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Light Industry, 2011
R. H. Quaytman

R. H. Quaytman is a painter living in New York City. Over the last decade her practice has encompassed various roles, including artist, writer, and curator. She was the founding director of the New York gallery Orchard, a collective of artists, filmmakers, and art historians active from 2005 to 2008. In 2009 the artist’s first solo museum exhibition was mounted at the ICA Boston, and in November 2010 her first survey opened at the Neuberger Museum of Art in Purchase, New York and traveled in June 2011 to the Basel Kunsthalle. Quaytman has had solo exhibitions at such institutions as the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Secession, Vienna; the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles; the Tel Aviv Museum of Art; and Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York. Quaytman was awarded a Rome Prize by the American Academy in Rome in 1992 and the Wolfgang Hahn Prize by the Gesellschaft für Moderne Kunst in 2015.

R. H. Quaytman’s work incorporates abstraction and layers of diamond dust, silkscreened photographs and hand-painted trompe l’oeil, personal and art-historical narratives. Her work is on view at this year’s Venice Biennale and has been shown at the Whitney Biennial (2010) and at solo shows at SF MoMA (2010) and Kunsthalle Basel (2011).

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