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into dialogue with one another. She has been included in numerous exhibitions in Europe and the US, including the

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(2003 and 2009), the

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(2002 and 2008) and the Tate Triennial (2009). Her work is in the collections of major museums such as

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, New York;

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, New York;

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, Washington, D.C.; and

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, London; among others. She lives and works in

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."Rachel Harrison – Artist's Profile"
The Saatchi Gallery, Retrieved 26 August 2014.

Early life

Harrison was born in 1966 in

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. Her mother was born in

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and her father was born in

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, New York. Her parents were both of Polish and Russian Jewish descent. In 1989 Harrison earned a Bachelor of Arts degree with Honors from

Wesleyan University Wesleyan University ( ) is a Private university, private liberal arts college, liberal arts university in Middletown, Connecticut, United States. It was founded in 1831 as a Men's colleges in the United States, men's college under the Methodi ...

, where she first enrolled as an anthropology major but later switched to fine art, studying under the sculptor

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and the composer

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."Rachel Harrison"
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Retrieved 26 August 2014.

Career

Harrison’s early work is characterized by a provisional use of everyday materials, often responding directly to the architectural context in which it was situated. In 1996, she had her first solo exhibition, titled ''Should home windows or shutters be required to withstand a direct hit from an eight-foot-long two-by-four shot from a cannon at 34 miles an hour, without creating a hole big enough to let through a three-inch sphere?'', at Arena Gallery, New York. Here Harrison covered the parlor of a Brooklyn

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with imitation-wood paneling, small sculptures, cans of

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s, and photographs of green trash bags that came from a single contact sheet. The title of the show was taken from the first sentence of a news article the artist read about the politics of insurance codes and natural disasters, following the devastation of

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. In 2001, Harrison’s exhibition ''Perth Amboy'' opened at her New York gallery, Greene Naftali. The exhibition presented a series of 21 photographs that she took the previous year of an apparition of the

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that allegedly manifested in the second-story window of a house in

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, alongside installation components. Roberta Smith described the exhibition in the ''

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'' as "an effective meditation on vision, belief and the search for the self." ''Perth Amboy'' was acquired by

in 2011 and was exhibited in 2016. Harrison's 2007 exhibition ''If I Did It'' comprised ten sculptures named after famous men such as

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, and

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, and a series of 57 photographs titled ''Voyage of the Beagle'' in which the artist documented a range of three-dimensional objects, from sculptures to display mannequins. The sculptures in ''If I Did It'' are characterized by the collision between abstract, brightly colored forms and found or store-bought consumer objects. For the critic John Kelsey, Harrison’s sculpture of this period “sets itself up as a sort of switching station where cultural materials and meanings are violently disconnected and recombined.” The works in ''If I Did It'' were first shown in New York and then traveled to Migros Museum in Switzerland and

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in Germany. The exhibition and its accompanying catalog are titled after

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’s “ill-fated memoir” of the same name. Harrison often draws from popular culture and celebrity in her work, placing those references alongside art-historical ones. For instance, in her 2012 exhibition ''

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'' (which shared a title with a

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), the pieces shown featured references to the

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film ''

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'' and the singer

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, as well as to artists like

Alice Neel Alice Neel (January 28, 1900 – October 13, 1984) was an American visual artist. Recognized for her paintings of friends, family, lovers, poets, artists, and strangers, Neel is considered one of the greatest American portraitists of the 20th ...

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, and

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. In 2013, Harrison received her first public art commission for the sculpture ''Moore to the Point'' in Dallas, part of the

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's ''Nasher XChange'' exhibition. The work points to and frames the existing

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sculpture ''Three Forms Vertebrae'', installed near Dallas City Hall. Harrison’s intervention calls attention to how the public interacts with works of public art. In 2009, the Hessel Museum of Art at

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presented ''Consider the Lobster'', the first major survey exhibition of Harrison’s work. It included four room-sized installations, a series of individual sculptures, and a gallery devoted to video. The exhibition traveled, with altered titles and checklists, to

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, Frankfurt (under the title ''HAYCATION''), and

Whitechapel Gallery The Whitechapel Gallery is a public art gallery in Whitechapel on the north side of Whitechapel High Street, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. The original building, designed by Charles Harrison Townsend, opened in 1901 as one of the fi ...

, London (as ''Conquest of the Useless''). In October 2019 Harrison was the subject of a large-scale survey exhibition at the

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. Entitled ''Rachel Harrison Life Hack'', the exhibition assembled over one hundred works from 1991 to the present and received numerous positive reviews. ''

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'' called the show “less a staid re-presentation of her masterpieces and more an audacious, rambunctious artwork all in itself.” Hal Foster wrote in ''

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'' that “her work is concerned less with exposing cultural myths than with retelling them, often in a perverse way.”

Exhibitions

Select solo exhibitions

*''Should home windows or shutters be required to withstand a direct hit from an eight-foot-long two-by-four shot from a cannon at 34 miles an hour, without creating a hole big enough to let through a three-inch sphere?'', Arena Gallery, Brooklyn, New York (1996) *''The Look of Dress-Separates'', Greene Naftali, New York (1997) *''Patent Pending: Beveled Rasp Sac'', Greene Naftali, New York (1999) *''Perth Amboy'', Greene Naftali, New York (2001) *''Brides and Bases'', Oakville Galleries, Toronto (2002) *''Currents 30: Rachel Harrison'',

Milwaukee Art Museum The Milwaukee Art Museum (also referred to as MAM) is an art museum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Its collection of over 34,000 works of art and gallery spaces totaling 150,000 sq. ft. (13,900 m²) make it the largest art museum in the state of Wis ...

, Milwaukee (2002) *''Posh Floored as Ali G Tackles Becks'', Camden Art Centre, London (2004) *''Excuse Me?,'' Arndt + Partner, Berlin (2004) *''Lakta/Latkas'', Greene Naftali, New York (2004) *''New Work'',

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, San Francisco (2004) *''Car Stereo Parkway'', Transmission Gallery, Glasgow (2005) *''When Hangover becomes Form,'' with Scott Lyall,

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, Vancouver; LACE, Los Angeles (2006) *''Checking the Tires, Not To Mention The Marble Nude'', Galerie Christian Nagel, Köln (2006) *''If I Did It'', Greene Naftali, New York (2007) *''Voyage of the Beagle'', Migros Museum, Zurich (2007) *''Lay of the Land'',

Le Consortium Le Consortium is a contemporary art center based in Dijon founded by Xavier Douroux & Franck Gautherot, among others, from the association Le Coin du Miroir (The Corner Mirror). The center was run by Douroux, in collaboration with Gautherot and Er ...

, Dijon (2008) *''Sunny Side Up'', Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna (2008) *''Consider the Lobster'', Hessel Museum,

, Annadale-on-Hudson (2009) *''HAYCATION'',

(2009) *''Conquest of the Useless,''

, London (2010) *''Asdfjkl;'', Regen Projects, Los Angeles (2010) *''Double Yolk'', with Scott Lyall, Galerie Christan Nagel, Antwerp (2011) *''The Help'', Greene Naftali, New York (2012) *''Villeperdue'', Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna (2013) *''Fake Titel'', Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover, Germany (2013) *''Fake Titel: Turquoise-Stained Altars for Burger Turner'', S.M.A.K., Ghent, Belgium (2013) *''Who Gave You This Number?'',

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, New York (2014) *''Three Young Farmers,'' Regen Projects, Los Angeles (2015) *''Gloria: Robert Rauschenberg & Rachel Harrison'',

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(2015) *''Rachel Harrison: Perth Amboy'',

Museum of Modern Art The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on 53rd Street (Manhattan), 53rd Street between Fifth Avenue, Fifth and Sixth Avenues. MoMA's collection spans the late 19th century to the present, a ...

, New York (2016) *''Depth Jump to Second Box'', Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin (2016) *''Prasine'', Greene Naftali, New York (2017) *''House of the Dolphins'', Rat Hole Gallery, Tokyo (2018) *''Rachel Harrison Life Hack'',

, New York (2019) *''Drawings'', Greene Naftali, New York (2020)

Select group exhibitions

*''New Photography 14'',

, New York (1998) *Whitney Biennial,

, New York (2002) *''The Structure of Survival, Dreams and Conflicts: The Dictatorship of the Viewer'', 50th

, Arsenale di Venezia, Venice (2003) *54th Carnegie International,

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, Pittsburgh (2004) *''Of Mice and Men'', The 4th

Berlin Biennale The Berlin Biennale (full name: Berlin Biennale für zeitgenössische Kunst, Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art) is a contemporary art exhibition, which has been held at various locations in Berlin, Germany, every two to three years since 1998. ...

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(2006) *

(2008) *''Altermodern'', Tate Triennial,

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, London (2009) *''Making Worlds'', 53rd

, Italian Pavilion, Venice (2009) *''The Original Copy: Photography of Sculptures'', 1839 to Today,

, New York; Kunsthaus Zürich (2010) *''Blues for Smoke'',

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;

, New York;

Wexner Center for the Arts The Wexner Center for the Arts is the Ohio State University's "multidisciplinary, international laboratory for the exploration and advancement of contemporary art." The Wexner Center is a lab and public gallery, but not an art museum, as it doe ...

, Columbus, Ohio (2012) *''Nasher Xchange'', Dallas City Hall Plaza,

, Dallas (2013) *''Painting 2.0: Expression in the Information Age'',

Museum Brandhorst The Brandhorst Museum was opened in Munich on 21 May 2009. It displays about 200 exhibits from the modern art collection of the heirs of the Henkel trust Udo and Anette Brandhorst. In 2009 the Brandhorst Collection comprises more than 700 works. ...

, Munich;

mumok Mumok (from the full name ; "Museum of modern art, Ludwig Foundation, Vienna") is a museum in the Museumsquartier in Vienna, Austria. The museum has a collection of 10,000 modern and contemporary art works, including major works from Andy Warh ...

, Vienna (2015) *''Ordinary Pictures'',

Walker Art Center The Walker Art Center is a multidisciplinary contemporary art center in the Lowry Hill, Minneapolis, Lowry Hill neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. The Walker is one of the most-visited modern and contemporary art museums in ...

, Minneapolis (2016) *''M/D Coda'',

, San Francisco (2017) *''Faithless Pictures'',

Nasjonalmuseet The National Museum (, officially the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design) is a museum in Oslo, Norway which holds the Norwegian state's public collection of art, architecture, and design objects. The collection totals over 400,000 w ...

, Oslo (2018) *''Everything Is Connected: Art and Conspiracy'',

Met Breuer The Met Breuer ( ) was a museum of modern and contemporary art in the Breuer Building at Madison Avenue and East 75th Street on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City. It served as a branch museum of the Metropolitan Museum of Art ( ...

, New York (2018) *Participation to ''Jay DeFeo : The Ripple Effect'',

, France, Dijon (2018) *Yorkshire Sculpture International 2019,

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, Leeds, England (2019) *''Marcel Duchamp: The Barbara and Aaron Levine Collection'',

, Washington, D.C. (2019) *Participation to ''Jay DeFeo : The Ripple Effect'',

Public collections

Harrison's work can be found in a number of public institutions, including: *

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, Chicago *

Blanton Museum of Art The Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art (often referred to as the Blanton or the BMA) at the University of Texas at Austin is one of the largest university art museums in the U.S. with 189,340 square feet devoted to temporary exhibitions, permanent co ...

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, Austin, Texas *

, Cleveland *Hessel Museum of Art,

, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York *

, Washington, D.C. *

Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston The Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) is an art museum and exhibition space located in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. The museum was founded as the Boston Museum of Modern Art in 1936. Since then it has gone through multiple name chang ...

Los Angeles County Museum of Art The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) is an art museum located on Wilshire Boulevard in the Miracle Mile vicinity of Los Angeles. LACMA is on Museum Row, adjacent to the La Brea Tar Pits (George C. Page Museum). LACMA was founded in 1961 ...

, Los Angeles *

, New York *

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, Stockholm * Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris *

, New York *

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, often referred to as The Guggenheim, is an art museum at 1071 Fifth Avenue between 88th and 89th Street (Manhattan), 89th Streets on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. It hosts a permanent coll ...

, New York *

Stedelijk Museum The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (; Municipal Museum Amsterdam), colloquially known as the Stedelijk, is a museum for modern art, contemporary art, and design located in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

, Amsterdam *

, London *

, Minneapolis *

, New York

Awards

* Herb Alpert Award in the Arts (2010) * Calder Prize and residency (2011) *

Anonymous Was A Woman Award The Anonymous Was A Woman Award is a grant program for women artists who are over 40 years of age, in part to counter sexism in the art world. It began in 1996 in direct response to the National Endowment for the Arts' decision to stop funding i ...

(2015) * Gold List: Top Contemporary Artists of Today - 5th Edition, Int. Art Market Magazine, Tel Aviv, 2020

Bibliography

*Basilico, Stefano, Rachel Harrison, and Gareth James. ''Currents 30: Rachel Harrison''. Milwaukee: Milwaukee Art Museum, 2002. *Munder, Heike, Ellen Seifermann, and John Kelsey. ''If I Did It''. Zürich: Migros Museum and JRP Ringier, 2007. *Banks, Eric, and Sarah Valdez, eds. ''Rachel Harrison: Museum With Walls''. Annandale-on-Hudson, New York: Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College; London: Whitechapel Gallery; Frankfurt am Main: Portikus, 2010. *Harrison, Rachel. ''Abraham Lincoln''. New York: Printed Matter, 2010. *Harrison, Rachel. “Rump Steak with Onions.” Triple Canopy. Web project, 2011."Rump Steak with Onions by Rachel Harrison"
Triple Canopy, Retrieved 2 July 2021. *Figner, Susanne and Martin Germann, eds. ''Fake Titel''. Cologne: König, 2013. *Rutland, Beau, ed. ''Rachel Harrison: G•L•O•R•I•A''. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2015. *Sussman, Elisabeth and David Joselit. ''Rachel Harrison Life Hack''. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2019. *Banks, Eric, ed. ''The Classics''. New York: Greene Naftali, 2020. *Cesarco, Alejandro, ed. ''Rachel Harrison / Haim Steinbach: Between Artists''. New York: Art Resources Transfer, 2020.

References

External links

Rachel Harrison – Greene Naftali''Rump Steak with Onions'' by Rachel Harrison – Triple Canopy
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