Geboren / Born 1945 in Salt Lake City, Utah
Lebt und arbeitet / Lives and works in Los Angeles

1999 "Dimensions of the Mind", Sammlung Hauser & Wirth, St. Gallen
1999 "Dead H and Eady Performance Photographs", Studio Guenzani, Milano
1998 "Sod and Sodie Sock", Secession, Wien (collaboration with Mike Kelley) (catalog)
1998 "Painter, Video and Drawings", Galerie Krinzinger, Wien
1998 "Photographs - Performance Photographs and Video, 1969-1983", Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York; Patrick Painter Inc., New York
1997 "Santa Chocolate Shop", Galerie Hauser & Wirth, Zürich
1996 "Paul McCarthy", Tomio Koyama Gallery Tokyo
1996 "Saloon", Galerie Air de Paris, Paris
1996 "Yaa-Hoo", Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York
1996 "Video Works", Galerie Drantmann, Bruxelles
1996 "Videos and Drawings", Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen
1995 "5 Photographic Works 1970-1974", Blum & Poe Gallery, Santa Monica
1995 "Painter", Projects Room, Museum of Modern Art, New York; Galerie Art and Public, Genève
1995 "Tomato Head", Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
1995 "Pinocchio Pipenose Householddilemma Tour", Galerie Air de Paris, Paris; Galeria Antoni Estrany, Barcelona; Luhring Augustine Gallery New York; Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen; Galerie Esther Schipper, Köln; Studio Guenzani, Milano; McKinney Art Center, Dallas; Auckland City Art Gallery; Oberösterreichisches Landesmuseum, Linz
1994 Galerie Air de Paris, Paris
1994 La Fonds Regional d'Art Contemporain, Poitou-Charentz, Angoulème
1994 Galerie Air de Paris, Nice
1994 Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles
1994 Galerie George-Philippe Vallois, Paris
1994 Studio Guenzani, Milano
1993 "Video", Ynglingagatan 1, Stockholm
1993 Galerie Krinzinger, Wien
1993 "The Dead Viking", Galerie Daniel Buchholz, KöIn
1993 Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York
1991 Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles
1990 Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles
1987 Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles
1986 Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles
1985 AAA Art, Los Angeles
1983 Cirque Divers, Liège
1982 "Human Object", Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles
1979 "Contemporary Cure All" and "Deadening", Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles

1999 "Proposition", David Zwirner Gallery, New York
1998 "Let's Play Risk", Juice, London
1998 "Damenwahl", Portikus, Frankfurt
1998 "Mise en Scène", Grazer Kunstverein
1998 "American Playhouse: The Theatre of Self Presentation", The Power Plant, Toronto (catalog)
1998 "20/20/20 The Happening", Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions at the Hollywood Athletic Club, Hollywood
1998 "New Works, Roy Arden, Glenn Brown, Roni Horn, Mike Kelley, Mark Lewis, Paul McCarthy, Jorge Pardo, Diana Thater", Patrick Painter Inc., New York
1998 "Kunstausstellung Holderbank", Holderbank
1998 "Double Trouble: The Patchett Collection", Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
1998 "Pop Surrealism", The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield
1998 "Works on Paper by American ArtisC, Entwistle Gallery, London
1998 "Crossings", Kunsthalle, Wien
1998 "Antoni, Förg, McCarthy, Miyajima, Morimura, Oehien, Rae, Rist, Tunga, Whiteread, Wolfe, Wool", Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York
1998 "LA. Times", Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Per L'Arte, Torino
1998 "Acquisitions Récentes", Frac Nord, Pas de Calais, Dunkerque
1998 "L.A. on Paper 1 Re-lax", Galerie Krinzinger, Wien
1998 "Figurative Sculpture", Patrick Painter Inc., New York
1998 "Beyond the Pink Performance Festival", The Cortical Foundation, Los Angeles
1998 "Out of Actions: Between Performance and the Object, 1949-1979", Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Museum für angewandte Kunst, Wien; Museu d'Art Contemporàni, Barcelona; Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (catalog)
1998 "Presumed Innocence", Anderson Gallery, School of Fine Arts, Richmond
1997 "Art Calls", Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen
1997 "Alpenblick", Kunsthalle, Wien
1997 "Dramatically Different", Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Grenoble
1997 "Künstlerinnen: 50 Positionen"; Kunsthaus Bregenz (catalog)
1997 "Display: International Exhibition of Painting", The Charlottenborg Exhibition Hall, Copenhagen
1997 "Paul McCarthy & Benjamin Weissman", Christopher Grimes Gallery, Los Angeles
1997 "Kwangju Biennial", Kwangju, South Korea
1997 "Deep Storage", Haus der Kunst, München; Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin; Kunstmuseum, Düsseldorf; P.S. 1, New York; Henry Art Gallery, Seattle
1997 "Scene of the Crime", UCLA at the Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (catalog)
1997 "Biennale d'Art Contemporain de Lyon", Lyon
1997 "Per Forma 97 Berlin", Berlin
1997 "Cruising L.A.", Soledad Lorenzo Gallery, Madrid (catalog)
1997 "Meg Cranston, Paul McCarthy, Barry McGee, Raymond Pettibon, Jason Rhoades", Galerie Tanya Rumpff, Haarlem
1997 "Observations & Observances", Ydessa Hendeles Art Foundation, Toronto
1997 "Sunshine & Noir", Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen; Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg; Castello di Rivoli, Torino; UCLA at the Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (catalog)
1997 "Tableaux", Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston (catalog)
1997 "1997 Biennial Exhibition Portfolio", Whitney Museum of American Art Edition, New York
1997 "Natural Habitat", The Tannery, London
1997 "Performance Anxiety", Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; SITE, Santa Fe (catalog)
1997 "Connexions Implicites", École National Supérieure des Beaux Arts, Paris
1997 "Rooms with a View: Environments for Video", Guggenheim Museum SoHo, New York
1997 "1997 Biennial Exhibition", Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (catalog)
1997 "Form und Funktion der Zeichnung Heute", Art Fair Frankfurt, Frankfurt (catalog)
1997 "Joy Joy", Transmission Gallery, Glasgow
1997 "Making It Real", The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield; The Reykjavik Municipal Art Museum; Portland Museum of Art; Baylor Art Museum, Charlottesville
1997 "Popoccultural", Southampton City Art Gallery, London
1997 "Video (Desnudo)", Art & Idea, Mexico City
1996 "A/Drift", Center for Curatorial Studies Museum/Bard College, New York
1996 "Painting, The Extended Field", Rooseum Center, Malmb
1997 "American Film & Video: Whitney Biennial/Electronic Undercurrents", Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen (catalog)
1996 "UKS/OSLO Rockfestival", Extended Organ, Oslo
1996 "The Art Embodied", MAC Galeries Contemporaines, Marseille (catalog)
1996 "How Will We Behave", Robert Prime Gallery, London
1996 "Exposure", Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York
1996 "(Nude)", Trans Hudson Gallery, Catherine Clark Gallery, San Francisco; Art & Idea, Mexico City
1996 "The Garage Project", MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles
1996 "Image of Self as Another", Porin Taidemuseo, Porin
1996 "Non! Pas Comme ça!", Centre d'Art Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel
1996 "Reel Work, Artists, Film and Video of the 1970's", Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami
1996 "Sex & Crime", Sprengel Museum, Hannover (catalog)
1996 "Controfigura", Studio Guenzani, Milano
1996 "Everything That's Interesting is New", Dakis Jannou Collection, Athens (catalog)
1996 "Lea plaisirs et les ombres", La Fondation pour l'Architecture, Bruxelles
1996 "Vito Acconci video performances", viewing "Fresh Acconci", Atheneum Campus Universitaire, Dijon
1996 "Sampler 2, More Videos from Southern California", David Zwimer Gallery, New York
1995 Video Screening "Painter" and "Heidi", Cinematheque, San Francisco
1995 "Raw", Postmasters Gallery New York
1995 "Stereo-Tip", Soros Center for Contemporary Arts, Ljubljana (catalog)
1995 "Femininmasculin: Le Sexe de l'Art", Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (catalog)
1995 "Video News", The American Center, Paris
1995 "Collisions", Arteleku, San Sebastian
1995 "Familiar Places", Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
1995 "Infamie", Autres victoires, MontluQon, Chateau de la Louvi6re (catalog)
1995 'Tuori Uso '95, War and Piece", Associazione Culturale Arte Nova, Pescara (catalog)
1995 "Marcel Broodthaers - Correspondence", Galerie Hauser & Wirth, Zürich; Gallery David Zwimer, New York
1995 "LA International", Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica
1995 "New History of the Infamy", FRAC, Auvergne
1995 "Le Mille e una Volta", Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Republica Di San Marino
1995 "Identità e Alterità", The Venice Biennial, Venezia
1995 "Collection, fin XX", Five separate locations, in conjunction with Frac Poitou-Charentes, Angoulème
1995 "1995 Biennial Exhibition", Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (catalog)
1995 "Mike Kelley and Paul McCarthy", Kunstverein Hamburg
1995 "Murder", Bergamot Station Arts Center, Santa Monica
1995 "Bruce Nauman, Mike Kelley, Franz West and Paul McCarthy", David Zwimer Gallery, New York
1995 "Endurance", Exit Art, New York
1995 "Endurance", Exit Art/The First World, New York
1995 "Photographies", Tribune de Genève, Genève
1995 "EI Beblawi, Nacia, Paul McCarthy", Galerie Art & Public, VOIR, Genève
1995 "L'Immagine Riflessa", Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato (catalog)
1995 "Les Enfants Terribles", Galena Antoni Estrany, Barcelona
1994 "Cocido y Cruclo", Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid (catalog)
1994 "The Rite to Eat", The New Gallery, Santa Monica
1994 "Extrême Limite", Galerie Janos, Paris
1994 "Hors Limites: L'Art et la Vie", Centre George Pompidou, Paris (catalog)
1994 "Investigations Into The Physical and Metaphorical Hole", Gallery 2, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
1994 "Oh Boy, It's a Girl: Feminismen in der Kunst", Kunst Raum, Wien; Kunstverein, München (catalog)
1994 "Altered Egos", Santa Monica Museum of Art
1994 "Opera Prima, Fuori Uso '94", Pescara (catalog)
1994 "Gifts", Inter Art Center, New York
1994 "Kus Me Kus Me Zeeman", De Vishal, Haarlem (catalog)
1994 "World Wide Video Centre Festival", Den Haag (catalog)
1994 "Pen & Ink", Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum
1994 "Dirty; Sade Benning, Keith Boadwee, Cary S. Leilbowitz/Candyass, Jeanne Dunning, John LeKay, Rachel Harrison, Paul McCarthy, Tyler Stallings", John Good Gallery, New York
1994 "Scratching the Belly of the Beast", Filmforum, Los Angeles
1994 "Daniel Oates, Lincoln Tobier, Larry Johnson, Jeff Wall, Den Graham, Richard Prince, Meyer Vaisman, Rodney Graham, Paul McCarthy", Galerie Asbaelk, Copenhagen
1994 "[Cut] - Los Angeles - 90's Art Scene", Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen (catalog)
1994 "Ross Bleckner, Günther Förg, Georg Herold, Martin Kippenberger, Koons, Paul McCarthy, Tatsuo Miyajima, Albert Oehien, Philip Taaffe, Christopher Wool", Galleri K, Oslo (catalog)
1994 "babies & bambies", Arti et Amicitae, Amsterdam (catalog)
1994 "Paul McCarthy - Mike Kelley - Charlemagne Palestine - Dirk Larsen", Torch Gallery, Amsterdam
1994 "Outside the Frame of the Object", Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland; Snug Harbor Cultural Center, New York
1994 "Altered - Rudolf Schwarzkogler and Paul McCarthy", Austrian Cultural Institute, New York; Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York
1993 "Everyday Life", Kim Light Gallery, Los Angles
1993 "Self Winding", Sphere Max, Tokyo; Nanba City Hall, Osaka
1993 "Identity and Home", Museum of Modern Art, New York
1993 "Sampler - Southern California Video Tape Collection, 1970-1993", David Zwimer Gallery, New York; Studio Guenzani, Milano
1993 "Drawing the Line Against AIDS", Guggenheim Museum, New York
1993 "Die Sprache der Kunst", Kunsthalle, Wien; Kunstverein, Frankfurt; Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
1993 "Utopian Art - Artificial Utopia", Kunst Werk Association, Zurndorf
1993 "Trancesex, A State of Mystical Absorption", Mondrian Hotel, Los Angeles
1993 "Go Down the Stairs Dagonally", Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles
1993 "Patrick Painter Editions", Galerie Johnen & Schbttle, Kbin
1993 "Mr. Serling's Neighborhood", Christopher Grimes Gallery, Los Angeles
1993 "Action Performance and the Photograph", Turner/Krull Galleries, Los Angeles (catalog)
1993 "Aperto '93", The Venice Biennial, Venezia (catalog)
1993 "Unité Film Project", Firminy
1993 "Sonsbeek 93", Sonsbeek Park, Arnhem (catalog)
1993 "The Eidetic Image: Contemporary Works on Paper", Kramer Art Museum, Champaign; The Newport Harbor Art Museum; The Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse
1993 "The Elegant, the Irreverent and the Obsessive: Drawings in Southern California", California State University, Fullerton
1993 "I am the Enunciator", Thread Waxing Space, New York
1993 "Ketchup is Ketchup, and Not Blood", BE #2 Performance, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
1993 "Poliset", Centrovideoarte-Palazzo Diamanti, Ferrara
1993 "Privacy", Spazio Opos, Milano (catalog)
1992 "Into the Lapse", 1301 Gallery, Santa Monica; Karsten Schubert Gallery, London
1992 "Privacy", Spazie, Opos, Milano (catalog)
1992 "Spieihö1le", Akademie der bildenden Künste, E. V. 70, Frankfurt
1992 "LAX", Galerie Krinzinger, Wien
1992 Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco
1992 "Viaggio a Los Angeles", Castello di Rivoli, Torino
1992 Galerie Max Hetzler, Köin
1992 "Greatest Hits", Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Köin
1992 "Post Human", Musée d'Art Contemporain, Pully; Foundation Asher Edelmann, Lausanne; Castello cli Rivoli, Torino; Deste Foundation, Athens; Deichtorhallen, Hamburg; The Israel Museum, Jerusalem (catalog)
1992 "Strange Developments", Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London
1992 "Rosamund Felsen Clinic and Recovery Center", Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles; Galerie Esther Schipper, Köln
1992 "Paul McCarthy, Lad Pittman, Jelfrey Valiance", Studio Guenzani, Milano
1992 "Paul McCarthy, Joyce Pensato, Amulf Rainer", Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York
1992 "Excess: Power, Pain and Pleasure", Muu Media Festival, Helsinki
1992 "Roy Dowell, Paul McCarthy, Ren6e Petropoulos", Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles
1992 "Helter Skelter: L.A. Art in the 1990's", Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (catalog)
1991 "Quick Coagulation Forms the August Corpse", Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles
1991 "Out of Control, Video Violence", Ars Electronica, Linz
1991 "The Family Romance", Simon Watson Gallery, New York
1991 "Someone or Somebody", Myers/Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica
1991 "The Body", Simon Watson Gallery, New York; The Renaissance
1991 Society at the University of Chicago; Galerie Peter Pakesch, Wien
1991 "Presenting Rearwards", Rosamund Felsen Gallery Los Angeles (catalog)
1991 "Ha-Ha", Roy Boyd Gallery, Santa Monica
1991 "Body and Body", Grazer Kunstverein
1990 "Past and Present - Selected Works by Gallery Artists", Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles
1990 "New California Video - A Survey of Open Channels 1985-1990", Long Beach
1989 "L.A. Freewaves", American Film Institute Video Festival and area-wide screenings, Los Angeles
1988 "New Works on Paper", Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles
1988 "Tactical Positions", Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles (catalog)
1985 "B&W Drawings", Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art
1984 "Assault Video", Anti Club, Los Angeles
1983 "Video by Performance Artists, Terry Alien, Tony Labat, Paul McCarthy", Hallwalls
1982 "Video Tapes America", American Center, Paris
1981 "California Performance Now and Then", Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
1981 "Objects by Paul McCarthy & Barbara Smith", Espace Gallery, Los Angeles
1981 "Video, Aufzeichnungen von Performances", Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
1978 "Video Tapes From Los Angeles", Nan Hoover Atelier sponsored by De Apple Gallery, Amsterdam (catalog)
1976 "Commissioned Video", University Art Museum, Berkeley (catalog)
1976 "Outside Video Tapes", M. L. d'Arc Gallery, New York
1975 "Southern California Video Anthology", Long Beach Museum, Long Beach (catalog)
1974 Newspace Gallery, Los Angeles
1973 "Conceptual Art", Libra Gallery, Pomona
1973 "Festival of the Arts", University of Southern California, Los Angeles