Born 1974, Eisenerz, Austria
Lives and works in Los Angeles
Education
1998 BFA (Hons) and MFA, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, AUT
1994 Higher Technical College of Graphic Art, Graz, AUT
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2007 In the Blink of an Eye, Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2006 You Are Forgiven, Goff+Rosenthal, New York, NY
Artforum Berlin, Berlin, GER
2005 Tears of Joy, Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2004 Don’t Be Afraid, Goff Rosenthal, New York, NY
2003 L.A. International, Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2002 Every Breath a Step to Death, Nikolai Fine Art, New York, NY
Emerging Artists, The Essl Collection, Vienna, AUT
2001 Great Love & Great Miracles, Neue Galerie Am Landesmuseum Joanneum Graz, AUT
Sensationelles Ist Im Gange, Projektraum Viktor Bucher, Vienna, AUT
Spital Am Pyhrn, Art Mark Galerie, AUT
Selected Group Exhibitions
2007 Triumph of Painting, The Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
Ausgezeichnet!, Kunstverein Freiburg, Freiburg, GER
2006 USA Today, The Saatchi Gallery, Royal Academy of Arts, Burlington Gardens, London, UK
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN
Innagural Exhibition, Goff + Rosenthal Berlin, Berlin, GER
2005 Girls on Film, Zwirner & Wirth, New York, NY
Paradise Lost, Goff+Rosenthal, New York, NY
Collectors XX: Building A Museum Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA
Summer Pleasures, Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
LA, Lucas Schoormans Gallery, New York, NY
Exploding Plastic Inevitable: 40 FUN Galleries, curated by Craig Hensala, q Bergdorf Goodman, Simon Watson and NADA, New York, NY
2004 NADA Art Fair, Mark Moore Gallery, Miami, FL
Art Cologne, Mark Moore Gallery, Cologne, Germany
Art and Illusion, Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Malibu CA
Gio Ponti: Furnished Settings and Figuration, ACME, Los Angeles, CA
Open Art, Galerie Six Friedrich Lisa Ungar, Munich, GER
FIAC Art Fair, Projektraum Viktor Bucher, Paris, FRA
2003 Fresh Works on Paper, James Kelly Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
SCOPE Art Fair, Miami, FL
FIAC Art Fair, Paris, FRA
Dubrow International, Roger Smith Gallery, New York, NY
The Must, Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, AUT
Stift Admont, Collection of Contemporary Art, Admont, AUT
Ex Graz, In Graz, Galerie CC, Graz, AUT
Galerie Eugen Lendl, Frisch Saftig Steirisch, Graz, Kunsthalle, Hallein, AUT
Kunst Muss Haengen, Projektraum Viktor Bucher, Vienna, AUT
Mayfair Exhibition, London, UK
2002 Nikolai Fine Art, Art Scope Miami, Miami Beach, FL
Ad Personam, Projektraum Viktor Bucher, Vienna, AUT
Intro Graz Spection, Forsetzung Folgt, Graz, AUT
2001 Galerie Christine Koenig, Ich Tarzan-Du Felix Austria, Vienna, AUT
Neue Galerie Am Landesmuseum Joanneum Graz, Die Kabinette Des Dr. Czerny, AUT
Kunstsammlung Volpinum, Sieben, Vienna, AUT
Kulturfabrik Pasing, Muenich, GUT
Six Degrees of Separation, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, AUT
Awards
2002 Fine Art of the City Council of Graz Award
Selected Public and Private Collections
The Saatchi Collection, London, UK
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
Albertina, Vienna, AUT
Oesterreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna, AUT
Joclyn Museum of Art, Omaha NE
Frederic R. Weismann Collection, Los Angeles, CA
Volpinum - Collection of Contemporary Art. Vienna, AUT
Neue Galerie am Landsmuseum Joanneum, Graz, AUT
Museum of Contemporary Art - Benedictine Monastery Admont, AUT
Austrian State Collection, Vienna, AUT
Collection Humanic, Graz, AUT
Collection of the City of Vienna, Vienna, AUT
Collection of the City of Graz, Graz, AUT
Bibliography
Whitford, Frank. “Best in Show,” The Sunday Times, October 2006.
“The American Dream – Saatchi Jumps the Pond in USA Today,” Time Out Magazine, Issue #1885, October 4 – 11, 2006.
Lee, Kyung Ah. “They Draw Portraits,” Vogue Girl, Issue #53, July 2006, Seoul, Korea.
Douglas, Sarah. “Inside the Business,” Berlin Art + Auction, Volume XXX, No.2, October 2006.
Timm, Tobias. “Berlin Als Stadt Der Jungen, Wilden Kuenstler…” Die Zeit, Issue #40,
September 2006.
Spiegler, Almuth. “Softerotik und Punk-comics,” Die Presse, September 7, 2006.
Garcia, Nacho. “Interview, Christoph Schmidberger,” H-Magazine, Issue #75, July – August, 2006.
Reynolds, Nigel. “Saatchi is Ready for Another Sensation at the RA,” The Daily Telegraph, April, 5, 2006.
“L.A Art; Goings on About Town,” The New Yorker, May 16, 2005.
Uovo, Drawing Issue 2005, Torino, Italy, 2005.
Doran, Anne. “Girls on Film- Zwirner & Wirth,” Time Out Magazine, Issue 518, September 1-7, 2005.
Herchenroder, Christian. “Handelsblatt, Kunstmarkt, Riesenformate dominieren das Artforum,” #190, September 30 – October 2, 2005.
“Christoph Schmidberger,” Details Magazine, IT Section, February, 2005.
Cuck, Twardy. "Dust to Dust," Las Vegas Weekly, May, 2004.
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Catalogues
USA Today- New American Art from the Saatchi Gallery. Published by the Royal Academy of Art in association with The Saatchi Collection. London, UK, 2006.
Damianovic, Maia. Lavender Fields Forever, Triton Verlang, Vienna, Austria, 2003.
Steininger, Florian. Every Breath a Step to Death, The Essl Collection, Emerging Artists, Vienna, Austria, 2002.
Holler-Schuster, Gunther. Great Love & Great Miracles, Neue Galerie am
Landesmuseum, Joanneum. Graz, Austria, 2001.