Paul McCarthy Movies

A man makes soup with mayonnaise and dolls. McCarthy: "I was given access to a community television studio for two days of shooting and one day of...

The performance takes place in a small setting with an audience, but that's only a part of the artwork. After filming the performance he uses them...

In contrast with McCarthy's recent projects, however, many of his older works are little short of incendiary--particularly three videos from 1975,...

Paul McCarthy, with the mask of Mad Magazine icon Alfred E. Neuman, prepares a meal – makes a mess – in the set of the America soap...

Paul McCarthy’s Ma Bell (1971/1972) is an early, visceral performance video featuring the artist in a room filled with black motor oil and...

Rocky comprises a single monitor video and fourteen related drawings. The video begins with a man, McCarthy himself, waiting before the camera with...

Experimental video about child abuse. McCarthy: "I was given access to a community television studio for two days of shooting and one day of...

Wolf-Pig (2024), an AI-generated video work that shows Paul McCarthy’s latest interest and experimentation with new technologies.

In Painter, the mythology of the artist as hero is attacked in a grotesque, parodic performance that unambiguously points to the abstract...

Artists McCarthy and Kelley re-stage classic 1970s performance pieces by Vito Acconci, with a decidedly ironic Southern California sensibility....

In a shamanistic, quasi-sexual ritual performance, McCarthy threw himself around a ketchup-spattered classroom at the University of California, San...

Dressed in a green wig, clown mask, and small hat, the artist raises and lowers his hands, sways his unclothed body, and hums a simple melody. He...

A collaborative work based on Joanna Spyri's novel, Heidi.. The entire work consisted of a fabricated set, a group of partial and full life-size...

Drawing on the idiom and imagery of the consumer culture he grew up in, video artist Paul McCarthy distorts and mutates the familiar into the...

16:9 color video w/ sound, duration: 1hr 47:14 min Adolf Adam and Eva Eve make soup and talk to the camera while drinking Champagne. Adolf Adam is...

Depicting a sailing party gone wrong. McCarthy questions the effects that violence and mutilation, both real and simulated, have on the viewer in...

16:9 color video w/ sound, duration: 45:26min Adolf Adam and Eva Eve are under a dead pine tree. Eva Eve’s back is against the tree. Adolf...

Following the piece Heidi, a loose interpretation of Joanna Spyri’s novel by the duo of Mike Kelley and Paul McCarthy, Kelley performed four...

On the influential and groundbreaking contemporary American artist