Photography by Daniel E. Zamora
Spotlight: Rick Lowe
JANUARY 6-FEBRUARY 13, 2027
The FLAG Art Foundation’s Spotlight exhibition series includes new or never-before-exhibited artworks accompanied by commissioned pieces of writing. It is the hope of this series to create focused and thoughtful dialogues between the visual arts and authors, critics, poets, peers, scholars, and beyond. In this iteration, the Spotlight features a new work by Rick Lowe and a commissioned text.
About
Rick Lowe was born in 1961 in rural Russell County, Alabama, and lives and works in Houston. Collections include the Brooklyn Museum, New York; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami; High Museum of Art, Atlanta; Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, Kansas; Menil Collection, Houston; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Tate, London; and the UBS Art Collection. Solo exhibitions include Art League Houston (2020-21); Notes on the Great Migration, Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society, University of Chicago (2022-23); Hic sunt dracones (Here Lay Dragons) Mapping the Unknown, Benaki Museum / Pireos 138, Athens (2023); and The Arch within the Arc, Museo di Palazzo Grimani, Venice (2024). He also participated in Documenta 14, Athens (2017). Among Lowe's numerous community art projects are Project Row Houses, Houston (1993-2018); Watts House Project, Los Angeles (1996-2012); Borough Project (with Suzanne Lacy and Mary Jane Jacob), Charleston, South Carolina (2003); Small Business/Big Change, Anyang Public Art Program, Korea (2010); Translation: Vickery Meadow, Dallas (2013); Victoria Square Project, Athens (2017-18); Greenwood Art Project, Tulsa, Oklahoma (2018-21); and Black Wall Street Journey, Chicago (2021-). In 2013, President Barack Obama appointed Lowe to the National Council on the Arts, and in 2014, he was named a MacArthur Fellow. In 2024, Lowe was the Roy Lichtenstein Artist in Residence at the American Academy in Rome. He is currently a professor of interdisciplinary practice at the University of Houston.