall," The New York Times, May 7
: Beshty, Walead. "Walead Beshty puts for questions to Karl Haendel," Modern Painters, April, p. 80
: Goldstein, Andrew. "The art of Appropriation remains at the forefront, as a major new show from the Rubells testifies," The Art Newspaper, December 2, p. 11
2008: Beshty, Walead. "2008 On the Ground: Los Angeles," Art Forum, December
: Bryan-Wilson, Julia. "Signs and Symbols, On Billboard Projects in Los Angeles," Artforum, October
: Foumberg, Jason. "Review of The New Authentics: Artists of the Post-Jewish Generation," The Spertus Museum, Chicago, USA. Frieze Magazine, January 8
: Haramis, Nick. "The New Regime: Karl Haendel," BlackBook, December
: Watson, Simon. "New Artist Karl Haendel: Redrawing," Whitewall, Winter 2008, pp. 68-69
: Whitehead, Vagner M. "An Interview with Karl Haendel (I)," Art Signal: Contemporary Art Magazine. January/March, Issue 3, pp. 16-31
: Nys Dambrot. "Is Drive-by Art a Good Thing?,” flavorwire.com, November 20
: "I Thought California Would Be Different,” LAist, November 19
: "The Orange County Museum of Art Presents the 2008 California Biennial,” artdaily.org, October 27
: Mizota, Sharon. "Eureka moments,” Los Angeles Times, October 19
: "2008 California Biennial,” THE Magazine, October
: Kecskes, Alex. "A Rich Palette of Talent,” 944 Magazine, October
: "Spotlight: California Biennial 2008,” Deutsche Bank Art News
: Kilston, Lyra. "Los Angeles: Field Guide,” Modern Painters, October
: Johnson, Ken. "Art in Review: Karl Haendel,” the New York Times, June 11
: "Goings on about town: Galleries – Downtown,” the New Yorker, June 8
: Wilson, Michael. "Karl Haendel, "How to have a socially responsible orgasm and other life lessons,” Time Out New York, Issue 714, June 4 – 10
: Vogel, Carol. "Karl Haendel’s Jottings," Writ Large, on a SoHo Wall,” The New York Times, May 7
2007: Yahav, Galia. "XXS Review Time Out Tel-Aviv," November 29, p. 86
: Weinberg, Lauren. "Art stars of David: There isn’t a Chagall in sight in the new Spertus Museums first show," Time Out Chicago, Issue 144, November 29 – December 5
: Bell, Eugenia. "Karl Haendel," Artforum, November
: Saltz, Jerry. "Has Money Ruined Art," New York Magazine, October 15
: "Galleries- Downtown," Karl Haendel, New Yorker, October 10
: Smith, Roberta. "Karl Haendel," The New York Times, October 5
: "Goings on About Town," Art, New Yorker, September 25
: Cotter, Holland. "Quirks and Attitude to Burn," The New York Times, June 8
: Garcia, Kathryn. "Karl Haendel at MOCA Focus," Textfield, Fall & Winter 2006-07, pp. 112 – 113
: "Karl Haendel," The New Yorker, October 1
2006: Wullschlager, Jackie. "Bright, brash, unmissable: the US legacy," Financial Times UK, September 15
: Searle, Adrian. "Rebels without a cause," The Guardian, September 12
: Bluhm, Erik, "Karl Haendel", ArtUS, Issue 13, May/June, p. 5
: Thompson, Susannah. "Karl Haendel," Contemporary Magazine, No. 83, pp. 60-63
: Smith, Roberta. "Chelsea Is a Battlefield: Galleries Muster Groups", The New York Times, July 28
: Smith, Roberta. "Endgame Art? It’s Borrow, Sample and Multiply in an Exhibition at Bard College," The New York Times, July 7
: Zellan, Jody. "Karl Haendel," Art Press, April, Issue 322, pp. 74-75
: Blain, Francoise-Aline. "Los Angeles fait son show," Beaux Arts magazine. March, p. 76
: Pagel, David. "A late 80s date gets penciled in," Los Angeles Times, February 22, p. E2
: Ng, Fiona. "Getting a Haendel on Things," Los Angeles Downtown News, February 6, p. 22
: Dea, Cynthia. Los Angeles Times, February 2, p. E46
: Schimmel, Paul. "Future Greats 2005," ArtReview, December/January, p. 92
: "Focus Los Angeles," Flash Art, January/February, pp. 70
2005: Jones, Leslie. "Karl Haendel at Anna Helwing Gallery," Art on Paper, July/August, Vol 9, No 6. p. 65
: Pence, Elizabeth. "Karl Haendel at Anna Helwing Gallery," Artweek, June, Vol 35, Issue 5, p. 18
: Ollman, Leah. Los Angeles Times, April 1
: Kite, Kristina. "Critics Pick," Artforum, March 18
2004: Knight, Christopher. "Biennial arrives, and so does museum, Los Angeles Times, October 13
: Chang, Richard. "The Art of the New, The Orange County Register, October 10
: Pincus, Robert L. "Tuning into the O.C.: "Biennial" belly laughs," San Diego Tribune
2000: Kawalick, Erika. "Karl Haendel, McSweeneys, Issue 6
1999: Heon, Laura and Diggs, Peggy. "Billboard: Art on the Road," MASS MoCA and MIT Press
1998: Van Siclen, William. "Bus Gallery, Providence Journal Bulletin, March 20

Selected Writing

2023: “Drawings for Tony Lewis," catalog essay, Tony Lewis: Anthology 2014-2016, Hirschhorn Museum, Washington, DC
2015: “BioPic," Modern Painters, March 2015
2014: “Shame," Double Ampersand Press, Los Angeles (Artist’s book)
2013: “Fear," Double Ampersand Press, Los Angeles (Artist’s book)
2011: “Country Music," X-Tra, Winter 2011, Vol. 13, No.2
2010: “Complicated Sneakers," catalog essay, Beg, Borrow and Steal, The Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL
2002: “to believe much more than that,” catalog essay, to believe much more than that, Wight Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles
2001: “Beyond Relativism,” catalog essay, Wight Biennial Twothousandandone, Wight Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles
: “Mensch & Ubermensch," (with Amy Sillman), X-tra, Summer 2001, Vol 3., No.4

Publications

2026: Andrea Gyorody, Aldy Milliken, Darren Bader, Mario Ybarra Jr., Michelle Jane Lee, Ray Anthony Barrett, Karla Diaz, and Analia Saban. "Karl Haendel: Less Bad," Kimball Art Center and Pepperdine University, Skira, Milan, Italy
2025: Campbell, Andy and Michael Nunziata. "Karl Haendel: Great Ass at The Met," Triangle Books, Brussels, Belgium
2023: Nora Burnett, Miranda Lash, Jongwoo Jeremy Kim, Myeshia C. Babers, and R. Alan Brooks. "Cowboy," MCA Denver, Rizzoli Electa, New York, NY
2020: Harren, Natilee. "Karl Haendel, Double Dominant," Triangle Books, Brussels, Belgium
2018: Rattemeyer, Christian and Rita Gonzalez. "Karl Haendel: Doubt," Hatje Cantz, Berlin, Germany
2017: Harren, Natilee. "Karl Haendel: Knight’s Heritage," LAXART, Los Angeles, CA
2014: Anthony Elms, Michelle Grabner, and Stuart Comer. "2014 Whitney Biennial," Whitney Musuem, NY
: "Life Transmissions," Chapman University, Guggenheim Gallery, New York, NY
: "Lyon Biennale 2013 T.2," les presses du réel, Dijon, France
: Norr, David. "Michelle Grabner: I Work From Home," MOCA, Cleveland, OH
: "Rubell Family Collection: Highlights & Artists’ Writings Volume 1," RFC/Contemporary Arts Foundation, Miami, FL
2013: Boutoux, Thomas. "12th Biennale de Lyon, ed.," Les Presses Du Réel, Dijon, France
: Blind Spot, issue 46, ed., Walead Beshty
: "Bright: Typography Between Illustration and Art," ed., Slanted, Daab, Cologne
: Graphite, ed., Sarah Urist Green, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
: Slanted 22: Art Type, Slanted, Karlsruhe, Germany
: Subaltern, Issue #2, Umea, Sweden
: "Vitamin D2: New Perspectives in Drawing," ed., Christian Rattemeyer, Phaidon Press, London
2012: "Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road? Original Jokes about The Suburban and the Poor Farm by Artists Who have Exhibited There," Poor Farm Press, Manawa, WI
: "Hyperdrawing, Beyond the Line of Contemporary Art," eds., Phil Sawdon and Russell Marshall, I.B. Tauris, London
: "The Residue of Memory," Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
: "Prospect 2, New Orleans," by Dan Cameron and Miranda Lash, US Biennial, Inc.
2011: "American Exuberance," The Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL
: Firstenberg, Lauri, Malik Gains, and Ceaser Garcia "LAXART 5," LAXART, Los Angeles, CA
: "Drawn From Photography," Drawing Papers 96, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
: "Art Moves 2010," Fundacja Rusz, Torun, Poland
: "Between the Lines: A Coloring Book of Drawings by Contemporary Artists," Vol 3, RxArt
2010: "Haunted: Contemporary Photography, Video, Performance," Guggenheim Museum, eds., Jennifer Blessing, Peggy Phelan, Nat Trotman
: "Image Transfer," Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
: "Words Without Pictures," Aperture/LACMA, ed., Alex Klein
: "The Studio Reader: On the Space of Artists," University of Chicago Press, eds., Michelle Grabner and Mary Jane Jacob
2009: Beg, Borrow and Steal, The Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL
: The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection: Catalogue Raisonné, ed., Christian Rattemeyer, Museum of Modern Art, NY
2008: 2008 California Biennial, Lauri Firstenberg, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
: "Lines, Grids, Stains, Words: Minimal Art Drawings from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art," Christian Rattemeyer, Museum of Modern Art, NY
2007: "The New Authentics: Artists of the Post-Jewish Generation," Staci Boris, Spertus Museum, Chicago, IL
: "Red Eye: Los Angeles Artists from the Rubell Family Collection," Rubell Family Collection, 2007
2006: "Anna Helwing Gallery Conversations: Karl Haendel and Mario Ybarra Jr.," Anna Helwing Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
: "Karl Haendel," Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
: A Brighter Day, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY
2005: "Do It," edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist, e-flux and Revolver, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
: "Uncertain States of America," Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway
: "Rogue Wave," LA Louver, Venice, CA
2004: "La Panaderia: 1994-2002," edited by Yoshua Okon, Turner, Mexico City,
: California Biennial 04, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
: "American Stars N’ Bars," Chapman University, Orange, CA.
2000: McSweeney’s, issue # 6, ed. by, Erika Kawalick
1999: "Billboard: Art on the Road," MASS MoCA and MIT Press, ed. by Heon, Laura and Diggs, Peggy.

Awards, Grants and Fellowships

2015: California Community Foundation
: Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant
2011: Chinati Foundation Artist is Residence
2006: Katherine S. Marmor Award
2004: Penny McCall Foundation Award
: Durfee Foundation Grant

Public Collections

: Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
: Astrup Fearnley Collection, Oslo, Norway
: Colección Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico
: Collection Lambert, Avignon, France
: Deutsche Bank Collection, Frankfurt, Germany
: Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Boston, MA
: Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
: Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
: Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
: Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL
: Jewish Museum, New York, NY
: Kadist Art Foundation, San Francisco, CA
: Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
: La Colección Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico
: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
: Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Los Angeles, CA
: Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
: Miami-Dade County Art in Public Places, Miami, FL
: Museo d’arte della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano, Switzerland
: Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
: Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
: North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND
: Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
: Perez Art Museum, Miami, FL
: Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK
: Public Art Collection, Brown University, Providence, RI
: RISD Museum, Providence, RI
: Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL
: The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, NY
: Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
: Wemhöner Collection, Berlin, Germany
: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY