# Karl Haendel URL: https://vielmetter.com/artists/karl-haendel/ Represented by Vielmetter Los Angeles Karl Haendel appropriates and recontextualizes found images in drawings, installations, films, and public art. His black and white, large-scale, labor-intensive photo-realist pencil and ink drawings are often presented in installation form. Haendel uses drawing to discover connections and affinities between seemingly disparate nodes of cultural data, drawing attention to the overlaps between the social, political, and personal. Through formal manipulation and repacking of pre-existing imagery, he explores how our culture uses images to produce opinions, values, and beliefs and how the images we produce reflexively re-shape these frameworks. **Karl Haendel** was born in 1976 in New York and currently lives and works in Los Angeles. He received his BFA from Brown University in 1998 before attending the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. He received his MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2003. Recent solo exhibitions include *Glass half*, at Vielmetter Los Angeles (2026); *Blind Faith, Hope, Pandora’s Box, Messiahs,*at the Wentrup Gallery, Berlin (2025); *Less Bad*, at the Frederick Weisman Museum, Pepperdine University, Malibu (2025), Kimball Art Center, Park City (2024); *Love and Capital,* at Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin (2024); *Daily Act of Sustained Empathy,* at Vielmetter Los Angeles (2023); *Praise New York* at Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York (2022); *Praise Berlin* at Wentrup Gallery, Berlin (2022); *Feeble Synapse* at Sommer Contemporary art, Tel Aviv (2021); *Mazel Tov Group* at Henry Art Gallery, Seattle (2019); *Pink Cup and the Facts* at Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York (with Jay DeFeo) (2017); *Karl Haendel and Tony Lewis* at LAXArt, Los Angeles (with Tony Lewis) (2016); and *Weeks in Wet Sheets* at Barbara Seiler, Zurich (2015). His work has been included in various biennials and institutional group shows such as *Into the Time Horizon,*at the Nevada Museum of Art, Reno (2026); *Blissfully Miserable,*at Petach Tikva Museum of Art, Petach Tikva, Israel (2026); *Experience 62: GRIEF,* at the Experimentally Structured Museum of Art, Lawndale (2025); *Identity, Culture, and Community: Stories from the Collection of the Jewish Museum and Pruzan Family Center for Learning*, at the Jewish Museum, New York, NY (2025*);* *On the Passage of a Few People through a Rather Brief Period of Time,*at the University Art Gallery, UC Irvine, Irvine (2024); *Cowboy,* at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver (2023); *100 Drawings from Now,* at The Drawing Center, New York (2020); *Copines-Copains-Berlin,* at Wentrup Gallery, Berlin (2019); *Game On!*, at the Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa (2017); *Manifest Intention: Drawing In All Its Forms,* at Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, Torino, Italy (2014); the 2014 Whitney Biennial, New York; and the 12th Biennale de Lyon, Lyon, France (2013). His works are in many public collections including the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; The Jewish Museum, New York, NY; North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks; Rubell Family Collection, Miami; The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; and the Guggenheim Museum, New York. ## Exhibitions - [Karl Haendel inTo Share a Stomach](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/karl-haendel-into-share-a-stomach.md): August 8 — September 19, 2026 · The Brick, Los Angeles, CA · Artists: Karl Haendel - [Ongoingness](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/ongoingness.md): July 25 — September 5, 2026 · Gallery III · Artists: Edgar Arceneaux, Andrea Bowers, Alec Egan, Nicole Eisenman, Liz Glynn, Karl Haendel, Samuel Levi Jones, Mario Joyce, Mary Kelly, Nate Lewis, Hugo McCloud, Rodney McMillian, Dave Muller, Wangechi Mutu, The Estate of Pope.L, Robert Pruitt, Deborah Roberts, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Ariane Vielmetter - [Andrea Bowers Karl Haendel Hugo McCloud Rodney McMillianWangechi Mutu inInto the Time Horizon](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/into-the-time-horizon.md): March 28 — September 26, 2026 · The Nevada Museum of Art · Artists: Andrea Bowers, Karl Haendel, Hugo McCloud, Rodney McMillian, Wangechi Mutu - [Karl Haendel: Glass half](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/karl-haendel-2026.md): March 14 — April 25, 2026 · Gallery I · Artists: Karl Haendel - [November Viewing RoomNicole Eisenman, Edgar Arceneaux, April Bey, Kim Dingle, Karl Haendel, Rodney McMillian](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/november-viewing-room-2024.md): November 9 — December 14, 2024 · Greenhouse · Artists: Nicole Eisenman, Edgar Arceneaux, April Bey, Kim Dingle, Karl Haendel, Rodney McMillian - [Karl Haendel in Cowboy](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/karl-haendel-in-cowboy-fort-worth.md): September 27, 2024 — March 23, 2025 · Amon Carter Museum of American Art · Artists: Karl Haendel - [Karl HaendelMary Kelly inOn the Passage of a Few People Through a Rather Brief Period of Time](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/karl-haendelmary-kelly-inon-the-passage-of-a-few-people-through-a-rather-brief-period-of-time.md): January 20 — April 7, 2024 · Contemporary Arts Center, UC Irvine · Artists: Karl Haendel, Mary Kelly - [Karl Haendel in Cowboy](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/karl-haendel-in-cowboy.md): September 29, 2023 — February 18, 2024 · MCA Denver · Artists: Karl Haendel - [Karl Haendel: Daily Act of Sustained Empathy](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/karl-haendel-2023-solo.md): September 23 — November 4, 2023 · Gallery III · Artists: Karl Haendel - [Perpetual Portrait](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/perpetual-portrait.md): July 8 — August 18, 2023 · Gallery I & II & III & IV · Artists: Laura Aguilar, Sadie Benning, Ellen Berkenblit, Sara Berman, Kwesi Botchway, Andrea Bowers, Kim Dingle, Nicole Eisenman, Esther Pearl Watson, Genevieve Gaignard, Karl Haendel, Lavaughan Jenkins, Raffi Kalenderian, The Estate of Pope.L, Robert Pruitt, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Amy Sillman, John Sonsini, Nicola Tyson, Hannah van Bart, Monique van Genderen - [20 Years Anniversary Exhibition Part 2](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/20-years-anniversary-exhibition-part-2.md): June 26 — August 7, 2021 · Gallery I & II · Artists: Nick Aguayo, Edgar Arceneaux, Sadie Benning, Ellen Berkenblit, Andrea Bowers, Kim Dingle, Sean Duffy, Nicole Eisenman, Louise Fishman, Charles Gaines, Karl Haendel, Samuel Levi Jones, My Barbarian, Rodney McMillian, Mary Reid Kelley & Patrick Kelley, Elizabeth Neel, Yunhee Min, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Hugo McCloud, Dave McKenzie, Nicola Tyson - [20 Years Anniversary Exhibition Part 1](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/20-year-anniversary-exhibition.md): July 18 — August 29, 2020 · Gallery I · Artists: Edgar Arceneaux, Math Bass, Whitney Bedford, Andrea Bowers, Kim Dingle, Sean Duffy, Nicole Eisenman, Genevieve Gaignard, Liz Glynn, Karl Haendel, Raffi Kalenderian, Ruben Ochoa, Stanya Kahn, Hayv Kahraman, Mary Kelly, Shana Lutker, Dave McKenzie, Rodney McMillian, Wangechi Mutu, Esther Pearl Watson, The Estate of Pope.L, Deborah Roberts, The Estate of Steve Roden, Stefanie Schneider, Amy Sillman, Arlene Shechet, John Sonsini, Monique van Genderen, Tâm Văn Trần, Patrick Wilson - [Karl Haendel: Double Dominant](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/karl-haendel-double-dominant.md): January 25 — March 7, 2020 · Gallery I · Artists: Karl Haendel - [Inaugural Exhibition](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/inaugural-exhibition.md): February 16 — March 23, 2019 · Artists: Nicola Tyson, Nicole Eisenman, Rodney McMillian, Sean Duffy, The Estate of Pope.L, Karl Haendel, Andrea Bowers, Edgar Arceneaux, Stanya Kahn, Sadie Benning, Mary Kelly, Wangechi Mutu, Charles Gaines - [Karl Haendel: By and by](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/2017-01-karl-haendel-by-and-by.md): January 7 — February 11, 2017 · Artists: Karl Haendel - [Karl Haendel: 2014 Whitney Biennial](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/2014-03-karl-haendel-2014-whitney-biennial.md): March 7 — May 25, 2014 · 2014 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY · Artists: Karl Haendel - [Karl Haendel: Meanwhile…Suddenly, and Then](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/2013-09-karl-haendel-meanwhile-suddenly-and-then.md): September 12, 2013 — January 5, 2014 · 12th Lyon Biennale · Artists: Karl Haendel - [Karl Haendel: Informal Family Blackmail](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/2012-05-karl-haendel-informal-family-blackmail.md): May 26 — July 7, 2012 · Artists: Karl Haendel - [Karl Haendel: The Residue of Memory](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/2012-05-karl-haendel-the-residue-of-memory.md): May 11 — July 15, 2012 · Aspen Art Museum · Artists: Karl Haendel - [Summer Group Show](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/2010-08-edgar-arceneaux-whitney-bedford-andrea-bowers-summer-group-show.md): August 7 — 30, 2010 · Artists: Edgar Arceneaux, Whitney Bedford, Andrea Bowers, Jane Callister, Sean Duffy, Nicole Eisenman, Charles Gaines, Karl Haendel, Jutta Koether, Alice Könitz, Shana Lutker, Rodney McMillian, Martin McMurray, Wangechi Mutu, Elizabeth Neel, Ruben Ochoa, Amy Sillman, Joel Tauber, Tâm Văn Trần - [Karl Haendel: Haunted](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/2010-03-karl-haendel-haunted.md): March 26 — September 6, 2010 · Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY · Artists: Karl Haendel - [Karl Haendel: Sir Ernest Shackleton and All the Clocks in My House](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/2010-03-karl-haendel-sir-ernest-shackleton-and-all-the-clocks-in-my-house.md): March 13 — April 24, 2010 · Artists: Karl Haendel ## Biography 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](https://sommergallery.com/exhibitions/feeble-synapse/)) 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 "To Share a Stomach," The Brick, Los Angeles, CA "Ongoingness," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA "Into the Time Horizon," Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV "Love to Hate," Megan Mulrooney Gallery, Los Angeles, CA "Model World," Tierra Del Sol, Los Angeles, CA "The Dog and Pony Show," Main Projects, Richmond, VA 2025 "Identity, Culture, and Community: Stories from the Collection of the Jewish Museum and Pruzan Family Center for Learning," The Jewish Museum, New York, NY ([Link](https://thejewishmuseum.org/exhibitions/collection-exhibition-and-center-for-learning-october-2025/)) "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 66: GRIEF,” Experimentally Structured Museum of Art (EsMoA), Lawndale, CA "Crosscurrents: Works from the Contemporary Collection," Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD "See it Now: Contemporary Art from the Ann and Mel Schaffer Collection," Tang Teaching Museum & Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY "Who made the grasshopper?," Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, TX 2024 "20 years – An Anniversary Show," Wentrup Gallery, Berlin, Germany "The Art of Oscar," Jeffrey Deitch Projects, 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 "Dogs & Dads," Diane Rosenstein Gallery, Los Angeles, CA "Flower Sound," Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, TX "Standpunkte. Blick in die Sammlung #7," Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany 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](https://www.modernartoxford.org.uk/event/a-slice-through-the-world/)) “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](http://www.kunstvereniging.nl/en/exhibition/i-who-make-mistakes-on-the-eternal-typewriter/)) “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 & Things," 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 Farago, Jason. 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"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 N. Scott Momaday, Maia Nuka, Apsara DiQuinzio, Makeda Best, William L. Fox. "Into the Time Horizon," Nevada Museum of Art, Radius Books, Sante Fe, NM 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** 2026 Guggenheim Fellowship 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