| Born 1973, Great Neck, NY
Lives and works in Chicago, IL |
| 1998 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA
Master of Science in Visual Studies |
| 1995 | Purchase College SUNY, Purchase NY
Bachelor of Fine Arts |
| 2010 | The worst condition is to pass under a sword which is not one's own, Level 2 Gallery, Tate Modern, London |
| 2009 | Michael Rakowitz: Recent Projects on Baghdad and Montreal, SBC Gallery of Contemporary Art, Montreal, Canada
The worst condition is to pass under a sword which is not one's own, Lombard-Freid Projects, NY |
| 2008 | The invisible enemy should not exist, Galerie Sfeir Semler, Beirut, Lebanon |
| 2007 | The invisible enemy should not exist, Lombard-Freid Projects, New York, NY |
| 2006 | Return, Creative Time, New York, NY
Enemy Kitchen, More Art, New York, NY The Visionaries, Trafo Gallery, Budapest, Hungary Endgames, Galleria Alberto Peola, Torino, Italy Percent for Art Program Commission, Department of Cultural Affairs, New York, NY |
| 2005 | Dull Roar, Lombard-Freid Fine Arts, New York, NY
Return, Longwood Art Gallery, Bronx, NY |
| 2004 | Greeting from Stowe, Vermont Kunstraum Innsbruck/Stadtturmgalerie, Austria
Test Ballot, (public project) Kunstraum Innsbruck/Stadtturmgalerie, Austria |
| 2003 | Romanticized All Out of Proportion, Special Project, Queens Museum of Art Queens, NY |
| 2002 | Breach, Lower East Side Tenement Museum New York, NY
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| 2001 | Minaret, (Ongoing performance, Leipzig, Germany 2003/ Station
Building, Baltimore 2003/ Clocktower Gallery, NYC 2003 & 2001) |
| 2000 | Climate Control, Special Project, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Queens, NY
Guard, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY (Commission) Postcard Views, Queens, NY |
| 1998 | paraSITE (ongoing performance) various urban sites in Boston, New York City, Baltimore & Berlin |
| 1997 | Hubuz, Amman, Jordan
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| 2010 | Climate Capsules, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany
The Storyteller, iCI travelling exhibition- The New School, New York; Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada On Rage, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany The Jerusalem Show, Al-Ma’mal Foundation for Contemporary Art, Jerusalem |
| 2009 | Transmission Interrupted, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, UK
Jack Wolgin International Competition in the Fine Arts at the Tyler School of Art at Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Return to Function, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, Wisconsin 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, Kansas Out of Line, Lombard-Freid Projects, NY Tarjama/Translation, Queens Museum of Art, New York |
| 2008 | Beyond Green: Toward a Sustainable Art, Ronna and Eric Hoffman Gallery of Contemporary Art, Lewis and Clark College, Portland, Oregon
16th Biennial of Sydney, Sydney, Australia Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary, Museum of Art & Design, New York, NY Shelter X Survival – Alternative Homes for Fantastic Lives, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima Japan Urgent Shelter, Gallery 210, University of Missouri, St. Louis, MO The Greenroom: Reconsidering the Documentary and Contemporary Art, CCS Bard, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY Heartland, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands |
| 2007 | An Atlas of Events, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal
Consuming War, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL Instant Urbanism, S AM- Swiss Architecture Museum, Basel, Switzerland 10th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey Sharjah Biennial 8: Between The Desert And The Sea, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates |
| 2006 | Civic Performance, Stony Brook University, Staller Center for the Arts, Stony Brook, NY
Revisiting Home, NGBK, Berlin, Germany Who Cares, Creative Time, New York, NY LESS - Alternative Living Strategies, PAC, Milano, Italy Mind the Gap, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY Art in the Contested City, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY |
| 2005 | SAFE: Design Takes On Risk, Musem of Modern Art, New York, NY
Tirana Biennale, Tirana, Albania TI The Pantagruel Syndrome, Torino, Italy ATOMICA, Lombard-Freid Fine Arts and Esso Gallery, New York, NY Royal College of Art Curatorial Studies exhibition Don’t Interrupt Your Activities, London, UK Inhabituel, Milan, Italy Transmediale, Berlin, Germany |
| 2004 | Gonflables, Inflatables, Gonfiabli Tripostal, Lille, France
Living In Motion, Vitra Design Museum/Z33 Hasselt, Belgium Parasites: When Spaces Come Into Play, Museum of Modern Art Foundation Ludwig, Vienna Jamaica Flux, Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, NY Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria Subway Series, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY The Interventionists, MassMOCA, North Adams, MA X Treme Houses, Lothinger Dreizehn, Munich Germany Adaptations, Apex Art, New York City, NY and Friedricianum, Kassel, Germany Borne of Necessity, Weatherspoon Museum of Art, Greensboro, North Carolina Global Priority, UMass Amherst, MA |
| 2003 | 24/7, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania
BQE, White Box, New York, NY Get Rid of Yourself, ACC Gallery Weimar & Leipzig, Germany Homeland, Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Curatorial Study Program, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY Inside Design Now: 2003 National Design Triennial, The Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York, NY Queens International, The Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY |
| 2002 | Design 21: Continuous Connection, UNESCO Paris, France
Und Ab Die Poste-Inside Out: 5th Annual Festival of New Art, Berlin, Germany Submerge, Kunstbunker, Nuremberg, Germany Architecture of Emergency, FRI-ART Friburg, Switzerland, three person show with Shigeru Ban and Samuel Mockbee & Rural Studio AIR, Dorsky Gallery, Queens, NY Utopia Now!, Sonoma Museum of Contemporary Art, CA Comfort Zone: Portable Living Spaces,The Fabric Workshop Museum, Philadelphia, PA Utopia Now!, CCAC Wattis Institute, Oakland, CA |
| 2001 | Back and Forth, Vacancy Gallery, New York, NY
GZ:01, 129 Lafayette Street, New York, NY Building Codes, Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York, NY Elsewhere, HEREart, New York, NY |
| 2000 | Concerted Compassionism, White Columns, New York, NY |
| 1998 | A Skowhegan Decade, David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1997 | Repeat Reverse, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
Blast Box 1993: Remaking Civilization, X Art Foundation, New York, NY |
| 2007 | Creative Capital Grant: Michael Rakowitz and Emna Zghal (collaboration for Dark Turquoise)
Sharjah Biennial Art Prize, Jury Award |
| 2006 | New York Foundation for the Art in Architecture & Environmental Structures |
| 2003 | Dena Foundation of Contemporary Art Award |
| 2002 | UNESCO Design Laureate, Grand Prix |
| 2001 | New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, 2001-2003 |
| 2000 | The Jerome Foundation Artist Grant
White Columns Artist Production Grant |
| 1997 | MIT Council for the Arts Grant |
| 1996 | MIT Department of Architecture Fellowship, 1996-1998 |
| 1995 | Outstanding Achievement in Sculpture Award, International
Sculpture Center |
| 2009 | Panelist, Contemporary Art in the Middle East: A Two-Day Symposium at Tate Britain and Tate Modern, Tate Britain, London, UK |
| 2008 | Lecturer, Across Histories Artist Talk: Michael Rakowitz, EFA Project Space, New York City, NY
Panelist, A conversation between Dr. Donny George Youkhanna, former Director of the National Museum of Iraq; University of Chicago Professor of Mesopotamian Art, McGuire Gibson; and artist Michael Rakowitz, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago IL |
| 2007 | Lecturer, The Cooper Union School of Art, NYC
Lecturer, Gallery 400, University of Illinois, Chicago Lecturer, Stanford University, CA Speaker, The Situational Drive: Complexities of Public Sphere Engagement, New York City, NY Panelist, Emergencies and Risk, Sharjah Biennial 8 Symposium Panelist, Yona Friedman Symposium, The Drawing Center, NYC Panelist, Visualizing Iraqi Politics and Politics in Iraq and the Diaspora, The Center for Book Arts and The New School, NYC Visiting Artist, School of the Art Institute of Chicago Visiting Artist, Smith College, Northampton, MA Visiting Artist, Museum School of Fine Arts, Boston, MA |
| 2006 | Visiting Artist, Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto, Canada
Panelist, The Storefront for Art and Architecture, NYC Lecturer, Technical University, Budapest, Hungary Lecturer, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illlinois Lecturer, Mess Hall, Chicago, Illinois Lecturer, Modern Museum, Ljubljana, Slovenia |
| 2005 | Speaker, Transmediale 05: BASICS, Berlin, Germany.
with Temporary Services Lecturer, Royal College of Art, London, UK |
| 2004 | Speaker, Out of the Ordinary, conference, IASPIS (International Artists Studio Program in Stockholm). with Christoph Draeger, John Menick and Irit Rogoff
Lecture and Workshop, Nomad+Object, Symposium, University Ludovico Quaroni, La Sapienza, Rome, Italy. with Lucy Orta and Martin Ruiz de Azua Speaker, PROJECT. Image. Intervention. Construction. Utopia. Public Space, Symposium, CaixaForum, Barcelona Spain. Public conversation with Santiago Cirugeda; organized by Antoni Muntadas Speaker, Pixelspaces, Symposium, Ars Electonica, Linz, Austria Speaker, Art.Ficial 2.0 Symposium: The City as Interface, with Nelson Brissac-Peixoto, Simone Michelin, moderated by Marcelo Tramontano. Centro Cultural Itau, Sao Paulo, Brazil Speaker, Outside-In: International Symposium on Public Space, Gothenburg, Sweden. With Swoon and Jocko Weyland Artist lecture, Apex Art, New York City, NY |
| 2003 | Artist lecture, ACC Gallery, Weimar, Germany
Homeland Exhibition Panel Discussion, CUNY Graduate Center. With Edgar Hachivi Heap of Birds, Barbara Pollack, Olav Westphalen |
| 2001 | Main Speaker, At the City’s Edge: Conference on Public Art and Urbanism, The Centre, Glasgow, Scotland. With Neil Smith and Fiddian Warman |
| 2007 | Montalvo Artc Center, California |
| 2006 | Eastern European Residency Program at Trafo Gallery, Budapest, Hungary |
| 2000-1 | P.S.1 Special Projects Program, Long Island City, NY |
| 1997 | Société Imaginaire, Dresden, Germany
Special Interest Group in Urban Studies (SIGUS) Workshop in Jordan, Kerak, Jordan |
| 1996 | Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME |
| Associate Professor, Department of Arts, Theory and Practice, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois Sept 2006-
Professor, Department of Sculptural Studies, Maryland Institute College of Art Baltimore, MD Sept 2002- May 2006 Contributing Editor, Surface Tension: A Journal on Spatial Arts Errant Bodies Press, initial publication 2006 |
| 2010 | Jury, Louise. “Art Strikes Back: Saddam Hussein’s Swords Recreated,” London Evening Standard, January 25, 2010.
Sherwin, Skye. “Artist of the week 73: Michael Rakowitz,” Guardian, February 3, 2010. |
| 2009 | Amado, Miguel. “Critics’ Picks: Michael Rakowitz,” Artforum.com, March 23, 2009
Cash, Stephanie, Donny George and Michael Rakowitz. "Protecting Culture: Baghdad." Art in America, May 2009: 29-31 Chong, Adele. "Machines for Living," Blueprint Asia, December 2008-January 2009: 17-20. Glover, Michael. “Transmission Interrupted,” Art Review, Issue 33, Summer 2009: 127. Golonu, Berin. “Review: Michael Rakowitz,” Art Papers, May/June 2009 Halle, Howard. “Stranger than Science Fiction,” Thirteen WNET NY Sunday Arts Blog, March 23, 2009 Haq, Nav. “Transmission Interrupted,” Frieze, Issue 124, June-July-August 2009: 199. Heartney, Eleanor. "Michael Rakowitz,"Art in America, September 2009: 143. Hernandez Chong Cuy, Sofia. “Storytelling,” Afterall, Summer 2009: 81-88. Johnson, Ken. "Aesthetic Withdrawal in the Quest for Ideas." The New York Times, January 23, 2009 Rakowitz, Michael. “Strike the Empire Back.” Insert in Bidoun, Winter 2009 Rosenberg, Karen. “Art Review: Michael Rakowitz- ‘The worst condition is to pass under a sword which is not one’s own,” The New York Times, March 27, 2009: C29. Smith, Stephanie. “A Visionary Dream, Unrealized: The Drawings of Michael Rakowitz,” Afterall, Summer 2009: 73-80. Wolin, Joe. “Art review: Michael Rakowitz, ‘The worst condition is to pass under a sword which is not one's own’” Time Out New York, March 19, 2009 |
| 2008 | Amado, Miguel. “An Atlas of Events.” Artforum, Feb 2008: 309.
“Arts and Crafts.” Travel and Leisure, December 2008 Feldman, Hannah. “Michael Rakowitz and the tactics of being in- between and everywhere else.” Art & Australia, Winter 2008: 632-639. Malone, Micah. “Critics’ Picks: Beyond Green: Towards a Sustainable Art,” artforum.com, 2008. “Portfolio: What does it mean to make art during wartime?” Modern Painters, Apr 2008: 65. Smith, Roberta. “Using Old Materials to Put a New Face on a Museum.” The New York Times, September 28th, 2008: E36. Volk, Gregory. “The Wheel is Turning.” Art in America, November 2008: 63-69. |
| 2007 | Basha, Regine. "Return: A Project by Michael Rakowitz." ArtL!es, Spring 2007: 62-67.
Boucher, Brian. "Babylon Without Borders." Art in America Apr 2007: 124-127. Dannatt, Adrian. “Revealed: Donny George Rock Star.” Art Newspaper Feb 2007. Johnson, Liza. “Interview: Return,” Gastronomica Aug 2007: 11-18. Klien, Jennie. "Curating Environmentalism," Art Papers, Sep-Oct 2007: 18-21. Levin, Kim. “Michael Rakowitz: Lombard-Freid.” ARTnews Apr 2007: 136. Mohaiemen, Naeem and Lorenzo Fusi. “System Error: War Is A Force That Gives Us Meaning.” Silvana Editoriale Spa "Parasite Strategies: Art, Fashion, Design and Architecture." Kunstforum International May-Jun 2007: 130-137. Rakowitz. Michael. “Essay: Pruitt-Igoe.” Skulptur Projekte Muenster 2007: (forthcoming catalogue) Richard, Frances. "Michael Rakowitz, Lombard-Freid Projects."Artforum Apr 2007: 276. Rosenberg, Karen. “An Afternoon in Chelsea: A Critical Tour of the Galleries.” New York Magazine 12 Feb 2007. Sharjah Biennial 8: Still Life-Art, Ecology and the Politics of Change Apr 2007: 228-229. (catalogue) Thiel, Stacia. “An Hour in Chelsea: When it’s windy and icy, it’s best to look for three strong shows within two blocks.” New York Magazine 5 Feb 2007. Tiven, Benjamin. "Art Matters." The Nation, posted online Sep 19, 2007. Winn, Steven. "Michael Rakowitz's 'Enemy Kitchen' breaks down cultural barriers." San Francisco Chronicle, Dec 27, 2009: E:1. |
| 2006 | Aronczyk, Amanda. “Delicious Iraqi Dates.” Weekend America Dec 2006: National Public Radio (syndicated broadcast)
Ashford, Doug and Anne Pasternak, eds. Who Cares (Creative Time) Carr, Cindy. “Get Real.” Modern Painters Sept 2006: 46-48. Dannatt, Adrian. "Artistic business acumen." The Art Newspaper Nov 2006: 40. Ehlich, Ken and Brandon Labelle, eds. Surface Tension Supplement No. 1 Errant Bodies Press. Eleey, Peter. “Michael Rakowitz: An import-export business, posters, shelters for the homeless and the smell of buns.” Frieze May 2006: 150. “Enemy Kitchen: Artist Michael Rakowitz and the politics of (Iraqi) food.” Bidoun Rumor Issue 09 Winter 2006-2007: 95-99. Fahim. Kareem. "Dates With an Artist: An Iraq Installation." The New York Times 10 Oct 2006. Fry, Tony. “Homing In: About an Extended Understanding of Homelessness: A conversation between Tony Fry and Michael Rakowitz with additional comments from Marjetica Potrc.” Revisiting Home NGBK Berlin 2006. “Iraqi Dates Come to Brooklyn.” ABC Television World News 8 Dec 2006. Kuntzman, Gersh. “Brooklyn artist has ‘date’ with Iraq.” Brooklyn Papers 25 Nov 2006. Kuntzman, Gersh. “Iraqi Dates being sold on Atlantic.” Brooklyn Papers 9 Dec 2006. Lagorio, Christine. "How to Get a Date- From Iraq." www.cbsnews.com 7 Dec 2006. Mooney, Jake. "Bittersweet Talismans From a Ravaged Land." The New York Times 17 Dec 2006. Monahan, Rachel. “Dates with history: It’s an art to export prized fruit from Iraq.” Daily News 15 Dec 2006 Rakowitz, Michael. “The Artists’ Artists- Pedro Lasch: Open Routines.” Artforum December 2006. Schmerler, Sarah. “Mind the Gap.” Time Out 13-19 Apr 2006. Sinclair, Cameron. “Design Like You Give A Damn.” Metropolis Books 2006. |
| 2005 | Antonelli, Paola. “SAFE: Design Takes On Risk.” MoMA, 2005
Belasco, Daniel. “Michael Rakowitz at Lombard-Freid.” Art in America Nov 2005. “Can Design Prepare for Disaster?” (round table discussion on the upcoming MoMA show "Safe: Design Takes On Risk") The New York Times 8 Sept 2005. Christov-Bakargiev, Carolyn. “First Takes: Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev on Michael Rakowitz.” Artforum Jan 2005. Cotter, Holland. “Michael Rakowitz -- 'Dull Roar.'” The New York Times 27 May 2005. “Dull Roar.” Harper’s Bazaar (South Korean ed.) Summer 2005: 338. McClister, Nell. “Michael Rakowitz: Lombard-Freid Fine Arts.” Artforum Sept 2005: 305. “Special Project.” Cabinet Magazine 2005. Stillman, Nick. “Conversations… with Michael Rakowitz.” NYFA Interactive Dec 2005. |
| 2004 | Chasin, Noah. “Rip-Off Culture.” Springerin Vienna, Summer 2004.
Demos, T.J. “The Interventionists: Art in the Social Sphere.” Mass MoCA (review) Artforum Nov 2004. Evitts, Elizabeth A. “Minarets and paraSITEs: Michael Rakowitz provocatively blurs the lines between design, sculpture, and architecture.” Baltimore Magazine Jan 2004. “Public Space Public Dissent: A conversation on Subversion with John Menick, Craig Buckley, Michael Rakowitz, Angel Nevarez and Valerie Tevere.” Janus 16 Summer 2004. Scharrer, Eva. “Critic’s Picks: Michael Rakowitz, Kunstraum Innsbruck/Stadtturmgalerie.” Artforum.com Dec 2004. Sholette, Greg., and Nato Thompson. (ed.) “The Interventionists: Art in the Social Sphere.” (catalogue) Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2004. “Subway Series.” Bronx Museum of Art and Queens Museum of Art (exhibition catalogue), 2004. |
| 2003 | Christov-Bakargiev, Carolyn. "Michael Rakowitz: Circumventions." (monograph) Paris: onestar press/ Dena Foundation, 2003.
Cotter, Holland. “Homeland.” The New York Times 30 May 2003. Hellstrom, Maria. “New York Naked City: Spatial Realities after 9/11.” (includes feature on “Romanticized All Out of Proportion”) area: Magazine of Landscape and Urban Planning Swedish Association of Architects Spring 2003. “Homeland.” (exhibition catalogue) The Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Studio Program Spring 2003. “Inside Design Now: The 2003 National Design Triennial.” The Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian National Design Museum Apr 2003. LaBelle, Brandon. (ed.) “Works: Michael Rakowitz.” Surface Tension Errant Bodies Press 2003. “National Design Triennial” Art in America Dec 2003. |
| 2002 | Guzman, Pilar. “Currents: Shelter; A Portable Sleeping Place Wins a Top Prize in Design.” The New York Times 14 Feb 2002.
Smith, Courtenay and Sean Topham. “paraSITES.” XTREME Houses Prestel Nov 2002. |
| 2001 | Chen, Aric. “I.D. Forty Issue: forty socially conscious designers.” I.D. Magazine Feb 2001.
“Climate Control.” Flash Art Mar-Apr 2001. Interview and focus on recent projects, Design Monthly South Korea Sept 2001. Rahm, Phillipe. “Invisible Architecture: Electromagnetic & Chemical Space.” artpress Paris, France Apr 2001. “Special Project Writer Series.” P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center 2001. |
| 2000 | Pollak, Michael. “New York Debut for Inflatable Shelters for the Homeless.” The New York Times 27 Dec 2000.
--- “Artwork That Doubles As Homes for the Homeless.” The New York Times 1 Oct 2000. Rakowitz, Michael. Ed. by Jonathan Hughes and Simon Sadler. “paraSITE.” Non Plan: Essays on Freedom, Participation, and Change in Modern Architecture and Urbanism Cambridge UK: The Architectural Press 2000. Schmerler, Sarah. “Concerted Compassionism- Review." Time Out 5-12 Oct 2000. |
| 1997 | Rakowitz, Michael. "Thresholds 15: Creativity in Consumer Culture, Publicly Acquired, Privately Owned.” Critical Journal of the Department of Architecture at MIT Cambridge, MA 1997. |
| Museum of Modern Art (Architecture and Design Collection) New York City, New York
UNESCO, Paris, France Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois |