Laura Owens
1970
Born in Euclid (OH), USA
1992
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence (RI), USA
1994
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan (ME), USA
1994
California Institute of Arts, Valencia (CA), USA Lives and works in Los Angeles (CA), USA
Solo Exhibitions
2009
Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York (NY)
2008
Sadie Coles HQ, London
2007
Laura Owens: Paintings & Studies, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, Netherlands
Laura Owens, Ausstellungshalle zeitgenössische Kunst, Münster, Germany
2006
Laura Owens, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York (NY)
Kunsthalle Zurich, Zurich, touring to the Camden Arts Centre, London
Laura Owens, Sadie Coles HQ, London, touring to the Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin (cat.)
2005
Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo(cat.)
2004
The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia (PA), USA
Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne, Germany
Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York (NY)
Crown Point Press, San Fransciso, CA, USA
2003
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (CA), USA (cat.) travelled to Aspen Art Museum, Aspen (CO), USA; Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee (WI), USA; Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami (FL), USA
The General Store, Milwaukee (WI), USA
2001
Isabella Gardner Museum, Boston (MA), USA(cat.)
ACME (with Martin Kersels), Los Angeles (CA), USA
2000
Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy
Inverleith House, Royal Botanical Garden, Edinburgh (cat.)
1999
Sadie Coles HQ, London
Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne, Germany
Statements, Basel Art Fair, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, Basel, Switzerland
China Art Objects (with Scott Reeder), Los Angeles (CA), USA
1998
Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York (NY)
Acme, Los Angeles (CA), USA
LARC, Loyola University, Chicago (IL), USA
Studio Guenzani (with Sharon Lockhart), Milan, Italy
1997
Sadie Coles HQ, London
1996
Studio 246 (with Lisa Anne Auerbach), Kunstlerhaus Bethanian, Berlin
Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York (NY)
1995
Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica (CA), USA
Group Exhibitions
2008
Biënnale van de Schilderkunst, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium Blasted Allegories, Works from the Ringier Collection, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland
Pretty Ugly, Gavin Brown's enterprise and Maccarone, New York (NY)
Painting Now and Forever Part II, Greene Naftali and Matthew Marks, New York (NY)
Living Flowers: Ikebana and Contemporary Art, Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles (CA), USA
Tapestry,
Karin Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles (CA), USA
Red Eye: LA Artists from the Rubell Family Collection, Rubell Collection, Miami (FL), USA
Collecting Collections: Highlights from the permanent collection, MoCA, Los Angeles (CA), USA
2007
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
Sequence 1: Painting and Sculpture from the Francois Pinault Collection, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy
Very Abstract and Hyper Figurative, Thomas Dane Gallery, London
Visuell//Affinities: New Acquisitions
Sammlung Deutsche Bank Collection, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin
2006
Red Eye: L.A. Artists from the Rubell Family Collection, Rubell Family Collection, Miami (FL), USA
The Fluidity of Time: Selections from the MCA Collection, MCA, Chicago (IL), USA
Hotel California, Glendale College Art Gallery, Glendale (CA), USA
Essential Painting, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
All the Best: The Deutsche Bank Collection & Zaha Hadid, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
Blind Date: Recent Acquisitions of the Deutsche Bank Collection, Galerie Kunstforum Altes Haus, Seligenstadt, Germany
2005
After Cezanne, MOCA, Los Angeles (CA), USA
Goetz Meets Falckenberg, Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg, Germany
Ideal Worlds: New Romanticism in Contemporary Art, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany
Think Blue, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles (CA), USA
Huts, the Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin
25 Deutsche Bank Collection, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin (cat.)
Post Modern, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York (NY)
2004
The Undiscovered Country, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (CA), USA
2004 Whitney Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (NY)
Huts, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin (cat.)
Never Never Landscape, Alte Gerhardsen, Berlin (curated by Kirsty Bell)
Contemporary Painting, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville (ME), USA (curated by Alex Katz) (cat.)
Malerei, Galerie Rolf Hengesbach, Koln, Germany
Drunk vs. Stone, Passerby, New York (NY)(curated by the General Store)
Painting’s EDGE, Idyllwild Arts, California (Visiting artist for summer program)
2003
Inaugural Exhibition, GBE (Modern), New York (NY)
2002
Drawing Now: Eight Propositions, Museum of Modern Art, New York (NY)(cat.)
Cave Paintings (with Peter Doig and Chris Ofili), Santa Monica Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (CA), USA (cat.)
Painting on the Move, Kunstmuseum Basel; Museum für Gegenwartskunst Basel; Kunsthalle Basel, Basel (cat.)
Urgent Painting, Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris (cat.)
The Mystery of Painting, Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany
2001
Public Offerings, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (CA), USA (cat.)
Lens and Paper – the Beauty of Intimacy, Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, The Netherlands and tour to Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden and Museum Haus am Waldsee, Berlin (cat.)
The Mystery of Painting, Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany (cat.)
Accumulations, School of Art Gallery, Kent State University, Ohio
Some Options in Abstraction, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge (MA), USA (booklet)
Objective Color, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven (CT), USA
Cal’s Art: Sampling Californian Painting, University of North Texas at Denton, Denton (TX), USA
Bastard (Son of Hot Sauce), The Law Office, Chicago (IL), USA
Painting on the Edge of the World, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (MN), USA
Locating Drawing, Lawing Gallery, Houston (TX), USA
2000
On Canvas: Contemporary Painting from the Collection, Guggenheim, New York (NY)(curated by J. Fiona Ragheb)
American Academy Invitational Exhibition of Painting ans Sculpture, The American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, USA
The Next Wave: New Painting in Southern California (curated by N. Gamblin), Californian Center for the Arts, Encondido (CA), USA
Examining Pictures: Exhibiting Paintings, MOCA Chicago (IL), USA
UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (CA), USA
Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro (NC), USA
Works on Paper from Los Angeles, Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy
1999
Drawn to Nature, George’s, Los Angeles (CA), USA
Facts & Fictions II: Los Angeles (curated by Sergio Bertaccini), ARCO, Turin, Italy
Carnegie International 1999/2000, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (PA), USA (cat.)
Standing Still and Walking in Los Angeles, Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles (CA), USA
New Work: Painting Today, SFMOMA, San Francisco (CA), USA
Examining Pictures, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London;
MCA Chicago (IL), USA (cat.)
Works on paper (and some other things), ACME, Los Angeles (CA), USA
Nach-Bild, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland (cat.)
The Perfect Life: Artifice in LA 1999, Duke University Museum of Art, Durham (NC), USA
Hot Spots (curated by Elizabeth Brown), Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North California at Greensboro (NC), USA
Local Colour (curated by Virginia Rutledge), University of La Verne, La Verne (CA), USA
1998
Colour fields (curated by David Pagel), Luckman Fine Arts Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles (CA), USA
Young Americans 2, Saatchi Gallery, London (cat.)
ACME, Los Angeles (CA), USA
I’m Still in Love with You (curated by Stephen Hull) Women’s 20th Century Club, Los Angeles (CA), USA
Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy
Visions, curated by Claudio Guenzani for the XXIX Rencontres International de la Photographie, Arles, France
Exterminating Angel, Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris
Paintings Interested in the Ideas of Architecture and Design, Post, Los Angeles (CA), USA
1997
Project Painting, Basilico Fine Arts and Lehmann Maupin, New York (NY)(cat.)
Palace, Beret International Gallery, Chicago (IL), USA
Hot Coffee, Artists Space, New York (NY)
Sharon Lockhart, Laura Owens, Frances Stark, Blum & Poe, Santa Monica (CA), USA
Vertical Painting Show, P.S.1, New York (NY)
Palace, Beret International Gallery, Chicago (IL), USA
The Eagle Rock Show, Eagle Rock Community Cultural Center, Los Angeles (CA), USA
Hot Coffee, Artists Space, New York (NY)
1996
Wunderbar, Kunstverien, Hamburg, Germany
Screen (curated by Joshua Decter), Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York (NY)
Studio 246, Mark Foxx Gallery Los Angeles (CA), USA
The Speed of Painting, Pat Hearn, New York (NY)
1995
Painting Show, Regen Projects, Los Angeles (CA), USA
Smells Like Vinyl (curated by Thaddeus Strode and Sarah Seager),
Roger Merians Gallery, New York (NY)
Tell Everyone,Greene Naftali Gallery, New York (NY)
From LA with Love, Galerie Praz-delavallade, Paris
1994
Gorgeous Politics (curated by Dave Hickey), Las Vegas (NV), USA
L.A.C.E. Annuale (curated by Dave Hickey), Los Angeles Contemporary Art exhibitions, Los Angeles (CA), USA
Thanks Again, Food House, Santa Monica (CA), USA
Playfield (curated by Randy Sommer), Rio Hondo College, Rio Hondo (CA), USA
Hot Crop (curated by J Willette), Claremont College, Claremont (CA), USA
Awards
1999
Baloise Art Prize at Art Statements, Art 30 Basel
Public Collections
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles (CA), USA
Saatchi Collection, London
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (PA), USA
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (NY)
Guggenheim Museum of Art, New York (NY)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (NY)
San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco (CA), USA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (IL), USA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (CA), USA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (CA), USA
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland