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ARTISTS :
RACHEL OWENS
1972 Born in Atlanta, GA. Raised in Lake Lotawana, MO Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY Education 1999 MFA, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago 1995 BA, University of Kansas, Lawrence 1994 Tyler School of Art, Rome SOLO EXHIBITIONS & PUBLIC SCULPTURE PRESENTATIONS 2011 Inveterate Composition for Clare, Dag Hammarskjöld Park, New York 2010 Props, ZieherSmith, New York 2008 Harboring, ZieherSmith, New York 2007 Wishing Well, presented by ZieherSmith, NADA Art Fair, Miami 2006 Overthrows, ZieherSmith, New York 2005 Scatter-Hoarder, ZieherSmith, New York Rubble, Sara Nightingale Gallery, Watermill, NY SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 2011 BNA, ZieherSmith Pop-Up Gallery, Nashville, TN 2010 Evading Customs_Milan, Le Dictateur, Milan Knock Knock Who's There? That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore, Armand Bartos Fine Art, New York Nineteen Eighty Four, Austrian Cultural Forum, curated by David Harper, Martha Kirszenbaum, & David Komary, New York 2009 NADA/ART IN/VISIBLE SPACES, 395, Brooklyn, NY Grand Reopening, ZieherSmith, New York Evading Customs, curated by Peter Russo and Lumi Tan, Brown, London Lover, curated by Kate Gilmore and Candice Madey, On Stellar Rays, New York On From Here, Guild and Greyshkul, New York I Thought Our Worlds Were The Same, Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville 2008 New Black, presented by Triplecanopy, Starr Space, Brooklyn, NY 2007 EFA 2007 Exhibition (Groundswell), Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY 2006 Empathetic, curated by Elizabeth Thomas, Temple Gallery, Philadelphia Collage Party, ZieherSmith, New York Ionesco's Friends, curated by Irina Zucca, Francosoffiantino Artecontemporanea, Turin 2005 Rachel Owens & Elizabeth Huey, Sara Nightingale Gallery, Watermill, NY No Apology for Breathing, curated by Matthew Lusk, Jack the Pelican Presents, Brooklyn The Hissing of Summer Lawns, Sara Nightingale Gallery, Watermill, NY 2004 Some Exhaust, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York Postcards from the Edge, Brent Sikkema Gallery, New York Andy Warhol’s Living Room, Sara Nightingale Gallery, Watermill, NY Falling in Love with the Jailer’s Daughter, Project Green, Brooklyn, NY 2003 Fear of Flight, Sara Nightingale Gallery, Water Mill, NY An Accord, Weather Records, Brooklyn, NY Brooklyn Underground Film Festival, DUMBO, Brooklyn, NY Talent Show, Project Green, Brooklyn, NY Occurrences: The Performative Aspects of Video, Betty Rymer Gallery, Chicago 2002 One Day, In a Day, Everyday, part of Sans, APEX art, New York New Homes for America Under Construction, Weather Records, Brooklyn, NY Parallel Sensations, Williamsburg Art and Historical Center, Brooklyn, NY Bellwether Summer Show, Bellwether Gallery, New York Untitled Storefront, Weather Records, Brooklyn, NY 2000 Hit and Run 4, New York Project 1, The Green Room, New York Ship of Fools, The Frying Pan, New York 1999 House, Wicker Park, Chicago Crashpad, Best Western Hotel, Chicago Video Performance, Wood Street Gallery, Chicago 1998 Lagattuta, etc., Gallery 2, Chicago Navy Pier Art Expo: Art Park, Chicago Welcome to the Madrid, Madrid Theater, Kansas City, MO BIBLIOGRAPHY Invalid Format: An Anthology of Triple Canopy volume 1, November 2011 "Hit List", Modern Painters, December-January, 2011/12 “New Sculpture in Park,” Metro New York, November 17, 2011 Mary Johnson, “Artist Pays Tribute to Late Parks Employee in Sculpture,” Dnainfo.com, October 17, 2011 Paul Polycarpou, (ed.), “Spotlight on ZieherSmith,” Nashville Arts Magazine, July 2011 Joe Nolan, "Art Crawl Plays Host to ZieherSmith," Nashville Scene, August 4, 2011 Constance Rosenblum, "Adopted by a Brownstone," New York Times, June 17, 2011 Jack Siegel, "Pictures of Pictures: September in New York," InterviewMagazine.com, September 14, 2010 Scott Indrisek, "Five Shows to See around the World," Artinfo.com, September 13, 2010 "The Weekly Ten," Artinfo.com, September 10, 2010 Zinta Lundborg, “N.Y. weekend,” Bloomberg, August 27, 2010 Lance Esplund, "NineteenEightyFour," The Wall Street Journal, August 21, 2010 Karen Rosenberg, "The Lights of Big Brother’s Eyes, Blinking in the City," The New York Times, August 20, 2010 "NineteenEightyFour," City Arts, August 3 - September 13, 2010 Michael Freund, "Eine Stadt sucht ihre Superkünstler," Der Standard, July 13, 2010 R.C. Baker, "Review: NineteenEightyFour," The Village Voice, June 8, 2010 Kris Wilton, "Have You Heard the One About the Urinal?," ArtInfo.com, April 2, 2010 Anthony Haden-Guest, "Can Art Be Funny,"The Daily Beast, March 11, 2010 Rachel Wolff, "See Here Now," New York Magazine, October 12, 2009 "The Wire," Art Lies, Issue 61, March 2009 "Rachel Owens: Reconstruction," Triplecanopy 4, November 11, 2008 "Goings On About Town: Rachel Owens," The New Yorker, November 10, 2008 Arte Aldia News 37, April 8-June 8, 2008 Paul Laster, “Interview With Amanda Coulson,” Artkrush.com, Issue 85, May 28, 2008 Nicholas Hirshorn, “Site Goes from Trash to Treasure,” Daily News, January 31, 2008 "A Reassessment of Feminism," M/E/A/N/I/N/G #4, Artkrush.com, 2007 "The Approval Matrix: Brilliant & Highbrow," New York Magazine, September 24, 2007 Edith Newhall, "Empathy," The Philadelphia Inquirer, December 06, 2006 Roberta Fallon, "Feel the Pain," The Philadelphia Weekly, November 5, 2006 R.C. Baker, "Shortlist: Rachel Owens ," The Village Voice, June 8, 2006 Holland Cotter, "No Apology for Breathing," The New York Times, August 12, 2005 Stephanie Cash and David Ebony, "Front Page," Art in America, May 2005, image Walter Robinson, "Weekend Updates," Artnet.com, March 29, 2005 C.C. McGurr, "Hodge Podge Collage," PaperMag, March 24, 2005 Merrily Kerr, "Some Exhuast," Flash Art, November - December 2004, image Benjamin Carlson, Time Out New York, Sept 2, 2004 "Goings On About Town: Some Exhaust," The New Yorker, Sept 6, 2004 Kim Levin, "Critic’s Pick: Some Exhaust," Village Voice, September 2004 "Arts and Leisure Guide," The New York Times, August 15, 2004, image Helen A. Harrison, "Fear of Flying," The New York Times, November 2, 2003 Susan Bee and Mira Schor, ed., "Rachel Owens and Matthew Lusk: After School Special," M/E/A/N/I/N/G #2 (collaborations), Artkrush.com, 2003 Art V-8 Chicago, Chicago Reader, May 9, 1998 Alice Thorson, "Figuring the Body," The Kansas City Star, November 17, 1997 AWARDS 2011 Artist Grant, Foundation for Contemporary Art, New York 2008 Artist Grant, Pollack-Krasner Foundation 2007 Artist Grant, Harpo Foundation, Coconut Grove, FL Socrates Sculpture Park 2007 Emerging Artist Fellowship, New York 2002 G.K. Baum Travel Grant, travel to England and France 1997-99 Private Graduate Studies Award, School of the Art Institute of Chicago Graduate Student Grant, School of the Art Institute of Chicago 1995 Top Jurors Award, River Market Regional Exhibition, Kansas City, MO 1994 Richard Hollander Family Foundation Award, Kansas City, MO |
















