Rachel Harrison (American, )

Timeline

1966
Born in New York City
1989
B.A. in Fine Art, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
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Exhibitions

2013
Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover, Germany (solo)
2013
Villeperdue, Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna, Austria (solo)
2013
Blues for Smoke, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
2013
Film as Sculpture, curated by Elena Filipovic, Wiels Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels, Belgium
2013
Beautiful Monsters, curated by Douglas Fogle, Cycladic Museum, Athens, Greece
2013
NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star, New Museum, New York, USA
2013
Monsalvat, Bureau, New York Group Show, curated by Haim Steinbach, The Artist's Institute / Hunter College, New York, USA
2012
Once Removed, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
2012
Rumba & Rum Baba, Galerie Laurent Godin, Paris, France, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, USA
2012
Now Here is also Nowhere: Part I, Henry Art, Seattle, USA
2012
Blues for Smoke, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, travels to Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA (cat.)
2012
Migros Meets Museion. 20th Century Remix, Museion Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Bolzano, Italy
2012
The Help, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
2012
To Be With Art Is All We Ask, Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo, Norway
2012
Imagination Adrift, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France, Beyond Imagination, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2012
Inaugural Exhibition by Gallery Artists, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, USA
2012
Lou Ford, G Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2012
Decade: Contemporary Collecting, 2002-2012, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, USA (cat.)
2012
Buy My Bananas, curated by Julia Trotta, Kate Werble Gallery, New York, USA
2012
Painting In Space, curated by Tom Eccles and Johanna Burton, Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York, USA
2012
Zoologie, curated by Marie Fraser & François LeTourneux, Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, Canada (cat.)
2012
The Institute of Contemporary Art Collection Show, The Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, Boston, USA
2012
Matters of Fact, curated by Tom Eccles, Suzy M. Halajian, Marieluise Hessel, Nathan Lee, Alicia Ritson, and Kelly Taxter, Center for Curatorial Studies, Hessel Museum, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson
2012
Utopia/Dystopia: Constructed with Photography, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, USA
2012
2012 Invitational Exhibition of Visual Artists, American Academy of Arts & Letters, curated by Virginia Dajani,
2012
Friends & Family, curated by Kenny Schacter, ROVE Gallery, London, February (cat.)
2012
Look Now: Modern and Contemporary Art from Private Collections, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ, USA
2011
Universe in Universe, Astrup Fearnley Museum collection at the Sao Paulo Biennial, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2011
Facing the Abyss, Witzenhausen Gallery, New York, USA
2011
Repossessed, Western Bridge, Seattle, Washington, USA
2011
Distant Star: An Exhibition organized arount the writings of Roberto Bolaño, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, USA
2011
2011 Bridgehampton Biennial, curated by Bob Nickas, Martos Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY, USA
2011
Will Live, We Will See, curated by Pavel S. Pyś, Zabludowicz Collection, (cat.)
2011
Rachel Harrison/ Scott Lyall: Double Yolk, Galerie Christian Nagel, Antwerp, Belgium (solo)
2011
14 & 15, curated by David Muenzer, The Lipstick Building, New York, USA
2011
Exposition d'Ouverture, Le Consortium, Dijon, France
2011
Absentee Landlord, curated by John Waters, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA
2011
Schnitte im Raum, Skulpturale Collagen, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany
2011
Time Again, curated by Fionn Meade, ScuptureCenter, Long Island City, New York, USA
2011
That's the way we do it, curated by Yilmaz Dziewior, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria
2011
Human Nature: Contemporary Art from the Collection, LACMA, Los Angeles, USA
2011
Entertainment, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, USA
2011
Notations/Everyday Disturbances, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, USA
2011
The Spectacular of Vernacular, curated by Darsie Alexander, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; traveled to Contemporary Arts Museum Houston; Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
2011
Transformed Objects: with Works by John Bock, Jürgen Drescher, Rachel Harrison, Alicja Kwade, Thomas Rentmeister, Margret Wibmer, curated by Zdenek Felix and Ludwig Seyfarth, Kai 10, Raum für Kunst / Arthena Foundation, Düsseldorf, Germany
2011
Modern British Sculpture, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK, (cat.)
2011
New York to London and Back, organized by Miguel Abreu, Robin Mackay, Tobias Huber and Martine d'Anglejan, in collaboration with Sutton Lane, homas Dane Gallery, London, UK
2010
How Soon Now, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, USA
2010
Ordinary Madness, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA
2010
The Last Newspaper, curated by Richard Flood, New Museum, New York, USA
2010
The Original Copy: Photograph of Sculpture, 1839 to Today, curated by Roxana Marcoci, MOMA, New York, USA
2010
Contemporary Art from the Collection, curated by Kathy Halbreich, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
2010
At Home/Not at Home: Works from the Collection of Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg, CCs Bard Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, USA
2010
Blind Spot Lab & Exhibition – Issue 41, Wild Project, New York, USA
2010
Regen Projects, Los Angeles, USA (solo)
2010
Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
2010
Nachleben, curated by Fionn Meade and Lucy Raven, Wyoming Building, Goethe-Institut, New York, USA
2010
Sorry we're Closed, curated by sebastien Janssen, Art Brussels, Belgium
2010
Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance, Solomon R., Guggenheim Museum, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Spain (cat.)
2010
Abstract Resistance, curated by Yasmil Raymond, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA
2010
Don't Look Back in Anger, Kenny Schachter/Rove, London, UK
2009
Altermodern: Tate Triennial 2009, curated by Nicholas Bourriaud, Tate Britain, London, UK (cat.)
2009
Beg Borrow and Steal, The Rubell Family Collection, Miami, USA (cat.)
2009
A Few Frames: Photography and Contact Sheet, curated by Elisabeth Sussman and Tina Kukielski, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
2009
For the blind man in the dark room looking fort he black cat that isn't there, curated by Anthony Hubermann, Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis; Institute of Contemporary Arts, London;Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit; de Appel Arts Centre Amsterdam; Culturgest, Lisbon (cat.)
2009
Consider the Lobster, Hessel Museum of Art & Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, New York (cat.), Portikus, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (solo)
2009
Precarious Form I, curator Veit Loers, Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna, Austria
2009
The Secret Life of Objects, curated by John Rasmussen, Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, USA
2009
Collecting History: Highlighting Recent Acquisitions, curated by Ann Goldstein and Bennet Simpson, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA
2009
Making Worlds, 53rd Venice Biennale, curated by Daniel Birnbaum, Italian Pavilion, Venice, Italy
2009
Mapping the Studio: Artists from the Francois Pinault Collection, curated by Francesco Bonami and Alison Gingeras, Plazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy
2009
Abstract America: New Painting and Sculpture, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
2009
Practice, Practice, Practice, curated by Michael Smith and Jay Sanders, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, TX, USA
2009
Compass in Hand: Selections from the Judith Rothschild Foundation contemporary Drawings Collection, curated by Christian Rattemeyer and Cornelia H. Butler, MoMA, New York, USA (cat.)
2009
Lichtzwang, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv, israel
2009
Phot(o)bjects, curated by Bob Nickas, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2009
N'importe Quoi, curated by Vincent Pecoil and olivier Vadrot, Musèe d'art contemporain de Lyon, France
2009
Altermodern, Tate Triennial, curated by Nicholas Bourriaud, Tate Britain, London, UK
2008
Works on Paper by Gallery Artists and Ricci Albenda, Greene Naftali, New York, USA
2008
Front Room: Dieter Roth and Rachel Harrison, Balitmore Museum of Art, Baltimore, USA
2008
You Can Go Your Own Way, curated by Claudia Altman Siegel, Renwick Gallery, New York, USA
2008
Standard Size, curated by Joao Ribas, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, USA
2008
Paul Thek in the Context of Today's Contemporary Art, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
2008
Second Thoughts, Hessel Museum of Art & Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, New York, USA
2008
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
2008
The Alliance, doART, Seoul, Korea, and Beijing, China
2008
Lay of the Land, Le Consortium, Dijon, France (solo)
2008
Sunny Side Up, Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna, Austria (solo)
2007
Eyes Wide Open – New to the Stedelijk & The Monique Zajfen Collection, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2007
Perspectives Series, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, USA
2007
Pop Art Is, Gagosian Gallery, London, UK
2007
Insubstantial Pageant Faded, Western Bridge, Seattle, USA
2007
XXL – Size Does Matter, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
2007
Paul Thek in the Context of Today's Contemporary Art, ZKM, Karlsruhe; Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg, Germany
2007
Unmonumental: Falling To Pieces in the 21st Century, New Museum, New York, USA (cat.)
2007
Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now, MoMA – Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
2007
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
2007
Still Life and Kicking, curated by Dodie Kazanjian, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, USA
2007
For the People of Paris, Sutton Lane Gallery, Paris (cat.)
2007
Fit to Print, Gagosian Gallery, New York
2007
Unmonumental: Falling to Pieces in the 21st Century, New Museum, New York
2007
Still Life and Kicking, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, curated by Dodie Kazanjian
2007
For the People of Paris, Sutton Lane Gallery, Paris
2007
If I Did It, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York (solo)
2006
sometimes it snows in april (Presentation with Michael Krebber), The McAllister Institute, New York (solo)
2006
When Hangover Becomes Form (with Scott Lyall), Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver; LACE, Los Angeles (solo)
2006
Checking the Tires, Not To Mention The Marble Nude, Galerie Christian Nagel, Cologne (solo)
2006
Survivor, curated by David Rimanelli, Bortolami Dayan, New York, USA
2006
Daisychain, curated by Bruce Haines, MOT Gallery, London, UK
2006
The Uncertainty of Objects and Ideas: Recent Sculpture, curated by Anne Ellegood, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, USA (cat.)
2006
Werner Herzog, Blum and Poe, Los Angeles, USA
2006
Shiny, curated by Helen Molesworth, The Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, USA
2006
The Swan Is Very Peaceful, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles, USA
2006
Pose and Sculpture, curated by Daniel Baumann, Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York, USA (cat.)
2006
Of Mice and Men, The 4th Berlin Biennale, curated by Maurizio Cattelan, Massimiliano Gioni, Ali Subotnick, Kunst–Werke Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany (cat.)
2006
Dark, curated by Jan Grosfeld and Rein Wolfs, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands (cat.)
2006
Motore Immobile, curated by Carol Greene and Jay Sanders, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, USA
2006
Ridykeulous, Participant Inc, New York, USA
2005
Make It Now: New Sculpture in New York, curated by Mary Ceruti, Anthony Huberman and Franklin Sirmans, Sculpture Center, Long Island City, USA (cat.)
2005
Carnegie International, curated by Laura Hoptman, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA (cat.)
2005
When Humor Becomes Painful, curated by Heike Munder and Felicity Lunn, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland (cat.)
2005
Car Stereo Parkway, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow (solo)
2005
Funfmalskulptur, Westfalischer Kunsteverein, Muenster
2005
Ordering the Ordinary, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, curated by David Thorp
2005
Galeria Obadia, Paris
2005
The Jeweleigha Set , Greene Naftali Gallery, New York
2005
Drunk Vs. Stoned 2, Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York
2004
New Work, San Francisco MoMA, San Francisco, CA (solo)
2004
Posh Floored as Ali G Tackles Becks, Camden Art Center, London (solo)
2004
Excuse Me?, Arndt + Partner, Berlin (solo)
2004
Latka/Latkas, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York (solo)
2004
Building the Collection: New and Future Acquisitions, Art Gallery of Ontario, Ontario, Canada
2004
Last One On is a Soft Jimmy, curated by Kelley Walker, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, USA
2004
Hysterical, curated by Michele Maccarone, Galerie Dennis Kimmerich, Düsseldorf, Germany
2004
Slouching Towards Bethlehem, curated by Jeffrey Uslip, The Project, New York.
2004
Patterson Beckwith: Home, American Fine Arts, Co., New York.
2004
American Idyll, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York.
2004
Speaking with Hands: Photographs from The Buhl Collection, Guggenheim Museum, New York (cat.)
2004
Reordering Reality: Collecting Contemporary Art, curated by Annegreth T. Nill, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, USA.
2004
Collage, Bloomberg SPACE, London.
2004
Open House: Working in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn (cat.)
2003
Bergen Kunsthalle, Gallery No. 5, Norway (solo)
2003
Rachel Harrison, Hirsch Perlman, Dieter Roth, Jack Smith and Rebecca Warren, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
2003
Brighton Photo Biennial, Brighton, England, curated by Jeremy Millar
2003
Teenage Rebel – The Bedroom Show, curated by Scott Hug, John Connelly Presents, New York
2002
Seven Sculptures, Arndt & Partner, Berlin (solo)
2002
Art 33 Basel, Statements, Basel Art Fair (solo)
2001
Perth Amboy, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York (solo)
2001
Spiritual America, Audiello Fine Art, Inc, New York
2001
Off the Wall Gallery 400 University of Illinois, Chicago
2001
Walker Evans & Company, Museum of Modern Art, New York; traveled to J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
1999
Patent Pending: Beveled Rasp Sac, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York (solo)
1999
DOPE. An XXX-Mas Show, American Fine Arts, Co., New York
1999
I’m Not Here: Constructing Identity at the Turn of the Century, Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
1999
Sleeping Waters, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France
1999
Still Life, State University of New York College at Old Westbury, curated by Helen Molesworth
1999
GIRLSCHOOL, Brenau University Galleries, Gainesville, Georgia
1999
What Big Is, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Barrington, MA
1999
monochrome, Patrick Callery Gallery, New York
1999
Free Coke, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York
1999
Answer yes, no, or don’t know; Part II: Layers, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York
1998
New Photography 14, Museum of Modern Art, New York
1998
Summer Group Show, Turner & Runyon, Dallas, TXInstalltions/Projects, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York
1998
Super Freaks: Post Pop & The New Generation; Part I: Trash, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York
1998
Lo-Fi Baroque, Thread Waxing Space, New YorkScience, Feature Inc., New York
1997
The Look of Dress-Separates, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York (solo)
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, New York (solo)
1995
Summer Exhibition, Paolo Baldacci Gallery, New York
1995
Looky Loo, Sculpture Center, New YorkDark Room, Stark Gallery, New York
1994
Pre-Existing Condition, The Puffin Room, New York
1994
Galerie Elizabeth Valleix, Paris, France
1994
Dirty, John Good Gallery, New York
1994
Tight, Tannery Gallery, London, England; traveled to Liverpool, England
1993
Poverty Pop: The Aesthetics of Necessity, Exit Art, New York
1993
Resurrections, The William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut at Storrs
1993
1920: The Subtlety of Subversion, The Continuity of Intervention, Exit Art, New York
1992
Lesbian Museum, Franklin Furnace, New York
1992
Morality Caf�Postmasters Gallery, New York
1992
Contemporary Art Center inCincinnati, Butler Institute of American Art in Youngston, PalmBeach Community College of Art, and the Delaware Art Museum in Wilmington
1991
The Neurotic Art Show, Four Walls Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
1991
Open Bar, curated by Kenny Schachter, Flamingo East, 219 2nd Ave., New York.
1991
Unlearning,142 Greene St, New York, curated by Kenny Schachter
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