GEORGE CONDO
George Condo (born 1957, Concord, New Hampshire) is an American painter whose work occupies a singular position in contemporary art, fusing the compositional intelligence of old master painting with a darkly comic, psychologically charged figuration entirely his own. Working across painting, drawing, sculpture, and printmaking, Condo developed what he has described as “artificial realism,” a practice that draws simultaneously on Velázquez, Picasso, and popular culture to produce images of fractured, often grotesque humanity rendered with technical virtuosity.
Having lived and worked extensively in both New York and Europe, Condo developed close relationships with artists including Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol early in his career, and has maintained a practice of sustained ambition and prolific output across four decades. His work engages questions of psychological states, identity, and the human condition with a range that moves between the comedic and the deeply unsettling.
His work is represented in collections worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C., and the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. He lives and works in New York.