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As a painter, sculptor, choreographer, and musician, Keegan McHargue is concerned with the tension between tragedy and comedy that lies behind the banality of everyday life. With precursors like Karl Wirsum, McHargue’s semi-abstract and manic, mixed-media paintings blend identifiable figures with objects of the artist’s imagination. His works are included in numerous museum collections including the Deste Foundation of the Contemporary Arts, Athens, The Museum of Modern Art, NY, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, among others. McHargue is represented by Fredericks & Freiser Gallery in NY.

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Born 1982 in Portland, Oregon.
Lives and works in New York, New York.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016
New Works, Halsey Mckay Gallery, East Hampton, NY

2015
Keegan McHargue: Topical, Fredricks and Feiser, New York, New York

2013
Prick of Conscience, Fredericks and Freiser Gallery, New York, NY

2011
Light Sleeper, Fredericks and Freiser Gallery, New York, NY
Natural, Frey Norris Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Keegan McHargue, Jeanroche Dard, Paris, France

2010
Man Burning, W/___, New York, NY

2009
In Memory of Painting: Keegan McHargue, Layr Wuestenhagen Contemporary, Vienna, Austria

2008
Well Charge, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris, France

2007
The Yellow Spectrum, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Mauve Deep, Hiromi Yoshii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2006
Air Above Mountains (Building Within), Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris, France
The Control Group, Metro Pictures, New York, NY

2005
Drawing Circles, Hiromi Yoshi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Building for Water, Jack Hanley Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2004
The Suns' Son Mends Man's Path, Statements, Art Basel/Miami Beach: Statements, Miami, FL
Feel the Wind, Jack Hanley Gallery | Jack Hanley Annex, San Francisco, CA

2003
The Wolfman Cometh, Rivington Arms, New York, NY
Keegan McHargue, The Wrong Gallery, New York, NY

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2016
Too Much of a Good Thing, Basilica Hudson, Hudson, NY
Only Lovers, Le Coeur Paris, Paris, France

2015
The Cayote, Curated by Brian Willmont, Gallery Steinsland Berliner, Stockholm, Sweden

2014
Splinter Field, Greenpoint Terminal Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Ducks, Greenpoint Terminal, Brooklyn, NY
12, One River Art Center, Englewood, NJ
Frieze, New York: Two-person installation with Robert Overby
Merge Visible, Horton Gallery, New York, NY

2013
Merge Visible, Horton Gallery, New York, NY
Draw Gym, KnowMoreGames & 247365, Brooklyn, New York, NY
Loosely Based, Union St. Studios, Brooklyn, New York, NY
Chicken or Beef, The Hole, New York, NY
Space is the Place, House Pirovino, Basel, CH

2012
Casa de Empeno, Anonymous Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico
In the Garden, Utopian Slums, Melbourne, Australia
Habeus Crpus, Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton, NY
Face of a Generation, The Hole, New York, NY
Spaced, Jack Hanley Gallery, New York, NY
When does Something… Become Something Else: ROLU Artist in Residence, Walker Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN

2011
Gumption, Zieher Smith Galler, New York, NY
New York Minute II, Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow, Russia
Cover Version LP, BAM Brooklyn, New York, NY
Gates of Heaven: Keegan McHargue, Devendra Banhart, Adam Tullie, Gallerie Patricia Armocida, Milan, Italy
Control Group, Noma Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2010
Stella Luminosa, Electric Works, San Francisco, CA
This is Where We Get Off: Curated by Leo Fitzpatrick, Max Fish, New York, NY
Man Burning I: Glasser, W/____ New York, NY
Man Burning II: Houton, W/___ New York, NY
Man Burning III: Yemenwed, W/___ New York, NY
Chums: Curated by Mary Manning, Space 1520, Los Angeles, CA
A Furnished Landscape, Center for Performance Research, New York, NY
Impressions: Curated by Hisham Bharoocha, Beams Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Not Quite Open for Business, The Hole, New York, NY
Skakeouttttttt: The Sea Giveth, The Sea Taketh Away, Marina 29 Far Rockaway, New York, NY
The Power of Selection, Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL
A Ways A Way, Half Gallery New York , NY
X-Mas in July, Yvon Lambert Gallery, New York, NY
New Useless Machines: Curated by Sight Unseen, OAK, New York, NY
Defalt State Network, Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York, NY
Not Quite Open for Business, THE HOLE, New York, NY

2009
Partisan Gallery, Partisan Gallery, San Francisco, CA
American Art Now, LES Gallery, Vancouver BC, Canada
New York Minute, MARCO Museum Roma, Italy

2008
Imaginary Realities, Max Wigram Gallery, London, England

2007
The Melvins, Mandrake, Los Angeles, CA
…What Will be Told of Today Tomorrow: KölnShow2, European Kunsthalle, Köln

2006
Only the Paranoid Survive, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, New York, NY
Panic Room- Works from the Dakis Joannou Collection, DESTE Foundation, Athens, Greece
Air Above Mountains (Building Within), Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris, France

2005
Bay Area Now 4, Yerba Buena Center, San Francisco, CA
Gallery Artists, Jack Hanley Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Artist for White Columns, White Columns, New York, NY
Art Review: Top 25 Emerging Artists, Phillips de Pury, New York, NY
Yo mire un garza mora dandole combate a un rio, curated by Devendra Banhart, Atelier Cardenas Bellanger, Paris, France

2004
Incantations, Metro Pictures, New York, NY
Deliver Us From Evil, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, NY
Lo-Gressive Living: Works on Paper from the San Francisco Bay Area, The Approach Gallery, London, England
Majority Whip, White Box, New York, NY
Dessins et des Autre, Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France
Mental Space, Wendy Cooper Gallery, Madison, WI
Paperwork," Savage Art Resources, Portland, OR

2003
We Are Electric, Deitch Projects, New York, NY
Blatant Localism, Leo Koenig Annex, New York, NY
Today's Man, John Connelly Presents, New York, NY (Traveled to: Hiromi Yoshii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, 2003)
Retreat, Peres Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Teenage Rebel: The Bedroom Show, Galerie du Jour, Agnes b., Paris, France
Dirt Wizards, Brooklyn Fire Proof Inc., New York, NY
Russel Simmons' Art for Life Auction Preview, Kenny Schachter, ConTEMPorary, New York, NY,
Group Show, PNCA, Gallery 500, Portland, OR

2002
Alife Store, Roberts and Tilton, Los Angeles, CA (Traveled to: Deitch Projects, New York, NY, 2002)
No War, Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA
From the Trenches, New Image Arts, Los Angeles, CA
Skate on Wall, Rocket Japan, Tokyo, Japan (Traveled to: Nagoya Parko Museum Galleries, Tokyo, Japan, 2002)

AWARDS
2013
TX Contemporary Award

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