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John Houck

John Houck
Born	1977
Education	University of California, Los Angeles MFA; University of Colorado BFA
Awards	Hallie Ford Family Foundation Fellowship (2022), Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Grant (2011), National Endowment for the Arts Award (2008)
Website	www.johnhouck.com/

John Houck

John Houck (b. 1977) is an American multi-disciplinary artist whose work is held in the collections of The Whitney Museum of American Art, LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art), Hammer Museum, The Guggenheim, and Museum of Modern Art, among other institutions. He is a graduate of the Whitney ISP, Skowhegan, and University of California Los Angeles MFA program. From subtly folded and rephotographed monochromatic papers, to paintings of psychological landscapes overlaid by objects personal to the artist, Houck recasts the shadow as a hinge of illusion and illumination, as the point at which what is real overlaps with what we can know and what we can imagine.

Education

• Whitney Independent Study Program, New York, NY, 2010
• Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME, 2008
• MFA, UCLA Department of Art, Los Angeles, CA, 2007
• BA, Architecture, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, 2000

Solo exhibitions

2024

• Perfect Temperature Lava, Candice Madey Gallery, New York, NY

2018

• Holding Environment, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY

2017

• Hands, See Mouth, fused space, San Francisco, CA
• Tenth Mountain, Boesky West, Aspen, CO
• The Anthologist, Dallas Contemporary, Dallas, TX

2016

• Playing and Reality, On Stellar Rays, New York, NY

2015

• New Weather, Johan Berggren Gallery, Malmö, Sweden

2013

• A History of Graph Paper, On Stellar Rays, New York, NY
• Ij, Max Wigram Gallery, London, UK

2012

• To Understand Photography You Must First Understand Photography, Kansas Gallery, New York, NY
• Recursion, Bill Brady/KC, Kansas City, MO

2011

• Franklin Art Works, Minneapolis, MN

Selected Group Exhibitions

2021

• We Are Here, Jessica Silverman, San Francisco, CA

2020

• Keeper of the Hearth, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX
• The Quiet Show, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR

2019

• Stains on a Decade: Ten Years at Josh Lilley, Josh Lilley, London, England, UK
• Allan Kaprow: Words, produced by the Allan Kaprow Estate and Hauser & Wirth, Church of San Paolo Converso, Milan, Italy

2018

• Eighty @ Eighty: Recent Gifts to the Permanent Collection, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA
• Screenspace, Rosler Hotel, Galeria Nara Roesler, São Paulo, Brazil
• Made in L.A., Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
• Kinship, Jessica Silverman, San Francisco, CA

2017

• By the River, ACME Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
• Cross Currents, COMA Gallery, Sydney, Australia
• Light Play: Experiments in Photography, 1970s to Present, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
• How to be being, Super Dakota, Brussels, Belgium

2016

• New Builds, Josh Lilley Gallery, London, UK
• Omul Negru, Galeria Nicodim, Bucharest, Romania
• Public, Private, Secret, International Center of Photography, New York, NY

2015

• Repetition and Difference, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
• Painting the Sky Blue, Stefan Lundgren Gallery, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
• Part Picture, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, Canada
• Passing Leap, Hauser & Wirth, New York, NY
• Theories on Forgetting, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA
• Camera of Wonders, Kadist Art Foundation, curated by Jens Hoffmann, Paris, France, travelled to Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín, Medellín, Columbia; Colección Isabel y Augstín Coppel, Mexico City, Mexico
• Ocean of Images: New Photography, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

2014

• California Dreamin': Thirty Years of Collecting, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA
• Fixed Variable, Hauser & Wirth, New York, NY
• Halftone: Through the Grid, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany / Paris, France

2013

• Decenter: An Exhibition on the Centenary of the 1913 Armory SCenter, cundrianna Campbell and Daniel S. Palmer, New York, NY, travelled to George Washington University, Luther W. Brady Art Gallery, Washington, D.C.

Awards

• 2022 Hallie Ford Family Foundation Fellowship
• 2011 Swing Space, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
• 2008 National Endowment for the Arts, Anderson Ranch Residency
• 2007 UCLA Arts Forum Grant