Curriculum Vitae
Richard Rezac
Born: 1952, Lincoln, NebraskaLives 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
| 2025 | James Harris Gallery, Dallas, Abridged |
| 2023 | Misako and Rosen, Tokyo, Setting |
| Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin, Harlequin | |
| 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
| 2025 | Luhring Augustine, New York, Sliced Tropics and Cosmic Dancers |
| Post Times, New York, Material Instinct | |
| Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Astrup Fearnley Collection | |
| Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, Julia Fish, Richard Rezac, Nancy Spero, Anne Wilson | |
| Merode, Brussels, The Third Perspective | |
| 2024 | Luhring Augustine, New York, Pattern |
| Derosia, New York, Naked Name | |
| Tournai, Belgium, Parloir | |
| MASA, Mexico City, MASA + Luhring Augustine | |
| 2023 | Patron Gallery, Chicago, Dialogues |
| James Harris Gallery, Dallas, Moment Momentum | |
| 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 | |
| DePaul Art Museum, Chicago | |
| Des Moines Art Center | |
| Detroit Institute of Art | |
| Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo | |
| 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
| 2023 | Stein, Jordan, Setting, Misako and Rosen |
| 2021 | Dusapin, Alice, and Laborde, Martin, Pialoux, Alice and Pinteaux, Baptiste, editors, Octopus Notes 10 |
| Kirshner, Judith Russi, 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 | Kirshner, Judith Russi. 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 |