The Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris is organizing, in collaboration with the artist, the most significant exhibition to date of George Condo’s work. A painter, draftsman, and sculptor, George Condo has created a unique pictorial world, drawing inspiration from a profuse visual culture spanning Western art history, from the Old Masters to the present.

Organized in dialogue with the artist, the exhibition aims to revisit over four decades of George Condo’s career by presenting his most emblematic works. Many works from major American and European museums (MoMA, the MET, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art) and private collections are brought together for the first time in Paris thanks to this project.

The exhibition features roughly 80 paintings, 110 drawings—grouped together in a space devoted to graphic arts—and some twenty sculptures interspersed throughout the exhibition.

Condo expresses and navigates various states of the human psyche. He embraces the act of abstraction within a figural framework in novel ways, materializing the fragmented, elusive nature of ineffable thoughts and feelings.

The exhibition comprises a new series of puzzle-like portraits, which the artist has dubbed his ‘bizarre characters,’ their visages simultaneously splintered and affixed by bright geometric planes. The jagged electricity created by the faceted compositions of these works signals the complex and often conflicted nature of the mind.

Born in 1957 in Concord, New Hampshire, George Condo moved to New York in 1979. He quickly became part of the local art scene, working notably for Andy Warhol’s silkscreen studio. Subsequently, he went to Cologne and then Paris, his primary place of residence from 1985 to 1995. His broad knowledge of European art led him to develop a personal approach to figurative painting and a fierce take on his times.

GEORGE CONDO
MUSÉE D’ART MODERNE
PARIS
Through 22 February 2026

---

---