Born 1961, Mexia, Texas
Lives and works in Los Angeles, California

EDUCATION
1988 California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California; MFA
1984 University of Texas, Austin, TX; BFA

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008 Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne
2007 de Appel Centre for Contemporary Art, Amsterdam
Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles
2006 Corvi-Mora, London
"Urbis Paganus Part I+III," Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne
Greene Naftali, New York
2004 Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles
Corvi-Mora, London
Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne
2003 Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles
Kunstverein Heilbronn
Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris
2002 Corvi-Mora, London
Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne
2001 Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris
2000 Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles
Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne
Corvi-Mora, London
1999 Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris
Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles
1998 Ynglingagtan 1, Stockholm
1997 Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles
1996 Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles
Feature, New York
1995 Ynglingagatan 1, Stockholm
Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles
1993 Feature, New York
Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles
1992 Mincher/Wilcox Gallery, San Francisco
Roy Boyd Gallery, Santa Monica

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2007 "Fit to Print," Gagosian Gallery, New York
"Post Rose: Artists in and out of the Hazard Park Complex," Galerie Christian Nagel, Berlin
"You Always Move in Reverse," Curated by Bjarne Melgaard, Leo Koenig Gallery, New York
"Good Morning, Midnight" Organized by Bruce Hainley, Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York
"L.A. Desire Part I" Curated by Wilhelm Schurmann, Galerie Dennis Kimmerich, Dusseldorf
"If Everyone had an Ocean. Brian Wilson: An Art Exhibition," Tate St. Ives, St. Ives, UK
"RAW, Among the Ruins," MARRES Centre for Contemporary Culture, Maastricht
2006 "Red Eye: L.A. Artists from the Rubell Family Collection," The Rubell Family Collection, Miami, Florida
"Under Pressure" Curated by Bill Cournoyer, Art:Concept Paris, France
"Group Exhibition" Richard Telles Fine Art
"Elective Identities," Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne
3rd Biennale of Ceramics in Contemporary ArtLigurian Riviera, Albisola, Italy
"The Swan is Very Peaceful...," Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles
Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, at Metro Pictures
2005 "The Blake Byrne Collection," Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, organized by Senior Curator Ann Goldstein and Assistant Curator Michael Darling (catalogue).
"plip, plip, plippity," Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles
2004 Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne
"shortlybeforeafter," The Photographic Collection, Cultural Foundation, Cologne
"Powered by Emotions," Frankfurt Kunstverein,
"Three Day Weekend: April 17," Public Art Fund Projects in Central Park, a collaboration with the Whitney Biennial, New York; curator Dave Muller
2003 "Wit From Rainbow Part I," The Project. Los Angeles; curator Katie Brennan
"Hans Broek, Taft Green, Richard Hawkins," Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles
"Ishtar," Midway Contemporary Art, St. Paul, MN; curator Bruce Hainley (catalogue)
2002 "The Gallery Show," Royal Academy of Art, London; curators Norman Rosenthal and Max Wigram
"L.A. On My Mind: Recent Acquisitions from MOCA's Collection," Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
"crisp," Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
"Richard Hawkins, Stan Kaplan, Pae White," Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles
"Mirror Image," UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
2001 "Heads or Tails," Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris
"The Communications Department," Anthony Wilkinson Gallery, London; curator Alex Farquharson
2000 "Kai Althoff, Thomas Eggerer, Isa Genzken, Richard Hawkins, Jochen Klein, Frances Stark, Vincente Tavenne, Wolfgang Tillmans," Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne
"Hairy Forearm's Self-Referral," Feature, New York
1999 "Curious.parking@stupendous.strawberry," Galerie S. & H. Buck, Gent, Belgium; curator Karen Emenheiser (catalogue)
"Art in the Age of the Consumer: Works from the Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art," Feldman Gallery, Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles
1998 Three Person Exhibition (with Jeff Ono & Scott Hug), Feature, New York
"WOP: works on/off paper," ANP, Antwerp, Belgium
"In Your Face," The Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh
"Codex USA: Works on Paper by American Artists," Entwhistle, London
"Science," Feature, New York
1997 "Chill," University of California Gallery, Irvine
"Hello," Feature, New York
"Gnarleyland," Feature, New York
"Scene of the Crime," UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; curator Ralph Rugoff (catalogue)
1996 "Nirvana: Capitalism and the Consumed Image," Center of Contemporary Art, Seattle
"Tangles," Otis Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles
"How will we behave?" Robert Prime, London
"Ginny Bishton, Richard Hawkins, Pae White," Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles
1995 "Crystal Blue Persuasion," Feature, New York
"The Moderns," Feature, New York; curator Tony Payne
"It's Only Rock & Roll," Phoenix Art Museum; curator David S. Ruben (catalogue)
"Narcissistic Disturbance," Otis Gallery, Otis College of Art & Design, Los Angeles; curator Michael Cohen (catalogue: essays by Michael Cohen, Catherine Liu, Laurence A. Rickels)
"In A Different Light," University Art Museum, Berkeley; curators Nayland Blake & Larry Rinder (catalogue)
1994 "Pure Beauty: Some Recent Work From Los Angeles," American Center, Paris; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; curator Ann Goldstein
"And," Feature, New York
"Mechanical Reproduction," Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam; curator Jack Jaeger (catalogue)
1993 Three-Person Exhibition (with Jennifer Pastor and Lily van der Stokker), Feature, New York
"Commodity Image," International Center of Photography, New York; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; Kunsthal Rotterdam; Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach; High Museum of Art, Atlanta; curator Willis Hartshorn
1992 "Trouble Over So Much Skin," Feature, New York
"In Pursuit of a Devoted Repulsion," Roy Boyd Gallery, Santa Monica
1991 "Stussy," Feature, New York
Three-Person Exhibition (with B. Wurtz and Jory Felice), Roy Boyd Gallery, Santa Monica
"Presenting Rearwards," Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles; curator Ralph Rugoff (catalogue: essay by Ralph Rugoff)
"Examples Cool and Lonely," Roy Boyd Gallery, Santa Monica (portfolio of lithographs)
1990 "Que Overdose!" Mincher/Wilcox Gallery, San Francisco; curator Nayland Blake (catalogue: essay by Nayland Blake)

BIBLIOGRAPHY
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"Red Eye: L.A. Artists from the Rubell Family Collection," Exhibition Catalogue, The Rubell Family Collection, Miami, Florida
Sonnenborn, Katie. "Good Morning, Midnight," Frieze, October, p. 275.
Velasco, David. Fall Previews, "Amsterdam: Richard Hawkins at De Appel," Artforum, September, p. 223.
Brooks, Amra. "Must See Art, Richard Hawkins at Richard Telles Fine Art," LA Weekly, p. 85, September 13 - 20.
Cotter, Holland. "Good Morning, Midnight," The New York Times, July 27, p. B30.
Columbus, Nikki. Critic's Picks, "Good Morning, Midnight," Artforum.com, July.
Velasco, David. "Richard Hawkins, Preview, De Appel Amsterdam" Artforum, September, p. 223.
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Eichler, Dominic. "Veriety Shows," Afterall Journal 15, Spring-Summer 2007, p. 44-52.
Schwabsky, Barry. "Richard Hawkins, Corvi-Mora," ArtForum, March 2007, p. 337
2006 Ward, Ossian. Richard Hawkins, Time Out London, December 19
Krebber, Michael. "Notes from the Slip Box," Grey Flags, p.149
Bruce Hainley and Liv Stolz "Another History," Milliken Gallery publication, Stockholm, Sweden, October 2006
Taft, Catherine. Critic's Picks "Untitled Group Exhibition," Artforum.com October 3-14
Wolin, Joseph. "Richard Hawkins," Time Out New York, June 15-21
Farquharson, Alex, "Different Strokes," Frieze, March, p. 134-139, illus.
Wilshire, Mark. "Le Voyage Interieur," Art Monthly, March, p. 29-30
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Terry Myers, Review, Modern Painters, February, p. 107.
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"My Pop (as told to Russell Ferguson)," Artforum, October issue, p. 265
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Myers, Terry R., "Abstract to a fault," ArtReview, May issue, pp. 58-61
2003 Sussman, Tamara: "Hans Broek, Taft Green, Richard Hawkins," ArtUS, November/December, p.6.
Rimanelli, David: "Brush Stroke," in Artforum, XLII, No. 3, November 2003, p. 46.
"Richard Hawkins," catalogue ed. by Daniel Buchholz, Christopher MUller,
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Meyers, Terry R.: Review, in: ON PAPER, March/April, pp. 52-53.
Miles, Christopher: "un-real!", Detour Magazine, April, 03.
John Waters and Bruce Hainley: "A new kind of arty sex", in: Art-A Sex Book, by John Waters and Bruce Hainley, London: Thames & Hudson 2003, pp. 134-143.
John Waters and Bruce Hainley: "Nine Sex Questions-Richard Hawkins," in: Art-A Sex Book, Time Out, No. 1554, May 31-June 7, p. 51.
Farquharson, Alex: Review, in: Frieze, September/October, pp. 121-122.
"Collage Hommage," in: Gay Times, June, p. 74.
Hawkins, Richard: "Top Ten," in: Artforum International, Vol. XXXiX, No. 3, Nove, p. 80 (reproduction).
Miles, Christopher: "Notes on Richard Hawkins, Lost Heads," in: X-Tra, vol. 1, No. 5, Spring/Summer, pp. 5-6.
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2002 Review, Martin Coomer, Time Out London, July, p. 59.
Waldron, Glenn: "The things we do for art," i-D, May, pp. 97-98
Pagel, David: "MOCA Sampler is a mixed Treat," Los Angeles Times, Feb. 8, pp. F1 and F26.
2001 Unruh, Reiner: "Junge Kunst aus Kalifornien," Kunst-forum International, No. 154, April/May pp. 384-385.
Coles, Sadie: "Mario Testino's Art Index," Visionaire, May/June, p. 7.
2000 Coomer, Martin, Review, Time-Out, no. 1554 May 31 - June 7, p. 51.
Farquharson, Alex: Review, Frieze, September/ October, pp 121-22.
"Collage Hommage," Gay Times, June, p. 74.
Hawkins, Richard : "Top Ten," Artforum International, Vol. XXXIX, No. 3, November, p. 52.
1999 Cohen, Michael: Review, Flash Art, pp. 131-132 (reproduction).
Hainley, Bruce: "Message to Michael," Frieze, September/October, pp. 72-77 (reproduction).
Angus, Ivy: "WOp:ANP Antwerp, Belgium," ZINGMAGAZINE, vol. 3, spring/summer, pp. 229-30.
Lambrecht, Luc: "Americaans En Toch Niet," De Morgan, 12 February, p. 14.
Popelier, Bert: "Jonge Amerikanen," De Financieel Economische Tijd, February 3, p. 12.
1998 Cotter, Holland: "Art in Review: Jochen Klein, Raghubir Singh; Richards Hawkins, Scott Hug and Jeff Ono," The New York Times, June 26, 1998, page E38
Cream: Contemporary Art in Culture, Phaidon Press Ltd., London (essay by Susan Kandel), pp. 172-175.
Hainley, Bruce: Review, Artforum, March, p. 106.
Jaeger, William: "Shock Tactics: Contemporary Photography Flirts with Disaster," Art New England, Oct./Nov., pp. 20-21, 69.
Meyers, Terry R.: Review, ON PAPER, March/April, pp. 52-53.
Miles, Christopher: "un-real!" Detour Magazine, April, p. 80 (reproduction)
Miles, Christopher: "Notes on Richard Hawkins, Lost Heads," X-Tra, vol. 1, no. 5 Spring/Summer, pp. 5-6, 11-13.
1997 Arning, Bill: "More," Time Out New York, Dec. 24, p.59.
Curtis, Cathy: " The Cold Shoulder," Los Angeles Times, (Orange County Ed.), Oct 21, p. F2.
Doran, Ann: Review, Time Out New York, August 7, p. 47.
Ollman, Leah: Review, Los Angeles Times, November 28, p. F31.
1996 Kandel, Susan: Review, Los Angeles Times, May 28, p. F2.
"Goings on About Town," The New Yorker, August 5, p.14.
1995 Connors, Thomas: Review (Youth Culture Killed My Dog) (But I Don't Really Mind), New Art Examiner, September, p. 42.
Ericsson, Lars O.: "Tva Kronor Provocerar Mer an Homoerotik," Dagens Nyheter, November 1, p. B2 (reproduction).
Greene, David A: "Beyond Etch-a Sketch," Los Angeles Reader, April, p. 20.
Kandel, Susan: "Hawkin's Latest on Male Desire: Decorative Not Edgy," Los Angeles Times, April 13, p. F7.
Kandel, Susan: "Taking an Intriguing Look at Three Distinct Visions," Los Angeles Times, May 28, p. F2.
Knight, Christopher: "Last Chance for Eden: Selected Art Criticism by Christopher Knight, 1979-1994," edited by Malin Wilson, forward by Dave Hickey. Art Issues Press, Los Angeles, pp. 309-312.
Wilk, Deborah: Review (Youth Culture), Flash Art, Summer, p 76.
1994 Breerette, Genevieve: "Tout nouveau, tout beau," Le Monde, June 8.
Duncan, Michael: "L.A. Rising," Art in America, December, pp. 72-83.
Fayard, Judy: "Gehry's Diamond in the Rough," Wall Street Journal Europe, June 10.
Kapitanoff, Nancy: "Giving Mixed Messages," Los Angeles Times, May 6, p. F9 (reproduction).
Lieberman, Rhonda: "Revenge of the Mouse Diva: Karen Kilimnik," Artforum, February, p. 81.
Meyers, Terry: Review, Art Issues, March/April p. 39 (reproduction).
Sanburn, Curt: "At Home with Male Erotica," Out, April, pp. 116-118.
Wilson, William: "Irony Becomes Stale Second Time Around," Los Angeles Times, September 28, Section F, pp. 1,12. (reproduction).
1993 Cohen, Michael: "The City Without Organs," Flash Art, March/April, pp. 67-70 (reproduction).
Duncan, Michael: Review (Hollywood, Hollywood), Art Issues, January/February, page 36.
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Pagel, David: Review (TRI-Sexual), The Los Angeles Times, April 1, p. 8.
1992 "From New York," BT-Bijutso Techno, October, p.134.
Carlson, Lance: Review, Artweek, December 17, p. 17.
David, Jennie: "Buttholes, Bricabrac and Body Parts: Marginalia in 'TrueGrit'," Gay and Lesbian Times, June 27, p. 56 (reproduction).
Levin, Kim: "Choices," The Village Voice, August 4, p. 72.
Marrs, Jennifer: "Simple Style with a Complex Meaning," Courier, October 2, pp. 15, 18.
"Goings on About Town," The New Yorker, July 27, p. 9.
Pagel, David: Review (three-person exhibition/Roy Boyd), Art Issues, March/April, p. 34 (reproduction).
Pagel, David: "Fluff and Force," The Los Angeles Times, December 3, p. F4.
Smith, Dean: Review, Artweek, August 6, p. 34.
1991 Cooper, Dennis: "Openings," Artforum, November, p. 128 (reproduction).
Fehlau, Fred: Review, Flash Art, November/December.
"Feature Creatures," Flash Art, November/December, pg. 152.
Gerstler, Amy: Review (Sweet Oleander), Artforum, September, pp. 141-142.
Kandel, Susan: "L.A. in Review," Arts, October, pp. 103-104.
1990 Abbott, Steve: "Gay Iconography In Context," Bay Area Reporter, September 20, p. 35.
1989 Fehlau, Fred: "Whose Nature," Art Issues, May.
Gupta, Sunil: "Homosexualities: AIDS and Representations," 10-8 Magazine.
Hirsch, Doug: "Art Column," The Village Voice, January.
Ischar, Doug: "Parallel Oppressions," Afterimage, February.
Miller, Daryl H.:"Tragedy of AIDS Epidemic Shades Varied Art Works in 'Against Nature'," Los Angeles Daily News, January 7.
Pagel, David: Review, Arts, Summer.
Spiegel, Judith: "Brave and Troubled Voices," Artweek, August 12.
Stephens, Richard: "Aspects of Our Corporeal Selves," Artweek, August 12.
1988 Atkins, Robert: "How do You Photograph AIDS?," The Village Voice, June 28.

CURATORSHIPS, EDITORSHIPS, PANELS & RELATED ACTIVITIES
1993 "Untitled," by Frances Stark, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles (editor)
1991 "Score," a novella by Craig Lee, privately published, Los Angeles (co-editor with Dennis Cooper)
"Sweet Oleander," an exhibition of work by Tony Greene, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles (curator)
"Exhausted Autumn," a collection of fiction, criticism, and testimony for the exhibition "Sweet Oleander," Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles (editor)
"New Trends in Criticism," a panel discussion, OutWrite Gay and Lesbian Writer's Conference, San Francisco (panelist)
1989 "Against Nature," an exhibition of work by homosexual men, co-curated with Dennis Cooper, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles (catalogue)
1988 "Chains of Bitter Illusion," collaborative wall painting with Tony Greene, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles
"AIDS and Democracy," a panel discussion organized by Group Material, DIA Art Foundation, New York (panelist)

PUBLICATION OF FICTION, CRITICISM & ARTWORK
2004 "Postmortem: Devil May Sign," ArtUS, June/August, pp. 44-45
1992 Mirage #4/Period(ical) #1, ed. by Kevin Killian and Dodie Bellamy, San Francisco
Ewert, Mark, and Watkins, Mitchell, editors, Ruh Roh!, Issue One, Winter, published by Feature, New York, and Instituting Contemporary Idea, pp. 140-144 (reproduction of artwork)
"The Magician, ME," Some Weird Sin, ed. by Wayne Smith and Rex Ray, San Francisco
"Paul McCarthy," Art Issues, March/April, p. 37.
1991 "Grim," The Body, The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, (exhibition catalogue).
"Sleepy Hollow," Discontents, ed. by Dennis Cooper, Grove Press, New York
"Dennis Cooper," Detour, June
"Ghostwritten," essay for exhibition catalogue Exhausted Autumn, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles
Exhausted Autumn, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles
1990 RE: Punch Agonistes, an essay, Richard Kuhlenschmidt Gallery, Los Angeles
Framework Magazine, Fall.
Dear World, San Francisco pp. 86-87.
"A Collection of Seven Pieces," Farm, guest edited by Dennis Cooper, Feature, New York, and Instituting Contemporary Idea.
"Just Pathetic," Art Issues, November, p. 33.
"Shut Up," Framework, Vol. 3, Issue 2-3, pp. 40-41.
1989 "Untitled," contribution to publication for the exhibition "Loaded," Richard Kuhlenschmidt Gallery, Los Angeles
"Horror of Nature," (collaboration with Tony Greene) Real Life Magazine, Winter, pp. 21-24.
1988 "Milzsucht und Ideal," Revenge, Vol.1, No. 1.
"Notations Toward Deciphering Elements of Illness and Loss Through J.K. Huysman's 'Against Nature'," essay for exhibition catalogue Against Nature, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles

READINGS

1993 Atlas Bar & Grill, Los Angeles (April)
1992 A Different Light Bookstore, West Hollywood (June)
1991 Blue Door Bookstore, San Diego (September)
Beyond Baroque, Venice (July)
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles (July)
Southern Exposure, San Francisco (March)
1990 A Different Light Bookstore, San Francisco (December)
The Kitchen (November)
1989 Otis Parsons, Los Angeles (November)
Simon Watson (June)
Beyond Baroque, Venice CA (June)
Beyond Baroque, Venice CA (May)
Beyond Baroque, Venice CA (February)
1988 Beyond Baroque, Venice CA (October)

AWARDS
2003 Otis College of Design Faculty Development Grant
2000 US/Japan Creative Artist Fellowship
1995 Art Matters Fellowship

ONLINE PROJECTS
2000 Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA (www.warhol.org)
1999 "The Vampire Lecture-Notes," (collaboration with Laurence A. Rickels), University of Minnesota Press (no longer extant)