Kenny Scharf
Born 1958 in Los Angeles, California
Currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California
Education
1980
Bachelor of Fine Arts, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
Solo Exhibitions
2025
Almine Rech, Brussels, Brussels, Belgium (upcoming)
'Emotional', Modern Art Museum (MAM), Shanghai, China
2024
'Kenny Scharf', The Brant Foundation, New York, NY, US
2023
'Tout Suite', Almine Rech, Paris, France
2021
'Earth', Almine Rech, Shanghai, China
'Phlatscreenz TVOD', Honor Fraser Gallery Aspen, CO, US
'Vaxi Nation', Almine Rech, Paris, France
2020
'Dystopian Painting', Almine Rech, New York, NY, US
'Moodz', Jeffrey Dietch, Miami, FL, US
'Moodz', Jeffrey Dietch, Los Angeles, LA, US
2019
'Optimistically Melting', Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, US
'Anxiously Optimistic', Baik Gallery, Seoul, Korea
'Universalis', La Nave Salinas, Ibiza, Spain
'Blue Blood', Totah, New York, NY, US
'Viva Lo Vivo', After & Again, Mexico City, Mexico
2018
'Super Pop Universe', Lotte Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
'Inner and Outer Space', Lelia Heller Gallery, Dubai, UAE
'Scharftopia The Far Out World of Kenny Scharf' , Gustavus College, Minnesota, US
Kenny Scharf, David Klien Gallery, Detroit, Michigan, US
'Paradis Perdu', Galerie Enrico Navarra, Paris, France
2017
'Blox and Bax', Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, US
'Inner and Outer Space', Jeffrey Deitch, New York, NY, US
2016
Kenny Scharf, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY, US
2015
'Born Again', Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, US
'SCHOW', Frederic Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL, US
2014
Pace Face, Pace Prints, New York, NY, US
Kenny Scharf, Colette, Paris, France
2013
'Kolors', Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY, US
'Amerikulture', Eric Firestone Gallery, East Hampton, NY, US
2012
'Hodgepodge', The Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, US
2011
'Naturafutura', Paul Kasmin, New York, NY, US
2009
'Barberadise', Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, US
2008
'Superdeluxa', Waddington Gallery, London, UK
'80’s Back', Seomi & Tuus, Seoul, Korea
2007
'NEW!', Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY, US
2006
'Astro Cumulo Nibus Uber Express', Raleigh Hotel Art Basel, Miami Beach, FL, US
2005
'Superpop', Paul Kasmin Gallery New York, NY, US
'Outer Limits', Patrick Painter Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, US
2004
'Groovenian Drawings', Kantor Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, US
'Schablobz', Kenny Schachter/Rove, New York, NY, US
'California Grown', Pasadena Museum of California Art, Los Angeles, CA, US
'Face Value', Kevin Bruk Gallery, Miami Beach, FL, US
2003
'Nightlight', Patrick Painter Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, US
'Paintings 1990-1997', Cotthem Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2002
'Muted', Chac Mool Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, US
2001
'Car Nation', UC Fullerton Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana, CA, US
'Portraits', Tony Schafrazi Gallery, New York, NY, US
'Hollywood Stars', Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions Los Angeles, CA, US
2000
Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA, US
'Small Paintings & Bronzes', Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY, US
'Closet # 18', Young at Art Children’s Museum, Davie, FL, US
1999
'Heads, Small Paintings and Closet # 16', Galerie Hans Mayer, Berlin, Germany
'New Sculpture', PICA-Portland Institute for Contemporary Art Portland, OR, US
'Heads and Small Paintings', Galerie Hans Mayer, Dusseldorf, Germany
1998
Kenny Scharf, Galerie Ramis Barquet, Monterrey, Mexico
Kenny Scharf, McIntosh Gallery, Atlanta, GA, US
Kenny Scharf, Kantor Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, US
Kenny Scharf, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY, US
1997
'Pop Surrealist', Salvador Dali Museum, St. Petersburg, FL, US
'When Worlds Collide', Curated by Barry Blinderman, University Galleries Illinois State, IL, US
Kenny Scharf, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY, US
'Ultraelektrik', Paintings, Sculpture & Customized Appliances, Sony Building New York, NY, US
1996
Kenny Scharf, Tony Shafrazi Gallery NY, US
'El Mundo de Kenny Scharf', Museo de Art Contemporaneo de Monterrey, Mexico
Kenny Scharf, Heads Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, FL, US
Kenny Scharf, Galerie 56, Budapest, Hungary
1995
'Early Paintings 1975-78', Yoshi Gallery, New York, NY, US
Kenny Scharf, Galerie Cotthem-Hedwig Van Impe, Knokke, Belgium Kenny Scharf, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY, US
'Scharf-O-Rama 1978-1995', Museum of Art, Ft.Lauderdale, Fl, US
1994
'Wildlife', Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY
1993
Kenny Scharf, Works on Paper , Galerie Burkhard R Eikelmann, Dusseldorf, Germany
Kenny Scharf, Closet #11, Cafe Click, Dusseldorf, Germany
Kenny Scharf, Closet # 10 World Gallery Miami, Fl, US
1992
Kenny Scharf, Edward Totah Gallery, New York, NY, US
Kenny Scharf, Galeria Rocca 6, Torino, Italy
Kenny Scharf, Galeria Seno, Milan, Italy
1991
Kenny Scharf, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, NY, US
Kenny Scharf, Studio Trisorio, Naples, Italy
Kenny Scharf, AC&T Corporation, Tokyo, Japan
Kenny Scharf, Galerie Hans Mayer, Dusseldorf, Germany
Kenny Scharf, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1990
Kenny Scharf, Galerie Beaubourg, Paris, France
1989
Kenny Scharf, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, US
1988
Kenny Scharf, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1987
Kenny Scharf, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY, US
1986
Kenny Scharf, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1985
Kenny Scharf, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY, US
Kenny Scharf, Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich, Germany
1984
Kenny Scharf, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY, US
Kenny Scharf, Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, US
1983
Kenny Scharf, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY, US
Kenny Scharf, American Graffiti Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1982
Kenny Scharf, Fun Gallery, New York, NY, US
1981
Kenny Scharf, National Studio Artists P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center Kenny Scharf, Customized Appliances Club 57, New York, NY, US
Kenny Scharf, The Jetsons Fun Gallery, New York, NY, US
1979
Kenny Scharf, Celebration of the Space Age, Club 57, New York, NY, US
Group Exhibitions
2025
'Emotional', Modern Art Museum (MAM), Shanghai, China
2024
'Cute. The Dark Side', MACA Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark
'50——90: The Tenth Anniversary of the Long Museum', Long Museum West Bund, Shanghai, China
2023
'TEMPO. TEMPO! TEMPO?', Kunstmuseum Schloss Derneburg, Derneburg, Germany
'Basquiat X Warhol, À Quatre Mains', Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France
2021
'Salon de Peinture', Almine Rech, New York, US
‘Un Hiver à Paris’, Almine Rech, Paris, France
2020
'The Shadow', Totah, New York, NY, US
2019
'Happy', NSU Art Museum, FL, US
'Beyond The Streets', Brooklyn, New York, US
'Fatherhood', Over the Influence, Los Angeles, CA, US
'Summer of 82', Curated by Dan Cameron, Johannes Vogt, New York, NY, US
'L.A. on Fire', Curated by Michael Slenske, Wilding Cran Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, US
'Yesterday’s Tomorrowland Today a Xerox Show', Winslow Garage, Los Angeles, CA, US
2018
'Paper Trail', Allouche Gallery, New York, NY, US
'Polarities', Totah, New York, NY, US
'Auto didactic the Juxtapose School', Petersen Automotive Museum, Los Angeles, CA, US
'Warhol & Friends New York in the 80’s', Palazzo Albergati, Bologna, Italy
'Dancing Goddesses', Dio Horia Gallery, Mykonos, Greece
'Under One Roof', Urban Nation Museum for Urban Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
'Donald Baechler', Ross Bleckner, Enoc Perez & Kenny Scharf, Alloche Benais, Athens, Greece
'Beyond The Streets', Curated by Roger Gastman, Los Angeles, CA, US
'Stand Still: A Still Life Show', Allouche Gallery, New York, NY, US
2017
Bombay Beach Biennale, Curated by Lily Johnson, White Salton Sea, CA, US
Animal Farm, Curated by Sadie Laska, Brant Foundation, Greenwich, CT, US
'Fast Forward - Painting from the 1980’s', Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, US
Club 57” Films, Performance and Art in the East Village 1978-1983, MoMA, NY, NYC, US
2016
'Around the World in 86 Days', Ludwig Forum Aachen, Aachen, Germany
'A Selection of Works of the 80’s', Vito Schnabel Gallery, St. Moritz, Switzerland
Cosmic Connections, David Totah Gallery, New York, NY, US
'Piston Head 2 Artist Engage the Automobile', Venus Over Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, US
'Masters: Urban & Street Art', Galerie Laurent Strouk, Paris, France
'The Neon Wilderness Voices from Los Angeles', The Conversation, Berlin, Germany
'Muse', Galerie Hideout, Paris, France
'AftermodernisM', Neumann Wolfson Art, Watermilll, NY, US
'DESIRE', Curated by Diana Widmaier Picasso, Gagosian & Deitch, Art Basel Miami Beach, FL, US
2015
'She Sells Seashells by the Seashore', Eric Firestone Gallery, East Hampton, NY, US
2014
'Urban Theater', New York Art in the 1980’s, The Modern Art Museum of Ft.Worth, Texas, US
'Fun and Games,' Montalvo Art Center Saratoga, CA, US
'Saying Yes to Everything : Honor Fraser Gallery Curated by Corrina Peipon Los Angeles, CA LOISADA': NY’s Lower East Side in the 80’s Addison Gallery Andover, MA, US
Appropriate Disruption” : Jacob Lewis Gallery, NY, US
2013
AREA THE EXHIBITION, The Hole NY, US
'Artist Engage The Automobile Pistonhead' – Art Basel Miami Beach, FL, US
'Calligraffiti', Leila Heller Gallery, NY, US
'Futures Project', Center for the Living Arts Mobile, AL, US
'Contemporary Magic Tarot Deck Art Project', The Dali Museum, St. Petersburg, FL, US
Virginia MOCA” Virginia Beach, VA, US
2012
'Thank You Andy Warhol', Benrimon Contemporary, NY, US
'Times Square Show Revisited', Leubsdorf Gallery Hunter College,NY, US
'Portrait of a Generation', The Hole Gallery, NY, US
'All For You', Eric Firestone Gallery, East Hampton, NY, US
2011
'The Artist Museum', MOCA Los Angeles, CA, US
'Art In The Streets', MOCA Los Angeles, CA, US
'New York Minute', Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow, Russia
'Facemaker”Curated by Kathy Grayson Royal-T', Culver City, CA, US
'Unfinished Paintings',Contemporary Exhibitions Los Angeles , CA, US
'Nose Job', Eric Firestone Gallery, East Hampton, NY, US
'East Village West', Royal T Lounge, Los Angeles, CA, US
'From Here to Eternity Curated by Kenton Parker' Scion Installation Space, Culver City, CA, US
2010
'Pause', Cosmopolitan Hotel Las Vegas, NV, US
'Art Shack', Laguna Art Museum Laguna Beach, CA, US
'Mutant Pop', Loyal Gallery Malmo, Sweden
2009
'Wynwood Walls', Outdoor Mural Project produced by Deitch Projects Art Basel Miami, FL, US
'Primary Flight', Site – specific Street Level Mural, Art Basel Miami, FL, US
'Loveable Like Orphan Kitties and Bastard Children', Green Gallery, Milwaukee, WI, US
'Just What Are They Saying', Jonathan Ferrara Gallery New Orleans, LA, US
'Nude Show', Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY, US
2008
'Four Friends', Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY, US
'Totally Rad', Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY, US
'American Standard', Design District Miami Beach, FL, US
'Juxtapose School', Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach CA, US
'Zero Carat Jewelry Friedman', Benda Gallery, New York, NY, US
2007
'Four Friends', Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY, US
'Art Parade', King of Parade, Jeffrey Deitch, New York, NY, US
'Big Secret Cache', Angstrom Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, US
2006
'Surrealism Then and Now', Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY, US
'Juxtapose Anniversary', Copro Nason, Culver City, CA, US
2005
'Enjoy By, Bill Farroux', Venice, CA, US
2004
'East Village USA', New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY, US
'Beginning Here: 101 Ways', Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY, US
'100 Artists See Satan', Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana, CA, US
2003
'Quest', Vincent Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
'Splat, Boom, Pow', Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX, US
'Portraits', Heidi Lee Fine Art, New York, NY, US
'Faces and Figures', The Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami, FL, US
'Beauty Stripped Bare / LA Black & White', BGH Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, US
1997
'In Your Face Haring', Basquiat & Scharf, Leo Malca Fine Art, New York, NY, US
'Art and Provocation: Images from Rebels', Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO, US
1996
'New Figuration', Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ, US
'Hot Off the Press: New Editions', Pace Prints, New York, NY, US
1995
'Altered and Irrational: Selections from the Permanent Collection', Whitney Museum, NY Art, Design and Barbie, Liberty Street Gallery, New York, NY, US
'Art + Architecture', Center for Contemporary Art , Miami, US
'A New York Time:Selected Drawings from the Eighties', Bruce Museum , Greenwich, CT, US
1993
'About Nature', Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH, US
'Art and Environment', National Arts Club, New York, NY, US
'Extravagant: The Economy of Elegance', Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY, US
'1982-93: Ten Years After', Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY, US
1992
'1492', Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey, Mexico
'Variations Gitanes', Grande Halle de la Villette, Paris, Frace
'Objets Trouves Galerie de Jour', Agnes B, Paris
'Balade de l’Amour Halle de l’Uniondes arts Decoratifs', Palais de Louvre, Paris, France
'Beauty Stripped Bare / LA Black & White', BGH Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, US
1991
'American Art of the ’80’s', Palazzo delle Albere, Trento, Italy
'Closet #9', Queens Museum of Art, Flushing, NY, US
'Just What is it That Makes Todays Home So Different,So Appealing Hyde Collection, NY The 1980’s: A Selected View from the Permanent Collection', Whitney Museum, New York, NY, US
1990
'The Last Decade: American Artists of the ’80’s', Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY, US
1989
'Don’t Bungle the Jungle', Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY, US
'The Studio American Collection', Witkacy Theater , Zakopane, Poland
1988
'Figure a Subject: Revival of Figuration Since 1975', Whitney Museum, New York, NY, US
'The Weisman Collection', California State University, Fullerton, CA, US
1987
'Comic Iconoclasm', Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK
1986
'An American Renaissance: Painting and Sculpture from 1940 to Present', Museum of Art, Ft.Lauderdale, FL, US
'Homage to Nicolas A. Moufarrage', Gabrielle Bryers Gallery, New York, NY, US
'Picture From the Inner Mind The Palladium',Solway Gallery, New York, NY, US
'Cincinnati', Cohn Gallery, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1985
Biennial, Whitney Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY, US
'Drawings', Leo Castelli, New York, NY, US
'Eight Artists/Eight Years', SVA School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, US
'East Village Artists', Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY, US
Investigations Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, PA, US
'Sights For Small Eyes', Heckscher Museum, Long Island, NY, US
'Vernacular Abstraction', Wacoal Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
'Art in Action,' Sogetsu Museum, Tokyo, Japan
'Out of the Ooo Cloud Edith C Blum Art Institute', Bard College Annandale on Hudson NY, US
1984
'Via New York', Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art, Montreal, Canada
'The Innovative Landscape', Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY, US
'New Hand-Painted Dreams: Contemporary Surrealism', Barbara Gladstone Gallery, NY, US
'Arte di Frontiera,' Galerie d’Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy
Aperto 84 Venice Bienale, Venice , Italy
'The Human Condition', Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, US
'Contemporary Perspectives 1984', Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA, US
'New Idioms', Robert Fraser Gallery, London, UK
'New Attitudes Paris/New York', Pittsburg Center for the Arts, Pittsburg, PA, US
1983
'Champions', Tony Shafrazi Gallery NY, US
Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA, US
Surrealist Show, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY, us
'Morton G. Neuman Family Collection', Kalamazoo Institute of Art, Kalamazoo, Michigan, US
'The Comic Art Show', Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, US
'Back to the U.S.A', Kuntsmuseum Luzern,Luzern, Switzerland
'Tendencias en Nueva York', Palacio de Cristal, Madrid, Spain
'Clocktower Open Studio Show', P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY, US
Bienalle de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
References Palais de Beaux-Arts, Charleroi, Belgium
1982
'Installation Project Room', P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY, US 'The Times Square Show', Times Square , New York, NY, US
'New Wave', P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY, US
'Drawing Show', Mudd Club, New York, NY, US
'Beyond Words', Mudd Club , New York, NY, US
1981
'Open Stdio Show P.S.1 'Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY, US
Special Projects
2019
Mural at the Bluffs, Playa Vista, CA, US
Mural at the City Club, Minneapolis, MN, US
Public Collections
The Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL, US
Brant Foundation, Greenwich, CT, US
Emergentes Art Foundation, Lebanon
The Dannheiser Foundation, New York, NY, US
The Broad Foundation, Los Angeles, CA, US
The Hall Foundation, Reading, VT, US
Groniger Museum, Groniger, The Netherlands
Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, US
The Jewish Museum, New York, NY, US
Lotte Museum, Seoul, Korea
Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Germany
Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL, US
Museo DArte Contemporaneo De Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico
Museu De Arte Moderna, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, US
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA, US
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, US
New England Center for Contemporary Art, Brooklyn, CT, US
Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasedena, CA, US
Paterson Museum, Paterson, NJ, US
Patrick Lannan Foundation, Los Angeles, CA, US
Pearl Arts Foundation, Portland Oregon, US
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, US
Sogetsu Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, US
