George Condo (b. 1957) lives and works in New York City. Condo has described his portraits as composites of psychological states which reflect the madness of everyday life; he calls this, ‘Artificial Realism’. Riffing on old master painting through to contemporary American popular culture, his works are distinguished by a cast of characters which span the spectrum of human kind. With bulging eyes, bulbous cheeks and proliferating limbs, they all stare confrontationally from his pictures - this is the human condition laid bare, for all its flacid underbelly.

Today, Condo’s paintings are held in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Rubell Family Collection in Miami, and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.

selected works