Laura Owens

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2013
  • 12 Paintings by Laura Owens and Ooga Booga #2, 356 S. Mission Rd., Los Angeles
2012
  • The Finley, Los Angeles
  • Art Unlimited, Basel, Switzerland
  • Karma, New York, NY
  • Pavement Karaoke / Alphabet, Sadie Coles, London, UK
  • Other Works
2011
  • Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
  • Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne, Germany
  • Crown Point Press, Los Angeles, CA
  • Other Works
2010
  • Works
2009
  • Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York, NY
  • Other Works
2008
  • Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK
  • Works on Paper, ACME, Los Angeles, CA
  • Shanghai Embassy, Shanghai, China
  • Gavin Brown’s enterprise (620A), New York, NY
  • Other Works
2007
  • American Academy studio exhibition, Berlin, Germany
  • Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy
  • Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht, Netherlands
  • Ausstellungshalle Zeitgenossische Kunst, Munster, Germany
  • Other Works
2006
  • Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York
  • Camden Arts Centre, London, UK
  • Kunsthalle, Zurich, Switzerland
  • Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
  • Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK
  • Other Works
2005
  • Shiseido Gallery, Japan
  • Other Works
2004
  • Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne, Germany
  • MOCA, North Miami, FL
  • Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA
  • Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York, NY
  • Crown Point Press, San Francisco, CA
  • Other Works
2003
  • Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
  • Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
  • The General Store, Milwaukee, WI
  • Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
  • Other Works
2002
  • Works
2001
  • Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA
  • ACME (with Martin Kersels), Los Angeles, CA
  • Other Works
2000
  • New Work by Laura Owens (1999) and John Hutton Balfour’s Bioteaching Diagrams 1840-1879, Inverleith, Royal Botanical Garden, Edinburgh, Scotland
  • Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy
  • Other Works
1999
  • Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK
  • Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne, Germany
  • Statements, Gavin Brown's enterprise, Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland
  • China Art Objects (collaboration with Scott Reeder), Los Angeles, CA
  • Other Works
1998
  • Patrick Painter, Santa Monica, CA (with Jorge Pardo)
  • Studio Guenzani (with Sharon Lockhart), Milan, Italy
  • Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York, NY
  • ACME, Los Angeles, CA
  • Crown Center Gallery, Loyola University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
  • Other Works
1997
  • Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK
  • Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York, NY
  • Other Works
1996
  • Studio 246 (with Lisa Anne Auerbach), Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
  • Other Works
1995
  • Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
  • Other Works
1994
  • Paintings
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  • Early Work




Group exhibitions

2013
  • Painting Between the Lines, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA
  • Wir Drei, Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, Orange, CA
  • Small Gems, Crown Point Press, San Francisco, CA
    • 2012
    • Things, Words and Consequences, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia
    • Curatorial Exchange, Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, CA
    • The Holodeck, PØST, Los Angeles, CA
    • Pure Perception, Monica De Cardenas Galleria, Milan, Italy
    • Pittura [1995-2009], Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy
    • PRINT IMPRINT, Actual Size Los Angeles and Cirrus Gallery,
    • The Nudes Painting Show, 3704 North Figueroa, Los Angeles, CA
    • The Spectacular of Vernacular, Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC
    2011
    • The Cactus Painting Show, 3704 North Figueroa, Los Angeles, CA
    • From Where You Just Arrived, Pepin Moore, Los Angeles, CA
    • The Boy Who Robbed You a Few Minutes Before Arriving At the Ball, Gisela Capitain, Koln
    • A Painting Show, Harris Lieberman
    • The Artist's Museum, MOCA, Los Angeles
    • Ordinary Madness, Carnegie Melon of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
    • The Spectacular of Vernacular, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MO
    2010
    • Slow Paintings, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen
    • MOCA’S First Thirty Years, MOCA, Los Angeles, CA
    • At Home/Not at Home, Hessel Museum of Art, New York
    • Happy Holidays! Drawings!, Alex Zachary, New York
    2009
    • 15 Year Gallery Artist Group Exhibition, ACME, Los Angeles
    • Art Tells the times, Works by Women Artists, Shiseido Gallery
    • The Still Life Show, Five Thirty Three, Los Angeles, CA; traveled to: Mile Post 5, Portland, OR
    • Continuous Present, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT curated by Jennifer Gross
    • Hello, Mrs. MacGruder, Benson Keyes Arts, Southampton, NY, 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
    • Painting Now and Forever Part II, Greene Naftali and Matthew Marks, New York
    • Living Flowers: Ikebana and Contemporary Art, Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles, CA
    • Tapestry, Karin Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
    • Red Eye: LA Artists from the Rubell Family Collection, Rubell Collection, FL
    • Collecting Collections: Highlights from the Permanent Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
    2007
    • Legends Altered: Maps as Method and Medium, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL
    • Sequence 1: Painting and Sculpture from the Francois Pinault Collection, Palazzo Grassi, Venice
    • Affinities: New Acquisitions Deutsche Bank Collection, 1997-2007, Deutsche Guggenheim
    • Very Abstract and Hyper Figurative, Thomas Dane Gallery, London
    2006
    • The Fluidity of Time: Selections from the MCA Collection, MCA, Chicago. IL
    • Hotel California, Glendale College Art Gallery, Glendale, CA
    • The Garden Party, Deitch Projects, New York
    • The Art of Etching at Crown Point Press, Bobbie Greenfield Gallery, Santa Monica
    • Essential Painting, National Museum of Art Osaka, Osaka Japan (cat.)
    2005
    • After Cezanne, MOCA, Los Angeles, CA
    • Goetz Meets Falckenberg, Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg Germany
    • Think Blue, Blum and Poe, Los Angeles, CA
    • Ideal Worlds: New Romanticism in Contemporary Art, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt
    • Extreme Abstraction, Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY (cat.)
    • Desired Constellations, Daniel Reich Gallery, New York
    • Post Modern, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York
    2004
    • Undiscovered Country, UCLA Hammer Museum, LA, CA, (cat.)
    • Huts, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland (cat.)
    • Paintings’ Edge. IdyllwildArts, Idyllwild, CA
    • Never Never Landscape, Atle Gerhardsen, Berlin, curated by Kirsty Bell
    • Contemporary Painting, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME, curated by Alex Katz
    • Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (cat.)
    • Malerei, Galerie Rolf Hengesbach, Cologne
    • Drunk vs. Stoned, Passerby, New York, curated by the General Store
    2003
    • Inaugural Exhibition, Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York
    2002
    • Eight Propositions in Contemporary Drawings, Museum of Modern Art, New York (cat.)
    • Painting on the move, Kunstmuseum Basel and Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland (cat.)
    • Urgent Painting, Musee d’ Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris (cat.)
    • Cavepainting: Peter Doig, Chris Ofili, Laura Owens, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA (cat.)
    2001
    • Paintings, 5117 Eagle Rock Blvd, Los Angeles
    • The Mystery of Painting, Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany (cat.)
    • Accumulations, School of Art Gallery, Kent State University, Ohio curated by Martin Ball
    • Some Options in Abstraction, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (booklet)
    • Objective Color, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
    • Cal’s Art: Sampling California Painting, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas
    • Bastard (Son of Hot Sauce), The Law Office, Chicago, IL
    • Public Offerings, MOCA, Los Angeles, CA, curated by Paul Schimmel (cat.)
    • Painting at the Edge of the World, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (cat.)
    • Locating Drawing, Lawing Gallery, Houston, TX
2000
  • American Academy Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, The American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
  • On Canvas: Contemporary Painting from the Collection, Guggenheim Museum, New York
  • The Next Wave: New Painting in Southern California, Cal. Center for the Arts, Encondido, CA
  • Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC, curated by Nancy Doll and Ron Platt
  • Works on Paper from Los Angeles, Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy
1999
  • Examining Pictures: Exhibiting Paintings, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (cat.);
  • traveled to: Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2000)
  • Drawn to Nature, George’s, Los Angeles
  • Facts & Fictions II: Los Angeles, in ARCO, Torino, Italy
  • Carnegie International 1999/2000, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
  • Standing Still & Walking in Los Angeles, Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles
  • New Work: Painting Today, SF MoMA, San Francisco, CA
  • Works on paper (and some other things), ACME, Los Angeles, CA
  • Nach-Bild, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland (cat.)
  • The Perfect Life: Artifice in LA 1999, Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, NC, (cat.)
  • Hot Spots, curated by Elizabeth Brown, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, NC
  • Local Color, curated by Virginia Rutledge, The University of La Verne, La Verne, CA
1998
  • Color Fields, Luckman Fine Arts Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles, CA
  • Young Americans 2, The Saatchi Gallery, London, UK (cat.)
  • I’m Still in Love with You, Women’s 20th Century Club, Los Angeles, CA
  • Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy
  • Visions, XXIX Recontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles, France
  • Exterminating Angel, Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris
  • Paintings Interested in the Ideas of Architecture and Design, Post, Los Angeles
1997
  • Vertical Painting Show, P.S.1 Museum, NY
  • Sharon Lockhart, Laura Owens, Frances Stark, Blum & Poe, Santa Monica, CA
  • Hot Coffee, Artists Space, New York, NY
  • Palace, Beret International Gallery, Chicago, IL
  • Project Painting, Basilico Fine Arts and Lehmann Maupin, New York, NY (cat.)
  • The Eagle Rock Show, Eagle Rock Community Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA
1996
  • Wunderbar, Kunstverein, Hamburg, Germany
  • Screen, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, NY, curated by Joshua Decter
  • The Speed of Painting, Pat Hearn, NY
  • Studio 246, Mark Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1995
  • Painting Show, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA
  • Smells Like Vinyl, Roger Merians Gallery, New York
  • Tell Everyone, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, NY
1994
  • From LA with Love, Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France
  • Gorgeous Politics, Las Vegas, NV, curated by Dave Hickey
  • L.A.C.E. Annuale, Los Angeles Contemporary Art Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA, curated by Dave Hickey
  • Thanks Again, Food House, Santa Monica, CA
  • Playfield, Rio Hondo College, Rio Hondo, CA
  • Hot Crop, curated by J. Willette, Claremont College, Claremont, CA