Alan Rath

Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA. Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering

Fellowships

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, New York, NY

Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation, San Francisco, CA

National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, DC

Selected Solo Exhibitions

San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA Alan Rath: Virtual Unreality

Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, New York, NY

Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA

di Rosa Preserve, Napa, CA

Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, New York, NY

Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Hatton Gallery, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO

Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, OH

Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Track16 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA (catalogue)

Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA (catalogue)

Museum of Art, Austin, TX

Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ

Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA (brochure) traveled to: Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach, CA

Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Dorfman Projects, New York, NY

Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM (catalogue) (traveling)

Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO

Nelson Gallery, University of California, Davis, CA (brochure)

Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX (brochure)

Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA (brochure)

Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan (brochure)

Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA (brochure)

John Weber Gallery, New York, NY

Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, OH

Gallery of Art, Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, KS (brochure)

Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC

Galerie Hans Mayer, Dusseldorf, Germany (brochure)

Dorothy Goldeen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

University of Missouri, St. Louis, MO (catalogue)

Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN (brochure, video tape) traveled to: Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA (1992) Center for the Fine Art, Miami, FL (1992) The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI (1992)

Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, OH

San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA

Dorothy Goldeen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA

Katia Lacoste Gallery, San Jose, CA

New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA

ProArts, Oakland, CA

Memorial Union Art Gallery, University of California, Davis, CA

Artists' Television Access, San Francisco, CA

WORKS/San Jose, San Jose, CA

Center for Advanced Visual Studies, MIT, Cambridge, MA

Selected Group Exhibitions

Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA The Avant-Garde Collection

Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA Holding It Together: Collage, Montage, Assemblage

Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, KS Vital Signs

Fine Art Gallery, SFSU, San Francisco, CA SmARTspace

Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA Look Both Ways

Turner Carrol Gallery, Santa Fe, NM Blink

Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, OH Thanks

The Museum, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada RAM | Rethinking Art and Machine

di Rosa Preserve, Napa, CA Looking At Me Looking At You

Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, New York, NY Sight Unseen

MCASD, LaJolla, CA Pleasure Point: Celebrating 25 Years of Contemporary Collecting

Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, OH Works from the Gallery Collection

Shanghai Oriental Pearl Tower, Shanghai Shanghai International Gallery Exhibition of Media Art

Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, New York, NY Textual Landscapes: Real and Imagined

Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA The Moving Image

de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara, CA Tech Tools of the Trade: Contemporary New Media Art

Sonoma County Museum, Santa Rosa, CA Robots: Evolution of a Cultural Icon

Solway-Jones, Los Angeles, CA Editions

San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA Robots: Evolution of a Cultural Icon

Solway-Jones, Los Angeles, CA Cycling Apparati

Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA Material Terrain

Solway-Jones, Los Angeles, CA Hands

Trondelag Senter for Samtidskunst, Trondheim, Norway Nature (of Man)

Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA Paik, Rath, Ezawa: The Temporal Moving Image

Solway-Jones, Los Angeles, CA Sound and Motion

Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH Cincinnati Collections

UC Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA Measure of Time

University of Virginia Art Museum, Charlottesville, VA Complicit!

Flint Institute of the Arts, Flint, MI To Be, Or Not To Be, 400 Years of Vanitas Paintings

Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Five Stories High

Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA Director's Choice

Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, OH 3D An Exhibition of Contemporary Sculpture

Ball State University Museum of Art, Muncie, IN A History and Future of Intermedia Art

Orange County Museum of Art, Costa Mesa, CA Transfixed: New Media & The Body

Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA Ad Infinitum: The Aesthetics of Repetition II

Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, New York, NY Summer Exhibition

Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY Bodily Space: New Obsessions in Figurative Sculpture

San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA The Not So Still Life: A Century of California Painting and Sculpture traveled to: Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena, CA

Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, New York, NY (brochure) Art Apparatus

San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA (catalogue) Not-So-Still-Life traveled to: Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena, CA

Museum fur Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany (catalogue) Corporeal Identity – Body Language traveled to: Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY

CentrePasquArt, Biel, Switzerland Hess Collection - Hang zum Dissens

Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, OH Video+

Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA The Greatest Album Covers that Never Were

John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygen, WI Organic / Mechanic

Peter & Susan Barrett Art Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Materials & Meaning

Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland, CA Visual Alchemy

Walnut Creek Civic Arts Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA High Tech / Low Tech Hybrids

San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA

The Institute of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan (catalogue) The Gravity of the Immaterial traveled to: Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan

Bienal de Valencia, Valencia, Spain (catalogue) Body and Sin

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA Mail Art Exchange

Susan Inglett, New York, NY Now Playing: Audio in Art

Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA (catalogue) Chain Reaction traveled to: Tang Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY

Gallery 2211, Los Angeles, CA Inaugural Exhibition

Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA Multiple Personalities

Western Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA (catalogue) Pictures, Patents, Monkeys and More traveled to: John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygen WI Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (catalogue) Made in California, Art, Image and Identity, 1900-2000

Tang Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY (catalogue) S.O.S.: Scenes of Sounds

Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA A Lasting Legacy

San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA (catalogue) Double Trouble: The Patchett Collection traveled to: Museo de las Artes and Instituto Cultural Cabanas, Guadalajara, Mexico Museo Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico Museo Universitario Contemporaneo de Arte, Mexico City, Mexico Auditorio de Galicia and Inglesia San Domingos de Bonaval, Santiago de Compostela, Spain Sala Amos Salvador, Logrono, Spain

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA Ghost in the Shell

Weston Art Gallery, Cincinnati, OH Digital Dialogues

The Transamerica Pyramid Gallery, San Francisco, CA The Sight of Sound

Kunsthalle, Wien, Austria Crossings: Art to See and Hear

Wexner Art Center, Columbus, OH (catalogue) Body Mechanique

Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, TX (catalogue) Finders/Keepers

San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA Alternating Currents: American Art in the Age of Technology

Art Academy of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH Digital Decisions

The Transamerica Pyramid Gallery, San Francisco, CA About Face

La Lonja, Palma de Mallorca, Spain (catalogue) Art Medial

Otso Gallery, Espoo, Finland Metamachines-Where is the Body

Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE A Chaos of Delight

Fotouhi Kramer Gallery, New York, NY The Box Exhibition

Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA Matters Of The Heart

The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT Landscape Reclaimed

Dorothy Goldeen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA A Selection of Classics

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA Recent Acquisitions

Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD Project: Exhibit

Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach, CA (catalogue) Veered Science

Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA Framing Exposure

Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT (catalogue) Inside Out

New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ (catalogue) The Artful Message: Contemporary Video

University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA (catalogue) In Vivo

Capp St. Project, San Francisco, CA (traveling) Old Glory

Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Cristi, TX (catalogue) (traveling) Between Reality and Abstraction: California Art at the End of the Century

Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA LA International Biennial Invitational

Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Harbor, CA Machine

Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH (catalogue) (traveling) It's Only Rock and Roll: Rock and Roll Currents in Contemp Art

Gallery of Art, Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, KS View / Review

Art Miami, Miami, FL Art on the Eve of the Millennium

Spiral Art Center, Tokyo, Japan (catalogue) (traveling) Of the Human Condition: Hope and Despair at the End of the Century

MIT Museum, Cambridge, MA 25 Years of the Center for Advanced Visual Studies

San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX (catalogue) Synesthesia: Sound and Vision in Contemporary Art

Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA Issues of Image

Table, Lamp, & Chair, Portland, OR

Akademie der Kunste, Berlin, Germany (catalogue) Akademie '93

International Center of Photography, New York, NY (catalogue) (traveling) Iterations

Palm Beach Community College Museum of Art, Palm Beach, FL Things That Go Bump in the Night

Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA Science Fair

John Weber Gallery, New York, NY Toward A New Vision

Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA Body Parts

Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH (catalogue) The Figure as Fiction

Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh PA Art in the Age of Information

Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Ferrara, Italy (catalogue) Poliset

International Center of Photography, New York, NY (catalogue) (traveling) Special Collections

Alvar Alto Museum, Jyvaskyla, Finland (catalogue) Lumo '92: Space in Picture, Picture in Space

Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY The Interactive Show

School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA Alan Rath, Larry Johnson, Laurie Simmons

The Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (catalogue) 1991 Biennial Exhibition

Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO Visions / Revisions

Amy Lipton Gallery, New York, NY Breathing Room

Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH (catalogue) Mechanika

Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI

Germans van Eck Gallery, New York, NY

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA (brochure) Bay Area Media

Stadtmuseum Siegburg, Siegburg, Germany Lichtkunst und Klangobjekte

Cite des Arts et des Nouvelles Technologies, Montreal, Canada (catalogue) Image du Futur, '90

Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA Oakland Artists, '90

University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA (catalogue) P.U.L.S.E. 2

Miami University Art Museum, Oxford, OH Wired: Art That Moves

San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA Contemporary Collectors

Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA (catalogue) Self / Evidence

Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria (catalogue) Im Netz der Systeme

Visiona, Zurich, Switzerland (catalogue)

Terrain Gallery, San Francisco, CA Matter, Anti-matter: Defects in the Model

Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, OH Sculpture

Intermedia Arts, Minneapolis, MN (catalogue) The Technological Imagination: Machine in the Garden of Art

Artspace, San Francisco, CA 1989 Sculpture Awards

Dorothy Goldeen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Fresh Visions II - The Photographic Image in 2-D and 3-D

Sesnon Gallery, University of California at Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA Alternative Applications: Computer Technology in the Arts

Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH

Security Pacific Gallery, Costa Mesa, CA (catalogue) Media Talk

Museum Folkwang, Essen, West Germany Gefangene Bilder, Fluchtiges Gedachtnis, Digital Fotografie

Syntex Gallery, Palo Alto, CA Left Brain / Right Brain

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA SECA Video Invitational

Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, West Germany (catalogue) Otto Piene und das CAVS

Miami Center for Fine Arts, Miami, FL Computers and Art

Siggraph '88, Atlanta, GA (video tape) Interactive Techniques

University of Wisconsin, Eau-Claire, WI New Art

San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA Countervisions: Pioneers in Bay Area Art

San Francisco Camerawork Gallery, San Francisco, CA (catalogue) (traveling) Digital Photography

Photographic Resource Center, Boston, MA High Tech, New Pop

Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY (catalogue) (traveling) Computers and Art

California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA Summer Arts Celebration

1160 Bryant St., San Francisco, CA X: The Unknown

Santa Rosa Community College Art Gallery, Santa Rosa, CA Sculpture: Four Views

Walnut Creek Civic Arts Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA Lights On!

WORKS/San Jose, San Jose, CA Eye Magic

San Francisco International Video Festival, San Francisco, CA Four on the Floor

Los Angeles County Fair, Pomona, CA New Visions

Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA Art and the Computer

Sausalito Arts Festival, Sausalito, CA

Boston "First Night" Celebration of the Arts, Boston, MA

Selected Public Collections

• Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
• Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH
• Crocker Museum, Sacramento, CA
• Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
• Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
• de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
• di Rosa Preserve, Napa CA
• Fundación Yannick y Ben Jakober, Mallorca, Spain
• Hara Museum, Tokyo, Japan
• Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
• Hess Collection, Napa, CA
• Library of Congress, Washington, DC
• The Logan Collection, San Francisco, CA
• Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA
• Museum fur Holographie & neue visuelle Medien, Cologne, Germany
• Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
• Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
• Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
• The Patchett Collection, Santa Monica, CA
• Progressive Corporation, Mayfield Heights, OH
• San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
• San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
• San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
• Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
• Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ
• Robert J. Schiffler Foundation, Greenfield, OH
• Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, KS
• University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
• Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
• Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
• Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA

Selected Bibliography

Schumacher, Donna. Alan Rath: Hosfelt Gallery, Sculpture Magazine, January/February.

Helfand, Glen. Artforum Critics' Picks, Artforum May.

Morris, Barbara. Alan Rath: "Irrational Exuberance" at Hosfelt Gallery, artltd, May.

Inouye, Kelly. Alan Rath: "Irrational Exuberance" at Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, San Francisco Arts Quarterly, May 1.

Roth, David. Alan Rath @ Hosfelt, Square Cylinder, April 9.

Chun, Kimberly. "Irrational Exuberance:" Alan Rath's Art, San Francisco Chronicle, March 28.

Bigman, Alex. Four New Art Exhibitions for the Curious Viewer, 7x7 Magazine, March 27.

Colman, David. Uncommon Vision, Architectural Digest, July, Volume 70, Number 7.

Vaterlalus-Staby, Andrew. Alan Rath's Dancing Feathers, Societe Perrier, December 12.

Elle Dècor, May 2008, Volume 19, Number 4.

Biel, Kim. Sound & Motion: Recent Sculpture and Installation by Jim Campbell, Paul DeMarinis, Diane Landry, Alan Rath and Klutch Stanaway at SolwayJones, Artweek, November.

Nam June Paik, Alan Rath, Kota Ezawa, Flavorpill, Issue #286.

Vogelz, Traci. Art Footage, SFWeekly, October 17 - 23, 2007.

Berwick, Carly. New Media Moguls, Art + Auction. June.

Bing, Alison. Alan Rath: Meta Mechanics, Sculpture Magazine. September 2006.

Patchett, Tom. Rath Around the House (The Greats of Rath), Sculpture Magazine. September 2006.

Alfaya, David. Art that Transforms, Santa Fe Trend. Winter/Spring 2005.

What's On, The Art Newspaper September 2005.

Alan Rath, Time Pieces, Time Out New York. December 8-14.

Johnson, Ken. Art in Review: ArtApparatus, The New York Times. October 17.

Francis, Richard. Collecting Sculpture Today, Microsoft Art Collection.

Gaston, Diane. Alan Rath at Haines Gallery, Art in America, March 2002.

Winn, Steven. Shock Waves: Effect Sept. 11 Fad on Bay Area Artists, San Francisco Chronicle, September 11, p. E1-2.

Westbrook, Lindsey. Critic's Choice: Art; "New Sculptures" and "Remainders", San Francisco Bay Guardian, November 7, p.72.

Hamlin, Jesse. Sculpture That Keeps its Focus, San Francisco Chronicle, October 31.

Keats, Jonathon. Ghosts in the Machine, San Francisco Magazine, October, p. 127-8.

Falkenberg, Merril. Alan Rath at Haines Gallery, Artweek, January 2000, p. 20.

Scherr, Appollinaire. Over There: A Critical Guide to San Francisco Events, East Bay Express, October 29, p.49.

Ebony, David, Alan Rath at Dorfman Projects, Art in America, November.

Alan Rath: Robotics Austin Museum of Art, ArtNow Gallery Guide, April.

Tanner, Marcia, Alan Rath at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, ARTnews, Summer.

Hall, Jacqueline Chandeliers Light The Way, The Columbus Dispatch, September.

Tromble, Meredith. A Conversation with Alan Rath, Art Week, March.

Rath, Alan. Hot.List, Artforum, February.

Lovell, Glenn. Robotic Exhibits Explore Junction of Art and Android, San Jose Mercury News, March 31.

Bonetti, David, "Judgment" Time at Yerba Buena Center, San Francisco Examiner, April 3.

A Nose for Computers, ARTnews, February, p. 29.

Leady, Kim Electronicart Body Mechanique & The New Digital Artworld, Columbus Alive, October.

Hall, Jacqueline Human Form & Function, The Columbus Dispatch, November.

Welsh, Clarissa. Alan Rath at the Palo Alto Cultural Center, Art Week, January.

Jana, Reena. Counting on Art, Asia Pacific Sculpture News, Summer.

Alan Rath: Sculpture, Exhibition Catalog from University of California, Davis.

Shackelford, James F. Rath Sees Visual Pleasure of Engineering, The Davis Enterprise, April 30.

Roth, David. Rath of the Machines, Metro, December.

Friis-Hansen, Dana. Alan Rath: Bio Mechanics, Houston Contemporary Arts Museum.

Alan Rath: Plants, Animals, People, Machines, published by Smart Art Press, Santa Monica, California.

Insights Alan Rath, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA.

Smith, Roberta. How Beautiful is Small and Vice Versa, NY Times, February 26.

Tager, Allison. Alan Rath, Flash Art, March.

Alan Rath, Exhibition Catalog form Johnson County College, Gallery of Art, Overland Park, KS.

Kandel, Susan. The Computer As Art, Los Angeles Times, October 14.

Baker, Kenneth. Alan Rath: Digital World, Art News, May.

Duez Donato, Debora. Alan Rath, New Art Examiner, April.

Yood, James. Alan Rath, Artforum, March.

Pagel, David. Alan Rath, Art Issues, February/March.

Frank, Peter. Alan Rath, Sculpture, May/June.

Hartney, Eleanor. Whitney Biennial, Artnews, Summer.

Boswell, Peter. Alan Rath, Exhibition Catalog for Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN.