Julian Schnabel: For Esmé - with Love and Squalor, Pace Gallery, Los Angeles, April 9–May 21, 2022. Julian Schnabel: Versions of Chuck, Revisited, Kunstmuseum Schloss Derneburg, Germany, October 21, 2022–April 16, 2023. Lives and works in New York Montauk, New York and San Sebastian, Spain.ġ969–1973, University of Houston, Texas, BFAġ973–1974, Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, New York Since his first solo exhibition in 1979, Schnabel has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions, including retrospectives organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (1987) Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona (1995) Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt (2004) Museo Correr, Venice (2011) Brant Foundation Art Study Center, Greenwich, Connecticut (2013) Museo de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand (2014) the University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor (2015) the Aspen Art Museum, Colorado (2016) The Glass House, New Canaan, Connecticut (2017) and Aros Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Denmark (2018). Throughout his career, he has sustained his use of found materials and chance-based processes, transforming the conventions of painting and opening the door for a new generation of young artists. Resisting the turn to traditional conventions of painting and sculpture that characterized the 1980s, he began his series of Plate Paintings, representational works with sculptural surfaces produced by layering shards of found pottery with thick applications of pigment.

His use of preexisting materials not traditionally used in art making, varied painting surfaces and modes of construction were pivotal in the reemergence of painting in the United States. Julian Schnabel is known for his multidisciplinary practice that extends beyond painting to include sculpture and film.

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