Karl Haendel

Karl Haendel received his BA from Brown University in 1998 before attending the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. He received his MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2003. Previous solo and two-person presentations include Mazel Tov Group at the Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA; Karl Haendel and Tony Lewis, LAXART, Los Angeles, CA; and Oral Sadism and the Vegetarian Personality, Museo del Arte de El Salvador; and Questions for My Father at the Wexner Center for the Arts, Cincinnati, OH and the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, UT. Haendel was included in the 2015 Biennial of the Americas, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver; the 2014 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the 12th Biennale de Lyon in 2013; and Prospect II, New Orleans in 2011. Haendel’s work is included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; Kadist Art Foundation, San Francisco; Perez Art Museum, Miami; the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge; Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld; the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; La Colección Jumex, Mexico City; and the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo.