Biography
1961
Born in Boston
Lives and works in New York
Education
1989
Institut des Hautes Études en Arts Plastiques, Paris
1984
Post Graduate Program in Painting, National College of Art & Design, Dublin
1983
B.A., John Bard Scholar, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
1982
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan
Solo Exhibitions
2022
Glenstone, Potomac
2021
“Modern Subjects, Chapter Zero”, Wiels, Brussels
2020
“The Sun does not move. Chapter 35”, Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto
2019
“The Sun does not move. Chapter 35”, Muzeum Sztuki w Łodzi
Spot on: R.H. Quaytman, Museum Brandhorst, Munich
2018
“+ x, Chapter 34”, Guggenheim Museum, New York
“An Evening, Chapter 32”, Galerie Buchholz, Berlin
2017
“An Evening, Chapter 32”, Secession, Vienna (catalogue)
2016
“Morning: Chapter 30”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (catalogue)
2015
“חקק, Chapter 29”, Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York
“חקק, Chapter 29”, curated by Mark Godfrey, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv (catalogue)
“Preis, Chapter 28”, Wolfgang Hahn Prize Cologne 2015 (with Michael Krebber), Museum Ludwig, Cologne (catalogue)
2014
“O Tópico, Chapter 27”, Gladstone Gallery, New York
2013
“Arrhythmia (A Tale of Many Squares)” (with Martin Barré), Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris
“Passing Through the Opposite of What It Approaches, Chapter 25”, The Renaissance Society, Chicago
2012
“ד, Chapter 24”, Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach (catalogue)
“Preludes” (with Thomas Eggerer), Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
“Point de Gaze”, Gladstone Gallery, Brussels
2011
“Cherchez Holopherne, Chapter 21”, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne
“Spine, Chapter 20”, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel (catalogue)
2010
“Spine, Chapter 20”, Neuberger Museum of Art - SUNY Purchase, Purchase
“I Love — The Eyelid Clicks / I See / Cold Poetry, Chapter 18”, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
“Silberkuppe, Chapter 17”, Silberkuppe, Berlin
2009
“Exhibition Guide, Chapter 15”, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
“Quire, Chapter 14”, Art 40 Basel, Switzerland
2008
“Chapter 12: iamb, Through the Limbo of Vanity” (with Josef Strau), Vilma Gold Gallery, London
“Chapter 12: iamb”, Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York
2004
“Chapter 3: Optima”, Momenta Art, Brooklyn
2002
“Chapter 1: The Sun”, Revolution, Ferndale
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
1998
Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York
1997
“Quaywall-Rest, Astride, Revolution: A Gallery Project”, Ferndale
1995
“Apartment Paintings”, Helen M.Z. Cevern-Harwood Gallery, New York
Group Exhibtions
2024
“Le Contre-Ciel”, Empty Gallery, Hong Kong
“When Image Processing Became Painting”, Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York
“Books”, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
2023
“Customs Cars Cultures”, UncleBrother, Hancock
“Taylor Davis Selects: Invisible Ground of Sympathy”, ICA Boston
“Shake The Dust”, Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York
2022
“Shifting the Silence”, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
“Social Photography X”, Carriage Trade, New York
“Book Works et al.”, Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York
“Gallery Artists Summer Show”, Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York
“On the Edge: New in the Contemporary Art Collection”, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
“Neoclassical”, Rodeo, Piraeus
2021
“Enjoy - The mumok Collection in Change”, mumok, Vienna
“Footnote 14: Angel of History”, Casa São Roque Centro de Arte, Porto
“The Poet-Engineers”, Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York
“New Time: Art and Feminisms in the 21st Century”, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley
2020
Louise Lawler, R.H. Quaytman, Cameron Rowland, Galerie Buchholz, Cologne
“.paint”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
“Electric. A Virtual Reality Exhibition”, curated by Daniel Birnbaum, Serralves, Porto
“Who are we are who”, curated by Fabian Schöneich, Braunsfelder Family Collection, Cologne
2019
“Forever Young - 10 Jahre Museum Brandhorst”, Museum Brandhorst, Munich
“Strategic Vandalism: The Legacy of Asger Jorn’s Modification Paintings”, Petzel, New York
“Luogo e Segni”, Punta della Dogana / Palazzo Grassi, Venice (catalague)
“Strategic Vandalism: The Legacy of Asger Jorn’s Modification Paintings”, Petzel Gallery, New York
“The Half Axel,” Richard Telles, Los Angeles
“Step by Step: Visions of an Art Dealer’s Collection,” Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, Monaco (catalogue)
“Kleine Welt”, Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society, University of Chicago
2018
“Signal or Noise”, SMAK, Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art, Ghent (catalogue)
“One Color”, Philipp Pflug Contemporary, Frankfurt am Main
“Class Reunion”, Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna (catalogue)
“Becoming American”, San Juan Island National Historic Park, English Camp, Seattle
“The Infinite Image”, Waldo, Rockport
“Defacement”, The Club, Tokyo
“Jay DeFeo: The Ripple Effect”, Le Consortium, Dijon
“Mothers of Men”, House of Gaga, Mexico City
2017
“The End of Love”, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
documenta 14, Benaki Museum, Athens / Neue Galerie, Kassel (“Parthian Shot, Chapter 31/ חקק, Chapter 29”)
“Grounding Vision: Waclaw Szpakowski”, Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York
James Fuentes, New York
“Parapolitics: Cultural Freedom and the Cold War”, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (catalogue)
“Field Guide”, Remai Modern, Saskatoon, Canada
2016
“Schiff Ahoy - Contemporary Art from the Brandhorst Collection”, Museum Brandhorst, Munich
“Painting 2.0: Expression in the Information Age”, Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna (catalogue)
“Manifesta 11, The Historical Exhibition: Sites Under Construction”, Zurich (catalogue)
“Visibility”, Campoli Presti, London
“Ballistic Poetry”, Hermès Foundation, Brussels
“Overburden”, Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson
“The Distance of a Day - New in Contemporary Art”, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
“Abstract/Object”, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
2015
“Painting 2.0. Malerei im Informationszeitalter”, Museum Brandhorst, Munich (catalogue)
“New Skin”, Aïshti Foundation, Beirut (catalogue)
“Geometries On and Off the Grid: Art from 1950 to Present”, The Warehouse, Dallas
“Adventures of the Black Square”, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
“The Way We Live Now, Modernist Ideologies at Work”, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridge
“America is Hard to See”, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
“Space Between,” The FLAG Art Foundation, New York
“Halftone”, Planthouse, New York
“Storylines: Contemporary Art at the Guggenheim”, Guggenheim Museum, New York
“Works on Paper”, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York
“Fall”, Tif Sigfrids, Los Angeles
“No Man’s Land”, Rubell Family Collection, Miami
2014
“A History. Art, architecture, design from the 1980s until today”, Centre Pompidou, Paris
“Reductive Minimalism: Women Artists in Dialogue, 1960-2014”, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor
“Ma-re Mount”, Galerie Buchholz, Cologne
“Hypothesis for an Exhibition”, Dominique Lévy Gallery, New York (catalogue)
“Loveless”, Greene Naftali, New York
“Lines”, curated by Rodrigo Moura, Hauser & Wirth, Zurich
“Painters Painters”, Saatchi Gallery, London
2013
“and Materials and Money and Crisis”, Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna (“Voyelle, Chapter 26”) (catalogue)
“In the Heart of the Country”, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw
“subject, answer, countersubject”, Disjecta Contemporary Art Center, Portland
“Summer 2013”, Tate, St. Ives (catalogue)
“Abstract Generation: Now in Print”, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
“Dark Stars”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland
“Dynamo: A Century of Light and Motion in Art, 1913-2013”, Grand Palais, Paris (catalogue)
“Empire State. New York Art Now”, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome (catalogue)
“The Angel of History”, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Paris (catalogue)
“Painting Beyond Itself: The Medium in the Post-Medium Condition Conference”, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge (catalogue)
2012
“Now’s The Time: Recent Acquisitions”, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
“Painting in Space”, Luhring Augustine, New York
“Contemporary Painting, 1960 to the Present”, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
“Architectural Dispositions”, Thomas Solomon Gallery, Los Angeles
“Context Message”, Zach Feuer, New York
2011
“Quodlibet III - Alphabets and Instruments”, Galerie Buchholz, Berlin
“New York to London and Back: The Medium of Contingency”, Thomas Dane Gallery, London (catalogue)
54th Venice Biennale, Venice (“I Modi, Chapter 22”) (catalogue)
“If You Lived Here, You’d Be Home By Now”, Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College Annandale-on-Hudson
“Footnote 6. As Model”, Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York
2010
“Footnote 1. Phantom Limb”, curated by Barbara Piwowarska, Centre for Contemporary Art
Zamek Ujazdowski, Warsaw
“Nicholas Gambaroff, Michael Krebber, R. H. Quaytman, Blake Rayne”, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen (“Beard, Chapter 19”) (catalogue)
Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris
“Picture Industry (Goodbye To All That)”, organized by Walead Beshty, Regen Projects, Los
Angeles
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (“Distracting Distance, Chapter 16”) (catalogue)
“Group Show: Heather Cook, Alex Olson, R. H. Quaytman, Gedi Sibony, Ry Rocklen”, Rental, New York
“Blind Mirror”, Galleria Raucci / Santamaria, Naples
“Guilty Feet”, 179 Canal, organized by Colby Bird and Tova Carlin, New York
2009
“Cave Painting”, organized by Bob Nickas, Greshams Ghost, New York
“Besides, With, Against, And Yet: Abstraction and The Ready-Made Gesture”, curated by Debra Singer, The Kitchen, New York
Miguel Abreu Gallery at Art Basel 40 (with Liz Deschenes), Basel (“Quire, Chapter 14”)
“Blue”, curated by John Zinnser, James Graham & Sons Gallery, New York
“Front Room: Olga Chernysheva & R.H. Quaytman & Josephine Pryde”, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis
“Practice vs. Object”, organized by Margaret Liu Clinton, Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York
“Group Show: Don Brown, Daniel Lergon, R. H. Quaytman, Gabriel Vormstein, Lawrence Weiner”, Almine Rech Gallery, Brussels
“Constructivismes”, curated by Olivier Renaud-Clément, Andrea Rosen, Gallery, New York / Almine Rech Gallers, Brussels (“Constructivismes, Chapter 13”)
2008
“Paper, Scissors, Stone”, Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm
“Looking Back: The Third Annual White Columns Annual”, organized by Jay Sanders, White Columns, New York
“Electioneering”, Fort Worth Contemporary Arts, Texas Christian University, Ft. Worth Fair Market, Rental Gallery, New York
“Painting Now and Forever”, Matthew Marks and Greene Naftali, New York (“Painting Now and Forever, Chapter 11”)
“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 (“Ark, Chapter 10”)
“Kraj: the Art of Artists of Polish Origins”, curated by Marek Barelik and Magda Potorska, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Opole
2007
“Regroup Show”, Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York
“Inside the Pale”, curated by Frank Schroder, Thrust Projects, New York
“Oliver Twist”, curated by Joel Mesler, Rental, New York (“Rental, Chapter 9”)
2006
“Paintings without Painters and Painters without Paintings”, Orchard, New York (“Paintings without Painters and Painters without Paintings, Chapter 8”)
“Denial is a River”, Sculpture Center, Long Island City (“Denial is a River, Chapter 7”)
“Bring the War Home”, Q.E.D. Gallery, Los Angeles
“Extra City Galleries Show”, Antwerp
2005
“Orchard Part One and Two”, Orchard, New York (“Orchard, Chapter 6”)
Tom Burr’s Residence, funded by the MICA Foundation, New York (“New Age, Chapter 5”)
“Out of Place”, The UBS Art Gallery, New York (“Loft, Chapter 4”)
2004
“The Big Nothing”, Arcadia University Art Gallery, Glenside
Lodz Biennial, Lodz (“Lodz Poem, Chapter 2”)
2002
“Pictures”, Greene Naftali, New York
2001
Crossing the Line, Queens Museum of Art, New York
2000
“The Earth is a Flower, Construction in Process”, Poland
“Dirty Realism”, Robert Pearre Gallery, Tucson
“The Figure: Another Side of Modernism”, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, New York (catalogue)
1999
“Women and Geometric Abstraction”, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York
“Portrait Show”, Tod Jorgenson Gallery, New York
“Actual Size”, curated by Nancy Princenthal, Apex Art C.P., New York
“GridLocked”, Rockett Gallery, London
1997
“Horizontal Painting”, The Institute for Contemporary Art, P.S.1 Museum, L.I.C., New York
“Cause and Defect”, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York
“Real Life (and its influence on art)”, Four Walls, Brooklyn
1995
Revolution: A Gallery Project, Ferndale
1992
Julian Pretto Gallery, New York
“Artedomani, 1992 Punti de Vista”, Galleria s’Arte Moderna, Spoleto (catalogue)
“Fine Arts Fellows annual Exhibition”, The American Academy in Rome, Rome
1991
White Columns, New York
1990
The Russian Museum, Leningrad
1989
White Columns, New York
Real Art Inc., New York
1988
Soho Center for Visual Artists, New York
1984
“Selections 41”, The Drawing Center, New York
Awards
2015
Wolfgang Hahn Prize (with Michael Krebber), Cologne
2001
Rome Prize Fellowship, American Academy in Rome, Rome