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Alexis Rockman Biography
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1962 |
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Born in New York, NY
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1980 - 1982 |
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Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
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1983 - 1985 |
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School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
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Fall 1998 Columbia University, New York, NY; Drawing, fall term
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Spring 2000 Columbia University, New York, NY; Graduate Seminar, Landscape
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Spring 2001 Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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2008 - 2009
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Molecules That Matter, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY; Chemical Heritage Foundation, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; The College of Wooster Art Museum; Grinnell College, Grinnell Iowa
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2008 - 2009
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The Weight of Air: Works on Paper, Rose Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA (catalogue) (solo)
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2008 - 2009
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Badlands: New Horizons in Landscape, Mass MoCa, North Adams, Massachusetts
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2008
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Future Tense: Reshaping the Landscape, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY
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2008
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Feeling the Heat, Art, Science and Climate Change, Deutsche Bank Gallery, New York, NY
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2008
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South Leo Koenig Inc., New York, NY (solo)
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2008
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The Weight of Air: Works on Paper, Rose Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA (solo)
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2007
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Barometric Pressure, Galerie Sabine Knust, Munich, Germany (solo)
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2007
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Contemporary Arts Center, (with Tony Matelli) Cincinnati ,OH (solo)
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2007
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Baroque Biology: Tony Matelli and Alexis Rockman, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
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2007
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Green Horizons, Bates College Museum of Art, Maine
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2007
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Molecules That Matter, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art, Skidmore College, NY
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2007
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Landscape: Form and Thought, Ingrao Gallery, NYC
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2007
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Failure, Landes Galerie Linz, Linz, Austria
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2007
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Surrealism, Dada and Their Legacies in Contemporary Art, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
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2007
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Savage Ancient Seas, Berkshire Museum, ME
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2006
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Cryptozoology: Out of Time Place Scale, Bates College Museum of Art, ME
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2006
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Revising Arcadia, Cornell Museum, Rollins College, Winterpark FL
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2006
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Leo Koenig, Inc. New York (solo)
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2006
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Big Weather, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO (solo)
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2005
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Fresh Kills, Gary Tatintsian Gallery, Moscow (cat.) (solo)
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2005
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Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI (June - October, 2005) (solo)
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2005
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Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA (March - June 2005) (solo)
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2005
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Grand Arts, Kansas City, MO (Jan 14, 2005 - February 25, 2005) (solo)
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2005
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Neo Baroque, curated by Joyce Korotkin & Micaela Giovanotti, Byblos Fine Arts, Verona, Italy (cat.)
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2005
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Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA (January 10 – March 21)
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2005
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Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL (May 29 – August 15)
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2005
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The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY (October 9– January 2)
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2005
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Birdspace: A Post-Audubon Artists Aviary,McDonough Museum of Art, Youngstown State University, OH (September 2 – October 7, 2005) (cat.)
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2004
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Beginning Here: 101 Ways,Visual Art Gallery, School of the Visual Arts, New York, NY (September 7 – October 16)
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2004
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Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA; Beginnings (April 1 - May 8)
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2004
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Images of Time and Place: Contemporary Views of Landscape, Lehman College Art Gallery, The City University of New York, Bronx, NY (January 29 – May 15)
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2004
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For the Birds, Artspace, New Haven, CT (January 17 -March 20)
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2004
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Future Noir, Gorney Bravin + Lee, New York (January 16 – March 6)
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2004
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Manifest Destiny Mural Version, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH (Fall 2005) (solo)
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2004
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Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY (April 17 - Sept 12, 2004)
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2004
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Wonderful World, Camden Arts Centre, London, UK (April 23 - June 13) (solo)
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2003
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Gorney Bravin + Lee, New York (March 14 – April 19) (solo) (solo)
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2002
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The Great Outdoors, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO (February) (solo)
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2001
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Future Evolution,Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA (Fall, cat.) (solo)
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| Literature |
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2008
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History of Nature in New York, co-edited with Mark Dion, published by Twin Palms / Twelvetrees coming Press, Santa Fe, NM, foreword by Cynthia Goodman, Ph. D., essay by Matt Distell, printing by Studley press, 47 pages, ISBN: 13: 978-0-917562-79-2
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2008
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Heartney, Eleanor, Art & Today, published by Phaidon, 448 pages, (ISBN 0714845140)
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2007
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Alexis Rockman: Romantic Attachments, published by Leo Koenig Inc. and Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
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2006
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Alexis Rockman: Big Weather/ American Icons, published by Leo Koenig Inc. and Baldwin Gallery, New York, NY, 48 pages. Introduction by Dorothy Spears, Text by Robert Rosenblum and Bill McKibben
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2006
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Bessire, Mark H.C., and Raechell Smith, Cryptozoology: Out of Time Space Scale, published by JRP/Ringier, Zurich (ISBN 10: 3-9055770-07-5
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2006
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No. 1: First Works of 362 Artists, edited by Francesca Richer and Matthew Rosenzweig, published by Distributed Art Publishers (ISBN: 1933045094
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2005
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Haw, Richard, The Brooklyn Bridge: A Cultural History, published by Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ (ISBN 0813535875)
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2005
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Drucker, Johanna, Sweet Dreams: Contemporary Art and Complicity, published by University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL
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2005
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Mitchell, W.J. Thomas, What do Pictures Want?, published by University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, (ISBN 0226532453)
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2005
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Carnivorous Nights, written by Margaret Mittelbach and Michael Crewdson with illustrations by Alexis Rockman, published by Villard Books
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2005
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Alexis Rockman: Fresh Kills, essay by Dorothy Spears, exhibition catalog published by Gary Tatintsian, Mowcow, Russia
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2004
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Alexis Rockman "Wonderful World," Camden Arts Centre, ISBN 1900470322, 64 pgs. Forward by Jenny Lomax Texts by Frances Ashcroft, Dan Cameron, Francis Fukiyama
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2004
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Alexis Rockman: Manifest Destiny, writings by Maurice Berger and Robert F. Kennedy, published by Brooklyn Museum of Art, June 2004, ISBN: 0872731510
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2003
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Alexis Rockman, artist's monograph published by Monacelli Press, New York
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2003
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Crary, Jonathan; Gould, Stephen Jay; Quammen, David
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2002
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Future Evolution, published by Henry Holt, New York (publication date: 6 January)
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