Michael RAKOWITZ
Born 1973, Great Neck, NY. Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
Solo Exhibitions
2010 The worst condition is to pass under a sword which is not one's own, Level 2 Gallery, Tate Modern, London
2009 The worst condition is to pass under a sword which is not one's own, Lombard-Freid Projects, New York
Michael Rakowitz: Recent Projects on Baghdad and Montreal, SBC Gallery of Contemporary Art, Montreal
2007 The invivible enemy should not exist, Lombard-Freid Projects, New York
2006 Return, Creative Time, New York
Enemy Kitchen, More Art, New York
Endgames, Alberto Peola Arte Contemporanea, Torino
The Visionaires, Trafo Gallery, Budapest
Percent for Art Program Commission, Department of Cultural Affairs New York City, New York
2005 Dull Roar, Lombard-Freid Fine Arts, New York
Return, Longwood Art Gallery, Bronx, New York
2004 Greeting from Stowe, Vermont, Kunstraum, Innsbruck/ Stadtturmgalerie, Innsbruck
Test Ballot, Kunstraum, Innsbruck/Stadtturmgalerie, Innsbruck (pubblic project)
2003 Romanticized All Out of Proportion, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, New York (special project)
2002 Breach, Lower East Side Tenement Museum, New York
from 2001 Minaret (2001 + 2003 Clocktower Gallery, New York - 2003 Station Building, Baltimore - 2003 Leipzig)
2000 Guard, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York
Postcard Views, Long Island City, New York
Climate Control, P.S.1 Contempporary Art Center, Queens (special project)
from 1998 paraSite, Boston, New York City, Baltimore and Berlin
1997 Lah'm, Amman, Giordania
Group Exhibitions
2012 Feast: Radical Hospitatlity and Contemporary Art, Smart Museum of Art, Univeristy of Chicago, Chicago
2011 Yes, We don't, Institut d'art contemporain Villeurbanne/Rhone-Alpes, Villeurbanne
Taking Sides curated by Robben and Zak Williams on Paddle8.com
2011 Asian Art Biennale, Taizhong, Taiwan
Scramble for the past: a story of archaeology in the ottoman empire, SALT Beyogle, Istanbul
2010 Climate Capsules, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg
On Rage, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
The Jerusalem Show, Al-Ma'mal Foundation for Contemporary Art, Jerusalem
The Storyteller, ICI travelling exhibition - The New School, New York; Art Gallery of Ontario, Ontario
2009 Jack Wolgin International Competition in the Fine Arts at the Tyler School of Art at Temple University, Philadelphia
Return to Function, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison USA
The Place of the Work and the Space of the Object, Sculpture Center, Long Island City, NY
The Storyteller, ICI travelling exhibition - Salina Art Museum, Salina - Kansas
Transmission Interrupted, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford
Out of Line, Lombard-Freid Projects, New York
Tarjama/Translation, Queens Museum of Art, New York
2008 Beyond Green: Toward a Sustainable Art, Ronna and Eric Hoffman Gallery of Contemporaty Art, Lewis and Clark College, Portland USA
16th Biennal of Sydney, Sydney
Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary, Museum of Art & Design, New York
Shelter X Survival - Alternative Homes for Fantastic Lives, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima
Urgent Shelter, Gallery 210, Univeristy of Missouri, St. Louis
The Greenroom: Reconsidering the Documentaty and Contemporary Art, CCS Bard, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
Heartland, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
2007 An Atlas of Events, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisboa
Consuming War, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
Instant Urbanism, SAM-Swiss Architecture Museum, Basel
10th International Istanbul Biennal, Istanbul
Sharjah Biennal 8: Between The Desert and The Sea, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
2006 Civic Performance, Stony Brook University, Staller Center for the Arts, Stony Brook, New York
Revisiting Home, NGBK, Berlin
Who Cares, Creative Time, New York
Art in the Contested City, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
Mind the GAP, Smak Mellon, Brooklyn, New York
Less, PAC, Milano
2005 T1 - Torino Triennale, La sindrome di Pantagruel, Castello di Rivoli, Torino
SAFE: Design Takes On Risk, MoMA, New York
Beyond Green: Toward to Sistainable Art, Smart Museum of Art, Univeristy of Chicago
Do not Interrupt Your Activities, Royal College of Art Curatorial Studies, London
Inhabituel, Milano
Transmediale, Berlin
2004 Gonflables, Inflatables, Gonfiabli Tripostal, Lille
Living in Motion, Vitra Design Museum/Z33, Belgio
Parasites: When Spaces Come Into Play, Museum of Modern Art Fondazione Ludwig, Vienna
Jamaica Flux, Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, New York
Ars Electronica, Linz
Subway Series, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, New York
The Interventionists, MassMOCA, North Adams, New York
X Treme Houses, Lothinger Dreizehn, Monaco
Adaptations, Apex Art, New York - Friedricianum, Kassel
Borne of Necessity, Weatherspoon Museum of Art Greensboro, North Carolina
2003 Global Priorità, UMss Amherst, Massachusetts
24/7, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius
BQE, White Box, New York
Get Rid of Yourself, ACC Gallery, Weimar - Leipzig
Homeland, Whitney Museum of American Art, Independent Curatorial Study Program, CUNY Graduate Center, New York
Inside Design Now: 2003 National Design Triennal, The Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York
2002 Queens International, The Queens Museum of Art, Queens, New York
Design 21: Continuous Connection, UNESCO, Parigi
Und ab die Post - Inside Out: 5th Annual Festival of New Art, Berlin
Submerge, Kunstbunker, Nürnberg
Architecture of Emergency, FRI-ART, Friburg
AIR, Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City, New York
Utopia Now!, Sonora Museum of Contemporary Art, Sonora, California
Comfort Zone: Portable Living Spaces, The Fabric Workshop Museum, Philadelphia
2001 Utopia Now!, CCAC Wattis Institute, Oakland, California
Back and Forth, Vacancy Gallery, New York
GZ:01, 129 Lafayette Street, New York
Building Codes, Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York
Elsewhere, HEREart, New York
2000 Concerted Compassionism, White Columns, New York
1998 A Skowhegan Decade, David Breitzel Gallery, New York
1997 Repeat Reverse, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven
Blast Box 1993 : Remaking Civilization, X Art Foundation, New York
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