Education
1984 - 87, University of Kansas, BFA
1983 - 84, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, NY
1981 - 83, The Pratt Institute, New York, NY
Awards
1994, Art Matters
1990-1991, Awards in the Visual Arts Fellowship (AVA)
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2005
The Self-Importance Show, Andrew Kreps Gallery, NYC
2003
Assimilatiana: Conscious Consciousness, Philadelphia Museum of Jewish Art,
Philadelphia
Candyass: The Multiples of Cary Leibowitz, Art Metropole, Toronto, ON, Canada
2002
Faggy Faggy Boom Boom Soundvision, Portland, OR
2001
Gain! Wait! Now! Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York
Accumulated Crap for Collectors: The Multiples 1989 ñ 2001 Clifford
Smith Gallery, Boston
1999
Attention!! Who Ever Stole My Suggestion Box Please Return It Iím Having
A Show!! Thanks. Clifford Smith Gallery,
Boston
1997
Finally Something to Complain About! $8 Show, Automatic, Chicago
1996
Iím Bored Iím Lonely Iím Having a Show in Sweden Ynglingagatan
1, Stockholm
Candyass Painting Sale Kunst Editions, New York, 1996
1995
Cary S. Leibowitz...Again Galerie Sanguine, Paris
Hot Dog!! (Please Donít Forget Eleanor Roosevelt) Shoshana Wayne Gallery,
Santa Monica
My Third One-Person Show in Dusseldorf I.D. Gallery, Dusseldorf
1994
Schlock of the New Bravin Post Lee Gallery, New York
CandyAss Math Team Ynglingagtan I, Stockholm
1993
I Slept with Martin Kippenberger Galerie Vier, Berlin
Swedish Art History Students R Too Nice Le Gourmet Salad Bar, New York
Don't Hate Me Because I Donít Speak Japanese Gallery Cellar, Nagoya
1992
Being a Grown Up Is Hard Gallery Samual Lallouz, Montreal
Winners and Losers Galerie Snoei, Rotterdam (Collaboration with Lily van der
Stokker)
April Fools Barneyís (17th St. Windows), New York
Paris Retrospective (Candyass Cemetery) Galerie Antoine Candau, Paris
I.D. Gallery Dusseldorf (Collaboration with Aura Rosenberg)
1991
Candyass Carnival (and Warehouse Retrospective) Stux Gallery, New York
Christmas Clearance Sale Stux Gallery, Menís Bathroom, New York
I Think Iím The Only Artist Discovered on the Gong Show Shoshana Wayne
Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Open Studio Galerie Krinzinger, Wien
1990
Bric a Brac Stux Gallery, New York
Some Rules I.D. Gallery, Dusseldorf
U Can't Be Dead All The Time Galerie Antoine Candau, l'Espace-Dieu, Paris
World's Best (French) Fried Chicken Galerie Antoine Candau, Paris
1989
World's Best Fried Chicken Stux Gallery, New York
1987
I Love You More Than Michael Jackson Art and Design Building University of
Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas
Selected Museum Exhibitions
2005
Situation Comedy: Humor in Recent Art, curated by Dominic Morlon and Michael
Rooks, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu 2004
Conscious Consciousness Philadelphia Museum of Jewish Art ,Curated by Mathew
Singer. Philadelphia
2002
Stop Copying Me Stop Copying Me Arcadia College, Pittsburgh, PA
Cary Leibowitz Multiples Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
2001
Lighten Up: Art with a Sense of Humor Decordova Museum and Sculpture Park,
Lincoln, MA
1999
mode of art Kunstverein f¸r die Rheinland und Westfalen, D¸sseldorf
1997
The Chamber Pot Show Lower East Side Tenement Museum
1996
Too Jewish?, Challenging Traditional Identities The Jewish Museum New York
1995
In a Different Light University Art Museum at Berkeley, CA
Civil Rights Now Secca, Winston-Salem North Carolina / Cleveland Center for
Contemporary Art / ICA
Philadelphia / Parish Art Museum, Southampton
Itís Only Rock and Roll Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona / Contemporary
Art Center,
Cincinnati, Ohio (tour)
In a Different Light University Art Museum at Berkeley, CA
1994
‹ber-leben Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn
Bad Girls The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (in conjunction with
UCLA Wight Art Gallery,
Los Angeles)
Don't Leave Me This Way: Art In the Age of AIDS National Gallery of Australia,
Melbourne, Australia
Night of the Masque Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport, CA
Jahresgaben Dusseldorf Kunstverein, Frankfurt Kunstverein, Bonner Kunstverein,
Germany
Turning Silver Into Gold Contemporary Art Center, Cleveland OH
ICH -4mal Vielmals Stadtische Ausstellungshalle, Munster, Germany
1993
Bridges and Boundaries: African Americans and American Jews The Jewish Museum,
New York
Promotional Copy Guggenheim Museum Soho, New York, NY
A La DecouverteÖ De Collections Romandes I A SuivreÖ Musee D'Art
Contemporain, Foundation Asher
Edelman, (FAE) Pully/Lausanne, Switzerland
1992
X 6: New Multiple Makers Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Conn.
Small Talk curated by Marilyn Minter, P.S. 1 Institute for Contemporary Art,
LIC, NY
1990
The Charade of Mastery: Deciphering Modernism in Contemporary Art Whitney
Museum of American Art,
Downtown at Federal Plaza, New York
Awards in the Visual Arts 1990-1991 Recipients Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture
Garden, Washington D.C.
1989
Einleuchten Deichtorhallen Museum, Hamburg
1988
Boston Now Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
Selected Performances
Fear of Jewish Planet (with Rhonda Lieberman), Four Walls, New York
Selected Group Exhibitions
2003
It'll Cost You..., curated by Beth Ruding De Woody, Kathleen Cullen Fine Art,
New York, NY
Assimilatiana : Conscious Consciousness Philadelphia Museum of Jewish Art,
PA
Mama's Boy White Columns Gallery, New York, NY
Candyass: The Multiples of Cary Leibowitz Art Metropole, Toronto, ON, Canada
2002
I shop, therefore it's Christmas Galerie Anita Beckers, Frankfurt, Germany
The Holiday Shopping Show Wallspace, New York, NY
Love David Risley Gallery, London, UK
State of the Gallery Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, NY
2001
Space Co-Opted Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, NY
2000
Schmuck Ten in One Gallery, New York, NY
Not Without Laughter Gallery M, New York, NY
1998
Poseidons Auge Europaischer Kulturmonat, Linz, Austria
Wishful Thinking James Graham and Sons, New York
1996
Zimmerdenkmaler Bochum, Germany
Wheel of Fortune Lombard Freid Fine Arts, New York
Everybodyís Talking Gemeentemuseum Helmond
1997
Sex/Industry Curated by John Yau, Stefan Stux Gallery
1995
CorrespondËncias PaÁo Imperial, Rio de Janeiro
The Pleasures of Merely Circulating Memory/Cage Editions, Zurich
Outsburst of Signs K¸nstlewerkstatt, Munich, Germany
Multiples, 871 Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA
Please Donít Hurt Me Cabinet Gallery, London
Supastore Middlebrough Art Gallery, Middlebrough
On Beauty Regin Gallery, Moscow
How Is Everything Vienna Secession, Vienna, Austria
Page 17 450 Broadway Gallery, New York
Flowers UFO Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts
Rzguia Muu-ltiples Production Cyber-exhibition, organized in Helsinki
Lookin' Good Feelin' Good 450 Broadway, New York, NY
1994
Smells Like Teen Spirit Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen Denmark
Please Don't Hurt Me! Curated by Jack Jaeger, Galerie Snoei, Rotterdam, The
Netherlands
Dirty John Good Gallery, New York, NY
DIFFA Collection World Trade Center, Boston, MA
Passing Through Galerie Wacheturm, Zurich, Switerland
Babble HERE, New York, NY
Promotional Copy The Kitchen, New York, NY
The Third Gay Photo Annual Leslie Lohman Gay Art Foundation, New York, NY
Ettagluttarna + Candyass Galleri 60, Umea Sweden
Lessons in Life Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1993
The Design Show Exit Art, New York
Outside Possibility curated by Bill Arning, Rushmore Festival of Theater,
Art, and Music, New York
Prospect 93 Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt
The Wasteland Dooley Le Cappellaine Gallery, New York
4 Artists: An Exhibition and Edition The Space, Boston
Beyond Loss: Art in the Era of AIDS Washington Project for the Arts (WPA),
Washington D.C.
Made in the U.S.A. Caldic Collectie, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Postverbum Bergamo, Chiostro di Sant'Agostino, Italy
Teddy Galerie Claudio Botello, Turin, Italy
The Friends' Meeting curated by Aura Rosenberg and John Miller, Kunstler Haus,
Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
Sick Joke, Kiki, San Francisco, CA
Giftland II: Extra-Ordinary Printed Matter bookstore, New York, NY
Bookmarks Northern Illinois University Art Gallery, Chicago, IL
Urban Analysis curated by Manard Monroe, Barbara Braathen Gallery, New York,
NY
Fortryck (repression) Galleri Enkehuset, Stockholm, Sweden
1992
Tattoo Collection Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY
Theoretically Yours Regione Autonoma Della Valle DíAosta, Aosta, Italy
The Anti-masculine ëoverlapping but not corresponding to the feminineí
curated by Bill Arning, Kim Light
Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Transgressions in the White Cube: Territorial Mappings, curated by Joshua
Decter, Usdan Gallery at Bennington
College, Bennington, VT
Molteplici Culture Arte Critica Casa della citta, Rome
GÈnÈriques: Le visuel and l'Ècrit HÙtel des Arts,
Paris
People Pleasers Holly Solomon Gallery, New York
The Fake Chanel Show Stux Gallery, New York
Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY
The Backroom Dooley Le Cappelaine, New York, NY
N.A.M.E.'s Eleventh Annual Saint Valentine's Exhibition and Benefit Auction
N.A.M.E., Chicago, IL
The Red Light Show curated by Jack Jaeger, Casco, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Real Tears San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Funny Ha-Ha or Funny Particular Fiction/nonfiction, New York, NY
Photoworks Michael Klein Gallery, New York, NY
1991
A New Low Claudio Botello Gallery, Turin
Vier Kunstler aus New York Galerie im Margarethenhof, Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung
Koenigswinter
Outside America: Going into the '90s Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta
Ornament: To Hum All Ye Faithful John Post Lee Gallery, New York, NY
Presenting Rearwards curated by Ralph Rugoff, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los
Angeles, CA
Situation curated by Nayland Blake and Pam Gregg, New Langton Arts, San Francisco,
CA
Vier Kunstler aus New York Galerie im Margarethenhof, Friedrich Naumann-Stiftung,
Konigswinter
Gallery 400 University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
A New Low Galleria Claudio Botello, Turin
Outside America: Going into the 90ís Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA
1990
The Last Laugh Massimo Audiello Gallery, New York
U.S.A. AnnÈes, 90 Galerie Antoine Candau, l'Espace-Dieu, Paris
The Exotic Image: Modern Masters and Mistresses Bennet Siegel Gallery, New
York
Trouble in Paradise List Visual Arts Center, M.I.T. Cambridge
The Second Second, Althea Viafora Gallery, New York
Shuttering, Stux Gallery, New York, NY
Meditations on AIDS The Space, Boston, MA
Oberfllachliche Ideen ID Galerie, Dusseldorf, Germany
Camera Culture: Curriculum Vitae Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston, MA
The Exotic Image: Modern Masters and Mistresses Bennet Siegel Gallery, New
York, NY
Flower Russell Sage College Art Gallery, Troy, NY
The Last Laugh Massimo Audiello Gallery, New York, NY
1989
The Second Second, Althea Viadora Gallery, New York
Trouble in Paradise List Visual Arts Center, M.I.T., Cambridge, MA
Selected Lectures
2003
Philadelphia Museum of Jewish Art, PA
1994
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1993
Graduate Painting Department, The School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
New York University, New York
Art Institute of Chicago, IL
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Graduate Performance Department, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco,
CA
The First Annual Summer Black Sheep Art Institute, created in conjunction
with Rhonda Lieberman, New York,
NY
1992
Hirschorn Museum and Sculpture Park, Washington D.C.
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Albuquerque Museum of Art Toledo, OH
Selected Catalogues
Situation Comedy: Humor in Recent Art, curated by Dominic Morlon and Michael Rooks, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, ICI NY, 2005Rosenfield Lafo, Rachel.
Lighten Up: Art with a sense of Humor, Mercantile Press, 2001
von Uslar, Rafael. Expect Copying. The Sting of pearls of modernism mode of
art, Kunstverein f¸r die Rheinland und
Westfalen, D¸sseldorf, 1999
Rubin, David S. It's Only Rock and Roll, Prestel-Verlag, Munich 1995
Blake, Nayland, Rinder, Lawrence and Scholder, Amy. In A Different Light.
City Lights, San Francisco 1995
Saldanha, Claudia (curator). CorrespondÍncias, PaÁo Imperial,
Rio de Janeiro, 1995
von Uslar, Rafael. Vom Umgang mit der Geschichte. Bochum, Germany 1995
Santoro, Vittorio and Kurjakovic, Daniel (ed.) The Pleasures of Merely Circulating.
Memory/Cage Editions, Zurich 1995
Tucker, Marcia. Bad Girls. MIT Press, New York 1994
Ray, Rex and Smith Wayne (ed.). Some Weird Sin II. Endpapers, San Francisco,
1993-1994
Pohlen, Annelie. Uberleben. Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany, 1993-1994
Collins and Milazzo. Outside America, catalogue, Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta,
GA 1991
Als, Hilton. Caryís Chart: The Rising Sign but Also the Ascendent,
U Canít Be Dead All The Time, Editions Antoine
Candau, Paris 1990
Morris, Sarah. The Aura of the Artist, The Charade of Mastery: Deciphering
Modernism In Contemporart Art. Whitney
Museum of American Art, New York, 1990
Selected Bibliography
Wilson, Michael, "Just Pathetic", Artforum, October 2004
Get Faggy with Cary Leibowitz
Just Out, December 20, 2002
Wilson, Michael. Cary Leibowitz frieze, March 2002
Fallon. Word Taming Philadelphia Weekly, February 13, 2002
Sozanski, Edward J. Jokey paintings tease the mind The Philadelphia Enquirer,
February 15, 2002
Chen, Aric. Kiss me! Iím a third generation pop artist November/December
2001
Cotter, Holland. Cary Leibowitz The New York Times, December 14, 2001
Mahoney, Robert. Cary Leibowitz: ëGain! Wait! Now!í Time Out New
York, December 13-27, 2001
Baer, Josh. Shows of Interest The Baer Faxt, December 9, 2001 Issue #299
Shapiro, Gary. Bar Mitzvah Boy Forward, November 30, 2001
Bonetti, David. Transitory works show lasting charm San Francisco Chronicle,
Oct. 22, 2001
Watson, Brigid. Ye olde art shoppe South End News, February 15, 2001
Bankowsky, Jack. Editor's Note Artforum, December 1999
Ruggieri, John.The artist as comedian and tragedian Bay Windows, February
25, 1999
Davis, Tim. Of Chamber Pots and Kings Resident, February 24, 1997
Bulka, Michael F. Cary S. Leibowitz/Candyass New Art Examiner, May 1997
Cary S. Leibowitz/ Candyass, Outburst of Signs, January-May, 1995
Indiana, Gary. Artforum, March 1994
Cotter, Holland. Art after Stonewall; 12 Artists Interviewed Art In America,
June 1994
Levin, Kim. Choices: Bad Girls, The Village Voice, April 1994
Lieberman, Rhonda. Fear and Loathing in Vienna, Glamour Wounds, January 1994
Atkins, Robert. The Village Voice, October 12, 1993
McWilliams, Martha. Loss Leaders, Washington City Paper, May 28, 1993
Fleming, Lee. Testaments To the AIDS Tragedy The Washington Post, May 18,
1993
Lieberman, Rhonda. Springtime for Grunge Artforum 31 April 1993
McKusick Tom. Pathetic aesthetic Utne Reader, November/December 1992
Helfand. Glen. Troubled Waters S.F. Weekly. December 2, 1992
Meyer, Menna Laura. Candyass, Cargo/Circuit, November 1992
Stiemer, FLora. Hoopvol nieuw galerieseizoen, Algemeen Dagblad, October 28,
1992
Lieberman, Rhonda. The Loser Thing Artforum, September 1992
Norwich, William. New York Post, June 25, 1992
Hess, Elizabeth. Chutes and Ladders The Village Voice April 7, 1992
Tanaka, Hiroko. Cary S. Leibowitz/Candyass at Stux Gallery, hi fashion, February
1992
Decter, Joshua. Cary Leibowitz/ Candyass Arts Magazine, January 1992
Cary S. Leibowitz The New Yorker, November 18, 1991
Day, Ken. Cary S. Leibowitz NYQ, November 17, 1991
Levin, Kim. Cary S. Leibowitz/Candyass, The Village Voice, November 12, 1991
Pedersen, Victoria. Gallery goí round Paper Magazine, November 1991
Tanzosh, Margaret. Cary Leibowitz Cover, October, 1991
Helfand, Glen. San Francisco Fax Art Issues. September/ October 1991
Kilian, Michael. Rude Enlightenment. Chicago Tribune, September 5, 1991
Burchard, Hank. What You Get: What You See The Washington Post, July 14, 1991
Thorson, Alice. Worthy Winners, Washington City Paper, July 5, 1991
Kernan, Robert. Not For Sale, The Village Voice, July 2, 1991
Bonetti, David. Situation: Perspectives on Work by Lesbian and Gay Artists,
San Francisco Examiner, June 25, 1991
Huygen, Christian. So Intense, Bay Area Reporter, June 23, 1991
Lewis, Jo Ann. Tantalizing Refelctions The Washington Post, June 12, 1991
Sommer, Von Christa. Ein Teddybar f¸r Wien. Wichenpresse, May 16, 1991
Van Den Bergh, Jos. Cary S. Leibowitz: Don't Look 4 Originality, Forum, May-August,
1991
Fischer, Judith. AIDS-Phallus und Herz, Der Standard, May 15, 1991
Rugoff, Ralph. Sweet Candyassí Sad-Sack Song LA Weekly, April 26-May
2, 1991
Faces to Watch The Boston Sunday Globe, April 8, 1990
Coelewij, Leontine. New Kids on the Block Metropolis, 1991
Knight, Christopher. Leibowitz Seeks Success Through Failure Los Angeles Times,
April 16, 1991
Roulette, Todd. Dear CSL/Candyass THING, Spring 1991
Collins, Tricia and Richard, Milazzo. From Kant to Kitsch and Back Again.
Tema Celeste (January-February 1991
Mahoney, Robert. All Quiet on the Western Front, Espace Dieu, Contemporanea,
January 1991
Humphrey, David. New York/Gilbert and George, Larry Clark, Pruitt and Early,
Cary S.
Leibowitz/Candyass, American Artists of the 80s.' Art Issues January 1991
Miller, John. Candyass Artforum, December 1990
Cottingham, Laura. Negotiating Masculinity and Representation Contemporanea
December 1990
Cameron, Dan. The Sexual is Cultural, Art and Auction, December 1990
Mahoney, Robert. Cary Leibowitz, Arts Magazine, December 1990
Schwendenwien, Jude. Trouble in Paradise, The Art Gallery, University of Maryland
Contemporanea, no. 21,
December 1990
Atkins, Robert. New York, Contemporanea, November 1990
Johnson, Ken. Cary S. Leibowitz/Candyass at Stux Art in America 78, November
1990
Phillpot, Clive. Critical Fictions, Artforum, October 1990
Aletti, Vince. The Schlemiel of SoHo. The Village Voice, October 9, 1990
Levin, Kim. Choices: Cary Liebowitz/ Candyass The Village Voice, October 2,
1990
Moore, Alan. Processing Myth: Collins and Milazzo at the Core of the Nouveau
Vogue, Cover, Ocboter 1990
Cary S. Leibowitz The New Yorker, September 24, 1990
Palazzolo, Franco, Roma. Cary S./Candyass, Hype, September 9, 1990
Jocks-Mrosek, Von Sabine. Bilder an Wascheklammern, Neve Reheinzeitung, May
24, 1990
Jocks, Heinz-Norbert. Zwanghaft Unburgerkich, Westdeutsche Zeitung, June 6,
1990
Starger, Steve. Leibowitz: homosexuality and artistry are connected, Journal
Inquirer, March 8, 1990
Keedle, Jayne. Just When You Thought It Was Safe To Go Back In A GalleryÖ
The Hartford
Advocate. February 26, 1990
Of Fried Pork Chops and Gay Porn, Metroline, February 9, 1990
Als, Hilton. Cary Leibowitz/CANDYASS. Artforum 28, December 1989
Framcke, Ricarda. Labrynth der Moderne, Hamberger Abendblatt, November 10,
1989
Hofmann, Isabelle. Keine Angst vor Grosse Raumen, Sonnabend, November 4, 1989
Hirsh, David. Signs of Chaos, New York Native, October 2, 1989
Nathan, Jean. The Transom The New York Observer, October 2, 1989
Temin, Christine. Uncensored. The New York Observer, October 2, 1989
Nalley, Jon. Sugar Buns Out Week, September 24, 1989
Cameron, Dan The Secual is Cultural Art and Auction 7, December 1988
Bonetti, David. Paper Prophets. Boston Phoenix, July 1, 1988
