Molly Lowe (b. 1983, Palo Alto, CA) received her MFA from Columbia University and her BFA from Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). She has had solo exhibitions and performances at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Lilith Performance Studio, Malmo, Sweden; Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY; Suzanne Geiss Company, New York, NY; SculptureCenter, Long Island City, New York; and Performa 13, New York, NY. Her films have screened at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY and JOAN, Los Angeles, CA. Lowe has participated in residencies at the Shandaken Project, Storm King Art Center, New Windsor, NY; Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY; Recess Art, New York, NY; and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME. In 2015, she received the New York Foundation for the Arts interdisciplinary artist fellowship award, and she was recently nominated for a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation award. Lowe lives and works in New York.
Molly Lowe Under The Tree, 2022 (detail)
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Molly Lowe
- 1983
- Palo Alto, California
- Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York
Education
- 2012
- MFA, Columbia University, New York, NY
- 2005
- BFA, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island
- 2002
- Fiorello H. La Guardia School Of Music and Art and Performing Arts, Visual arts , New York, NY
Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions
- 2023
- Falling together, Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA
- 2019
- Hammer Projects: Molly Lowe, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles CA
- 2017
- Modern Monday, MoMa , New York NY
- 2016
- Molly Lowe: REDWOOD, JOAN, Los Angeles, CA
- Molly Lowe: REDWOOD, 1708 Gallery, Richmond VA
- Molly Lowe: REDWOOD, Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY
- 2014
- Sorry, Excuse me, Thank you, Suzanne Geiss, New York, NY
- 2013
- HANDS OFF, Performa 13, Recess Art, New York, NY
- FORMED, Malraux Place, Brooklyn, NY
Selected Group Exhibitions
- 2023
- Women in Abstraction, Pedder Building, Hong Kong, curated by Lawrence Van Hangen (forthcoming)
- 2022
- 10th Anniversary Benefit Exhibition, Shandaken Projects, New York, NY
- 2nd Annual group show, MemeRaki, Cyprus
- 2021
- Pantheon, Arts of Life, Chicago, IL
- 2020
- Never the same color, Solyanka Gallery, Moscow, Russia
- 2019
- Proposition, Hesse Flatow, New York, NY
- 2016
- No Free tax art month, 247365, New York, NY
- Mapping the Body, Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck / Austria
- 2015
- DOPPELGÄNGING, Work/Release, Norflok, VA
- Hand/Made: The Industrial Revolution and the Digital Age, The Woodstock Brydcliffe Guild, Woodstock, NY
- 2014
- Last Days of Folly, Madison Sq, Park, NY
- AutoBody, Spinello Projects, Miami, FL
- Formed, Impact Festival, Utrecht, NL
- Flex, Kent Fine Art, New York, NY
- If The Shoe Fits Like A Glove, 247365 , New York, NY
- Shrink it Pink, Cathouse Funeral, Brooklyn, NY
- 2013
- In Practice, Sculpture Center, LIC, NY
- What Possessed You, Fowler Arts, Brooklyn, NY
- Ora Serrata, Cashmana, New York, NY
- 2012
- Land – La Salle University, Singapore
- Columbia MFA thesis show- Fisher Landau Center, LIC, NY
- Finite- Infinity, Greenwich House, New York, NY
- 2011
- Columbia first year MFA show- Wallach Gallerey, New York, NY
- Fashion is for Ugly People- Illuminated Metropolis Gallery, New Yorkl, NY
- 2010
- Material & Destructure: The Creative Alternative in Art, Poissant Gallery, Houston, TX
- Wet festival – Mc Carren Park , New York, NY
- Exedous into the Civilized Wild- Hotelmariakapel, Netherlands
- Neo-Vitruvian:the Body Now-Hal Bromm Gallery, New York , NY
- Shake Out- The Beach Channel Marina, Rockaway ,New York, NY
- 2009
- Multifaceted Female, Barat Foundation, Newark, NJ
- Smithumenta, Ray Smith 261 Studio, Brooklyn, NY
- Re: Materialization Exhibition, Deborah Martin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
- Come into your Body, Elsewhere Collaborative, Greensboro, NC
- Room Tones Cecilia Convent, Brooklyn, NY
- Room Tones Cecilia Convent, Brooklyn, NY
- The Resident Fraction, Camel Arts Space, Brooklyn, NY
- Bushwick Artillery, Castle Braid Building, Brooklyn, NY
- 2007
- NY, NY, NY, Flux Factory, Long Island City, NY
- 2006
- Incognito, Santa Monica Museum of Art , Santa Monica, CA
- Portrait Show, Hall Gallery, Portland, OR
- Waste Not Art, TAZO tea Recycled Art Exhibition Portland, OR
- 2005
- Unconventional Materials, BEB Building, Providence, RI
- Painting Department Woodsgerry Gallery, Providence, RI
- RISD Senior Painting Thesis Show, Woodsgerry Gallery, Providence, RI
- 2015
- New York Foundation for the Arts, Interdisciplinary Artist Fellowship Award
- 2012
- Columbia University, Merit Scholarship
- 2005
- Rhode Island School of Design Painting Department : Florence Leif Award
Installations
- 2012
- NADA Pool Party Installations, Miami, FL
- 2009
- Motherboard Cockpit Barat Foundation, Newark, NJ
- 2007
- Valparaiso Pole Wrap, UNESCO Historical site, Ascensor Reina Victoria, Valparaiso, Chile
- 2006
- Disjecta Totem, Entrance of Disjecta Art Center,Portland, OR
- Alberta Tree telephone poles Alberta street Art Hop,Portland, OR
Residencies
- 2022
- Meme Raki, Cyrpus
- 2016
- Shandaken, NY
- 2015
- Pioneer Works,Brooklyn, NY
- 2013
- Recess Art
- 2012
- Tropical Lab, Singapore
- 2010
- Hotel Maria Kapel, Netherlands
- 2009
- Elsewhere Residency , North Carolina
- 2008
- Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine
Selected Press
- Steinhauer, Jillian “In a Former Auto Body Shop in Miami, Video and Performance Art by Women”, December 2014
- Rosenberg, Karen “Molly Lowe:’Sorry Excuse me Thank You’. New York Times, Art in Review, March 2014
- Goings on about town - Galleries Downtown, “Molly Lowe” The New Yorker, March 2014
- Ashton, Cooper “Recess Benefit is All About the Art” In the air, ARTINFO, 2014
- Vogel, Wendy “Hands-On: Molly Lowe’s All-Too-Human Creations” Modern Painters, February 2014
- Jovanovic, Rozalia “10 Must-Sees At This Year's Performa” ARTINFO, October 2013
- Morre, Alex “The Mating Call of Homo Sapiens—A studio visit with Molly Lowe” Satellite Press Transmission Vol. 1 issue 2, 2012
- Shultz, Charlie “MFA special edition’ the new generation of makers’. ARTSLANT, June 2012