Selected Works

Lawrence Carroll, ‘Untitled’, 2003-2012, oil, wax, house paint, staples, canvas on wood
Untitled, 2003-2012
oil, wax, house paint, staples, canvas on wood
Lawrence Carroll, ‘Untitled’, 1989, oil, wax, staples on canvas on wood
Untitled, 1989
oil, wax, staples on canvas on wood
Lawrence Carroll, ‘Untitled’, 2011-2017, Oil, wax, house paint, staples, canvas on wood
Untitled, 2011-2017
Oil, wax, house paint, staples, canvas on wood
Lawrence Carroll, ‘Untitled (Yellow Painting)’, 2012-2015, oil, wax on canvas on wood
Untitled (Yellow Painting), 2012-2015
oil, wax on canvas on wood
Lawrence Carroll, ‘Untitled’, 2010, oil, wax on canvas on wood
Untitled, 2010
oil, wax on canvas on wood
Lawrence Carroll, ‘Untitled’, 2015, around 1300 artificial flowers, pigment, stain, housepaint, dust
Untitled, 2015
around 1300 artificial flowers, pigment, stain, housepaint, dust
Lawrence Carroll, ‘Untitled (Flower Painting), 2017’, oil, wax, house paint, pencil, silk flowers on canvas on wood
Untitled (Flower Painting), 2017
oil, wax, house paint, pencil, silk flowers on canvas on wood
Lawrence Carroll, ‘Untitled, 2013’, oil, wax, house paint, pencil and canvas on wood
Untitled, 2013
oil, wax, house paint, pencil and canvas on wood
Lawrence Carroll, ‘Black Mirror Paintings, 2014-2017’, house paint and wax on wood
Black Mirror Paintings, 2014-2017
house paint and wax on wood
Lawrence Carroll, ‘Black Mirror Paintings, 2014-2017’, house paint and wax on wood
Black Mirror Paintings, 2014-2017
house paint and wax on wood
Lawrence Carroll, ‘White Oval Paintings, 2015-2017’, house paint, dust on canvas on wood
White Oval Paintings, 2015-2017
house paint, dust on canvas on wood
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Gallery Exhibitions

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Lawrence Carroll

Born 1954 in Melbourne, died 2019 in Cologne.

Education
1980 Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA
1976 - 80 Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
1974 - 76 Moorpark College, CA
 

Solo Exhibitions

2026
Buchmann Galerie, Berlin
2023
Villepin, Hong Kong
Buchmann Galerie, Berlin
2022
Buchmann Lugano, Lugano, Switzerland
Studio Trisorio, Naples, Italy
House of Art Ceske Budejovice, CZ
Museo Madre, Naples, Italy
2020
Keteleer Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
Fox Jensen, Paddington, Australia
2019
Buchmann Galerie, Berlin
Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne
Fondazione Rolla, Bruzella, Switzerland (cat.)
2017
Kunstmuseum Magdeburg (cat.)
Museo Vincenzo Vela, Ligornetto, CH (cat.)
Buchmann Box, Berlin
Buchmann Lugano, Lugano
Buchmann Galerie, Berlin
2014
MAMbo - Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna
2013
Buchmann Galerie, Berlin
Casal Solleric, Palma de Mallorca
Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris
2012
Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, Dublin
2011
Hôtel des Arts, Toulon (with Gotthard Graubner and Sean Scully)
2010
Buchmann Galerie, Agra (Lugano)
Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris
Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne
2009
Buchmann Galerie, Berlin
2008
Museo Correr, Venice (cat.)
2007
ACE Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA
Galleria Cardi, Milano
Hôtel des Arts, Toulon
2006
Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Sydney
Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki
2005
Galeria Altair, Palma de Mallorca
Villa Panza, Varese
Galleria Michela Rizzo, Venice
Galleria Fumagalli, Bergamo
Galeria Xavier Fiol, Palma de Mallorca
Buchmann Galerie, Lugano
Schmidt Contemporary Art, St Louis, Missouri
2004
Tannery Arts, curated by Simon Callery, London
ACE Gallery Beverly Hills, California (cat.)
Carles Taché, Barcelona (cat.)
Galleria San Fedele, Milano (cat.)
Studio Trisorio, Roma, Napoli (cat.)
2003
Studio La Città, Verona (cat.)
ACE Gallery, Los Angeles
Galerie Forsblum, Helsinki
2002
Buchmann Galerie, Köln
Galeria Carles Taché, Barcelona
Galleria Altiar, Mallorca
Galleria Xavier Fiol, Mallorca
Karmeliterkirche, München
Buchmann Galerie, Köln
Buchmann Galerie, Köln
2001
Galerie Forsblum, Helsinki
2000
Ace Gallery, New York/ Los Angeles
Buchmann Galerie, Köln
Deweer Gallery, Otogem
Studio La Cittá, Verona
Buchmann Galerie, Köln
1999
Project Room, Ace Gallery, New York
Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris
1998
Buchmann Galerie, Köln
Buchmann Galerie, Köln
Douglas Lawing Gallery, Houston
Galerie Alexander Sies, Düsseldorf
Galerie der Stadt Stuttgart, Stuttgart
1997
Städtische Ausstellungshalle, Münster
Galerie Baudoin Lebon, Paris
Galerie Peter Bäumler, Regensburg
Galleria Gian Ferrari, Mailand
Galleria Gianenzo Sperone, Milano
1996
Ace Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles
Studio La Cittá, Verona
Galleria Milleventi, Turin
Galleria Gianenzo Sperone, Rom
Buchmann Galerie, Köln
Deweer Art Gallery, Otegem
1995
Ace Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles
Galleria Trisorio, Neapel
Lawing Gallery, Houston
1994
Buchmann Basel, Basel
The Power Plant, Toronto
Grand Salon, New York
Galerie Buchmann, Basel
Centre d’Art Contemporain, Domaine de Kerguéhennec, Bignan
Städtische Galerie im Museum Folkwang Essen
1993
Ace Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles
Jim Schmidt Contemporary Fine Art, St. Louis
Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach
1992
Galerie Beaumont, Luxemburg
Stux Gallery, New York
1991
Galerie Beaudoin Lebon, Paris
Röntgen Kunst Institut, Tokio
1990
Stux Gallery, New York
1989
Galerie Ryszard Varisella, Frankfurt/Main
Stux Gallery, New York
1988
Stux Gallery, Boston

Group Exhibitions

2026
A life within, Sceners Gallery, Villepin, Paris, France
2025
You Cannot Say Goodbye To A Myth, Woods Art Institute (WAI), Hamburg, Germany
30 Years Buchmann Galerie – A celebratory group exhibition, Buchmann Galerie, Berlin
2024
Eloquent Formalism, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium
Rain, Fox Jensen McCrory, Auckland, New Zealand
Aussicht, Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne, Germany
Sacred trust: Donations and their Legacy, Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, Dublin, Ireland
2023
My Choice, Buchmann Lugano, Lugano, Switzerland
2022
Multiple Sights: The Tenth Anniversary of the Long Museum, Long Museum West Bund, Shanghai, China
50 Years, a Day. Studio la Città, a Story, Piero Atchugarry Gallery, Miami, FL, USA
2021
Raven, Fox Jensen Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2020
Colección - De la posguerra a la contemporaneidad, Es Baluard Museu d’Art Modern, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Presentazione opere, Buchmann Galerie, Lugano, Switzerland
2019
Permafrost, Fox Jensen Gallery, Sydney
Storyworks, Kunstmuseum Magdeburg - Kloster unserer lieben Frauen, Magdeburg, Germany
2018
Futuruins, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice
Picasso. Gorky. Warhol. Sculptures and Works on Paper. Hubert Looser Collection, Kunsthalle Krems, Austria
14 artisti. Via Crucis - Madonna d'Ongero - Carona, Buchmann Galerie Agra / Lugano
2017
New installation, Buchmann Galerie Agra / Lugano
2016
Zeichnung, Buchmann Galerie, Berlin
Hurt, Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin
Sammeln ist wie Tagebuch führen, Galerie Rainer Wehr, Stuttgart
2015
City Lives, Shirley Fiterman Art Center, New York
Lugano Mostra Bandiera, Lakefront, Lugano
Accrochage, Galerie Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf
2014
Ommaggio a Giuseppe Panza di Biumo. La passione della collezione, Accademia Nazionale di San Luca, Rome
Allegro Giusto, Istituto Svizzero di Roma, Rome
Enantiodromia, Fold Gallery, London
2013
Incontri - Zeitgenössische italienische Kunst, SCHAUWERK Sindelfingen
NUR SKULPTUR!, Kunsthalle Mannheim
Turn off the Sun, Selections from La Coleccion Jumex,, ASU Art Museum, Arizona, USA
Tapies, The Eye of the Artist, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy
55th International Venice Biennale, Vatican Pavilion, Venice, Italy (cat.)
2012
Poule!, Jumex Collection, Mexico City
Giorgio Morandi, Museo d’Arte di Lugano
2011
Personality, Galleria Michela Rizzo, Venice, Italy
25 Jahre! Sammlung Henri Nannen, Kunsthalle Emden, Germany
Alla luce della Croce, Galleria d'Arte Moderna Raccolta Lercaro, Bologna
2010
It Must Be Abstract, Galleria Cardi, Pietrasanta, Italy
Luce, Buchmann Galerie, Lugano
Entre Glace E Neige, Centro Saint-Benin, Aosta, Italy
Il Museo Privato, GAMeC, Bergamo, Italy
State of Mind, Panza Collection, Lucca Center of Contemporary Art, Lucca, Italy
Just Love Me, MUDAM, Luxembourg
2009
Object paintings, Roger Raveelmuseum, Machelen-aan-de-Leie, Belgium
Made in Munich, Haus der Kunst, Munich
Contemporary Collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales
Glasstress, 53. Biennale Di Venezia, Palazzo Cavalli Franchetti (cat.)
2008
Wall Works, Anselmo – Buren - Carroll - Merz – Varini - Weiner, Buchmann Galerie, Lugano
Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy
Fresco Bosco, Curated by Achille Bonito Oliva, La Certosa di San Lorenzo, Padua, Italy
Call it what you like, Art Centre Silkeborg Bad, Denmark
2007
Il Settimo Splendore. La modernita della melincolia, Palazzo Forti, Verona
A Conversation Between Friends, Lawrence Caroll, Steve Riedell, Studio Trisorio, Naples, Rome
La Vida Privada. Coleccion Josep Maria Civit, curated by Menene Gras, Balaguer, CDAN, Huesca, Spain
Americanos. Made in USA, Bleckner, Carroll, Halley, Galeria Pelaires,, Collezione Panza, Palazzo Lomellino, Genova
SEA, Castillo di Santa Barbara, Alicante
2006
Lawrence,Carroll, Janis Kounellis, Remo Salvadori, Giuseppe Uncini, Galleria Cardi, Milano Italy
EMMA Museum, Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Espoon kaupunki/ Helsinki
2006, The Year in Art, 5th annual exhibition, Sydney
The Painting Show, curated by Pilar Ribal, Galeria Xavier Fiol, Palma
Fuori Uso VXl, La Strada, curated by Agnes Kohlmeyer, Pescara
2005
Pittura e spazio, Carroll - Chamberlain – Mundt - Paladino, Skulpturenprojekte & Kunsthandel, Lugano
West Coast Painting, curated by Petra Giloy-Hirtz, Galerie Biedermeir
50 Years of documenta, Kassel
Elements, Museo dárte contemporanea de Villa Croce. Genova, Italy
Visioni, 20 artists, curated by Annamaria Maggi, Sant Agostino, Bergamo
Bocconi University, Panza Collection, Milano
2004
Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach
Practice, curated by David, McDonald, Carl Berg Gallery, Los Angeles
Villa Panza, Varesse, Italy
2003
Centro Cultural Pelaires (with Kounellis, Cragg, Scully, Rousse), Mallorca
2002
La percezione dello spazio, Palazzo della Gran Guardia, Verona
Le stanze dell'arte, curated by Gabriella Belli, MART Museo di Rovereto
2001
Göteborg International Kuntsbiennal, Göteborg
Artisti americani ed europei dalla collezione Panza, Palazzo Ducale, Sassuolo
2000
Dello Spirituale nell´Arte, Lumezzane, Italien
1999
Lawrence Carroll / Sean Scully, Lawing Gallery, Houston
Panza Collection, Museo del Palazzo Ducale, Gubbio
1998
Intima-mente, Studio la Città, Verona
Palazzo Ducale, Venedig
Master Drawings, Galerie Peter Bäumler, Regensburg
Pollution, Galleria Gian Ferrari, Mailand
1997
L'ossessione del segno, Studio la Città, Verona
Some Art from the 80's and 90's from The Panza di Biumo Collection,
After The Fall, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, New York
1996
The Panza Collection, Palazzo delle Albere, Trento
Silence, Douglas Lawing Gallery, Houston, Texas
Positionen: Reisen an die Grenzen der Malerei, Museum Folkwang, Essen
1995
Sperone / Westwater Gallery, New York
Caren Golden, New York
The Work Space, New York,
The Spirit Of The Matter, Grand Salon, New York
The Material Imagination, Guggenheim Museum SoHo, New York
Interventions in Space, Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela
1994
Lawrence Carroll, Tony Cragg, Wilhelm Mundt, curated by André Buchmann, Gallery, New York, Galleria Manuela Allegrini, Brescia,
The Painting Show, curated by Jan Hoet, Deweer Art Gallery, Otegem
The State of Things / Der Stand der Dinge, curated by Udo Kittelmann, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Köln
1993
Objekt Bodies, curated by Terry Meyers, Depaw University, Indiana State
Jours Tranquilles A Clichy, Paris, John Good Gallery, New York
Plötzlich ist eine Zeit hereingebrochen, in der alles möglich sein sollte, curated by Udo Kittelmann, Kunstverein Ludwigsburg
Extravagant (The Economy of Eloquence), Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York
Beyound Paint, curated by Maurice Poirier, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York
Residual Hope, curated by Sharon Brooks, S. L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto, Kanada
Private, Galleri F 15, Moss, Norwegen
1992
Documenta IX, curated by Jan Hoet, Kassel (cat.)
Whiter Shade Of Pale, curated by Udo Kittelmann, Galerie Sophia Ungers, Köln
Dealing with Art, Künstlerwerkstatt Lothringer Str., München
Physical Abstractio, Ace Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles
Who’s Afraid of Duchamp, Minimalism and Passport Photography?, Annina Nosei Gallery, New York
1991
Galerie Krinzinger, Wien
1990
Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris
Major Rowan Gallery, London
All Quiet on the Western Front?, Galerie Antoine Candau, Paris
Baltimore Sales and Rental Gallery, Baltimore
Galerie Schmela, Düsseldorf
1989
Einleuchten, curated by Harald Szeemann, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
Pre-Pop/Post-Appropriation, curated by Collins & Milazzo, Stux Gallery, New York
De Rozeboomkamer, curated by Urbain Mulkers, Beeld-en-Route Foundation, Diepenheim, Holland
Holtegaard Museum, Vedaek, Dänemark
1988
Art At The End Of The Social, curated by Collins & Milazzo, Rooseum, Malmö
Off White, curated by Collins & Milazzo, Diane Brown Gallery, New York
The New Property, curated by Collins & Milazzo, Myers/Bloom Gallery, Los Angeles
Stux Gallery, New York
1987
P.S. 122, New York
Queens Museum, Flushing, New York
Philip Stanbury Gallery, New York
City Without Walls, Jurors Peter Frank und Stefan Stux, Best of Show Award, Newark
Bronx Museum, New York
Gallery 3, Hoboken
Miniatures, Stux Gallery, Boston
Sweet Briar College, Sweet Briar Gallery, New York
1986
Silvermine Gallery, New Cannan
City Without Walls, Newark, New Jersey
1985
Now Gallery, New York
Presentazione opere, Buchmann Galerie Agra / Lugano, Agra/Lugano
Selected Collections

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego
The Margulies Collection at the Warehouse, Miami
Hall Art Foundation, Vermont
Rubell Family Collection, Miami
Chase Manhattan Bank, New York
Kunstmuseum Stuttgart
Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach
Kunstmuseum Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen, Magdeburg
Kunsthalle Mannheim
Sammlung Wemhöner, Herford/Berlin
The Schaufler Foundation Schauwerk Sindelfingen
LAC Lugano Arte e Cultura, Lugano
Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto (Mart), Trento and Rovereto
Palazzo Ducale di Sassuolo (dauerhafte Installation)
Panza Collection, Mendrisio
Villa Panza, Varese (dauerhafte Installation)
Hotel des Arts, Toulon
La Certosa di San Lorenzo, Padula  
Es Baluard Museu d'Art Modern i Contemporani de Palma, Palma de Mallorca
EMMA – Espoo Museum Modern Art, Espoo
Sara Hildén Art Museum, Tampere
Fundación Jumex Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City
Museo de Bellas Artes de Caracas
The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Long Museum, Shanghai

Selected Publications

 

2025 "Lawrence Carroll - Keep Looking", Madre Museum, Naples, Italy, 2025
2017 "I have longed to move away. Works 1985 - 2017", Museo Vincenzo Vela, Ligornetto (CH), 5 Continents Editions, texts by David Carrier, Barbara Catoir, Lara Conte, Petra Gilroy-Hirtz, Gianna A. Mina
2015 "Ghost House", MAMbo, Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna, Corraini Edizioni, Texts: Gianfranco Maraniello, Angela Vettese, Lawrence Carroll (exhib. cat.)
2008 “Lawrence Carroll”, Museo Correr, Venice, Essays by Angela Vettese and Laura Mattioli Rossi (exhib. cat.)
2007 “Lawrence Carroll”, Hotel des Arts, Toulon, France Texts: John Yau, Gilles Alterri
2005 “50 years of documenta 1955-2005: archive in motion-discreet 
energies/diskrete energien”, Kassel, 2005. Text: Michael Glasmeier.
“VISIONI 20 artisti”, Sant Agostino, Bergamo. Text: Marco Meneguzzo.
2004 ACE Gallery Beverly Hills, Essay by Terry Meyers, California (artist cat.)
2003 “Studio La Città”, Essay by Marco Meneguzzo, Verona (cat.)
2002 “Lawrence Carroll, Getting Lost, Raum der Stille”, Essay by Petra Giloy-Hirtz, Karmelitenkirche München, July 19 – August 15, 2002, (cat.)
“La Collezione Panza: Villa Menafoglio Litta Panza, Varese, Palazzo Ducale, Gubbio, Palazzo Ducale, Sassuolo, Palazzo Della Gran Guardia, Verona,
MOCA, Los Angeles, Reina Sofia, Madrid, Guggenheim Bilbao
 (1st edition)”, Text: Giuseppe Panza
“Le stanze dell’arte”, MART, Rovereto, (exhib.cat)
2001 “Oggi per Domani”, Museo Cantonale d’Arte Contemporanea, Lugano, 2001.
“Il Respiro Nacosto delle Cose”, Studio La Citta, Verona, 2001.
Text: Luigi Meneghelli
2000 “Lawrence Carroll”, Studio La Città, Verona, July, 2000. 
Texts: Bruno Corà, Laura Mattioli
1998 “Lawrence Carroll”, Essays by Johann-Karl Schmidt and Richard Milazzo,
Galerie der Stadt Stuttgart, Editor Galerie der Stadt Stuttgart, 
Johann-Karl Schmidt, (cat.)
“Lawrence Carroll”, Buchmann Galerie Köln, (artist cat.)
1994 “Lawrence Carroll”, Essay by Gerhard Finckh, Städtische Galerie im Museum Folkwang Essen, September 19 – November 6, 1994 
“Lawrence Carroll, Où les choses dorment”, Poem by Rupert Brooke, Domaine de Kerguehennec, France, Mataiea
“Der Stand der Dinge”, Editor Udo Kittelmann, Kölnischer Kunstverein 
1992 “Lawrence Carroll, The Guest Room”, Stux Gallery New York
1988 “Lawrence Carroll”, Essay by Robert Pincus-Witten, Stux Gallery New York