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Born 1952 Lincoln, Nebraska. Lives and works in Chicago
EDUCATION
1982 M.F.A. The Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore
1974 B.F.A. Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, Oregon
SELECTED GRANTS AND AWARDS
2010 Robert and Happy Doran Artist in Residency Fellowship,
Yale University Art Gallery
2006 Rome Prize Fellowship, American Academy in Rome
2004 Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant Award
2004 Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Award
1993 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award
1989 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
1986 National Endowment for the Arts, Visual Artist Fellowship
1983 Oregon Arts Commission, Visual Artist Fellowship
1976 National Endowment for the Arts, Visual Artist Fellowship
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011 Twig Gallery, Brussels
James Harris Gallery, Seattle
2010 Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago
Feature Inc., New York
2009 Gahlberg Gallery, College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, IL,
Richard Rezac: Survey 2003-2008
2008 James Harris Gallery, Seattle
2006 Portland Art Museum, Oregon
Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago
2005 Feature Inc., New York
James Harris Gallery, Seattle
2003 Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago
2002 Feature Inc., New York
James Harris Gallery, Seattle
2001 Marc Foxx, Los Angeles
2000 Marc Foxx, Los Angeles
1998 Feigen Contemporary, New York
1997 Marc Foxx, Santa Monica
1996 Feigen, Inc., Chicago
Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco
1995 Feature, New York
I space Gallery, Chicago, Richard Rezac: Shelf Sculptures 1982-1994
Marc Foxx, Santa Monica
1994 Feigen, Inc., Chicago
1993 Feature, New York
Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids, IA,
Richard Rezac: Sculpture 1987 - 1992
Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Birmingham, MI
1992 Feature, New York
1991 Feigen Inc., Chicago
Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica
Feature, New York
1990 Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Options 38: Richard Rezac
1989 Feature, New York
Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Birmingham, MI
Artgarden, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (outdoor installation)
Arts Festival of Atlanta, Piedmont Park, Atlanta (outdoor installation)
1988 Loughelton Gallery, New York
1987 Feature, Chicago
Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Birmingham, MI
1986 Sculpture Chicago 1986, Chicago (outdoor installation)
1985 Feature, Chicago
Portland Center for the Visual Arts, Portland, OR
1982 Blackfish Gallery, Portland, OR
1979 Blackfish Gallery, Portland, OR
1978 White Gallery, Portland State University, Portland, OR
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010 Devening Projects, Chicago, Kabinett 1 & 2: Richard Rezac and Gary Stephan
The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery,
Skidmore College, NY, The Jewel Thief
Paul Kotula Projects, Ferndale, MI,
Heather McGill, Richard Rezac, James Shrosbree
Boston University Art Gallery, The Shape of Abstraction
2009 Feature Inc., New York, Skulture
Art Institute of Chicago, Modern and Contemporary Works on Paper
Feature Inc., New York, Populate This Form
Swimming Pool, Chicago, Cross-Fade
2008 Tony Wight Gallery, Chicago, Isn't It
White Columns, New York, Begin Again Right Back Here
2006 Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago,
Drawing As Process in Contemporary Art
National Academy Museum, New York, 181st Annual Exhibition
2005 Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.,
Biennial Exhibition: Closer To Home
Feature Inc., New York, The Sun Rises in the Evening
G Fine Art, Washington, D.C., Jeff Spaulding and Richard Rezac
Chicago Cultural Center, Centrally Located: The Artadia and Richard H. Driehaus Foundation 2002 Artist Awards
2004 Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, The Center Is Anywhere
2003 Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago,
Basic Instinct: Minimalism Past, Present and Future
John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI, Formed to Function?
Feature Inc., New York, Small Scale Sculpture
Kunstverein Recklinghausen, Germany, Dan Devening and Richard Rezac
Sean Kelly, New York, Reflections
2002 500 sf, Lake Bluff, IL, Vladimir Skoda and Richard Rezac
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago,
Multiformity: Multiples from the MCA Collection
2001 Thomas Ammann Fine Art, Zurich, The Sensibility of the 80's
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Objective Color
Feature, Inc., New York, Richard Rezac and Gary Batty
Apex Art, New York, Making the Making
Columbia College, Chicago, Sculpture in Chicago Now
2000 Feature Inc., New York, Hairy Forearm's Self-Referral
Block Museum, Northwestern University, Evanston, Seems
Feigen Contemporary, New York, Minimal Maximal
Feature Inc., New York, Grok Terence McKenna Dead
1998 University of Texas at San Antonio Art Gallery,
Chromaform: Color in Sculpture (travelling through 2000)
TBA Exhibition Space, Chicago, Thomas Nozkowski and Richard Rezac
Feigen Contemporary, New York, Inglenook
(traveled to Illinois State University Gallery, Normal)
1997 Feigen, Inc., Chicago, IL, New Works
Marc Foxx, Santa Monica, Untitled Group Show
James Graham and Sons Gallery, New York, Sculpture
1996 Feature Inc., New York, AbFab
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Art in Chicago: 1945 - 1995
Columbia College Art Gallery, Chicago, Drawing in Chicago Now
1995 Gibson Gallery, State University of New York at Potsdam, Resonance
Gallery 400, University of Illinois, Chicago, Skew: The Unruly Grid
Layton Gallery, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design,
The Friendly Village
1994 Feature, New York, 5 Longish Wood Sculptures
Gallery 299, Portland State University, OR,
Drawings: Julia Fish and Richard Rezac
Center Gallery, Center for Creative Studies, Detroit,
Sculpture on the Wall
Blackfish Gallery, Portland, OR, Julia Fish, Jim Hibbard, Richard Rezac
1993 Chicago Cultural Center and State of Illinois Art Gallery, Chicago,
A Sequence of Forms: Sculpture by Illinois Artists
Fine Arts Gallery, Indiana University, Bloomington,
Points of Reference: Contemporary Abstraction
1992 University Art Museum, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb
1991 Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Birmingham, MI
Feigen, Inc., Chicago
1990 Carnegie Mellon Art Gallery, Pittsburgh, New Generations: Chicago
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago,
Toward the Future: Contemporary Art in Context
University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor,
Grounded: Sculpture on the Floor
1989 Center for Contemporary Art, Chicago, Sculpture: Polly Apfelbaum,
Richard Rezac, Joe Smith
Rezac Gallery and Feature, Chicago, FunctionNonFunction
Blackfish Gallery, Portland, OR, Tenth Anniversary Exhibition
Erie Art Museum, Erie, PA and Bruce Gallery, Edinboro University,
Edinboro, PA, Chicago Works: Art from the Windy City
1988 Loughelton Gallery, New York
Feature, Chicago, Near Miss
Aspen Art Museum, Latitudes: Focus on Chicago
The Sculpture Center, New York, In the Making: Drawings by Sculptors
Toni Birckhead Gallery, Cincinnati,
Donald Harvey, Beverly Pepper, Richard Rezac
Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, The Form of Language:
The Language of Form
State of Illinois Art Gallery, Chicago, Imagining Form: Six Sculptors
Rockford Art Museum, IL, Looking Out: Rockford Art Museum Regional Exhibition
1987 Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago,
Selected Works from the Permanent Collection
NAME Gallery, Chicago, Sculptures on the Wall
Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles
1986 Feature, Chicago, Julia Fish and Richard Rezac
Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Birmingham, MI
The Sculpture Center, New York, Emerging Sculptors 1986
1985 Feature, New York, Engagement
San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art
Portland Art Museum, Oregon Artists Biennial
1979 Blackfish Gallery, Portland, OR, Opening Exhibition
1977 Portland Center for the Visual Arts, OR, Twelve Portland Artists
Purple Daggers, Portland, OR Richard Rezac and Nelson Bonner
1975 24th Avenue Gallery, Portland, OR, Richard Rezac and Stephen Soihl
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Art Institute of Chicago
Dallas Museum of Art
Maramotti Collection, Reggio Emilia
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
State of Oregon
Portland Art Museum, Oregon
Rockford Art Museum
Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago
Edwin Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita
Yale University Art Gallery
CURRENT TEACHING
1985 - present
Adjunct Full Professor of Sculpture, Drawing, and Graduate Advising,
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2011 Van Uffelen, Chris, Art in Public, Braun Publishing AG
2010 Esplund, Lance, "Prospecting Some Personal Landscapes," Wall Street Journal, October 16 (reproduction)
Arauz, Rachael, "The Shape of Abstraction," Boston University Art Gallery,
catalog essay
2009 Cassidy, Victor, "Richard Rezac, Formal Invention," Sculpture, December,
pages 44-49 (reproductions)
Yood, James, "Richard Rezac: Selected Sculpture and Drawings, 2003-2008,"
Gahlberg Gallery, College of DuPage, catalog essay
2007 Collins, Judith, Sculpture Today, Phaidon Press
Prescott, Dana, American Academy in Rome, catalog
2006 Artner, Alan, ”Rezac’s Geometric Sculpture Surpasses Easy Description”,
Chicago Tribune, June 23, section 7, page 23 (reproduction)
Yood, James, Review, Artforum, October, page 270 (reproduction)
Johnson, Ken, “For A Broad Landscape, An Equally Wide Survey”, Review, New York Times, May 31, page B5 (reproduction)
Row, D.K., Review, The Oregonian, June 23
2005 Binstock, Jonathan and Schmidt, Stacey, “The 48th Corcoran Biennial: Closer to Home”, Corcoran Gallery of Art, catalog essay
King, Elaine, “Reviews”, Sculpture, October, page 72 (reproductions)
2003 Cassidy, Victor, “Reviews”, Art in America, December, page 112 (reproduction)
Nozkowski, Thomas, “Artists on Artists”, BOMB, Spring, pages 100-103, (reproductions)
Artner, Alan, “Sculptor Richard Rezac Shows Pure Brilliance”,
Chicago Tribune, May 23, section 7, page 27, (reproductions)
2000 Pagel, David, “Art Reviews”, Los Angeles Times, February 25, page F32, (reproduction)
Miles, Christopher, “Reviews”, Artforum, May, page 183, (reproduction)
Palmer, Laurie, “Seems: Integrations with the Physical and Social Perophery of the Museum”, Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, catalog essay
1999 Esplund, Lance, “ New York Letter, Truth or Dare”, Modern Painters, Spring, page 106, (reproduction)
Goodman, Jonathan, review, Art in America, May, page 155, (reproduction)
Johnson, Ken, review, New York Times, January 1
King, Elaine A., review, Sculpture, June, pages 73-74, (reproductions)
1998 Johnson, Ken, “Inglenook”, New York Times, July 2
Colpitt, Frances, “Chromaform: Color in Sculpture”, University of Texas at San Antonio Art Gallery, catalog essay
1997 Grabner, Michelle, review, Sculpture, January, pages 63-64, (reproduction)
Kirshner, Judith Russi, review, Artforum, January, pages 89-90, (reproduction)
Miles, Christopher, “Richard Rezac at Marc Foxx”, Artweek, May,
pages 25-26, (reproduction)
1996 Artner, Alan, “Rezac’s Pieces: His Sensuous Sculpture Makes an Appeal to Touch”, Chicago Tribune, section 7, page 66 (reproduction)
Camper, Fred, “Art People: Richard Rezac Shifts Shapes”, The Reader, September 27, section 1, page 43, (reproductions)
Baker, Kenneth, "Richard Rezac at Bransten", San Francisco Chronicle, April 2, section G, page 2 (reproduction)
1995 Artner, Alan, "Richard Rezac Gives His Sculptures Plenty of Shelf Life", Chicago Tribune, May 19, section 7, page 74 (reproduction)
Camper, Fred, "Unlocking the Grid", Chicago Reader, November 17, page 31-33 (reproduction)
Iannaccone, Carmine, review, Art Issues, Summer, page 45, (reproduction)
Pagel, David, review, Los Angeles Times, March 30
1994 Artner, Alan, "Pushing Abstraction to Edge of Familiarity",
Chicago Tribune, January 28, section 7, page 60 (reproduction)
Colby, Joy Hakanson, "Hung Up", The Detroit News, October 7 (reproductions)
Grisham, Esther, review, New Art Examiner, page 44 (reproduction)
Melrod, George, review, Sculpture, March/April, page 44 (reproduction)
Miro, Marsha, "Choice Hangings: Sculpture, Photos", Detroit Free Press, October 7 (reproduction)
1993 Artner, Alan, "Art in 3-D", Chicago Tribune, February 7, section 13,
page 14-15 (reproduction)
Colby, Joy Hakanson, "Rezac is a Master of the Mysteries of Wood and Metal", The Detroit News, January 29 (reproduction)
Miro, Marsha, "Chicago Sculptor Builds on Architectural Themes",
Detroit Free Press, February 7 (reproduction)
Yood, James, "Sculptural Aspects", New Art Examiner, May, pages 29-31 (reproduction)
1992 Snodgrass, Susan, review, Sculpture, January/February, pages 57-58 (reproduction)
1991 Artner, Alan. "Rezac's Uncanny Takes on Japanese Sources Stand Out", Chicago Tribune, September 20 (reproduction)
Hixson, Kathryn, "Chicago in Review", ARTS, December, pages 88-89 (reproduction)
Kaufman, Jason, "Chicago Zeitgeist", The Journal of Art, May,
pages 27-29
Reijn, Els, review, Artweek, February 14 (reproduction)
1990 Artner, Alan, "Tipping the Scale", Chicago Tribune, April 8, section 13, pages 14-15 (reproduction)
Brunetti, John, review, Dialogue, March/April, page 23, (reproduction)
Christiansen, Richard, "Our Sixth Annual Honor Roll of Artists Who Brightened the Year", Chicago Tribune, December 30, section 13, page 19
Hixson, Kathryn, "Chicago in Review", ARTS, March, pages 123-124 (reproduction)
Leucking, Stephen, review, New Art Examiner, January, page 39 (reproduction)
Miro, Marsha, "Sculptures Hint at Vision That Forms Them",
Detroit Free Press, January 7 (reproduction)
Porges, Tim, "Chicago", Contemporanea, May, pages 48, 51 (reproduction)
Yood, James, review, Artforum, May, page 195 (reproduction)
1989 Babius, Marius, review, Kunstforum International/89, January/February,pages 305-306 (reproduction)
1988 Abell, Jeff, review, New Art Examiner, April, pages 53-54 (reproduction)
Johnson, Ken, review, Art in America, September, page 182 (reproduction)
McCracken, David, "Exhibition Shows Diversity of Artists' Approach, Chicago Tribune, February 26, section 7, page 8, (reproduction)
Merkel, Jayne, review, New Art Examiner, June, page 51
Morgan, Ann Lee, review, New Art Examiner, January, page 55 (reproduction)
1987 Artner, Alan, "Rezac's Sculpture Affirm 'Less is More'", Chicago Tribune, October 23, section 7, page 64 (reproduction)
Hakanson-Colby, Joy, "His Art is 'Lausunu' - That's 'Unusual' Spelled Backwards", The Detroit News, October 25, page 8e (reproduction)
Miro, Marsha, "Rezac's Calm After the Expressionistic Storm",
Detroit Free Press, November 8 (reproduction)
1986 Artner, Alan, "Abstract Exhibit Works Its Wonders Slowly",
Chicago Tribune, August 8, section 7, page 51 (reproduction)
Brenson, Michael, review, The New York Times, December 26
Fulton, Jean, review, New Art Examiner, November, pages 29-31
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