EDUCATION
1982 BS, M.I.T., Cambridge Massachusetts, Electrical Engineering
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2006
“Alan Rath,” di Rosa Preserve: Art & Nature, Napa, CA
2005
“Time Pieces,” Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, New York, NY
“Motion Pictures,” Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Alan Rath: Art and Robotics,” Hatton Gallery, Colorado State University, CO
2004
Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
2003
“Run Man Run,” Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2002
“Stereos,” Track 16 Gallery, Los Angeles CA
2001
“New Sculpture,” Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1999
“Friendly Machines”, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"Alan Rath: Robotics ", SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM traveling to Austin Museum, TX and Scottsdale Center for the Arts, Scottsdale, Arizona (publication)
1998
"Bio-Experiments: Unnatural Specimens", Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"New Work", Dorfman Projects, New York, NY
"New Robotic Sculpture", Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
"New Robotic Sculpture", Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach, CA
1996
Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
"Counting", Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Nelson Gallery, University of CA at Davis, Davis, CA
1995
"Alan Rath: Sculpture", Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
San Francisco International Airport, installation as part of the Art in Public Places Project organized by Capp Street Project, San Francisco, CA
Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA
1994
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA
John Weber Gallery, New York, NY
Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
1993
Gallery of Art, Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, KS
Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC
1992
Galerie Hans Meyer, Dusseldorf, Germany
Dorothy Goldeen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
"Alan Rath" traveling exhibition from Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN. Touring to Center for
the Fine Art, Miami, FL; The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI; Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
University of Missouri, St. Louis, MO
1991
"Alan Rath", Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN (traveling in 1992)
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
1990
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
Dorothy Goldeen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
1989
Katie Lacoste Gallery, San Jose, CA
1988
New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
1987
ProArts, Oakland, CA
Memorial Union Art Gallery, University of California, Davis, CA
1986
Artists' Television Access, San Francisco, CA
WORKS/San Jose, San Jose, CA
1984
Center for Advanced Visual Studies, MIT, Cambridge, MA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008
"Material Terrain", Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2007
"A Temporal Moving Image," Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2006
“Director’s Choice,” Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2005
“Ad Infinitum: The Aesthetics of Repetition II,” Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, Summer Exhibition, New York, NY.
2004
“Bodily Space: New Obsessions in Figurative Sculpture,” Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
“The Not-So-Still Life: A Century of California Painting and Sculpture,” San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA; Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena, CA
2003
Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, Inaugural Exhibition, New York, NY
“Corporal Identity – Body Language,” Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany [cat] traveled to: Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY
“Video +,” Caarl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
2002
“Fifteen – 15th Anniversary Exhibition,” Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Visual Alchemy 1,” Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland CA
“Organic/Mechanic,” John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan WI
“Portrait Obscured,” San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose CA
“Low Tech/ High Tech Hybrids: Art In The Digital Age,” Bedford Gallery, Dean Lesher Regional Center For The Arts, Walnut Creek CA
2001
“The Gravity of the Immaterial,” The Institute of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan [cat]
“Body and Sin,” Bienal de Valencia, Valencia, Spain [cat]
“Mail Art Exchange,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA
“Chain Reaction,” Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA [cat] traveled to: Tang Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
Gallery 2211 Inaugural Exhibition Part: 1, Los Angeles, CA
“Now Playing: Audio in Art,” Susan Inglett, New York, NY
Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA
2000
"Attraction/Distraction: Perceptual Conditions of Media Art," Stanford Museum, Stanford, CA
The Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
"The Future of the Body", Richmond Art Center, Richmond, VA
“A Lasting Legacy”, works from the permanent collection of OCMA, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
Museet Fotographie, Odense, Denmark
Perspectives, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
1999
Artspace, San Francisco, CA
Dorothy Goldeen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Sesnon Gallery, University of California at Santa Cruz, CA
“Ghost in the Shell”, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
“Digital Dialogues”, Cincinnati Arts Association Aronoff Center, Cincinnati, OH
“Double Trouble: The Patchett Collection”, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA traveling to Museo de las Artes and Instituto Cultural Cabanas, Guadalajara, Mexico; Museo de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico; Museo Universitario Contemporaneo de Arte, Mexico City; Auditorio de Galicia and Iglesia San Domingos de Bonaval, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, and Sala Amos Salvador, Logrono, Spain (publication)
“The Sight of Sound,” Transamerica Pyramid, San Francisco, CA
“Body Mecanique”, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH
"Perspectives on Infinity", TransAmerica Pyramid Building, San Francisco, CA
"Crossings", Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria (traveling to the Rudolfinum, Prague in 1999)
1997
“Alternating Currents: American Art in the Age of Technology”, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
“Finders/Keepers”, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX (catalog)
1996
"Matters of The Heart", Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Art Medial”, La Lonja, Palma de Mallocra, Spain (catalogue)
“Metamachines - Where is the body”, Otso Gallery, Espoo, Finland
“A Chaos of Delight”, Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE
“The Box Exhibition”, Fotouhi Kramer Gallery, New York, NY
“Landscape Reclaimed”, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
“A Selection of Classics”, Dorothy Goldeen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1995
"COUNTERSPACE," Special Project Space, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD
"Veered Science", Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach, CA
Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
"Inside Out", Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ
University of Amherst, MA
Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
"Between Reality and Abstraction: CA Art at the End of the Century", Art
Museum of South TX, Corpus Christi, TX. Travels to: Honolulu, Hawaii; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Scottsdale, Arizona; Las Vegas, Nevada; St. Petersburg, Florida; and the United Kingdom
Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
"Machine", Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Harbor, CA
"It's Only Rock and Roll: Rock and Roll Currents in Contemporary Art", Contemporary Art Center,
Cincinnati, OH
1994
Spiral Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
MIT Museum, Cambridge, MA
San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX
Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH
Table, Lamp, & Chair, Portland, OR
1993
Akademie der Kunste, Berlin, Germany
International Center of Photography, New York, NY
Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY
Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
John Weber Gallery, New York, NY
"Body Parts", Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH
Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh, PA
1992
Padiglione d/Arte Contemporanea, Ferrara, Italy
International Center of Photography, New York, NY
Alvar Alto Museum, Jyvaskyla, Finland
Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY
The Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
1991
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
Amy Lipton Gallery, New York, NY
Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
Germans van Eck Gallery, New York, NY
1990
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Stadtmuseum Siegburg, Siegburg, Germany
Cite des Arts et des Nouvelles Technologies, Montreal, Canada
Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
University of CA at Santa Barbara, CA
Miami University Art Museum, Oxford, OH
San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA
1989
Museum Folkwang, Essen, West Germany
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, CA
Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria
Visiona, Zurich, Switzerland
Center for Exploratory and Perceptual Art, Buffalo, NY
Terrain Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
Intermedia Arts, Minneapolis, MN
1988
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Houston Center for Photography, TX
Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, West Germany
Center for Research in Contemporary Art, Arlington, TX
Miami Center for Fine Arts, Miami, FL
Siggraph '88, Atlanta, GA
San Francisco Camerawork Gallery, San Francisco, CA
IBM Gallery of Science and Art, New York, NY
University of Wisconsin, Eau-Claire, WI
1987
Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH
Photographic Resource Center, Boston, MA
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
WORKS/San Jose, San Jose, CA
Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
Walnut Creek Civic Arts Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA
Walnut Creek Civic Arts Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
WORKS/San Jose, San Jose, CA
Photographic Resource Center, Boston, MA
1986
San Francisco International Video Festival, San Francisco, CA
Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
1985
Sausalito Arts Festival, Sausalito, CA
1984
Boston "First Night" Celebration of the Arts, Boston, MA
PUBLICATIONS
2002 Stereo, published by Smart Art Press, 32 pages, 2002
2001 Alan Rath, published by Haines Gallery, 19 pages, 2001
1999 Alan Rath: Robotics, co-published by SITE Santa Fe and Smart Art Press, 64 pages, 1999
1995 Alan Rath: Plants, Animals, People, Machines, published by Smart Art Press, 48 pages, 1995
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2008
Elle Décor, May 2008, Volume 19, Number 4
2007
"Nam June Paik, Alan Rath, Kota Ezawa," Flavorpill, Issue #286.
Vogelz, Traci. "Art Footage," SFWeekly, October 17 - 23, 2007.
2006
Bing, Alison. “Alan Rath: Meta Mechanics,” Sculpture Magazine. September 2006.
2005
Alfaya, David. “Art that Transforms,” Santa Fe Trend. Winter/Spring 2005.
“What’s On,” The Art Newspaper. September 2005
2003
Francis, Richard. “Collecting Sculpture Today,” Microsoft Art Collection.
2002
Gaston, Diane. “Alan Rath at Haines Gallery,” Art in America, March 2002.
Winn, Steven. “Shock waves: Effect Sept. 11 had on Bay Area artists,” San Francisco Chronicle, September 11, p. E1-2.
2001
Westbrook, Lindsey. “Critic’s Choice: Art; ‘New Sculptures’ and ‘Remainders,’” San Francisco Bay Guardian, November 7, p.72.
Hamlin, Jesse. “Sculpture that keeps its focus,” San Francisco Chronicle, October 31.
Keats, Jonathon. “Ghosts in the Machine,” San Francisco Magazine, October, p. 127-8.
2000
Falkenberg, Merril. “Alan Rath at Haines Gallery,” Artweek, January 2000, p. 20.
1999
Scherr, Appollinaire. “Over There: A critical guide to San Francisco events,” East Bay Express, October 29, p.49.
Ebony, David. “Alan Rath at Dorfman Projects“, Art in America, November
“Alan Rath: Robotics Austin Museum of Art” ArtNow Gallery Guide, April
Tanner, Marcia, “Alan Rath at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts”, ARTnews, Summer
Hall, Jacqueline “Chandeliers Light The Way”, The Columbus Dispatch, September.
1998
Tromble, Meredith. "A Conversation with Alan Rath", Art Week, March.
Rath, Alan. "Hot.List", Artforum, February.
Lovell, Glenn. "Robotic Exhibits Explore Junction of Art and Android", San Jose Mercury News, March 31.
Bonetti, David, "'Judgement' Time at Yerba Buena Center", San Francisco Examiner, April 3.
"A Nose for Computers", ARTnews, February, p. 29
Leady, Kim “Electronicart Body Mechanique & The New Digital Artworld”, Columbus Alive, October
Hall, Jacqueline “Human Form & Function”, The Columbus Dispatch, November.
1996
Welsh, Clarissa. “Alan Rath at the Palo Alto Cultural Center”, Art Week, January.
Jana, Reena. "Counting on Art", Asia Pacific Sculpture News, Summer
"Alan Rath: Sculpture", Exhibition Catalog from University of California, Davis
Shackelford, James F. “Rath Sees Visual Pleasure of Engineering”, The Davis Enterprise, April 30
1995
Rath, David. “Rath of the Machines”, Metro, December.
Friis-Hansen, Dana. “Alan Rath: Bio Mechanics”, Houston Contemporary Arts Museum.
"Alan Rath: Plants, Animals, People, Machines", published by Smart Art Press, Santa Monica, California
1994
"Insights Alan Rath", Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA
1993
Smith, Roberta. “How Beautiful Is Small and Vice Versa”, NY Times , February 26.
Tager, Allison. “Alan Rath”, Flash Art , March.
"Alan Rath", Exhibition Catalog form Johnson County College, Gallery of Art, Overland Park, KS
1992
Kandel, Susan. “The Computer As Art”, Los Angeles Times,October 14.
Baker, Kenneth. “Alan Rath: Digital World”, Art News, May.
Duez Donato, Debora. “Alan Rath”, New Art Examiner, April.
Yood, James. “Alan Rath”, Artforum, March.
1991
Pagel, David. “Alan Rath”, Art Issues,February/March.
Frank, Peter. “Alan Rath”, Sculpture, May/June.
Hartney, Eleanor. “Whitney Biennial”, Artnews, Summer.
Boswell, Peter. "Alan Rath", Exhibition Catalog for Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
SELECTED PUBLIC & PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Austin Museum of Art, TX
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
Di Rosa Preserve, Napa, CA
The Fine Arts Museums, San Francisco, CA
Hara Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
Hess Collection, Napa, CA
The Kent & Vicki Logan Collection, San Francisco, CA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Margulies Collection, Miami, FL
Microsoft Collection, Redmond, WA
Museum fur Holographie & Neue Visuelle Medien, Cologne, Germany
Oakland Museum of Californian Art, Oakland, CA
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
The Patchett Collection, Santa Monica, CA
San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
Scotsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scotsdale, AZ
University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
Ulrich Museum, Wichita Kansas
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA
FELLOWSHIPS
1994 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, New York, NY
1993 Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation, San Francisco, CA
1988 National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, DC
