DAVID WALTER MCDERMOTT
b. 1952, Hollywood, CA
EDUCATION
1970-1974 University of Syracuse, New York
PETER THOMAS MCGOUGH
b. 1958 in Syracuse, New York
EDUCATION
1976 University of Syracuse, New York
1978 The Fashion Institute of Technology, New York
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2013 Suspicious of Rooms Without Music of Atmosphere, Cheim & Read, New York
Mcdermott & Mcgough, Galerie Andrea Caratsch, Zurich
2012 In Dreams You’Re Mine, Galérie Jérôme de Noirmont, Paris.
The Palm Beach Story Or Whatever Happened To Baby Jane, Gavlak Gallery, Palm Beach. (Two person exhibition with Jack Pierson)
2011 Of Being and Beauty, Cheim & Read, New York (1/7-2/12/11)
An Experience Of Amusing Chemistry, Photographs 1990 - 1890, Manezh Central Exhibition Hall, Moscow (3/19-4/24/11)
2010 26 Sandymount Avenue, Kunsthalle Wien, Austria (10/20-12/8/10)
What You Mean To Me, Galérie Jérôme de Noirmont, Paris (6/3-7/3/10)
2009 Without You I Am Nothing, Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, Paris (6/4-7/22/09)
Detroit: Carbro Prints, 1958, Weinstein Gallery, Minneapolis (10/9-11/7/10)
2008 Because of Him, Cheim & Read, New York (3/21 – 4/26/08)
McDermott & McGough – An Experience of Amusing Chemistry: Photographs 1990-1890, Irish Museum of
Modern Art, Dublin (2/6 – 4/27/08)
2007 Please Don’t Stop Loving Me!, Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, Paris (1/19 – 3/15/07)
2006 McDermott & McGough: A True Story Based on Lies, Cheim & Read, New York (1/12 – 2/11/06)
2004 New Photographs, Torch Gallery, Amsterdam (4/17-5/22/04)
2003 Hitler & Homosexuals – The Lust That Comes from Nothing, Akureyri Art Museum, Akureyri, Iceland
2002 A History of Photography, Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, Paris (11/22/01 – 1/25/02)
The Lust That Comes from Nothing, American Fine Arts, New York
2001 MacDermott & MacGough, The Lust That Comes from Nothing, American Fine Arts Co / PHAG Inc, New York(11/8-12/8/01)
2000 The Deep Future ... The Deep Past, Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, Paris (6/8 – 9/14/00)
1998 MacDermott & MacGough, Europa.
The Lust that Comes from Nothing, Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, Paris (3/27 – 5/29/98)
1997 Messers MacDermott & MacGough, Paintings, Photographs and Time Experiment 1950, Provincial Museum of
Modern Art, Ostende, Belgium
Conspiracy Paintings, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin
1996 Galleria Gian Ferrari, Charta, Milan
Art 27’96, Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Basel, Switzerland
Galerie Françoise Paviot, Paris (photography)
Torch Gallery, Amsterdam, May – June (photography)
1993 Galleria Gian Enzo Sperone, Rome Magazin 4, Bregenz, Austria (photography)
Fahey – Klein Gallery, Los Angeles (9/10 – 10/16/93)
Robert Klein, Boston (photography)
1992 The Art Show, Seventh Regiment Armory, Sperone Westwater, New York
Galerie Philippe Rizzo, Paris Messers
MacDermott & MacGough: Mammoth-Plate Gum-Bichromate Prints, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco (photography).
Messers MacDermott & MacGough: Mammoth Photographs, Robert Miller Gallery, New York
1991 Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta (photography).
Art 22’91, Gian Enzo Sperone, Basel, Switzerland
1990 Chicago Art Exposition, Sperone Westwater, Chicago Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco (photography).
Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York
1989 Robert Miller Gallery, New York (photography).
1988 Massimo Audiello Gallery, New York
1987 Massimo Audiello Gallery, New York Mario Diacono Gallery, Boston
1986 Massimo Audiello Gallery, New York Pat Hearn Gallery, New York
Galleria Lucio Amelio, Naples Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt
1985 Massimo Audiello Gallery, New York
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2013 Artist/Rebel/Dandy: Men of Fashion, The Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Rhode Island
Terrible Twos, Villa du Parc Centre D'Art Contemporain, Annemasse, France
2012 Portrait of a Generation, The Hole Gallery. New York
Portraits / Self-Portraits From The 16th To The 21st Century, Sperone Westwater, New York
L'Art D'Aimer, De Fragonard À Nos Jours, Le Palais Lumiere. Evian, France
L'Histoire Est À Moi!, Le Printemps de Septembre. Toulouse, France. Curated by Paul Ardenne
Home Is, Ercole Home. New York, New York. Curated by Massimo Audiello, Eric Firestone Gallery. East Hampton, New York
2011 Noir Film Festival, Zagreb, Croatia (5/5-6/5/11)
Creating the New Century: Contemporary Art from the Dicke Collection, The Dayton Art Institute, Ohio (3/12-7/10/11)
Already-Made?, Galérie Jérôme de Noirmont, Paris (2/4-3/24/11)
2010 Brune/Blonde, La Cinémathèque Française, Paris (10/6/10-1/16/11)
A Shaded View on Fashion Film, Centre Pompidou, Paris (9/24-9/26/10)
Beyond The Figure: Abstract Sculpture In The Norton Museum Collection, Norton Museum Of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida
(6/5-9/5/10)
Detroit, Kunsthalle Wien, Austria (4/28-5/31/10)
Brucennial 2010: Miseducation, Curated By Vito Schnabel, New York (4/10)
The 80s Revisited: The Bischofberger Collection, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany (3/21-6/20/10)
C’est La Vie! Vanités De Caravage À Damien Hirst, Musee Maillol, Paris (2/3-6/28/11)
Look Again, Marlborough Chelsea, New York (1/13-2/13/10)
2009 Traces: Imma Limited Editions, Irish Museum Of Modern Art, Dublin (9/26/09-1/3/10)
Vraoum! Tresors De La Bande Dessinee Et Art Contemporain, La Maison Rouge – Fondation Antoine
De Galbert, Paris (5/28-9/27/09)
Influence Pop, Galérie Jérôme De Noirmont, Paris (2/6-3/28/09)
2008 Wall Rockets: Contemporary Artists and Ed Ruscha, curated by Lisa Dennison, Flag Art Foundation,
New York (10/3/08-4/18/09) travels to Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY (11/13/09-2/21/10)
I Won't Grow Up, Cheim & Read, New York (6/26 - 8/29/08)
The Old, Weird America. Folk Themes in Contemporary Art, Contemporary Art Museum, Houston (5/10-7/20/08)
travels to DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA (6/6-9/8/09)
Frye Museum, Seattle, WA (10/3/09-1/3/10)
2007 Warhol Portrayed, Centro Cultural y de Arte 'La Casa Encendida', Madrid (11/22/07 - 1/20/08)
I Am As You Will Be: The Skeleton In Art, Cheim & Read, New York (9/20 – 11/3/07)
Cinéma, Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, Paris (5/23-7/21/07)
2006 Signes & Prodiges, FIAC 2006, Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, Paris (10/26/06- 10/30/06)
The Name of the Show is Not Gay Art Now, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York (6/8 – 7/21/06)
A Brighter Day, James Cohan Gallery, New York (5/30 -11/30/06)
Less is more / more is less, Weinstein Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
Chronos. Il tempo nell’arte dall’epoca barocca all’età contemporanea, Il Filatoio, Caraglio (Cuneo)
I am the Walrus, curated by Jan Avgikos, Cheim & Read, New York, (6/10 – 8/20/04)
MOI ! Autoportraits du XXe siècle; traveling exhibition: Musée du Luxembourg, Paris; Palazzo Strozzi, Florence
Happy Birthday! Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, Paris
Aftökur & ùtrymingar, Akureyri Art Museum, Akureyri, Island (1/18 – 3/9/03)
Face & Cie (Facéties), Carolus Duran et Compagnie, Musée des Beaux Arts de Tourcoing (3/9 – 6/9/03)
Les Jeux dans l’art du XXème siècle, Espace Bellevue, Biarritz (6/22 – 10/3/03); Palais Montezumo, Saragosse, Spain
(10/29/02 – 1/6/03)
Contents, Briggs – Robinson Gallery, New York
Between Earth and Heaven – New Classical Movements in the Art of Today, Museum of Modern Art, Ostende (2/23 – 9/2/01)
Manfred Heiting Collection, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (4/7 – 6/24/01)
Hommage à Harry Lunn, Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York (1/18 – 3/10/01)
Excentriques, Un Manifeste de l’apparence, Boutique le Printemps, Paris (9/29 – 10/21/00)
Narcisse blessé, Autoportraits contemporains 1970 – 2000, Passage de Retz, Paris (6/19 – 9/2/00)
Protest and Survive, Demonstration, The White Chapel Gallery, London (9/15 – 11/12/00)
First Glen Dimplex Award Exhibition, Irish Museum of Modern Art
Dublin Confrontations, Triskel Art Center
Cork Small Faces, Guy McIntyre, New York
Invisibilities, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
Galerie de Lege Ruimte, Gent, Belgium
1996 Prospect ’96, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt Galerie Torch, Amsterdam (photography)
Photogravure - A Survey: 1903-1996, Marlborough Gallery, New York Double Vie, Double Vue, Fondation Cartier pour l’Art
Contemporain, Paris
1995 Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York The Tibetan Show, Robert Miller Gallery, New York
An American Century of Photography, The Hallmark Photographic Collection, Hallmark Cards, Kansas City traveling exhibition
International Center of Photography, New York
Contemporary Still Life, James Graham & Sons Gallery, New York
Donald Baechler, Guillermo Kuitca, MacDermott & MacGough, Alexis Rockman, Ray Smith, Galerie Vidal-Saint Phalle, Paris
1994 Pierre et Gilles, MacDermott & MacGough, Robert Mapplethorpe, Salle des Fêtes, 25e Rencontres Internationales de Photographie, Arles
1992 Outspoken & Handcrafted : Art by Eric Avery, Ann Krauss, MacDermott & MacGough and Faith Ringgold, Museum of Fine Arts,
Henry & Louis Foster Gallery, Boston
1991 Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Framed, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco
In a Dream, Robert Miller Gallery, New York; traveling exhibition: Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta Rope,
Fernando Alcolea Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
Photography from 1980 to 1990, Ginny Williams Gallery
Denver Photography 1980 to 1990, Tavelli Gallery, Aspen
Consorts, Pence Gallery, Santa Monica
Art About Art, Galerie Urbi et Orbi, Paris
Portraits on Paper, Robert Miller Gallery, New York
Junge amerikanische und deutsche malerei, Galerie Schulze, Cologne
A Passion for Art, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York
The Golden Age, Kunstverein Stuttgart
1990 Improvissazione, Prima Galleria, Trento, Italy The Garden, A.D. Gallery, New York
Summer Group Exhibition, Sperone Westwater, New York
Deciphering Modernism in Contemporary Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Art That Happens to be Photography, Texas Gallery, Houston
Team Spirit, Independent Curators Incorporated (ICI), New York; traveling exhibition: Neuberger Museum, State University of
New York at Purchase, New York; Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver;
The Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami; Spirit Center for the Arts, Charlotte; Davenport Art Museum,
Davenport, Iowa; Laumier Sculpture Park, Saint Louis
The Charade of Mastery, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Group Show, Galleria Seno, Milan
1989 L’invention d’un Art, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Prospect Photographie, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt
Prospect Photographie, PPS Galerie F.C. Gundlach, Hamburg; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, traveling exhibition:
The National Gallery of Greece, Athens; The Art Museum of the Atheneum, Helsinki;- The Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv;
The National Museum of Poland, Warsaw
1988 The Binational, traveling exhibition: Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston;
Städtische Kunsthalle, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen,
Düsseldorf, Germany
1987 Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Massimo Audiello Gallery, New York
Of Ever-Ever Land I Speak, Stux Gallery, New York
1986 Pat Hearn Gallery, New York Mario Diacono Gallery, Boston Loughelton Gallery, New York
What It Is, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York
1985 Rudolf Zwirner Gallery, Cologne
Anni Ottanta, International Exhibition, Bologna 1984 Holly Solomon Gallery, New York
