Born 1973, Great Neck, NY
Lives and works in Brooklyn
1995
Master of Science in Visual Studies
Purchase College SUNY, Purchase NY
Bachelor of Fine Arts
2005
2004
2003
2002
2001
2000-01
2000
1998
1997
Percent
for Art Program Commission, Department of Cultural Affairs, New York,
NY
Dull Roar, Lombard-Freid Fine Arts, New York, NY
Return, Longwood Art Gallery, Bronx, NY
Greeting from Stowe, Vermont Kunstraum Innsbruck/Stadtturmgalerie, Austria
Test Ballot, (public project) Kunstraum Innsbruck/Stadtturmgalerie, Austria
Romanticized All Out of Proportion, Special Project, Queens Museum of Art Queens, NY
Breach, Lower East Side Tenement Museum New York, NY
Minaret, (Ongoing performance, Leipzig, Germany 2003/ Station Building, Baltimore 2003/ Clocktower Gallery, NYC 2003 & 2001)
Climate Control, Special Project, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Queens, NY
Guard, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY (Commission)
Postcard Views, Long Island City, NY
paraSITE (Ongoing performance) various urban sites in Boston, New York City, Baltimore & Berlin
Lah’m, Amman, Jordan
Dull Roar, Lombard-Freid Fine Arts, New York, NY
Return, Longwood Art Gallery, Bronx, NY
Greeting from Stowe, Vermont Kunstraum Innsbruck/Stadtturmgalerie, Austria
Test Ballot, (public project) Kunstraum Innsbruck/Stadtturmgalerie, Austria
Romanticized All Out of Proportion, Special Project, Queens Museum of Art Queens, NY
Breach, Lower East Side Tenement Museum New York, NY
Minaret, (Ongoing performance, Leipzig, Germany 2003/ Station Building, Baltimore 2003/ Clocktower Gallery, NYC 2003 & 2001)
Climate Control, Special Project, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Queens, NY
Guard, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY (Commission)
Postcard Views, Long Island City, NY
paraSITE (Ongoing performance) various urban sites in Boston, New York City, Baltimore & Berlin
Lah’m, Amman, Jordan
2004
2003
2002
2001
2000
1998
1997
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
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
Adaptations, Apex Art, New York City, NY
Global Priority, UMass Amherst, MA
24/7, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania
BQE, White Box, New York City, 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
Inside Design Now: 2003 National Design Triennial, The Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York City, NY
Queens International, The Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY
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, Long Island City, NY
Utopia Now!, Sonoma Museum of Contemporary Art, California
Comfort Zone: Portable Living Spaces,The Fabric Workshop Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Utopia Now!, CCAC Wattis Institute, Oakland, California
Back and Forth, Vacancy Gallery, New York City, NY
GZ:01, 129 Lafayette Street, New York City, NY
Building Codes, Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York City, NY
Elsewhere, HEREart, New York City, NY
Concerted Compassionism, White Columns, New York City, NY
A Skowhegan Decade, David Beitzel Gallery, New York City, NY
Repeat Reverse, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
Blast Box 1993: Remaking Civilization, X Art Foundation, New York City, NY
Awards and Grants
2002
2001
2000
1997
1996
1995
UNESCO Design Laureate, Grand Prix
New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, 2001-2003
The Jerome Foundation Artist Grant
White Columns Artist Production Grant
MIT Council for the Arts Grant
MIT Department of Architecture Fellowship, 1996-1998
Outstanding Achievement in Sculpture Award, International
Sculpture Center
Recent Lectures and Panel Discussions
2004
2003
2001
with Temporary Services
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
Artist lecture, ACC Gallery, Weimar, Germany
Homeland Exhibition Panel Discussion, CUNY Graduate Center. With Edgar Hachivi Heap of Birds, Barbara Pollack, Olav Westphalen
Main Speaker, At the City’s Edge: Conference on Public Art and Urbanism, The Centre, Glasgow, Scotland. With Neil Smith and Fiddian Warman
Residencies
2000-1
1997
1996
P.S.1 Special Projects Program, Long Island City, NY
Société Imaginaire, Dresden, Germany
Special Interest Group in Urban Studies (SIGUS) Workshop in Jordan, Kerak, Jordan
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
Current Positions
Maryland Institute College of Art Baltimore, MD September, 2002- present
Contributing Editor, Surface Tension: A Journal on Spatial Arts Errant Bodies Press, initial publication 2006
Boucher, Brian. “Concerted Compassionism,” thing.net, "http://bbs.thing.net" http://bbs.thing.net, 2001.
---, William V. Ganis, and Eva Scharrer. Essays on Climate Control "http://www.ps1.org" http://www.ps1.org, 2000-2001.
---, “Breach: A project by Michael Rakowitz” Review. thing.net "http://bbs.thing.net" http://bbs.thing.net, Mar. 2002.
Chasin, Noah. “Rip-Off Culture,” Springerin Vienna, Summer 2004.
Chen, Aric. I.D. Forty Issue, selected as one of forty socially conscious designers, I.D. Magazine Feb. 2001.
Christov-Bakargiev, Carolyn. Michael Rakowitz: Circumventions (monograph),
Paris: onestar press/ Dena Foundation, 2003.
--- “First Takes: Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev on Michael Rakowitz,” Artforum Jan. 2005.
“Climate Control,” Flash Art Review. Mar-Apr 2001.
Cotter, Holland. “Homeland,” Review. The New York Times 30 May 2003
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.
Guzman, Pilar. “Currents: Shelter; A Portable Sleeping Place Wins a Top Prize in Design,” The New York Times (House and Home/ Style Desk) 14 Feb. 2002.
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.
Interview and focus on recent projects, Design Monthly South Korea: Sept. 2001.
LaBelle, Brandon. (ed.) “Works: Michael Rakowitz,” Surface Tension Errant Bodies Press, 2003.
McClister, Nell. Review, "Dull Roar." Artforum, Sept. 2005
National Design Triennial, Review. Art In America Dec. 2003.
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.
“Public Space Public Dissent: A conversation on Subversion with John Menick, Craig Buckley, Michael Rakowitz, Angel Nevarez and Valerie Tevere,” Janus 16 Summer 2004.
“Special Project Writer Series,” P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center 2001.
“Subway Series,” Bronx Museum of Art and Queens Museum of Art (exhibition catalogue), 2004.
Rahm, Phillipe. “Invisible Architecture: Electromagnetic & Chemical Space,” artpress Paris, France, Apr. 2001.
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.
---. Thresholds 15: Creativity in Consumer Culture, “Publicly Acquired, Privately Owned,” Critical Journal of the Department of Architecture at MIT Cambridge, MA, 1997.
Review of Dull Roar, Harper’s Bazaar (South Korean ed.), Summer, 2005: 338.
Scharrer, Eva. “Critic’s Picks: Michael Rakowitz, Kunstraum Innsbruck/Stadtturmgalerie” Artforum.com Dec. 2004.
Schmerler, Sarah. “Concerted Compassionism” Review. Time Out 5-12 Oct. 2000.
Sholette, Greg., and Nato Thompson. (ed.) “The Interventionists: Art in the Social Sphere” (catalogue), Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2004.
Smith, Courtenay., and Sean Topham. chapter on paraSITES, XTREME Houses. Prestel, Nov. 2002.
“Special Project,” Cabinet Magazine 2005