geboren/born 1961 in Born Amherst, MA
lebt und arbeitet/lives and works in Ithaca, N.Y.


Education
1996 M.F.A. Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
1983 B.F.A. Boston University, School for the Arts, Boston, MA
1982 Yale/Norfolk, Norfolk, CT


Einzelausstellungen/Solo Exhibitions

2009
Carl Ostendarp 1989–2007 Elizabeth Dee (New York, NY)

2007
Carl Ostendarp 1989–2007 Elizabeth Dee (New York, NY)
Sayin’it and Doin’it Museum Ludwig (Köln, Germany)
Works on Paper Galerie Schmidt Maczollek (Köln, Germany)
All Tomorrow’s Parties Museum für Moderne Kunst (Frankfurt, Germany)

2006
Hands & Fleets PROJEX-Mtl (Montreal, Canada)

2005
OH+T Gallery (Boston, MA)

2004
Elizabeth Dee Gallery (New York, NY)
Mario Diacono Gallery (Boston, MA)

2003
The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art (Ridgefield, CT)
Elizabeth Dee Gallery (New York, NY)

2002
Galerie Rolf Ricke (Köln, Germany)
Gilles Peyroulet et Cie (Paris, France)

2001
Dee/Glasoe (New York, NY)

1999
Gallery XL/Xavier La Boulbenne Gallery (New York, NY)
Paintings on Paper, Renezans Gallery (Houston, TX)
Shoshanna Wayne Gallery (Los Angeles, CA)

1998
Galerie Rolf Ricke (Köln, Germany)

1997
Studio Notes, Schmidt Contemporary Art (St.Louis, MO)

1995
Galerie Rolf Ricke (Köln, Germany)
Jay Gorney Modern Art (New York, NY)

1993
Rena Bransten Gallery (San Francisco, CA)
Jay Gorney Modern Art (New York, NY)

1992
Daniel Weinberg Gallery (Los Angeles, CA)
Works on Paper, Stephanie Theodore Gallery (New York, NY)

1991
John Post Lee Gallery (New York, NY)

1990
Wolff Gallery (New York, NY)

1989
Tom Solomon's Garage (Los Angeles, CA)
White Columns (New York, NY)


Gruppenausstellungen/Group Exhibitions

2008
Scene/Seen: 1980–2000 Recent Acquisitions Luckman Fine Arts Complex (Los Angeles, CA)
Carl Ostendarp, Peter Schuyffm, Yves Tessier Projex-MTL Galerie (Montreal, Canada)
Aldrich Undercover Aldrich Museum of Art (Ridgefield, CT)

2007
Recent Acquisitions Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art (Ithaca, NY)
Pull My Finger Allston Skirt Gallery (Boston, MA)
Lust for Life. The Ricke Collection Kunst Museum Liechtenstein (Vaduz, Liechtenstein)*
Critical Art Faculty of Cornell University, Department of Art, Tsinghua University Gallery (Beijing, China)*
Paper Ball Neuberger Museum of Art (Purchase College, NY)
Sammlung Rolf Ricke, MMK, Frankfurt (Frankfurt, Germany)

2008
Reloaded: Einflüsse der 1960er Jahre auf aktuelle Kunsttendenzen Künstlerhaus Bethanien (Berlin, Germany)

2006
Two Friends and So On Andrew Kreps Gallery (New York, NY)
Process and Promise 92nd Street Y Art Center (New York, NY)
Clear Cuts – Sammlung Wolkenlos – Die Privatsammlung von Michael Stankiewicz Schloss Raabs (Raabs a.d.Thaya, Austria)

2005
Field Questions, Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, The University of the Arts (Philadelphia, PA)
Group Show, Elizabeth Dee Gallery (New York, NY)
A wonderful view Vous Etes Ici (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
ESPECIAL, Galerie Schmidt Maczollek (Köln, Germany)
Sweet Temptations - Dialoge mit der Sammlung Rolf Ricke, Kunstverein St. Gallen Kunstmuseum

2004
Couleurs et formes, Galerie Evelyne Canus (Basel, Switzerland)
Joyhouse, Barbara Davis Gallery (Houston, TX)
Hot + Cool Summer, Gallery West 52 (New York, NY)
Toys in the Attic, curated by Stephanie Theodore, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc. (New York, NY)
Off the Wall: Work from the JPMorgan Chase Art Collection, Bruce Museum of Arts and Science (Greenwich, CT)
Happy, curated by Ryan Steadman, OH+T Gallery (Boston, MA)
Yellow Pages, Kunsthalle Palazzo (Liestal, Switzerland)
Strip: Images in Line, curated by Rolf Bier, Studioblock Voltmerstr. (Hanover, Germany)

2003
Schokolade, Was Denn Sonst: Sammlung Rolf Ricke, Kunstraum (Innsbruck, Austria)
Faculty Exhibition, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University (Ithaca, NY)
Perpetuum Mobile, curated by Günter Umberg, Galerie Rolf Ricke (Köln, Germany)

2002
Einfach Kunst. Sammlung Rolf Ricke, Neues Museum, Staatliches Museum fur Kunst und Design (Nürmberg, Germany)
Inheriting Matisse: The Decorative Contour in Contemporary Art curated by Michelle Grabner, Rocket Gallery, (London, Great Britain)

2001
Paint Land curated by Terry Myers, Schmidt Contemporary Art of Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA)
Delicious Roger Smith Gallery (New York, NY)
Galerie Rolf Ricke (Köln, Germany)
Concepts of Images Galerie Academia (Salzburg, Austria)
Faculty Exhibition, Herbert Johnson Art Museum, Cornell University (Ithaca, NY)
First There was a Drawing curated by Michael St. John. The College of Santa Fe Fine Arts Gallery (Santa Fe, NM)
The Male Self Portrait curated by Alexi Worth, D. C. Moore Gallery (New York, NY)

2000
Back to Nature Derek Eller Gallery (New York, NY)
Yes Galerie Monica Reitz (Frankfurt, Germany)
What’s So Funny About Color? Dan Elias Fine Art (Allston, MA)
Faculty Exhibition Herbert Johnson Art Museum, Cornell University (Ithaca, NY)
Face to Face Concordia College Art Gallery (Bronxville, NY)
The Figure: Another Side of Modernism curated by Lilly Wei, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art (Staten Island, NY)
Gallery Artists Dee/Glasoe (New York, NY)

1999
Size Matters Gale Gates Contemporary Art (Brooklyn, NY)
Small Things Come in Good Packages curated by Stephanie Theodore, Kathryn Markel Fine Art (New York, NY)
Color Me Blind curated by Ralf Christofori, Wurttemburgischer Kunstverein (Stuttgart, Germany); Stadish Ausstellungshalle AM Haverkamp (Münster, Germany); Dundee Contemporary Art (Dundee, Great Britain)
Hard Cell: 5 New York Artists Show Work on Paper Vilma Gold Gallery (London, Great Britain)
The Child Within: Innocence and Anxiety in Contemporary Art curated by Maurice Tuchman and Mariana Amatullo, Louis Stern Fine Arts (Los Angeles, CA)
Benefit Exhibition and Auction White Columns (New York, NY)
Mixed Bag Schmidt Contemporary Art (St. Louis, MO)
The Stroke curated by David Reed, Exit Art/The First World (New York, NY)
Stuff curated by James Yood and Jeanne Dunning, T.B.A. Exhibition Space (Chicago, IL)
Love Evolution Gallery XL/Xavier LaBoulbenne (New York, NY)
The Conversation Jack Shainman Gallery (New York, NY)
Free Coke Greene Naftali Gallery (New York, NY)
Protoplasm Bob Van Orsouw Galerie (Zurich, Switzerland)
Fitzgerald/Ostendarp Ohio State University (Athens, OH)
Special Offer curated by Rolf Ricke, Kassel Kunstverein (Kassel, Germany)

1998
Biomorphic Abstraction Curt Marcus Gallery (New York, NY)
Paper View Geoffrey Young Gallery (Great Barrington, MA)
White Mitchell Algus Gallery (New York, NY)
From Here to Eternity: Painting in 1998 curated by Ruth Kaufman, Max Protetch Gallery (New York, NY)
Cluster Bomb Morrison/Judd Gallery (London, Great Britain)
Utz curated by Stephanie Theodore, Lennon Weinberg Gallery (New York, NY)
Pop/Abstraction curated by Sid Sachs, The Museum of American Art, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (Philadelphia, PA)
Group Show curated by Gunther Umberg, Museum Dhondt (Dhaenens, Belgium)

1997
Moving Towards the Millenium Schmidt Contemporary Art (St.Louis, MO)
Vertical Painting (mural installation), Institute of Contemporary Art/P.S. 1 Museum (Long Island City, NY)
All The Things You Are Geoffrey Young Gallery (Great Barrington, MA)
Ca-Ca, Poo-Poo curated by Udo Kittelman, Kunstmuseum (Köln, Germany)
Art Writing: Words in Works on Paper Geoffrey Young gallery (Great Barrington, MA)
Group Exhibition curated by Gunther Umberg, Galerie Evelyn Canus (La Colle-Sur-Loire, France)
Jay Gorney Modern Art (New York, NY)
Benefit Auction White Columns (New York, NY)

1996
Unconditionally Abstraction Schmidt Contemporary Art (St. Louis, MO)
Form als Ziel mundet immer in Formalismus (Mies van der Rohe) Galerie Rolf Ricke (Köln, Germany)
Transformal curated by Maia Damianovic, Wiener Secession (Vienna, Austria)
Model Home curated by Alanna Heiss & Sabina Streeter, The Clock Tower, Institute of Contemporary Art (New York, NY)
Benefit Auction White Columns (New York, NY)

1995
Una Nuova Tradizione Americana Galleria Oddi Baglioni (Rome, Italy)
Made in USA Bob Van Orsouw Galerie (Zurich, Switzerland)
Re-Fab: Painting Abstracted, Fabricated and Revised curated by Rochelle Feinstein, Shirley Kaneda and Margaret Miller, Contemporary ArtMuseum, University of South Florida, Tampa, Fl; traveled to Wolfson Galleries, Miami-Dade Community College (Miami, Fl); Robert Hull Fleming Museum, University of Vermont (Burlington, VT)
Smells Like Vinyl organized by Sarah Seager and Thaddeus Strode, Roger Merians Gallery (New York, NY)
Fancy That curated by Leslie Heller, The Workspace (New York, NY)
Altered States: American Art in the 90’s curated by Jeanne Greenberg & Robert Nickas, Forum for Contemporary Art, (St.Louis, MO)
Pittura-Immedia curated by Peter Weibel, Neue Galeri am Landesmuseum Joanneum (Graz, Austria)
Acquiring Art in the 90’s: The Inside Story Wadsworth Atheneum (Hartford, CT)
Benefit Auction White Columns (New York, NY)

1994
DepArt curated by Daniel Elias, Bernard Toale Gallery (Boston, MA)
Critical Mass curated by Charles Long, A&A Gallery, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT. McKinney Avenue Contemporary Art (Dallas, TX)
David’s Friends curated by Timothy Fichtner, Bernard Toale Gallery (Boston, MA)
On Paper Schmidt Contemporary Art (St. Louis, MO)
Faith in Doubt University at Buffalo Art Gallery (Buffalo, NY)
Current Abstraction: Jody Lomberg & Carl Ostendarp Rena Bransten Gallery (San Francisco, CA)
Carl Ostendarp/Matthew Weinstein Studio La Citta (Verona, Italy)
Painting Rhona Hoffman Gallery (Chicago, IL)
Carl Ostendarp/Charles Long Schmidt Contemporary Art (St. Louis, MO)
Tom Tavelli Gallery (Aspen, CO)
Possible Things: A Drawing Show curated by Vik Muniz, Bardamu Gallery/Publishing House (New York, NY)
Basically Silver Studio La Citta (Verona, Italy)
Press On curated by Daniel Elias, I.C. Editions (New York, NY)
S.I.B.: Swelling Itching Brain Satellite Gallery (New York, NY)
Benefit Auction The New Museum of Contemporary Art (New York, NY)

1993
Color Pamela Auchincloss Gallery (New York, NY)
The Medium is the Medium Barbara Toll Gallery (New York, NY)
Rena Bransten Gallery (San Francisco, CA)
Charles Long/Carl Ostendarp Schmidt Contemporary Art (St. Louis, MO)
Italia-America/l’Astrazione Ridefinita, curated by Demetrio Paparoni, Museo di Stato (San Marino)
Toolbox curated by Anthony Iannaci, Studio la Citta (Verona, Itlay)
Irony & Ecstacy curated by Klaus Ottman, Salama-Caro Gallery (London, England)
Teddy and Other Stories Galleria in Arco (Torino, Italy)
I Am the Enunciator curated by Christian Leigh, Thread Waxing Space (New York, NY)
Interzone curated by Karin Bravin, John Post Lee Gallery (New York, NY)
20 Years Daniel Weinberg Gallery (Los Angeles, CA)
A Painting for Every Ticket Benefit for BOMB Magazine, Fawbush Gallery (New York, NY)
Benefit Auction White Columns (New York, NY)
Benefit Auction The New Museum of Contemporary Art (New York, NY)
RenBen 93 The Renaissance Society (Chicago, IL)

1992
Gegen den Strich/Against the Grain curated by Klaus Ottman & Josef Ramaseder, Galerie Theuretzbacher (Vienna, Austria)
The Mechanical Drip: C. Ostendarp, D. Powley, N. Rule, R. Stingel Greenberg Gallery (St.Louis, MO)
Multiple Grounds Systema Galleries (Baarn, The Netherlands)
Bedroom Pictures curated by Terry R. Myers, Asher/Faure Gallery (Los Angeles, CA)
Paintings Jack Hanley Gallery (San Francisco, CA)
Abstract painting: 1992 Schmidt Contemporary Art (St. Louis, MO)
Gallery Artists Jay Gorney Modern Art (New York, NY)
Off Balance Jason Rubell Gallery (Palm Beach, FL)
Kinder!macht Neues! Galerie Rolf Ricke (Köln, Germany)
Contextures & Constructures curated by Jonathan Seliger, Rubenstein/Diacono (New York, NY)
Summer Becomes Eclectic Mars Gallery (Tokyo, Japan)
Emerging New York Artists University of Omaha Art Gallery (Omaha, NB)
Benefit for the AIDS Action Committee International Place, Artcetera (Boston, MA)
WFMU Exhibition/Auction, Germans Van Eck (New York, NY)
Dupuis, Lucas, Ostendarp, Weinstein curated by Mario Diacono, Planita Gallery (Rome, Italy)
Benefit Auction White Columns (New York, NY)
Benefit Auction New Museum of Contemporary Art (New York, NY)

1991
Slow Art: Painting in New York Now curated by Alanna Heiss, P.S.1 Museum (Long Island, City, NY)
Psycho curated by Christian Leigh, Kunsthalle (New York, NY)
Elizabeth Murray, John Newman, Carl Ostendarp, Jay Gorney Modern Art (New York, NY)
How It Is curated by Jonathan Seliger, Tony Shafrazi Gallery (New York, NY)
David Dupuis Christopher Lucas, Carl Ostendarp, Matthew Weinsten, Mario Diacono Gallery (Boston, MA)
Process/Material, Patterson College Art Gallery (Patterson, NJ)
Strategies for the Next Painting curated by Saul Ostrow, Wolff Gallery (New York, NY): Feigen Contemporary, Chicago
Synthesis John Good Gallery (New York, NY)
Jacqueline Humphries, John Millei, Carl Ostendarp Rena Bransten Gallery (San Francisco, CA)
Hybrid Abstraction organized by Joshua Decter, Bennington College Art Gallery (Bennington, VT)
Rope curated by Christian Leigh, Fernando Alcolea Gallery (Barcelona, Spain)
The Thing curated by Vik Muniz, Perry Rubenstein Gallery (New York, NY)
Summer Group Show John Good Gallery (New York, NY)
Preview Stux Gallery (New York, NY)
The Lick of The Eye curated by David Pagel, Shoshanna Wayne Gallery (Los Angeles, CA)
Gail Fitzgerald/Carl Ostendarp Galerie Marc Jancou (Zurich, Switzerland)
Benefit Auction White Columns (New York, NY)
Ornament; Ho Hum All Ye Faithful John Post Lee Gallery (New York, NY)

1990
Total Metal curated by Richard Phillips, Simon Watson Gallery (New York, NY)
Emerging Art 1990: Commodities Corporation Collection curated by Sam Hunter, New Jersey State Museum (Trenton, NJ)
A Question of Paint curated by Charles Wright Jr., Hallwalls (Buffalo, NY)
Update 90 White Columns (New York, NY)
Recent Acquisitions Chase Manhattan Bank / SoHo (New York, NY)
Summer Group Exhibition Wolff Gallery (New York, NY)
Work on Paper Paula Allen Gallery (New York, NY)
Process and Materials Julian Pretto Warehouse (New York, NY)
David Dupuis Carl Ostendarp, Rudolph Stingel, Andrea Rosen Gallery (New York, NY)
White Columns Twentieth Anniversary Benefit Exhibition White Columns (New York, NY)
Benefit Auction The New Museum of Contemporary Art (New York, NY)

1989
Drawings Wolff Gallery (New York, NY)
Outer Limits curated by Tom Solomon, Holly Solomon Gallery (New York, NY)