Rachel Harrison
1966
born in New York, US
lives and works in Brooklyn, NY, US
1989
B.A., Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, US
AWARDS
2015
Anonymous Was A Woman Award
2011
Calder Prize, Calder Foundation, France
2010
Herb Alpert Award in the Arts, Herb Alpert Foundation, CA, US
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
MoMA, New York
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Tate Modern, London
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, US
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Brandhorst Museum, Munich, Germany
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, US
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C., US
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, US
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, US
Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Art Institute of Chicago, IL, US
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA, US
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX, US
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, US
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, US
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada
Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland
Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD, US
Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX, US
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA, US
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, US
Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH, US
The Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University
Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris
Glenstone, Potomac, MD, US
Henry Art Gallery, Seattle
Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, US
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA, US
Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO, US
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas
New School University Art Collection, New York
Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, New York
Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
Birdwatching, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Berlin
Reverberations, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA
2022
Sitting in a Room, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norway
Caution Kneeling Bus, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2021
Assorted Varieties, Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago, IL, US Scanner Pro Paintings, Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna, Austria
2020
Drawings, Greene Naftali, New York, USA
2019
Rachel Harrison Life Hack, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
2018
House of the Dolphins, Rat Hole Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2017
Prasine, Greene Naftali, New York, USA
2016
Depth Jump to Second Box, Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin
More News: A Situation, Greene Naftali, New York, USA
Perth Amboy, MoMA, New York, USA
2015
Rachel Harrison, Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL, USA
Three Young Framers, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Gloria: Robert Rauschenberg & Rachel Harrison, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, USA
2014
Who Gave You This Number?, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, New York, USA
2013
Fake Titel, Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover, Germany; S.M.A.K., Ghent, Belgium
as Fake Titel: Turquoise-Stained Altars for Burger Turner, Villeperdue, Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna, Austria
2012
The Help, Greene Naftali, New York, USA
2011
Rachel Harrison / Scott Lyall: Double Yolk, Galerie Christian Nagel, Antwerp, Belgium
2010
Asdfjkl;, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2009
Consider the Lobster, Center for Curatorial Studies, Hessel Museum, Bard College, Annandale-on Hudson, New York, USA; Portikus, Frankfurt am Main, Germany as HAYCATION; Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
2008
Lay of the Land, Le Consortium, Dijon, France
2007
Voyage of the Beagle, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich; Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Germany
If I Did It, Greene Naftali, New York, USA
2006
sometimes it snows in april, The McAllister Institute, New York, USA
Checking the Tires, Not to Mention the Marble Nude, Galerie Christian Nagel, Cologne, Germany
When Hangover Becomes Form, in collaboration with Scott Lyall, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada; Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2005
Car Stereo Parkway, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
2004
New Work, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, USA
Latka/Latkas, Greene Naftali, New York, USA
Posh Floored as Ali G Tackles Becks, Camden Arts Centre, London, UK
Excuse Me?, Arndt & Partner, Berlin
2003
Westward Ho, Bergen Kunsthall, Gallery No. 5, Bergen, Norway
2002
Currents 30: Rachel Harrison, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI, USA
Brides and Bases, Oakville Galleries, Toronto, Canada
Art Statements, Art 33, Basel, Switzerland
Seven Sculptures, Arndt & Partner, Berlin
2001
Perth Amboy, Greene Naftali, New York, USA
1999
Daily Double, Berlin Art Forum, Berlin
Patent Pending: Beveled Rasp Sac, Greene Naftali, New York, USA
1997
The Look of Dress-Separates, Greene Naftali, New York, USA
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, USA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
In Dialogue with Picasso, Skarstedt, New York, USA
Drunk vs. Stoned 3, The Ranch, Montauk, New York, USA
Suncrush, Greene Naftali, New York, USA
Before Tomorrow, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norway
Collection 1970s–Present, The Museum of Modern Art, New York Works on Paper: 100 Years, Amanita, New York, USA
Drawing by Sculptors, Helena Anrather, New York, USA
2022
Jacqueline Humphries, Greene Naftali, New York, USA
Faking the Real, Kunsthaus Graz, Austria
Stars Don’t Stand Still in the Sky: A Tribute to Lawrence Weiner, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA, USA
How Do We Know the World?, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, USA
Open Storage: 25 Years of Collecting, The Warehouse, Dallas, TX, USA
Stage Fright, LGDR, New York, USA
Fata Morgana, Jeu de Paume, Paris, France
Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, USA
2021
8/XXX, Carlier Gebauer, Berlin
Camouflage, Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna, Austria
On the Level or Man who Fell out of Bed, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria
Glenstone, Potomac, MD, USA
Closer to Life: Drawings and Works on Paper in the Marieluise Hessel Collection, CCS Bard Galleries,
Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, USA
Toes, Knees, Shoulders, Heads + Butts & Guts, Meredith Rosen, New York, USA
Greene Naftali East Hampton, East Hampton, New York, USA
Selections: Gallery Artists, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Obscene, Riverside Drive, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Cut a rug a round square, Officine Grandi Riparazioni di Torino, Turin, Italy
From Disco to Disco, Greene Naftali, New York, USA
Pathologically Social, O-Town House, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Between the Earth and Sky, Kasmin, New York, USA
2020
Rachel Harrison & Carol Rama, Fergus McCaffrey St. Barth, St Barthélemy, France
00s. Cranford Collection - The 2000s, MO.CO. Hôtel des collections, Montpellier, France
Painterly: From Warhol and Twombly to Today – Paintings from the Museum Brandhorst, Neues Museum, Nürnberg, Germany
Mask, Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, New York, USA
Greene Naftali at Galerie Chantal Crousel: “Arrangement in Gray“, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France
100 Drawings from Now, The Drawing Center, New York, USA
Drawing 2020, Gladstone Gallery, New York, USA
STEDELIJK BASE, part 2, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
A Possible Horizon, de la Cruz Collection, Miami, FL, USA
Material Meanings: Selections from the Constance R. Caplan Collection, Art Institute of Chicago, IL, USA
New Images of Man, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Beings, dépendance, Brussels, Belgium
1. COLOR 2. HOLE AND 3. JOKE, Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna, Austria
2019
About Face: Selected Photographs from the Collection of Carol and David Appel, Musée des beaux-arts de Montreal, Canada
Marcel Duchamp: The Barbara and Aaron Levine Collection, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., USA
Collection Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago, IL, USA
Cranford Collection, Gloucester Gate, London, UK
who knows one, Vistamare, Pescara, Italy
From Day to Day, de la Cruz Collection, Miami, FL, USA
Yorkshire Sculpture International 2019, Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds, UK
Celebration of Our Enemies: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection, The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, LA, USA
Dracula’s Wedding, RODEO Gallery, London, UK
Private Passion – New Acquisitions in the Astrup Fearnley Collection, Astrup Fearnley, Oslo, Norway
Sensation of Space, The Warehouse, Dallas, TX, USA
Open House: Elliot Hundley, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Negative Space: Trajectories of Sculpture, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
Group Exhibition: Rachel Harrison, Albert Oehlen, Jimmy Wright, Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago, IL, USA
Strategic Vandalism: The Legacy of Asger Jorn's Modification Paintings, Petzel, New York, USA
Five Ways In: Themes from the Collection, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, USA
2018
More/Less, de la Cruz Collection, Miami, FL, USA
How to Bump into a Sculpture: Davide Balula, Isabelle Cornaro, Rachel Harrison, Galerie Frank Elbaz, Dallas, TX, USA
Family Guy, Simon Lee, London, UK
Everything Is Connected: Art and Conspiracy, Met Breuer, New York, USA
Ce n'est pas la taille qui compte, Quentin Schmerber, Maison d'Art Bernard Anthonioz, Nogent-sur- Marne, France
Faculty Selections for Harvard Courses, University Study Gallery, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, USA
Crossroads: Carnegie Museum of Art’s Collection, 1945 to Now, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PN, USA
Painting, Now and Forever: Part III, Greene Naftali and Matthew Marks, New York, USA
Class Reunion: Works from the Gaby and Wilhelm Schürmann Collection, mumok, Vienna, Austria
Topologies, The Warehouse, Dallas, TX, USA
Collection Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago, IL, USA
Plato in L.A.: Contemporary Artists’ Visions, Getty Villa, Los Angeles, LA, USA
The Way Things Go, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, USA
The Moderna Museet Collection, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Public Service Announcement: Works by Eva Koátková and Rachel Harrison, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Collection Exhibition, Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Collection Exhibition, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, USA
Walking Point, Greene Naftali, New York, USA
Faithless Pictures, Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo, Norway
Jay DeFeo: The Ripple Effect, Le Consortium, Dijon; traveled to Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO, USA
2017
aroundabout Jack Jaeger, Kunstverein Langenhagen, Germany
Force and Form, de la Cruz Collection, Miami, FL, USA
Like a Moth to a Flame, Fondazione Sandretto, Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
Social Surfaces, a Fundraising Exhibition to Support Our Relocation to 80 White Street in 2018, Artists Space, New York, USA
Studio for Propositional Cinema | in relation to a Spectator, Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover, Germany
Small Sculpture, Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago, IL, USA
Something Living, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Nuclear Family, Ibid Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Steps to Aeration, Tanya Leighton, Berlin
Feedback, Marlborough Contemporary, New York, USA
The Collection as Time Machine, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands
The Times, FLAG Art Foundation, New York, USA
Reconstitution,LAX Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA
M/D Coda, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, USA
What I Loved: Selected Works from the '90s, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Unseen Hand, Knockdown Center, Maspeth, New York, USA
Collection Exhibition, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, USA
Zeitgeist, MAMCO, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Geneva, Switzerland
You Belong Here: Reimagining the Blanton, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX, USA
Tomorrow Will Still Be Ours, an exhibition to benefit the ACLU, Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York, USA
We need to talk..., Petzel Gallery, New York, USA
2016
65 Works Selected by James Welling: Exhibition and Sale to Benefit the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, David Zwirner, New York, USA
OPENING SENTENCE: the problem with doors, collection exhibition, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, USA
Progressive Praxis, de la Cruz Collection, Miami, FL, USA
The Artist’s Museum, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA, USA
A Place of Our Time, curated by Eugenio Re Rebaudengo, Palazzo Capris, Turin, Italy
The Sun Placed in the Abyss, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH, USA
After Pop Life, Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, CA, USA
Collection Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago, IL, USA
Tre Amici, Tre Amici Restaurant, Long Branch, New Jersey, NY, USA
Invisible Adversaries: Marieluise Hessel Collection, Hessel Museum of Art, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, USA
Reading Context, curated by Ann Butler, The Collection Teaching Gallery, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, USA
Good Dreams, Bad Dreams - American Mythologies, Aïshti Foundation, Beirut, Libanon
Manifesta 11, What People Do for Money: Some Joint Ventures, Jankowski, Zurich, Switzerland
Prospect, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego La Jolla, San Diego, CA, USA
The Campaign for Art: Contemporary, collection exhibition, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, USA
Human Interest: Portraits from the Whitney’s Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
Receipt of a Magical Agent, collection exhibition, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, USA
A Group of Fish and Other Schools, collection exhibition, Hessel Museum of Art, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, USA
Ordinary Pictures, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, USA
MashUp: The Birth of Modern Culture, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
The Calder Prize 2005-2015, Pace Gallery, London, UK
ACTIVE INGREDIENT, Lisa Cooley, New York, USA
Foundation Barbin Presents: Redeux (Sort of), Kai Matsumiya Gallery, New York, USA
2015
The World is Made of Stories: Works from the Astrup Fearnley Collection, Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo, Norway
NO MAN’S LAND: Women Artists from the Rubell Family Collection, Rubell Family Collection Contemporary Arts Foundation, Miami, FL, USA; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C., USA
You've Got to Know the Rules...to Break Them, de la Cruz Collection Contemporary Art Space, Miami, FL, USA
Painting 2.0: Expression in the Information Age, Museum Brandhorst, Munich; MUMOK, Museum
Moderner Kunststiftung, Vienna, Austria
Collection Exhibition, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada
Collection Exhibition, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH, USA
Voyage of the Beagle, Two, bassX, Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL, USA
Material Stackers, Old Room, New York, USA
The Great Mother, Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy
You Know I’m No Good, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA, USA
Transcending Material: ICA Collection, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA, USA
Minimal Forms of Reality, Bunkier Sztuki Gallery of Contemporary Art, Krakow, Poland
Objects Food Rooms, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, USA
Under the Clouds, Porto, Portugal
The Unknown Masterpiece, Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna
My wife does the dishes, I do the revolution, Kimmerich Gallery, Berlin
Storylines: Contemporary Art at the Guggenheim, collection exhibition, Carmen Hermo, Nancy Spector, Nat Trotman, and Joan Young, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
Made in USA, V-A-C Foundation, Moscow, Russia
Works on Paper, Greene Naftali, New York, USA
Gargle/Spit, TBD, New York, USA
America Is Hard to See, collection exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
Zabludowicz Collection: 20 Years, Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK
The Pleasure of the Text, Campoli Presti, London, UK
Works from the Astrup Fearnley Collection, Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo, Norway
Sorry, I’ve been trying to teach a peacock how to act, Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York, USA
Picasso in Contemporary Art, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany; Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH, USA
Moves & Countermoves, collection exhibition, Hessel Museum of Art, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, USA
Selections from the de la Cruz Collection, Nova Southeastern University Alvin Sherman Library, Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA
Le Souffleur: Schürmann meets Ludwig, Ludwig Forum, Aachen, Germany
Mending Wall, The Pit, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Picture/Thing, Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan Center for the Arts, Middletown, CT, USA
Nude Model, The Green Gallery, Milwaukee, WI, USA
2014
Collection Exhibition, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France
Artists for Artists: 51st Anniversary Exhibition to Benefit the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, USA
Authority Figures, Skybridge Art Space, Eugene Lang College, The New School, New York The Novel That Writes Itself, Greene Naftali, New York, USA
At the Hub of Things: New Views of the Collection, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., USA
Pop Departures, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA, USA
Pure Water: The Most Valuable Resource in the World, LENTOS Kunstmuseum Linz, Austria
20th Anniversary Editions on View, Blind Spot | Griffin Editions Project Space, Brooklyn, New York
Concrete Infinity, collection exhibition, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Cast from Life, Skarstedt, New York, USA
The Material Image, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, USA
Pierogi XX: Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition, Pierogi, New York, USA
Notations/Threshold: Sculpture from the Contemporary Art Collection, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PN, USA
A Machinery for Living, Petzel Gallery, New York, USA
Displayed, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, USA
Une histoire, art, architecture et design, des années 80 à aujourd’hui, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Rockaway!, Rockaway Beach Surf Club, New York, USA
Chat Jet (Part 2): Sculpture in Reflection, Künstlerhaus Halle für Kunst & Medien, Graz, Austria
The Human Factor, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
Collection on Display, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland
COPIED, Andrew Roth, New York, USA
Masterworks on Loan, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Eugene, OR, USA
Collection Exhibition, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
The Great Hall Exhibitions, The Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, New York, USA
On Radical Juxtaposition, Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg, Germany
Energy and Process, collection exhibition, Tate Modern, London, UK
The Moderna Museet Collection, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Post-Picasso: Contemporary Reactions, Picasso Museum, Barcelona, Spain
Reliable Tension, 32 Edgewood Gallery, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT, USA
Elevated: Contemporary Art in the AGO Tower, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
2013
The Pink Panther Imitates Nothing, Memorial Hall Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, USA
Double Hamburger Deluxe, Marlborough Chelsea, New York, USA
Nasher Xchange, Dallas City Hall Plaza, Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX, USA
Collagierte Skulpturen, KAI 10, Arthena Foundation, Düsseldorf
Descartes’ Daughter, Swiss Institute, New York, USA
Some Dreamers of the Golden Dream, Greene Naftali, New York, USA
Test Pattern, collection exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
LAT. 41° 7' N., LONG. 72° 19' W, Martos Gallery, Bridgehampton, New York, USA
Roving Signs, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, USA
Freak Out!, Greene Naftali, New York, USA
Once again the world is flat, collection exhibition, Hessel Museum of Art, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, USA
Film as Sculpture, WIELS Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels, Belgium
Collection Exhibition, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PN, USA
Screens, Murray Guy, New York, USA
The Distaff Side, The Granary, Sharon, CT, USA
Beg Borrow and Steal, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA, USA
NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star, New Museum, New York People, Parkett Space, Zurich, Switzerland
Monsalvat, Bureau, New York, USA
The Bigger Picture, The Artist’s Institute, New York, USA
2012
Once Removed: Sculpture’s Changing Frame of Reference, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, USA
Rumba & Rum Baba, Galerie Laurent Godin, Paris, France
Collection Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago, IL, USA
Collection Exhibition, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD, USA
Now Here is Also Nowhere: Part I, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA, USA
Blues for Smoke, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA; Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH, USA
Museion meets Migros. 20th Century Remix, Museion, Bolzano, Italy
To Be With Art Is All We Ask, collection exhibition, Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo, Norway
Imagination Adrift, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
Collection Exhibition, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Inaugural Exhibition by Gallery Artists, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Lou Ford, G Gallery, Toronto, Canada
DECADE: Contemporary Collecting 2002-2012, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York Natural History, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PN, USA
Buy My Bananas, Kate Werble Gallery, New York, USA
Painting in Space, Luhring Augustine, New York, USA
Zoologie, Muse?e d’art contemporain de Montreal, Montreal, Canada
ICA Collection, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA, USA
Matters of Fact, Hessel Museum of Art, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale- on-Hudson, New York, USA
Utopia/Dystopia: Constructed with Photography, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, US Invitational Exhibition of Visual Artists, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, USA
Friends & Family, Lincoln House, London, UK
Look Now: Modern and Contemporary Art from Private Collections, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ, USA
2011
Contemporary Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Universes in Universe, Astrup Fearnley Museum Collection at the Sao Paulo Biennial, Brazil
Facing the Abyss, Witzenhausen Gallery, New York, USA
Repossessed, Western Bridge, Seattle Collection Exhibition, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada
Distant Star: An exhibition organized around the writings of Roberto Bolano, Regen Projects, Los Angeles; traveled to Kurimanzutto, Mexico City, Mexico
Bridgehampton Biennial, Martos Gallery, Bridgehampton, New York, USA
We Will Live, We Will See, collection exhibition, Zabludowicz Collection, London; UK
14 & 15, The Lipstick Building, New York, USA
Exposition d'Ouverture, Le Consortium, Dijon, France
Absentee Landlord, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Calder Prize Presentation, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy
Schnitte im Raum, Skulpturale Collagen, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany
Highlights from the Maurice van Valen Gift, Temporary Stedelijk 2, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Time Again, ScuptureCenter, Long Island City, New York, USA
After Images, Jewish Museum Belgium, Brussels, Belgium
That's the way we do it, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria
Human Nature: Contemporary Art from the Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA
From the Recent Past: New Acquisitions, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Entertainment, Greene Naftali, New York, USA
Notations/Everyday Disturbances, collection exhibition, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PN, USA
The Spectacular of Vernacular, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Contemporary Arts Museum Houston; Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, New Jersey; Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Transformed Objects, KAI 10, Raum für Kunst, Arthena Foundation, Düsseldorf
Modern British Sculpture, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
New York to London and Back – The Medium of Contingency, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, UK
2010
How Soon Now, Rubell Family Collection Contemporary Arts Foundation, Miami, FL, USA
The More Things Change, collection exhibition, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, USA
Ordinary Madness, collection exhibition, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PN, USA
The Last Newspaper, New Museum, New York, USA
The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today, MoMA, New York; Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland
Vortexhibition Polyphonica Opus III (rotations 1 and 2), collection exhibition, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA, USA
Contemporary Art from the Collection, MOMA, New York, USA
At Home/Not At Home: Works from the Collection of Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg, Hessel Museum of Art, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, USA
To Believe, La Mama La Galleria, New York, USA
Blind Spot Lab & Exhibition - Issue 41, Wild Project, New York, USA
Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography, MOMA, New York, USA
Nachleben, Wyoming Building, Goethe-Institut, New York, USA
Sorry We’re Closed, curated by Sebastien Janssen, Art Brussels, Belgium
Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA; Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain
Sculpture as Time: Major Works. New Acquisitions., Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
Abstract Resistance, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Don't Look Back in Anger, Lincoln House, London, UK
de la Cruz Collection 2010-2011 Exhibition, de la Cruz Contemporary Art Space, Miami, FL, USA
2009
Beg Borrow and Steal, Rubell Family Collection Contemporary Arts Foundation, Miami, FL, USA
A Few Frames: Photography and the Contact Sheet, collection exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
Das Gespinst: Die Sammlung Schürmann zu Besuch im Museum Abteiberg, Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany
For the blind man in the dark room looking for the black cat that isn’t there, Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis; Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit; de Appel Arts Centre, Amsterdam; Culturgest, Lisbon, Portugal
Precarious Form I, Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna, Austria
The Secret Life of Objects, Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Collecting History: Highlighting Recent Acquisitions, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Making Worlds, 53rd Venice Biennale, Italian Pavilion, Venice, Italy
Mapping the Studio: Artists from the Francois Pinault Collection, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy Abstract America: New Painting and Sculpture, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
Practice, Practice, Practice, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, TX, USA
40th Anniversary Benefit Auction, White Columns, New York, USA
Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection, MoMA, New York, USA
Lichtzwang, Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
phot(o)bjects, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
In a Room Anything Can Happen, collection exhibition, Hessel Museum of Art, Center for Curatorial Studies, Annandale-On-Hudson, Bard College, New York, USA
Sites, collection exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
N’importe Quoi, Musée d’art contemporain de Lyon, France
Altermodern, Tate Triennial, Tate Britain, London, UK
2008
Collection Exhibition, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
Works on Paper by Gallery Artists and Ricci Albenda, Greene Naftali, New York, USA
Front Room: Dieter Roth and Rachel Harrison, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD, USA
Plug In #44, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Re-View: S118 European & American Art since 1900, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, USA
You Can Go Your Own Way, Renwick Gallery, Washington D.C., USA
Standard Sizes, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, USA
Payday, Greene Naftali, New York, USA
The Alliance, doART Beijing, China; doART Seoul, South Korea
Second Thoughts, collection exhibition, Hessel Museum of Art, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, USA
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
Collection Exhibition, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
2007
Eyes Wide Open: New to the Stedelijk & the Monique Zaifen Collection, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Paul Thek in the Context of Today’s Contemporary Art, ZMK, Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Germany; Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg, Germany
Perspectives 159: Superconscious, Automatisms Now, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, TX, USA
Unmonumental: The Object in the 21st Century, New Museum, New York, USA
Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now, collection exhibition, MOMA, New York, USA
Fit to Print, Gagosian Gallery, New York, USA
XXS (Extra Extra Small), Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
Exhibitionism: An Exhibition of Exhibitions of Works from the Marieluise Hessel Collection, Hessel Museum of Art, New York, USA
Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-On-Hudson, New York, USA
Two Years, collection exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
Pop Art Is, Gagosian Gallery, London, UK
Insubstantial Pageant Faded, Western Bridge, Seattle, WA, USA
Collection Exhibition, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
Contemporary Art from the Harvard University Art Museums Collections, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, USA
The Hamsterwheel, Arsenale di Venezia, Venice; Festival de Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse, Spain; Centre d’Art Santa Mònica, Barcelona, Spain; Malmö Konsthall, Sweden
Hidden in Plain Sight: Contemporary Photographs from the Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Still Life and Kicking, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, USA
For the People of Paris, Sutton Lane Gallery, Paris, France
2006
Werner Herzog, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Shiny, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH, USA
The Swan Is Very Peaceful, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Pose and Sculpture, Casey Kaplan, New York, USA
Daisychain, MOT Gallery, London, UK
New Now Next: The Contemporary Blanton, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX, USA
Of Mice and Men, The 4th Berlin Biennale, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
Survivor, New York, USA
Ridykeulous, Participant Inc., New York, USA
Motore Immobile, Greene Naftali, New York, USA
Dark, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Collection Exhibition, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada
2005
Faith, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT, USA
Sculpture New Spirit, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris, France
When Humor Becomes Painful, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland
Drunk vs. Stoned 2, Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York, USA
Ordering the Ordinary, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK
The Jeweleigha Set, Greene Naftali, New York, USA
Fünfmalskulptur, Westfalischer Kunstverein, Münster, Germany
Make It Now: New Sculpture in New York, SculptureCenter, Long Island City, New York, USA
2004
Hysterical, Galerie Dennis Kimmerich, Düsseldorf
Last One On is a Soft Jimmy, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, USA
54th Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PN, USA
Building the Collection: New and Future Acquisitions, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
Slouching Towards Bethlehem, The Project, New York, USA
Home, American Fine Arts, Co., New York, USA
Speaking with Hands: Photographs from The Buhl Collection, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
Drunk vs. Stoned, Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York, USA
Open House: Working in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York, USA
Reordering Reality, Collecting Contemporary Art, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH, USA
American Idyll, Greene Naftali, New York, USA
Collage, Bloomberg SPACE, London, UK
2003
The Alumni Show, Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, USA
The Inconsiderable Things: Peter Fraser and Rachel Harrison, Brighton Photo Biennial, University of Brighton Gallery, Brighton, UK
The Paper Sculpture Show, SculptureCenter, Long Island City, New York, USA and 20 other locations
Rachel Harrison, Hirsch Perlman, Dieter Roth, Jack Smith and Rebecca Warren, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, USA
The Structure of Survival, Dreams and Conflicts: The Dictatorship of the Viewer, 50th Venice Biennale, Arsenale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
Guided by Heroes, Z33, Hasselt, Belgium
2002
youngsters*, Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna, Austria
K48 Teenage Rebel—The Bedroom Show, John Connelly Presents, New York, USA
Building Structures, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, New York, USA
New on View: Recent Additions to the Collection, Baltimore Museum of Art, MD, USA
Stories, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
Pictures, Greene Naftali, New York, USA
2001
Drawings Project, Greene Naftali, New York, USA
Johnson Gallery, Selections from the Collection 30, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Off the Wall, Gallery 400, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL, USA
Spiritual America, Audiello Fine Art, Inc., New York, USA
Group Show (Spring 2001), The Fifth International, New York Fresh: The Altoids Curiously Strong Collection 1998 – 2000, New Museum, New York, USA
2000
Full Serve: Celebrating Ten Years of Shows,Rove, New York, USA
Superpredators, CRP Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, USA
The Armchair Project, Cinch, London, UK
Dusk, I-20, New York, USA
New York Projects, London, UK
Rapture, 529 West 20th Street, 8th floor, New York, USA
Walker Evans & Company, MoMA, New York; J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Greater New York: New Art in New York Now, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, New York, USA
Trailer, Greene Naftali, New York, USA
Photography about Photography, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, USA
Photasm: Sculptors Using Photography, Arts Atrium Gallery, Union College, Schenectady, New York; Hunter College/Times Square Gallery, New York, USA
1999
DOPE. An XXX-Mas Show, American Fine Arts, Co., New York, USA
I’m Not Here: Constructing Identity at the Turn of the Century, Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PN, USA
Sleeping Waters//Eaux dormantes, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France
Altoids Collection: New York City Jay Walking Tour, various locations, New York, US; The Second Annual Altoids Curiously Strong Collection to Nevada Institute for Contemporary Art; State Street Bridge Gallery, Chicago; Miami-Dade Community College, Wolfson Campus, Miami; the luggage store, San Francisco; Luckman Fine Arts Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles, CA, USA
GIRLSCHOOL, Brenau University Galleries, Gainesville, GA, USA
Still Life, State University of New York College at Old Westbury, New York, USA
What Big Is, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA, USA
New York Neither/Nor, Grand Arts, Kansas City, MO, USA
monochrome, Patrick Callery Gallery, New York, USA
Free Coke, Greene Naftali, New York, USA
Hypervision, Elizabeth Cherry Contemporary Art, Tucson, AZ, USA
Answer yes, no, or don’t know; Part II: Layers, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, USA
1998
New Photography 14: Jeanne Dunning, Olafur Eliasson, Rachel Harrison, Sam Taylor-Wood, MoMA, New York, USA
CAMBIO, Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City, Mexico
Susan Frecon, Rachel Harrison, Thomas Nozkowski, Turner & Runyon Gallery, Dallas, TX, USA
Bob and Wheel, dfn Gallery, New York, USA
Construction Drawings, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York, USA
Raise the Roof, benefit auction, White Columns, New York, USA
Science, Feature Inc., New York, USA
Installations/Projects, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York, USA
Super Freaks: Post Pop & The New Generation; Part I: Trash, Greene Naftali, New York, USA
Lo-Fi Baroque, Thread Waxing Space, New York, USA
1997
Funny Pictures, Ten in One Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA
24Seven, Stuttgart, Germany
Anne Chu, Rachel Harrison, Donald Moffett, Jasmin Sian, Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Paper Trail, Pierogi 2000, Brooklyn, New York, USA
Normotic, 1 Great Jones, New York, USA
The New God, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, USA
Prosthetic Garden, Daniel Silverstein Gallery, New York, USA
Current Undercurrent: Working in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York, USA
Summer of Love, Fotouhi Cramer Gallery, New York, USA
Supastore de Luxe (No. 1), Up & Co, New York, USA
1996
The Experimenters, Lombard-Freid Fine Arts, New York, USA
Taking Stock, Benefit for City Harvest, 25 Broad Street, New York, USA
Texas Meets New York: Facing The Millennium — The Song Remains The Same, Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, TX, USA
DISSOCIATIONISM, Four Walls, Brooklyn, New York, USA
Shit, Baron/Boisante Gallery, New York, USA
Summer Trash, Flamingo East, New York, USA
Space, Mind, Place, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, USA
Summer Show, Greene Naftali, New York, USA
Rachel Harrison and Michael Lazarus, Feature Inc., New York, USA
Sex, Drugs And Explosives, New London ArtForms, London, UK
Sculpture Incorporating Photography, Feature Inc., New York, USA
Post Hoc, Stark Gallery, New York, USA
1995
Oy!, 121 Greene Street, New York, USA
Either/Or, Flamingo East, New York, USA
Summer Exhibition, Paolo Baldacci Gallery, New York, USA
Smells Like Vinyl, Roger Merians Gallery, New York, USA
High Anxiety, 66 Crosby Street, New York, USA
Looky Loo, Sculpture Center, New York, USA
Dark Room, Stark Gallery, New York, USA
1994
Women at Work, The Roger Smith Gallery, New York, USA
UnSuccess Story, 479 Broome Street, New York, USA
Artychoke TV show, Flamingo East, New York, USA
Tight, Tannery Arts, London; as Turning Up, The View, Liverpool, UK
Crest Hardware Show, 558 Metropolitan Ave, Brooklyn, New York, USA
I Could Do That, 109 Spring Street, New York, USA
Dirty, John Good Gallery, New York, USA
Group Show, Galerie Elizabeth Valleix, Paris, France
Resurrections: Objects with New Souls, William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut at Storrs, CT, USA
Pre-Existing Condition, Puffin Room, New York, USA
1993
Poverty Pop: The Aesthetics of Necessity, Exit Art, New York, USA
TRESPASS: Beyond Borders, Brooklyn, New York, USA
Four Walls Benefit, David Zwirner, New York, USA
Shooting Blanks, 81 Greene Street, New York, USA
For Sale, Flamingo East, New York, USA
1920: The Subtlety of Subversion, The Continuity of Intervention, Exit Art, New York, USA
Simply Made in America, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio; Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio; Palm Beach Community College Museum of Art, Palm Beach, Florida; Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, Delaware, USA
I Was Born Like This, 238 Mulberry Street, New York, USA
High, Flamingo East, New York, USA
1992
7 Rooms/7 Shows: Bingeing, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York, USA
Kitschen, Flamingo East, New York, USA
Morality Cafe, Postmasters Gallery, New York, USA
The Lesbian Museum: Ten Thousand Years of Penis Envy, Franklin Furnace, New York, USA
1991
Unlearning, 142 Greene Street, New York, USA
Open Bar, Flamingo East, New York, USA
The Neurotic Art Show, group show comprising the first fifty-five callers to a designated phone number, Four Walls Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, USA
Ego Show, Minor Injury, Brooklyn, New York, USA
1990
Collections, Brand Name Damages, 201 Bedford Ave., Brooklyn, New York, USA
The Rights of Spring, Epoche Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, USA
Habitat, AMMO Artist’s Exhibition Space, Brooklyn, New York, USA
2023
Rachel Harrison. Sitting in a Room, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo / Gregory R. Miller & Co., New York
2020
Rachel Harrison. The Classic, Greene Naftali, New York
Rachel Harrison / Haim Steinbach. Between Artists, A.R.T. Press, New York
2019
Rachel Harrison. Life Hack, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
2015
Rachel Harrison. GLORIA, The Cleveland Museum of Art
2014
Rachel Harrison. If I did it, Greene Naftali, New York
2013
Rachel Harrison. Fake Titel, Walther König, Cologne
2012
Rachel Harrison. The Help, A Companion Guide, Greene Naftali, New York; Badlands Unlimited, New York
