Laura Owens

Born 1970, Euclid, OH
Lives and works in Los Angeles

Education

1992 B.F.A. Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
1994 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
1994 M.F.A.California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California (forthcoming)
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, texas (cat.)
2017
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (cat.)
2016
Sadie Coles, London
Ten Paintings, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco
2015
Secession, Vienna
Zona Maco, Mexico, D.F.
Capitain Petzel, Berlin
Soccer Club Club, Chicago
2015
Capitain Petzel, Berlin
Zona Maco, Mexico, D.F.
Secession, Vienna
2013
FIAC, Paris, France
12 Paintings by Laura Owens and Ooga Booga #2, 356 S. Mission Rd., Los Angeles
2012
The Finley, Los Angeles
Karma, New York, NY
Pavement/Karaoke, Sadie Coles, London
Art Unlimited, Art Basel, Basel Switzerland
2011
Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn
Crown Point Press, Los Angeles
Galerie Gisela Capitan, Cologne
2009
Laura Owens: New Paintings – Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York
2008 
Sadie Coles, London
2007
Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy
Bonnefantenmuseum Maastricht
Ausstellungshalle zeitgenossische Kunst Munster
2006
Kunsthalle, Zurich*
traveled  to: Camden Arts Centre, London, Kunst Munster (2007); Bonnefanten Museum  Maastricht (2007)
Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin*
Sadie Coles HQ, London
2005 
Shiseido Gallery, Japan (cat.)
2004 
MOCA, North Miami, FL
Galerie Gisela Capitain, Koln
Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York, NY
2003
The General Store, Milwaukee, WI
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA (cat.)
travelled to Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI,
Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL 2004
2001 
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA (cat.)
ACME (with Martin Kersels), Los Angeles, CA
2000 
Inverleith, Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, Scotland (cat.)
Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy
1999 
Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK
Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne, Germany
Statements, Basel Art Fair, Gavin Brown’s enterprise Booth, Basel, Switzerland
China Art Objects, Los Angeles, CA (collaboration with Scott Reeder)
1998 
Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York, NY
ACME, Los Angeles, CA
Loyola University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1997 
Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK
1996 
Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York, NY
Studio 246 (with Lisa Anne Auerbach), Kunstlerhaus Bethanian, Berlin, Germany

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
Administrate, Artspeak, Vancouver, Canada (curated by Anthony Huberman)
L’Almanach 16, Le Consortium, Dijon
Fine Young Cannibals, Petzel Gallery, New York
Aperirophobia/Aporia, Human Resources, Los Angeles
Sharon Lockhart, Laura Owens, Frances Stark, The Artist’s Institute, New York
2015
Pretty Raw: After and Around Helen Frankenthaler, Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA
Painting after Technology, Tate Modern, London
Collected by Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (NY)
Painting 2.0: Expression in the Information Age, Museum Brandhorst, Munich, Germany
Come As You Are: Art of the 1990s, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ; traveled to Telfair Museum, Savannah; GA, University of Michegan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI; Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX
Open Source:Art at the Eclipse of Capitalism, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
Call and Response, Gavin Brown’s enterprise, NY
Doodle, The Vanity Bakersfield, Bakersfield, CA
best students, best teachers, best school: Michel Majerus, Albert Oehlen & Laura Owens, Michel Majerus Estate, Berlin
Far Bazaar, Old Federal Reserve, Los Angeles
Printed Matters, Gesso Artspace, Vienna
Works on Paper, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York
Can’t Reach Me There, curated by Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer, Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis
Marks Made: Prints by American Women Artists from the 1960s to the Present, Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida
No Man’s Land: Women Artists from the Rubell Family Collection, Rubell Family Collection, Miami
2014
Forever Now:Painting in the new Millenium, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Loveless, Greene Naftali, New York, NY
Whitney Biennal, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Variations:Conversations in and Around Abstract Painting, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
Painter’s Painters: Gifts from Alex Katz, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Joyride, Marlborough Broome St, New York, NY
Capture the Rapture, CB1 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Nature Study, Crown Point Press, Los Angeles, CA
Persian Rose Chartreuse Muse Vancouver Grey, Equinox Gallery, Vancouver
The good, the bad and the ugly, Gesso Artspace, Vienna
Another Cats Show, 356 S. Mission Rd, Los Angeles, CA
Cornucopia, Parkett Exhibition Space, Zurich
The Machine Project Field Guide to the Gamble House, Gamble House, Pasadena, CA
Wake Up Early, Fear Death, Galerie Nachst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwalder, Vienna, curated by Philippe Kaiser
Death Ship: A Tribute to H.C. Westermann, The Pit, Los Angeles
2013
Working Proofs: A Revelation, Crown Point Press, San Francisco, CA
Yes, No, Maybe: Artists Working at Crown Point Press, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C
Selections from the venice Beach Biennal, Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles, CA
Abstract – Nature: Selected Parkett Artists’ Editions, 1984-2013, Parkett Space, Zurich, Switzerland
Made in Space, Venus Over Manhattan/Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York, NY (curated by Peter Harkawick and Laura Owens)
The Cat Show, White Columns, New York, NY
Painting Between the Lines, William College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA
Wir Drei, Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, Orange, CA
Small Gems, Crown Point Press, San Francisco, CA
2012
Curatorial Exchange, Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, California
The Holodeck, POST, Los Angeles
Pittura (1995-2009), Studio Guenzani
Pure Perception: Kristin Baker, Laura Owens, Mai-Thu Perret, Amanda Ross-Ho, Galleria Monica de Cardenas, Milano
Print Imprint, Actual Size, Los Angeles and Cirrus Gallery
The Nudes Painting Show, 3704 North Figueroa, Los Angeles
The Spectacular of Vernacular, Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill North Carlina
2011
Pure Perception: Kristin Baker, Laura Owens, Mai-Thu Perret, Amanda Ross-Ho, Monica de Cardenas, Milano
Painting Between the Lines, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA, USA
A Painting Show, Harris Liebermann, New York
The Artist’s Museum, MOCA, Los Angeles, CA, USA
The boy who robbed you a few minutes before arriving at the ball, Galeria Gisela Capitain, Cologne, Germany
Ordinary Madness, Carnegie melon of Art, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
The Spectacular of Vernacular, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MO, USA
2010
Painting and Sculpture, Lehmann Maupin, New York City
Ordinary Madness, Carnegle Museum of Art, Pittsburg, PA
Public private Paintings. 2000-2010: 10 jaar schilderkunst ult publieke enprivècollecties in Vlaanderen en Brussel
Hecate’s Lab, Senior & Shopmaker Gallery, New York
2009
Slow Paintings, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen
Continuous Present, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven
Constellations: paintings from the MCA Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago MCA
Broodwork: creative Practice and Family Life, Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock, Los Angeles
The Still Life Show, Five Thirty Three, Los Angeles, CA
2008
Pretty Ugly, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York
Painting
Living Flowers: ikebana and contemporary Art, Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles
Blasstet Allegories, Werke aus der Sammlung Ringler, Kunstmuseum Luzern
Tapestry, Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles
2007 
Recent Acquisitions: from the Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts – Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Contemporary Painters and their Influences – Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach
Gallery Artists Summer Show- Sadle Coles HQ, London
Sequence 1 – Palazzo Grassi- Francois Pinault Foundation, Venice
Very Abstract and Hyper Figurative, Thomas Dane Gallery, London
2006
The Fluidity of Time, Selections from the MCA Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Hotel California, Glendale College Art Gallery, Glendale (USA)
The Garden Party, Deitch Projects, New York
The Art of Etching at Crown Point Press, Bobbie Greenfield Gallery, Santa Monica
Margherita Manzelli, Aleksandra Mir, Laura Owens, Alessandro Pessoli, Studio Guenzani, Milano
Essential Painting, National Museum of Art Osaka, Osaka Japan 
2005
Goetz meets Falkenberg, Sammlung Falkenberg, Hamburg
Think Blue, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles
Ideal Worlds: New Romanticism in Contemporary Art, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main
Extreme Abstraction, Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo (cat)
Desired Constellations, Daniel Reich Gallery, New York
Post Modern, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, NY 
2004
Painting’s Edge, Idyllwild Arts, Idyllwild
Undiscoverd Country, UCLA Hammer Museum, LA, CA, (cat.)
‘Huts’ Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland (cat.)
Never Never Landscape, Atle Gerhardsen, Berlin, curated by Kirsty Bell
Contemporary Painting, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME, curated by Alex Katz (cat)
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (cat.)
Malerei, Galerie Rolf Hengesbach, Koln
Drunk vs. Stone, Passerby, New York, curated by the General Store
2003 
Painting Pictures, (Malerei und Medien im digitalen Zeitalter), Kunstmuseum
Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg
Inaugural Exhibition, Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York
2002 
Eight Propositions in Contemporary Drawings, Museum of Modern Art, New York (cat.)
Painting on the move, Kunstmuseum Basel and Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland (cat.)
2002 Urgent Painting, Musee d’ Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris (cat.)
Cavepainting, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA (cat.)
2001 
The Mystery of Painting, Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany (cat.)
Accumulations, School of Art Gallery, Kent State University, Ohio curated by Martin Ball
Some Options in Abstraction, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (booklet)
Objective Color, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, curated by Jennifer Gross
Cal’s Art: Sampling California Painting, University of North Texas at Denton, Denton, Texas, organized by Diana Block
Bastard (Son of Hot Sauce), The Law Office, Chicago, IL
Public Offerings, MOCA, Los Angeles, CA, curated by Paul Schimmel (cat.)
Painting at the Edge of the World, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Locating Drawing, Lawing Gallery, Houston, TX
2000 
American Academy Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, The American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
On Canvas: Contemporary Painting from the Collection, Guggenheim, curated by J. Fiona Ragheb
The Next Wave: New Painting in Southern California, Cal. Center for the Arts, Encondido,
CA, Curated by Noriko Gamblin
Examining Pictures: Exhibiting Paintings, MOCA Chicago, IL, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC, curated by Nancy Doll and Ron Platt
Works on Paper from Los Angeles, Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy
1999 
Drawn to Nature, George’s, Los Angeles, CA
Facts & Fictions II: Los Angeles, in ARCO, Torino, Italy, curated by Sergio Bertaccini
Carnegie International 1999/2000, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
Standing Still & Walking in Los Angeles, Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (curated by Terry R. Myers)
New Work: Painting Today, SF MoMA, San Francisco, CA
Examining Pictures, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK (cat.)
Works on paper (and some other things), ACME, Los Angeles, CA
Nach-Bild, curated by Peter Pakesch, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland, catalogue
The Perfect Life: Artifice in LA 1999, Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, NC, (cat.)
Hot Spots, curated by Elizabeth Brown, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, NC
Local Color, curated by Virginia Rutledge, The University of La Verne, La Verne, CA
1998 
Color Fields, curated by David Pagel, Luckman Fine Arts Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles, CA
Young Americans 2, The Saatchi Gallery, London, UK (cat.)
I’m Still in Love with You, Women’s 20th Century Club, Los Angeles, CA, curated by
Steven Hull
Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy
Visions, curated by Claudio Guenzani for the XXIX Recontres Internationales de la
Photographie, Arles, France
Exterminating Angel, Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, France, curated by Joshua Decter
Paintings Interested in the Ideas of Architecture and Design, Post, Los Angeles, CA
1997 
Sharon Lockhart, Laura Owens, Frances Stark, Blum & Poe, Santa Monica, CA
Project Painting, Basilico Fine Arts and Lehmann Maupin, New York, NY (cat.)
Vertical Painting Show, P.S.1, NY
Palace, Beret International Gallery, Chicago, IL
The Eagle Rock Show, Eagle Rock Community Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA
Hot Coffee, Artists Space, New York, NY
1996 
Wunderbar, Kunstverein, Hamburg, Germany
Screen, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, NY, curated by Joshua Decter
The Speed of Painting, Pat Hearn, NY
Studio 246, Mark Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Public Collections

Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago

Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris

Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel

Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Guggenheim Museum, New York

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Museum of Modern Art, New York

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles

San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco

High Museum of Art, Atlanta

Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska

AWARDS

Robert De Niro Sr. Prize, 2015

Guna S. Mundheim Visual Arts Fellow, American Academy in Berlin, 2007

Metcalf Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters, 2001

Baloise Art Prize at Art 30 Basel 1999 (“Art Statements”)

Monographs 

2015
Laura Owens, Skira Rizzoli
2014
Twelve Paintings, Ooga Booga, Los Angeles
2012
Clocks, Karma, New York
2011
Stefan Gronert(ed.) Laura Owens, exh. cat. Kunstmuseum Bonn; Kerber Verlag; Bielefeld/Leipzig Berlin 
2006 
Beatrix Ruf (ed.) Laura Owens, exh. cat. Kunsthalle Zurich; JRP/Rinigier: Zurich     John Hutchinson (ed.) Laura Owens, exh. cat. The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin
2005 
Laura Owens, exh. cat. Shiseido Gallery, Toyko
2003  
Paul Schimmel (ed.), Laura Owens, exh. cat. Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
2001  
Pieranna Cavalchini (ed.), Laura Owens, exh. cat. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston; Charta: Milan
2000   
Susan Morgan, Henry Noltie (eds.), New Work by Laura Owens (1999) and John Hutton   Balfour’s Botanical Teaching Diagrams (1840-1879), exh. cat. Inverleith House, Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh and CalArts, Los Angeles

Publications

2017
Travis Diehl, “The Drop Shadow of Doubt,” X-TRA, Winter
Randy Kennedy, “Laura Owens Retrospective Coming to the Whitney,” The New York Times, January 11
Eileen Kinsella, “Who To Network With During Art LA Contemporary,” artnet.com, January 24
Andrew Russeth, “A Florine Stettheimer Painting Makes a Rare Appearance at the Armory Show,” ArtNews, March 1
Jason Farago and Martha Schwendener, “What to See at New York’s Art Fairs This Week,” The New York Times, March 2
“David Reed and Laura Owens in Conversation,” 356 Mission Rd, April
Tim Barry, “Vanishing Points, curated by Andrianna Campbell,” brooklynrail.org. April 1
Samantha Kuok Leese, “Critic’s Pick: .com/.cn,” artforum.com. April 11
Matt Stromberg, “Five Decades of SoCal Artists’ Books at the Craft and Folk Art Museum,” hyperallergic.com, May 3
Catherine Wagley, “Is LA’s art scene growing too quickly?” Apollo Magazine, May 29
2016
Alex Greenberger, “Laura Owens Named Winner of the 2015 Robert De Niro Sr. Prize,” Artnews.net, January 4
“California Artist is Winner of 2015 Robert De Niro Sr. Prize,” Associated Press, January 5
Tom Teicholz, “The Art of the Rubell Family Collection,” forbes.com, January 27
“Seth Price and Laura Owens in Conversation,” 356 Mission Rd, January
Rain Embuscado, “Kim Gordon Teams with Gagosian Gallery to Open Uber-Cool Pop-Up Record Store.” Artnews.net, February 11
Ann Binlot, “Print’s not dead: this year’s music-themed LA Art Book Fair hit all the right notes,” Wallpaper*, February 29
Rebecca Bates, “Playing ‘Would You Rather’ with Laura Owens, Paddle8, February
Maxwell Williams, The Influx Of International Galleries to L.A. Is More Complicated Than You Think,” Artsy.net, March 9
Malerie Malgre and Maria Muhl, “Painting 2.0,” Texte zur Kunst, March
Sarah Hotchkiss, “So Much More Than ‘Ten Paintings’ in Laura Owens Show at Wattis,” KQED, May 19
Charles Desmarais, “Laura Owens at CCA Wattis Institute a pulse-quickening experience,” The San Francisco Chronicle, May 20
Sarah Thibault, “Laura Owens, Ten Paintings: More Than Meets The Eye,” SFAQ, May 25
Monica Westin, “Critic’s Pick: Laura Owens,” artforum.com, June 10
Jack Bankowsky, “Painting 2.0: Expression in the Information Age,” Artforum, Summer
Michael Sienske, “Boom in the Bay,” Cultured, Summer
“Fine Young Cannibals,” The New Yorker, July 11 & 18
Christina Geyer, “California’s Most Important Painter Gets a Major Texas Moment,” PaperCity, August 31
Keith J. Varadi, “Laura Owens at the Wattis Institute (L.A. in S.F.),” Contemporary Art Review LA #4, Summer
2015
Peter Schjeldahl, “Take Your Time:New painting at the Museum of Modern Art,” The new Yorker, January 5th
Matt Stromberg, “Why Do US and European Galleries Flock to mexico City’s Zona MACO?” hyperallergic.com, February 7
Scott Indrisek, “Come As You Are: A 90s Flashback in the New Jersey”, blouinartinfo.com, February 10
Karen Rosenberg, Alt History: 8 Groundbreaking Works That Show Why We still Love the 90s”, Artspace, February 14
Call and Response, The New Yorker, February 16
Jason Farago, “Is Painting Dead?” BBC Culture, February 18
Phyllis Tuchman, “Don’t Shoot the Messenger”, The Brooklyn Rail, March 5
James Tarmy, “If You Only Go to One Gallery in L.A., Go Here, Bloomberg.com, March 30
Lloyd Wise, “Call and Response”, Artforum, April
2014
Mark Godfrey, Statements of Intent: The Art of Jacqueline Humphries, Laura Owens, Amy Sillman, and Charline von Heyl, Artforum, May
Carol Vogel, State of Our Art, According to Whitney, The New York Times, February 28
Andrew Bernadini, Lisa Williamson, Alex Olson, Laura Owens, Mousse, Vol.43, March
Stephen Berens and Jan Tulmir, Still Lifing:Conversation with Laura Owens, X-TRA Volume 16, Issue 2, Winter
Monika Szewczyk, Persian Rose Chartreuse Muse Vancouver Grey, Artforum , June
2013
A Room of Owens’s Own: Laura Owens in Conversation with Jan Tumlir and Stephen Barens, X-TRA Volume 16 Issue 1, Fall
Laura Owens, Tragic Kingdom: Laura Owens on Paul McCarthy’s WS at the Park Avenue Armory, Artforum, October
Judith Brodie, Adam Geenhalgh, Yesm No Maybe, Maybe:Artists Working at Crown Point Press, exh. cat National Gallery of Art Washington, DC
Roberta Smith, Made in Space, The New York Times, August
Andrew Russeth, Made in Space at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise and Venus Over Manhattan, Gallerist NY
Emily Colucci, Fact or Fiction: Los Angeles Is Just New York Lying Down, New York Artparasites, July
Molly Larkey, To Live and Paint in LA: The Work of Laura Owens, Los Angeles I’m Yours, June
Laura Owens, It’s Spelled Motherfuckers – An Interview with Rachel Kushner, The Believer Logger, May 24
Erica Zora Wrightson, Laura Owens: Painting in Space, LA Weekly, May 25
Terry R. Myers, 12 Paintings by Laura Owens, Brooklyn Rail, May
Jonathan Griffin, Made in Space, art agenda, March 28
David Pagel, Review: Laura Owens’large-scale paintings an immmersive experience, Los Angeles Times, March
Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer, Optical Drive, Artforum, February
Diane Solway, Solway Selects, W Magazine, January
Joslin Van Arsdale, Laura Owens 12 Paintings, The Art Reserve, January
2012
Laura Owens on Destroy the Picture:Painting the Void, 1949-1962, MOCA.org, November 29
Molly Myers, Laura Owens, Modern Painters, Nevember
Fabian Stech, Laura Owens in conversation with Fabian Stech, Annual Magazine, November
Dorothy Spears, Gallery as Museum, Art Dealer as Curator, New York Times, October
William Kherbek, Laura Owens: Pavement Karaoke/Alphabet, Port Magazine, October
Andrew Russeth, Look at This!Laura Owens’s Clocks’Book, Gallerist NY, October
Danielle McCullogh, OPEN NETWORK/PRINT IMPRINT, Whitehot Magazine, May
Mark Prince, Laura Owens, Frieze Magazine, Issue 144, January
Modern Painters, Modern Painters Magazine’s Top Picks from Frieze New York, Artinfo.com, May
2011
Joshua Abelow, Laura Owens at GB Harlem, Artblogartblog
Noemi Smolik, Wie Werden Abgerdroschene Fragen Wieder Aktuell?, Artblog Cologne
Mary Louise Schumaker, Making a Scene: Milwaukee’s Avant-Garde, Journal Sentinal
Laura Owens, Lunch at Landfill, The Lunch Break Times, SFMOMA, October
Jorg Heiser, Review Laura Owens, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Frieze d/e, Issue 2 Autumn
Laura Rivera, Artist Laura Owens to Discuss her Abstract Paintings Tonight for UCLA Hammer Museum’s Lecture Series, Daily Bruin, Univeristy of California, LA, February 3
Darsie Alexander, et. al., The Spectacular of Vernacular, Walker Art Center, exh. cat. 2011
2010
Laura Owens interview with Brad Phillips, Hunter and Cook
Nancy Princenthal, Laura Owens at Gavin Brown, Art in America, January
2008
Holland Cotter, Pretty Ugly:Art Makes Such Weird Bedfellows, New York Times, July 25
2007
Alison Gingeras, Carlo Simula, “Sequence 1: Palazzo Grassi,” L’Uomo Vogue, May/June p. 188
“Laura Owens,” The New Yorker, January 8 2007, p. 14
2006
Joao Ribas, “An Ecumenical Love of Painting,” New York Sun  December 14, p. 17-18
“interview with Laura Owens and Elysia Bowory-Reeder,”  The Wrong Times, Winter 2006, p. 17-18.
Angelika Affentranger-Kirchrath, “Nach dem Prinzip von Lust und Laune,” Neue Zürcher Zeitung,  June 24, p. 48.
Dominique von Burg, “Laura Owens: Von der Suche nach der unbeschränkten Freiheit in der Kunst,”     Kunst-Bulletin, Zurich, No. 6, July/August, p. 44–46.
Dominique von Burg, “Laura Owens’ Gemälde und Studien: Mit unerschöpflicher Fabulierlust,”     Zürichsee-Zeitungen, July 22, p. 29.
Ken Johnson, “Review: The Garden Party, Deitch Projects,” The New York Times, April 21, p. E3.
“Kunsthalle Zurich Presents Laura Owens,” artdaily.com, July 11.
Gerhard Mack, “Laura Owens,” NZZ am Sonntag, Zurich, July 2, p. 61.
Jessica Morgan, “Blind Date,” Blind Date, exh. cat. Deutsche Bank Art, London, p. 14–97.
Feli Schindler, “Heiterkeit aus dem Sunshine State,” Tages-Anzeiger, Zurich, July 4, p. 47.
Cherry Smyth, “Laura Owens,” Modern Painters, July–August, p. 112.
Isabell Teuwsen, “Laura Owens: Luftig & leicht,” Schweizer Illustrierte, Zurich, July 10, p. 79.
Soutter, Lucy, “What Lies Beneath,” Frieze, September, p. 176-179.
O’Reilly, Sallay, “Review,” ArtReview, August, p. 136.
McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, Issue 20, Summer 2006, p 188 (image)
2005
Edan Corkill, “Soft focus on reality links loose women,” The Asahi Shimbun, February 18, p. 18.
Cheryl Kaplan, “Freundliche Platzhalter: Ein Gespräch mit Laura Owens / Friendly Place-Holders:
Conversation with Laura Owens”, db artmag, www.deutsche-bank-art.com, August.
Anke Kempkes, “Laura Owens,” Max Hollein, Martina Weinhart (ed.), Wunschwelten: Neue Romantik     in der Kunst der Gegenwart / Ideal Worlds: New Romanticism in Contemporary Art, exh. cat. Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt; Hatje Cantz: Ostfildern, p. 230–241 (German/English).
Kyotara, “Deepest Fantasies. Laura Owens sona,” Barfout!, Tokyo, no. 115, March, p. 28–29.
Jane McFadden, “LA: Then and Now, Here and There,” LA Artland, Oriana Fox, Catherine Grant   (eds.), Black Dog Publishing Ltd., London, p. 40–57.
Julian Satterthwaite, “The Whimsical World of Laura Owens,” The Daily Yomiuri, February 17, p. 18.
Laura Richard Jank, “Interim Print Report,” Art On Paper, New York, May/June, p. 18.
Masami Taguchi, “Creator’s Voice,” MyLohas, May, p. 104–105.
Louis Grachos, Claire Schneider (eds.), Extreme Abstraction, exh. cat. Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo,     p. 85 (ill.).
Huntington Richard, “To the Extreme,” Buffalo News, Friday July 12.
2004
Maruccia Casadio, “Dreamy,” Vogue Italia, Milan, No. 645, May, p. 230–235.
Contemporary Painting, ex. cat. Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville.
Renato Diez, “Alla Biennale del Whitney,” Arte, Milan, May, p. 104–111.
Russell Ferguson (ed.), The Undiscovered Country, exh. cat. UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles.
Eleanor Heartney, “The Well-Tempered Biennial,” Art in America, New York, June/July, p. 70–77.
John Hutchinson, “Huts,” Huts, exh. cat. The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin, p. 103–    109.
Michael Kimmerlman, “Touching all Bases at the Biennial,” The New York Times, March 12, p. 1.
Laura Owens, “A Painter’s Vote,” ArtUS, Los Angeles, issue 1, January–February 2004, p. 38–39.
Christian Rattemeyer, “Laura Owens,” ed. Chrissie Iles, Shamim M. Momin, Debra Singer, Whitney     Biennial 2004, exh. cat. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Abrahams: New York,     p. 222.
Lane Relyea, “Theory and Painting,” Flash Art International, Milan, vol. 37, no. 239,     November/December, p. 63–65.
Dailey, Meghan, “Laura Owens bei Gavin Brown’s enterprise,” Texte Zur Kunst, June 2004, pp. 194-196.
Goodbody, Bridget, Review, TimeOut NewYork, April 1-8, p. 60.
Pappalardo, Bethany Anne, “Review,”  Artforum.com, March 30th
Schjedahl, Peter, “What’s New,” The New Yorker, March 22, pp.100-101
Knight, Christopher, “Binary Days at the Biennial,” Los Angeles Times, Thursday March 11th
Saltz, Jerry, “The Ok Corral,” The Village Voice, March 15
Hilarie Sheets, “A Painter with Lots of Voices and No Comment,” New York Times, March 28,
p. 29.
2003
James Auer, “Loving the Canvas,” The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, October 16, p. E1, E4.
David Greenem, “Class Renunion,” Modern Painters, London, Spring, p. 76–79.
Gean Moreno, “Never The Same Twice,” Flash Art International, Milan, vol. 36, no. 232, October, p. 94–    96.
Dodie Kazanjian, “The Happy Painter,” Vogue, New York, April, p. 242.
Christopher Knight, “Giving Girl Stuff a Good Name,” Los Angeles Times, March 24, p. 21–22.
Dave Muller, “Top Ten,” Artforum, New York, vol. 41, no. 10, Summer, p. 67.
David Rimanelli, “Preview, Los Angeles: Laura Owens: Museum of Contemporary Art,” Artforum,  New York, vol. 41, no. 5, January, p. 58.
“Interview with Laura Owens,” The Believer, May, pp. 78-87
Howard Singerman, “Laura Owens,” Artforum, New York, vol. 41, no. 10, Summer, p. 163.
Raimar Stange, “Das Ich als Original-Copy: Überlegungen zu Subjektivität und Originalität in sechs     Fragmenten,” Gijs van Tuyls, Annelie Lütgens (ed.), Painting Pictures. Malerei und Medien im     Digitalen Zeitalter, exh. cat. Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Kerber Verlag: Bielefeld, p. 46–48.     (English version: “The Ego as Original Copy: Reflections on Subjectivity and Originality in Six     Fragments,” Painting Pictures Painting and Media in the Digital Age, exh. cat. Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Bielefeld, p. 46–48, (ills.) p. 181, 126, 155, 94.
Benjamin Weissman,  “Interview with Laura Owens,” Cakewalk, Los Angeles, issue 5, Winter, p.  42–45.
Benjamin Weissman, “Laura Owens: MOCA Los Angeles,” Frieze, London, no. 76,     June/July/August, p. 107–108.
2002
Helen Allen, “NY Contemporary Auctions,” Flash Art International, Milan, vol. 35, no. 222,     January/February, p. 43, 48.
Laurence Bosse, Urgent Painting, exh. cat. Musée d’art moderne de la ville de Paris, Exhibitions   International: Paris, p. 28 (ill.).
Bernhard Mendes Bürgi, Peter Pakesch (eds.), Painting on the Move, exh. cat. Kunstmuseum     Basel; Kunsthalle Basel; Schwabe: Muttenz, p. 138 (ill.), 145, 147, 191 (ill.), 194.
Russel Ferguson, “Laura Owens Paints a Picture / Laura Owens malt ein Bild,” Parkett,     Zurich/New York/Frankfurt, no. 65, p. 58–64 (English) / p. 65–73 (German).
Gloria Goodale, “Artist Trio Shares a Simple Love of Painting,” The Christian Science Monitor,     February 15, p. 18.
Charles Gute, ed. “Focus Painting Part One”, Flash Art International, Milan, No. 226, October, p.  84, (ill.).
Doug Harvey, “Cavepainting: Hey, it’s their title, not ours,” Los Angeles Weekly, February 22-28,     p.43, (ill.).
Laura Hoptman, “Ornament and crime: toward decoration,” Drawing now: eight propositions, exh.     cat. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, p. 31–33.
Jonathan Jones, “Three-sided Ping-Pong,” Cavepainting: Peter Doig, Chris Ofili, Laura Owens,     exh. cat. Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, p. 7–22.
Anke Kempkes, “Laura Owens,” Uta Grosenick, Burkhard Riemschneider (ed.), Art Now,     Taschen: Cologne, p. 368–371.
Christopher Knight, “Bristling with Attitude,” Los Angeles Times, February 15, p. F1, F26.
Francine Koslow Miller, “Reviews: Boston: Laura Owens: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum,”     Artforum, New York, vol. 40, no. 5, January, p. 144.
Elsa Longhauser (ed.), Cavepainting: Peter Doig, Chris Ofili, and Laura Owens, exh. cat. Santa  Monica Museum of Art, Los Angeles.
Jemima Montague, “Urgent Painting,” Frieze, London, no. 66, April, p. 88–89.
Terry R. Myers, “Laura Owens,” Vitamin P: New Perspectives in Painting, Phaidon Press,     London, p. 240–243.
David Pagel, “Some Things Old, Some Things New,” Los Angeles Times, May 10, p. F26.
Peter Schjeldahl, “The Drawing Board,” The New Yorker, November 4, p. 102–103.
Roberta Smith, “Retreat from the Wild Shores of Abstraction,” The New York Times, Fine Arts &  Leisure section, October 18, p. 31, 33.
Mungo Thomson, “From My Junkyard to Yours / Von meinem Schrotthaufen zu deinem eigenen,” Parkett, Zurich / New York / Frankfurt, no. 65, p. 82–87 (English) / p. 88–93 (German).
Benjamin Weissman, “Monkey Man Killer / Der Monkey-Man-Killer,” Parkett, Zurich/New     York/Frankfurt, no. 65, p. 74–76 (English) / p. 77–81 (German).
2001
Brooks Adams, “Raw Mineral Jaggedness: A Clyfford Still Legacy,” James Demetrion (ed.), Clyfford Still: Paintings 1944–1960, exh. cat. Hirshhorn-Smithsonian, Washington DC; Yale     University Press, New Haven, p. 155.
Kirsty Bell, “It’s Just Painting,” Rainald Schumacher (ed.), The Mystery of Painting, exh. cat. Sammlung Goetz, Munich; Kunstverlag Ingvild Goetz, Munich 2001,     p. 153–160.
Kimberly Cutter, “East Side Story,” W, New York, September, p. 204–208.
Douglas Fogle, “Laura Owens,” Painting on the Edge of the World, Douglas Fogle (ed.), exh. cat. Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, p. 318–319.
Grace Glueck, “A Universe of Art Centered in Boston,” The New York Times, August 17, p. E27,   E29.
Holger Liebs, “As if it were painted,” ed. Uta Grosenick, Women Artists in the 20th and 21st     Century, Taschen, Cologne, p. 420–425.
Suzanne Muchnic, “That ’90s Show, The artists who shook up the decade show us why they     mattered in a new MOCA exhibition,” Los Angeles Times, April 1, Cover and p. 4–5.
Kate McQuaid, “Laura Owens Brings Zen to her Bold Art,” Boston Globe, August 5, p. D13.
Singermann, Howard (ed.), Public Offerings, exh cat. Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles;
Thames & Hudson, London and New York, p. 108–113 (ill.).
Jerry Saltz, “Babylon Now,” The Village Voice, New York, September 18, p. 65.
Neville Wakefield, “Laura Owens,” Elle Decor, New York, July, p. 48–51.
“New Work at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum,” Charta, essays by Jennifer Gross and
Russel Ferguson
Adams, Brooks, “Raw Mineral Jaggedness,” in Clyfford Still Paintings 1944-1960, Hirshorn-
Smithsonian/ Yale; p. 155.
2000
Amanda Cruz, “Laura Owens,” Fresh cream: contemporary art in culture, Phaidon Press, London,  p. 466–471.
Bill Fark, “North County Artists Featured in Museum Exhibition,” North County Times, San Diego,  June 9, p. 33.
Louise Farr, “Six Artists for the Century, Art Beat,” W, New York, February, p. 102.
Russel Ferguson, “Exchange of Ideas Among the Living (interview with Laura Owens), “     Cakewalk, Los Angeles, Fall, p. 26.
Mark Godfrey, “Reviews,” Contemporary Visual Arts, London, January 31, p. 64.
Madeleine Grynsztejn (ed.), Carnegie International 1999/2000, exh. cat. Carnegie Museum of Art,     Pittsburgh, CI:99 / 00 / V.01, p. 68–69, CI:99 / 00 / V.02, p. 94–95.
Katy Siegel, “1999 Carnegie International,” Artforum, New York, vol. 38, no. 5, January, p. 105–    106
Mottram, Jack, “A Natural Talent in all its Glory,” Sunday Herald, June 20th
Knight, Christopher, “Catchiing the Next Wave of Painters,” Los Angeles Times, June 20th
“Around the Scotish Galleries” The Times, June 28th
David Carrier, Burlington Magazine, February
Terry R. Myers, “Laura Owens,” Carnegie International 1999/2000, exh. cat. Carnegie Museum of  Art, Pittsburgh 1999, CI:99 / 00 / V.02, p. 148.
Alessandra Pioselli, “Review,” Flash Art Italia, No. 223 (Summer 2000), p. 13
1999
Jan Avgikos, “Laura Owens at Gavin Brown’s enterprise,” Artforum, New York, vol. 37, no. 5,     January, p. 118–119.
Francesco Bonami, Judith Nesbitt (eds.), Examining Pictures: Exhibiting Paintings, exh. cat.     Whitechapel Art Gallery, London; Cornerhouse Publications, Manchester, p. 36 (ill).
Elizabeth Brown, The Perfect Life, Artifice in LA 1999, exh. cat. Duke University Museum of Art,  Durham.
Michael Darling, “Laura Owens,” Art Issues, no. 56, January/February, p. 43.
Peter Frank, “Art Picks of the Week,” LA Weekly, January 8–14, p. 120.
Carmine Iannaccone, “Entertainment Complex,” Frieze, London, no. 49, November/December, p.  81–91.
Jim Isermann, “Jim Isermann’s Top Ten,” Artforum, New York, vol. 37, no. 89, April, p. 40.
Kristen M. Jones, “Basel 1999: The Swiss Art Fair Turns 30,” Travel & Leisure, New York, May, p.  132 (ill.).
Christopher Knight, “Post Boomers Spearhead the Boom,” Los Angeles Times, April 4, p. 5.
Susan Morgan, “A Thousand Words: Laura Owens Talks About Her New Work,” Artforum, New     York, vol. 37, no. 10, Summer, p. 130–131.
Terry R. Myers, Standing Still & Walking in Los Angeles, exh. cat. Gagosian Gallery, Beverly     Hills.
Laura Owens, “Art Project,” Open City, New York, no. 9, Fall, p. 145.
David Pagel, Color Fields: Now and Then, CD-ROM catalogue.
Nancy Princenthal, “Laura Owens,” Art In America, New York, February, p. 115.
Laura Owens, “Art Project,” Open City, New York, no. 9, Fall, p. 145.
Roberta Smith, “Safe Among Seamless Shadows,” The New York Times, November 17, p. C6.
Frances Stark, “Laura Owens,” ed. Peter Pakesch, Nach-Bild, exh. cat. Kunsthalle Basel, no. 25,  Schwabe Verlag, Basel, p. 84–92.
Jan Tumlir, “Gentle Purpose,” New Art Examiner, Chicago, May, p. 43.
Alexandra Winokur, “The Quest for the Perfect California Home,” The Perfect Life: Artifice in LA  1999, exh. cat. Duke University Museum of Art, New York, p. 2–21.
George Melrod, “Young at Art,” Los Angeles Times, November p. 10
Steven Litt, “Exhibition of Today’s Art is a Triumph,” Plain Dealer, November 14th, p. 61
Kristen M. Jones, “Basel 1999: the Swiss Art Fair Turns 30” Travel and Leisure May p. 132 (ill)
Robert Pincus, “World Class Exhibition,” San Diego Union Tribune  November 21
Adrian Dannatt, “Old Masters of Tomorrow,” Art Newspaper, December
“Far Away, So Close,” Pittsburgh City Paper, Nov. 3rd
Sarah Kent, “Review,” TimeOut New York, p. 59
Simon Maurer, “Alle gegen alle und all emit allen,” Tages-Anzeiger June 17th
Peter Plagens and Corle Brown, “Hollywood’s Big Art Deal,” Newsweek December 6th, p. 79-80
1998
Brooks Adams, Lisa Liebmann, “Nothing Left Undone,” Young Americans 2, exh. cat. The Saatchi Gallery, London, p. 3–9.
Richard Dorment, “A Brush with Young America,” The Daily Telegraph, London, August 26, p. 19.
Lisa Liebmann, “Laura Owens,” Artforum, New York, vol. 37, no. 4, December, p. 96.
Christopher Knight, “Art & Architecture, Year in Review,” Los Angeles Times, December 27, p.     64.
Laura Owens, “Contemporary Studio,* Interview with Monique Prieto, Frances Stark, and Jorge    Pardo,” Cakewalk, Los Angeles, Spring/Summer, p. 10.
David Pagel, “Color Them Retro,” Los Angeles Times, August 16, p. 6, 61–62.
David Pagel, “New Sophistication in Owens’ Landscapes,” Los Angeles Times, October 23, p.     F26.
Lane Relyea, “Virtually Formal,” Artforum, New York, vol. 37, no. 1, September, p. 126–133, 173.
Roberta Smith, “Laura Owens,” The New York Times, November 6.
Claudine Ise “Art Reviews,” Los Angeles Times, September 18, 1998
1997
Lisa Anne Auerbach, “Sharon Lockhart, Laura Owens and Frances Stark at Blum & Poe,” LA     Weekly, no. 31, June 27–July 3, p. 57.
Martin Coomer, “Laura Owens,” Time Out, New York, November 12–19, p. 56.
Bruce Hainley, “Sharon Lockhart, Laura Owens, Frances Stark at Blum & Poe,” Artforum, New     York, vol. 36, no. 3, November, p. 119–120.
Giovanni Intra, “Sharon Lockhart, Laura Owens, Frances Stark at Blum & Poe,” Flash Art     International, Milan, vol. 30, no. 197, November/December, p. 76.
Rebecca Morris, “Programming Attitude: An Interview with Laura Owens,” LA Muscle, Los Angeles, vol. 11, no. 3, February–March.
Project Painting, exh.  cat., Basilico Fine Arts & Lehman Maupin, New York.
Peter Schjeldahl, “La-la Band,” The Village Voice, New York, February 18, p. 91.
Peter Schjeldahl, “Painting Rules,” The Village Voice, New York, September 30, p. 97.
1997
Chris Smith, “On the American Job (interview with Laura Owens),” New Art Examiner, Chicago,  July/August, p. 33.
Roberta Smith, “Laura Owens,” The New York Times, April 18.
Martha Schwendener, “Laura Owens,” Time Out, New York, May 1–8, p. 37.
Jerry Saltz, “Regular, No Sugar,” TimeOut New York, February 27
X-Tra, Number 3, December, Los Angeles
Michal Ann Carsely, “Palace,” New Art Examiner, May
1996
Roberta Smith, “Laura Owens,” The New York Times, February 2, p. C26.
Jerry Saltz, “Review,” TimeOut New York, September
1995
Charles Morgan, “Gorgeous Politics,” Las Vegas Weekly, LasVegas, December 21.
Benjamin Weissman, “Openings: Laura Owens,” Artforum, New York, vol. 34, no. 3, November, p. 84–85.

Public Collections

Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago

Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris

Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel

Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Guggenheim Museum, New York

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Museum of Modern Art, New York

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles

J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles

San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco

High Museum of Art, Atlanta

Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha

Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston

Brandhorst Museum, Munich

Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo

Tate Modern, London

Awards

Robert De Niro Sr. Prize, 2015
Guna S. Mundheim Visual Arts Fellow, American Academy in Berlin, 2007
Metcalf Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters, 2001
Baloise Art Prize at Art 30 Basel 1999 (“Art Statements”)