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Carl Ostendarp

  • Associate Professor

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Academic Research Areas

  • Drawing
  • Installation art
  • Painting
  • Print media

Carl Ostendarp is an artist involved with pictorial abstraction in the context of painting and installation. Since 1989, he has engaged in 40 solo national and international museum and gallery exhibitions as well as more than 170 group exhibitions. Recent exhibitions include Die Bilder Der Brüder at Museum Frieder Burda in Baden-Baden, Germany; Carl Ostendarp: Greatest Hits at the Kunstverein Heilbronn, Germany; Everything Falls Faster than an Anvil at Pace Gallery, London; and Carl Ostendarp at Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York City. His work is included in the following public collections, among others: The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, The Walker Art Center, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Museum Ludwig, Germany; Museum für Moderne Kunst, Germany; Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Switzerland; Fogg Art Museum at Harvard, and the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, among others.

Ostendarp has taught at NYU, Tyler, Rutgers, SVA, and The Cooper Union prior to his time at Cornell University where he is an Associate Professor. Ostendarp received his B.F.A. from Boston University and his M.F.A. from Yale University.

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Academic Research Areas

  • Drawing
  • Installation art
  • Painting
  • Print media

Classes

  • Painting II

    ART 2201

  • Thesis I

    ART 4001

  • Thesis II

    ART 4002

  • Graduate Seminar: Professional Skills for the Visual Artist

    ART 6101

  • Graduate Seminar

    ART 6102

Selected Awards, Grants, and Fellowships

  • Cornell AAP Faculty Development Fund

    2017, 2018, 2019, 2020

  • Mindy Watts Prize for Faculty Excellence

    2010, 2014

  • Cornell Council for the Arts

    2012

Selected Exhibitions and Presentations

  • Die Bilder der Brüder

    Curated by Udo Kittelmann and Patricia Kamp, staged by Carl Ostendarp, Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden, Germany, 2020.

  • Carl Ostendarp

    Solo exhibition, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York City, 2017.

  • Carl Ostendarp: Greatest Hits

    Solo exhibition at Kunstverein Heilbronn, Germany, 2017.