ERIC RHEIN - VISUAL ARTIST Eric
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RESUME

Solo Exhibitions
Group Exhibitions
Corporate and Public Collections
Grants
Residencies
Performance and Video Works
Education
Bibliography

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Solo Exhibitions
2015 Ordained
Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York, NY
2014 The Course of My Life
Johnson & Johnson World Headquarters, New Brunswick, NJ
Natural World
39th Street Gallery, Gateway Arts Center, Brentwood, MD
2011 Transmutation
BoxoProjects, New York, NY
2010 Communion
BCB Art, Hudson, NY
2006 The Pencil of Nature
BCB Art, Hudson, NY
Journey Among Warriors
The Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation, New York, NY
Uncle Lige's Sword
The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center, New York, NY
2005 Leaves
Frieda and Roy L. Fuhrman Gallery, Walter Read Theater, Lincoln Center, New York, NY
2004 Anthropomorphosis
Bob Howard, Fire Island Pines, NY
2000 A Gathering
The Schoolhouse Center, Provincetown, MA
1999 Leaves
David Lusk Gallery, Memphis, TN
Interior Structure
Froelick Gallery, Portland, OR
1998 The Course of My Life
Richard Anderson Fine Arts, New York, NY
Human Biology
New York Public Library-Donnell Library Center, New York, NY
1997 Room Ten-36
Art in General, New York, NY
Eye on a Sparrow
Froelick Adelhart, Portland, OR
In the Company of Shadows
Tricia Collins/Grand Salon, New York, NY
1992 Still - an installation
AIDS Forum, Sculpture Center, New York, NY
1986 26 Objects - an installation
Stockholm Mobile Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden

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Group Exhibitions
2016 Art AIDS America
Alphawood Gallery, Chicago, IL
Remedy
ArtsWestcher, White Plains, NY
MouthWater
National YoungArts Foundation, Miami, FL
Art AIDS America
Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY
Nature Morte: Reinvigorating the Still Life
Konsthallen Bohuslån Museum, Uddevalla, Sweden
2015 Art AIDS America
Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
Zuckerman Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
40: The Anniversary Exhibition
Hal Bromm Gallery, New York, NY
Party Out Of Bounds: Night Life As Activism Since 1980
La MaMa Galleria, New York, NY
Nature Morte: Reinvigorating the Still Life
Hå gamle prestegard, Stavanger, Norway
Andras Borocz, Nancy Grossman and Eric Rhein
Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York
ART in Embassies Program
Ambassadorial residence, Vienna, Austria
2014 Ephemera As Evidence
La MaMa Galleria, New York, NY
InsideOUT
Fulton Street Gallery, Troy, NY
Round Hole, Square Peg
Artist's Corner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2013 Nocturnal
BCB Art, Hudson, NY
Tweet
The Children's Museum of the Arts, New York, NY
No Man is an Island: The Masculine Landscape in the 21st Century
Print Center of New Jersey, Branchburg, NJ
Recent Acquisitions
The Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, New York NY
Round Hole, Square Peg
Smart Close Gallery, 154 Stanton Street, New York, NY
Not Over: 25 Years of Visual AIDS
La MaMa Galleria, New York, NY
Art Meets Art: Perspectives On And Beyond Olana
Hudson Opera House and Olana, Hudson, NY
Secrets, Loss, Memory, And Courage
Addison Gallery of American Art, Philips Academy, Andover, MA
2012 This Land
BCB Art, Hudson, NY
The Sexuality Spectrum
Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion Museum, New York, NY
Abstract Realities
Hal Bromm Gallery, New York, NY
Pegasus
Christina Grajales Gallery, New York, NY
Abstraction: What is Real
Edelman Arts, New York, NY
Figured
BRIC Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
St, Sebastian: 1530-2011
Hudson Opera House and Olana, Hudson, NY
Secrets, Loss, Memory, And Courage
Edelman Arts, New York, NY
2011 Ossessione Verde
The Faveri Gallery Of Contemporary Art, Bologna, Italy
Apocryphal, Traditional, et al
GCSU Museum, Milledgeville, GA
In Bloom
Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY
Naked in New Hope
New Hope Sidetracks Art Gallery, New Hope, PA
2010 Local Self Portraits
Hudson Opera House, Hudson, NY
2009 Octet
Pera Museum, Istanbul, Turkey
Summer Sexy: on line exhibition
Schroeder Romero / Winkleman Gallery New York NY
Arbor Day-A Celebration in Art
The National Arts Club, New York, NY
2008 Timeless: The Art of Drawing
Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ
ART in Embassies Program
Ambassadorial residence, Yaounde, Cameron
The Great Gay Photo Show
The Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation, New York, NY
Wired
Ernest Rubenstein Gallery, The Educational Alliance, New York, NY
The Sparky Project
Schroeder Romero / Winkleman Project Space, New York NY
2007 Naked in New Hope
New Hope Sidetracks Art Gallery, New Hope, PA
2006 Animal House
Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY
Two Person Exhibition
BCB ART, Hudson, NY
Between Ten
Visual Works of a Positive Mind, XVI International AIDS Conference, Toronto Canada
Bestiary
Froelick Gallery, Portland OR
2005 Flower Power
Barbara Ann Levy Gallery, Fire Island Cherry Grove, NY
Vintage East Village
Hal Bromm, New York, NY
2004 Hot New Work
Barbara Ann Levy Gallery, Fire Island Cherry Grove, NY
Hidden Histories
The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall, London
2003 Share Your Vision
Artists Space, New York, NY
Weather Report
Gallery for the Arts, Mount Sterling, KY
Jewish Community Center, Louisville KY
1999 Millennium Messages
Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY
Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition
Small Works
Ledbetter Lusk Gallery, Mephis, TN
Radiant Children: Art of the East Village - 1980's
Lamia Ink!, New York, NY
Four Artists
Jonathan Edwards College, Yale University, New Haven, CN
Plant Forms
Froelick Adelhart, Portland, OR
1998 Paper
Froelick Adelhart, Portland, OR
Male
Curator: Vince Aletti, Wessel & O'Connor Gallery, New York, NY
1997 Home Is Where the Heart Is
White Columns, New York, NY
Form and Function of Drawing
Art Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
Conversion
Tricia Collins/Grand Salon, New York, NY
A Living Testament of the Blood Fairies
Printed Matter, New York, NY
1996 Me, Myself, and I
ArtGroup for Lesbian and Gay Artists
La Mama La Galleria, New York, NY
Arts' Communities: AIDS Communities: realizing The Archive Project
Boston Center the Arts, Boston, MA
1995 The First 10
The Archive Project, PS 122 Gallery, New York, NY
Phallic Symbols: Phallic Images in Contemporary Art
24 Hours for Life Gallery, New York, NY
1994 Stonewall
White Columns, New York, NY
The Underwear Show
La Mama La Galleria, New York, NY
1991 Personal Adornment
Textile Arts Center, Chicago, IL
1990 The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
1989 Selections from the Artist's File
Artists Space, New York, NY
1988 The Small Works Show
BACA Downtown, Brooklyn, NY
1987 Fashion and Surrealism
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England
Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, NY
Friends from the Heart - an installation
Spiral Building, Tokyo, Japan
1985 Summer Group Exhibition
Tower Gallery, South Hampton, Limbo Lounge Gallery, New York, NY
Wearable Art for the Collector
Evansville Museum of Arts and Science, Evansville, IN
1981 Art to Wear
Ibu Gallery, Paris, France
1980 The Grand Salon
Huck Snyder's Grand Solon, New York, NY

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CORPORATE AND PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
  Addison Gallery of American Art, Philips Academy, Andover, MA
The West Collection at SEI, Oaks, PA
Portland Art Museum - Gilkey Center for the Graphic Arts, Portland, OR
Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, New York, NY
North Dakota Museum of Art - Barton Lidice Benes Collection, Grand Forks, ND
The American Embassy in Malta
Porter, Orlin Inc. New York, NY
The MacDowell Colony
GRANTS
1998
1998
1996
1995
1994
1993
1990
Pollock-Krasner Foundation
Peter S. Reed Foundation
Art Matters
John Giorno Poetry Systems
Adolph and Esther Gottlieb
Art Matters
Pollock-Krasner Foundation
RESIDENCIES
1999
1996
1994
The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, New Hampshire
The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, New Hampshire
The Barn, Edward Albee Foundation, Montauk, Long Island, NY
PERFORMANCE AND VIDEO WORKS
2011

1998
1993
thirtyeverything - a memoir with visuals honoring artist friends who died of AIDS, in association with Dan Fishback's solo-performance thirtynothing, Dixon Place, New York, NY
Fall-Three Verses - premiered at The Knitting Factory video lounge, New York, NY
101 Salamanders - an original multi-media solo work created for the seminar:
Sexual Orientation and the Visual Arts, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA
EDUCATION
2000
MFA, School of Visual, New York, NY
Full Scholarship
1984 BFA, Painting and Sculpture, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
Full Scholarship

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BIBLIOGRAPHY
2015
Visual AIDS, Party Out of Bounds: Nightlife As Activism Since 1980, exhibition catalog, La Ma Ma Galleria, New York, 2015
Civale, Cristina, "El árbol De La Vida." (The Tree of Life), Página/12 [Buenos Aires, Argentina] 19 June 2015
Colucci, Emily, "The Course of His Life; Memory and Activism in the Art of Eric Rhein", POZ, April 2015
2014
Johnson & Johnson, The Course of My Life, exhibition catalog, Johnson & Johnson, World Headquarters, New Jersey, 2014
Brass, Perry, "The Manly Pursuit of Desire: Eric Rhein: AIDS and The Hummingbird's Warrior", Huffington Post, December 17, 2014
Black, Sean, "Possibilities of Transcendence", A&U, December 14, 2014
McDonald, James, "Eric Rhein: The Course of My Life", OUT, December 1, 2014
MacAdam, Barbara A., "Words of a Feather", Art News, January 2014
Alina, Oswald, "Ephemera as Evidence", A&U Magazine, issue #237, July 2014
Visual AIDS, Ephemera As Evidence, exhibition catalog, La Ma Ma Galleria, New York, 2014
2013
Snellen, Wayne, Notes on the Leslie-Lohman Collection: The Archive: The Journal of the Leslie/Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, #47, Autumn 2013
Visual AIDS, Not Over: 25 Years of Visual AIDS, exhibition catalog, 2013
Petry, Michael, Nature Morte: Contemporary artists reinvigorating the Still-Life, Thames & Hudson, 2013
McQuaid, Cate, "Addison show frames 20th century's gay male life", Boston Globe, June 11, 2013
Remembering Paul Monette, exhibition catalog, Addison Gallery of American Art, 2013
2012
Figured, exhibition catalog, BRIC Rotunda Gallery, 2012
2011
Matta, Carlos, and Joshua Lubin-Levy, Petite Mort: Recollections of a Queer Public, Forever & Today, Inc., 2011
Snellen, Wayne, Recent Donations & Acquisitions, The Archive: The Journal of the Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation, #38, Spring 2011
Ossessione Verde, Vanillaedizioni, exhibition catalog, The Faveri Gallery of Contemporary Art, Bologna, Italy, 2011
2009
Octet: Selected Works from School of the Visual Arts, New York, exhibition catalog, Pera Museum 36, Istanbul, Turkey, 2009
2008
Weiermair, Peter, Treasures of Gay Art: From the Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation, All Saints Press, 2008
Timeless: The Art of Drawing, exhibition catalog, Morris Museum, Morristown, New Jersey, 2008
2007
Kahlke, Cheryl Dunbar, Fire Island Tide, August 3, 2007
2006
Strong, Lester, A&U Magazine, December 2006
Von Uchtrup, Michael, "The Fine Art Of Remembering", The Archive: The Journal of the Leslie/Lohman Gay Art Foundation #21, Autumn 2006
Walsh, Richard, "Fallen Leaves", Metrosource, February/March, 2006
Wilson, Beth, "The Pencil Of Nature", Chronogram, October, 2006
United States Embassy Yaounde, exhibition catalog, Cameroon Art in Embassies Exhibition, 2006
2004
Petry, Michael, Hidden Histories, Art Media Press, 2004
2003
Bunting, Craig, "Weather Report", Arts Across Kentucky, Spring 2003
Visual AIDS, Share Your Vision, exhibition catalog, Artists Space, New York, 2003
1999
Merla, Partric, "Excerpt", The James White Review, Vol. 16 , No. 1, Winter 1999
Atkins, Robert,"How to Make Art in an Epidemic", POZ, April 1999
Popism/Stars and Stripes Forever/The Estate Project, exhibition catalog, Yale University Art Gallery and Jonathan Edwards College, 1999
1998
Jackson, Erik, "Leaves of Absence", Time Out New York, issue #140, May 28, 1998
Nichols, Jack, "Kentucky Artist Gains National Recognition" The Letter, October 1998
Johnson, Ken, New York Times, November 20, 1998
1997
Cotter, Holland, "Art and AIDS: The Stuff Life is Made of", Art in America, April 1997
Cotter, Holland, Review, New York Times, January 17, 1997
Renee, Thomas, Natasha, "New York Artist Brings Work and Words to Ames", The Tribune, Ames Iowa, Volume 4, No.48, November 29, 1997
1996
Editor, New York Times, "When Plagues End", New York Times, Section 6, December 1996
Fitzpatrick, Laurie, A&U Magazine, issue #27, November 1996
Give Life to Art: The First Step, exhibition catalog, Gallery Positive and Visual AIDS, 1996
1995
Cotter, Holland, New York Times, April 21, 1995
The First 10: The Archive Project, exhibition catalog, Visual AIDS, 1995
1994
Atkins, Robert, Village Voice, June 8, 1994
Koide, Yukiko, Figaro, no. 48, Japan, February 1994
Sokolowski, Tom, Art + Text no. 49, Australia, 1994
Lewin, Susan Grant, One of a Kind: American Art Jewelry Today, Abrams Publishers, 1994
1993
Dijknmans, Marie-Louise, Dutch Elle Magazine, March 1993
1992
Hirsch, David, New York Native, December 28, 1992
Slesin, Suzanne, New York Style, Clarkson Potter Publishers, 1992
1991
Slesin, Suzanne, New York Times, July 25, 1991
1990
Sischy, Ingrid, "Eyes of March", Interview Magazine, March 1990
1998
Brantley, Ben, Vanity Fair, November 1989
Liu, Robert, Ornament Magazine, Fall 1989
Wolford, Lisa, Interview Magazine, October 1989
Selections from the Artists File, exhibition catalog, Artist Space, 1989
1987
Martin, Richard, Fashion and Surrealism, Rizzoli Publisher, 1987
1986
Akesson, Bengt, Clic Magazine, Sweden, December 1986
Hedquist, Hedvig, Svenska Dagbladet, Sweden, October 1986
Rakan Magazine (Premiere Issue), Japan, 1986
 
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