Biographical notes about Leon Golub

Was born in 1922 in Chicago. After studying art history at the University of Chicago, and art at the Art Institute of Chicago, Golub made a name for himself with politically charged works leading the Windy City’s figurative movement of the era, contrasting with the Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art of the New York art scene. By the end of the 1950s, his paintings had been shown in New York at the Guggenheim Museum, the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art. The political content of Golub’s work became increasingly relevant throughout the Civil Rights and anti-Vietnam War movements, in which the artist was actively involved. Golub lived for a time in Europe, returning in 1964 to live in New York. - Died 2004.

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`MEMO BIOGRAPHY INTERVIEW A R T W O R K S`	Was born in 1922 in Chicago. After studying art history at the University of Chicago, and art at the Art Institute of Chicago, Golub made a name for himself with politically charged works leading the Windy City’s figurative movement of the era, contrasting with the Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art of the New York art scene. By the end of the 1950s, his paintings had been shown in New York at the Guggenheim Museum, the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art. The political content of Golub’s work became increasingly relevant throughout the Civil Rights and anti-Vietnam War movements, in which the artist was actively involved. Golub lived for a time in Europe, returning in 1964 to live in New York. - Died 2004.
	Exhibitions 2003 Griffin Contemporary, Venice, CA 2002 Christine Konig Galerie, Vienna, Austria 2001 Confrontations, Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 2001 Leon Golub: Paintings 1950-2000, Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY and Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY 2001 While the Crime is Blazing: Paintings and Drawings 1994-1999, Arthur A. Houghton Jr. Gallery, The Cooper Union School of Art, New York, NY 2001 Confrontations, Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 2000 Leon Golub Paintings, Stedelijk Museum vor Actuele Kunst Ghent, Belgium 2000 Leon Golub, Irish Museum of Modern Art Dublin, Ireland and tour 2000 Trans + kaputt, Christine König Galerie Vienna 1999 Leon Golub, Bucknell Art Gallery, Bucknell University Lewisburg, PA and tour 1999 Coming to Life: The Figure in American Art, 1955-1965, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington Seattle, WA 1999 To the Rescue: Eight Artists in an Archive, International Center fof Photography Midtown New York and tour 1998,1996, 2001 Ronald Feldman Fine Arts New York, NY 1998 Extensions: Aspects of the Figure, Joseloff Gallery, University of Hartford West Hartford, CT 1998 Leon Golub and Nancy Spero, Museo Jacobo Borges Caracas, Venezuela 1998 Presence of the Greek Myth, Instituto di Storia dell'Arte Palermo, Italy 1997 Envisioning the Contemporary: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, IL 1997 Views from Abroad-European Perspectives on American Art 3, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY 1996 Sphinx and other Enigmas, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts New York, NY 1996 Thinking Print: Books to Billboards, 1980-95, The Museum of Modern Art New York 1996 Multiple Identity: Selections from the Whitney Museum of Art, travelling show, Whitney Museum of American Art New York 1996 Leon Golub and Nancy Spero, retrospective exhibition, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art Hiroshima City, Japan 1995 Violence Zone: The Weimar Installation, OrangerieSchlob Belvedere Weimar, Germany 1995 Murder, Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY 1995 25 Americans: Painting in the 90s, Milwaukee Art Museum Milwaukee, WI 1995 Snake Eyes, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts New York, NY 1995 Murder, , Bergamot Station Arts Center Santa Monica, CA 1995 War and Infory, The American Center, Paris, France and travel 1994 Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary Art, UCLA at the Armand Hammer Museum 1994 Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary Art, Whitney Museum of American Art NYC 1994 Leon Golub/Nancy Spero, Rhona Hoffman Gallery Chicago, IL 1993 43rd Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary Art, , The Corcoran Museum of Art Washington, DC 1992 Americas, , Andalusia Pavillion, Expo `92 1992 Retrospective Exhibition, Malmo Konsthall Malmo, Sweden 1991 Worldwide, The Brooklyn Museum, Grand Lobby Installation New York and tour 1991 Inheritance & Transformation, , The Irish Museum of Modern Art Dublin Literature 2001 'Leon Golub, Brawler in a Cosmic Melee', Amei Wallach, The New York Times 2000 'Leon Golub', David Frankel, Artforum 2000 Bird, John. Leon Golub Echoes of the Reall. London, England: Reaktion Books, 2000 1999 Leon Golub While the Crime is Blazing: Paintings and Drawings 1994-1999. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University, 1999 1997 Leon Golub: Do Paintings Bite? Edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist. Germany: Cantz Verlag 1996 'Beauty and the Beast', Peter Schjeldahl, The Village Voice 1996 'Leon Golub', David Frankel, Artforum 1996 '2 Artists Always Prowling for Ideas to Use Again', Michael Kimmelman, The New York Times 1995 'Bearing Witness', Christine Temin, The Boston Globe Magazine 1990 'Undercover Agent', Rosetta Brooks, Artforum 1990 Marzorati, Gerald. A Painter of Darkness: Leon Golub and Our Times, New York, NY: Viking Penguin, Inc. 1984 'Theater of Power': Carter Ratcliff, Art in America

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