Born in Lincoln, Nebraska, in 1952
Lives in Chicago
Education
1982Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD; MFA
1974Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR; BFA
One-Person Exhibitions
2012Laura Mesaros Gallery, The Art Museum of West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV (brochure)
2011Twig Gallery, Brussels
2010Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago
Feature Inc., New York
2009“Richard Rezac: Selected Sculpture and Drawings, 2003–2008,” Gahlberg Gallery,
College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, IL (catalogue)
2008James Harris Gallery, Seattle
2006Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago
2005James Harris Gallery, Seattle
Feature Inc., New York
2003Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago
2002James Harris Gallery, Seattle
Feature Inc., New York
2001Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles
2000Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles
1998Feigen Contemporary, New York (catalogue)
1997Marc Foxx Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1996Feigen, Inc., Chicago
Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco
1995Feature Inc., New York
“Richard Rezac: Shelf Sculptures 1982–1994,” I space, Chicago (brochure)
Marc Foxx Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1994Feigen, Inc., Chicago
1993Feature, New York
“Richard Rezac: Sculpture 1987–1992,” Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids, IA
Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Birmingham, MI
1992Feature, New York
1991Feigen, Inc., Chicago
Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Feature, New York
1990“Options 38: Richard Rezac,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (brochure)
1989Feature, New York
Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Birmingham, MI
Artgarden, Amsterdam (outdoor installation)
Arts Festival of Atlanta, Piedmont Park, Atlanta (outdoor installation)
1988Loughelton Gallery, New York
1987Feature, Chicago (brochure)
Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Birmingham, MI
1986Sculpture Chicago 1986, Chicago (outdoor installation)
1985Feature, Chicago
Portland Center for the Visual Arts, Portland, OR
Wentz Gallery, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR
1984Blackfish Gallery, Portland, OR
1982Blackfish Gallery, Portland, OR
1979Blackfish Gallery, Portland, OR
1978White Gallery, Portland State University, Portland, OR
1976Washington State University Museum of Art, Pullman, WA (traveling exhibition)
Selected Group Exhibitions
2012“Punt,” Feature Inc., New York
“Loughelton Revisited,” Winkleman Gallery, New York
2011“You Would,” Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts, New York
“self-referral nonobjective,” Feature Inc., New York
“Two Fold,” Michelle Grabner/Brad Killam home, Oak Park, IL; curated by Colleen Asper & Ethan Greenbaum
2010“Heather McGill, Richard Rezac, James Shosbree,” Paul Kotula Projects, Ferndale, MI
“The Shape of Abstraction,” Boston University Art Gallery (catalogue)
“Kabinett 1 + 2: Richard Rezac and Gary Stephan,” Devening Projects + Editions, Chicago
“The Jewel Thief,” Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Saratoga Springs, NY;
curated by Ian Berry and Jessica Stockholder
2009“Skulture,” Feature Inc., New York
“Modern and Contemporary Works on Paper,” Art Institute of Chicago
“Contemporary Works from the Cleve Carney Collection,” Elmhurst Art Museum, IL
“Populate This Form,” Feature Inc., New York
“Cross-Fade,” Swimming Pool, Chicago
2008“Isn’t It,” Tony Wight Gallery, Chicago
“Begin Again Right Back Here,” White Columns, New York; curated by B. Wurtz
2006“Drawing as Process in Contemporary Art,” Smart Museum of Art, Chicago
181st Annual, National Academy Museum, New York
2005“Centrally Located: The Artadia and Richard H. Driehaus Foundation 2002 Artist Awards,” Michigan Avenue
Galleries, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago (catalogue)
“The sun rises in the evening.,” Feature Inc., New York
“48th Corcoran Biennial: Closer to Home,” Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC (catalogue)
“Jeff Spaulding, Richard Rezac, Graham Caldwell,” G Fine Art, Washington, DC
2004“The Center Is Anywhere,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago
“Deborah Boardman, Richard Rezac, Amy Vogel,” Track House, Oak Park, IL
Feature Inc., New York
2003“Basic Instinct: Minimalism, Past, Present and Future,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
“Formed to Function?” John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan WI
“Small Scale Sculpture,” Feature Inc., New York
Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago
“Upon reflection...,” Sean Kelly Gallery, New York
“Dan Devening and Richard Rezac,” Kunstverein Recklinghausen, Recklinghausen, Germany (catalogue)
2002“Faculty Sabbatical Exhibition,” Betty Rymer Gallery, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
“Multiformity: Multiples from the MCA Collection,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
“Vladimir Skoda and Richard Rezac,” 500 Square Ft., Lake Bluff, IL
2001“Objective Color, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
“Making the Making,” Apex Art, New York (brochure)
“Sculpture in Chicago Now,” Columbia College, Chicago
“The Sensibility of the ’80s: David Diao and Richard Rezac,” Thomas Ammann Fine Art AG, Zurich; curated by
Georg Frei
“Richard Rezac and Gary Batty,” Feature, Inc., New York
2000“Hairy Forearm’s Self-Referral,” Feature Inc., New York
“Seems,” Block Museum, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL (catalogue)
“Minimal Maximal,” Feigen Contemporary, New York
“Grok Terence McKenna Dead,” Feature Inc., New York
1998“Chromaform: Color in Sculpture,” University of Texas at San Antonio Art Gallery, San Antonio, TX;
Nevada
Institute of Contemporary Art, Las Vegas, NV; University Art Gallery, New Mexico
State University, Las Cruces,
NM; Edwin Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS; Mount Holyoke College Art Museum,
South Hadley, MA (brochure)
“Inglenook,” Feigen Contemporary, New York; Illinois State University Gallery, Normal, IL
“Quiet,” site-specific installation/exhibition, Chicago
“Thomas Nozkowski and Richard Rezac,” TBA Exhibition Space, Chicago (brochure)
1997“New Works,” Feigen, Inc., Chicago
Marc Foxx Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
“Sculpture,” James Graham & Sons, New York
1996“AbFab,” Feature Inc., New York
“Art in Chicago: 1945–1995,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (catalogue)
“Drawing in Chicago Now,” Columbia College Art Gallery, Chicago
“Abstract: Chicago, 1996,” Klein Gallery, Chicago
1995“Resonance,” Gibson Gallery, State University of New York at Potsdam, Potsdam, NY (catalogue)
“Skew: The Unruly Grid,” Gallery 400, University of Illinois at Chicago
“The Friendly Village,” Layton Gallery, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Milwaukee, WI
“New Works,”Feigen, Inc., Chicago
“I Gaze A Gazely Stare,”Feature Inc., New York
1994“5 Longish Wood Sculptures,” Feature Inc., New York
“Sculpture on the Wall,” Center Gallery, Center for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI
Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Birmingham, MI
“Julia Fish, Jim Hibbard, Richard Rezac,” Blackfish Gallery, Portland, OR
“Drawings: Julia Fish and Richard Rezac,” Gallery 299, Portland State University, Portland, OR
1993“A Sequence of Forms: Sculpture by Illinois Artists,”Chicago Cultural Center and State of Illinois Art Gallery,
Chicago
“Points of Reference: Contemporary Abstraction,” Fine Arts Gallery, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
1992“Chicago Artists,” Feigen, Inc., Chicago
University Art Museum, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL
1991Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Birmingham, MI
Feigen, Inc., Chicago
1990“New Generations: Chicago,” Carnegie Mellon Art Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA (catalogue)
“Toward the Future: Contemporary Art in Context,”Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (brochure)
“Grounded: Sculpture on the Floor,” University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI (catalogue)
1989“FunctionNonFunction,” Rezac Gallery and Feature, Chicago (catalogue)
“Tenth Anniversary Exhibition,” Blackfish Gallery, Portland, OR
“Dorothy,”Center for Contemporary Art, Chicago
“Chicago Works: Art from the Windy City,” Erie Art Museum, Erie, PA; Bruce Gallery, Edinboro University,
Edinboro, PA (catalogue)
“Sculpture: Polly Apfelbaum, Richard Rezac, Joe Smith,” Center for Contemporary Art, Chicago
1988Loughelton Gallery, New York
“Near Miss,” Feature, Chicago
“Latitudes: Focus on Chicago,”Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO (catalogue)
“In the Making: Drawings by Sculptors,” Sculpture Center, New York
“The Form of Language: The Language of Form,” Rosa Esman Gallery, New York
“Imagining Form: Six Sculptors,” State of Illinois Art Gallery, Chicago
“Gold,” Rezac Gallery, Chicago
“Looking Out: Rockford Art Museum Regional Exhibition,” Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL
“Donald Harvey, Beverly Pepper, Richard Rezac,” Toni Birkhead Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
1987“Selected Works from the Permanent Collection,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
“Sculptures on the Wall,” N.A.M.E. Gallery, Chicago
“Nature,” Feature, Chicago
Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles
1986Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Birmingham, MI
“Emerging Sculptors 1986,” Sculpture Center, New York (catalogue)
“Sculpture Chicago 1986,” Chicago (gallery exhibition)
“Julia Fish and Richard Rezac,” Feature, Chicago
1985“Engagement,” Feature, New York
San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
“Oregon Artists Biennial,” Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
“Mount Royal Tenth Anniversary Exhibition,” Decker Gallery, Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD
1984Willamette University, Salem, OR
1983Linfield College, McMinnville, OR
1979“Opening Exhibition,” Blackfish Gallery, Portland, OR
1977“Twelve Portland Artists,” Portland Center for the Visual Arts, Portland, OR (catalogue)
Purple Daggers, Portland, OR (two-person exhibition)
197524th Avenue Gallery, Portland, OR (two-person exhibition)
Selected Bibliography
2011Schmerler, Sarah. “Self-Referral Nonobjective,” Time Out New York, 21 September >link
Johnson, Ken. “Self-Referral Nonobjective,” New York Times, 8 September >link
Cotter, Holland. “New Sparkle for an Abstract Ensemble,” New York Times, 7 January, C25
Van Uffelen, Chris. Art in Public, Braun Publishing AG
2010Review, New Yorker, Goings On About Town, 1 November
Esplund, Lance. Review, Wall Street Journal, 16 October, A24
Ise, Claudine. “A Q & A with Richard Rezac,” Bad at Sports.com, 25 January
Ise, Claudine. Review, Artforum.com, February
2009Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin 2009, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, 29 (reproduction)
Cassidy, Victor M. “Formal Invention: Richard Rezac,” Sculpture, December
McDade, Jackson. “Skulture Vulture”, ArtSlant.com, 27 December 2009 >link
2007Collins, Judith. Sculpture Today, Phaidon Press, 447–448
Burgher, Elijah, Review, BAT, no. 3 (April)
2006Artner, Alan. “Rezac’s Geometric Sculpture Surpasses Easy Description,” Chicago Tribune, 23 June,
7: 23 (reproduction)
Esplund, Lance. “The Academy Hedges Its Bets,” New York Sun, 18 May, section 2
Johnson, Ken, “For a Broad Landscape, an Equally Wide Survey,” New York Times, 31 May, B5 (reproduction)
Perkins, Gregg. Review, Artforum.com, Critics’ Picks, 17 July
Row, D.K. Review, The Oregonian, 23 June
Yood, James. Review, Artforum, October, 269–270
2005Johnson, Ken. Review of “The sun rises in the evening,” New York Times, 10 June, E44
King, Elaine. Review, Sculpture, October, 72
O’Sullivan, Michael. “The Corcoran in Earnest,” Washington Post, 25 March, 47
2003Cassidy, Victor M. Review, Art in America, December, 112 (reproduction)
Artner, Alan G. Review, Chicago Tribune, 23 May, C:7, 27 (reproductions)
Nozkowski, Thomas. “Richard Rezac,” Bomb, Spring, 100–103 (reproductions)
2000Pagel, David. Review, Los Angeles Times, 25 February, F32 (reproduction)
Miles, Christopher. Review, Artforum, May, 183 (reproduction)
1999Esplund, Lance. “New York Letter, Truth or Dare,” Modern Painters, Spring, 106 (reproduction)
Goodman, Jonathan. Review, Art in America, May, 155 (reproduction)
Johnson, Ken. Review, New York Times, 1 January
King, Elaine A. Review, Sculpture, June, 73–74 (reproductions)
1998Bourbon, Matthew. “Charles Spurrier and Richard Rezac,” NY Arts, December, 46
Johnson, Ken. Review, New York Times, 24 July
Welch, Roger. “Not Set in Stone,” San Antonio Express News, 9 October, G:1–3
1997Frank, Peter. “Art Picks of the Week,” L.A. Weekly, 18 April
Grabner, Michelle. Review, Sculpture, January, 63–64 (reproduction)
Kirshner, Judith Russi. Review, Artforum, January, 89–90 (reproduction)
Miles, Christopher. “Richard Rezac at Marc Foxx,” Artweek, May, 25–26 (reproduction)
1996Artner, Alan. “Rezac’s Pieces: His Sensuous Sculpture Makes an Appeal to Touch,” Chicago Tribune,
7:66 (reproduction)
Baker, Kenneth. “Richard Rezac at Bransten,” San Francisco Chronicle, 2 April, G:2 (reproduction)
Camper, Fred. “Art People: Richard Rezac Shifts Shapes,” Chicago Reader, 27 September, 1: 43 (reproductions)
1995Artner, Alan. “Richard Rezac Gives His Sculptures Plenty of Shelf Life,” Chicago Tribune, 19 May, 7:74
Camper, Fred. “Unlocking the Grid,” Chicago Reader, 17 November, 31–33 (reproduction)
Frank, Peter. “Art Picks of the Week,” LA Weekly, 5 April
Iannaccone, Carmine. Review, Art Issues, Summer, 45 (reproduction)
Pagel, David. Review, Los Angeles Times, 30 March
Goings On About Town, New Yorker, 13 November, 22
1994Artner, Alan. “Pushing Abstraction to Edge of Familiarity,” Chicago Tribune, 28 January, 7:60
Colby, Joy Hakanson. “Hung Up,” Detroit News, 7 October (reproductions)
Grisham, Esther. Review, New Art Examiner, 44 (reproduction)
Melrod, George. Review, Sculpture, March/April, 44 (reproduction)
Miro, Marsha. “Choice Hangings: Sculpture, Photos,” Detroit Free Press, 7 October (reproduction)
1993Artner, Alan. “Art in 3-D,” Chicago Tribune, 7 February, 13:14–15 (reproduction)
Colby, Joy Hakanson. “Rezac is a Master of the Mysteries of Wood and Metal,” Detroit News, 29 January
(reproduction)
Miro, Marsha. “Chicago Sculptor Builds on Architectural Themes,” Detroit Free Press, 7 February (reproduction)
Yood, James. “Sculptural Aspects,” New Art Examiner, May, 29–31 (reproduction)
1992Snodgrass, Susan. Review. Sculpture, January/February, 57–58 (reproduction)
Revue K, no. 45 (Winter) (cover and inside reproductions)
1991Artner, Alan. “Rezac’s Uncanny Takes on Japanese Sources Stand Out,” Chicago Tribune, 20 September
(reproduction)
Frank, Peter. “Art Pick of the Week,” i, 15 February, 125
Hixson, Kathryn. “Chicago in Review.” Arts, December, 88–89 (reproduction)
Kaufman, Jason. “Chicago Zeitgeist,” Journal of Art, May, 27–29
Reijn, Els. Review, Artweek, 14 February (reproduction)
1990Artner, Alan. “Tipping the Scale,” Chicago Tribune, 8 April, 13:14–15 (reproduction)
Brunetti, John. Review, Dialogue, March/April, 23 (reproduction)
Bulka, Michael. Review, New Art Examiner, March (reproduction)
Christiansen, Richard. “Our Sixth Annual Honor Roll of Artists Who Brightened the Year,” Chicago Tribune,
30 December, 13:19
Hixson, Kathryn. “Chicago in Review,” Arts, March, 123–124 (reproduction)
Leucking, Stephen. Review, New Art Examiner, January, 39
Miro, Marsha. “Sculptures Hint at Vision That Forms Them,” Detroit Free Press, 7 January (reproduction)
Porges, Tim. “Chicago,” Contemporanea, May, 48, 51 (reproduction)
Yood, James. Review, Artforum, May, 195 (reproduction)
1989Babius, Marius. Review, Kunstforum International/89, January/February, 305–306 (reproduction)
1988Abell, Jeff. Review, New Art Examiner, April, 53–54
Johnson, Ken. Review, Art in America, September, 182 (reproduction)
McCracken, David. “Exhibition Shows Diversity of Artists’ Approach,” Chicago Tribune, 26 February,
section 7:8 (reproduction)
Merkel, Jayne. Review, New Art Examiner, June, 51
Morgan, Ann Lee. Review, New Art Examiner, January, 55 (reproduction)
1987Artner, Alan. “Rezac’s Sculpture Affirm ‘Less is More’,” Chicago Tribune, 23 October, 7:64 (reproduction)
Artner, Alan. “Major Chicago Exhibitions,” Chicago Tribune, 27 December, 13:17
Farm, Feature and Instituting Contemporary Idea, Chicago (reproduction)
Hakanson-Colby, Joy. “His Art is ‘Lausunu’—That’s ‘Unusual’ Spelled Backwards,” Detroit News, 25 October, 8E
(reproduction)
Miro, Marsha. “Rezac’s Calm After the Expressionistic Storm,” Detroit Free Press, 8 November(reproduction)
1986Artner, Alan. “Abstract Exhibit Works Its Wonders Slowly,” Chicago Tribune, 8 August, 7:51 (reproduction)
Brenson, Michael. Review, New York Times, December, 26
Fulton, Jean. Review, New Art Examiner, November, 29–31
1984Hayakawa, Alan. “Sculptures Explore Geometric Forms, Angles,” The Oregonian, 17 February
“Exhibitions,” Artweek, 28 February
1979Sutinen, Paul. “Rezac’s Drawings and Katz’s Posts,” Willamette Week
Research Travel Grants
2009School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Faculty Enrichment Grant; study of the architecture of Chrisopher Wren
in London
2003School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Faculty Enrichment Grant; study of Northern Italian Baroque architecture
2001School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Adjunct Faculty Paid Leave; study of ancient and Baroque architecture
in Rome
1996School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Faculty Enrichment Grant; study of Czech Cubist architecture and applied
design in Prague
1993School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Faculty Enrichment Grant; study of Shaker architecture and design in
New England
1989John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship; funds partly used for study of gardens in Japan
1989School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Faculty Enrichment Grant; study of 20th-century Dutch art and architecture in
the Netherlands
1983Oregon Arts Commission; funds partly used for study of traditional art, architecture, craft and theater in Japan
Grants and Awards
2006Rome Prize Fellowship, American Academy in Rome
2005Painters & Sculptors Grant Program, Joan Mitchell Foundation
2004Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Award
1993Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award
1989John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
1988Chicago Artists Abroad, Project Grant
1987Art Matters, Inc., New York, Project Grant
1986National Endowment for the Arts, Visual Artist Fellowship
1983Oregon Arts Commission, Visual Artist Fellowship
1977Metropolitan Arts Commission, Portland, Oregon, Art in Public Places Grant
1976National Endowment for the Arts, Visual Artist Fellowship
Teaching Experience
1985–nowAdjunct Associate Professor of Three-Dimensional Design, Sculpture, Drawing, and Graduate
Advising; School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2001Visiting Artist, Graduate Department, University of Chicago (Winter Quarter)
1997Visiting Artist Residency (5 weeks), Graduate Department, Illinois State University, Normal, IL
1995Visiting Artist Residency (2 weeks), Blossom Art Program, Kent State University, Kent, OH
1994Visiting Artist, Graduate Department, Portland State University, Portland, OR
1993Visiting Artist, Graduate Sculpture Department, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Visiting Artist, Art Department, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL
Visiting Artist, Art Department, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL
1992Visiting Artist, Graduate Sculpture Department, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, IL
1991Adjunct Faculty, University of Chicago (Fall quarter)
1990Visiting Artist, Graduate Department, University of Chicago (Fall Quarter)
1988Visiting Artist, Graduate Department, University of Chicago (Winter Quarter)
1986Visiting Artist, Graduate Department, University of Chicago (Winter Quarter)
1982–84Instructor of Drawing and Design/Gallery Director, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR
1982–83Instructor of Painting and Design, Portland State University, Portland, OR
1979–80Instructor of Painting and Design, Mount Hood Community College, Gresham, OR
1977–80Instructor of Drawing and Design, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR
Public Collections
Art Institute of Chicago
Dallas Museum of Art
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
State of Oregon
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL
Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago
Edwin Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, KS
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT