Born Easington, County Durham, UK
Lives and works in UK
EDUCATION
1991
Goldsmiths College, London University, UK, Fine Art and Art History BA Hons
AWARDS
2004
Shortlisted, Jerwood Drawing Prize, London, UK
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
Studio Paintings, studio, UK
2021
You Have a New Memory, Simon Lee Gallery, London, UK
2019
Rachel Howard L'appel du vide, Blain Southern, New York, USA
2018
Paintings of Violence (why I am not a mere Christian), MASS MoCA, Massachusetts, US, exhibited with Joseph Beuys's, Lightning with stag in its glare, 1958-85.
Repetition is Truth - Via Dolorosa, Newport Street Gallery, London
Rachel Howard, Der Kuss, Blain Southern, London
2016
Rachel Howard, MACRO Testaccio, Rome, IT
2015
At Sea, Hastings Contemporary (formerly Jerwood Gallery), Hastings, UK
2014
Northern Echo, Blain|Southern, London, UK
2011
Folie à Deux, Blain|Southern, London, UK
Repetition is Truth – Via Dolorosa, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Donna Regina (Museo MADRE), Naples, Italy
Still Life / Still Here. Rachel Howard. New Paintings, Sala Pelaires, Palma de Mallorca, ES
2010
Human Shrapnel – oil drawings on paper, Other Criteria, London, UK
2009
Der Wald, Haunch of Venison, Zurich, CH
2008
Rachel Howard: invited by Philippa van Loon, Museum van Loon, Amsterdam, NL (cat)
How to Disappear Completely - New Work by Rachel Howard, Haunch of Venison, London, UK (cat)
2007
Fiction/Fear/Fact, Bohen Foundation, New York, US (cat)
Rachel Howard - New Paintings, Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, US (cat)
2003
Guilty, Bohen Foundation, New York, US
Can’t Breathe Without You, Anne Faggionato, London, UK (cat)
2001
Painting 2001, Anne Faggionato, London, UK (cat)
1999
Rachel Howard: New Paintings (curated by Honey Luard), A22 Gallery, London, UK
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Drawing Biennial, Drawing Room, London, UK
Bump, London, UK
2023
Big Women, (curated by Sarah Lucas) Firstsite, Colchester, UK
3 Painters, Theodore, New York, USA
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Art, London, UK (invited)
Threshold, Simon Lee Gallery, London UK
2022
Making Waves, Hastings Contemporary, Hastings, UK.
Hospital Rooms: Like there is hope and I can dream of another world, Hauser & Wirth, London
Post Totem, curated by OHSH, London, UK (curated by Adam Dix and Dale Adcock)
BLOB, T J Boulting, London, UK (curated by Eddy Frankel)
New Displays, Imperial War Museum North, Manchester , UK
2021
About Painting, Rolando Anselmi, Rome, Italy
Coast, Country, City, The Jerwood Collection, Worksop, Nottinghamshire, UK
London Calling, British art today. From David Hockney to Idris Khan. Fundación Bancaja, Valencia, Spain, curated by Javier Molins and Maya Binkin
Meeting House, Sofia Stevie and Rachel Howard, Galerie Pelaires, Palma Mallorca, Spain
Drawing Biennial, Drawing Room London, UK
2020
I WANT TO FEEL ALIVE AGAIN, Lyles and King, New York, NY, USA
MOVING ENERGIES – 10 years me Collectors Room Berlin DE
Received Wisdom, Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens, Arts Council Collection, UK
A Dreadful Day, Paul Stolper Gallery, London, UK
2019
Galerie Simpson: Selection Box, Pallant House, UK
Birth, T J Boulting, London, UK
Drawing Biennial, Drawing Room, London, UK
Shifts in Time, Over the Influence, LA, USA
2018
Lush Stroke, Phantom Forms, Galerie Isa, Mumbai, India.
Doodle & Disegno, Blain Southern, Berlin, DE
Dead Eden, Lyles & King, New York, USA
NGORONGORO II, Lehderstrasse 34, Berlin, DE
Beauty and Subjugation from The Goss-Michael Collection, The Goss-Michael Foundation, Dallas, US
Jerwood Collection: 25 Years, Jerwood Gallery, Hastings, UK
2017
Playground Structure, Blain Southern, London, UK.
Age of Terror, Imperial War Museum, London, UK.
Dissolution of Distance, Idris Khan, Rachel Howard and Gregor Hildebrandt, Sala Pelaires, Palma Mallorca, Spain
Simulation / Skin, Selected works from the Murderme Collection, Newport Street Gallery, London, UK
Look Back Now: Jerwood Gallery is 5, Jerwood Gallery, Hastings, UK.
Works from the permanent Collection, Pio Monte della Misericordia, Naples at The Italian Institute
of Culture, London, UK.
Drawing Biennial, The Drawing Room, London, UK
2016
Three Triptychs, Intragallery, Naples, IT
Summer Exhibition, Paul Stolper Gallery, London, UK
Daydreaming with Stanley Kubrick, Somerset House, London, UK
Summer Exhibition 2016, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK (invited)
Animal Farm, S2, London, UK
Reasons, Other Criteria, Newport Street, London, UK
Now You See Me, T. J. Boulting, London, UK
Settle Opere per la Misericordia, 4th edition, curated by Mario Codognato, Pio Monte della Misericordia, Naples, IT
2015
Lino/Cut, Paul Stolper, London, UK
Testing Testing: Painting and Sculpture since 1960 from the Permanent Collection, Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, US
Drawing Biennial 2015, Drawing Room, Tannery Arts, London, UK
New Rhythms, Display – Contemporary Drawings, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, UK
Sleepless, Beds in History and Contemporary Art, 21er Haus, Vienna, AT, curated by Mario Codognato
2014
Untitled (Unconscious), T. J. Boulting, London, UK
2013
Colectiva, Sala Pelaires,Sala Pelaires, Palma de Mallorca, ES
Invitation to a Beheading, curated by Rachel Howard, Marianne Boesky, 64th Street, NY, New York, US
Freedom Not Genius, curated by Elena Geuna, Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, RU (20th November, 2013 – 2nd February, 2014)
The Human Body a Series of Etchings, Alteria Art, London, UK
Drawing Biennial, Drawing Room, London, UK
Contemporary Magic: A Tarot Deck Art Project, The Dali Museum, St. Petersburg, RU; travelled to The Virginia MoCA, Virginia Beach, US
Over the Rainbow: drawings by Rachel Howard, Poetry by Sue Hubbard, Eleven Spitalfields Gallery, London, UK
2012
Freedom Not Genius, curated by Elena Geuna, Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli, Turin, IT
Gravity and Disgrace, curated by Rachel Howard, Blain|Southern Gallery, London, UK
Summer Exhibition 2012, Royal Academy, London, UK (invited)
The Special Edition Show, AFM Collection, CCA Andratx, Mallorca, ES
2011
Editions II / Group Show of Limited Editions,Paul Stolper Gallery, London, UK
Selektionseffekte, Blain|Southern Berlin, DE
Contemporary Magic: A Tarot Deck Art Project, Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US
Fraternise, Beaconsfield, London, UK
Works from the permanent collection, Ackland Museum, North Carolina, US
Drawing 2011, The Drawing Room, London, UK
2010
Vanitas – The Transience of Earthly Pleasures, All Visual Arts, London, UK
Inspired by Soane, Sir John Soane’s Museum, London, UK (cat)
Works from the permanent collection, Ackland Museum, North Carolina, US
The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London, UK (invited)
Kupferstichkabinet – Between Thought and Action, White Cube, London, UK (cat)
Keep Me Posted, (curated by Julia Royse) Posted Projects, London, UK
Contemporary Magic, The National Arts Club, New York, US
Modern Times, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, UK, curated by Lutz Becker
Modern Times, De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill, Sussex UK, curated by Lutz Becker
2009
Hard/Soft, The National Arts Club, New York, US
Art Barter, The Rag Factory, London, UK
Mythologies, Haunch of Venison, Burlington Gardens, London, UK (cat)
Opening Art Foundation Mallorca Collection, CCA Andratx, Mallorca, ES
2008
M25 Around London (curated by Barry Schwabsky), CCA Andratx, Mallorca, ES
RED Auction, Sothebys and Gagosian Gallery, New York, US (cat)
Cut away, Anna Kustera, New York, US
2007
Conversations: The collection of Joe Lovett and Jim Cottrell, North Dakota Museum of Art, US
2006
In the darkest hour there will be light: works from Damien Hirst’s murderme collection, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK (cat)
The Discerning Eye, selected by Mollie Dent-Brocklehurst, The Mall Galleries, The Mall, London, UK
Action Precision, Lennonweinberg, New York, US
2004
Intuition/(im)precision, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, AT (curated by Thomas Krens, Director of the Guggenheim Foundation, New York) (cat)
Jerwood Drawing Prize, Jerwood Space, London, UK (touring) (cat)
2002
Amongst the Constellations (curated by Tim Dickson), Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield, UK
Shimmering Substance (curated by Barry Schwabsky and Catsou Roberts), The Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK (cat)
Shimmering Substance, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, UK
Reactions, Exit Art, 548 Broadway, New York, US
2001
2001-A Space Oddity, A22 Gallery, London, UK (cat)
Rachel Howard, Torben Giehler, Yeardley Leonard (curated by Sarah Watson), Goldman Tevis Gallery, Los Angeles, US
2000
Five, Lennon, Weinberg Inc., New York, US
Psycho: Art and Anatomy (curated by Danny Moynihan), Anne Faggionato, London, UK (cat)
Artfutures, Contemporary Art Society, London, UK
1998
The Choice, selected by Damien Hirst, Exit Art, New York, US
1997
SupaStore, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK
Take Off, Galerie Krinzinger/Benger Fabrik, Bregenz, AT
1996
SupaStore De Luxe, Church Street, New York, US
2 seconds 9 months (curated by Maria Marshall), Bankside Lofts, London, UK
SHOWS ORGANISED AND OTHER PROJECTS
2021, Tree Teacher Tree, Washbrooke Dell, Gloucestershire, organised by Rachel Howard, exhibiting works by Colin Glen, Fiona Banner aka the Vanity Press, Emily joy and Polly Morgan.
2021, Doris Press, an artist run magazine founded and edited by Rachel Howard.
2020, judge Gordon Burn Prize
2016, Artists with Liberty: Save Our Human Rights Act, organised and curated by Rachel Howard, Paul Stolper Gallery, London, exhibiting David Birkin, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Mat Collishaw, Ruth Ewan, Rachel Howard, Harland Miller, Bob and Roberta Smith, Mark Titchner, Mark Wallinger and Sue Webster.
2013, Invitation to a Beheading, curated by Rachel Howard, Marianne Boesky, 64th Street, NY, New York, US, exhibiting works by Sarah Lucas, Fiona Banner, Eloise Fornieles and Rachel Howard.
2012, Gravity and Disgrace, curated by Rachel Howard, Blain|Southern Gallery, London, UK, exhibiting works by Jane Simpson, Newton and Rachel Howard.
2009, Black Dog Yellow House curated by Rachel Howard, exhibiting works by Matthew Burrows, Adam Dix, Boo Saville and Colin Glen.