Richard Rezac

Born: 1952, Lincoln, Nebraska
Lives and works in Chicago, Illinois

Education

1982	M.F.A. The Maryland Institute, College of Art
1974	B.F.A. Pacific Northwest College of Art

Selected Grants And Awards

2010	Robert and Happy Doran Artist Residency Fellowship, Yale University Art Gallery
2006	Rome Prize Fellowship, American Academy in Rome
2004	Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant Award
	Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Award
1993	Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award
1989	John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
1987	Art Matters, Inc., Project Grant
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

2023	Misako and Rosen, Tokyo
	Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin
2022	Sydney, Sydney, Australia, Azure
	Art Alliance, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, Richard Rezac
2021	Luhring Augustine, New York, Pleat
	Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, Cast
2020	Luhring Augustine, New York
2018	The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Address
	Blaffer Art Museum, University of Houston, Address
	The Arts Club of Chicago, Glen Elder, Garden Project Series
2017	James Harris Gallery, Seattle
2015	Marc Foxx, Los Angeles
	Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin, Circum
2014	Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, Signal
2013	James Harris Gallery, Seattle
2012	West Virginia University, Laura Mesaros Gallery, Richard Rezac: Sculpture 2003 – 2012
2011	Twig, Brussels
	James Harris Gallery, Seattle
2010	Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago
	Feature Inc., New York
2009	Gahlberg Gallery, College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, Illinois, Richard Rezac: Survey 2003-2008
2008	James Harris Gallery, Seattle
2006	Portland Art Museum, Oregon
	Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago
2005	James Harris Gallery, Seattle
	Feature, Inc. New York
2003	Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago
	Feature Inc. New York
2002	James Harris Gallery, Seattle
	Feature Inc., New York
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, Richard Rezac: Sculpture 1987–1992
	Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Birmingham
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
	Arts Festival of Atlanta, Piedmont Park, site specific installation
1988	Loughelton Gallery, New York
1987	Feature, Chicago
	Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Birmingham
1986	Sculpture Chicago 1986, site specific installation
1985	Feature, Chicago
	Portland Center for the Visual Arts, Oregon
1984	Blackfish Gallery, Portland
1978	White Gallery, Portland State University
1976	Washington State University Museum of Art, Pullman

Selected Two-Person Exhibitions

2016	DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, Dianna Frid and Richard Rezac: Split Complementary
2010	Devening Projects, Chicago, Richard Rezac and Gary Stephan
2005	G Fine Art, Washington, D.C., Jeff Spaulding and Richard Rezac
2003	Kunstverein Recklinghausen, Germany, Dan Devening and Richard Rezac
2001	Thomas Ammann Fine Art, Zurich, The Sensibility of the 80’s: David Diao and Richard Rezac
	Feature, Inc., New York, Richard Rezac and Gary Batty
1998	TBA Exhibition Space, Chicago, Thomas Nozkowski and Richard Rezac
1994	Gallery 299, Portland State University, Drawings: Julia Fish and Richard Rezac
1986	Feature, Chicago, Julia Fish and Richard Rezac
1977	Purple Daggers, Portland, Nelson Bonner and Richard Rezac

Selected Group Exhibitions

2023	Art Alliance, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, The Searchers
2021	Luhring Augustine, New York, Plus One
	Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, Private Eye: The Imagist Impulse in Chicago Art
2020	The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Energy in All Directions
	Galerie Gregor Staiger, Zurich, Hooks and Claws
2019	KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, The Making of Husbands: Christina Ramberg in Dialogue, travels to: FRAC Lorraine Metz, France and Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, England
	James Harris Gallery, Seattle, 20/20: A 20th Anniversary Survey
2018	Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, Sculpture
2017	Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, You Are Here
	DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, Stranger Things
2016	Shane Cambell Gallery, Chicago, Chicago and Vicinity
	James Harris Gallery, Seattle, Tunnel of Silence
2015	Essex Street, New York, Order
	Whitespace Gallery, Atlanta, Soft Eyes
2014	Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, Sculpture
	33 Orchard, New York, Let’s Go Let Go; In Memoriam Hudson
	Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, Carved, Cast, Crumpled: Sculpture
2013	Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, MCA DNA: Chicago Conceptual Abstraction, 1986 – 1995
2012	Winkleman Gallery, New York, Loughelton Gallery Revisited
	Feature Inc., New York, Punt
	Inman Gallery, Houston, Sculptors’ Drawings
2011	Feature Inc., New York Self-Referral Nonobjective
	The Suburban, Oak Park, Illinois, Two-Fold
2010	Boston University Art Gallery, The Shape of Abstraction
	The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, The Jewel Thief
	Paul Kotula Projects, Ferndale, Michigan, Heather McGill, Richard Rezac, James Shrosbree
	The Art Institute of Chicago, Modern and Contemporary Works on Paper
	Elmhurst Art Museum, Illinois, Contemporary Works from the Cleve Carney Collection
2009	Feature Inc., New York, Skulture
	Art Institute of Chicago, Modern and Contemporary Works on Paper
	Feature, Inc., New York, Populate This Form
2008	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
2004	Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, The Center Is Anywhere
	Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Basic Instinct: Minimalism Past, Present and Future
	Sean Kelly, New York, Upon Reflection
	John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Formed to Function?
2001	Yale University Art Gallery, Objective Color
	Apex Art, New York, Making the Making
2000	Block Museum, Northwestern University, Seems
	Feature, Inc. New York, Hairy Forearms Self-Referral
	Feigen Contemporary, New York, Minimal Maximal
1998	University of Texas at San Antonio Art Gallery, San Antonio, Chromaform: Color in Sculpture, traveled to: Nevada Institute of Contemporary Art, Las Vegas; University Art Gallery, New Mexico State University; Edwin Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University; Mount Holyoke College Art Museum
	Feigen Contemporary, New York, Inglenook, traveled to Illinois State University Gallery
1997	James Graham and Sons Gallery, New York, Sculpture
	Marc Foxx, Santa Monica, Untitled Group Show
1996	Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Art in Chicago: 1945 - 1995
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	Center Gallery, Center for Creative Studies, Detroit, Sculpture on the Wall
	Feature, Inc. New York, 5 Longish Wood Sculptures
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
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
1988	Aspen Art Museum, Latitudes: Focus on Chicago
	State of Illinois Art Gallery, Chicago, Imagining Form: Six Sculptors
	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
1987	Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Selected Works from the Permanent Collection
	Feature, Chicago, Nature
	Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles
1986	The Sculpture Center, New York, Emerging Sculptors 1986
	Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Birmingham
1985	Portland Art Museum, Oregon Artists Biennial
	Feature, Chicago, Engagement
1979	Blackfish Gallery, Portland, Opening Exhibition
1977	Portland Center for the Visual Arts, Oregon, Twelve Portland Artists

Selected Public Collections

	Art Institute of Chicago
	Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
	Dallas Museum of Art
	Des Moines Art Center
	Detroit Institute of Art
	Indianapolis Museum of Art
	Maramotti Collection, Reggio Emilia, Italy
	Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
	Portland Art Museum, Oregon
	Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago
	Tang Art Museum, Skidmore College
	Edwin Ulrich Museum of Art
	Yale University Art Gallery

Selected Print Publications

2021	Dusapin, Alice, and Laborde, Martin, Pialoux, Alice and Pinteaux, Baptiste, editors, Octopus Notes 10
	Russi Kirshner, Judith, Cast, Rhona Hoffman Gallery
2020	Bader, Graham, Learning to Converse: Richard Rezac, Luhring Augustine
2018	Ovstebo, Solveig, and Goulish, Matthew, Gross, Jennifer, and Rondeau, James, Address, The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago
	Taft, Maggie and Cozzolino, Robert, co-editors, Art in Chicago: A History From the Fire to Now, University of Chicago Press
2016	Girson, Matthew. Split Complementary: Dianna Frid and Richard Rezac, DePaul Art Museum, Chicago
2015	Russi Kirshner, Judith. Vaults and Sailors, Mousse Magazine, issue number 50
2014	Berry, Ian, and Stockholder, Jessica. The Jewel Thief, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College
2012	van Uffelen, Chris.500 x Art in Public, Braun Publishing AG
	Rezac, Richard, Richard Rezac Sculpture 2003 – 2012, Mesaros Gallery, West Virginia University
2011	Rondeau, James. Contemporary Collecting: The Judith Neisser Collection, Art Institute of Chicago
2010	Arauz, Rachael. The Shape of Abstraction, Boston University Art Gallery
2009	Yood, James. Richard Rezac: Survey 2003-2008, Gahlberg Gallery, College of DuPage
2007	Collins, Judith. Sculpture Today, Phaidon Press
2005	Binstock, Jonathan and Schmidt, Stacey. Closer To Home: The 48th Corcoran Biennial, Corcoran Gallery of Art
2003	Girson, Matthew. Mysterious Clarity and Vague Elegance, Dan Devening and Richard Rezac, Kunstverein Recklinghausen, Germany
2000	Devening, Dan. Seems, Block Museum, Northwestern University
1998	Colpitt, Frances. Chromaform: Color in Sculpture, University of Texas at San Antonio Art Gallery
	Robbins, David. Weave, Richard Rezac: Sculpture and Drawings, Feigen Contemporary
1996	Warren, Lynne and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Art in Chicago, 1945-1995
1995	Wilson, Pamela. Friendly Geometry, Richard Rezac, Shelf Sculptures: 1982-1994, I Space Gallery, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1990	King, Elaine. New Generations: Chicago, Carnegie Mellon Art Gallery
	Nawrocki, Dennis. Grounded: Sculpture on the Floor, University of Michigan Museum of Art
1988	Aspen Art Museum, Latitudes: Focus on Chicago
1990	Warren, Lynne. Options 38: Richard Rezac, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
	Kingsley, April. Emerging Sculptors 1986, The Sculpture Center, New York
1977	Hoppe, William. Twelve Portland Artists, Portland Center for the Visual Arts

Academic Position

1985–2019

Adjunct Full Professor of Sculpture, Drawing, and Graduate Advising, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Address

Address

Circum

10-year survey

Glen Elder

Memorial Design

Frame

Yale Bench