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2017
  • → The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York
  • Other Works
2016
  • Ten Paintings, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, California (brochure)
  • Sadie Coles HQ, London, United Kingdom
  • Artissima, Torino, Italy
  • Other Works
2015
  • Secession, Vienna, Austria
  • Zona Maco, Mexico, D.F.
  • Capitain Petzel, Berlin, Germany
  • Soccer Club Club, Chicago, Illinois
  • Other Works
2014
  • Other Works
2013
  • 12 Paintings by Laura Owens and Ooga Booga #2, 356 S. Mission Rd., Los Angeles, California (cat.)
  • FIAC, Paris, France
  • Other Works
2012
  • The Finley, Los Angeles, California
  • Art Unlimited, Basel, Switzerland
  • Karma, New York, New York (cat.)
  • Pavement Karaoke / Alphabet, Sadie Coles HQ, London, United Kingdom
  • Other Works
2011
  • Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany (cat.)
  • Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne, Germany
  • New Etchings, Crown Point Press, San Francisco, California
  • Other Works
2010
  • Works
2009
  • Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York, New York
  • Other Works
2008
  • Sadie Coles HQ, London, United Kingdom
  • Works on Paper, ACME, Los Angeles, California
  • Gavin Brown’s enterprise (620A), New York, New York
  • Other Works
2007
  • American Academy, Berlin, Germany
  • Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy
  • Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht, the Netherlands
  • Kunsthalle Munster, Germany
  • Other Works
2006
  • Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York, New York
  • Camden Arts Centre, London, United Kingdom (brochure)
  • Kunsthalle Zurich, Switzerland (cat.)
  • Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland (cat.)
  • Sadie Coles HQ, London, United Kingdom
  • Other Works
2005
  • Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (cat.)
  • Other Works
2004
  • Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne, Germany
  • Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, Florida
  • Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  • Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York, New York
  • Crown Point Press, San Francisco, California
  • Other Works
2003
  • Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
  • Aspen Art Museum, Colorado
  • The General Store, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
  • Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California (cat.)
  • Other Works
2002
  • Works
2001
  • Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, Massachusetts (cat.)
  • ACME (with Martin Kersels), Los Angeles, California
  • Other Works
2000
  • New Work by Laura Owens (1999) and John Hutton Balfour’s Bioteaching Diagrams 1840-1879, Inverleith, Royal Botanical Garden, Edinburgh, Scotland (cat.)
  • Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy
  • Other Works
1999
  • Sadie Coles HQ, London, United Kingdom
  • Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne, Germany
  • Statements, Gavin Brown's enterprise, Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland
  • Heaven and Hell (collaboration with Scott Reeder), China Art Objects, Los Angeles, California
  • Other Works
1998
  • Patrick Painter (with Jorge Pardo), Santa Monica, California
  • Studio Guenzani (with Sharon Lockhart), Milan, Italy
  • Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York, New York
  • ACME, Los Angeles, California
  • Crown Center Gallery, Loyola University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  • Other Works
1997
  • Sadie Coles HQ, London, United Kingdom
  • Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York, New York
  • Other Works
1996
  • Studio 246 (with Lisa Anne Auerbach), Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
  • Other Works
1995
  • Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, California
  • Other Works
1994
  • Paintings
1993
  • Early Work
1992
  • Early Work




Group exhibitions

2017
  • Depuis le temps, Galerie Mezzanin, Geneva, Switzerland
  • Infected Foot, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, New York
  • Chapters: Book Arts in Southern California, Craft & Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, California
  • Vanishing Points, James Cohan Gallery, New York, New York
  • Zeitgeist, Musée d’art Modern et Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
  • Tomorrow Will Still Be Ours, Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York, New York
  • The Florine Stettheimer Collapsed Time Salon, The Armory Fair, New York, New York
  • .com/.cn, The K11 Art Foundation Pop-Up Space, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong (cat.)
  • Animal Farm, The Brant Foundation, Greenwich, Connecticut
  • The Brightsiders, Verge Center for the Arts, Sacramento, California (Cat.)
  • Landscapes: Urban & Rural, Crown Point Press, San Francisco, California
  • Trick Brain, Aïshti Foundation, Beirut, Lebanon

  • Unpacking: The Marciano Collection, Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles, California

2016
  • La collection Thea Westreich Wagner et Ethan Wagner, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France (cat.)
  • Administrate, curated by Anthony Huberman, Artspeak, Vancouver, Canada
  • L'Almanach 16, Le Consortium, Dijon, France
  • Fine Young Cannibals, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, New York (cat.)
  • Apeirophobia/Aporia, Human Resources, Los Angeles, California
  • Sharon Lockhart, Laura Owens, Frances Stark, The Artist’s Institute, New York, New York
  • Los Angeles - A Fiction, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norway (cat.)
2015
  • Pretty Raw: After and Around Helen Frankenthaler, Rose Art Museum, Waltham, Massachusetts (cat.)
  • Painting after Technology, Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom 
  • Collected by Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York (cat.)
  • Painting 2.0: Expression in the Information Age, Museum Brandhorst, Munich, Germany (cat.); traveled to MUMOK, Vienna, Austria
  • Come As You Are: Art of the 1990s, Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey; traveled to Telfair Museum, Savannah, Georgia; University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor; Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas (cat.)
  • Call and Response, Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York, New York
  • Doodles, The Vanity Bakersfield, Bakersfield, California
  • Open Source: Art at the Eclipse of Capitalism, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany
  • best students, best teachers, best school: Michel Majerus, Albert Oehlen & Laura Owens, Michel Majerus Estate, Berlin, Germany
  • Storylines: Contemporary Art at the Guggenheim, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York
  • Project X Forum 2: FAR Bazaar, Foundation for Art Resources, 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica, California
  • Printed Matters, Gesso Artspace, Vienna, Austria 
  • Works on Paper, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, New York
  • Can't Reach Me There, curated by Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer, Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota (cat.)
  • Marks Made: Prints by American Women Artists from the 1960s to the Present, Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida (cat.)
  • No Man’s Land: Women Artists from the Rubell Family Collection, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, Florida (cat.)
  • The World is Made of Stories, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norway
2014
  • The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York (cat.)
  • Loveless, Greene Naftali, New York, New York
  • Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York (cat.)
  • Variations: Conversations in and Around Abstract Painting, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
  • Painter's Painters: Gifts from Alex Katz, High Museum of Art, Atlanta Georgia
  • Nature Study: A Group Exhibition, Crown Point Press, San Francisco, California
  • Summer Choices: A Group Show, Crown Point Press, San Francisco California
  • Joyride, Marlborough Broome St, New York, New York
  • Capture the Rapture, CB1 Gallery, Los Angeles, California
  • Persian Rose Chartreuse Muse Vancouver Grey, Equinox Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
  • The good, the bad and the ugly, Gesso Artspace, Vienna Austria
  • Another Cats Show, 356 S. Mission Rd, Los Angeles, California
  • Cornucopia, Parkett Exhibition Space, Zurich, Switzerland
  • The Machine Project Field Guide to the Gamble House, Gamble House, Pasadena, California
  • Wake Up Early, Fear Death, curated by Philipp Kaiser. Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna, Austria
  • Death Ship: A Tribute to H.C. Westermann, The Pit, Los Angeles, California (cat.)
2013
  • Working Proofs: A Revelation, Crown Point Press, San Francisco, California
  • Yes, No, Maybe: Artists Working at Crown Point Press, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. (cat.)
  • Selections from the Venice Beach Biennial, Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles, California
  • Abstract - Nature: Selected Parkett Artists' Editions, 1984-2013, Parkett Space, Zurich, Switzerland
  • Made in Space, curated by Peter Harkawick and Laura Owens, Venus Over Manhattan / Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York, New York
  • The Cat Show, White Columns, New York, New York
  • Wir Drei, Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, Orange, California
  • Small Gems, Crown Point Press, San Francisco, California
  • Finisce e Continua uno, Gesso Artspace, Vienna, Austria
2012
  • Things, Words and Consequences, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia
  • Curatorial Exchange, Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, California
  • The Holodeck, PØST, Los Angeles, California
  • Pure Perception, Monica De Cardenas Galleria, Milan, Italy
  • Pittura [1995-2009], Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy
  • PRINT IMPRINT, Actual Size Los Angeles and Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, California
  • Nudes Painting Show, 3704 North Figueroa, Los Angeles, California
  • Looking Back for the Future, Kunsthalle Zurich, Switzerland
  • Natural History, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
2011
  • The Cactus Painting Show, 3704 North Figueroa, Los Angeles, California
  • From Where You Just Arrived, Pepin Moore, Los Angeles, California
  • The Boy Who Robbed You a Few Minutes Before Arriving At the Ball, Gisela Capitain, Cologne, Germany
  • A Painting Show, Harris Lieberman. New York, New York
  • The Spectacular of Vernacular, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (cat.); traveled to Contemporary Arts Museum Houston; Montclair Art Museum, Montclair; Ackland Art Museum, North Carolina
  • Painting Between the Lines, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, California (cat.); traveled to the Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts
  • Happy Holidays! Drawings!, Alex Zachary, New York, New York
  • Looks on Paper, Ditch Projects, Springfield, Oregon
2010
  • At Home/Not at Home, CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art, New York, New York (cat.)
  • Hecate’s Lab, Senior & Shopmaker Gallery, New York, New York
  • Ordinary Madness, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (cat.)
  • The Artist's Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
  • Painting and Sculpture: Exhibition to Benefit the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Lehmann Maupin, New York, New York
2009
  • 15 Year Gallery Artist Group Exhibition, ACME, Los Angeles, California
  • Art Tells the Times, Works by Women Artists, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (cat.)
  • The Still Life Show, Five Thirty Three, Los Angeles, California; traveled to Mile Post 5, Portland, Oregon
  • Continuous Present, curated by Jennifer Gross, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
  • Hello, Mrs. MacGruder, curated by Michele Maccarone, Benson Keyes Arts, Southampton, New York
  • Slow Paintings, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany (cat.)
  • Collection: MOCA’S First Thirty Years, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
  • BROODWORK: Creative Practice and Family Life, Center for the Arts Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, California
  • Rob Pruitt's Flea Market, The Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom
2008
  • Biënnale van de Schilderkunst, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium (cat.)
  • Blasted Allegories, Works from the Ringier Collection, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland (cat.)
  • Pretty Ugly, Gavin Brown’s enterprise and Maccarone, New York, New York
  • Painting Now and Forever Part II, Greene Naftali Gallery and Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, New York
  • Living Flowers: Ikebana and Contemporary Art, Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles, California (cat.)
  • Landscapes of the Mind: Art Collection of the United States Embassy, US Embassy, Beijing, China (cat.)
  • Tapestry, Karin Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles, California
  • Collecting Collections: Highlights from the Permanent Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California (cat.)
2007
  • Counterparts: Contemporary Painters and Their Influences, Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach (cat.)
  • Poets on Painters, Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas (cat.)
  • Legends Altered: Maps as Method and Medium, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
  • Sequence 1: Painting and Sculpture from the Francois Pinault Collection, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy (cat.)
  • 2007 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, United Kingdom (cat.)
  • Affinities: New Acquisitions Deutsche Bank Collection, 1997-2007, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany (cat.)
  • Very Abstract and Hyper Figurative, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, United Kingdom (cat.)
  • Summer Show, Sadie Coles HQ, London, United Kingdom
2006
  • Hotel California, Glendale College Art Gallery, Glendale, California
  • The Garden Party, Deitch Projects, New York, New York
  • All the Best: The Deutsche Bank Collection and Zaha Hadid, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
  • Blind Date, Galerie Kunstforum, Altes Haus, Seligenstadt, Germany (cat.)
  • The Art of Etching at Crown Point Press, Bobbie Greenfield Gallery, Santa Monica, California (cat.)
  • Essential Painting, National Museum of Art Osaka, Japan (cat.)
  • Opere su Carta: Margherita Manzelli, Aleksandra Mir, Laura Owens, Alessandro Pessoli, Danica Phelps, Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy
  • Red Eye: L.A. Artists from the Rubell Family Collection, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, Florida (cat.)
2005
  • The Fluidity of Time: Selections from the MCA Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Illinois
  • After Cezanne, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
  • Drawn to Cleveland, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio (cat.)
  • Goetz Meets Falckenberg, Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg, Germany (cat.)
  • 25 Visuell: Deutsche Bank Art, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany (cat.)
  • Old News, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, California
  • Think Blue, Blum and Poe, Los Angeles, California
  • Ideal Worlds: New Romanticism in Contemporary Art, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany (cat.)
  • Extreme Abstraction, Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York (cat.)
  • Desired Constellations, Daniel Reich Gallery, New York, New York
  • plip, plip, plippity!, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles, California
  • Post Modern, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, New York
2004
  • Undiscovered Country, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California (cat.)
  • Huts, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland (cat.)
  • Painting’s Edge, Idyllwild Arts, Idyllwild, California
  • Never Never Landscape, curated by Kirsty Bell, Atle Gerhardsen, Berlin, Germany
  • Contemporary Painting: Curated by Alex Katz, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine (cat.)
  • Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York (cat.)
  • Malerei, Galerie Rolf Hengesbach, Cologne, Germany
  • Drunk vs. Stoned, curated by the General Store, Passerby, New York, New York
  • The Four Color Pen Show, Locust Project, Miami, Florida
2003
  • Inaugural Exhibition, Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York, New York
  • Painting Pictures: Painting and Media in the Digital Age, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany (cat.)
2002
  • Drawing Now: Eight Propositions in Contemporary Drawings, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York (cat.)
  • Painting on the move, Kunstmuseum Basel and Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland (cat.)
  • Urgent Painting, Musee d’ Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France (cat.)
  • Cavepainting: Peter Doig, Chris Ofili, Laura Owens, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, California (cat.)
  • Strolling Through An Ancient Shrine and Garden, Acme, Los Angeles, California
2001
  • Paintings, 5117 Eagle Rock Blvd, Los Angeles, California
  • The Mystery of Painting, Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany (cat.)
  • Accumulations, curated by Martin Ball, School of Art Gallery, Kent State University, Ohio
  • Some Options in Abstraction, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (booklet)
  • Objective Color, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
  • Cal’s Art: Sampling California Painting, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas
  • Bastard (Son of Hot Sauce), The Law Office, Chicago, Illinois
  • Public Offerings, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California (cat.)
  • Painting at the Edge of the World, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota (cat.)
  • Locating Drawing, Lawing Gallery, Houston, Texas
  • American Academy Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, The American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, New York
  • Lens and Paper: The Beauty of Intimacy, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague, Netherlands (cat.)
2000
  • On Canvas: Contemporary Painting from the Collection, Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York
  • The Next Wave: New Painting in Southern California, Cal. Center for the Arts, Escondido, California
  • Art on Paper, curated by Nancy Doll and Ron Platt. Weatherspoon Art Gallery, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro
  • Drawing 2000, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, New York (cat.)
  • Works on Paper from Los Angeles, Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy
1999
  • Examining Pictures: Exhibiting Paintings, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, United Kingdom (cat.); traveled to Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois; UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California
  • Drawn to Nature, George’s, Los Angeles, California
  • Carnegie International 1999/2000, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (cat.)
  • Standing Still & Walking in Los Angeles, Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, California (cat.)
  • New Work: Painting Today, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
  • Works on paper (and some other things), ACME, Los Angeles, California
  • Nach-Bild, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland (cat.)
  • The Perfect Life: Artifice in LA 1999, Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina (cat.)
  • Hot Spots, curated by Elizabeth Brown, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, North Carolina; traveled to Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pennsylvania (cat.)
  • Local Color, curated by Virginia Rutledge, The University of La Verne, California
  • Pasadena Adjacent, Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica, California
1998
  • Color Fields, Luckman Fine Arts Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles
  • Young Americans 2, The Saatchi Gallery, London, United Kingdom (cat.)
  • I’m Still in Love with You, Women’s 20th Century Club, Los Angeles, California
  • Visions, XXIX Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles, France
  • Exterminating Angel, Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, France
  • Hello Out There, ACME, Los Angeles, California
  • Paintings Interested in the Ideas of Architecture and Design, PØST, Los Angeles, California
  • Come and get it while you wait, Hollywood DMV at Cole, Los Angeles, California
1997
  • Vertical Painting Show, P.S.1 Museum, New York, New York
  • Sharon Lockhart, Laura Owens, Frances Stark, Blum & Poe, Santa Monica, California
  • Hot Coffee, Artists Space, New York, New York
  • Palace, Beret International Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
  • Project Painting, Basilico Fine Arts and Lehmann Maupin, New York, New York (cat.)
  • The Eagle Rock Show, Eagle Rock Community Cultural Center, Los Angeles, California
  • The Prophecy of Pop, Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, Louisiana
1996
  • Wunderbar, Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
  • Screen, curated by Joshua Decter, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, New York
  • The Speed of Painting, Pat Hearn, New York, New York
  • Studio 246, Marc Foxx Gallery, Santa Monica, California
1995
  • Painting Invitational, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, California
  • Smells Like Vinyl, Roger Merians Gallery, New York, New York
  • Tell Everyone, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, New York
  • From LA with Love, Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France
1994
  • 8th L.A.C.E. Annuale: Gorgeous Politics curated by Dave Hickey, Los Angeles Contemporary Art Exhibitions, Los Angeles, California; traveled to Temporary Contemporary Gallery, Las Vegas, Nevada
  • Thanks Again, Food House, Santa Monica, California
  • Playfield, Rio Hondo College, Rio Hondo, California
  • Hot Crop, curated by J. Willette, Claremont College, Claremont, California
  • Temporary, The Temporary Contemporary, Los Angeles, California
1993
  • Childhood Fictions, Gallery D300, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California
1992
  • ANTI (printed) MATTER & L.A. Matter, FAR Bazaar, Los Angeles, CA
  • By Location: Leimert Park, Crossroads Art Academy, Los Angeles, CA