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

2021

Laura Owens & Vincent van Gogh, Fondation Vincent van Gogh, Arles, France

Rerun, Transformer Station, CMA The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland OH, USA

2020

Public Art Fund Commission at Terminal B, LaGuardia Airport, New York NY, USA (commission)

House of Gaga, Mexico City, Mexico

2019

Books and Tables, Matthew Marks, Los Angeles CA, USA

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston MA, USA (commission)

Gavin Brown's Enterprise, Sant'Andrea De Scaphis, Rome, Italy

2018

DMA Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas TX, USA

2017 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY, USA (cat.); The Geffen Contemporary, MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles CA, USA (touring)
2016

Sadie Coles HQ, Kingly Street, London, England

Ten Paintings, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco CA, USA

2015

Soccer Club Club, Chicago IL, USA
Zona Maco, Mexico City, Mexico
Capitain Petzel, Berlin, Germany
Secession, Vienna, Austria

2013 12 Paintings by Laura Owens and Ooga Booga #2, 356 S. Mission Rd., Los Angeles, 356 S. Mission Road, Los Angeles CA, USA
2012

The Finley, Los Angeles CA, USA

Pavement Karaoke / Alphabet,Sadie Coles HQ, New Burlington Place, London, England

Art Unlimited, Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland

2011

Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Crown Point Press, Los Angeles CA, USA
Galerie Gisela Capitan, Cologne, Germany 

2009 Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York NY, USA
2008

Sadie Coles HQ, South Audley Street, London, England

Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York NY, USA
Works on Paper, ACME, Los Angeles CA, USA

Shanghai Embassy, Shanghai, China

2007

American Academy studio exhibition, American Academy, Berlin, Germany

Laura Owens: Paintings & Studies, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, Netherlands

Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy
Ausstellungshalle zeitgenossische Kunst Munster, Kunsthalle Munster, Munster, Germany
2006

Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York NY, USA

Kunsthalle Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland (cat.)

Camden Arts Centre, London, England (brochure)

Sadie Coles HQ, Heddon Street, London, England

Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland (cat.)

2005 Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2004

The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia PA, USA

Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne, Germany

Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York NY, USA

Crown Point Press, San Francisco CA, USA

MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, North Miami FL, USA

2003

MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles CA, USA; Aspen Art Museum, Aspen CO, USA; Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee WI, USA; MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, North Miami FL, USA (cat.)

The General Store, Milwaukee WI, USA

2001

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston MA, USA (cat.)

with Martin Kersels, ACME, Los Angeles CA, USA

2000

Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy

Inverleith House, Royal Botanical Garden, Edinburgh, Scotland

1999

Sadie Coles HQ, Heddon Street, London, England

Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne, Germany

Statements, Gavin Brown's enterprise, Basel Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland

1998

with Scott Reeder, China Art Objects, Los Angeles CA, USA; Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York NY, USA

Acme, Los Angeles CA, USA

Loyola University, Chicago IL, USA

with Sharon Lockhart, Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy

with Jorge Pardo, Patrick Painter, Santa Monica CA, USA

Crown Center Gallery, Loyola University of Chicago, Chicago IL, USA

1997

Sadie Coles HQ, Heddon Street, London, England

Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York NY, USA

1996

with Lisa Anne Auerbach, Studio 246, Kunstlerhaus Bethanian, Berlin, Germany

1995 Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica CA, USA

Group Exhibitions

2024

Halfway to Sanity: Inaugural Group Exhibition, The Pit, Los Angeles CA, USA
Devotion
, House of Gaga, Guadalajara, Mexico
Books: A Group Exhibition
, Paula Cooper Galley, New York NY, USA

2023

Making Their Mark, Shah Garg Foundation, New York NY, USA
Paraventi: Folding Screens from the 17th to 21st Centuries
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Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy

Everything Get LighterMuseo Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico
Together in Time: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection, 
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles CA, USA
To Bend the Ear of the Outer World: Conversations on contemporary abstract painting
Gagosian, Grosvenor Hill and Davies Street, London, England
Capturing the Moment
, Tate Modern, London, England
I'll Be Your Mirror: Art and the Digital Screen, 
The Modern, Fort Worth TX, USA
Dark Light: Realism in the Age of Post-Truths, Aïshti Foundation, Lebanon

2022

Inner dims, Sifang Art Museum, Shanghai, China

Making a Painting, Matthew Marks Gallery, Los Angeles CA, USA

The Painter's New Tools, Nahmad Contemporary, New York NY, USA

Drawing Down the Moon, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles CA, USA

Nothing is to be Done for William T. Wiley, Parker Gallery, Los Angeles CA, USA

Courage Before Expectation, FLAG Art Foundation, New York NY, USA

REPEATER, Sadie Coles HQ, London, England

Christian Sveaas Art Foundation: The Travel Bureau, Whitechapel Gallery, London, England, curated by Paulina Olowska

2021

Post-Capital: Art and the Economics of the Digital Age, MUDAM Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg; Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark (cat.) (touring)

The Youngest Day, Carlier | Gebauer, Berlin, Germany

INFORMATION (Today), Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland; Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norway (cat.) (touring)

The Going Away Present, Kristina Kite Gallery, Los Angeles CA, USA 

The negative version of the official version of things, Balice Hertling, Paris, France, curated by Julie Beaufils

Art of Sport, Contemporary Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

2020

Infinite Games, Capitain Petzel, Berlin, Germany

Ice and Fire: A Benefit Exhibition in Three Parts, The Kitchen online, New York NY, USA

four corners of the landscape, Gaga & Reena Spaulings, Los Angeles CA, USA

Apogee Graphics in Laeh Glenn's exhibition, The Doldrums, Altman Siegel off-site, Bonaventure hotel, Los Angeles CA, USA

It's Urgent, Luma Arles, Arles. France

Portable Documents Formatted For Home Use, Bel Ami online, Los Angeles CA, USA

Duro Olowu: Seeing Chicago, Griffin Galleries of Contemporary Art, MCA Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago IL, USA

 2019

From Day to Day, de la Cruz Collection, Miami

Feelings, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany

L.A. On Fire, Wilding Cran Gallery, Los Angeles CA, USA

One Hundred Drawings, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York NY, USA

Oversharing, Friends Indeed Gallery, San Francisco CA, USA

Nurikabe, Troedsson Villa at Tetsuo's Garage, Nikko, Japan

In the Company of Artists. 25 Years of Artists-in-Residence, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum / Hostetter Gallery, Boston MA, USA

Computer und Papier (VARIOUS OTHERS), Jahn und Jahn, Munich, Germany

7 Painters, Greene Naftali, New York NY, USA

Less Is a Bore: Maximalist Art & Design, ICA Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston MA, USA

Artists I Steal From, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, London, England

Forever Young: 10 Years of Museum Brandhorst, Museum Brandhorst, Munich, Germany

Flora + Fauna, Sadie Coles HQ, Davies Street, London, England

The Foundation of the Museum: MOCA's Collection, MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles CA, USA

Process Context, ArtCenter College of Design, Pasadena CA, USA

2018

West by Midwest, MCA Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago IL, USA

The Joy of Color, Mnuchin Gallery, New York NY, USA

Kollectors' Series, chi K11 space, Hong Kong

Another World. Works from The Deutsche Bank Collection, Frieze London & Frieze Masters, Regent's Park, London, England

Crossroads: Carnegie Museum of Art's Collection, 1945 to Now, CMOA Carnegie Museum of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh PA, USA

I Was Raised on the Internet, MCA Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago IL, USA

The Mechanics of Fluids, Marianne Boesky, New York NY, USA

A TIME CAPSULE: Works Made by Women for Parkett, 1984 - 2017, Parkett Exhibition Space, Zurich, Switzerland

Vampire's Kiss, Aspect Ratio, Chicago IL, USA

Inherent Structure, Wexner Center for the Arts, The Ohio State University, Columbus OH, USA Nudes, Sadie Coles HQ, Davies Street, London, England

Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today, ICA Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, Boston MA, USA

2017

Force and Form, De la Cruz Collection, Miami FL, USA

made on the table, Sadie Coles HQ, Davies Street, London, England

Infected Foot, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York NY, USA

Social Surfaces, Artist's Space, New York NY, USA

A Spaghetti Dress for World Peace, Park View, Los Angeles CA, USA

Chapters: Book Arts in Southern California, CAFAM Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles CA, USA

Depuis le temps, Galerie Mezzanin, Geneva, Switzerland

Geneva Infected Foot, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York NY, USA

Vanishing Points, James Cohan Gallery, New York NY, USA

Zeitgeist, MAMCO Musée d'art Modern et Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland

Tomorrow Will Still Be Ours, Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York NY, USA

The Florine Stettheimer Collapsed Time Salon, The Armory Fair, New York NY, USA, presented by Jeffrey Deitch

.COM/.CN, K11 Art Foundation Pop-up Space, Hong Kong, presented by K11 Art Foundation and MoMA PS1

Animal Farm, The Brant Foundation, Greenwich, Connecticut NY, USA

The Brightsiders, Verge Center for the Arts, Sacramento CA, USA

Landscapes: Urban & Rural, Crown Point Press, San Francisco CA, USA

2016

La collection Thea Westreich Wagner et Ethan Wagner, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

Administrate, Artspeak, Vancouver ON, Canada, curated by Anthony Huberman

L'Almanach 16, Le Consortium, Dijon, France

Fine Young Cannibals, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York NY, USA

Apeirophobia/Aporia, Human Resources, Los Angeles CA, USA

Sharon Lockhart, Laura Owens, Frances Stark, The Artist's Institute, New York NY, USA

Los Angeles - A Fiction, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norway

Come as You Are: Art of the 1990s, Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin TX, USA
2015

Collected by Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY, USA

Painting 2.0: Expression in the Information Age, Museum Brandhorst, Munich, Germany

Doodles, The Vanity Bakersfield, Bakersfield CA, USA

best students, best teachers, best school: Michel Majerus, Albert Oehlen & Laura Owens, Michel Majerus Estate, Berlin, Germany

Far Bazaar, Old Federal Reserve, Los Angeles CA, USA

Printed Matters, Gesso Artspace, Vienna, Austria

Works on Paper, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York NY, USA

Can't Reach Me There, Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis MN, USA, curated by Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer

Marks Made: Prints by American Women Artists from the 1960s to the Present, MFA Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg FL, USA

The World is Made of Stories, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norway
NO MAN'S LAND: Women Artists from the Rubell Family Collection, Rubell Museum, Miami FL, USA

Storylines: Contemporary Art at the Guggenheim, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York NY, USA

Pretty Raw: After and Around Helen Frankenthaler, The Rose Art Museum, Waltham MA, USA

Painting after Technology: Making Traces, Tate Modern, London, England

Open Source: Art at the Eclipse of Capitalism, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany

Come as You Are: Art of the 1990s, MAM Montclair Art Museum, Montclair NJ, USA; Telfair Museums, Savannah GA, USA; UMMA University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor MI, USA

Call and Response, Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York NY, USA

2014

Variations: Conversations in and Around Abstract Painting, LACMA Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles CA, USA

Painter's Painters: Gifts from Alex Katz, High Museum of Art, Atlanta GA, USA

Capture the Rapture, CB1 Gallery, Los Angeles CA, USA

Nature Study, Crown Point Press, Los Angeles CA, USA

Persian Rose Chartreuse Muse Vancouver Grey, Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

The good, the bad and the ugly, Gesso Artspace, Vienna, Austria

Another Cats Show, 356 S. Mission Rd, Los Angeles CA, USA

Cornucopia, Parkett Exhibition Space, Zurich, Switzerland

The Machine Project Field Guide to the Gamble House, Gamble House, Pasadena CA, USA Wake Up Early, Fear Death, Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna, Austria, curated by Philipp Kaiser

Death Ship: A Tribute to H.C. Westermann, The Pit, Los Angeles CA, USA

The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World, MoMA The Museum of Modern Art, New York NY, USA

Loveless, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York NY, USA

2014 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY, USA

Joyride, Marlborough Broome Street, New York NY, USA
2013

Working Proofs: A Revelation, Crown Point Press, San Francisco CA, USA

Yes, No, Maybe: Artists Working at Crown Point Press, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. DC, USA

Selections from the Venice Beach Biennial, Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles CA, USA

Abstract - Nature: Selected Parkett Artists' Editions, 1984-2013, Parkett Space, Zurich, Switzerland

Made in Space, Venus Over Manhattan/Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York NY, USA, curated by Peter Harkawick and Laura Owens

The Cat Show, White Columns, New York NY, USA

Painting Between the Lines, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown MA, USA

Wir Drei, Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, Orange CA, USA

Small Gems, Crown Point Press, San Francisco CA, USA
2012

The Holodeck, PØST, Los Angeles CA, USA

PRINT IMPRINT, Actual Size Los Angeles and Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles CA, USA

The Nudes Painting Show, 3704 North Figueroa, Los Angeles CA, USA

The Spectacular of Vernacular, Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill NC, USA

Looking Back for the Future, Kunsthalle Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Things, Words and Consequences, MMOMA Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia

Curatorial Exchange, Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine CA, USA

Pittura (1995-2009), Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy
Pure Perception, Monica de Cardenas, Milan, Italy

2011

The Cactus Painting Show, 3704 North Figueroa, Los Angeles CA, USA

From Where You Just Arrived, Pepin Moore, Los Angeles CA, USA

PURE PERCEPTION: Kristin Baker, Laura Owens, Mai-Thu Perret, Amanda Ross-Ho, Monica de Cardenas, Milan, Italy

Painting Between the Lines, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco CA, USA

A Painting Show, Harris Lieberman, New York NY, USA
The Artist's Museum, MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles CA, USA

The Boy Who Robbed You A Few Minutes Before Arriving At The Ball, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne, Germany
Ordinary Madness, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh PA, USA
The Spectacular of Vernacular, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis MO, USA

2010

Happy Holidays! Drawings!, Alex Zachary, New York NY, USA

MOCA'S First Thirty Years, MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles CA, USA

Painting and sculpture, Lehmann Maupin, New York NY, USA

Ordinary Madness, CMOA Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh PA, USA

Hecate's Lab, Senior & Shopmaker Gallery, New York NY, USA
At Home/Not at Home, CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson NY, USA

2009

15 Year Gallery Artist Group Exhibition, ACME, Los Angeles CA, USA

Art Tells the times, Works by Women Artists, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Continuous Present, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven CT, USA, curated by Jennifer Gross

Slow Paintings, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany

Continuous Present, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven CT, USA

The Still Life Show, Five Thirty Three, Los Angeles CA, USA

Broodowork : Creative Practive and Family Life, Center for the Arts Eagle Rock, Los Angeles CA, USA

Hello, Mrs. MacGruder, Benson Keyes Arts, Southampton NY, USA, curated by Michele Maccarone
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, USA

Painting Now and Forever Part II, Greene Naftali and Matthew Marks, New York NY, USA

Living Flowers: Ikebana and Contemporary Art, JANM 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 Museum, Miami FL, USA

Collecting Collections: Highlights from the permanent collection, MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles CA, USA
2007

Poets on Painters, Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita KS, USA (cat.) Legends Altered: Maps as Method and Medium, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago IL, USA

Sequence 1: Painting and Sculpture from the Francois Pinault Collection, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy

Summer Exhibition, RA Royal Academy of Arts, London, England

Gallery Artists Summer Show, Sadie Coles HQ, Heddon Street, London, England

Very Abstract and Hyper Figurative, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, England, curated by Jens Hoffman

Visuell/Affinities: New Acquisitions Sammlung Deutsche Bank Collection, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany

Contemporary Painters and Their Infulences, Contmpoary Art Canter of Virginia, Virginia Beach VA, USA

2006

The Garden Party, Deitch Projects, New York NY, USA

All the Best: The Deutsche Bank Collection and Zaha Hadid, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore

The Art of Etching at Crown Point Press, Bobbie Greenfield Gallery, Santa Monica CA, USA

Red Eye: L.A. Artists from the Rubell Family Collection, Rubell Museum, Miami FL, USA

Art For Our Sake!, CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson NY, USA

The Fluidity of Time: Selections from the MCA Collection, MCA Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago IL, USA

Hotel California, Glendale College Art Gallery, Glendale CA, USA

Essential Painting, NMAO The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan

Blind Date: Recent Acquisitions of the Deutsche Bank Collection, Galerie Kunstforum Altes Haus, Seligenstadt, Germany

2005

Extreme Abstraction, Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo NY, USA (cat.)

Desired Constellations, Daniel Reich Gallery, New York NY, USA

After Cezanne, MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles CA, USA

Goetz Meets Falckenberg, Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg, Germany

Ideal Worlds: New Romanticism in Contemporary Art, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany

Recent acquisitions, MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art Grand Avenue, Los Angeles CA, USA

The Early show, White columns, New York NY, USA

Drawn to Cleveland, MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Cleveland OH, USA

Plip, Plip, Plippity, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles CA, USA

Old News, LACE Los Angeles Contemporary Exibitions, Los Angeles CA, USA

Think Blue, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles CA, USA

Huts, The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland

25 Deutsche Bank Collection, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany

Post Modern, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York NY, USA
2004

The Undiscovered Country, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles CA, USA

Four Color Pen Show, Locust Projects, Miami FL, USA

POST MoDERN, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York NY, USA

2004 Whitney Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY, USA

Huts, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland

Never Never Landscape, Alte Gerhardsen, Berlin, Germany, curated by Kirsty Bell

Contemporary Painting, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville ME, USA, curated by Alex Katz (cat.)

Cavepainting, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica CA, USA

Malerei, Galerie Rolf Hengesbach, Cologne, Germany

Drunk vs. Stone, Passerby, New York NY, USA, curated by the General Store

Painting's EDGE (visiting artist for summer program), Idyllwild Arts, Idyllwild CA, USA

2003

Inaugural Exhibition, Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York NY, USA

Painting Pictures: Painting and Media in the Digital Age, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany (cat.)

2002

Drawing Now: Eight Propositions, MoMA The Museum of Modern Art, New York NY, USA

with Peter Doig and Chris Ofili, Cave Paintings, ICA LA Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles CA, USA

Painting on the Move, Kunstmuseum Basel; Museum für Gegenwartskunst Basel; Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Urgent Painting, MAM Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France

The Mystery of Painting, Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany
2001

Paintings, 5117 Eagle Rock Blvd, Los Angeles CA, USA

Public Offerings, MOCAMuseum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles CA, USA

Lens and Paper - the Beauty of Intimacy, Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, The Netherlands; Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden, Germany; Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, Germany

The Mystery of Painting, Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany

Accumulations, School of Art Gallery, Kent State University, Kent OH, USA

Some Options in Abstraction, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge MA, USA

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

Drawing 2000, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York NY, USA (cat.)

On Canvas: Contemporary Painting from the Collection, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York NY, USA, curated by J. Fiona Ragheb

American Academy Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, The American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York NY, USA

The Next Wave: New Painting in Southern California, California Center for the Arts, Encondido CA, USA, curated by N. Gamblin

Examining Pictures: Exhibiting Paintings, MCA Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago IL, USA; 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, ARCO, Turin, Italy, curated by Sergio Bertaccini

Carnegie International 1999/2000, CMOA 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 Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco CA, USA

Examining Pictures, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, England; MCA Museum of Contemporary Art, 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, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North California at Greensboro, Greensboro NC, USA, curated by Elizabeth Brown

Local Colour, University of La Verne, La Verne CA, USA, curated by Virginia Rutledge
1998

Hello Out There, ACME, Los Angeles CA, USA

Colour fields, Luckman Fine Arts Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles CA, USA, curated by David Pagel

Young Americans 2, Saatchi Gallery, London, England

I'm Still in Love with You Women's, 20th Century Club, Los Angeles CA, USA, curated by Stephen Hull

Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy

Visions, XXIX Rencontres International de la Photographie, Arles, France, curated by Claudio Guenzani

Exterminating Angel, Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris

Paintings Interested in the Ideas of Architecture and Design, Post, Los Angeles CA, USA
1997

The Prophecy of Pop, CAC Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans LA, USA

Project Painting, Basilico Fine Arts and Lehmann Maupin, New York NY, USA

Palace, Beret International Gallery, Chicago IL, USA

Hot Coffee, Artists Space, New York NY, USA

Sharon Lockhart, Laura Owens, Frances Stark, Blum & Poe, Santa Monica CA, USA

Vertical Painting Show, P.S.1, New York NY, USA

Palace, Beret International Gallery, Chicago IL, USA

The Eagle Rock Show, Center for the Arts Eagle Rock, Los Angeles CA, USA

Hot Coffee, Artists Space, New York NY, USA
1996

Wunderbar, Kunstverien, Hamburg, Germany

Screen, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York NY, USA, curated by Joshua Decter

Studio 246, Mark Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles CA, USA

The Speed of Painting, Pat Hearn, New York NY, USA

1995

Painting Invitational, Regen Projects, Los Angeles CA, USA

Tell Everyone, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York NY, USA

Smells Like Vinyl, Roger Merians Gallery, New York NY, USA, curated by Thaddeus Strode and Sarah Seager

1994

From LA with Love, Galerie Praz-delavallade, Paris, France

Gorgeous Politics, Las Vegas NV, USA, curated by Dave Hickey

L.A.C.E. Annuale, LACE Los Angeles Contemporary Art Exhibitions, Los Angeles CA, USA; Temporary Contemporary Gallery, Las Vegas NV, USA, curated by Dave Hickey

Thanks Again, Food House, Santa Monica CA, USA

Playfield, Rio Hondo College, Rio Hondo CA, USA, curated by Randy Sommer

Hot Crop, Claremont College, Claremont CA, USA, curated by J Willette

Commissions

2020

Public Art Fund Commission at Terminal B, LaGuardia Airport, New York NY, USA 

2019                      

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston MA, USA

Curatorial Projects

2013

Made in Space, Night Gallery, Los Angeles CA, USA, curated by Laura Owens and Peter Harkawik

1997

The Eagle Rock Show, Center for the Arts Eagle Rock, Los Angeles CA, USA, curated by Laura Owens

Talks

2019                      

Charles Gaines in Conversation with Thelma Golden, Laura Owens, and Gary Simmons, Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles CA, USA, 03 November

Public Collections

 

Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago IL, USA

CMOA Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh PA, USA

Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

DMA Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas TX, USA

FWM The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia PA, USA

Guggenheim Museums and Foundation, New York NY, USA

Hammer Museum, Los Angeles CA, USA

High Museum of Art, Atlanta GA, USA

ICA Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston MA, USA

Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha NE, USA

J. Paul Getty Trust, Los Angeles CA, USA

LACMA Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles CA, USA

The MET Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York NY, USA

Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland

MCA Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago IL, USA

MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles CA, USA

MoMA Museum of Modern Art, New York NY, USA

OCMA Orange County Museum of Art, Santa Ana CA, USA

RISD Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence RI, USA

SFMOMA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco CA, USA

S.M.A.K. Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent, Belgium

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY, USA

Tate Collection, London, England

Awards

1999

Baloise Art Prize at Art Statements, Art 30 Basel, Basel, Switzerland