Kaari Upson
Artworks
Exhibitions
Museums
Biography
Solo exhibitions
Year
Country, Exhibition Name, Location
2025
DK, Dollhouse – A Retrospective, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek
2023
USA, Kaari Upson: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
2022
GR, Never Enough, Deste Foundation, Athens
USA, On Kaari Upson: Leslie Dick and Audrey Wollen in Conversation, Sprüth Magers, Los Angeles
2021
F, Clay Baby (m.l.), MASSIMODECARLO Pièce Unique, Paris
2019
CH, Go Back the Way You Came, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel
CH, Go Back the Way You Came, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel
D, Door, Open, Shut, Kunstverein Hannover, Hannover
2018
I, In Search Of The Perfect Double, Torre Velasca, Milano
2017
USA, Good Thing You Are Not Alone, New Museum, New York
2016
D, MMDP, Sprüth Magers, Berlin
2015
UK, HOLE, Massimo De Carlo, London
2014
USA, Kaari Upson, Ramiken Crucible, New York
2013
I, Sleep With the Key, Massimo De Carlo, Milano
2012
UK, Baby Please come Home, Massimo De Carlo, London
2011
USA, Kaari Upson, Overduin and Kite, Los Angeles
CH, Statements, Overduin and Kite, Art 42, Basilea
2009
USA, I am bound to have some anxiety about this so please if I say stop, don't stop, Maccarone Gallery, New York
2007
USA, The Larry Project, Chapter 2: The Honeymoon Period, D301 Gallery; California Institute of the Arts, Valencia
USA, Hammer Projects, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Group exhibitions
Year
Country, Exhibition Name, Location
2025
CH, Medardo Rosso. Inventing Modern Sculpture, Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel
2024
USA, Weight of Mind, Hessel Museum of Art, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-On-Hudson
USA, For Dear Life: Art, Medicine, and Disability, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego
NL, Sleep!, Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort
USA, Transmissions: Selections from the Marciano Collection, Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles
USA, She Said, She Said: Contemporary Artists from the Rubell Museum, Arlington Museum of Art , Arlington
NL, If not now, when?, Museum Beelden aan Zee, Den Haag
2023
D, Your Home Is Where You’re Happy, Haus Mödrath - Räume für Kunst, Kerpen
UK, Hollow Earth: Art, Caves & The Subterranean Imaginary, The Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork
CH, Chrysalis: The Butterfly Dream, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Genève
2022
USA, Perris, Tyler Park Presents, Los Angeles
UK, ECHO, The Artist Room, London
D, Perspectives of a Collection, Taking Stock and Looking Ahead, Marta Herford, Herford
RL, Dark Light, Realism in the Age of Post truth, Aishti Foudation, Beirut
I, 59. Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte, La Biennale di Venezia, Venezia
I, Pupille. Ci fioriscono gli occhi se ci guardiamo Curated by Rita Selvaggio, Casa Masaccio Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea, San Giovanni Valdarno
I, The Milk of Dreams, 59. Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte, Venezia
USA, Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle
USA, Shifting the Silence, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
PRC, Inaugural Exhibition, Season One, Start Museum, Shanghai
UK, Raw Nerves, Hannah Barry Gallery, London
UK, Work from Home: Rebecca Acroyd, Heidi Bucher, Emily Moore, Kaari Upson, Siegfried Contemporary, London
UK, Hollow Earth: Art, Caves & The Subterranean Imaginary, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham
2021
DK, Mother!, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek
I, Bodywork: Discomfort and Existence, MASSIMODECARLO, Milano
2019
I, May You Live In Interesting Times, 58. Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte, Venezia
I, MCMXXXIV, Massimo De Carlo, Milano
2018
PRC, The artist is present Curated by Maurizio Cattelan, YUZ Museum, Shanghai
2017
USA, Material Concerns and Current Practices, Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, New York
B, Man Alive Curated by Wendy White, Maruani Mercier Gallery, Bruxelles
USA, Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
USA, Concrete Island, Venus, Los Angeles
Public collections
Country
Location
Denmark
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk
France
CAPC Musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux
Germany
Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim
Marta Herford Museum for Art, Architecture, Design, Herford
Greece
Dakis Joannou Collection, Athens
Lebanon
Aïshti Foundation, Beirut
The Netherlands
Gemeentemuseum, The Hague
Voorlinden Museum, Wassenaar
United States of America
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami
Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Pérez Art Museum Miami
Rubell Collection, Miami
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis
Whitney Museum of Art, New York