Lucy Raven’s practice encompasses a variety of different media including animated films, sculptural installations, performative lectures, curatorial projects, and interventions into live television. This range is underpinned by Raven’s continuing interest in the relationship between technology, labour and the ways in which images are manufactured, distributed and consumed within our globalised world.
Lucy Raven (b. 1977, Tucson, Arizona) is an artist based in New York. Recent solo exhibitions include: Edge of Tomorrow, Serpentine Galleries (2016); Low Relief at the Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio; Lucy Raven, Centre Vox de l’Image Contemporaine, Montréal (2015); Curtains, Portikus, Frankfurt (2014); Hollywood Chop Riding, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco (2014); Curtains – Lucy Raven, Interaccess Gallery, Toronto (2014); Hammer Projects: Lucy Raven, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2012). Recent group exhibitions include: Le Grand Balcon [The Grand Balcony], La Biennale de Montréal, Montréal (2016); Sam Lewitt and Lucy Raven: Wild Sync and Weak Locals, Pilar Corrias, London (2016); The Owl’s Legacy and its Discontents, National Gallery of Prague (2015); Over you/you, 31st Biennial of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana (2015); Art in the Age of Planetary Computation, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam (2015); Test Pattern, Whitney Museum of American Art (2013); and Materials and Money and Crisis, mumok, Vienna (2013); TBA, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland (2013); To Look is to Labor, Basilica (2013); Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2012); 12 Rooms, Ruhrtriennale, Essen (2012); Material Information, Gallery Format, Oslo (2012); Dust in the Machine, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe (2012); Greater New York, PS1, Long Island City, NY (2010).
Born 1977 in Arizona, USA
Lives and works in New York
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016
Edge of Tomorrow, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
Low Relief, Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio – US
Tales of Love and Fear, Park Avenue Armory: Artists Studio series, New York – US
Tales of Love and Fear, Western Front, Vancouver, BC, Canada – CA
2015
Lucy Raven, Centre Vox de l’Image Contemporaine, Montréale – CA
Lucy Raven, Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center, Troy – US
2014
Curtains – Lucy Raven at Interaccess Gallery, Toronto – CA
Curtains, Portikus, Frankfurt – DE
Hollywood Chop Riding, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco – US
2012
Hammer Projects: Lucy Raven at Hammer Museum, Los Angeles – US
2010
Lucy Raven: China Town at Nevada Museum of Art, Reno – US
Standardizing Sight: New Screenprints by Lucy Ravens at Museum of Modern Art, New York – US
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018
Dhaka Art Summit, Dhaka – BD
2017
Generation Loss: 10 Years Julia Stoschek Collection, Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf – DE
Change of State, Essex Street Gallery, New York – US
2016
Sam Lewitt and Lucy Raven: Wild Sync and Weak Locals, Pilar Corrias, London – UK
Kevin Jerome Everson, Lucy Raven, Dierk Schmidt, Cheyney Thompson, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York – US
The Artist’s Museum, ICA Boston – US
La Biennale de Montréal: The Grand Balcony, Montréal – CA
2015
The Owl’s Legacy and its Discontents at National Gallery of Prague – CZ
Over you/you, 31st Biennial of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana – SI
Gjon Mili International Photography Exhibition, Prishtina – XK
Art in the Age of Planetary Computation at Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam – NL
2014
A Perpetual Journey at Parse Gallery, New Orleans – US
Beyond Earth Art at Cornell University, Ithaca – US
2013
Test Pattern at Whitney Museum of American Art – US
TBA at Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland – US
To Look is to Labor, Basilica Hudson – US
and Materials and Money and Crisis, c0-organized with Richard Birkett, MUMOK, Vienna – AT
Online Biennale on Artplus
Collider at Zieher Smith, New York – US
Your Content Will Return Shortly at Franklin Street Works, Stamford – US
2012
Whitney Biennial at Whitney Museum of American Art, New York – US
12 Rooms at Ruhrtriennale, Essen – DE
Material Information at Gallery Format, Oslo – NO
Dust in the Machine at Centre for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe – US
SELECTED SCREENINGS
2017
The Deccan Trap, Vdrome (on view online)
2016
Tate Modern, Starr Cinema as Collection, London – UK
On Screen/Sound, Experimental Media and Performing Arts, Troy, NY – US
2015
Parallel Formats, ARE at Cinema Lucerna, Prague – CZ
Docufest: Uncharted States of America, Prishtina, Kosovo – XK
Oberhausen, Oberhausen – DE
2014
Motion(less) Pictures, Anthology Film Archives
Exploded View Microcinema, Tucson, AZ – US
Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival, Ithaca, NY – US
2013
Wavelengths, Toronto International Film Festival, Toronto – CA
The Movement of Capital, PS 1, LIC, New York New Directors New Films, New York, NY – US
Oberhausen, Oberhausen Short Film Festival, Germany Forum Expanded, Berlinale, Berlin – DE
2012
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA – US
Images Festival, Toronto – CA
2011
REDCAT (Roy and Edna Disney Cal Arts Theater), Los Angeles, CA – US
Pacific Film Archives, Berkeley, CA – US
2010
Documentary Fortnight, MoMA, NY – US
56th Robert Flaherty Film Seminar, Hamilton, NY – US
Frieze Film, Frieze Art Fair, Regents Park – UK
Bradford International Film Festival, Bradford – UK
Princeton University Museum of Art, Princeton, NJ
Overgarden, Denmark, Copenhagen – DK
Hampshire College, Amherst, MA – US
Flaherty Film Seminar CPH: PIX – DK
2009
Light Industry, Brooklyn, NY – US
Abandon Normal Devices, Liverpool – UK
Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH – US
SPACES, Cleveland, OH – US
Chicago Underground Film Festival, Chicago, IL – US
Nevada Railroad Museum, Ely, Nevada – US
Bureau of Land Management, Ely, Nevada – US
Migrating Forms Film Festival, New York, NY – US
MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA – US
Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York, NY – US
The Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH – US
California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA – US
Studio for Urban Projects, San Francisco, CA – US
Exploratorium, San Francisco – US
UCLA, Los Angeles, CA – US
Telic/Public School, Los Angeles, CA – US
Manhattan Neighborhood Network, Performa 09 – US
2008
Panda Public Access TV, Tivoli, NY – US
2006
Monkeytown, Brooklyn, NY – US
2004
NW Film Forum, Seattle, WA – US
ILLUSTRATED LECTURES
2017
Lucy Raven: Subterrestrial Cinema, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York – US
Index, The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, Stockholm – SE
2015
Popova Cinema, Prague – CZ
The Whitney Museum of American Art – US
2014
South London Gallery, London – UK
Images Festival, Toronto – CA
EMPAC, Troy, NY – US
The Kitchen, New York, NY – US
2013
Mumok, Vienna – AT
Basilica, Hudson, NY – US
San Francisco Film Festival, San Francisco, CA – US
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA – US
2012
Space, New York, NY – US
2011
Artists Space, New York, NY – US
2010
Greater New York Cinema, PS 1, NY – US
2009
Light Industry at X-Initiative, New York, NY – US
The Kitchen, New York, NY – US
Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA – US
2007
The Kitchen, New York, NY – US
2006
Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY – US
Joey Chang Art Space, Beijing – CN
EDUCATION
2008
MFA, Bard Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
2000
BFA studio art, BA Art History, University if Arizona, Tuson, AZ
1999
Escola Massana, Barcelona
AWARDS, GRANTS, AND RESIDENCIES
2017
Artists Residency, Bella Art Projects, Manila
2014
Artist in residence, Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center, Troy, NY
2013
Artadia Award recipient, Bay Area
2012
Foundation for Contemporary Arts Travel Grant
Artist-in-residence at Oakland Museum of California (with Alex Abramovich) for Oakland Standard
2011
Artist Research Residency, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2010
Art Matters Grant Recipient
Selection for Flaherty Film Seminar, Hamilton College, curated by Dennis Lim
2008
Residency Award and Joan Mitchell Foundation Fellowship, Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL
2007
Die schönsten deutschen Bücher 2007 for Road to Reno (Steidl), of text and photographs by Magnum photojournalist Inge Morath
2006-8
Residency Award, Art and Tech, The Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH
2005
Residency Award, The Center for Land Use Interpretation, Wendover, UT
2004
Best Music Scribing Award, “Death Wish Soundtrack by Herbie Hancock” illustrated essay for Sound Collector Audio Review, 2004.
Lucy Raven at Index – The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, Stockholm
Index presents a new iteration of Lucy Raven’s ongoing talk series On Location. Raven’s work focuses on the edges of image production, what happens behind the camera, in-between frames or within post-production. On Location traces the spaces of image industries … More
Lucy Raven “The Deccan Trap” on Vdrome
Introduced by Victoria Brooks 2015, Photographic animation, color, sound, 4’19” The Deccan Trap is a sci-fi fable that goes back in space and time, with one layer at a time revealed from a cut out collage of stacked images. The … More
Lucy Raven “Edge of Tomorrow” at Serpentine Galleries, London
This winter, the Serpentine presents the first UK solo exhibition of the New York-based artist, Lucy Raven (born 1977, Tucson, Arizona). Lucy Raven: “Edge of Tomorrow” Serpentine Galleries 8 December 2016 – 12 February 2017 For more info
Lucy Raven at ICA Boston
‘The Artist’s Museum’ The desire to collect objects and images of personal significance, and to make connections between them, is a nearly universal human experience. For centuries, artists have collected artworks, along with diverse cultural artifacts and natural materials, as … More
Lucy Raven—Thirteen Black Cats at La Biennale de Montréal 2016
Lucy Raven as part of Thirteen Black Cats, a research and production collective for moving images, will be participating in La Biennale de Montréal 2016 – Le Grand Balcon (The Grand Balcony). Le Grand Balcon draws loosely on Jean Genet’s … More
Lucy Raven to exhibit at Serpentine Gallery
The range of Raven’s work is underpinned by her continuing interest in the relationship between technology, labour and the ways in which images are manufactured, distributed and consumed within our globalised world. At the nexus of Raven’s most recent investigations … More
Lucy Raven at Columbus Museum of Art
Columbus Museum of Art is proud to present an exhibition by New York-based artist Lucy Raven. The museum invited Raven to organize a show drawn from our collections. In her work, Raven combines photography, animation, and sound to investigate industrial … More
Lucy Raven at Park Avenue Armory in New York
Lucy Raven comes to the Veterans Room to reimagine her work Tales of Love and Fear, a unique instance of cinema that is as much a film as it is a kinetic sculpture performing the architecture of the space it inhabits. A … More
Lucy Raven In conversation with Drew Sawyer, Wild Sync, Aperture, Issue 224, September 2016 (Download PDF)
Jason Simon, Lucy Raven, BOMB magazine, June 2016 (Download PDF)
Esther Buss, Pop goes the picture, Frieze, June 2016 (Download PDF)
A conversation between Joan Jonas, Ken Okiishi, Lucy Raven and Jennifer West, Mousse, February 2015 (Download PDF)
Genevieve Yue, Rep Diary: Motion(less) Pictures, filmcomment, March 2014 (Download PDF)
Andrew Berardini, Lucy Raven turns test patterns into art, LA Weekly, December 2012 (Download PDF)
Stuart Comer, The best motion pictures and moving images of 2009, Frieze, January 2010 (Download PDF)
Holland Cotter, Who needs objects? Rev up the flashing sign and run the video, The New York Times, January 2007 (Download PDF)
Sam Lewitt and Lucy Raven: Wild Sync & Weak Locals
Pilar Corrias Gallery is pleased to present a two-person exhibition by Sam Lewitt and Lucy Raven, Wild Sync & Weak Locals. In the ground floor gallery, Sam Lewitt activates custom fabricated copper-clad plastic heating circuits by maxing out the electrical energy … More