Heather Rowe

Born 1970, New Haven, CT
Lives and works in New York City


EDUCATION

2001
MFA, Columbia University, School of the Arts, New York

1993
BFA, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston

1988–90
Boston University, School of Fine Arts, Boston


ONE PERSON AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2011
D’Amelio Terras, New York, NY

2010
The Framed Guests, University of Hawaii School of Architecture Gallery, Manoa Campus, Honolulu, HI; organized by UH Intersections and Interisland Terminal
Trouble Everyday, D’Amelio Terras, New York, NY
Heather Rowe and Kevin Zucker: SD Studio Dynamics 57UMSTRA1
“Strata #1,” Unmounted, 5x7, Forever & Today, Inc., New York, NY
Tenuous Arrangements, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN

2009
UMMA Projects: Heather Rowe, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Michigan (curated by Jacob Proctor)
Galerie Michael Zink, Berlin, Germany

2007
On Returning, D’Amelio Terras, New York, NY

2006
Green Desert, D’Amelio Terras, New York, NY
Shadows of a Doubt, Galerie Michael Zink, Munich, Germany


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2012
In the Mirror of Myself, Galerie Zink, Berlin, Germany (forthcoming)
Undetectable, La MaMa La Galleria, New York, NY; curated by Nathan Lee
Steel Life, Michael Benevento, Los Angeles, CA; curated by Zak Kitnick
House Arrest, Franklin Street Works, Stamford, CT; curated by Terri C Smith

2011
Toward A Philosophy of the Everyday, Castle Gallery, College of New Rochelle,
New Rochelle, NY; organized by Susan M. Canning
The Light Show, Kate Werble Gallery, New York, NY
Improvising Architectures, MIA, Miami, FL; curated by Gean Moreno

2010
Painting and Sculpture, Lehmann Maupin, New York, NY
The Every Other Day, Ideobox Artspace, Miami, FL; curated by Donald Johnson Montenegro
It’s All American, New Jersey Museum of Contemporary Art, Asbury Park, NJ
Immaterial, Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, TX; curated by Fairfax Dorn. Travelled to Trois Gallery, SCAD Atlanta, Atlanta GA, and Pei Ling Chan Gallery, Savannah, GA (spring 2012)
Crystalline Architecture, Andrea Rosen, New York, NY; curated by Josiah McElheny
Connecticut, D’Amelio Terras, New York, NY

2009
H.T.A.D.I.T.F, 25CPW, New York, NY
Between Spaces, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Museum of Modern Art
affiliate, Long Island City, New York, NY (organized by Kate McNAmara and Tim Goossens)
Aggregate: Art and Architecture – a Brutalist Remix, Wesport Arts
Center, Westport, CT
A House is Not A Home, La Calmeleterie, Nazelles-Négron, France
Fairly Abstract, Galerie Zink, Munich, Germany
1992009, D’Amelio Terras, New York, NY
On From Here, Guild & Greyshkul, New York, NY

2008
Without Walls, Museum 52, New York, NY
Slow Glass, Lisa Cooley Fine Art, New York, NY
Only Connect, Art in General, New York, NY
Whitney Biennial 2008, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

2007
Undone, Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria, New York, NY
Practical F/X, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
Stubborn Materials, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, NY

2006
Drawing Room, Newman Popiashvili Gallery, New York, NY
Open Walls #2, White Columns, New York, NY
Bunch Alliance and Dissolve, Public-Holiday Projects, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
Mystic River, SouthFirst:ART, Brooklyn, NY, travels to: Arcadia University Art Gallery, Glenside, PA

2005
APT, 129 King Street, Red Hook, Brooklyn, NY
Things Fall Apart All Over Again, Artists Space, New York, NY
Good Titles from Bad Books, Kevin Bruk Gallery, Miami, FL

2004
Summery Summary, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY

2002
Six Sculptors, Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY

2001
International Summer Academy, Group Show, Salzburg, Austria
Columbia University MFA Thesis Exhibition, 2001, New York, NY
Cannibal Delicacies, Neiman Center Gallery, New York, NY

2000
Part 01, Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY

1999
Lay of the Land, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA

1997
The Artist and the Artifact, Federal Reserve Gallery, Boston, MA


AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES

2010
In the Public Realm, Public Art Fund, New York, NY

2006
Sculpture Space, Utica, NY

2001
Smack Mellon Studio Program, Brooklyn
Hayward Prize of the Salzburg Stiftung, American Austrian Foundation

1999–2001
Merit Fellowship, Visual Arts Division, Columbia University

1993
Patrick Gavin Award for Drawing and Painting, Massachusetts College of Art

1992
Art School Associates Trust Fund Award, Massachusetts College of Art


TEACHING AND LECTURING EXPERIENCE

2011
Adjunct Professor, School of Art and Design History and Theory, Parsons The New School for Design

2009
Adjunct Professor, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

2008
Visiting Critic, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
Visiting Critic, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Visiting Critic, Cooper Union, New York, NY

2003–04
Basic Drawing, Columbia University School of the Arts, New York, NY

2003
Visiting Critic, Basic Drawing, University of Pennsylvania School of Design, Landscape Architecture, Summer Session, Philadelphia, PA


BIBLIOGRAPHY

2012
Kitnick, Zak. “Danger Within” (interview), Art in America, January 2012

2011
“Goings On About Town: Heather Rowe.” The New Yorker, December 19 & 26, pg. 20

2010
Lawn, Andrzej. Flash Art, October, 2010.
“Heather Rowe and Kevin Zucker,” The New Yorker, April 5.
Rosen, Miriam. “Out with the old, in with the renewed at SoA grads’ P.S.1 art exhibit,” Columbia Spectator, March 22, 2010.

2009
“New York Artists Dictionary / Part 1,” Flash Art. February 2009, No. 264, pg 80.
Vitamin 3-D: New Perspectives in Sculpture and Installation, Phaidon Press.

2008
Momin, Shamim and Adam Weinberg. Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria: 25 Years, Yale University Press: New Haven, CT, 2008 (p. 178).
Bovino, Emily Verla. “Only Connect,” Frieze.com, posted August 6, 2008
Knighton, Lauren. “Slow Glass at Lisa Cooley,” Artslant.com, posted July 27, 2008
Zucker, Kevin. “Heather Rowe, Sculptor,” Joy Quarterly, Issue 1, Summer 2008, pp. 76-77.
Goldberg, Roselee. “Performance Anxiety,” Modern Painters, May 2008, p.42.
Volk, Gregory. “Spring in Dystopia,” Art in America, May 2008, 158-163.
Sneed, Gillian. “Expanded Walls, Expanded Practices,” NY Arts, Vol. 13, p. 8, p. 62.
Falconer, Morgan. “Whitney Biennial 2008,” Art Monthly, No. 315, April 2008
Art Papers, May/June 2008, p. 50.
Danto, Arthur. “Unlovable,” The Nation, May 8, 2008.
Princenthal, Nancy. “Heather Rowe at D’Amelio Terras and the Whitney at Altria,” Art in America, April 2008.
Davis, Ben. “Rave On,” Artnet Magazine, March 2008.
Alemani, Cecilia. “Whitney Girls,” Mousse Magazine, Issue 13, March 2008, pp.110-112
Lacayo, Richard. “The Simple Life,” Time, March 13, 2008.
Berwick, Carly. “The Facebook Biennial,” New York Magazine, February 29, 2008, pp. 138-141.
Turvey, Lisa. “Heather Rowe,” Whitney Biennial 2008 Exhibition
Catalogue, March 2008, pp. 218-219.
Rowe, Heather. “Top Ten,” Artforum, January 2008, p.121.
Neil, Jonathan T.D. “Heather Rowe: On Returning,” ArtReview, January 2008, p. 120.

2007
Cotter, Holland. “Art in Review: Heather Rowe, Leslie Hewitt,” The New York Times, December 14, p. E-38.
“Goings on about Town: Heather Rowe,” The New Yorker, December 17, 2007, p. 20.
Hudson, Suzanne. “Stubborn Materials,” Artforum, November 2007, p. 370.
Clarkson, Lamar. “Stubborn Materials,” ArtNews, October 2007, p. 216.
Smith, Roberta. “In These Shows, the Material Is the Message”
The New York Times, August 10

2006
Bunch Alliance and Dissolve, Public-Holiday Projects, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH (Exhibition Catalogue)
Smith, Roberta. “The Body, Electric: Text and, Yes, Videotape,”The New York Times, August 4, pp. E-25,E-31.
Velasco, David. Review: “Green Desert,” Artforum.com, July.
Alemani, Cecilia. Review: “Mystic River,” Artforum.com, May.
Cotter, Holland. Armory Review: “The World Tour Rolls Into Town, Sprawling but Tidy”, The New York Times, March 10, p. E-29.

2005
Cotter, Holland. Review: “Things Fall Apart All Over Again”, The New York Times, May 27, p. E-27.
Weise, Kyle. “The New MoMA”, unMagazine (Australia), Issue 5, pp. 15-20.
Moreno, Gean. Review: “Good Titles From Bad Books”, ArtUS, Sept-Nov, p. 20.

2002
SITE Magazine #6, Düsseldorf, Germany, pp. 84-85.


ARTISTS WRITINGS AND PROJECTS

2008
Contributor to Transatlantico 2


PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

University of Michigan Museum of Art
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN

Press

Heather Rowe in Steel Life, at Michael Benevento
May 25 - August 4, 2012
Geoff Tuck, Notes on Looking, July 2012
Jonathan T.D. Neil, ArtReview, January / February 2012
Zak Kitnick interview with Heather Rowe, Art in America
January 10, 2012
Erin Kimmel, ...might be good, December 3, 2010
Andrzej Lawn, Flash Art, October 2010
Greg Lindquist, artcritical, June 22, 2010
2008 Whitney Biennial Catalogue