BIOGRAPHY
Born 1966 in New York
1989 B.A. in Fine Art, Wesleyan University, Middletown, USA
lives and works in New York
Solo Exhibitions
2010
Regen Projects, Los Angeles.
2009
Consider the Lobster, Hessel Museum of Art & Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, New York (cat.)
Portikus, Frankfurt am Main.
2008
Sunny Side Up, Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna.
Lay of the Land, Le Consortium, Dijon.
2007
Voyage of the Beagle, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich; Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nürnberg (cat.)
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 (cat.)
Seven Sculptures, Arndt & Partner, Berlin.
Art 33 Basel Art Statements, Basel Art Fair, Basel.
Brides and Bases, Oakville Gallery, Toronto (cat.)
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 eightfootlong twobyfour shot from a cannon at 34 miles an hour, without creating a hole big enough to let through a threeinch sphere?, Arena Gallery, Brooklyn.
Group Exhibitions
2009
Altermodern: Tate Triennial 2009, curated by Nicholas Bourriaud, Tate Britain, London (cat.)
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.
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, Karlsruhe.
Second Thoughts, Hessel Museum of Art & Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, New York.
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
The Alliance, doART, Seoul, Korea, and Beijing, China.
2007
Eyes Wide Open New to the Stedelijk & The Monique Zajfen Collection, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.
Perspectives Series, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston.
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 (cat.)
Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now, MoMA Museum of Modern Art, New York.
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 (cat.)
2006
The Uncertainty of Objects and Ideas: Recent Sculpture, curated by Anne Ellegood, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington (cat.)
Werner Herzog, Blum and Poe, Los Angeles.
Shiny, curated by Helen Molesworth, The Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, USA.
The Swan Is Very Peaceful, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles.
Pose and Sculpture, curated by Daniel Baumann, Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York (cat.)
Of Mice and Men, The 4th Berlin Biennale, curated by Maurizio Cattelan, Massimiliano Gioni, Ali Subotnick, KunstWerke Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (cat.)
Dark, curated by Jan Grosfeld and Rein Wolfs, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (cat.)
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 (cat.)
Carnegie International, curated by Laura Hoptman, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (cat.)
When Humor Becomes Painful, curated by Heike Munder and Felicity Lunn, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich (cat.)
Fünfmalskulptur, 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 Fine Arts, Co., New York.
American Idyll, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York.
Speaking with Hands: Photographs from The Buhl Collection, Guggenheim Museum, New York (cat.)
Reordering Reality: Collecting Contemporary Art, curated by Annegreth T. Nill, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, USA.
Collage, Bloomberg SPACE, London.
Open House: Working in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn (cat.)
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 (cat.)
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.
The Alumni Show, curated Nina Felshin, Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, USA.
Brighton Photo Biennial, curated by Jeremy Millar, University of Brighton, Brighton, GB.
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 (cat.)
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 Köhn, 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, I20 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 (cat.)
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 ChristovBakargiev and Alana Heiss, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City (cat.)
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.