Lives
and works in New York
1961 Born Boston, Massachusetts
1983 BA Painting, Bard College, New York
1984 Post Graduate Programme in Painting, National College of Art and Design, Dublin, Ireland
1989 Institute Hautes Études en arts Plastiques, Paris
1992 Rome Prize Fellowship, American Academy in Rome
Solo Exhibitions (selected)
2012
Barbara Gladstone, Brussels
2011
54th International Art Exhibition: ILLUMInations Venice Biennale, Italy
Spine: Chapter 20, Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland
Spine: Chapter 20, Neuberger Museum of Art, SUNY Purchase, Purchase, NY
2010
Silberkuppe, Chapter 17, Silberkuppe, Berlin
Art | Basel | Miami Beach Art Nova
I Love — The Eyelid Clicks I see Cold Poetry, Chapter 18,, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
2009
Exhibition Guide, Chapter 15, , ICA Boston
2008
Chapter 12:iamb, Through the Limbo of Vanity, Vilma Gold Gallery, London
Chapter 12: iamb, Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York
2004
Chapter 3: Optima, Momenta Art, Brooklyn,
New York
2002
Chapter 1: The Sun, Revolution, Ferndale,
Michigan
2001
Chapter 1: The Sun, Spencer Brownstone Gallery,
New York
2000
Galerie Edward Mitterrand, Geneva
1999
China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles
Revolution, A Gallery Project, Ferndale, Michigan
1998
Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York
1997
Quaywall-Rest, Astride, Revolution: A Gallery
Project, Ferndale, Michigan
1995
Apartment Paintings, Helen M.Z. Cevern-Harwood
Gallery, New York
Group Exhibitions (selected)
2011
New York to London and Back, Thomas Dane, London
2010
Nikolas Gambaroff, Michael Krebber, R.H. Quaytman, Blake Rayne, Bergen Kunsthalle, Norway
Footnote 1. Phantom Limb, curated by Barbara Piwowarska, Centre for Contemporary Art, Zamek Ujazdowski, Warsaw
Novel, Dependance, Brussels
Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris
Picture Industry (Goodbye to All That), Regan Projects, Los Angeles
Group Show, Rental Gallery, NY
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (cat)
Rental Gallery, New York
Blind Mirror, Galleria Raucci / Santamaria, Naples
Guilty Feet, 179 Canal, organized by Colby Bird and Tova Carlin, NY
The Inhabitants, Vilma Gold, London
The Library of Babel/In and Out of Place, Zabludowicz Collection/ 176, London
Besides, With, Against, And Yet: Abstraction and the Ready-Made Gesture, curated by Debra Singer, The Kitchen, New York
2009
Cave Painting, organized by Bob Nickas, Gresham Ghost, New York
Besides, With, Against, and Yet; Abstraction and the Readymade Gesture, curated by Debra Singer, The Kitchen, New York
Blue, curated by John Zinnser, James Graham and Sons Gallery, New York
Front Room: Olga Chernysheva, R.H.Quaytman and Josephine Pryde, Contemporary Art Museum St.Louis, Saint Louis, MO
Art Premiere (2.1 / X4), R. H. Quaytman & Liz Deschenes,
Art 40 Basel
E:vent, London
Practice vs. Object, Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York
Group Show: Don Brown, Daniel Vergon, R. H. Quaytman, Gabriel
Vormstein and Lawrence Weiner, Galerie Almine rechs, Brussels
Constructivismes, Galerie Almine Rech, Brussels
2008
Painting Now and Forever, Matthew Marks Gallery and Greene Naftali Gallery, New York
Paper, Scissors, Stone, Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm
Electioneering, Fort Worth Contemporary Arts, Texas Christian University, Ft. Worth
Fair Market, Renal Gallery, New York
The Man whose Shoes Squeaked, Richard Telles Gallery, Los Angeles
From One O to the Other, Rhea Anastas, R.H.Quaytman and Amy Sillman, Orchard, New York
Kraj: the Art of Artists of Polish Origins, curated by Marek Barelik, Magda Potorska, Gallery of Contemporary Art in Opole, Poland
2007
Regroup Show, Miguel Abreu Gallery, NY
Inside the Pale, curated by Frank Schroder, Thrust
Projects, New York
Oliver Twist, curated by Joel
Mesler, Rental, New York, NY
2006
Paintings without Painters and Painters without
Paintings, Orchard, New York
Denial is a River,
Sculpture Center, L.I.C., NY
Bring the War Home, Q.E.D. Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Extra City Galleries
Show, Antwerp Belgium
2005
Out of Place, The UBS Art Gallery, New York,
NY
Orchard Part One and Two, Orchard, New York,
NY
Tom Burr’s Residence, funded by the MICA
Foundation, New York, NY
2004
The Big Nothing, curated by Bennett Simpson,
Arcadia University Art Gallery, Glenside, PA
Lodz Biennial, Lodz, Poland
2002
Pictures, Greene Naftali Gallery, NY
2001
Crossing the Line, Queens Museum of Art,
Queens, NY
2000
The Earth is a Flower, Construction in Process,
Poland
Dirty Realism, Robert Pearre Gallery, Tucson,
Arizona
The Figure: Another Side of Modernism,
Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY
1999
Women and Geometric Abstraction, Pratt Manhattan
Galery, New York, NY
Portrait Show, Tod Jorgenson
Gallery, New York, NY
Actual Size, curated by Nancy
Princenthal, Apex Art C.P., New York, NY
GridLocked,
Rockett Gallery, London, England
1997
Horizontal Painting, The Institute for Contemporary
Art, P.S. 1 Museum, L.I.C., NY
Cause and Defect,
Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York, NY
Real Life (and
its influence on art), Four Walls, Brooklyn, NY
1995
Revolution: A Gallery Project, Ferndale,
Michigan
1992
Julian Pretto Gallery, New York, NY
Artedomani, 1992
Punti de Vista, Galleria s’Arte Moderna, Spoleto,
Italy
Fine Arts Fellows annual Exhibition, The
American Academy in Rome, Italy
White Columns, New York, NY
1990
The Russian Museum, Leningrad, Russia
1989
White Columns, New York, NY
RealArt Inc., New York, NY
1988
Soho Center for Visual Artists, New York, NY
1984
Selections 41, The Drawing Center, New York,
NY
Public Collections
Whitney Museum of American Art
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
Selected Bibliography
2011
Galvez, Paul. Paul Galvez On The Art Of R.H. Quaytman, Artforum, September 2011
Joselit, David, I Modi, Mousse 19, 2011
2010
New Work: R.H. Quaytman, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA, USA
Duncan, Thomas, Sekkingstad, Ovstebe, Solveig, Gambaroff, Krebber, Quaytman, Rayne, Bergen
Kunstall (exhibition cat.), Bergen ,Norway
Stern, Steven, ‘Past Present’, Frieze, Issue 132, June/July/August, pp.8 and 132-5
Stillman, Steel, ‘In the Studio’, Art in America, June/July 2010, pp.86-95
Fiduccia, Joanna, ‘Topical Optical’, Kaleidescope, Issue 07, Summer 2010, pp. 34-39
Pobocha, Paulina, ‘R.H. Quaytman’, Museo Magazine XIV
Cohen, Luke, ‘Catachreses / On R.H. Quaytman’, Texte Zur Kunst, March 2010
Halle, Howard, ‘2010 Whitney Biennial’, Time Out New York, March 4-10
Finch, Charlie, ‘A Room of One’s Own’, Artnet.com
O’Neill-Butler, Lauren, ‘Ladies First’, Artforum.com, February 25
Douglas, Sarah, ‘Hooray for Whitneyhood’, Artinfo.com, February 25
Galvez, Paul, 'R.H.Quaytman: Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Art Review, XLVIII, No.9, May 2010,p.245
Levin, Todd, 'The Voices of Silence: An Art Advisor's Opinion', Flash Art, vol.XLIII, no.272, May - June 2010, p.245
White, Roger, 'R.H. Quaytman', Art Review, Issue 41, May 2010, pp.88-91
Whitney Biennial 2010, Yale University Press, New Heaven and London, p.93
Fox, Dan, Whitney Biennial, Frieze, Issue 131, May, pp128-129
Clark, Martin, Reasons to be Chearful!, Frieze, Issue 131, May p96
White, Roger, R.H.Quaytman: Exhibition Guide, Chapter 15 at ICA Boston, Reviews,
Art Review.com, 15th February 2010
Pobocha, Paulina, R.H Quaytman's Storage Rack: An Archive of Images and Associations, Collections, New Acquisions, Inside/Out: MOMA/PS1 Blog, 21st January 2010
Yablonsky, Linda, 'Women's Work', New York Times.com, 12 February 2010
Launay, Aude, ‘Liz Deschenes, Rebecca Quaytman, Meredyth Sparks’, Zero Deux, Issue 52,
Winter 2009/10
2009
Joselit, David, 'Painting Beside Itself', October, Fall 2009. no.130, p.124-135
Joselit, David, ‘Institutional Responsibility: The Short Life of the Orchard’, Grey Room 35,
Spring 2009, pp.108-15
Nickas, Bob, 'Painting, Abstraction: New Elements in Abstract Painting', London and New York, Phaidon Press, p.316-319
McQuaid, Cate, 'Signs and Sensibility', Boston Globe, November 15
Stillman, Nick, “R.H. Quaytman ”, Artforum, April 2009, pp. 189-190
Aberu, Miguel, “R.H Quaytman: Chapter 12 iamb ” Art Review, Issue 31, April
Schwendendener, Martha, “Goings on about Town, ART: R.H. Quaytman”, The New Yorker, January 20
Smith, Robera, “Chapter 12:iamb”, The New York Times, January 23
Reid, Alan, “R.H Quaytman: Chapter 12: Iamb at Miguel Abreu Gallery”, Big Red & Shiny, Issue no.12, January
Schwendener, Martha, “Eva Lundsager, R.H.Quaytman, and Mary Heilman Brush Up on Their Painting: Things get drippy and trippy in three current shows of New Work”, The Village Voice, 21 January
Lewis, David, R.H. Quaytman, Frieze, 20 January
Baker, R.C, 'Let's Renegotiate! Abstraction and the Readymade Gesture', The Village Voice, December 21 2009
2008
Jones, Kristin M., “From One O to the Other Orchard, New York, USA”, Frieze, August
Carlin, T.J., “From One O to the Other Orchard”, Time Out New York, April 10-16, pg.74
“Paintings”, New York - The Sun, April
“Art in Review”, The New York Times, August
Mack, Joshua, “One Less Alternative: The Lower East Side's Orchard Gallery Closes As Planned”, Artreview, May
Allegorical Decoys, R.H. Quaytman, Published by MER, Paper Kunsthalle
“Focus: The Lower East Side,” Flash Art March-April,
p. 100
2007
LTTR No. V
Modern Painters, February 2007, p. 102
R. H. Quaytman, “The Call of the Wind,” a poem taken
from the words of Thomas Eggerer
2006
Roberta Smith, “Who Needs a White Cube These Days,”
The New York Times, January 13
2005
Melanie Gilligan, “Kollektive Erhebung,” Texte zur
Kunst, Heft. No. 59, September, pp. 76-85
Andrea K. Scott, “The Best and Worst of 2005,” Time
Out New York, Dec 29-Jan 4, p. 66
Rita McBride and David Gray, eds., essay by R. H. Quaytman,
Myways. (Arsenal Pulp Press)
Michael Wilson, “Scene and Heard”, artforum.com,
May 16
Christopher Lyon, “Report from Poland, Constructing a
Biennial,” Art in America, April, p. 57
2002
Holland Cotter, “Art in Review: Pictures,” The New
York Times, February 15
Glen Mannisto, “Blood on the Tracks,” Metrotimes.
Vol. 22, No. 52, p. 52
2001
Rex Weil, “Review,” ArtNews, October, p. 171
Bennett Simpson, “Review: Crossing the line,” Frieze,
No. 62, p. 97
“Crossing the Line,” audio CD,
Queens Museum of Art
Margaret Sundell, “Review,” Artforum, October, p.
158
Gregory Williams, “Critic’s Picks,” artforum.com
Ann Wehr, “Review,” Time Out New York, No. 302,
p. 64
“Review,” The New Yorker, July 4
2000
M/E/A/N/I/N/G: An Anthology of Artists’ Writings, Theory,
and Criticism, (Duram: Duke University Press) pp.305-9
The Figure, Another Side of Modernism, (Staten Island: Snug
Harbor Cultural Center), pp. 112, 83
Robert Morgan, “Women and Geometric Abstraction,”
Review, December, p. 40
Sarah Kent, “Review,” Time Out London, May 26-June
2, No. 1501,
Maurizio Pellegrin, ed., Innerscapes. Pp. 237-40
1998
Tom Moody, “Review,” Artforum, September, p. 158
Nancy Princenthal, “Review,” Art in America, No.
6, June, p. 102
Barbara McAdam, “Review,” Art News, October
Jennifer Dalton, “Exhibitions: Rebecca Quaytman,”
Review, p. 22
Eleanor Heartney, “The Return of the Red Brick Alternative,”
Art In America, January, p. 62, 4
“All in the Family,”
Art News, February, p. 36
1996
Rebecca Quaytman, “Picture in Profile,” M/E/A/N/I/N/G.
1995
David Carrier, “New York Spring Exhibitions,” Burlington
Magazine, August, p. 574
Joanne Silver, “Exhibition Images Aren’t Always
What They Seem,” The Boston Herald. August 4, p. 22
Holland Cotter, “Art in Review,” The New York Times,
May 19, p. C28
Chain #2 Magazine. Inside cover design by Rebecca Quaytman
Rebecca Quaytman, “The Notebooks of Paul Thek,”
The Wonderful World that Almost Was. (Rotterdam: Witte de With
Center for Contemporary Art) p. 11-2
1994
Rebecca Quaytman, M/E/A/N/I/N/G,
1993
Ausilia Binda, Artedomani. (Spoleto: Punti di Vista)
Deborah Karasov, catalog (Rome: American Academy in Rome)
Kathleen Fraser, Black Bread #2
1991
Jon Etra, Art News. Mauy
1990
Peggy Cyphers, Arts Magazine. September
1989
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