LAURA OWENS
1970
Lives and works in Los Angeles
Education
1992
- B.F.A. Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
1994
- Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
1994
- M.F.A. California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
Solo Exhibitions
2023
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
2013
2012
2011
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
- Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne, Germany
- Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, Florida
- Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York, New York
- Crown Point Press, San Francisco, California
2003
2001
2000
1999
- Sadie Coles HQ, London, United Kingdom
- Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne, Germany
- Statements, Gavin Brown's enterprise, Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland
- Heaven and Hell (collaboration with Scott Reeder), China Art Objects, Los Angeles, California
1998
- Patrick Painter (with Jorge Pardo), Santa Monica, California
- Studio Guenzani (with Sharon Lockhart), Milan, Italy
- Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York, New York
- ACME, Los Angeles, California
- Crown Center Gallery, Loyola University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
1997
1996
1995
1994
1993
1992
Group Exhibitions
2024
- Books: A Group Exhibition, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, New York
- Devotion, House of Gaga, Guadalajara, Mexico
- Halfway to Sanity: Inaugural Group Exhibition, The Pit, Los Angeles, California
- Day for Night: New American Realism, National Gallery of Ancient Art, Palazzo Barberini, Rome, Italy
- Overserved, Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, New York
- Sweet Sixteen, Capitain Petzel, Berlin, Germany
- Between Pixel and Pigment, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
- All I Eat in a Day, Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland
- Group Exhibition, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, New York
- Flowers of Romance, Lodovico Corsini, Brussels, Belgium
2023
- I’ll Be Your Mirror: Art and the Digital Screen, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas (cat.)
- Together in Time: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection, The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California
- To Bend the Ear of the Outer World: Conversations on contemporary abstract painting, Gagosian Gallery, London, UK (cat.)
- Capturing the Moment, Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom (cat.)
- Wishing Well, Parker Gallery, Los Angeles, California
- Drunk vs. Stoned 3, The Ranch at The Dock, Montauk, New York
- Some Trees, The Floating Gallery, Los Angeles, California
- Paraventi: Folding Screens from the 17th to 21st Centuries, Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy (cat.)
- Making Their Mark, Shah Garg Foundation, New York, New York (cat.)
- L’Atelier du Sud, Fondation Vincent Van Gogh, Arles, France
- Colección Jumex: Everything Gets Lighter, Museo Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico (cat.)
2022
Christen Sveaas Art Foundation: The Travel Bureau, Whitechapel Gallery, London
- Repeater, Sadie Coles HQ, London
- INFORMATION (Today), Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norway (cat.)
- Courage Before Expectation, FLAG Art Foundation, New York, New York
- Drawing Together: 201 Exquisite Corpses, Museum im Bellpark, Kriens, Switzerland
Narrative Terrain: Landscape as Storytelling, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Drawing Down the Moon, The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California
Nothing is to be Done for William T. Wiley, Parker Gallery, Los Angeles, California
The Painter's New Tools, Nahmad Contemporary, New York, New York (cat.)
- Making a Painting, Matthew Marks Gallery, Los Angeles, California
- Open Storage: 25 Years of Collecting, The Warehouse, Dallas, Texas
- inner dims, Sifang Art Museum, Shanghai, China
- A Maze Zanine, Amaze Zaning, A-Mezzaning, Meza-9, David Zwirner Gallery, New York, New York
- Post-Capital, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark (cat.)
- Dark Light : Realism in the Age of Post-Truths, Aïshti Foundation, Beirut, Lebanon (cat.)
2021
Art of Sport, Contemporary Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- INFORMATION (Today), Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland (cat.)
- The negative version of the official version of things, Balice Hertling, Paris, France
Post-Capital, Mudam Luxembourg, Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg (cat.)
The Youngest Day, Carlier | Gebauer, Berlin, Germany (cat.)
- The Going Away Present, Kristina Kite Gallery, Los Angeles, California
- Water, Crown Point Press, San Francisco, California
2020
Duro Olowu: Seeing Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois
- Portable Documents for Home Use, Bel Ami, Los Angeles, California
- It's Urgent!, Luma Foundation, Parc Des Ateliers, Arles, France (cat.)
- four corners of the landscape, Gaga & Reena Spaulings, Los Angeles, California
Infinite Games, Capitain Petzel, Berlin, Germany
- Ice and Fire: A Benefit Exhibition in Three Parts, The Kitchen, New York, New York
2019
- Flora + Fauna, Sadie Coles HQ, 1 Davies Street, London, United Kingdom
- Forever Young - 10 Years of Museum Brandhorst, Museum Brandhorst, Munich, Gemany
Artists For The Hammer Museum, UTA Artist Space, Beverly Hills, California (cat.)
- Artists I Steal From, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, London, United Kingdom (cat.)
- Process Context, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California
- Less Is a Bore: Maximalist Art & Design, Institute for Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts (cat.)
- Seven Painters, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, New York
Nurikabe, Tetsuo's Garage, Nikko-shi, Tochigi-ken, Japan
Oversharing, Friends Indeed Gallery, San Francisco, California
- Computer und Papier, Jahn und Jahn, Munich, Germany
LA on Fire, Wilding Cran, Los Angeles, California
From Day to Day, de la Cruz Collection, Miami, Florida
- Experimental Flea Market, Tin Flats, Los Angeles, California
One Hundred Drawings, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
2018
- Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today, Institute for Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts (cat.)
- Nudes, Sadie Coles HQ, London, United Kingdom
- Thomas Starr King Middle School, Los Angeles, California
- Inherent Structure, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio
- Vampire’s Kiss, Aspect Ratio, Chicago, Illinois
- The Mechanics of Fluids, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, New York
- I Was Raised On The Internet, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois (cat.)
- Los Angeles Plays Itself, Malaspina Printmakers, Vancouver, Canada
- SHANZINI: Shannon Michael Cane and Printed Matter, Inc., Printed Matter, New York, New York
- Kollector’s Series, K11 chi space, Hong Kong, China
- The Joy of Color, Mnuchin Gallery, New York, New York (cat.)
- West By Midwest, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois
- Crossroads: Carnegie Museum of Art, 1945 to Now, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- A Time Capsule Revisited: A New Installation of Works Made by Women for Parkett, 1984 - 2017, Parkett Exhibition Space, Zurich, Switzerland
2017
- Depuis le temps, Galerie Mezzanin, Geneva, Switzerland
- Infected Foot, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, New York
- Chapters: Book Arts in Southern California, Craft & Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, California
- Vanishing Points, James Cohan Gallery, New York, New York
- Zeitgeist, Musée d’art Modern et Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
- Tomorrow Will Still Be Ours, Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York, New York
- The Florine Stettheimer Collapsed Time Salon, The Armory Fair, New York, New York
- .com/.cn, The K11 Art Foundation Pop-Up Space, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong (cat.)
- Animal Farm, The Brant Foundation, Greenwich, Connecticut
- The Brightsiders, Verge Center for the Arts, Sacramento, California (cat.)
- Landscapes: Urban & Rural, Crown Point Press, San Francisco, California
- Trick Brain, Aïshti Foundation, Beirut, Lebanon (cat.)
- A Spaghetti Dress for World Peace, Park View, Los Angeles, California
- made on the table, Sadie Coles, London, United Kingdom
- Active Ingredients: Prompts, Props, Performance, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts
- Pivotal: Highlights From The Collection, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California
- Social Surfaces, Artists Space, New York, New York
- Process and Practice: 40 Years of Experimentation, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- The New Contemporary, The Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, December 2017 - March 2018
- Force and Form, de la Cruz Collection, Miami, Florida, December 2017 - November 2018
- Unpacking: The Marciano Collection, Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles, California (cat.)
2016
- La collection Thea Westreich Wagner et Ethan Wagner, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France (cat.)
- Administrate, curated by Anthony Huberman, Artspeak, Vancouver, Canada
- L'Almanach 16, Le Consortium, Dijon, France
- Fine Young Cannibals, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, New York (cat.)
- Apeirophobia/Aporia, Human Resources, Los Angeles, California
- Sharon Lockhart, Laura Owens, Frances Stark, The Artist’s Institute, New York, New York
- Los Angeles - A Fiction, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norway (cat.)
2015
- Pretty Raw: After and Around Helen Frankenthaler, Rose Art Museum, Waltham, Massachusetts (cat.)
- Painting after Technology, Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom
- Collected by Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York (cat.)
- Painting 2.0: Expression in the Information Age, Museum Brandhorst, Munich, Germany (cat.); traveled to MUMOK, Vienna, Austria
- Come As You Are: Art of the 1990s, Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey; traveled to Telfair Museum, Savannah, Georgia; University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor; Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas (cat.)
- Call and Response, Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York, New York
- Doodles, The Vanity Bakersfield, Bakersfield, California
- Open Source: Art at the Eclipse of Capitalism, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany
- best students, best teachers, best school: Michel Majerus, Albert Oehlen & Laura Owens, Michel Majerus Estate, Berlin, Germany
- Storylines: Contemporary Art at the Guggenheim, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York
- Project X Forum 2: FAR Bazaar, Foundation for Art Resources, 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica, California
- Printed Matters, Gesso Artspace, Vienna, Austria
- Works on Paper, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, New York
- Can't Reach Me There, curated by Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer, Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota (cat.)
- Marks Made: Prints by American Women Artists from the 1960s to the Present, Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida (cat.)
- No Man’s Land: Women Artists from the Rubell Family Collection, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, Florida (cat.); traveled to National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.
- The World is Made of Stories, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norway
2014
- The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York (cat.)
- Loveless, Greene Naftali, New York, New York
- Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York (cat.)
- Variations: Conversations in and Around Abstract Painting, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
- Painter's Painters: Gifts from Alex Katz, High Museum of Art, Atlanta Georgia
- Nature Study: A Group Exhibition, Crown Point Press, San Francisco, California
- Summer Choices: A Group Show, Crown Point Press, San Francisco California
- Joyride, Marlborough Broome St, New York, New York
- Capture the Rapture, CB1 Gallery, Los Angeles, California
- 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, California
- Cornucopia, Parkett Exhibition Space, Zurich, Switzerland
- The Machine Project Field Guide to the Gamble House, Gamble House, Pasadena, California
- Wake Up Early, Fear Death, curated by Philipp Kaiser. Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna, Austria
- Death Ship: A Tribute to H.C. Westermann, The Pit, Los Angeles, California (cat.)
2013
- Mutual Appreciation Society, The Los Angeles Mart, Los Angeles, California
- Working Proofs: A Revelation, Crown Point Press, San Francisco, California
- Yes, No, Maybe: Artists Working at Crown Point Press, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. (cat.)
- Selections from the Venice Beach Biennial, Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles, California
- Abstract - Nature: Selected Parkett Artists' Editions, 1984-2013, Parkett Space, Zurich, Switzerland
- Made in Space, curated by Peter Harkawick and Laura Owens, Venus Over Manhattan / Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York, New York
- The Cat Show, White Columns, New York, New York
- Wir Drei, Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, Orange, California
- Small Gems, Crown Point Press, San Francisco, California
- Finisce e Continua uno, Gesso Artspace, Vienna, Austria
2012
- Things, Words and Consequences, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia
- Curatorial Exchange, Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, California
- The Holodeck, PØST, Los Angeles, California
- Pure Perception, Monica De Cardenas Galleria, Milan, Italy
- Pittura [1995-2009], Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy
- PRINT IMPRINT, Actual Size Los Angeles and Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, California
- Nudes Painting Show, 3704 North Figueroa, Los Angeles, California
- Looking Back for the Future, Kunsthalle Zurich, Switzerland
- Natural History, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
2011
- The Cactus Painting Show, 3704 North Figueroa, Los Angeles, California
- From Where You Just Arrived, Pepin Moore, Los Angeles, California
- The Boy Who Robbed You a Few Minutes Before Arriving At the Ball, Gisela Capitain, Cologne, Germany
- A Painting Show, Harris Lieberman. New York, New York
- The Spectacular of Vernacular, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (cat.); traveled to Contemporary Arts Museum Houston; Montclair Art Museum, Montclair; Ackland Art Museum, North Carolina
- Painting Between the Lines, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, California (cat.); traveled to the Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts
- Happy Holidays! Drawings!, Alex Zachary Peter Currie, New York, New York
- Looks on Paper, Ditch Projects, Springfield, Oregon
2010
- At Home/Not at Home, CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art, New York, New York (cat.)
- Hecate’s Lab, Senior & Shopmaker Gallery, New York, New York
- Ordinary Madness, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (cat.)
- The Artist's Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
- Painting and Sculpture: Exhibition to Benefit the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Lehmann Maupin, New York, New York
2009
- 15 Year Gallery Artist Group Exhibition, ACME, Los Angeles, California
- Art Tells the Times, Works by Women Artists, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (cat.)
- The Still Life Show, Five Thirty Three, Los Angeles, California; traveled to Mile Post 5, Portland, Oregon
- Continuous Present, curated by Jennifer Gross, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut (brochure)
- Hello, Mrs. MacGruder, curated by Michele Maccarone, Benson Keyes Arts, Southampton, New York
- Slow Paintings, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany (cat.)
- Collection: MOCA’S First Thirty Years, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
- BROODWORK: Creative Practice and Family Life, Center for the Arts Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, California
- Rob Pruitt's Flea Market, The Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom
2008
- Biënnale van de Schilderkunst, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium (cat.)
- Blasted Allegories, Works from the Ringier Collection, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland (cat.)
- Pretty Ugly, Gavin Brown’s enterprise and Maccarone, New York, New York
- Painting Now and Forever Part II, Greene Naftali Gallery and Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, New York
- Living Flowers: Ikebana and Contemporary Art, Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles, California (cat.)
- Landscapes of the Mind: Art Collection of the United States Embassy, US Embassy, Beijing, China (cat.)
- Tapestry, Karin Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles, California
- Collecting Collections: Highlights from the Permanent Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California (cat.)
2007
- Counterparts: Contemporary Painters and Their Influences, Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach (cat.)
- Poets on Painters, Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas (cat.)
- Legends Altered: Maps as Method and Medium, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Exquisite Acts and Everyday Rebellions: 2007 CalArts Feminist Art Symposium and Exhibition, CalArts, Valencia, California
- Sequence 1: Painting and Sculpture from the Francois Pinault Collection, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy (cat.)
Something About Mary, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California
- 2007 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, United Kingdom (cat.)
- Affinities: New Acquisitions Deutsche Bank Collection, 1997-2007, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany (cat.)
- Very Abstract and Hyper Figurative, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, United Kingdom (cat.)
- Summer Show, Sadie Coles HQ, London, United Kingdom
2006
- Hotel California, Glendale College Art Gallery, Glendale, California
- The Garden Party, Deitch Projects, New York, New York
- All the Best: The Deutsche Bank Collection and Zaha Hadid, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
- Blind Date, Galerie Kunstforum, Altes Haus, Seligenstadt, Germany (cat.)
- The Art of Etching at Crown Point Press, Bobbie Greenfield Gallery, Santa Monica, California (cat.)
- Essential Painting, National Museum of Art Osaka, Japan (cat.)
- Opere su Carta: Margherita Manzelli, Aleksandra Mir, Laura Owens, Alessandro Pessoli, Danica Phelps, Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy
- Red Eye: L.A. Artists from the Rubell Family Collection, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, Florida (cat.)
2005
- The Fluidity of Time: Selections from the MCA Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Illinois
- After Cezanne, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
- Drawn to Cleveland, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio (cat.)
- Goetz Meets Falckenberg, Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg, Germany (cat.)
- 25 Visuell: Deutsche Bank Art, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany (cat.)
- Old News, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, California
- Think Blue, Blum and Poe, Los Angeles, California
- Ideal Worlds: New Romanticism in Contemporary Art, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany (cat.)
- Extreme Abstraction, Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York (cat.)
- Desired Constellations, Daniel Reich Gallery, New York, New York
- plip, plip, plippity!, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles, California
- Post Modern, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, New York
2004
- Undiscovered Country, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California (cat.)
- Huts, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland (cat.)
- Painting’s Edge, Idyllwild Arts, Idyllwild, California
- Never Never Landscape, curated by Kirsty Bell, Atle Gerhardsen, Berlin, Germany
- Contemporary Painting: Curated by Alex Katz, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine (cat.)
- Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York (cat.)
- Malerei, Galerie Rolf Hengesbach, Cologne, Germany
- Drunk vs. Stoned, curated by the General Store, Passerby, New York, New York
- The Four Color Pen Show, Locust Project, Miami, Florida
2003
2002
- Drawing Now: Eight Propositions in Contemporary Drawings, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 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, France (cat.)
- Cavepainting: Peter Doig, Chris Ofili, Laura Owens, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, California (cat.)
- Strolling Through An Ancient Shrine and Garden, Acme, Los Angeles, California
- The Dubrow Biennial, Kagan Martos Gallery, New York, New York
2001
- "more! more! more!, " 5117 Eagle Rock Blvd, Los Angeles, California
- The Mystery of Painting, Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany (cat.)
- Accumulations, curated by Martin Ball, School of Art Gallery, Kent State University, Ohio
- Some Options in Abstraction, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (booklet)
- Objective Color, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
- Cal’s Art: Sampling California Painting, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas
- Bastard (Son of Hot Sauce), The Law Office, Chicago, Illinois
- Public Offerings, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California (cat.)
- Painting at the Edge of the World, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota (cat.)
- Locating Drawing, Lawing Gallery, Houston, Texas
- American Academy Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, The American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, New York
- Lens and Paper: The Beauty of Intimacy, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague, Netherlands (cat.)
2000
- On Canvas: Contemporary Painting from the Collection, Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York
- Works on paper from Los Angeles, Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy
- The Next Wave: New Painting in Southern California, Cal. Center for the Arts, Escondido, California
- Art on Paper, curated by Nancy Doll and Ron Platt. Weatherspoon Art Gallery, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro
- Drawing 2000, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, New York (cat.)
- Works on Paper from Los Angeles, Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy
- Of the Moment: Contemporary Art from the Permanent Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
1999
- Examining Pictures: Exhibiting Paintings, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, United Kingdom (cat.); traveled to Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois; UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California
- Drawn to Nature, George’s, Los Angeles, California
- Carnegie International 1999/2000, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (cat.)
- Standing Still & Walking in Los Angeles, Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, California (cat.)
- New Work: Painting Today, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
- Works on paper (and some other things), ACME, Los Angeles, California
- Nach-Bild, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland (cat.)
- The Perfect Life: Artifice in LA 1999, Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina (cat.)
- Hot Spots, curated by Elizabeth Brown, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, North Carolina; traveled to Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pennsylvania (cat.)
- Local Color, curated by Virginia Rutledge, The University of La Verne, California
- Pasadena Adjacent, Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica, California
1998
- Color Fields, Luckman Fine Arts Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles
- Young Americans 2, The Saatchi Gallery, London, United Kingdom (cat.)
- I’m Still in Love with You, Women’s 20th Century Club, Los Angeles, California
- Visions, XXIX Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles, France (cat.)
- Exterminating Angel, Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, France
- Hello Out There, ACME, Los Angeles, California
- Paintings Interested in the Ideas of Architecture and Design, PØST, Los Angeles, California
- Come and get it while you wait, Hollywood DMV at Cole, Los Angeles, California
1997
- Vertical Painting Show, P.S.1 Museum, New York, New York
- Sharon Lockhart, Laura Owens, Frances Stark, Blum & Poe, Santa Monica, California
- Hot Coffee, Artists Space, New York, New York
- Palace, Beret International Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
- Project Painting, Basilico Fine Arts and Lehmann Maupin, New York, New York (cat.)
- The Eagle Rock Show, Eagle Rock Community Cultural Center, Los Angeles, California
- The Prophecy of Pop, Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, Louisiana
1996
- Wunderbar, Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
- Screen, curated by Joshua Decter, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, New York
- The Speed of Painting, Pat Hearn, New York, New York
- Studio 246, Marc Foxx Gallery, Santa Monica, California
1995
- Painting Invitational, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, California
- Smells Like Vinyl, Roger Merians Gallery, New York, New York
- Tell Everyone, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, New York
- From LA with Love, Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France
1994
- 8th L.A.C.E. Annuale: Gorgeous Politics curated by Dave Hickey, Los Angeles Contemporary Art Exhibitions, Los Angeles, California; traveled to Temporary Contemporary Gallery, Las Vegas, Nevada
- Thanks Again, Food House, Santa Monica, California
- Playfield, Rio Hondo College, Rio Hondo, California
- Hot Crop, curated by J. Willette, Claremont College, Claremont, California
- Temporary, The Temporary Contemporary, Los Angeles, California
1993
- Paintings, Gallery D300, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California
- Childhood Fictions, Gallery D300, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California
- Action Reality Transformation, 6161 Santa Monica Blvd, Los Angeles, California
1992
Monographs
2021
- Laura Owens & Vincent Van Gogh, Fondation Vincent Van Gogh, Arles
2018
- Ten Paintings, Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York
2017
- Owens, Laura, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
- Alphabet, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
2015
- Laura Owens, Skira Rizzoli, New York
2014
- Twelve Paintings, Ooga Booga, Los Angeles
2012
- Clocks, Karma, New York
2011
- Stefan Gronert (ed.) Laura Owens, exh. cat., Kunstmuseum Bonn; Kerber Verlag; Bielefeld/Leipzig Berlin
2006
- Beatrix Ruf (ed.) Laura Owens, exh. cat. Kunsthalle Zurich; JRP/Rinigier: Zurich
- John Hutchinson (ed.) Laura Owens, exh. cat. The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin
2005
- Laura Owens, exh. cat. Shiseido Gallery, Toyko
2003
- Paul Schimmel (ed.), Laura Owens, exh. cat. Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
2001
- Pieranna Cavalchini (ed.), Laura Owens, exh. cat. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston; Charta: Milan
2000
- Susan Morgan, Henry Noltie (eds.), New Work by Laura Owens (1999) and John Hutton Balfour’s Botanical Teaching Diagrams (1840-1879), exh. cat. Inverleith House, Royal
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- Martin Bailey, “Treats for Van Gogh fans in 2021: exhibitions, museum openings and books,” The Art Newspaper, January 8
- Laura Owens, “Rachel Kushner and Laura Owens on the Power of Reinvention Through Writing,” Interview, March
- “5 Things To Do This Weekend in Cleveland: March 12-14,” Cleveland Magazine, March 10
- Steven Litt,” Cleveland Museum of Art explores time travel in show organized by artist Laura Owens with area teens,” The Cleveland Plain Dealer, March 28
- Christopher L. Richards, “Do You Really Want To Go Back In Time?” CAN Blog, April
- Dimitris Lempesis, “ART-PRESENTATION: Laura Owens-Rerun,” Dream Idea Machine Art View, April
- Jonathan Griffin, “Rachel Kushner on What She Takes From Art (and Artists),” The New York Times, April 23
- Jane Kaufman, “Laura Owens engages local youth in Cleveland Museum of Art exhibition,” Canvas, April 30
- Georgina Adams, “Collector Yan Du on bridging east and west: I am living my dream,” The Financial Times, May 13
- Grant Klarich Johnson, “Laura Owens Paints What She Wants and Takes Pleasure in Doing It,” Frieze, May 18
- Andrea Gyorody, “Laura Owens Teams Up with Cleveland Teens for a Playful Show on Time Travel,” Hyperallergic, May 23
- “2021 Airport Business Project of the Year – LaGuardia Airport Redevelops Terminal B,” Aviation Pros, June 17
- Laurie Barron, “Information (Today) at Kunsthalle Basel Revisits a 1970s Classic,” Ocula, June 23
- Jan van Rossem, “Allez Arles!” IDEAT, July-August
- Alison Cole, “South of France art venues create Covid-united network—and welcome LUMA Arles into the fold,” The Art Newspaper, July 2
- Anaël Pigeat, “Laura Owen: Je M’Interroge Toujours D’Abord Sur Ce Qu’est La Peinture” The Art Newspaper Édition Française, September
- Numéro Art, June – September
- Carolyn Boyd, “20 great autumn breaks across France: a season of great tastes,” The Guardian, September 4
- Alice Finney, “Laura Owens covers Vincent Van Gogh exhibition in colourful handmade painted wallpaper, Dezeen, September 12
- Alice d’Orgeval and Ludovic Bischoff, “Que faire ce week-end?” Les Echos, September 17
- Etienne Dumont, “L’Américaine Laura Owens dialogue à Arles avec Vincent Van Gogh et la mystérieuse Winifred How,” Bilan, September 29
- Myriam Boutoulle, “Van Gogh de la peinture au papier peint : Laura Owens, une américaine à Arles,” Connaissance des arts, October
- Sam Gaskin, “Why the Art World Is Pivoting Towards South Korea,” Ocula, October 5
- “Power 100,” ArtReview, December
- Cecilia Alemani, “TOP TEN: Cecilia Alemani’s highlights of 2021,” Artforum, December
- Jack Bankowsky, “TOP TEN: Jack Bankowsky’s highlights of 2021,” Artforum, December
- Martin Bailey, “What a year for Van Gogh: surprise discoveries, record prices and a boom in immersive experiences,” The Art Newspaper, December 17
2020
- Ashton Cooper, “Laura Owens,” Artforum, January
- “Laura Owens at Matthew Marks Gallery,” KCRW, January 8
- Allison Berg, “Head of the Class,” LaLa Magazine, Winter
- Elisa Wouk Almino, “Meet LA’s Art Community: Pietro Rigolo’s Work on the Harald Szeemann Archives; ‘It’s Been 10 Years of My Life,’” Hyperallergic, February 5
- Hilarie M. Sheets, “Artists to Transform LaGuardia Airport,” The New York Times, March 5
- Dorothée Dupuis, “Review: Laura Owens,” Flash Art, April-May
- Bobbie Faul-Zeitler, “Cities: Looking Ahead,” Green News, May 27
- Devin Gannon, “See inside LaGuardia Airport’s new Terminal B, 6sqft, June 10
- Hilarie M. Sheets, “Art That Might Make You Want to Go to La Guardia,” The New York Times, June 10
- Patrick McGeehan, “From ‘Disgraceful’ to ‘Breathtaking’: La Guardia’s $4 Billion Makeover,” The New York Times, June 10
- Sarah Cascone, ‘Flying Might Be a Hard Sell Right Now, But LaGuardia Airport Hopes to Lure Travelers With Stunning New Public Art—See It Here’, ArtNet News, June 10
- Alex Greenberger, ‘With Reopening Under Way, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo Unveils Newly Commissioned Art at LaGuardia Airport’, ARTnews, June 10
- David Meyer, Lorena Mongelli and Natalie Musumeci, “Gov. Cuomo unveils gleaming new arrivals terminal at LaGuardia Airport,” New York Post, June 10
- Nicholas Loud, “Photos Inside the New Terminal B at LaGuardia Airport,” untapped new york, June 11
- Gina Di Meo, “Aeroporto museum, apre il nuovo terminal La Guardia a Ny,” Ansa ViaggiArt, June 11
- Howard Halle, “Check out the ne LaGuardia Airport’s spectacular public art installations,” Time Out New York, June 11
- Miriam Sitz, “Permanent Installations Unveiled for New Terminal at La Guardia Airport,” Architectural Record, June 11
- Stephen Nessen, “Shiny New LaGuardia Terminal Half-Opens With BBQ And Hand Sanitizer,” Gothamist, June 11
- Shaye Weaver, “See inside the stunning new LaGuardia Airport,” Time Out New York, June 11
- Andrew Curran, “American Airlines Reveals Refreshed Terminal B At La Guardia,” Simple Flying, June 11
- Todd Maisel, “New LaGuardia Terminal B opens for business, awaits crowds after COVID-19,” QNS, June 11
- “Looking For Great Art? Head to Terminal B at LaGuardia Airport,” Astoria Post, June 11
- Gabrielle Leung, “Massive Site-Specific Works Take Over LaGuardia Airport’s New Terminal,” Hypebeast, June 12
- Lucy Rees, “4 Striking Art Installations Transform LaGuardia Airport,” Galerie, June 12
- Caroline Goldstein, “From the Toppling of Statues Around the World to the Cancellation of Art Basel: The Best and Worst of the Art World This Week,” Artnet, June 12
- “Look Inside the Brand New Terminal at LaGuardia Airport,” WPDH, June 13
- “Neuer Terminal öffnet – mit Kunst einer gebürtigen Pforzheimerin,” Stuttgarter, June 13
- Kurt Stolz, “Photo Essay: Inside LaGuardia Airport’s Posh New Central Terminal,” Frequent Business Traveler, June 14
- Mark Caswell, “New York’s LaGuardia unveils new departures and arrivals hall at Terminal B.” Business Traveller, June 14
- “Flying Start,” Monocle, June 15
- “Governor Cuomo Unveils New Arrivals and Departures Hall at Terminal B as Part of the $8 Billion Transformation of LaGuardia Airport,” Aviation Pros, June 15
- Michael Gannon, “LaGuardia terminal takes off,” Queens Chronicle, June 18
- Laura Owens, “Artist’s Favourites,” Spike Art Quarterly, Summer
- Paulo Singer, “Tour a Leading Collector’s Inimitable London Dwelling,” Architectural Digest, September 25
- Valerie Silva, “Only in New York: Artwork Rules at LaGuardia Airport’s Terminal B,” APEX Experience Magazine, November
- Nicolas Trembley, “L’Artiste Du Mois: Laura Owens,” Numero, December
- Julia Buckley, “America’s ‘worst’ airport tries to reinvent itself,” CNN.com, December 31
2019
- Carolina A. Miranda, “Datebook: A color-wielding goddess, contemporary takes on confessions and paintings left out in nature,” The Los Angeles Times, January 4
- Katie Sweeney, “8 Dealers Not To Miss At This Year’s Fog Design+Art Fair,” Haute Living, January 9
- Mia Taylor, “What’s New in LA for 2019: Here’s Your Guide,” Travel Pulse, January 18
- Charleston City Paper, February 28
- Adam Parker, “Spoleto Festival unveils 2019 poster, featuring image by Laura Owens,” The Post and Courier, February 28
- Charles Desmarais, “Bay Area collector Komal Shah on art by women and artists of color,” The San Francisco Chronicle, March 1
- Annabel Osberg, “Laura Owens,” Artillery Magazine, March 5
- Jeff Hansen, “Laura Owens: Museum of Contemporary Art,” Deliciousline.org, March 25
- Pac Pobric, “’ ‘I Was So Afraid for Way Too Long’: Painter Jonas Wood on How Going It Alone Helped Him Survive His Immense Market Success,” Artnet, March 28
- Abby Schultz, “Artists Donate Works For Sale To Support The Hammer Museum,” Barron’s, March 28
- Georgina Adam, “Komal Shah’s mission to redress the art world’s balance,” The Financial Times, April 26
- Shana Nys Dambrot, “The 40th Venice Art Walk Auction and Open Studios Tour Is May 19,” LA Weekly, May 17
- Allison Grimaldi Donahue, “Laura Owens,” Flash Art Italia, July – August
- David Breslin, Martha Rosler, Kelly Taxter, Rirkrit Tiravanija and Torey Thornton, “The 25 Works of Art That Define the Contemporary Age,” T Magazine, July 16
- Martin Bailey, “Arles to Tokyo: Van Gogh exhibitions in 2020 that Vincent aficionados won’t want to miss,” The Art Newspaper, October
- Murray Whyte, “At the Gardner Museum, seven favorites from 25 years of artists-in-residence,” The Boston Globe, October 10
- Andrew Durbin, “What Does the New MoMA Mean for Contemporary Art?” Frieze, October 16
- Geena Grant, “Get serenaded, see art at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum,” The Daily Free Press, October 24
- Brett Sokol, “Debts of Gratitude Paid in Paintings, Silkscreens and Collages,” The New York Times, December 4
- Andrea Whittle, “The Roman Artists and Creatives Bringing New Life to the Eternal City,” W Magazine, December 6
- David Pagel, “Review: Artist Laura Owens makes books unlike any other books you’ve seen,” The Los Angeles Times, December 6
- Laurie Ochoa and Caroline A. Miranda, “Newsletter: Essential Arts,” The Los Angeles Times, December 8
- Michael Shnayerson, “Remembering Donald Marron: The Art Collector in His Own Words,” ARTnews, December 30
2018
- Katherine Dennis, M.E. Sparks and Daina Augaitis, Ben Reeves: floating among phantoms, Equinox Gallery, Vancouver
- Cecilia Alemani and Massimiliano (ed.) The Trick Brain, Skira / Aishti Foundation, Milan
- Eva Respini (ed.) Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today, Yale / ICA Boston
- Mario Naves, “Exhibition Note: On ‘Laura Owens’ at the Whitney Museum of American Art,” The New Criterion, January
- Nancy Princenthal, “Moving Targets,” Art in America, January
- “Art Industry News,” Artnet, January
- Andrew Nodell,”Technology, Globalization Reshape Auction Market in 2017,” WWD, January 2
- Phyllis Tuchman, “The Sky Is the Limit: Laura Owens Is in Top Form in Superb Whitney Museum Retrospective,” Artnews, January 4
- Jason Stopa, “Painting as Total Environment,” Hyperallergic, January 5
- “A cold weekend in NYC,” Gotham Gal, January 6
- Emma Hicks, “Places to Go: New York City is the only place that can pull itself off,” The Ubyssey, January 10
- Pac Pobric, “Time to look: Laura Owens’s self-reflective paintings demand considered attention,” The Art Newspaper, January 12
- “There Is No Threat: False Alarms, Obsolete Calendars and Other Allegorical Decoys,” Minus Plato, January 15
- Claire Voon, “Whitney Museum Launches Emoji Designed by Laura Owens,” hyperallergic, January 17
- John Chiaverina, “Laura Owens Designed iMessage Stickers for the Whitney—All for Free Download,” Artnews, January 17
- Michael Wilson, “Laura Owens Just Dropped a Set of Stickers,” Garage, January 17
- “Art,” The Harvard Advocate, Winter
- “You Can Now Use Emojis Designed by Laura Owens,” Glasstire, January 22
- Andrew Durbin, “Laura Owens,” Frieze.com, January 22
- “Kunstlerin Laura Owens hat Emojis entworfen,” Monopol, January 26
- Felix Bernstein, “Laura Owens At The Whitney,” Spike Art Quarterly, Winter
- “Il Whitney è il primo museo a presentare la sua collezione di emoji,” Forbes Italia, February 1
- Taylor Dafoe, “The Internet Totally Changed What It Means to Make Art Today. A New Show Explains How,” Artnet, February 2
- “How has the web shaped art? Boston museum asks,” AFP Relaxnews, February 3
- Mark Romano, “Laura Owens,” What Should We Do, February 5
- Michael Marotta, “The ICA’s ‘Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today’ is a provocative IRL spectacle,” Vanyaland, February 7
- Hovey Brock, “JIMMIE DURHAM: At the Center of the World & LAURA OWENS,” The Brooklyn Rail, February
- David Salle, “Art in Free Fall,” The New York Review of Books, February 8
- Heather Grace, “An Intersession of Personal Days,” The Daily Princetonian, February 8
- Jody Feinberg, “Art: At the ICA, electronic artists examine how the Web has invaded our lives,” The Patriot Ledger, February 13
- Sofia Zamboli, “ICA’s ‘Art in the Age of the Internet’ exhibit overwhelms, impresses,” The Tufts Daily, February 20
- “Pedro Andrade visita exposição de Laura Owens no Whitney Museum,” O Globo, February 21
- Avery Singer, “UNTITLED,” Texte Zur Kunst, March
- Bianca Montes, “March brings to Dallas the acclaimed exhibition of Laura Owens,” Park Cities People, March
- Claire Wrathall, “The business of hotel art,” Financial Times, March 8
- Bianca Montes, “March brings to Dallas the acclaimed exhibition of Laura Owens,” Preston Hollow People, March 20
- Taylor Dafoe, “Laura Owen’s Art Nonprofit 356 Mission, a Target of Anti-Gentrification Protests, Will Close,” artnet.com, March 30
- Lyndsay Knecht. “When Artists and Tenants Join Forces in the Fight for Affordable Housing,” D Magazine, March 21
- “Dallas Museum of Art Presents Nationally Touring Exhibition ‘Laura Owens,’ a Mid-career Survey of the American Artist,” Artfixdaily.com, March 22
- Travis Diehl, “On Laura Owens on Laura Owens,” Carla, Spring
- Jennifer Smart, “Laura Owens’ Exhibit at Dallas Museum of Art Checks All the Boxes,” Dallas Observer, March 27
- Carolina A. Miranda, “Artist-run space 356 Mission is leaving Boyle Heights. Founders Laura Owens and Wendy Yao explain why,” The Los Angeles Times, March 30
- Benjamin Sutton, “356 Mission Gallery, Seen by Many as a Symbol of Gentrification, Will Close,” Hyperallergic, March 30
- “Boyle Heights art space closing — but not because of anti-gentrification campaign,” The Eastsider, March 30
- Alex Greenberger, “Los Angeles’s Artist-Run Institution 356 Mission to Close,” Artnews, March 30
- Melinda Newman, “Pulse Music Turns 10: Indie Publisher Talks Label Plans, Going Global & Why They’re Not for Sale,” Billboard, March 30
- Carolina A. Miranda, “Essential Arts & Culture: King Tut and ‘Angels in America’ return, Laura Owens’ 356 Misison to close,” Los Angeles Times, March 31
- Bettina Funcke, “Be with the Trouble: Cultural Appropriation in America,” Springerin, Spring
- Sarah K. Rich, “Laura Owens,” Artforum, April
- Amy Sillman, “Laura Owens,” Artforum, April
- Sabine Casparie, “A-Typical Painting: Laura Owens at the Dallas Museum of Art,” Art and Culture Texas, April 2
- “Artist Laura Owens’s 356 Mission gallery to close,” Artreview, April 3
- Matt Stromberg, “LA’s Art Community and Activists React to the Closing of 356 Mission,” Hyperallergic, April 4
- Ellery the Elf, “Reception Kicks Off A Show By Much-Lauded Artist Laura Owens At The Dallas Museum of Art,” MySweetCharity, April 6
- Kimberly Richard, “DMA Explores Artist’s Evolution During Dallas Arts Month,” NBC 5 News, April 7
- Ryan Steadman, “The Joy Of Painting,” Artdesk, Spring
- Ann-Hortense Epifani, “Laura Owens,” Pinault Collection, Numero 10, April – September
- Catherine D. Anspon, “Looking Back at the Dallas Art Fair—the First-Timers Tell All,” Paper City, May 7
- Ted Loos, “Charles Ray, Walking a Fine Line With a Hungry Lion,” The New York Times, May 13
- Ted Loos, “Tastes of California, Imported to the East Coast,” The New York Times, May 16
- Charlotte Marina Ioffe, “At the Dallas Museum of Art, Laura Owens Plays with Mediums and Minds,” D Magazine, May 30
- Jon Revett, “Laura Owens at the Dallas Museum of Art,” Glasstire, June
- Nancy Gilson, “Wexner Center Exhibit: ‘Inherent Structure’ stretches the conventional view of a painting,” The Columbus Dispatch, June 17
- “9 Art Events to Attend in New York City This Week,” Artnews, June 18
- Lucy Rees, “7 Brilliant Group Shows Not to Miss in New York This Summer,” Galerie, June 21
- Katja Rivera, “Flatness 3.0: A Review of “Vampire’s Kiss” at Aspect Ratio,” New Art City, July 2
- A.E. Colas, “Art Break: Abstraction at Simon Lee and Marianne Boesky Galleries,” ZEALnyc, July 23
- Robert Enright, “Painting in an Expanded Field: An Interview with Laura Owens,” Border Crossings, August
- Lori Waxman, “10 visual art shows to look forward to this fall,” Chicago Tribune, August 30
- Will Heinrich, “Art Fall Preview: Over 100 Not-to-Miss Shows From East Coast to West,” The New York Times, September 12
- “Fall Preview,” Los Angeles Times, September 14
- Brian P. Kelly, “‘I Was Raised on the Internet’ Review: Binary Reactions to the Digital World,” The Wall Street Journal, September 15
- Carolina A. Miranda, “It started as a one-shot publication — 20 years later X-TRA magazine is celebrating two decades of art,” The Los Angeles Times, October 8
- “Laura Owens,” Wall Street International, November 1
- Kiana Fatemi, “Rx Art Preview,” Flaunt, November 5
- Michael Boodro, “On View: Allison and Warren Kanders Invite AD Into Their Art-Filled Sanctuary,” Architectural Digest, November 8
- Kiana Fatemi, “This Week in LA Art Openings,” Flaunt, November 15
- Christopher Knight, “Review: Laura Owens’ new MOCA show grasps the perpetual power of taboo,” The Los Angeles Times, November 16
- “’The Joy of Color’ at Mnuchin Gallery, New York,” Blouinartinfo, November 16
- Daniel Grant, “Can Going to a Museum Help Your Heart Condition? In a New Trial, Doctors Are Prescribing Art.” Observer, November 16
- Michael Slenske, “Laura Owens: Between the Shadows,” The Los Angeles Times, Winter
- Jack Bankowsky, “Top Ten,” Artforum, December
- Elizabeth Smith, “Helen Frankenthaler Foundation: Fostering New Insights,” The Brooklyn Rail, December
- Christopher Knight, “Best art of 2018: Jasper Johns, Renaissance nudes, ‘Made in L.A.’ and a sleeper hit at LACMA,” The Los Angeles Times, December 11
- Christopher Knight, “In 2018, female artists finally outnumbered men in L.A. museums’ solo shows,” The Los Angeles Times, December 17
2017
- Owens, Laura, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
- Klaus Biesenbach and Peter Eleey (eds.) .com/cn., K11 Art Foundation and MoMA PS1, Hong Kong and Long Island City
- Travis Diehl, “The Drop Shadow of Doubt,” X-TRA, Winter
- Randy Kennedy, “Laura Owens Retrospective Coming to the Whitney,” The New York Times, January 11
- Eileen Kinsella, “Who To Network With During Art LA Contemporary,” artnet.com, January 24
- Andrew Russeth, “A Florine Stettheimer Painting Makes a Rare Appearance at the Armory Show,” ArtNews, March 1
- Joey-Tang, “A Minor Heavens, on Laura Owens,” LEAP, October
- Jason Farago and Martha Schwendener, “What to See at New York’s Art Fairs This Week,” The New York Times, March 2
- “David Reed and Laura Owens in Conversation,” 356mission.com, April
- Tim Barry, “Vanishing Points, curated by Andrianna Campbell,” brooklynrail.org. April 1
- Samantha Kuok Leese, “Critic’s Pick: .com/.cn,” Artforum.com. April 11
- Matt Stromberg, “Five Decades of SoCal Artists’ Books at the Craft and Folk Art Museum,” hyperallergic.com, May 3
- Catherine Wagley, “Is LA’s art scene growing too quickly?” Apollo Magazine, May 29
- Mark Segal, “The Art Scene: 08.17.17,” The East Hampton Star, August 17
- “Laura Owens at Whitney Museum of American Art, New York,” Blouinartinfo.com, August 28
- Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer, “Laura Owens,” Artforum, September
- Charlie Fox, “The Beauty of Ugly Painting,” The New York Times, September 4
- Will Heinrich, “The New Season of Art: Listings for the Fall Season and Beyond,” The New York Times, September 8
- Maximiliano Duron and Alex Greenberger, “See What the Top 200 Collectors Bought in the Past Year,” Artnews, September 11
- Sarah Douglas, “An Introduction to the 2017 ARTnews Top 200 Collectors,” Artnews, September 11
- Christopher Knight, “At Park View gallery, a spellbinding trip into a world turned upside down,” Los Angeles Times, October 9
- Nick Leech, “Art should attract and confuse’: photographer Mario Testino on collecting art,” The National, October 10
- Peter Schjeldahl, “The Radical Paintings of Laura Owens,” The New Yorker, October 30
- Katie Robinson, “The 6 Books You Need to Read in November,” Town & Country, October 31
- Paul Laster, “Laura Owens: a mid-career interview,” Conceptual Fine Arts, November
- Scott Indrisek, “In Laura Owens’s New Whitney Show, Painting Is Serious Fun,” Artsy.net, November 7
- Michael Wilson, “The Whitney’s Laura Owens Book Comes in 8,500 Different Covers,” Garage, November 8
- David Lagaccia, “Abstract Artist Laura Owens Challenges Traditional Ideas of Good Taste,” Interview, November 8
- “Top Must Visit Art Shows in New York This Week: Michelangelo to Laura Owens,” blouinartinfo.com, November 9
- Katie Dunham, “CalArts Alumna Laura Owens Exhibits Works at the Whitney in New York,” SCVnews.com, November 10
- Margaret Carrigan, “5 Must-See Art Exhibition at NYC Museums This Winter,” Observer, November 10
- Kristin Farr, “Experimental Pop: Laura Owens @The Whitney, NYC,” Juxtapoz, November 10
- Rozanne Els, “A Los Angeles Artist Who Loves ‘Ugly Painting’,” The Cut, November 10
- “Laura Owens’ First Major Exhibition at The Whitney Museum of American Art,” blouinartinfo.com, November 10
- Katie Dunham, “Laura Owens Exhibition Opens at the Whitney,” 24700, November 10
- “Laura Owens Brings Color, Pattern and Wildlife To The Whitney,” Untitled Magazine, November 14
- Roberta Smith, “The Comedic Beauty of Laura Owens,” The New York Times, November 16
- Brian Boucher, “Even a Prize-Winning Ferrari Couldn’t Add Much Zip to Sotheby’s Lethargic $310 Million Contemporary Sale,” Artnet, November 16
- Nate Freeman, “Sotheby’s Totals $310.2 M. at Postwar and Contemporary Sale, Bacon Triptych Sells for $36.8 M.,” Artnews, November 16
- Paul Laster, “Laura Owens puts art history in a blender and presses puree,” Time Out New York, November 17
- Carolina A. Miranda, “Essential Arts & Culture: The theater-TV nexus, a new CEO at the LA Phil, an art collection comes to light,” The Los Angeles Times, November 17
- Judd Tully, “Phillips and Sotheby’s deliver healthy totals for contemporary art,” The Art Newspaper, November 17
- “Corrections,” The New York Times, November 18
- Ariella Budick. “Unabashed fun with Laura Owens at the Whitney,” The Financial Times, November 24
- “Laura Owens,” Thirty Four Flavors, November 25
- Agathe Moley, “Laura Owens: painting as a physical force,” Artviatic, November 27
- Hilary Webb, “’Made on the Table’ at Sadie Coles HQ, London,” Blouinartinfo.com, November 29
- “The 20 Most Influential Artists of 2017,” Artsy, December
- James Tarmy, “Billionaires Are Buying Art by Laura Owens. Will Everyone Else?,” Bloomberg Finance, December 1
- Corrado Serra, “Laura Owens at Whitney Museum of American Art, through February 4, 2018,” Arts Summary, December 3
- “Goings on About Town,” The New Yorker, December 4
- Roberta Smith, “Best Art of 2017,” The New York Times, December 6
- Rob Goyanes, “Laura Owens at the Whitney,” alphasixty, December 12
- Roberta Smith, “Best Art Books of 2017,” The New York Times, December 14
- Jennifer Krasinski, “The Year in Art Was All in the Details,” The Village Voice, December 14
- Brian Boucher, “Following the Death of Its Curator, the LA Art Book Fair Has Canceled Its 2018 Edition,” artnet, December 15
- John Yau, “Laura Owens and the Death of the Auteur,” hyperallergic, December 16
- “The Approval Matrix,” New York Magazine, December 25
2016
- Katherine Brinson and Susan Thompson (eds), The Hugo Boss Prize 2016, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York
- Fine Young Cannibals, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
- Alex Greenberger, “Laura Owens Named Winner of the 2015 Robert De Niro Sr. Prize,” Artnews.net, January 4
- “Seth Price and Laura Owens in Conversation,” 356mission.com, January
- “California Artist is Winner of 2015 Robert De Niro Sr. Prize,” Associated Press, January 5
- Tom Teicholz, “The Art of the Rubell Family Collection,” forbes.com, January 27
- Michael Ned Holte, “Systems of Belief,” Artforum, February
- Rebecca Bates, “Playing ‘Would You Rather’ with Laura Owens”, Paddle8, February
- Rain Embuscado, “Kim Gordon Teams with Gagosian Gallery to Open Uber-Cool Pop-Up Record Store.” Artnews.net, February 11
- Ann Binlot, “Print’s not dead: this year’s music-themed LA Art Book Fair hit all the right notes,” Wallpaper*, February 29
- Maxwell Williams, “The Influx Of International Galleries to L.A. Is More Complicated Than You Think,” Artsy.net, March 9
- Malerie Malgre and Maria Muhl, “Painting 2.0,” Texte zur Kunst, March
- “Laura Owens: 10 Paintings @CCA Wattis Institute,” Juxtapoz, April 28
- Sarah Hotchkiss, “So Much More Than ‘Ten Paintings’ in Laura Owens Show at Wattis,” KQED, May 19
- Charles Desmarais, “Laura Owens at CCA Wattis Institute a pulse-quickening experience,” The San Francisco Chronicle, May 20
- Sarah Thibault, “Laura Owens, Ten Paintings: More Than Meets The Eye,” SFAQ, May 25
- Michael Slenske, “Boom in the Bay,” Cultured, Summer
- Jack Bankowsky, “Painting 2.0: Expression in the Information Age,” Artforum, Summer
- Monica Westin, “Critic’s Pick: Laura Owens,” artforum.com, June 10
- “Fine Young Cannibals,” New Yorker, July 11 & 18
- Christina Geyer, “California’s Most Important Painter Gets a Major Texas Moment,” PaperCity, August 31
- Keith J. Varadi, “Laura Owens at the Wattis Institute (L.A. in S.F.),” Contemporary Art Review LA #4, Summer
- Anthony Huberman, “Laura Owens: In Conversation with Anthony Huberman,” LXAQ, September
- Orin Gat, “Critic’s Guide: London,” frieze.com, October 3
- Claudia La Rocco, “Laura Owens,” Bomb, Fall
- Eileen Kinsella, “Laura Owens’ Raining Lemons Appear on New Aspen Art Museum and Aspen Skiing Company Lift Ticket,” artnet.com, October 5
- Matt Breen, “Laura Owens,” Time Out London, October 17
- Joanna Cresswell, “The Magic of Laura Owens’ Radical Paintings,” Anothermag.com, October 27
- Paul Michael Smith, “The Grid & The Jester,” The Seen, Issue 3
- Wendy Vogel, “Laura Owens @ CCA WAttis,” Modern Painters, November
- Gavin Delahunty, “Laura Owens in Conversation with Gavin Delahunty,” Whitewall, Fall
- Andrianna Campbell, “Dash, Fragment, Bracket,” Even, Fall
- Mark Godfrey, “Laura Owens,” Garage, Fall/Winter
- Gavin Delahunty, “A Stand For Medium And Materiality,” Patron, October / November
- Catherine Wagley, “The Female Cool School,” Contemporary Art Review.la, November 16
- Cassie Davies, “Laura Owens,” Studiointernational.com, November 27
- Amanda Avery, “Laura Owens at Sadie Coles HQ, London,” BlouinArtinfo, December
- Jack Bankowsky, “Top Ten,” Artforum, December
- Harry Thorne, “Laura Owens,” Frieze, December
- Nicholas Hatfull, “Laura Owens,” Moussemagazine.it, December 3
- Helen Marten, “Fuzzy Logic,” Frieze.com, December 12
- Charles Desmarais, “Top ten visual arts events of 2016,” San Francisco Chronicle, December 23
2015
- Laura Owens, Rizzoli, New York
- Peter Schjeldahl, “Take Your Time: New painting at the Museum of Modern Art,” The New Yorker, January 5
- Matt Stromberg, “Why Do US and European Galleries Flock to Mexico City’s Zona MACO?” hyperallergic.com, February 7
- Nora Griffin, “Roundtable: ‘The Forever Now’ at MoMA.” Artcritical, February 9
- Scott Indrisek, “‘Come As You Are’: A ’90s Flashback in New Jersey,” blouinartinfo.com, February 10
- Hannah Dean, “Like-ness, the Internet, and the Work of Laura Owens,” Bowerbird, February 12
- Karen Rosenberg, “Alt History: 8 Groundbreaking Works That Show Why We Still Love the ‘90s,” Artspace.com, February 14
- “Call and Response,” The New Yorker, February 16
- Jason Farago, “Is Painting Dead?” BBC Culture, February 18
- David Salle, “Structure Rising: David Salle on ‘The Forever Now’ At MOMA,” artnews.com, February 23
- Phyllis Tuchman, “Don’t Shoot the Messenger,” The Brooklyn Rail, March
- Barbara Rose, “Forever Now Tomorrow,” The Brooklyn Rail, March
- “Katy Fischer in conversation with Laura Owens, March 2015,” 356mission.com, March 24
- James Tarmy, “If You Only Go to One Gallery in L.A., Go Here,” Bloomberg.com, March 30
- Lloyd Wise, “Call and Response,” Artforum, April
- Kirsty Bell, “Gallery Weekend Berlin,” Art Agenda, May 4
- Griselda Murray Brown, “Berlin Gallery Weekend — review,” Financial Times, May 5
- Martha Buskirk, “Subversive Color at the Rose Art Museum,” Hyperallergic, May 30
- Geoff Mak, “Laura Owens,” The Brooklyn Rail, June
- Brigitte Werneburg, “Laura Owens’ malerisches Spiel mit der Wahrnehmung”, TAZ Lokal, June 11
- Vincenzo Della Corte, “Laura Owens – Secession – Vienna,” Fisk Frisk Magazine, July 8
- Laura Owens and Asha Schechter, “DSKTP,” Kaleidoscope, Spring/Summer
- Mark Prince, “Laura Owens,” Art in America, September
- Oliver Koerner von Gustorf, “Süss, Süsser, Sauer,” Blau, September
- Christopher Bagley, “Art and Commerce,” W Magazine, October
- Martin Herbert, “Laura Owens,” Artforum, November
- Jerry Saltz, “Can a Show As Dreary As This One Be Good for the Whitney? Yes.” nymag.com, November 24
- Lennie Bennett, “Review: Women artists shine in print show at Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg,” Tampa Bay Times, December 2
- Nicole Mauser, “Review: Laura Owens/Soccer Club Club,” New City, Dec 3 & 10
- Catherine Wagley, “‘The Only Thing I’m An Expert On Is My Own Work’: Jordan Wolfson and Laura Owens in Conversation in Los Angeles,” artnews.com, December 8
2014
- Stephen Berens and Jan Tumlir, “Still Lifing: Conversation with Laura Owens.” X-TRA, Winter
- Laura Owens, “Every Rough Edge Is Gone,” Flash Art, January / February
- “Scott Reeder and Laura Owens in conversation,” 356mission.com, February 7
- Corinna Kirsch, “Coral: Laura Owens.”, Artfcity, February 25
- Carol Vogel, “State Of Our Art, According To Whitney,” The New York Times, February 27
- Andrew Bernadini, “Lisa Williamson, Alex Olson, Laura Owens,” Mousse, Vol. 43, March
- Sharon Butler, “2014 Whitney Biennial: Curators’ statements, painting links,” Two Coats of Paint, March 3
- Scott Indrisek, “103 Reasons To Visit the 2014 Whitney Biennial,” Blackbook, March 5
- Katy Diamond Hamer, “First Impressions: The 2014 Whitney Biennial, NY,” Eyes Towards The Dove, March 6
- Kevin McGarry, “Whitney Biennial 2014,” Art Agenda, March 7
- Rachel Corbett, “5 Names To Know Before Opining In The Whitney Biennial,” Food & Wine, March 7
- Andrew M. Goldstein, “The Most Spectacular Artworks in the Whitney Biennial,” Artspace, March 14
- Paul David Young, “Texting at the Whitney Biennial,” Hyperallergic, March 15
- Corinna Kirsch, “The Whitney Biennial: A Format in Crisis,: Art F City, March 20
- Mark Godfrey, “Statements of Intent: The Art of Jacqueline Humphries, Laura Owens, Amy Sillman, and Charline von Heyl,” Artforum, May
- Monika Szewczyk, “Persian Rose Chartreuse Muse Vancouver Grey,” Artforum, June
- Elisabeth von Thurn und Taxis, “TNT,” Vogue, July
- Laura Owens. “Jeff Koons.” Artforum, September
- “Laura Owens: ‘Art Is The One Subject Without An Answer,’” Lancia Trend Vision, September 3
- Daniel A. Weiskopf, “Critic’s Pick: Painter’s Painters: Gifts from Alex Katz,” Artforum.com , September 18
- Joanna Fiduccia, “The Shadow of the Virtual Sun,” Spike Art Quarterly, Fall
- Jori Finkel, “Art scene in downtown Los Angeles grows,” The Artnewspaper, November
- “Laura Owens,” Deutsche Bank ArtMag, November
- Clint Burnham, “The Dreamscapes of Vienna’s Sprawling “Century of the Bed” Series, Momus.ca, November 10
- Diane Solway, “Laura Owens: Brushes with Greatness,” W Magazine, December
- Scott Indrisek, “At MoMA, 17 Paintings of Our Forever Now,” blouinartinfo.com, December 9
- Jason Farago, “The Forever Now review: calling time on the avant-garde,” The Guardian, December 12
- Jerry Saltz, “Forever Now is MoMA’s Market Moment,” nymag.com, December 12
- “Looking For a Few Good Tenants: LA’s New Downtown Gallery Scene,” Huffington Post, December 18
- Thomas Micchelli, “The Death of Painting: All-New, 2014 Edition,” Hyperallergic, December 20
2013
- Joslin Van Arsdale, “Laura Owens 12 Paintings,” The Art Reserve, January
- Brian Boucher, “The Brief: Laura Owens Opens in LA,” Art in America, January
- Diane Solway, “Solway Selects,” W Magazine, January
- January Parkos Arnall, “Art in Person: the limits of what we can see virtually… Laura Owens at 356 Mission,” LA Art Theory, January 20
- Andrew Beradini, “How Laura Owens’ New Boyle Heights Exhibit Moves Painting Forward,” LA Weekly, March 21
- David Pagel, “Review: Laura Owens’ Large-scale Paintings an Immersive Experience,” The Los Angeles Times, March 14
- Jori Finkel, “Industrial Building Gives Artist Laura Owens Versatility,” The Los Angeles Times, March 13
- Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer, “Optical Drive,” Artforum, March
- Eva Recinos, “A Sperm Mug, a Giant Tube Sculpture and More at Night Gallery,” LA Weekly, March 18
- Hunter Drohojowska-Philp, “The Night Gallery and Laura Owens,” KCRW.com, March 28
- Jonathan Griffin, “Made in Space,” art-agenda.com, March 28
- Jonathan Griffin, “Laura Owens: 356 South Mission Road, Los Angeles.” Frieze, April
- Terry R. Myers, “12 Paintings by LAURA OWENS,” The Brooklyn Rail, May
- Erica Zora Wrightson, “Laura Owens: Painting in Space,” LA Weekly, May 15
- Laura Owens, “‘It’s Spelled Motherfuckers.’-An Interview with Rachel Kushner,” The Believer, May 24
- Scott Timberg, “Culture Jammers: Novelist Rachel Kushner and painter Laura Owens join forces as they both gather new acclaim.” Pasadena Magazine, May/June
- Konstantin Bohorov, “Selection of critics,” Iskusstvo, June
- Fabien Stech,” Laura Owens: I Like The Idea Of Not Knowing,” Kunstforum, Summer
- Molly Larkey, “To Live And Paint In LA: The Work Of Laura Owens,” Los Angeles I’m Yours, June 25
- Andrew M. Goldstein, “6 Works You Should Collect, From Laura Owens’s Magic Moon to Franz West’s Furniture,” Artspace, July 10
- Andrew Russeth, “‘Made in Space’ at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise and Venus Over Manhattan,” GalleristNY.com, July 23
- Emily Colucci, “Fact Or Fiction: Los Angeles Is Just New York Lying Down,” ArtParasites.com Magazine, July 24
- Roberta Smith, “Made in Space,” The New York Times, August 1
- James Cartwright, “Art: Laura Owens creates giant, abstract works like 1980s album art,” It’s Nice That, September 4
- Jessie Groveman, “Laura Owens: LA Artist With Larger Than Life Exhibit.” Lipstick & Politics, September 27
- Stephen Berens and Jan Tumlir, “A Room of Owens’s Own” X-TRA, Fall
- Laura Owens, “Tragic Kingdom: Laura Owens on Paul McCarthy’s WS at the Park Avenue Armory,” Artforum, October
- Carol Cheh, “Whitney Biennial 2014: L.A. Artists Represent, Again,” LA Weekly, November 19
- Carol Vogel, “The 2014 Whitney Biennial Is Taking Shape,” The New York Times, November 14
- David Ng, “Whitney Biennial 2014 to include L.A. artists, David Foster Wallace,” The Los Angeles Times, November 15
- “Rob Pruitt’s Art Awards,” Art in America, December
2012
- Mark Prince, “Laura Owens,” Frieze, January
- Dodie Kazanjian, “May Madness: A Guide to the New York Art Shows You Can’t Miss This Spring,” Vogue.com, April 28
- Danielle McCullough, “OPEN NETWORK/PRINT IMPRINT,” Whitehot Magazine, May
- “Modern Painters Magazine’s Top Picks From Frieze New York.” Blouinartinfo.com, May 5
- Yanyan Huang, “Art Unlimited Artist Spotlight: Laura Owens at Art 43 Basel,” Haute Living, June 16
- Andrew Russeth, “Look at This! Laura Owens’s ‘Clocks’ Book,” GalleristNY.com, October
- William Kherbek, “Laura Owens: Pavement Karaoke/Alphabet,” Port Magazine, October
- Dorothy Spears, “Gallery as Museum, Art Dealer as Curator,” The New York Times, October 26
- Holly Myers, “Laura Owens,” Modern Painters, November
- Fabian Stech, “Laura Owens in Conversation with Fabian Stech,” Annual Magazine, November
- Ace Ubas, “Laura Owens on Destroy the Picture: Painting the Void, 1949-1962,” MOCA.org, November 29
- Jack Bankowsky, “Top Ten,” Artforum, December
2011
- Noemi Smolik, “Wie Werden Abgedroschene Fragen Wieder Aktuell?,” Artblog Cologne, January 8
- Laura Rivera, “Artist Laura Owens to discuss her abstract paintings tonight for UCLA Hammer Museum’s lecture series.” Daily Bruin, February 3
- Joshua Abelow, “Laura Owens at GB, Harlem,” Artblogartblog, July 28
- Jorg Heiser, “Laura Owens, Galerie Gisela Capitain,” Frieze d/e, Autumn
- Laura Owens, “Lunch at the Landfill.” The Lunch Break Times, October
- Christopher Reiger, “Painting Between the Lines @ CCA Wattis,” SquareCylinder.com, November 29
- Laura Owens, “Merlin Carpenter,” Artforum, December
- Mary Louise Schumaker, “Making a Scene: Milwaukee’s Avant-Garde,” Journal Sentinal, December 12
2010
2009
- Roberta Smith, “Rewards and Clarity in a Show of Restraint,” The New York Times, February 19
- Mary Anna Pomonis, “Interview with Laura Owens,” Whitehot Magazine, March
- Aya Muto, “Silver Lake Style Living,” Brutus, May
- Jori Finkel, “Open the Storeroom: Let’s Put on a Show,” The New York Times, September 13
- Rebecca Niederlander and Iris Anna Regn interviewed by Karen Klabin, “BROODWORK: Creative Practice and Family Life,” Coagula Art Journal, August
- Mike Boehm, “Back From The Ashes,” The Los Angeles Times, November 8
- Nana Asfour, “Laura Owens, ‘New Paintings,’” Time Out New York, November 9
- Benjamin Genocchio, “The Nature of Time, Ever Passing,” The New York Times, November 20
2008
2007
- “Laura Owens,” New Yorker, January 8
- Catrin Lorch, “Die Umarmung mit dem Pinsel,” Taz, March 7
- Gabriela Walde, “Laura Owens’ schöne Bilderwelt,” Berliner Morgenpost, Spring
- Carlo Simula, “Sequence 1: Palazzo Grassi,” L’Uomo Vogue, May/June
- Dirk Martens, “Fris en vrij schilderen,” Art Spotter, May
- AD Algemeen Dagblad, May
- AD Amersfoortse Courant, May
- “Kijk uit naar…,” De Morgen, May
- “Owens en de kunstgeschiedenis,” NRC Handelsblad, May
- “Laura Owens in Bonnefanten,” Zondags-Nieuws, May 27
- “Laura Owens,” Museumtijdschrift Vitrine, May 31
- “Van LA tot Maastricht,” Esta, June
- “Laura Owens,” FD Persoonlijk, June
- Lucette Ter Borg, “Beeldende kunst Bespreking,” NRC Handelsblad, June 15
- Lucette Ter Borg, “Beeldende Kunst,” NRC Handelsblad, June 16
- Jonathan Griffin, “Very Abstract and Hyper Figurative,” Frieze, May
- “Laura Owens,” Kunstforum International, June – July
- Paola Van De Velde, “Matisse en lange dropveters van verf,” De Telegraaf, July 6
- Caspar Cillekens, “De illusive van een dagje strand,” Dagblad De Limburger, July 16
- Xander Karskens, “Vlinderend anarchism van Laura Owens,” Zuiderlucht, August
- Karen Rosenberg, ”Needling More Than the Feminist Consciousness,” The New York Times, December 28
2006
- Ken Johnson, “Art in Review: The Garden Party,” The New York Times, April 21
- Laura Owens, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, Summer
- Bill Leahy, “A glimpse into Paradise,” Village, June 22-28
- Angelika Affentranger-Kirchrath, “Nach dem Prinzip von Lust und Laune,” Neue Zürcher Zeitung, June 24
- Aidan Dunne, “Best to ease off on the symbolism,” The Irish Times, June 28
- Gabriele Hoffmann, “Der Sunset Boulevard, aufgehoben im Leporello,” Stuttgarter Zeitung, July
- Gerhard Mack, “Laura Owens,” NZZ am Sonntag, July 2
- Catherine Leen, “Laura Owens,” The Sunday Times, July 2
- Feli Schindler, “Heiterkeit aus dem Sunshine State,” Tages-Anzeiger, July 4
- Isabell Teuwsen, “Laura Owens: Luftig & leicht,” Schweizer Illustrierte, July 10
- “Kunsthalle Zurich Presents Laura Owens,” artdaily.com, July 11
- Dominique von Burg, “Laura Owens’ Gemälde und Studien: Mit unerschöpflicher Fabulierlust,” Zürichsee-Zeitungen, July 22
- Dominique von Burg, “Laura Owens: Von der Suche nach der unbeschränkten Freiheit in der Kunst,” Kunst-Bulletin, July/August
- Cherry Smyth, “Laura Owens,” Modern Painters, July–August
- Sally O’Reilly, “Review,” ArtReview, August
- Lucy Soutter, “What Lies Beneath,” Frieze, September
- “In Lion For Exhibition,” Broadway Ham & High, September 14
- “Interview with Laura Owens and Elysia Bowory-Reeder,” The Wrong Times, Winter
- Laura Owens & Gedi Sibony: Fragility,” The Wrong Times, October
- “Funny Looking,” The Big Issue, November
- Sarah Kent, “Best of skittish,” Time Out London, November
- David Gleeson, “Laura Owens,” Art Monthly, November
- Alison Oldham, “Owens’ vision requires an educated eye,” Ham & High, November 23
- Beth Greenacre, “Laura Owens at Camden Arts Centre,” Art Rabbit, November 30
- Joao Ribas, “An Ecumenical Love of Painting,” New York Sun, December 14
2005
- Leslie Markle, “’The Undiscovered Country’ at the UCLA Hammer Museum,” StudioTalk, January
- “Kinyo Bunka Keijiban,” Weekly Friday, January 14
- “Art Topics,” CAZ, February
- “Art & Design,” Elle Décor Japan, February
- “Exhibition Spot2,” Gallery, February
- “Culture & Art,” Tokyo Loco Style, February
- Julian Satterthwaite, “The Whimsical World of Laura Owens,” The Daily Yomiuri, February 17
- “Art Topics,” Weekly Pia, February 17
- Edan Corkill, “Soft Focus on Reality Links ‘Loose’ Women,” The Asahi Shimbun, February 18
- “Sortir ART,” Figaro Japon, February 20
- Tosho Shumbu, February 26
- Kyotara, “Deepest Fantasies. Laura Owens sona,” Barfout!, March
- “Exhibition Preview,” Bijutsu No Mori, March
- “art,” Domani, March
- “Culture,” Marie Claire Japan, March
- Mijutsuno no Mado, March
- “Tokyo Entertainment Calendar,” Tokyo Calendar, March
- “Exhibitions,” The Asahi Shimbun, March 8
- “Guide Guide,” Nikkei Shimbun, March 14
- “Inside Outside,” Kankyo Ryokka Shimbun, March 15
- “Exhibitions,” Mainichi Newspaper, March 24
- “Art,” Brio, April
- Hi Fashion, April
- Illustration, April
- Precious, April
- Chisako Takashima, “Art and I,” Very, April
- “art SV cut up,” Studio Voice, April
- Masami Taguchi, “Creator’s Voice,” MyLohas, May
- Laura Richard Jank, “Interim Print Report,” Art On Paper, May/June
- Richard Huntington, “To the Extreme,” Buffalo News, July 12
- Cheryl Kaplan, “Freundliche Platzhalter: Ein Gespräch mit Laura Owens / Friendly Place-Holders: Conversation with Laura Owens”, db artmag, August
- Roberta Smith, “Art in Review: Desired Constellations,” The New York Times, August 5
2004
- Laura Owens, “A Painter’s Vote,” ArtUS, January–February
- Christopher Knight, “Binary Days at the Biennial,” Los Angeles Times, April 11
- Michael Kimmelman, “Touching All Bases At the Biennial,” The New York Times, March 12
- Jerry Saltz, “The OK Corral,” The Village Voice, March 17 – 23
- Peter Schjedahl, “What’s New: The Whitney Biennial,” New Yorker, March 22
- Hilarie M. Sheets, “A Painter with Lots of Voices and No Comment,” New York Times, March 28
- Bethany Anne Pappalardo, “Critic’s Pick,” Artforum.com, March 30
- Madam Figaro, April
- Bridget Goodbody, Review, Time Out New York, April 1-8
- Holland Cotter, “Art in Review: Laura Owens,” The New York Times, April 2
- Roni Feinstein, “An Unfettered Palette,” Sun Sentinel, April 27
- Maruccia Casadio, “Dreamy,” Vogue Italia, May
- Renato Diez, “Alla Biennale del Whitney,” Arte, May
- Meghan Dailey, “Laura Owens bei Gavin Brown’s enterprise,” Texte Zur Kunst, June
- Eleanor Heartney, “The Well-Tempered Biennial,” Art in America, June/July
- Alex Williams, “Cutting Edge In the Arts Now Is Joining a PAC,” The New York Times, July 4
- Robert Landau, “Exploring Beverly Hills,” Where Magazine, September
- Ken Johnson, “From Central Park to Outer Space,” The New York Times, September 12
- “New This Month in U.S. Museums,” Artnet.com, October
- Doug Harvey, “It’s Alive: Art of the Living Dead,” LA Weekly, October 15 – 21
- David Pagel, “Leaving Room for Personality,” The Los Angeles Times, October 20
- Lane Relyea, “Theory and Painting,” Flash Art, November/December
- “The Undiscovered Country,” Coast, December
- Cynthia Dea, “Brush strokes of pure image,” Los Angeles Times, December 2
2003
- Benjamin Weissman, “Interview with Laura Owens,” Cakewalk, Winter
- David Rimanelli, “Preview, Laura Owens, Museum of Contemporary Art,” Artforum, January
- Helen Allen, “NY Contemporary Auctions: High-End Sales Still Going Strong,” Flash Art, January/February
- David Greene, “Class Reunion,” Modern Painters, Spring
- Christopher Knight, “Giving Girl Stuff a Good Name,” Los Angeles Times, March 24
- Dodie Kazanjian, “The Happy Painter,” Vogue, April
- Rachel Kushner, “Interview with Laura Owens,” The Believer, May
- Howard Singerman, “Laura Owens,” Artforum, May
- Dave Muller, “Top Ten,” Artforum, Summer
- Benjamin Weissman, “Laura Owens: MOCA Los Angeles,” Frieze, Summer
- ArtReview, July/August
- Gean Moreno, “Laura Owens: Never The Same Twice,” Flash Art, October
- James Auer, “Loving the Canvas,” Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, October 16
2002
- Russell Ferguson, “Laura Owens Paints a Picture / Laura Owens malt ein Bild,”Parkett, no. 65, September
- Mungo Thomson, “From My Junkyard to Yours / Von meinem Schrotthaufen zu deinem eigenen,”Parkett, no. 65, September
- Benjamin Weissman, “Monkey Man Killer / Der Monkey-Man-Killer,” Parkett, no. 65, September
- Francine Koslow Miller, “Laura Owens: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum,” Artforum, January
- Helen Allen, “NY Contemporary Auctions,” Flash Art International, January/February
- Gloria Goodale, “Artist Trio Shares a Simple Love of Painting,” The Christian Science Monitor, February 15
- Christopher Knight, “Bristling with Attitude,” Los Angeles Times, February 15
- Doug Harvey, “Cavepainting,” LA Weekly, February 22-28
- Douglas Max Utter, “Accumulations,” New Art Examiner, March
- Robin Muir, “The Garden Issue: Another Country,” The Independent, March 30
- Jemima Montague, “Urgent Painting,” Frieze, April
- David Pagel, “A Supersaturated Return to the Spirit of the Punk Era,” Los Angeles Times, May 10
- Charles Gute, “Focus Painting Part One,” Flash Art, October
- Roberta Smith, “Retreat from the Wild Shores of Abstraction,” The New York Times, October 18
- Jerry Saltz, “Good on Paper,” Village Voice, October 30
- Peter Schjeldahl, “The Drawing Board,” New Yorker, November 4
- “Drawing Now?” Flash Art, December
2001
- Suzanne Muchnic, “Ascent of the Early Risers,” Los Angeles Times, April 1
- Christopher Miles, “MOCA Takes Stock of the ‘90s,” Art & Auction, April 1
- Alexander Nguyen, “MOCA exhibit offers an eclectic collection,” The Daily Trojan, April 2
- Christopher Knight, “Art-School Approaches—the Good, the Bad and the Ugly,” The Los Angeles Times, April 4
- David Pagel, “Before Their Art Was Famous,” The Los Angeles Times, April 4
- Irit Krygier, “Hello 21st Century,” Artnet, April 12
- Doug Harvey, “P.O.’d,” LA Weekly, May 11 – 17
- Joanne Silver, “Owens’ mingling of styles offers multiple delights,” Boston Herald, June 8
- Neville Wakefield, “Laura Owens,” Elle Decor, July
- Christopher Knight, “Art For School’s Sake,” The Los Angeles Times, July 8
- Cate McQuaid, “Laura Owens Brings Zen to her Bold Art,” Boston Globe, July 27
- Karl Erickson, “The Free Spot,” In These Times, August
- Grace Glueck, “Art Review: A Universe of Art Centered in Boston,” The New York Times, August 17
- Kimberly Cutter, “East Side Story,” W, September
- Jerry Saltz, “Babylon Now,” The Village Voice, September 18
- “UNT explores methods, inspiration of California art,” The Chronicle, September 20
- Clayton Campbell, “Public Offerings,” dArt International, Fall
- Cornelia Gockel, “Im Sog des kirschroten Mundes,” Suddeutsche Zeitung, October 1
- “KSU Gallery opens drawing exhibition,” Record-Courier, October 2
- Dorothy Shinn, “Show aims to give drawing a little respect,” Akron Beacon Journal, October 7
- Anne Erfle, “Mit dem Dung von Elefanten,” SZ Extra, October 25
2000
- Katy Siegel, “1999 Carnegie International,” Artforum, January
- Mark Godfrey, “Reviews,” Contemporary Visual Arts, January
- Louise Farr, “Six Artists for the Century, Art Beat,” W, February
- David Carrier, “Pittsburgh: Carnegie International,” Burlington Magazine, February
- Bill Fark, “California Artists Show Diversity in Museum Shows,” North County Times, June 9
- Moira Jeffrey, “Artist with a sense of fun,” The Herald, June 19
- Jack Mottram, “A Natural Talent in all its Glory,” Sunday Herald, June 25
- Christopher Knight, “Catching the ‘Next Wave’ of Painters,” Los Angeles Times, June 20
- John Calcutt and Fiona Leith, “Laura Owens — New Work,” Scotland on Sunday, June 25
- Giles Sutherland, “Around the Scottish Galleries,” The Times, June 28
- Gemma de Cruz, “Eurovision,” Flash Art, Summer
- Sarah Lowndes, “Laura Owens: new work,” Metro Life, July
- Duncan Macmillan, “Laura Owens,” The Scotsman, July 4
- Alessandra Pioselli, “Review,” Flash Art Italia, Summer
1999
- Terry R. Myers, Standing Still & Walking in Los Angeles, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA
- David Pagel, “Color Fields: Now and Then,” Artpix, issue 2
- Jan Avgikos, “Laura Owens,” Artforum, January
- Peter Frank, “Art Picks of the Week,” LA Weekly, January 8–14
- Michael Darling, “Laura Owens,” Art Issues, January/February
- Nancy Princenthal, “Laura Owens at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise,” Art In America, February
- Jim Isermann, “Jim Isermann’s Top Ten,” Artforum, April
- Christopher Knight, “Post-Boomers Spearhead the Boom,” Los Angeles Times, April 4
- Susan Morgan, “A Thousand Words: Laura Owens Talks About Her New Work,” Artforum, Summer
- Jan Tumlir, Jan Estep and Yvette Brackman, “Laura Owens: Cross-Country Trilogy,” New Art Examiner, May
- Kristen M. Jones, “Basel 1999: The Swiss Art Fair Turns 30,” Travel & Leisure, May
- Simon Maurer, “Alle gegen alle und alle mit allen,” Tages-Anzeiger, June 17
- Laura Owens, “A Project for Open City by Laura Owens,” Open City, Fall
- Russell Ferguson, “The exchange of ideas among the living,” Cakewalk, Fall
- Sarah Kent, “Review,” Time Out London, November
- George Melrod, “Young at Art,” Los Angeles Times Magazine, November
- “Far Away, So Close,” Pittsburgh City Paper, November 3
- Steven Litt, “Exhibition of Today’s Art is a Triumph,” The Plain Dealer, November 14
- Roberta Smith, “Safe Among Seamless Shadows,” The New York Times, November 17
- Robert Pincus, “World Class Exhibition: Carnegie International Takes an Ambitious Look at Art of the Moment,” San Diego Union-Tribune, November 21
- Polly Staple, “Film sets and mad monkeys,” The Independent, November 21
- Carmine Iannaccone, “Entertainment Complex: Laura Owens,” Frieze, November/December
- Adrian Dannatt, “Old Masters of Tomorrow,” Art Newspaper, December
- Peter Plagens and Corie Brown, “Hollywood’s Big Art Deal,” Newsweek, December 6
1998
- Laura Owens, “Contemporary Studio,* Interview with Monique Prieto, Frances Stark, and Jorge Pardo,” Cakewalk, Spring/Summer
- David Pagel, “Color Them Retro,” Los Angeles Times, August 16
- Richard Dorment, “A Brush with Young America,” Daily Telegraph, August 26
- Lane Relyea, “Virtually Formal,” Artforum, September
- Claudine Ise “Showroom,” Los Angeles Times, September 18
- David Pagel, “New Sophistication in Owens’ Landscapes,” Los Angeles Times, October 23
- Roberta Smith, “Laura Owens,” The New York Times, November 6
- Christopher Knight, “Year in Review: A Wealth of Shows and Fund-Raising,” Los Angeles Times, December 27
- Lisa Liebmann, “Best of 1998,” Artforum, December
1997
- Kirsten Olds, “The Perks of L.A.,” The Columbia Spectator, February 6
- Peter Schjeldahl, “La-la Band,” The Village Voice, February 18
- Jerry Saltz, “Regular, No Sugar,” Time Out New York, February 27
- Rebecca Morris, “Programming Attitude: An Interview with Laura Owens,” Art Muscle, February–March
- Roberta Smith, “Laura Owens,” The New York Times, April 18
- Michal Ann Carsely, “Palace,” New Art Examiner, May
- Martha Schwendener, “Laura Owens,” Time Out New York, May 1–8
- Lisa Anne Auerbach, “Sharon Lockhart, Laura Owens and Frances Stark at Blum & Poe,” LA Weekly, June 27–July 3
- Susan Kandel, “Exploring Power of Three Among Friends,” The Los Angeles Times, July 4
- Martin Coomer, “Laura Owens,” Time Out New York, November 12–19
- Laura Owens, “On the American Job (interview with Chris Smith),” New Art Examiner, July/August
- Victoria Martin, “Sharon Lockhart, Laura Owens and Frances Stark at Blum & Poe,” Artweek, August 8
- Peter Schjeldahl, “Painting Rules,” The Village Voice, September 30
- Bruce Hainley, “Sharon Lockhart, Laura Owens, Frances Stark,” Artforum, November
- Giovanni Intra, “Sharon Lockhart, Laura Owens, Frances Stark,” Flash Art, November/December
- Michelle Grabner, “The Eagle Rock Show,” X-Tra, Number 3, December
1996
- Stuart Servetar, “Screen,” New York Press, February
- Roberta Smith, “Laura Owens,” The New York Times, February 2
- Penelope Derethik, “Institute struts its stuff in annual show,” The Morning Journal, February 23
- Scott Sutherland, “Where High Art Shares the Fields With Sheep,” The New York Times, August 11
- Jerry Saltz, “The Speed of Painting,” Time Out New York, September
1995
- Benjamin Weissman, “Openings: Laura Owens,” Artforum, New York, November
- Charles Morgan, “Gorgeous Politics,” Las Vegas Weekly, LasVegas, December 21
Public Collections
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Guggenheim Museum, New York
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco
High Museum of Art, Atlanta
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
Brandhorst Museum, Munich
Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo
Tate Modern, London
Awards
Cotsen Master Fellowship, Barnsdall Art Park Foundation, 2020
Robert De Niro Sr. Prize, 2015
Guna S. Mundheim Visual Arts Fellow, American Academy in Berlin, 2007
Distinguished Alumni Award, California Institute of the Arts, 2005
Artistic Achievement Award, Rhode Island School of Design Alumni Association, 2005
Metcalf Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters, 2001
Baloise Art Prize at Art 30 Basel 1999
Memberships and Honors
American Academy of Arts and Letters, 2024
Women in the Arts Honoree, Museum of Contemporary Art, 2019
Signature Artist Honoree, Venice Family Clinic Art Walk, 2019