Jiri Georg Dokoupil was born in Kronov—former Czechoslovakia—in 1954. In 1976 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Cologne and attended classes at the Universities of Frankfurt and New York’s Cooper Union. His work is in the collections of Neue Galerie, Berlin; Staatsgalerie Stuttgart; The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul; Kunstmuseum Horsens, Denmark; The Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL; Société General Collection, Paris; Migros Museum, Zurich; and Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris. Dokoupil’s first exhibition with Paul Kasmin Gallery, New Paintings, will open in January 2015. He lives and works in Berlin, Germany.

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