Born 1957 in Tuscon, Arizona
Lives and works in New York
1977 B.A., University of California, Los Angeles, CA
2010 Oskar Kokoschka Prize, Vienna, Austria
2004 Bucksbaum Award, Whitney Museum of American Art
2001 Wolfgang-Hahn-Prize, Ludwig Museum, Koln, Germany
1991 The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Awards in Painting, Sculpture, Printmaking, Photography, and Craft Media
2023
To Quit Old Paths, Ikon Ltd. Santa Monica
207 Assembly, MoMA, New York
2020
Tennis Elbow: Raymond Pettibon, The Journal Gallery, Tribeca, New York
Raymond Pettibon: Pacific Ocean Pop, Regen Projects, Hollywood, Los Angeles
2019
Raymond Pettibon: And What is Drawing For?, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
Raymond Pettibon: Frenchette, David Zwirner, Paris, Paris
2018
Raymond Pettibon: A Selection by Dan Graham, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen
2017
Raymond Pettibon: The Cloud of Misreading, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow
A Pen of All Work, New Museum, New York
TH ‘EXPLOSIYV SHOYRT T, David Zwirner, New York
2016
Marcel Dzama & Raymond Pettibon: Let us compare mythologies, David Zwirner, London
Homo Americanus, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Salzburg
Bakersfield to Barstow to Cucamonga to Hollywooyd, Sadie Coles HQ, London
Homo Americanus, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Falkenberg Collection, Hamburg (cat)
Marcel Dzama & Raymond Pettibon: Forgetting the Hand, David Zwirner, New York
2015
Home and Away. Raymond Pettibon: Living the American Dream. Marko Mäetamm: Feel at Home, Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn
From my bumbling attempt to write a disastrous musical, these illustrations muyst suffice, Regen Projects, Los Angeles
2014
Are Your Motives Pure? Raymond Pettibon Surfers 1985-2013, Venus Over Manhattan, New York
Neue Arbeiten/New Works, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin
2013
To Wit, David Zwirner Gallery, New York
High Line Billboard, New York
2012
Sadie Coles HQ, London
Some early works, Georg Kargl Box Gallery, Vienna
Whuytuyp, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne
2011
Desire in Pursuyt of the Whole, Regen Projects, Los Angeles
Looker-Upper, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin
2010
Raymond Pettibon: The Punk Years (1978- 86), Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson
Raymond Pettibon: Hard in the Paint, David Zwirner Gallery, New York
Gladstone Gallery, Brussels
Thoughts for a Book: Raymond Pettibon & Brian Kennon, Station, Roski School of Fine Arts, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
2009
Repeater Pencil, World Class Boxing, Miami
Sadie Coles HQ, London
Hipnostasis, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena (with Yoshua Okon)
Crop, URA!, Istanbul
2008
Part I: Seminal Early Work (1978-1988), Regen Projects, Los Angeles (cat)
Part II: Recent Work: Cutting Room Floor Show, Regen Projects, Los Angeles
Punk Epocha: 70 Drawings from the Eighties, Blondeau Fine Art Services, Geneva (cat)
[St.] Raymond Pettibon[e]: 1978-1986, Specific Object/David Platzker, New York
no title, 2008, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin
2007
Here’s Your Irony Back (The Big Picture), David Zwirner Gallery, New York
Sadie Coles HQ, London
v-boom, Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover
2006
The Holy Bible and THE END: Ed Ruscha/Raymond Pettibon, Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont (CA); Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, (MA); San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose
(CA), (cat)
Regen Projects, Los Angeles
Whatever It Is You’re Looking For You Won’t Find it Here, Kunsthalle Vienna, Vienna (cat)
Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga, Malaga, Spain; Kestner Gesellschaft, Hanover
2005
Arshile Gorky Raymond Pettibon, Aurora, Trento
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
No Title, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin (cat)
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla
Various Small Pettibons and a Ruscha, 871 Fine Arts, San Francisco
2004
David Zwirner, New York
Winged Heart Und Andere Drucke, Graphische Sammlung, Zurich
Selected works from 1982 to 2003 & Speaks Volumes, 1995, Blondeau Fine Art Services, Geneva
2003
Sadie Coles HQ, London
Regen Projects, Los Angeles
Drawings 1979-2003, Museion-Museo d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bolzano (cat.)
The American Short Stories: Saul Steinberg/Raymond Pettibon, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami
David Zwirner Gallery, New York
Early Work, Zwirner & Wirth Gallery, New York
Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna
Drawings dessins, M du B, F, H & g, Montreal, Canada
Regen Projects, Los Angeles
2002
New Work, David Zwirner, New York
Plots Laid Thick, MACBA, Barcelona, Spain, travelling to Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo; Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague
Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin
Musée Departmental d’Art Contemporain de Rochechouart
The Wolfgang Hahn Prize Exhibition, Gesellschaft fur Modern Kunst am Museum Ludwig Köln, Cologne
Toba Khedoori/Raymond Pettibon: LA Stories, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
The Magic Hour, Neue Galerie, Berlin
Wall Drawing, MAK, Vienna
2000
Plots on Loan, Galerie Tanit, Munich
David Zwirner Gallery, New York
Sadie Coles HQ, London
Regen Projects, Los Angeles
Hauser & Wirth, Zurich
The Book (organised by R. Ohrt), Frankfurt, travelled to Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin; MAK, Vienna; David Zwirner Gallery, New York; Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica (CA)
1999
The Drawing Centre, New York; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (cat.) (curated by Susanne Ghez & Ann Temkin)
Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna
1998
Early Warhol Drawings, Recent Pettibon Drawings, 11 Duke Street Limited, London
Otto Dix/Raymond Pettibon, Kunsthalle zu Kiel
Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna
Galleria d’arte Ristori, Albenga
Recent Work, 11 Duke Street, London
The Renaissance Society, Chicago (cat.), (curated by Susanne Ghez & Ann Temkin)
Regen Projects, Los Angeles
Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin
1997
Drawings and Wall Drawings, David Zwirner Gallery, New York
Michael Craig-Martin und Raymond Pettibon – Wandzeichnungen, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf
Galeria 1991, Lisbon
Raymond Pettibon with Wes Mills, Galerie Haus Schneider, Karlsruhe
1996
Taka Ishii Gallery, New York
Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland
1995
Regen Projects, Los Angeles
David Zwirner Gallery, New York
Kunsthalle Bern, Bern; Verneuil – Marc Blondeau, Paris (cat.)
Galeria Massimo De Carlo, Milan, Italy
Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin
14/16 Verneuil, Paris
Ynglingagatan, Stockholm
1994
Galeria Ramis Barquet, Garza, Mexico, travelled to Arena Arte Contemporaneo, Guadalajara, Mexico
Galerie Metropol, Vienna
Galerie Beaumont, Luxembourg
1993
Making Book, Regen Projects, Los Angeles
Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco
Regen Projects, Los Angeles
New Works on Paper, Feature Gallery, New York
1992
Esther Schipper Galerie, Cologne, Germany
On the Scent, Galerie Metropol, Vienna
Galerie Marc Jancou, Zurich
Raymond Pettibon/Matrix 151, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley
1991
Air de Paris, Nice
Feature Inc., New York
Richard/Bennet Gallery, Los Angeles
N.A.M.E Gallery, Chicago
Massimo de Carlo Arte Contemporanea, Milan
Galerie Rudiger Schottle, Munich
Reader Dearest, Robert Berman Gallery, Los Angeles
1990
Readings, Feature Inc., New York
A Long Parenthesis, Richard/Bennet Gallery, Los Angeles
1989
Feature Inc., New York
1986
Semaphore Gallery, New York
2023
Tempo. Tempo! Tempo?, Hall Art Foundation, Schloss Derneburg Museum, Hildesheim, Germany
Order & Disorder (in collaboration with QG Gallery), Order & DiRodolphe Janssen, Brusselssorder (in collaboration with QG Gallery)
A Selection of Modern, Post-War & Contemporary Artworks,Sotheby’s Palm Beach, Florida
2022
Animation, Generation NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Nacktheit der Zeichnung, H2 Zentrum für Gegenwartskunst im Glaspalast, Augsburg
Je Veux, Vienna 1975–2022, Galerie Meyer Kainer Kunst, curated by Brigitte Huck, MEYER*KAINER, Vienna
Stars Don’t Stand Still in the Sky: A Tribute to Lawrence Weiner, Regen Projects, Los Angeles,
(Re)Frame, Alexander and Bonin, New York
Among Friends: Three Views of a Collection, The FLAG Art Foundation, Chelsea, New York
Made in Plain Site, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside
Flashing the Leather, Alabama Contemporary Art Center, Mobile
Schindler House Los Angeles: Space as a Medium of Art, MAK Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art, Vienna
Some People, Cheim & Read (67th St), New York
Artists Inspired by Music: Interscope Reimagined, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
2021
Xmas Salon Hosting Artflash, Haverkampf Galerie, Berlin
Comics Trip!, Collection Lambert en Avignon, Avignon
Expedition, Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, Brattleboro, Vermont
Selections: Gallery Artists, Regen Projects, Los Angeles
The Real World, David Zwirner, Hong Kong
Deep Blue, Hall Art Foundation, Schloss Derneburg Museum, Hildesheim
Building Character: Works from the Riverside Art Museum Permanent Collection, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside
Showroom, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna
Five on Paper, Eleni Koroneou Gallery, Athens
The Prints Project, Shoot the Lobster, New York
New York in the 80s: Selections from the Barry Blinderman Collection, Western Exhibitions, Chicago
2020
Mr President, Galerie Sébastien Bertrand, Geneva
20/20, David Zwirner, New York (20th Street), New York
Graphic Pull: Contemporary Prints from the Collection, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham
00s. Cranford Collection: the 2000s, MO.CO. Hôtel des Collections, Montpellier
My Cartography: The Erling Kagge Collection, Fondation Vincent Van Gogh Arles, Arles
Drawing 2020, Gladstone Gallery, New York (21st Street), New York
Hybridish, Galerie Georg Kargl, Vienna
Six Hot And Glassy, Tripoli Gallery, Southampton, New York
Portraits & Some Standing Figures, Galerie Sébastien Bertrand, Geneva
Entertainment Through Absence, Gabriele Senn Galerie, Vienna
Comics Trip!, Collection Lambert en Avignon, Avignon
Beating Around The Bush #6: Scenes From The Anthropocene, Bonnefanten Maastricht, Maastricht
The Artist-Collector’s Dream (A Nice Thing), Galleria Continua, San Gimignano
Works on Paper 1972 -2020, Bernier / Eliades, Athens
To Paint Is To Love Again, Nino Mier Gallery 1, Los Angeles
1. COLOR 2. HOLE and 3. JOKE – Selected works on paper, Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna
2019
Never Again. Art against War and Fascism in the 20th and 21st centuries, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Warsaw
Between Them: An Installation Composed Of Drawings, Hosfelt Gallery – San Francisco, San Francisco
Hand Drawn, Action Packed – Hayward Gallery Touring, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, Wales
What is an Edition Anyway, McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco
Des mots et des choses, FRAC – Bretagne, Châteaugiron
2018
Plato in L.A.: Contemporary Artists’ Visions, Getty Villa, Pacific Palisades
TOM House: The Work and Life of Tom of Finland, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit
Art & Vinyl: Artists & the Record Album from Picasso to the Present, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
David Zwirner: 25 Years, David Zwirner, New York
2017
made on the table, Sadie Coles HQ, London
Thread, David Zwirner, New York
If on a Trondheim’s night a traveler…, Trondheim Kunstmuseum, Trondheim
Llegible – Visible. Between the Film Frame and the Page, Arts Santa Mònica, Barcelona
What I Loved: Selected Works from the ‘90s, Regen Projects, Los Angeles
Chapters: Book Arts in Southern California, Craft & Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles
2016
Le futur doit être dangereux, Museum of Fine art of Dole, Dole
Surreal / Unreal, Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles
Seeing | Saying: Visual Verbal Exchanges, Van Every/Smith Galleries, Davidson College, Davidson
Viehof Collection, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg
The Dark Side of the Moon, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, St. Gallen
Good Dreams, Bad Dreams – American Mythologies, Aïshti Foundation, Antelias
Shrines to Speed: Art and The Automobile from the Minimal to the Postmodern, Leila Heller Gallery, New York
Passion. Fan Behaviour and Art, Ludwig Múzeum – Kortárs Művészeti Múzeum, Budapest
March Madness, Fort Gansevoort, New York
Void California, The Wattis Institute, California College of the Arts, San Francisco
2015
Winter in America, Jack Shainman Gallery: The Shop, New York
Love Story – Works from Erling Kagge’s Collection, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo
TOWER, Ibid. London, London
Hello Walls, Gladstone Gallery, New York
Station to Station: A 30 Day Happening, Barbican Centre, London (curated by Doug Aitken)
America Is Hard to See, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
A History. Art, Architecture, Design from the 1980s Until Today, Centre Pompidou, Paris
Walk the line. New Ways of Drawing, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg
The Bottom Line, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent
California Printmakers, 1950-2000, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna (CA)
PUNK. It’s Traces in Contemporary Art, CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid
2014
BLACKOUT, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels
Codex, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco
Franz Graf – See What Sees You, 21er Haus, Vienna
Stars: Contemporary Prints by Derriére L’Étoile Studio – Part 3, Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
Raymond Pettibon / Franz West: Collagen & Zeichnungen, Kunstraum Sellemond, Vienna
ordinary freaks: The Principle of Coolness in Pop Culture, Theatre and Museum, Künstlerhaus, Graz
A Machinery for Living, organized by Walead Beshty, Petzel, New York
No Problem: Cologne/New York 1984-1989, David Zwirner, New York
Somos Libres II: Works from the Mario Testino Collection, curated by Neville Wakefield, Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli, Turin
The Crime Was Almost Perfect, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam
Imaginary Portraits of Prince Igor, The Arnold & Marie Schwartz Gallery Met, New York
Paint New York – Painting from the American East Coast, Kunstforeningen GL Strand, Copenhagen
2013
Accrochage, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin
Art and its Discontents, Art, Design, & Architecture Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara
The Circle Walked Casually, Deutsche Bank KunsthHalle, Berlin; Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires
Double Hamburger Deluxe, Marlborough Chelsea, New York
The Whole Earth: California and the Disappearance of the Outside, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
2012
California, Charles Riva Collection, Brussels
Color Blind: The MCA Collection in Black and White, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago
Letters from Los Angeles: Text in Southern California Art, Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles
Pop Politics: Activism at 33 Revolutions, CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid
Tracing the Century: Drawing as a Catalyst for Change, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool
Self-portraits, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek
This Will Have Been: Art, Love, & Politics in the 1980s, Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Chicago
In Numbers, Institute of Contemporary Art, London
2011
12th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul
Houdini: Art and Magic, Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles; Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco; Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison
Nose Job, Eric Firestone Gallery, East Hampton, New York
Sweet Dreams: Comics, Cartoons and Contemporary Art, Brooke Alexander, New York
In Your Face, SHOWstudio, London
American Exuberance, Rubell Family Collection / Contemporary Arts Foundation, Miami
Home Alone, curated by Sarah Aibel, Sender Collection, Miami
In the End was the Word: Language as a Medium of the Contemporary Visual Arts, Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal-Unteröwisheim
The Air We Breathe: Artists and Poets Reflect on Marriage Equality, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
Under the Big Black Sun, Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, Los Angeles
The Lord & The New Creatures, Nye + Brown, Los Angeles
The Last First Decade, Elllipse Foundation, Portugal
Blankness Is Not a Void: Scott Campbell, Steven Parrino and Raymond Pettibon, Marc Jancou Contemporary, New York
CLAP, Hessel Museum of Art, CCS Bard College, Annadale-on-Hudson
Collecting Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Compass: Drawings from the museum of Modern Art New York, Martin-Gropis-Bau, Berlin
2010
The Artist’s Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Drawing Time/Le temps du dessin, Musée des beaux-arts de Nancy and Galeries Poirel, Nancy
Just Love Me: Regard Sur Une Collection Privée, Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg
Thanks for Being With Us: Contemporary Art from the Douglas Nielsen Collection, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson
Works on Paper from the MCA Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
Storytellers, Passages, Centre d’art contemporain, Troyes
Framed: Drawings in Motion, The Drawing Center, New York
Hareng Saur: Ensor and Contemporary Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent
Houdini: Art and Magic, The Jewish Museum, New York
Raymond Pettibon & Brian Kennon, Station Gallery, Los Angeles
Sunless, organized by Walead Beshty, Thomas Dane Gallery, London
Playboys and Killjoys, Ambach & Rice, Seattle
Swell, Art 1950 – 2010, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, Metro Pictures, and Nyehaus Galleries, New York
The Dissolve, SITE Santa Fe Eighth International Biennial, Santa Fe
DRAW: Mexico City, Museo de la Ciudad de Mexico
Works on Paper from the MCA Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
International 10, Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool
Endless Bummer/ Surf Elsewhere, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles
Curious? Art in the 21st Century from Private Collections, Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany, Bonn
Collecting Biennials, Whitney Museum, New York
Le Meilleur des Mondes, Le Musee d’Art Moderne Grand-duc Jean, Luxembourg
2009
Collection: MOCA’s First Thirty Years, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Looking at Music: Side 2, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Raymond Pettibon and Yoshua Okon, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena
The Making of Art, Shirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt
Where’s the wind when it isn’t blowing?, Der Kunstverein, Hamburg
Mapping the Studio: Artists from the François Pinault Collection, 53rd Venice Biennale, Palazzo
Grassi and the Punta della Dogana, Venice
FPM Collection: John Bock, Erik van Lieshout, Manfred Pernice, Raymond Pettibon, Keith Tyson, Do-Sa, Schillingstraβe 31, Berlin
2008
Emerson vs. Nietzsche, China Art Objects at Cottage Home, Los Angeles
Beautiful People and the Secret Wound, Collection of Frac-Nord-Pas de Calais, Prague
California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach
New Prints 2008/ Autumn, International Print Center New York
To Illustrate and Multiply: An Open Book, Museum of Contemporary Art Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles
Crossroads: Interfaces between rock music and contemporary Art, Domus Atrium, Salamanca
Faces and Figures (revisited), Marc Jancou Contemporary, New York
Index: Conceptualism in California from the Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Freeway Balconies, Deutsche Guggenheim Museum, Berlin
KRAZY! The Delirious World of Anime + Comics + Video Games + Art, Vancouver Art Gallery,
Pivot Points: Part 2, Museum of Contemporary Art at Goldman Warehouse, Miami
Southern Exposure: Works from the Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
True Romance: Allegorien der Liebe von der Renaissance bis heute, Museum Villa Stück, Munich
Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue, curated by Aaron Rose, Primo Marella Gallery, Milan
Collecting Collections, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Under Pain of Death, curated by Gerald Matt and Abraham Orden, Austrian Cultural Forum, New York
Animations/Fictions: Works from the FNAC Collections/Fond National d’Art Contemporaie, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Paris
Blasted Allegories, Works from the Ringier Collection, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne
Raymond Pettibon – Here’s Your Irony Back (The Big Picture), David Zwirner Gallery, New York
2007
Think with the Senses – Feel with the Mind, 52nd Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
America Today: 300 Years of Innovation, National Art Museum of China, Beijing
Art since the 1960s: California Experiments, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach
Come, come, come into my world, Ellipse Foundation Contemporary Art Collection, Lisbon
Cult Fiction: Art and Comics, New Art Gallery, Walsall
Fantasmagoría: Dibujo en movimiento, Fundación ICO, Madrid
Fast Forward: Contemporary Collections for the Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas
For Sale, Cristina Guerra Contemporary, Lisbon
Hammer Contemporary Collection Part II, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
If Everybody had an Ocean, Musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux
Mad Love: Young Art from Danish Private Collections, ARKEN Museum for Moderne Kunst, Ishøj
Paint It Blue: ACT Art Collection Siegfried Loch, Weserburg Museum für Moderne Kunst, Bremen
True Romance: Allegories of Love from the Renaissance to the Present, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
Yäq, La Planta, Arte Contemporáneo Omnilife, Guadalajara
Soufflé, eine Massenausstellung, Kunstraum Innsbruck
Panic Attack! – Art in the Punk Years, Barbican, London
There is never a stop and never a finish, Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin
Into Me, Out of Me, MACRO Testaccio, Rome
2006
Red Eye: L.A. Artists from the Rubell Family Collection, Rubell Family Collection, Miami
The Name of This Show is not Gay Art Now, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York
Mental Image, Kunstverein St. Gallen Kunstmuseum
Los Angeles 1955-1985, curated by Catherine Grenier, Centres Pompidou, Paris
75 Years of Collecting: British Masters, Group of Seven and Pop Icons, Vancouver Art Gallery
Ed Ruscha / Raymond Pettibon: The ‘Holy Bible’ and ‘The End’, Pomona College Museum of Art
Dark Places, Santa Monica Museum of Modern Art, Los Angeles
All the Best: The Deutsche Bank Collection & Zaha Hadid, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
Into Me/Out of Me (curated by Klaus Biesenbach), PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York
2005
Thank You for the Music, Gallery Sprüth Magers
After Cézanne, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Drawings, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles
Looking at Words: The Formal Presence of Text in Modern and Contemporary Works on Paper, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
Southern Exposure, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla
ROMANCE (a novel), Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon
Drawing from the Modern, 1975 – 2005, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Early Work, David Zwirner, New York
Les Grands Spectacles, Museum der Moderne Salzburg Mönchsberg
Big Bang: Destruction and Creation in 20th Century Art, Centre Pompidou, Paris
Bidibidobidiboo, curated by Francesco Bonami, Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Collection, Turin
Desenhos: A-Z, curated by Adriano Pedrosa, Colecção Madeira Corporate Services, Funchal, Madeira Island
25 Deutsche Bank Collection, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin (cat.)
Funny Cuts, Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart
2004
I Hate You – The Falckenberg Collection Meets Louisiana, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk
Central Station: La collection Harald Falckenberg, la maison rouge, Paris
Eye of the Needle, Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles
In Situ: Installations and Large-Scale Works in the Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami
Subway Series: The New York Yankees and the American Dream, the Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York
Off the Record: Sound Arc, Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris
Marilyn: From Anastasi to Weegee, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York
O.K., America!, curated by Peter Noever, Apexart, New York
Drunk vs. Stoned, Gavin Brown Enterprise, New York
Global World / Private Universe, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Saint Gallen
Friedrich Christian: Flick Collection, Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum fur Gegenwart, Berlin
Ulysses, Atelier Augarten, Vienna
The Whitney Biennial, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
In Search of the Perfect Lover, Hauser and Wirth, London
2003
Fast Forward: Media Art Sammlung Goetz, ZKM, Karlsruhe
Inaugural Exhibition, Regen Projects, Los Angeles
For the Record: Drawing Contemporary Life, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
Colleccíon MACBA, Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona
Visual Poetics: Art and the Word, Miami Art Museum, Miami
Phantom of Desire: Visions of Masochism in Art, Neue Galerie Graz & Stadtmuseum Graz
(In Search of) The Perfect Lover, Kunsthalle Baden-Baden (cat.)
Outlook International Art Exhibition, Athens
Blinde wehrt Euch!, K21, Düsseldorf
Seethe, Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver
2002
House of Fiction, Sammlung Hauser und Wirth, Lokremise St. Gallen, Saint Gallen
Man in the Middle, Sammlung Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt
Documenta XI, curated by Okwui Enwezor, Kassel (cat.)
Extra Art: A Survey of Artists’ Ephemera, 1960-1999, ICA, London
Melodrama, Centro Jose Guerrero, Granada
Startkapital, K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf
Ten Years Galerie Hauser & Wirth, Galerie Hauser & Wirth, Zurich
Permanent Collection Galleries, post-1945 Art, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas
Plus Ultra, Kunstraum Innsbruck
2001
IN FUMO, Galleria of Modern and Contemporary Art, Bergamo (cat.)
The Inward Eye, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston
Letters, Signs & Symbols, Brooke Alexander Editions, New York
Selections from the Permanent Collection, San Francisco Museum of American Art, San Francisco
American Tableaux, Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis
I Love New York, David Zwirner Gallery, New York
A* comme Accident, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris
2000
L.A – Indoor Street, Museum Villa Stuck & Marstall, Munich,
L.A., Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center, Athens
Mirror’s Edge, curated by Okwui Enwezor, Bilbmuseet
00, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro
Drawings, Tache-Levy Gallery, Brussels
1999
The American Century: Art and Culture, 1900-2000, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Weg Aus Dem Bild, curated by Martin Prinzhorn, Georg Kargl, Vienna
Gallery Swap, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin / Sadie Coles HQ, London
Stop the Violence, organised by the MAK and the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna
Hypertronix, curated by Manel Clot, Espai d’Art Contemporani de Castello
It’s Only Rock and Roll: Rock and Roll Currents in Contemporary Art, Austin Museum of Art, Austin
1998
Hindsight: 56 Recent Acquisitions, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
L.A Current: Looking at the Light: 3 Generations of L.A Artists, UCLA at the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Centre, Los Angeles
Otto Dix/Raymond Pettibon, curated by Hans-Werner Schmidt, Kunsthalle zu Kiel
Double Trouble: The Patchett Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
Exterminating Angel, curated by Joshua Decter, Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris
Early Warhol Drawings, Recent Pettibon Drawings, 11 Duke Street, London
Self-portraits, Galerie Tanya Rumpff, Haarlem
1997
Kunst…Arbeit: Aus der Sammlung Seudwest LB, Sudwestdeutsche Landesbank, Stuttgart
Heart, Mind, Body Soul, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
A Decade of Colecting: Recent Acquisitions in Contemporary Drawing, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Heaven: Public View, Private View, PS1 Contemporary Art Centre, Long Island City
Elusive Paradise: Los Angeles Art from the Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Angel, Angel, curated by Cathrin Pichler, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
Sunshine & Noir: Art in L.A 1960-1997, curated by Lars Nittve and Helle Crenzien, Louisiana
Museum, Humlebaek (cat.)
Silent and Violent: Selected Parkett Artist Editions, curated by Daniela Zyman, MAK Centre for Art & Architecture at the Schindler House, Los Angeles
1997 Whitney Biennial, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (cat.)
Nicole Eisenman, Karen Kilimnik, Raymond Pettibon, Galerie Rudiger Schottle, Munich
10 Year Anniversary of the Kunsthalle Bern, Kunsthalle Bern (cat.)
1996
Sammlung Volkmann zeigt: Faustrecht der Freiheit, Kunstsammlung Gera
Limited Edition Artists Books Since 1990, Brooke Alexander Editions, New York
a/drift, curated by Joshua Decter, Centre for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on Hudson
Sammlung Speck, Museum Ludwig Koln, Cologne
Acquiring Minds: Contemporary Art in Santa Barbara, curated by Nancy Doll and Michael Darling, Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara
Sampler 2: More Videos from Southern California, David Zwirner Gallery, New York
Chaos, Madness: Moods in Contemporary Art, curated by Johannes Gachnang, Kunsthalle Krems
My Hollywood, Gallery 258, Los Angeles
NowHere: Work in Progress, curated by Iwona Blazwick, Louisiana Museum of Art, Humlebaek
Ideal Standard Life, Spiral Garden, Tokyo
The Comic Depiction of Sex in American Art, Andreas Binder Gallery, Munich
Answered Prayers, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin
Sugar Mountain, White Columns, New York
Howe Shoemaker, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
Sex and Crime. On Human Relationships, Sprengel Museum, Hannover (cat.)
1995
Das Ende Der Avantgarde: Kunst als Dienstleistung (Sammlung Schurmann), Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich(cat.)
It’s Only Rock and Roll: Currents in Contemporary Art, Contemporary Art Centre, Cincinnati (cat.)
Strung into the Apollonian Dream… , Feature, New York
Komix, Brooke Alexander Editions, New York
Smells like Vinyl, Roger Merians Gallery, New York
1994
Mapping, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Dessins, 1894-1994, 14/16 Verneuil, Paris
SoggettoSoggetto, Castello di Rivoli, Turin (cat.)
Temporary Translation(s) – Kunst der Gegenwart und Fotografie: Sammlung Schurmann, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
Dysfunction U.S.A (curated by Peter Halley and Robert Nickas), Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans
It’s a Tough World Out There: Drawings by Mike Kelley, Joyce Pensato and Raymond Pettibon, curated by Charles Wylie, Saint Louis Museum of Art, St. Louis
Up The Establishment: Reconstructing the Counterculture, curated by Dan Cameron for Independent Curators Inc., Sonnabend Gallery, New York
Please Don’t Hurt Me, curated by Jack Jaeger, Galerie Snoei, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Cabinet Gallery, London
The Use of Pleasure, curated by Robert Nick, Terrain, San Francisco
Endstation Sehnsucht, curated by Bice Curiger, Kunsthaus Zurich (cat.)
Desire & Loss, Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati
Pendulaire avant la lettre, Galerie Beaumont, Luxembourg
Eleni Koroneou Gallery, Athens
Projets et Dessins, Galerie Claire Burrus, Paris
Can You Always Believe Your Eyes: Recent American Drawings, Museum of Contemporary Art DeBeyerd, Breda
Don’t Look Now, curated by Joshua Decter, Thread Waxing Space, New York (cat.)
Pen and Ink, curated by Michael Darling, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara
[cut] – Los Angeles – 90’ernes kunstscene, Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen
1993
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul (cat.)
PROSPECT 93, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt (cat.)
Richard Prince, Raymond Pettibon, Sean Landers, Galerie Jurgen Becker, Hamburg
Esther Schipper, Cologne
Six Mois a Paris, Air de Paris at Café Beaubourg, Paris
Summer Selections: Painting, Photography, Sculpture, Video, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco
Sex Money Politics, Nancy Drysdale Gallery, Washington D.C. (cat.)
Drawing the Line Against AIDS , Guggenheim Collection, Venice; Guggenheim Museum, New York
Mongrel Muse/Works on Paper, Silkeborg Kunstmuseum, Silkeborg (cat.)
Urban Analysis, Barbara Braathen Gallery, New York
Studio 1, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
Summer Reading, Texas Gallery, Houston
1992
Drinking and Driving: The Progressive Corporation’s 1989 Annual Report, North Carolina State University Art Gallery, Rayleigh (NC)
LAX, Galerie Ursula Krinzinger, Vienna (cat.)
Live in Your Head, Heligen Kreuzerhof, Vienna (cat.)
DIRTY DATA, Sammlung Schurmann, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen
New Deal, Bruno Brunnet Galerie, Berlin
Connections: Explorations in the Getty Centre Collections, The Getty Centre for the History of Art and the Humanities, Santa Monica
True Stories, ICA, London
L.A Art and the Nineties, Galerie Ursula Krinzinger, Vienna
Drawn in the Nineties, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, New York (cat.)
How It Is, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York
Just Pathetic, American Fine Arts, New York
The Clinic, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles
Drawings, Stuart Regen Gallery, Los Angeles
Din A 4, Galerie + Edition Koch, Kiel
Helter Skelter: L.A Art in the 1990’s, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (cat.)
Works on paper, Galerie Ghisela Capitain, Cologne
1991 303 Gallery, New York
Ovarian Warriors vs. Knights of Crissom, Sue Spaid Fine Art and Parker Zanic Gallery, Los Angeles
Examples Cool and Lonely, Roy Boyd Gallery, Santa Monica
The Kelly Family, Esther Schipper Gallery, Cologne
No Man’s Time, Villa Arson, Nice (cat.)
AIDS Timeline, Included in Group Material’s installation of the AIDS Timeline at the Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Letters, Christine Burgin Gallery, New York
Presenting Rearwards, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles (cat.)
Multiples, Feature Gallery, New York
Gang Bang, Air de Paris, Paris
Dangerous, Richard/Bennett Gallery, Los Angeles
Synthetic History, Parker Zanic Gallery, Los Angeles
Works on Paper, curated by Friedrich Petzel, Thea Westreich, New York
Childhood Revisited, Rena Bransten Gallery, Los Angeles
Videos and a film about some schmoes who are trying to conform (yet miss), Robbin Lockett Gallery, Chicago
Louder, Gallery 400, University of Illinois, Chicago
1990
Work on Paper, Paula Allen Gallery, New York
Total Metal, Simon Watson, New York (cat.)
Drawing the Line, Richard/Bennet Gallery, Los Angeles
Just Pathetic, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles (cat.)
Drinking and Driving, Cleveland Centre for Contemporary Art, Cleveland
1989
Buttinsky, Feature Gallery, New York
Amerikarms, Hallwalls, Buffalo
Art as Religion, Richard/Bennett Gallery, Los Angeles
Problems with Reading/Rereading, Rhona Hollman Gallery, Chicago
Office Party, Feature Gallery, New York
1988
LACA Boys, Feature Gallery, Chicago
Near Miss, Feature Gallery, Chicago
Cartoon-Like, curated by Jeanne Dunning, MoMing Art Gallery, Chicago
1987
Head Sex, Feature Gallery, Chicago
Art of Politics, Richard/Bennett Gallery, Los Angeles
1986
Social Distortion, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles
1985
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles