_Rachel Harrison
DOWNLOAD PRINTABLE PDF (145 K)RACHEL HARRISON
Born 1966 in New York, NY.
Lives & works in New York.
Education
1989
B.A. in Fine Art, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
Awards
2013
"PEOPLE: Selected Parkett Artists' Editions from 1984-2013," Parkett Space, Zurich, Switzerland, February 9 – March 11, 2013
2011
Alexander Calder Foundation Award
Solo Exhibitions
2013
Rachel Harrison, Kestner Gesellschaft, Hanover, Germany, June 5, 2013
VILLAPERDUE,Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna, Austria, April 10 - June 1, 2013
2012
Greene Naftali, New York, May 4 – June 16, 2012
2010
Regen Projects, Los Angeles, May 27–July 10
2009
Consider the Lobster, curated by Tom Eccles, Center for Curatorial Studies, Hessel Museum, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, June 27–December 20; traveled as HAYCATION, curated by Daniel Birnbaum and Melanie Ohnemus, Portikus, Frankfurt am Main, November 28–January 17, 2010; and Conquest of the Useless, curated by Iwona Blazwick, Whitechapel Gallery, London, April 30–June 20, 2010 (catalogue)
2008
Sunny Side Up, Meyer Kainer Gallery, Vienna
Lay of the Land, Le Consortium, Dijon
2007
Voyage of the Beagle, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich; Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nürnberg (catalogue)
If I Did It, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York
2006
Checking the Tires, Not To Mention the Marble Nude, Galerie Christian Nagel, Cologne
sometimes it snows in april, (Presentation with Michael Krebber), The McAllister Institute, New York
When Hangover Becomes Form, in collaboration with Scot Lyall, The Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver; LACE, Los Angeles
2005
Car Stereo Parkway, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow
2004
New Work, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
Posh Floored as Ali G Tackles Becks, Camden Art Centre, London
Excuse Me?, Arndt & Partner, Berlin
Latka/Latkas, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York
2003
Westward Ho, Bergen Kunsthalle, Gallery No. 5, Bergen
2002
Currents 30: Rachel Harrison, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee (catalogue)
Seven Sculptures, Arndt & Partner, Berlin
Art 33 Basel – Art Statements, Basel Art Fair, Basel
Brides and Bases, Oakville Gallery, Toronto (catalogue)
2001
Perth Amboy, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York
1999
Patent Pending: Beveled Rasp Sac, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York
1997
The Look of Dress-Separates, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York
1996
Should home windows or shutters be required to withstand a direct hit from an eight-foot-long two-by-four shot from a cannon at 34 miles an hour, without creating a hole big enough to let through a three-inch sphere?, Arena Gallery, Brooklyn
Group Exhibitions
2013
Blues for Smoke, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, February 7 – April 28, 2013
NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star, New Museum, New York, NY, February 13 – May 26, 3012
Beautiful Monsters, Cycladic Museum, Athens, Greece, May 2013
Film as Sculpture, Wiels Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels, Belgium, June 8 – August 18, 2013
Once Removed: Sculpture's Changing Frame of Reference, Yale University Art Gallery, Newhaven, CT, December 12, 2012 - July 14, 2013
2012
Rumba & baba au rhum, Galerie Laurent Godin, Paris, France, December 1 2012 - February 2, 2013
Matters of Fact, Hessel Museum of Art, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, March 18 – May 27, 2012
20th Century Remix, MUSEION, Bolzano, Italy, October 5, 2012- April 7, 2013
Painting in Space, Luhring Augustine, New York, NY, June 22- August 17, 2012
2011
Ripped: The Allure of Collage, The Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY, October 29, 2011- January 8, 2012
After Images, Jewish Museum Brussels, Belgium, April 28 - August 28, 2011
Human Nature: Contemporary Art from the Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, March 13—July 4, 2011
Entertainment, Green Naftali Gallery, New York, March 3--April 2
The Spectacular Vernacular, curated by Darsie Alexander, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, January 29-May 8
Modern British Sculpture, Royal Academy of Arts, London, January 22-April 10
Rachel Harrison/Scott Lyall: Double Yolk, Galerie Christian Nagel, Antwerp, March 20- May 1, 2011
2010
The Last Newspaper, New Museum, New York, NY, October 6 - January 9, 2011
The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today, Museum of Modern Art, New York, August 1 – November 1, 2010
At Home/ Not At Home: Works from the Collection of Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg, CCS Bard Hessel Museum, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, June 26 – December 20, 2010
Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography, Museum of Modern Art, New York, May 7, 2010 – March 21, 2011
2009
Precarious Form I: Prekäre Skulpturen, Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna, September 9 – October 17. 2009
phot(o)bjects, curated by Bob Nickas, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver N'importe Quoi, Musée d'art contemporain de Lyon
Altermodern: Tate Triennial 2009, curated by Nicholas Bourriaud, Tate Britain, London (catalogue)
2008
Works on Paper by Gallery Artists and Ricci Albenda, Greene Naftali, New York
Front Room: Dieter Roth and Rachel Harrison, Balitmore Museum of Art, Baltimore
Plug In #38, Vanabbemuseum, Eindhoven, the Netherlands
You Can Go Your Own Way, curated by Claudia Altman Siegel, Renwick Gallery, New York
Standard Size, curated by Joao Ribas, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York
Paul Thek in the Context of Today's Contemporary Art, ZKM, Karlsrhue
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
The Alliance, doART, Seoul, Korea, and Beijing, China
2007
Perspectives Series, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, TX
Pop Art Is, Gagosian Gallery, London
Insubstantial Pageant Faded, Western Bridge, Seattle
XXL- Size Does Matter, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
Paul Thek in the Context of Today's Contemporary Art, ZKM, Karlsruhe; Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg
Fit to Print, Gagosian Gallery, New York
Unmonumental: Falling To Pieces in the 21st Century, New Museum, New York (catalogue)
The Hamsterwheel, conceived by Franz West Studio, Arsenale di Venezia, Venice; Festival de Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse; Centre d'Art Santa Mónica, Barcelona; Konsthall Malmo, Sweden
Still Life and Kicking, curated by Dodie Kazanjian, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
For the People of Paris, Sutton Lane Gallery, Paris (catalogue)
2006
The Uncertainty of Objects and Ideas: Recent Sculpture, curated by Anne Ellegood, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC (catalogue)
Werner Herzog, Blum and Poe, Los Angeles
Shiny, curated by Helen Molesworth, The Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus
The Swan Is Very Peaceful, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles
Pose and Sculpture,curated by Daniel Baumann, Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York (catalogue)
Of Mice and Men, The 4th Berlin Biennale, curated by Maurizio Cattelan, Massimiliano Gioni, Ali Subotnick, Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (catalogue)
Dark, curated by Jan Grosfeld and Rein Wolfs, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (catalogue)
Motore Immobile, curated by Carol Greene and Jay Sanders, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York
Ridykeulous, Participant Inc, New York
Survivor, curated by David Rimanelli, Bortolami Dayan, New York
Daisychain, curated by Bruce Haines, MOT Gallery, London
2005
Make It Now: New Sculpture in New York, curated by Mary Ceruti, Anthony Huberman and Franklin Sirmans, Sculpture Center, Long Island City (catalogue)
Carnegie International, curated by Laura Hoptman, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (catalogue)
When Humor Becomes Painful, curated by Heike Munder and Felicity Lunn, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich (catalogue)
Funfmalskulptur, curated by Carina Plath, Westfalischer Kunstverein, Münster
Ordering the Ordinary, curated by David Thorp, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London
Sculpture New Spirit, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris
The Jeweleigha Set, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York
Drunk Vs. Stoned 2, Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York
2004
Building the Collection: New and Future Acquisitions, Art Gallery of Ontario, Ontario
Last One On is a Soft Jimmy, curated by Kelley Walker, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Hysterical, curated by Michele Maccarone, Galerie Dennis Kimmerich, Düsseldorf
Slouching Towards Bethlehem, curated by Jeffrey Uslip, The Project, New York
Patterson Beckwith: Home, American Idyll, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York
Speaking with Hands: Photographs from The Buhl Collection, Guggenheim Museum, New York (catalogue)
Reordering Reality, Collecting Contemporary Art, curated by Annegreth T. Nill, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus
Collage, Bloomberg SPACE, London
Open House: Working in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn (catalogue)
Drunk vs. Stoned, curated by Corinna Durland, General Store @ Gavin Brown's Passerby, New York
2003
The Structure of Survival, curated by Carlos Basualdo, Arsenale di Venezia, 50th Venice Biennale, Venice (catalogue)
Rachel Harrison, Hirsch Perlman, Dieter Roth, Jack Smith and Rebecca Warren, curated by Jeffrey Peabody, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
The Paper Sculpture Show, organized by Cabinet magazine, iCI, and SculptureCenter; SculptureCenter, Long Island City, New York, and 20 other locations, 2003-2007
curated Nina Felshin, Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown
Brighton Photo Biennial, curated by Jeremy Millar, University of Brighton, Brighton,
K48 Teenage Rebel – The Bedroom Show, curated by Scott Hug, John Connelly Presents, New York
2002
Whitney Biennial, curated by Lawrence Rinder, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (catalogue)
Stories, curated by Stephanie Rosenthal, Haus der Kunst, Munich
Building Structures, organized by Klaus Biesenbach, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City
Pictures, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York
Youngstars, organized by Horst Kohn, Krinzinger Projekte, Wien
2001
Off the Wall, curated by Greg Sandoval and Sam Gordon, Gallery 400 University of Illinois, Chicago
Spiritual America, Audiello Fine Art, Inc, New York
Group Show (Spring 2001), curated by Michele Maccarone & Chivas Clem, The Fifth International, New York
2000
Full Serve: Celebrating Ten Years of Shows, curated by Kenny Schachter, presented by Kenny Schachter/Rove, New York
The Armchair Project, curated by DeClan Clarke & Paul McDevitt, Cinch, London
Superpredators, curated by Jose Freire, C.R.P., Brooklyn
Dusk, curated by David Hunt, I-20 Gallery, New York
New York Projects, curated by Luke Dowd, Delfina Project Space, London
Walker Evans & Company, curated by Peter Galassi, Museum of Modern Art, New York; J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles (catalogue)
Rapture, curated by Janet Phelps, 529 W. 20th 8th Fl., New York
Trailer, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York
Photography about Photography, curated by Liz Deschenes, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York
Greater New York: New Art in New York Now, curated by Klaus Biesenbach, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev and Alana Heiss, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City (catalogue)
Photasm, curated by Peter Dudek, Arts Strium Gallery, Union College, Schenectady; Hunter College, New York
1999
DOPE. An XXX-Mas Show, American Fine Arts, Co., New York
I'm Not Here: Constructing Identity at the Turn of the Century, curated by Jonathan Van Dyke and Sean Mellyn, Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg
Sleeping Waters, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris
Still Life, curated by Helen Molesworth, State University of New York College at Old Westbury, Old Westbury
GIRLSCHOOL, curated by Catherine Morris and Maureen Mahoney, Brenau University Galleries, Gainesville
What Big Is, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Barrington
New York Neither/Nor, curated by Bill Arning, Grand Arts, Kansas City
monochrome, Patrick Callery Gallery, New York
Free Coke, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York
Answer yes, no, or don't know; Part II: Layers, curated by Ricci Albenda Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York
Hypervision, curated by Caitlin Masley, Elizabeth Cherry Contemporary Art, Tuscon
1998
New Photography 14, curated by Darsie Alexander, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Summer Group Show, curated by Dee Mitchell, Turner & Runyon, Dallas
TXInstalltions/Projects, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City
Super Freaks: Post Pop & The New Generation; Part I: Trash, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York
Lo-Fi Baroque, curated by Michael Sarff and Carol Stakenas, Thread Waxing Space, New York
Science, Feature Inc., New York
1997
Funny Pictures, Ten in One Gallery, Chicago
The New God, curated by John Connelly, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
24 Seven, curated by Alexander Berscheid, Galerie Klaus Peter Goebel, Stuttgart
Paper Trail, curated by Gregory Volk and Sabine Russ, Pierogi 2000, Brooklyn
Current Undercurrent: Working in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn
Summer of Love, Fotouhi Cramer Gallery, New York Prosthetic Garden, Daniel Silverstein Gallery, New York
The Experimenters, curated by Kenny Schachter, Lombard-Freid Fine Arts, New York
Normotic, curated by David Humphrey, 1 Great Jones, New York
Anne Chu, Rachel Harrison, Donald Moffett, Jasmin Sian, Marc Foxx, Los Angeles
1996
Rachel Harrison and Michael Lazarus, Feature Inc., New York
Taking Stock, curated by Kenny Schachter, The Exchange, 25 Broad Street, New York
Space, Mind, Place, curated by John Connelly and Michelle Reyes, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York,
DISSOCIATIONISM, Four Walls, Brooklyn
Shit, Baron Boisante Gallery, New York
Summer Exhibition, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York
Sex, Drugs And Explosives, curated by Kenny Schachter, New London Art Forms, London
Sculpture Incorporating Photography, Feature Inc., New York
Post Hoc, curated by Alison Greene, Stark Gallery, New York
Facing The Millenium: The Song Remains The Same, curated by Kenny Schachter, Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington
Flamingo East, curated by Kenny Schachter, Flamingo East 219 2nd Avenue, New York
1995
Summer Exhibition, Paolo Baldacci Gallery, New York
Oy!, curated by Kenny Schachter, 121 Greene Street, New York
Either/Or, curated by Kenny Schachter, Flamingo East, 219 2nd Ave., New York
High Anxiety, curated by Kenny Schachter, 66 Crosby Street, New York
Looky Loo, curated by Kenny Schachter, Sculpture Center, New York
Dark Room, Stark Gallery, New York
Smells Like Vinyl, Roger Merians Gallery, New York
1994
Tight, Tannery Gallery, London; Liverpool
UnSuccess Story, curated by Kenny Schachter, 479 Broome Street, New York
Women at Work, curated by Jill Brienza and Gretel Capriles, The Roger Smith Gallery, New York
I Could Do That, curated by Kenny Schachter, 109 Spring Street, New York
Dirty, curated by Carol Greene, John Good Gallery, New York
Group Show, Galerie Elizabeth Valleix, Paris
Pre-Existing Condition, The Puffin Room, New York
1993
Poverty Pop: The Aesthetics of Necessity, curated by Jeanette Ingberman and Papo Colo, Exit Art, New York
Shooting Blanks, curated by Kenny Schachter, 81 Greene Street, New York
For Sale, curated by Kenny Schachter, Flamingo East, 219 2nd Ave., New York
Resurrections, The William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut at Storrs, Storrs
1920: The Subtlety of Subversion, The Continuity of Intervention, curated by Jeanette Ingberman and Papo Colo Exit Art, New York
Four Walls Benefit, David Zwirner Gallery, New York
I Was Born Like This, curated by Kenny Schachter, 238 Mulberry Street, New York
High, curated by Kenny Schachter, Flamingo East, 219 2nd Ave., New York
1992
Simply Made in America, curated by Barry Rosenberg, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati; Butler Institute of American Art, Youngston; Palm Beach Community College of Art, Palm Beach; Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington
Morality Café, curated by Kenny Schachter, Postmasters Gallery, New York
The Lesbian Museum: Ten Thousand Years of Penius Envy, Franklin Furnace, New York
7 Rooms/7 Shows, curated by Kenny Schachter, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City
1991
Unlearning, curated by Kenny Schachter, 142 Greene Street, New York Ego Show, Minor Injury, Brooklyn
Open Bar, curated by Kenny Schachter, Flamingo East, 219 2nd Ave., New York
The Neurotic Art Show, Four Walls Gallery, Brooklyn
1990
Collections, Brand Name Damages, 201 Bedford Ave., Brooklyn
Habitat, AMMO Artist's Exhibition Space, Brooklyn
The Rights of Spring, curated by Rachel Stevens, Epoche Gallery, Brooklyn
