ARTIST

Dan McCarthy

Dan McCarthy has exhibited his work globally throughout a career that has spanned over three decades. In addition to his two-dimensional works, such as his paintings and drawings, McCarthy produces his iconic “Facepot” series, which features facial motifs on ceramic vessels, with vivid colors, tremendous expressiveness, a familiar feel to them, a sense of primitiveness, and an immediacy that evokes the hand of the artist. In McCarthyʼs work, these elements merge together to create an immediate experience that is not only visual but has a physical, and even emotional, effect on the viewer.

Dan McCarthy was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, in 1962. He studied painting and ceramics at the San Francisco Art Institute where he received his BFA in 1984, and is currently based in New York. Recent solo exhibitions include “7 Bangers” (Anton Kern Gallery, New York, 2019), “Rainbow paintings & ceramics” (Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, 2021), “BirdPots” (Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, 2022), and “Dan McCarthy” (Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, 2023). He has also exhibited works in group exhibitions, including “36 Paintings” (Harper’s Books, New York, 2020), “Pacific Coast Ceramics” (Galeria Mascota, Aspen, 2020), “Show 1” (Airfield Gallery, New York, 2021). McCarthy’s works are held in many international public collections, including ICA Miami, the Aïshti Foundation, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Dakis Joannou Collection, and the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris.

WORKS

BIOGRAPHY

1962 Born in Honolulu, Hawaii
1984 San Francisco Art Institute, Bachelor of Fine Arts

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Solo Exhibitions

2024 KOSAKU KANECHIKA, Tokyo, Japan
2023 “Dan McCarthy” Rodolphe Janssen Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2022 “BirdPots” Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, USA
2021 “Rainbow Paintings & Ceramics” Rodolphe Janssen, Knokke-Heist, Belgium
2019 “7 Bangers” Anton Kern Gallery, New York, USA
2018 “Facepots 2013 – 2017” Bill Brady Gallery, New York, USA
Tennis Elbow, New York, USA
2015 Venus Over Los Angeles, Los Angeles, USA
2014 Anton Kern Gallery, New York, USA
2013 Galerie Daniel Blau, Munich, Germany
Shoot the Lobster, New York, USA
2012 “Paintings & Drawings” Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve, Paris, France
2011 “Calvary” The Journal Gallery, New York, USA
2009 Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2007 Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve, Paris, France
Anton Kern Gallery, New York, USA
2006 “Saltwater” Galerie Gebr. Lehrmann, Dresden, Germany
Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Galería Marta Cervera, Madrid, Spain
2005 Anton Kern Gallery, New York, USA
2004 Blondeau Fine Art Services, Geneva, Switzerland
2003 Anton Kern Gallery, New York, USA
Galerie Aurel Scheibler, Cologne, Germany
2001 Klaus Engelhorn Contemporary Art, Vienna, Austria
Anton Kern Gallery, New York, USA
2000 “Dan McCarthy – Bilder und Zeichnungen” Galerie Aurel Scheibler, Cologne, Germany
1996 Simon Watson’s Living Room, New York, USA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2025 “LOEWE TEAPOTS” Palazzo Citterio, Milan, Italy
“Super Conceptual Pop” Foundation CAB, Brussels, Belgium
2024 “Breaking Bread” Tripoli Gallery, Wainscott, USA
2023 “A Magical Day at Ditch” Tripoli Gallery, Wainscott, USA
“Summer Show” Jack Hanley Gallery, East Hampton, USA
“OKETA COLLECTION: TIME MIXED” Spiral Garden, Tokyo, Japan
2022 “NOBUNAGA 03” Bill Brady Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
“Dear Friend” KOSAKU KANECHIKA, Tokyo, Japan
2021 “17th Annual Thanksgiving Collective: Arrival” Tripoli Gallery, New York, USA
“Wasserspiele” Galerie Daniel Blau, Munich, Germany
“100 Sculptures” Anonymous Gallery, New York, USA
“Can’t Wait to Meet You” Primary, Florida, USA
“Demons, Spirits and Other Creatures” Galerie Daniel Blau, Munich, Germany
“Show 1” Airfield Gallery, New York, USA
2020 “Pacific Coast Ceramics” Galeria Mascota, Aspen, USA
“Six Hot and Glassy” Tripoli Gallery, New York, USA
“The Essential Goods Show” Fisher Parrish Gallery, New York, USA
“36 Paintings” Harper’s Books, New York, USA
2019 “Pure ‘Joy’” Western Exhibitions, Chicago, USA
2018 “Pageant of Inconceivables” Kleinert/James Center for the Arts, New York, USA / Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York, USA
“CLAY TODAY” The Hole, New York, USA
2017 “Summer Trip” Tripoli Gallery of Contemporary Art, New York, USA
“Drawing Island” The Journal Gallery, New York, USA
2016 “Implosion 20” Anton Kern Gallery, New York, USA
“The Great Figure Two” The Journal Gallery, New York, USA
“Made in Oven – in collaboration with Thierry Boutémy” Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium
2015 “Don’t Worry” Kate MacGarry, London, UK
“SUMMERTIME” Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve, Paris, France
“‘Give a man a mask and he will tell you the truth’ (Oscar Wilde)” Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium
“Fletching Blemish” INVISIBLE-EXPORTS, New York, USA
2014 “FIRE!” Venus Over Manhattan, New York, USA
“Positively Marvillainous” Eric Firestone Gallery, New York, USA
“If you throw a spider of the window, does it break?” Brennan & Griffin, New York, USA
“Life” Venus Over Manhattan, New York, USA
“Portray” Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
“Bad Fog” Martos Gallery, New York, USA
2013 “Works on Paper” Blondeau & Cie, Geneva, Switzerland
2012 “It’s Always Summer on the Inside” Anton Kern Gallery, New York, USA
2010 “Salad Days” The Journal Gallery, New York, USA
“Wall-to-Wall” Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
“Summer Group Show 2010” Galerie Daniel Blau, Munich, Germany
2009 “Vortexhibition Polyphonica” Henry Art Gallery, Washington, USA
“Paintings in the Sky” Kate MacGarry, London, UK
“If the dogs are barking” Artist Space, New York, USA
“Nudes” Galeria Fortes Villaça, São Paulo, Brazil
2008 “Monsterous Figuration” Andreas Melas, Athens, Greece
“Friends & Family” Anton Kern Gallery, New York, USA
“Jack Pierson, Dan McCarthy, David Dupuis” The Journal Gallery, New York, USA
Galerie Gebr. Lehrmann, Dresden, Germany
2007 “jetzt” Galerie Beck & Eggeling, Düsseldorf, Germany
“Some Kind of Portrait” Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles, USA
“Silicone Vallery” MoMA PS1, New York, USA
“Panic Room” Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece
2006 “Auf Papier (On Paper)” Galerie Michael Haas, Berlin, Germany
“FACES” Blondeau Fine Art Services, Geneva, Switzerland
2004 “Unplugged” Galeria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Trento, Italy
“I Am the Walrus” Cheim & Read, New York, USA
“Home for the Holidays” Galeria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Trento, Italy
2003 “Today’s Man” John Connelly Presents, New York, USA / Hiromi Yoshii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
“94-04” Albertinum Museum, Dresden, Germany
2002 “Group Exhibition” Galerie Aurel Scheibler, Cologne, Germany
“Circumnavigating A Sea of Shit” Cynthia Broan Gallery, New York, USA
2001 “I Love NY” Anton Kern Gallery, New York, USA
2000 “The Boys in Bubbles” Anton Kern Gallery, New York, USA
1993 “Pure Pop for Now People” Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, USA
“Drawings” Tom Cugliani Gallery, New York, USA
“The Return of the Cadavre Exquis” The Drawing Center, New York, USA
“Saint in the City” Tom Cugliani Gallery, New York, USA
“Daniel Ibanez, Dan McCarthy, Stephen Tashijan” Tom Cugliani Gallery, New York, USA
1991 “Little Women, Little Men: Markers of Diminished Lives” White Columns, New York, USA
“Childhood Revisited” Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, USA
1990 “The Last Detail” Simon Watson Gallery, New York, USA
“Selections 50” The Drawing Center, New York, USA

Public Collections

Aïshti Foundation, Beirut, Lebanon
The Dakis Joannou Collection, Athens, Greece
ICA Miami, Florida, USA
Musee d’Art Moderne de Paris, Paris, France
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA

EXHIBITIONS

Dan McCarthy Solo exhibition

2024.10.12 Sat - 11.16 Sat

Tennoz

Dan McCarthy & Takuro Kuwata Dear Friend

2022.3.5 Sat - 4.9 Sat

Tennoz