Carroll Dunham was born in 1949 in New Haven, Connecticut and lives and works in New York and Connecticut. He has exhibited in group and solo exhibitions internationally including Whitney Biennial (1995, 1991), ‘Examining Pictures’, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London and Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (1999) and ‘Urgent Painting’, ARC, Musée d’art moderne de la ville de Paris (2002). Solo exhibitions include Metro Pictures, New York (1997, 1999, 2002), White Cube, (1998, 2003), New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (2002) and Gladstone Gallery, New York (2004).