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RACHEL MASON EDUCATION Grover Cleveland High School, Reseda, CA, 1998 University of California Los Angeles , CA, B.A. 2001 Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut M.F.A. in Sculpture 2004
EXHIBITIONS 2009 Holy Empire of the Jaw, solo installation within In-Practice, Sculpture Center, Long Island City, NY I Rule With a Broken Heart, Andrew Rafacz Gallery, Chicago, IL With Gratitude: Contemporary Artists Address Influence, Madison Museum of Art, Madison, WI (upcoming) All's Fair In Art and War: Envisioning Conflict, 21C Museum, Louisville, KY 2008 Funny, Not Funny , Bellwether Gallery, New York, NY People Weekly, CUNY, James Gallery, curated by Linda Norden, New York, NY In a Box, curated by Billy Miller, at Canco Lofts, Jersey City, NJ Red vs. Blue, Art and Politics, Occidental College, curated by Jason Manley, Los Angeles, CA Democracy in America, Park Avenue Armory, by Creative Time, New York, NY Other Certainties, curated by Summer Guthery and Amy Owen, NYCAMS, New York, NY Infrastructure, curated by Roman Stollenwerk, Wignall Museum at Chaffey College, Rancho Cucamonga, CA Pdf , co-curated by Summer Guthery, Lumi Tan, and Nicholas Weist, at 14 International galleries Mirror/Mirror, curated by Eve Wood and Maryanne Pomonis, Circus Gallery, Los Angeles, NY Warlord, Smith-Stewart Gallery, New York, NY Artists as Publishers, The Center for Book and Paper Art, New York, NY Handle with Care, Pelham Art Center, Pelham, NY Is this the Real Life ? curated by Phyllis Greene, Galerie Califia, Bohemia, Prague Under the Influence, curated by Anat Ebgi, Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Anondale on-Hudson, NY Benefit for Momenta Art Exhibition , Momenta Art and White Columns, New York, NY The Other Side , curated by Billy Miller, Gallery 58, Jersey City, NJ Visions from Abroad , curated by Omar Lopez-Chahoud, Flushing Town Hall Gallery, Flushing, NY The Candidate, (Solo Exhibition) at Circus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2007 The Red Badge of Courage, Newark Arts Council, Newark, NJ Stone Face, Fellows of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA I Died for Beauty, Newman-Popiashvili Gallery, New York, NY Summer Romance, Sabina Lee Gallery, Los Angeles, CA M*A*S*H* curated by Omar Lopez-Chahoud and Amy Smith-Stewart, The Helena, New York, NY This Land is Our Land, curated by Ronnie Bass, The Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA Mr. President, University Art Museum, Buffalo, NY 2006 Chain Letter , High Energy Constructs Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Songs of the Ambassadors, Trudi Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Many Many Guys and Girls, All Real Beauties, Circus of Books, Los Angeles, CA Emerging Artists, Sing Sing Prison Auditorium, Ossining, NY If A Cat Has Kittens in An Oven are They Kittens or Are They Biscuits, Roebling Hall, New York, NY Anyhere, Circus of Books, Los Angeles, CA Dynasty, Gallery MC, New York, NY Das Herr Winklemann Stipendium, München, Germany Circular States of Boredom in the Face of World Domination, Circus of Books Studio, New York, NY 2005 Co-Dependent, The Living Room, Miami, FL Die Prof. Winkler Kunst Und Literaturage Los Angeles, Circus of Books, Los Angeles, CA National Observer, Circus of Books, Los Angeles, CA A Kiss Is More Than A Kiss, University of Connecticut, Stamford, CT Off My Biscuit Destroy Your District! Samson Projects, Boston, MA Still Legends, Jessica Murray Projects, New York, NY 2004 Republican Like Me, Parlour Projects, Brooklyn NY Grotto II Jessica Murray Projects, Brooklyn, NY New Work, John Slade Ely Center for Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT Shifting Affinities Yale University Student Art Gallery, New Haven, CT 2003 Crosstown Traffic John Slade Ely Center for Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT Utopia Station "Model Anthem" in Martha Rosler's contribution to the Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy 1999- 2001 Some Assembly Required Wayward Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Juried Exhibition curated by Karen Higa, New Wight Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Amped, Sandroni Rey Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Juried Exhibition curated by Russell Ferguson, New Wight Gallery, Los Angeles, CA PRESS2009 Artforum.com, Picks , "In-Practice" by Lori Cole, February 2009 Flash Art, New York Artists Dictionary, by Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer, January/Feb2009 Make Magazine, Exhibition in Print, The Candidate, by Katie Geha, Winter 2009 2008 Artillery Magazine, Gotham Groove, by Alison Beth Levy and Cassie Thornton, Nov/Dec 2008 Globe and Mail, Want Scrappy,Vibrant Political Debate? Look to the Artists, Simon Houpt, Sept. 29, 2008 Art US, Review of The Candidate, by Eve Wood, Spring 2008, Issue 22 Flash Art, Review of The Candidate, by Rosanna Albertini, March-April 2008 Modern Painters, Working Practice: The Ambassadors, by Claire Barliant, April 2008 Artforum.com Pick by Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer, January 2008 Queens Chronicle, Flushing Town Hall Offers Visions from Abroad, by Michael Mohammed, April 10, 2008 ArtReview.com, Review of Under the Influence, by Tyler Coburn, April 2008 Neue Zürchur Zeitung, Unter dem Strich, by Karolina Dankow, February 27, 2008 Huffington Post, Interview with Kimberly Brooks, February 23, 2008 Los Angeles Times The Art of the Gesture on the Campaign Trail, by Will Blythe, February 10, 2008 Flavorpill.com Review of The Candidate, by Shana Nys Dambrot, January 2008 Daily Serving.com Review of The Candidate, February 3, 2008 Interview with Kitty Felde for KPCC Radio, NPR station in Los Angeles, February 5, 2008 2007 NYFA Current, The Ambassadors, by Nick Stillman, October 2007 Exit Express Magazine, Cara de Póquer, by Lia Trinka-Browner October 2007 The Korean Times, Summer Romance, July 30, 2007 Tomorrow Unlimited, No Jerks, by Tyler Coburn, June, 22, 2007 The Daily Gazette, Nontraditional Presidential Portraits, Karen Bjornland, March 20, 2007 Art News, Review of Mr. President, Merideth Mendelsohn, March 2007 Metroland, Review of Mr. President, Nadine Wasserman, February 15, 2007 The Times Union, All the Presidents' Images, Tresca Weinstein, January 28, 2007 2006 Stretcher Magazine, ( Review of Action Adventure) Asha Schechter, Thursday July 20, 2006 Village Voice, Strange Days, Jerry Salz, May 5, 2006 Art News, The Eureka Moment, May 2006 The Art Newspaper, Artists Look to the After Life , Adrian Dannatt, May 2006 Topic Magazine, The Global Patriot: Rachel Mason Designs Tomorrow's Model Anthem May 2006 2005 Hartford Courant, It was Only A Kiss...Or Was It? Matthew Erikson, October 18, 2005 Art Moco, Review of Off My Biscuit Destroy Your District, October 12, 2005 New York Times, Oh Say Can You Sing, Richard Morgan, September 11, 2005 Artforum, Top Ten Pick, Tim Davis, January 2005 Village Voice, Pick, Kim Levin, January 2005 2004 Artforum, Top Ten Pick, David Riminelli, January 2004 Los Angeles Times, Critic's Notebook, A Bush Buss is More Than a Kiss , Mark Swed, September 1, 2004 Artforum.com, Critic's Pick, Republican Like Me, Nick Stillman, August- September 2004 New York Times, Weekend Arts Section, Caution: Angry Artists at Work , Roberta Smith, Aug. 24, 2004 New Haven Advocate, Lips Together Bust Apart, Chris Arnott, July 1, 2004 New Haven Register, Arts Section, Review of New Work , Judy Birke, July 4, 2004 Yale Daily News, Art Exhibit Provokes, Inspires, Neil Katsuyama, January 29, 2004 2003 New Haven Register, Arts Section, Review of Crosstown Traffic , Judy Birke, October 30, 2003 New Haven Advocate, Review of Model Anthem , Chistopher Arnott, July 17, 2003 Yale Daily News, Review of Model Anthem , Erin Donar April 8, 2003 2000 Res Magazine, Vol. 4. No. 2 Video Art's Digital Generation, Claudine Isé, May 2000 Los Angeles Times, Art Reviews, Review of Amped, David Pagel, October 6, 2000 PERFORMANCES AND SCREENINGS Nostalgia Isn't What It Used to Be, at La Mama, New York, NY February 13, 14, 15, 2009 Gently Johnny, With Corey McCorkle, at Dave Miko Studio, Brooklyn, NY, January 25, 2009 Hammond Hall Wake, Hammond Hall Closing at Yale University, New Haven, Dec. 3, 2008 Garbage Man in the Mirror, Bellwether Gallery, New York, NY November 20, 2008 Somebody to Love, NYCAMS, NY, October 24, 2008 Songs for My Cabinet, CUNY, New York, NY September 16, 2008 Your Face Exploded into The Mountain, Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY September 21, 2008 Terrestrial Being at Swiss Institute, New York, NY August 17, 2008 The Final Hour s of Saddam Hussein, Emigrant Savings Bank/ Common Room, New York, NY July 6, 2008 Non-Opposing Forces on Battlefield Stanton, Smith-Stewart, New York, NY June 18, 2008 Troooz, (Screening of Wall) Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany July- August 2008 No Milk Today Show , Autoversion Ltd Gallery, New York, NY, May 2, 2008 Our Leader Enters Stage Left Behind a Curtain, Bard College, April 13, 2008 Songs for Ancient Civilizations, Kunsthalle Zurich, Switzerland, Feb 28, 2008 Moab Video Project, (screening of Carlos II) curated by Christy Gast, Station MAC 21, Moab Desert, UT 2008 Candidate Mason: Inaugural Farewell Address, eighteen-thirty, Los Angeles February 9, 2008 The Ambassadors Songs Volume I, JMOCA, Los Angeles, February 1, 2008 The Ambassadors Volume II Record Release, Printed Matter, Dec 20, 2007 The Ambassadors Songs Volume I, New Art Dealers Alliance- Miami- Dec. 6 2007 Hamilton Fish at Mini-Concerts in Back Alley's Dec. 1, 2007 General Concert , curated by Dean Daderko, Art-in-General, New York, NY 2007 Chicago Ex-Pats, 205 Club, organized by Creative-Time, New York, NY 2007 Re-Origin of the Spieces, Soloman Gallery, East Hampton, New York 2007 Aixperimental , 24 th International Short Film Festival (Screening of Wall ) Aix-en-Provence, France, 2006 Dark Matter, performance at 55 Mercer Gallery, New York, NY 2006 Holiday Cruise, performance at Taxter and Spengeman Gallery, New York, NY, 2006 Never Let Me Down Again, performance at Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, NY, 2006 The Seventh Side of the Die, performance at Alona Kagan Gallery, New York, NY, 2006 Model Anthem, performance at Brooklyn Fireproof, Brooklyn, NY Origin of Spieces Slipper Room New York 2006 Trooz, Screening of Wall, Show Cave, Los Angeles, CA, 2006 Videoformes: Nomad, Paris, France, 2006 Intruders, Electronic Arts Intermix video exhibition at NADA, Miami, Florida, 2006 Action Adventure, Canada Gallery, New York, NY, 2006 The Ambassadors, KGB Bar, Mark Jacobson's Radio hour, New York, 2006 M*A*S*H* The HelenaNew York, NY, 2005 Model Anthem in the Art Parade, Deitch Projects, New York, NY 2005 Video Forge, Jessica Murray Projects, New York, NY, 2005 East of Hollywood Video Exhibition, Los Angeles, CA, 2002 Chicago Opera , solo performance in the streets of Chicago, Chicago, IL 2002 AWARDSRema Hort Mann Nominee 2008 Susan H. Whedon Award, 2004 Blair Dickinson Memorial Prize, 2004 Finalist for Alice Kimball Fellowship, 2004 Hoyt Fine Arts Scholarship, 2001 Jackie Hicks Memorial Scholarship, 2001 UCLA Project Grant Scholarship, 2000 Finalist for Levinson Award, 2000 Wuerpel Award, 1998 CONTRIBUTIONS TO PUBLICATIONS AND COMPILATION ALBUMS Make Magazine- Campaign Journal and Illustrations of Authors McSweeny's - photograph of Shaker Quarter's for Will Blythe's contribution to Atlas of States Triple Canopy- online magazine No Milk Today- Billy Miller Straight to Hell- Billy Miller Zing Magazine- Circus of Books exhibition curated by Omar Lopez-Chahoud So Much Fire to Roast Human Flesh- anti-war music compilation by Josephine Foster Esopus- Image for Josephine Foster song |
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