biography - Patrick Painter

P ATRICK P AINTER I N C
2525 Michigan Ave., Unit A8 & B2, Santa Monica, CA USA 90404
T/ 310 264 5988
F/ 310 264 5998
www.patrickpainter.com
CHRISTOPH SCHMIDBERGER
1974
Born in Eisenerz, Austria
Lives and works in Los Angeles, California
EDUCATION
1989 -1994
1994 -1998
Higher Technical College of Graphic Art, Graz, Austria
MFA in Painting, Akademie der Bildenden Kuenste, Vienna, Austria
RECENT SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITION
2009
I Feel Nothing, Patrick Painter Inc., Santa Monica, CA
2007
Divide et Impera, Patrick Painter Inc., Santa Monica, CA
In A Blink Of An Eye, Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2006
You are Forgiven, Goff + Rosenthal, New York, NY
2005
Tears of Joy, Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2004
Don't Be Afraid, Goff + Rosenthal, New York, NY
2003
L.A. International, Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2002
Emerging Artists, The Essl Collection, Vienna, Austria
Every Breath a Step to Death, Nikolai Fine Art, New York, NY
2001
Great Love & Great Miracles, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum Graz,
Austria
Sensationelles Ist Im Gange, Projektraum Viktor Buchervienna, Vienna, Austria
RECENT SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010
SUR LE DANDYSME AUJOURD’HUI, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea,
Santiago de Compostela, Spain
2009
Art & Illusion: Selections From The Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation,
Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA
2008
Like Animals, Musee Des Beaux Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland
True Romance, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, Germany
My Generation, Spichernohe, Köln, Germany
Tonight Forget About Your Houses and Cars, Union Gallery, London
P ATRICK P AINTER I N C
2525 Michigan Ave., Unit A8 & B2, Santa Monica, CA USA 90404
T/ 310 264 5988
F/ 310 264 5998
www.patrickpainter.com
Flash and Trash, Gallery 151, New York, NY
2007
Triumph of Painting, The Saatchi Gallery, London, England
True Romance, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
Ausgezeichnet!, Kunstverein Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
Gegen Den Strich, Kuenstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
2006
USA Today, The Royal Academy of Arts, London, England
Minneapolis Insitute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN
Inagural Exhibition, Goff + Rosenthal Berlin, Germany
2005
Girls On Film, Zwirner & Wirth, New York, NY
Paradise Lost, Goff+Rosenthal, New York, NY
Collectors XX : Building A Museum Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art,
San Diego, CA
2004
Gio Ponti: Furnished Settings and Figuration, ACME, Los Angeles, CA
Art and Illusion, Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Malibu, CA
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, CA
Galerie Six Friedrich Lisa Ungar, Munich, Germany
2003
Fresh Works On Paper, James Kelly Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
Museum Of Contemporary Art-Stift Admont, Admont, Austria
The Must, Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria
Ex Graz In Graz, Kulturzentrum Bei Den Minoriten, Graz, Austria
Frisch Saftig Steirisch, Galerie Eugen Lendl, Kunsthalle Hallein, Graz, Austria
2001
Ich Tarzan-Du Felix Austria, Galerie Christine Koenig, Vienna, Austria
Die Kabinette Des Dr. Czerny, Neue Galerie Am Landesmuseum Joanneum
Graz, Austria
Sieben, Kunstsammlung Volpinum, Vienna, Austria
Six Degrees Of Separation, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, Austria
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:
Museum Of Fine Arts, Boston, MA,
The Saatchi Collection, London, England
Los Angeles County Museum Of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Museum Of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
Albertina, Vienna, Austria
Austrian Gallery, Belvedere, Vienna, Austria
Joclyn Museum Of Art, Omaha, NE
Frederic R. Weismann Collection, Los Angeles, CA
Volpinum - Collection Of Contemporary Art. Vienna, Austria
Neue Galerie Am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria
Museum Of Contemporary Art - Benedictine Monastery, Admont, Austria
Austrian State Collection, Vienna, Austria
Collection Humanic, Graz, Austria
Collection Of The City Of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Collection Of The City Of Graz, Austria
P ATRICK P AINTER I N C
2525 Michigan Ave., Unit A8 & B2, Santa Monica, CA USA 90404
T/ 310 264 5988
F/ 310 264 5998
www.patrickpainter.com
AWARDS
2002
Fine Art Of The City Council Of Graz Award