Paul McCarthy

Paul McCarthy was born in Salt Lake City, Utah in 1945. He received a BFA from San Francisco Art Institute in San Francisco, California and a MFA from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California. 

McCarthy's recent solo and group exhibitions include "Paul McCarthy: Tomato Head" at Jeffrey Deitch in Los Angeles, California (2025); "Cognitive Surge: Stage Coach. Paul McCarthy & Benjamin Weissman" at The Pit in Los Angeles California (2024); "Them as Was Is" at Galerie Max Hetzler in Berlin, Germany (2023); "Paul McCarthy" at Xavier Hufkens in Brussels, Belgium (2023); "the ömen. Albert Oehlen paintings and Paul McCarthy Sculptures" at Gagosian in New York, New York (2023); "Paul McCarthy. A&E Drawings. A&E Drawing Session 2021 With Lilith Stangenberg" at Hauser & Wirth in Los Angeles, California (2022); "Paul McCarthy. Pirates Stew Pot" at Hauser & Wirth in Monaco (2022); "Paul McCarthy. Part Make Up a Hole" at The Box in Los Angeles, California (2021); "Paul McCarthy. A&E Sessions – Drawing and Painting" at Hauser & Wirth in New York, New York (2021); "Paul McCarthy. Head Space, Drawings 1963-2019" at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, California (2020); "Paul McCarthy. White Snow, Wood Sculptures" at Henry Art Gallery in Seattle, Washington (2016); "Paul McCarthy. The Box" at Neue Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin in Berlin, Germany (2012); "Full Exposure. Paul and Damon McCarthy's Pirate Party" at Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University in Durham, North Carolina (2015); and "Paul McCarthy. White Snow Dwarf (Dopey #1)" at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, California (2011).

McCarthy's work is held in numerous public collections including the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin, Italy; Hessel Museum of Art in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, California; the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachussetts; the Museum of Modern Art in Copenhagen, Denmark; the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, New York; Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina; the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens, Greece; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, New York; Tate Modern in London, United Kingdom; Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota; and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, New York. 

Paul McCarthy lives and works in Los Angeles, California.