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

2025

Solo, Frederick Weisman Museum, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA (forthcoming)

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

2024

"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

2022

"Works on Paper on Fridges," Harkawik, New York, NY

"The Tale Their Terror Tells," Curated by Geena Brown & Lauren Guilford, Lyes and King, New York, NY

"Among Friends: Three Views of a Collection," The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY

2021-2022

"Fake News: Art, Fiction, Mensonge," EDF Group Foundation, Paris France

2021

"The Frog Show," Real Pain Fine Art, New York, NY

"The Skin I Live In," Lyles & King, New York, NY

"20 Years," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA

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

"20 Years," Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv

"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

2017

"Salon," Hauser & Wirth, Zürich

"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," curated by Beatrice Merz with Marianna Vecellio, Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy

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

"A Brighter Day," James Cohan Gallery, New York

"Down by law," curated by the Wrong Gallery as a show within a show for The Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum, New York

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

"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

"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

2024

"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," billboard on La Cienega Blvd, Los Angeles, California Biennial 2008

1998

"Desires," Kennedy Plaza Bus Terminal, Providence, RI

"Simple Symbols," Radding Billboards, Providence, RI

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2024

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2023

Black, Ezhra Jean. "Picture of the Week: “Hand Holding Scribble”," Artillery, September 29 (Link)

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2022

Watson, Camela Karen. “A Homage to NYC’s Religious Leaders,” Our Town, March 25

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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2020

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2019

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2018

"How do I sell more art?" Diaphanes, Fall/Winter

"Inside Frieze London 2018, via Five iPhone Camera Rolls," Another (web), October 5 (Link)

Da Silva, José, “All the president’s men (and one first lady) at Art Basel,” The Art Newspaper (web), June 15 (Link)

2017

Lüddemann, Stefan. "The American Dream: Risse im American Way of Life", Osnabrücker Zeitung, November 17

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2016

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Cascone, Sarah, "The Art World’s Social Media Reaction to Donald Trump,” Artnet (web), November 9

Kazakina, Katya, "Trump Alters Vibe at Miami Art Fair”, Bloomberg, December 1

Fargo, Jason, "Politics and Commerce Collide at Art Basel Miami Beach,” The New York Times, December 2

2015

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2014

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2013

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2012

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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

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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

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2009

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Szupinka, Joanna. Play with Your Own Marbles, Artslant, Sept. 14

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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 testitfies, The Art Newspaper, Dec 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.com, 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 isnt a Chagall in sight in the new Spertus Museums first show. Time Out Chicago, November 29, 2007- December 5, 2007, Issue 144

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, pp 5

Thompson, Susannah, "Karl Haendel, Contemporary Magazine, No. 83, pp60-63

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, pp74-75

Blain, Francoise-Aline. "Los Angeles fait son show, Beaux Arts magazine. March, pp 76

Pagel, David, "A late 80s date gets penciled in, Los Angeles Times, February 22, ppE2

Ng, Fiona, "Getting a Haendel on Things, Los Angeles Downtown News, February 6, pp 22.

Dea, Cynthia, Los Angeles Times, February 2, ppE46

Schimmel, Paul, "Future Greats 2005, ArtReview, December/January, pp 92.

"Focus Los Angeles, Flash Art, January/February, pp70

2005

Jones, Leslie. "Karl Haendel at Anna Helwing Gallery, Art on Paper, July/August, Vol 9, No 6. pp 65.

Pence, Elizabeth. "Karl Haendel at Anna Helwing Gallery. Artweek, June, Vol 35, Issue 5. pp18

Ollman, Leah. Los Angeles Times, April 1

Kite, Kristina. Critics Pick, ArtForum.com, March 18

2004

Knight, Christopher. "Biennial arrives, and so does museum, Los Angeles Times, 13 October

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

2023

Burnett, Nora, 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

2014 Whitney Biennial, Anthony Elms, Michelle Grabner, Stuart Comer, Whitney Musuem, NY

"Life Transmissions," Chapman University, Guggenheim Gallery, New York, NY

Lyon Biennale 2013 T.2, les presses du réel, Dijon, France

"Michelle Grabner: I Work From Home," David Norr, MOCA Cleveland, OH

"Rubell Family Collection: Highlights & Artists’ Writings Volume 1," RFC/Contemporary Arts Foundation, Miami, FL

2013

12th Biennale de Lyon, ed., Thomas Boutoux, 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

Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, NY

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

Kadist Art Foundation, San Francisco, CA

Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany

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

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

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York