Carl Ostendarp

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.