Carroll Dunham

Name: Carroll Dunham
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ISBN: 9780300286496

Drawings, 1974-2024

Thea Liberty Nichols, Makayla Bava, Robert Storr , Susan Tallman

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English

Art Institute of Chicago
10 April 2026

Art & design styles: from c 1960; Individual artists, art monographs; Exhibition catalogues & specific collections

Fifty years of American artist Carroll Dunham's distinctive, energetic drawings

For five decades, Carroll Dunham (b. 1949) has created paintings, prints, and sometimes sculptures, but drawing has always been the foundation of his practice. He has archived thousands of drawings as part of his daily routine, a selection of which are presented here and many of which have never been published before.

As a young artist in the 1980s, Dunham asserted himself as a painter and worked abstractly at a time when Expressionism was ascendent. In subsequent decades his biomorphic abstractions gave way to outright figuration, with the artist creating hypersexualized, cartoon-like, violent, and sometimes grotesque characters that have been linked to underground comix, West Coast Funk Art, or Midwestern Chicago Imagism. His current work features green and purple people in bucolic landscapes engaged in battle or bacchanal. Other works consider the role of the artist, artist's studio, and art object, deeply influenced by philosophy, psychology, and an examination of gender and sexuality. Featuring about 115 works from the 1970s to today, this volume illuminates the depth of Dunham's drawing practice.

Distributed for the Art Institute of Chicago

Exhibition Schedule:

Art Institute of Chicago

(January 31–June 1, 2026)

Contributions by: Makayla Bava, Robert Storr, Susan Tallman
Edited by: Thea Liberty Nichols
Imprint: Art Institute of Chicago
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 286mm, Width: 235mm,
ISBN: 9780300286496
ISBN 10: 030028649X
Pages: 168
Publication Date: 10 April 2026
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Thea Liberty Nichols is associate research curator, Modern and Contemporary Art, at the Art Institute of Chicago. Robert Storr is an artist, critic, and curator. Susan Tallman is a critic and art historian. Makayla May is assistant curator, Modern and Contemporary Art, at the Art Institute of Chicago.