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Christopher Wool

1955

WA-00005587

PaintingConceptual Art

Representation

None documented

Institutional Exhibitions

183

Works in Collection

392

Assets Indexed

Authority-backed Facts

Publications Referenced

90%

Profile Completeness

Cultural Positioning

Influence Graph

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Authority Records (2)

WikidataQ1087064

MoMA

Selected Institutional Exhibitions

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No image

Recent Acquisitions

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1989

Field Verification (7 fields)

4 cross-verified · 3 single-source

Birth yearWikidata + Unknown· 92%✓
Primary mediumWikidata + Unknown· 92%✓
BiographyWikipedia + Unknown· 88%✓
WebsiteWikidata· 92%✓
NationalityWikidata + Artsy+1· 92%
LocationArtsy + Wikidata+1· 85%
DeceasedUnknown· 20%

Source Registry (8)

Xavier-Hufkenshttps://www.xavierhufkens.com/artists
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
Christies-Artsyhttps://www.artsy.net/artist/christopher-wool
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
Corbett-Dempseyhttps://www.artsy.net/artist/christopher-wool
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
Sothebyshttps://www.sothebys.com/en/artists/christopher-wool
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
White-Cubehttps://www.artsy.net/artist/christopher-wool
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
Gagosianhttps://gagosian.com/artists/
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
Luhring-Augustinehttps://www.artsy.net/artist/christopher-wool
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
MoMA bulk 2026-05-04https://www.moma.org/artists/6448
Tier 1 · Institutional92%

About

Why this artist matters now

No biography available for Christopher Wool yet.

Graph relationships

Taste overlap and adjacency

Movement

Conceptual Art

Medium

Painting

Related Artists

11 in graph

Institutional

Museum Collections

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Art Institute of Chicago Tate Whitney Museum of American Art

Canonical record

Artworks (183)

Book 5

2024 · Artist's book, offset printed

page (each): 22 × 17" (55.9 × 43.2 cm); overall (closed): 22 × 18 × 1/2" (55.9 × 45.7 × 1.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Book 6

2024 · Artist's book, offset printed

page (each): 22 × 17" (55.9 × 43.2 cm); overall (closed): 22 × 18 × 1/2" (55.9 × 45.7 × 1.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Defenestration Suite #1

2023 · Etching with aquatint

plate: 12 5/8 × 10" (32 × 25.4 cm); sheet: 18 × 15" (45.7 × 38.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Defenestration Suite #7

2023 · Etching with aquatint

plate: 12 5/8 × 10" (32 × 25.4 cm); sheet: 18 × 15" (45.7 × 38.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Defenestration Suite #4

2023 · Etching with aquatint

plate: 12 5/8 × 10" (32 × 25.4 cm); sheet: 18 × 15" (45.7 × 38.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Defenestration Suite #2

2023 · Etching with aquatint

plate: 12 5/8 × 10" (32 × 25.4 cm); sheet: 18 × 15" (45.7 × 38.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Defenestration Suite #5

2023 · Etching with aquatint

plate: 12 5/8 × 10" (32 × 25.4 cm); sheet: 18 × 15" (45.7 × 38.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Defenestration Suite #6

2023 · Etching with aquatint

plate: 12 5/8 × 10" (32 × 25.4 cm); sheet: 18 × 15" (45.7 × 38.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Defenestration Suite #8

2023 · Etching with aquatint

plate: 12 5/8 × 10" (32 × 25.4 cm); sheet: 18 × 15" (45.7 × 38.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Defenestration Suite #9

2023 · Etching with aquatint

plate: 12 5/8 × 10" (32 × 25.4 cm); sheet: 18 × 15" (45.7 × 38.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Defenestration Suite #3

2023 · Etching with aquatint

plate: 12 5/8 × 10" (32 × 25.4 cm); sheet: 18 × 15" (45.7 × 38.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Book 4

2022 · Artist's book, offset printed, bound in two volumes

page (each): 22 × 17" (55.9 × 43.2 cm); overall (closed, each): 22 × 18 × 1/4" (55.9 × 45.7 × 0.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled E

2021 · Etching with aquatint

plate: 12 11/16 × 10 13/16" (32.3 × 27.5 cm); sheet: 20 × 17" (50.8 × 43.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled F

2021 · Etching with aquatint

plate: 12 11/16 × 10 13/16" (32.3 × 27.5 cm); sheet: 20 × 17" (50.8 × 43.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled J

2021 · Etching with aquatint

plate: 12 11/16 × 10 11/16" (32.3 × 27.2 cm); sheet: 20 × 17" (50.8 × 43.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled A

2021 · Etching with aquatint

plate: 12 11/16 × 10 13/16" (32.2 × 27.5 cm); sheet: 20 × 17" (50.8 × 43.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled B

2021 · Etching with aquatint

plate: 12 11/16 × 10 13/16" (32.2 × 27.5 cm); sheet: 20 × 17" (50.8 × 43.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled K

2021 · Etching with aquatint

plate: 12 11/16 × 10 11/16" (32.3 × 27.2 cm); sheet: 20 × 17" (50.8 × 43.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled H

2021 · Etching with aquatint

plate: 12 11/16 × 10 13/16" (32.3 × 27.5 cm); sheet: 20 × 17" (50.8 × 43.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled C

2021 · Etching with aquatint

plate: 12 11/16 × 10 13/16" (32.2 × 27.5 cm); sheet: 20 × 17" (50.8 × 43.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled G

2021 · Etching with aquatint

plate: 12 11/16 × 10 13/16" (32.3 × 27.5 cm); sheet: 20 × 17" (50.8 × 43.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled I

2021 · Etching with aquatint

plate: 12 11/16 × 10 11/16" (32.3 × 27.2 cm); sheet: 20 × 17" (50.8 × 43.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled D

2021 · Etching with aquatint

plate: 12 11/16 × 10 13/16" (32.2 × 27.5 cm); sheet: 20 × 17" (50.8 × 43.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled L

2021 · Etching with aquatint

plate: 12 11/16 × 10 11/16" (32.3 × 27.2 cm); sheet: 20 × 17" (50.8 × 43.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Artwork sources (5)

183 published of 363 catalogued · 340 with image

MoMA
170 publishedof 350 catalogued329 img
Art Institute Chicago
9 published9 img
Tate
2 published2 img
The Met
1 published
Whitney
1 published

Record

Images

Artsy

Wikipedia

Artsy

Relationships

Movements1

Conceptual Art

Collections7

Whitney Museum of American Art Art Institute of Chicago Tate The Metropolitan Museum of Art Phillips Christie's

Institutional

Representation & Collections

Represented by

Xavier Hufkens

Current

In collection

Whitney Museum of American Art

In collection

Art Institute of Chicago

In collection

Tate

In collection

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Market

Auction sale history

Houses that have sold works by this artist at auction

Record

Exhibitions and timeline

Group Exhibition Recent Acquisitions

New York · 1989