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

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

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, IL
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Basel
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Guggenheim Museum, New York
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE

AWARDS

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

Monographs 
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

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.
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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
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska

Awards

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