McDERMOTT & McGOUGH
In Dreams You’re Mine
On the cover: Strenuous Briefness, 1965 Oil on linen, 2011 – 2012 152,4 x 122,5 cm – 60 x 48 in.
SUMMARY
Pages Presentation of the exhibition 1 Biography 3 Solo exhibitions 4 Group exhibitions 6 Public Collections & Foundations 9 Literature 10
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OUTSIDE THE WALLS
FIAC 2012
Grand Palais, Paris – Level 0, Stand A17 October 18 – 21
ABU DHABI ARTFAIR 2012
Saadiyat Culture Center – Forbes Pavilion, Stand P1 November 7 – 10
PARIS PHOTO 2012
Grand Palais, Paris – Stand A24 November 15 – 18
The group of 12 new paintings that will be unveiled at the gallery from November 23, 2012 to January 23, 2013 for the In Dreams You’re Mine exhibition reflect a new development in McDermott & McGough’s interest in America from the 1940s to the 1960s. This time, they combine images of melodramatic Hollywood movies and romance comic strip panels with large areas of paint in brightly colored geometric shapes.
“We’re fascinated with the human condition. It’s not about old films or cartoons. "1 In the timeless approach that remains the basis of their work, the artists have, since 2006, drawn from the powerful narrative and dramatic imagery from the Hollywood Movies of the 1940s to the 1960s. This "melodramatic" genre was based on the exaggeration or even the excess of emotion and reached its highest (and lowest) point in post-war Hollywood.
The 2006 exhibition Please don’t stop loving me ! featured paintings that placed film and comics side by side in a chronological error that is reinforced by very suggestive titles (Romance can die
like a cigarette, 1965; Because of him, 1965; How could it end like this?, 1965). Then in 2009,
the exhibition Without you I am nothing brought together paintings composed only of film images superimposed on the same canvas like an image projected and stopped on a screen, thus concentrating all the dramatic force in the work.
The new paintings exhibited here focus on the strongest moment of the plot. As Glenn O'Brien says, these works reveal themselves as "epiphanies". They are not "a celebration of retro style." We feel we are in front of sudden illuminations. The moments chosen here by McDermott & McGough are indeed of great narrative importance and are all, without exception, key moments of the plot. Thus, in the work Insidious Intent, 1965, actress Moira Shearer, with eyes rolling upwards, literally takes her head in her hands as if just hearing horrible news or an incredibly devastating revelation.
Peter McGough adds : “What I look for in the film is the point where the character reaches the
fork in the road. You see it in their eyes or the expression on their face. Where are they going to go from here? I’m fascinated with the decisions people make and why, whether it’s a tragedy or they go on to success, happiness, glory… whatever. There’s always a point where it’s all in the eyes for me, where they realize it’s the turning point of their life."1
Here McDermott & McGough use extracts synonymous with big emotional break ups. They represent lonely women perpetually waiting in tears for their husband or for the big romantic love story, living the drama of loneliness or adultery; real pictures of the feminine condition at the time. An intense seriousness immediately emerges from these extracts (Almost at times, the
Fool, 1965) to such an extent that the attitudes of these women become almost pathetic or even
caricatural. It is a seriousness and an excess of emotion related to the tensions coming from a post-war dramatization, at the height of the woman as object cliché before the beginnings of her liberation… "When the work of a woman was just being a woman”. This is particularly reflected in the title and imagery of These dolls of joy and grief, 1965.
"Almost a color therapy"1
... "A fight between depression and happiness"1
..."While fatality
may lurk, hope seems to have the chromatic upper hand."1
The main feature of this series is these images of incredible sadness juxtaposed with large areas of geometric shape done in extremely bright and warm colors. They appear in stark contrast to
the tragic expressions of the selected topics. These brilliant contrasts are intended by the artists to give a special resonance to the emotional extremes that carry their paintings between distress and happiness, optimism and pessimism just as Among some talk of you and me, 1965 blatantly reveals.
These geometric areas of vibrant colors obviously refer to the De Stijl and Mondrian school of Neoplasticism from the 1920s and 30s (which aimed for utopian harmony in a balance achieved by oppositions), to advertising and especially to the style of Alexey Brodovitch, the historic artistic director of Harper's Bazaar from 1938 to 1958 and American fashion icon.
Exposed alongside these paintings and addressing the same subject are a recent set of 5
painted carved wood sculptures beautifully executed by hand. They depict boxes filled with
"comics". In an obvious reference to Warhol and consumer products that embodied the spirit of America in the sixties, McDermott & McGough chose cardboard boxes of famous brands like Brillo, Heinz or Campbell's which they dated 1966 (Andy Warhol’s were exposed for the first time at the Stable Gallery in New York, 1964).
Fake comics are stacked in these fake boxes with titles such as Young Love, My Life or Young
Romance. Popular in the United States in the 50s, these comics contributed to the spread of the
melodramatic genre going where cinema couldn’t go. Like the paintings of McDermott & McGough, the covers of these "comics" set their bright and attractive colors up against the heightened dramatic intrigue that they contained, sometimes even dealing with taboo subjects.
Through these representations of women in a changing post-war America, the paintings of In Dreams You're Mine aim, in a more philosophical way, to put humanity in front of its doubts and its decisive choices by freeing itself from the dictates of modernism. As Glenn O'Brien says, "In short, this would seem to be the perfect time for a Declaration of Independence
from Modernism (…) We have lately witnessed the reappearance of beards and tattoos and fedoras on our city Streets (…) Among the intelligentsia we’ve seen a revival of artisanship and old-fashioned farming techniques. It seems that the ideas of McDermott & McGough have actually gone mainstream and we have begun to examine areas of the past for future use." The
writer suggests looking at the work of McDermott & McGough not as a post-modernism but rather as a post-irony, beyond the simple contradiction between literal and figurative meaning.
BIOGRAPHY
"I've seen the future, and I'm not going."
- David McDermott
McDermott & McGough consists of visual artists David McDermott and Peter McGough. McDermott & McGough are contemporary artists known for their work in painting,
photography, sculpture and film. They currently split their time between Dublin and New York City.
McDermott & McGough are best known for using alternative historical processes in their photography, including the techniques of cyanotype, gum bichromate, salt, tri color carbro, platinum and palladium. Among the subjects they approach are popular art and culture, religion, medicine, advertising, time, fashion and sexual behavior.
David McDermott was born in 1952 in Hollywood, California. He studied at Syracuse
University, New York from 1970 to 1974. Peter McGough was born in 1958 in Syracuse, and studied at the same university in 1976. Their paths never crossed until they both moved to New York City some years later and started their artistic collaboration in 1980. They have since become well known for their way of blending art and daily life. Their photography involves appropriating images and objects from the late 19th century to the mid 20th century, and they project an image of themselves as gentlemen, posing as erudite, impertinent characters. In this way they have chosen to immerse themselves in the period of the Victorian era at the close of the 19th century to the style of the 1930s.
During the 1980s, McDermott & McGough dressed, lived, and worked as artists and "men about town," circa 1900-1928: they wore top hats and detachable collars, and converted a townhouse on Avenue C in New York City's East Village, which was lit only by candlelight, to its authentic mid-19th century ideal. "We were experimenting in time," says McDermott, "trying to build an environment and a fantasy we could live and work in." In their most recent work, McDermott & McGough have produced paintings that are influenced by Pop Art, romance comics, and
advertising and cinema that date from the 1940’s through the 1960’s.
McDermott & McGough’s artwork demonstrates an unremitting refusal to embrace the historical present. This obsession with the past is reflected in the subjects and styles they bring back to life, and in the precise fictional dates they give to their works. The personal dimension of their work makes it into a deliberately provocative and controversial contemporary artistic performance dealing with political and sociological issues.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2012 In Dreams You’re Mine, Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, Paris, November 23 – January
23 (catalogue)
2011 Retrospective – An experience of amusing chemistry – Photographs 1990 – 1890,
Multimedia Complex of Actual art, Moscow, March 19 – April 24
McDermott & McGough : Of Beauty and Being, Cheim & Read Gallery, New York,
January 7 – February 12
2010 McDermott & McGough 26 Sandymount Avenue, Kunsthalle Wien project space,
Vienna, Austria, October 20 – December 5 (catalogue)
What You MEAN TO ME, Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, Paris, June 3 – July 3
2009 Without You I Am Nothing, Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, Paris, June 4 – July 22
Detroit : Carbro Prints 1958, Weinstein Gallery, Minneapolis, October 9 – November 7
2008 McDermott & McGough – An experience of amusing chemistry – Photographs
1990-1890, touring exhibition (catalogue) : Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, February 6 –
April 27 ; Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, November 5 – January 25, 2009
Detroit, Nicholas Robinson Gallery, New York, April 3 – May 17 (catalogue)
Because of Him, Cheim & Read Gallery, New York, March 21 – April 26 (catalogue) McDermott & McGough, 1958, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, October 4 –
January 11, 2009
2007 Please Don’t Stop Loving Me!, Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, Paris, January 19 – March
16 (catalogue)
2006 A True Story Based on Lies, Cheim & Read Gallery, New York, January 12 – February
12 (catalogue)
2004 New Photographs, Torch Gallery, Amsterdam, April 17 – May 29
2003 Hitler & Homosexuals – The Lust That Comes from Nothing, Akureyri Art Museum,
Akureyri, Iceland (catalogue)
2002 A History of Photography, Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, Paris, November 22 – January
25
The Lust That Comes from Nothing, American Fine Arts, New York
2001 McDermott & McGough, The Lust That Comes from Nothing, American Fine Arts Co /
PHAG Inc, New York, November 8 – December 8
2000 The Deep Future… The Deep Past, Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, Paris, June 8 –
September 14
1998 McDermott & McGough, Europa. The Lust that Comes from Nothing, Galerie Jérôme de
Noirmont, Paris, March 27 – May 29
1997 Messers McDermott & McGough, Paintings, Photographs and Time Experiment 1950,
Provincial Museum of Modern Art, Ostend, Belgium (catalogue)
Conspiracy Paintings, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
1996 1936, Galleria Gian Ferrari Charta, Milan, Italy (catalogue)
Art 27’96, Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Basel, Switzerland
Galerie Françoise Paviot, Paris, France (photography) Torch Gallery, Amsterdam, May – June (photography)
1993 Galleria Gian Enzo Sperone, Rome, Italy
Magazin 4, Bregenz, Austria (photography / catalogue)
Fahey – Klein Gallery, Los Angeles, September 10 – October 16 Robert Klein, Boston (photography)
1992 The Art Show, The Seventh Regiment Armory, Sperone Westwater, New York
Galerie Philippe Rizzo, Paris
Messers McDermott & McGough : Mammoth-Plate Gum-Bichromate Prints, Fraenkel
Gallery, San Francisco (photography)
Messers McDermott & McGough : Mammoth Photographs, Robert Miller Gallery, New
York
1991 Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta (photography)
Art 22’91, Gian Enzo Sperone, Basel, Switzerland
1990 Chicago Art Exposition, Sperone Westwater, Chicago
Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco (photography) Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York
1989 Robert Miller Gallery, New York (photography) 1988 Massimo Audiello Gallery, New York
1987 Massimo Audiello Gallery, New York
Mario Diacono Gallery, Boston (catalogue)
1986 Massimo Audiello Gallery, New York
Pat Hearn Gallery, New York Galleria Lucio Amelio, Naples, Italy
Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012/13 Naked Man (touring exhibition) : Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Linz, Austria, October 26,
2012 – February 17, 2013 ; Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary, May 23, 2013 September 1, 2013 (catalogue)
L’Histoire est à Moi!, Printemps de Septembre, Espace EDF Bazacle, Toulouse, France,
September 28 – October 21 (catalogue)
Blanche est la couleur. Hommage à Thomas Gleb (1912 – 1991), Passage de Retz, Paris,
March 21 – April 29 (catalogue)
Jack Pierson – McDermott & McGough : The Palm Beach Beach Story, or Whatever Happened to Baby Jane, Gavlak Gallery, Palm Beach, U.S.A., February 18– March 31 Portraits / Self-Portraits from the 16th to the 21st Century, Sperone Westwater, New York, January 12 – February 25 (catalogue)
2011 Moscow International Festival : Fashion and Style in Photography 2011, Moscow House
of Photography Museum, Moscow, February 23 – July 3
Already-Made?, Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, Paris, February 4 – March 24
Creating the New Century: Contemporary Art from The Dicke Collection, The Dayton
Art Institute, Ohio, March 12 – July 10
Noir Film Festival, Zagreb, Croatia, May
Sentimental Education, Sarah Gavlak Gallery, Palm Beach, USA, November 22 –
January 7, 2012
2010 Brune/Blonde, Cinémathèque française, Paris, October 6 – January 16
A Shaded View on Fashion Film, Centre Pompidou, Paris, September 24 – September
26
Zadar Noir Film Festival, Zagreb, Croatia, August 23 – 29 Detroit, Kunsthalle Wien, Austria, April 28 – May 31
The 80s Revisited, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany, March 21 – June 20
Brucennial 2010 : Miseduction, curated by Vito Schnabel, New York, February 25 – May
30
C’est la Vie ! Vanités de Caravage à Damien Hirst, Musée Maillol, Paris, February 3 –
June 28
Look Again, Marlborough Chelsea, New York, January 13 – February 13
Beyond the Figure: Abstract Sculpture in the Norton Museum Collection, Norton
Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, USA, June 5 – September 5
2009 Vraoum!, La Maison Rouge - Fondation Antoine de Galbert, Paris, May 28 – September
27 (catalogue)
Influence Pop, Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, Paris, February 6 – March 28
Traces : IMMA Limited Editions, Irish Museum Of Modern Art, Dublin, September 26 –
January 3, 2010 (catalogue)
The Old, Weird America, touring exhibition : DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park,
Lincoln, U.S.A., June 6 – September 7 ; Frye Museum, Seattle, U.S.A., October 3 – January 2010
2008 The Old, Weird America, Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, U.S.A., May 10 –
July 20
Wall Rockets: Contemporary Artists And Ed Ruscha, touring exhibition : The FLAG Art
Foundation, New York, October 3 -‐ April 18 ; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, U.S.A., July 24 – October 25
I Won't Grow Up, Cheim & Read, New York, June 26 - August 29
2007 Cinéma, Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, Paris, May 23 – July 21
I Am As You Will Be: The Skeleton in Art, Cheim & Read, New York, September 20 –
November 3
Warhol Portrayed, Centro Cultural y de Arte 'La Casa Encendida', Madrid, November
22, 2007 – January 20, 2008
2006 The Name of the Show is Not Gay Art Now, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, June 8 –
August 14,
A Brighter Day, James Cohan Gallery, New York, June 9 – July 14
Less is more / more is less, Weinstein Gallery, Minneapolis, U.S.A., February – March
2005 Chronos. Il tempo nell'arte dall'epoca barocca all'età contemporanea, Il Filatoio,
Caraglio (Cuneo), Italy, May 28 – October 9 (catalogue)
2004 MOI ! Autoportraits du XXe siècle, touring exhibition (catalogue) : Musée du
Luxembourg, Paris, March 31 – July 25; Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, September 15, 2004 – January 7, 2005 (catalogue)
Happy Birthday !, Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, Paris, November 26 – January 26, 2005
(catalogue)
I am the Walrus, Cheim & Read Gallery, New York, June 10 – August 20
East Village USA, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, September 12, 2004 –
March 19, 2005
2003 Aftökur & ùtrymingar, Akureyri Art Museum, Akureyri, Iceland, January 18 – March 9
(catalogue)
Face & Cie (Facéties) Carolus Duran et Compagnie, Musée des Beaux-Arts de
Tourcoing, France, March 9 – June 9 (catalogue)
2002 Les Jeux dans l’art du XXème siècle, touring exhibition (catalogue): Espace Bellevue,
Biarritz, June 22 – October 3, 2002 ; Palacio Montezumo, Saragossa, Spain, October 29, 2002 – January 6, 2003
Contents, Briggs – Robinson Gallery, New York, May 4 – May 25 Art Downtown, curated by Richard D. Marshall, New York
2001 Between Earth and Heaven – New Classical Movements in the Art of Today, Museum of
Modern Art, Ostend, Belgium, February 23 – September 2 (catalogue)
Manfred Heiting Collection, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, April 7 – June 24 (catalogue) Hommage à Harry Lunn, Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, USA, January 18 – March
10
2000 Excentriques, Un Manifeste de l’apparence, Boutique Le Printemps, Paris, September 29
– October 21 (catalogue)
Narcisse blessé, Autoportraits contemporains 1970 – 2000, Passage de Retz, Paris, June
19 – September 2 (catalogue)
Protest of Survive-Demonstration, Demonstration, The White Chapel Gallery, London,
1998 First Glen Dimplex Award Exhibition, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, April – July
(catalogue)
Confrontations, Triskel Art Center, Cork, Ireland
Small Faces, Guy McIntyre, New York, USA, July – August
1997 Invisibilities, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland (catalogue)
Galerie de Lege Ruimte, Gent, Belgium
1996 Prospect’96, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany (catalogue)
Galerie Torch, Amsterdam, Netherlands (Photography)
Photogravure - A Survey : 1903-1996, Marlborough Gallery, New York
Double Vie, Double Vue, Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain, Paris, November 1,
1996 – January 5, 1997 (catalogue)
1995 Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (catalogue)
The Tibetan Show, Robert Miller Gallery, New York
An American Century of Photography, touring exhibition (catalogue): The Hallmark
Photographic Collection, Hallmark Cards, Kansas City, USA; International Center of Photography-Midtown, New York
Contemporary Still Life, James Graham & Sons Gallery, New York
Donald Baechler, Guillermo Kuitca, McDermott & McGough, Alexis Rockman, Ray Smith, Galerie Vidal-Saint Phalle, Paris, France
1994 Pierre et Gilles, McDermott & McGough, Robert Mapplethorpe, 25e Rencontres
Internationales de Photographie, Arles, France
1992 Outspoken & Handcrafted : Art by Eric Avery, Ann Krauss, McDermott & McGough and
Faith Ringgold, Museum of Fine Arts, Henry & Louis Foster Gallery, Boston
1991 Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (catalogue)
Framed, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco
In a Dream, touring exhibition (catalogue) : Robert Miller Gallery, New York ; Fay Gold
Gallery, Atlanta
Rope, Fernando Alcolea Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
Photography from 1980 to 1990, Ginny Williams Gallery, Denver, USA Photography 1980 to 1990, Tavelli Gallery, Aspen, USA
Consorts, Pence Gallery, Santa Monica, USA Art About Art, Galerie Urbi and Orbi, Paris
Portraits on Paper, Robert Miller Gallery, New York
Junge Amerikanische und Deutsche Malerei, Galerie Schulze, Cologne A Passion for Art, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York
The Golden Age, Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany
1990 Improvissazione, Prima Galleria, Trento, Italy (catalogue)
The Garden, A.D. Gallery, New York
Summer Group Exhibition, Sperone Westwater, New York
Deciphering Modernism in Contemporary Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New
York
Art That Happens to be Photography, Texas Gallery, Houston, USA
Team Spirit, touring exhibition (catalogue) : Independent Curators Incorporated (ICI),
New York ; Neuberger Museum, State University of New York at Purchase, New York ; Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, USA ; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada ; The Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami; Spirit Center for the Arts, Charlotte, USA ; Davenport Art Museum, Davenport, USA ; Laumier Sculpture Park, Saint Louis, USA
The Charade of Mastery, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Group Show, Galleria Seno, Milan, Italy
1989 L’invention d’un Art, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Prospect Photographie, touring exhibition (catalogue) : Frankfurter Kunstverein,
Frankfurt, Germany, PPS Galerie F.C. Gundlach, Hamburg, Germany ; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA, The National Gallery of Greece, Athens, Greece ; The Art Museum of the Atheneum, Helsinki, Finland ; The Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel ; The National Museum of Poland, Warsaw, Poland
1988 The Binational, touring exhibition : Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston ; Museum of
Fine Arts, Boston ; Städtische Kunsthalle, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany
1987 Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (catalogue)
Massimo Audiello Gallery, New York
Of Ever-Ever Land I Speak, Stux Gallery, New York (catalogue)
1986 Pat Hearn Gallery, New York
Mario Diacono Gallery, Boston Loughelton Gallery, New York
What It Is, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York (catalogue)
1985 Rudolf Zwirner Gallery, Cologne, Germany
Anni Ottanta, International Exhibition, Bologna, Italy
The Chi-Chi Show, Massimo Audiello Gallery, New York
1984 Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, USA
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PUBLIC COLLECTIONS AND FONDATIONS
International Center of Photography, New York, USA Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, USA Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, USA
Terrae Motus Collection, Caserta, Italy Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA Broad Art Foundation, Santa Monica, CA., USA Ellipse Foundation, Alcaitao, Portugal
LITERATURE
2012 - In Dreams You’re Mine, text by Glenn O’Brien, Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, Paris.
- L’Art d’aimer, de la séduction à la volupté, texts by Dominique Marny, Raphaële
Martin-Pigalle and Robert Rocca, Palais Lumière Ville d’Evian, Evian, France. - Portraits / Self-Portraits from the 16th
to the 21st
Century, Sperone Westwater, New
York.
- Blanche est la couleur – Hommage à Thomas Gleb, Jacqueline Frydman, Charles Dobzynski, Françoise de Loisy and alt., Passage de Retz, Paris.
2011 - Moscow International Festival : Fashion and Style in Photography 2011, Moscow
House of Photography Museum, Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow.
2010 - L’Or dans l’art contemporain, under the direction of Anne-Marie Charbonneaux, text
by Gérard-Georges Lemaire, Flammarion Editions, Paris (ill. p.62-63).
- N° 26 Sandymount Avenue by McDermott & McGough, Gerald Matt curator, Kunsthalle Wien, Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg, Vienna, Austria.
- BRUNE/BLONDE, Une exposition Arts et Cinéma, Alain Bergala and Anne Marquez,
Skira Flammarion Editions, Paris.
- C’est la Vie ! Vanités de Pompéï à Damien Hirst, texts by Liselotte Bordeaux-Groult, Régis Cotentin, Alberto Crispo and alt., Musée Maillol, Skira/Flammarion Editions, Paris.
2009 - Traces : IMMA Limited Editions, text by Christina Kennedy Senior Curator, Irish
Museum Of Modern Art, Dublin.
- Vraoum!, La Maison Rouge - Fondation Antoine de Galbert, Paris.
2008 - McDermott & McGough Detroit Carbro Prints 1958, texts by John Ashbery, Stefen C.
Pinson, Nicholas Robinson Gallery, New York.
- McDermott & McGough, An experience of amusing chemistry, Photographs 1990-1890, Matthew Higgs, Sean Kissane, Charta, Milan.
- Mois de la Photo à Paris 2008, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Actes Sud
Editions, Arles, France.
- The Old, Weird America, Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, Texas.
2007 - Please don’t stop loving me !, David Buckley, Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, Paris.
- Because of him, Wayne Koestenbaum, Cheim & Read, New York.
2006 - A True Story Based on Lies !, Robert Rosenblum, Cheim & Read, New York.
- Bald Ego N°3 – Jack Spade-Bald Ego Sells Out !, Bald Ego Edition, New York.
2005 - Chronos, Il tempo nell’arte dall’epoca barocca, Andrea Busto, Marcovaldo, Caraglio
Editions, Italy.
2004 - Happy birthday ! Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, Paris.
2003 - Face & Cie (Facéties) Carolus Duran et Compagnie, Evelyne-Dorothée Allemand,
Yannick Courbès, Emilie Ovaere, Musée des Beaux Arts de Tourcoing Editions.
- Aftökur & ùtrymingar, Hannes Sigurosson, Robert Rosenblum, Lucinda Devlin, M. Nolte, I. Graeve, P. Kristinsson, R. Bragadottur, Akureyri Art Museum, Listasafnio Editions, Akureyri, Iceland.
2002 - Les Jeux dans l’art du XXème siècle, Solange Auzias De Turenne, Mairie de Biarritz
Edition, France ; Mairie de Saragosse, Spain.
2001 - Manfred Heiting Collection, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
- Between Earth and Heaven – New Classical Movements in the Art of Today, Museum of
Modern Art, Ostende, Belgium.
- Protest of Survive, Demonstration - Demonstration, The White Chapel Gallery,
London.
- Excentriques, Un Manifeste de l’apparence, Florence Muler, Le Printemps - Haussmann, Du Chêne Editions, Paris.
2000 - Narcisse blessé, Autoportraits contemporains 1970 – 2000, Jean-Michel Ribettes,
Gérard Wajcman, Passage de Retz, Paris.
1998 - McDermott & McGough, A History of Photography, Mark Alice Durant, Arena
Editions, Santa Fe, USA.
- The Glen Dimplex Artist Award Exhibition, Sarah Glennie, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin.
1997 - Messers McDermott & McGough, Paintings, Photographs & Time Experiments, 1950,
Robert Rosenblum, Willy Van Den Bussche, Stichting Kunstboek, Bruges.
- Invisibilities, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin.
1996 - McDermott & McGough 1936, Michele Bonuomo, Galleria Gian Ferrari, Charta, Milan.
- Double Vie, Double Vue, Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain, Paris. - Prospect’96, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany.
1995 - An American Century of Photography, The Hallmark Photographic Collection, Kansas.
- Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
1993 - Messers McDermott & McGough, Some Modern Photographs and their Work,
Wolfgang Fetz, Gerald Matt, Magazin 4, Bregenz, Autria.
1991 - Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
1990 - Messers McDermott & McGough, ART Random, Kyoto Shoin International, Kyoto.
- Catalogue, Improvissazione Prima Galleria, Trento, Italy. - Team Spirit, Independent Curators Incorporated, New York.
1989 - Prospect Photographie, Peter Weiermail, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt. 1987 - David McDermott / Peter McGough, Mario Diacono Gallery, Boston.
- Of Ever-Ever Land I speak, Stux Gallery, New York. - Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
1986 - America : Landscape as Propaganda. McDermott & McGough’s Hudson River
Landscapes, Diego Cortez, Amelio Edition, Naples.
- McDermott & McGough : Fine Art Pictorial Guide, Pr. Carl Black, Lucio Amelio Edition, Naples.
- What It Is, Tony Shafrazi Gallery Edition, New York.
- Some Modern Artists and Their Work, Massimo Audiello Edition and Pat Hearn, New
