Carroll Dunham was born on November 5,1949 and is an American painter.
11 Facts About Carroll Dunham
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Carroll Dunham is known for his conceptual approach to painting and drawing and his interest in exploring the relationship between abstraction and figuration.
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Carroll Dunham's parents were Carroll Dunham IV, a Harvard-educated poultry farmer and residential real-estate realtor "active in trade associations, politics, and civic affairs" who "came from great wealth, which he had squandered on a series of misguided investments," and Mount Holyoke College and Yale School of Nursing alumna Carol Marguerite, nee Reynolds, a nurse and realtor.
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Carroll Dunham grew up in Old Lyme, a hotbed for American impressionism in the early 20th century.
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In 1972, Carroll Dunham received a BA from Trinity College in Connecticut.
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Between 1981 and 1987, Carroll Dunham worked directly on wood veneer, employing multiple types of plywood and various, ever more exotic veneers, including elm, oak, pine, and rosewood.
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Towards the late 1980s, Carroll Dunham began to work with more singular motifs.
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Carroll Dunham has been the subject of numerous one-person exhibitions, including a mid-career retrospective at the New Museum in New York and an exhibition of paintings and sculptures at Millesgarden in Stockholm.
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Carroll Dunham's work has been included in several Whitney Biennials and in "Disparaties and Deformations: Our Grotesque," SITE Santa Fe's fifth biennial curated by Robert Storr.
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Carroll Dunham has participated in exhibitions at major institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid.
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Carroll Dunham's work is included in a number of public collections, including the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago; Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo; Brooklyn Museum, New York; Museum Ludwig, Cologne; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia; Tate Gallery, London; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and Whitney Museum of Art, New York.