Biography
Rick Lowe is an artist who has exhibited and worked with communities in the US and internationally. His work has appeared in Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Museum of Contemporary Arts, Los Angeles, Neuberger Museum, Purchase, New York, Phoenix Art Museum, Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, the Kumamoto State Museum and the Venice Architecture Biennale. He is best known for his Project Row Houses community-based art project that he started in Houston in 1993. Additional community projects include the Watts House Project in Los Angeles, the Borough Project in Charleston, with Suzanne Lacy and Mary Jane Jacobs, the Delray Beach Cultural Loop in Florida and the Anyang Public Art Program 2010 in Anyang. Among Lowe’s honours are the Rudy Bruner Awards in Urban Excellence, the AIA Keystone Award, the Heinz Award in the arts and humanities, the Skowhegan Governor’s Award, the Skandalaris Award for Art +Architecture and a US Artists Booth Fellowship. He has served as a Loeb Fellow at Harvard University, a Mel King Fellow at MIT, an Auburn University Breedan Scholar and a Stanford University Haas Center Distinguished Visitor. President Barack Obama appointed Rick to the National Council on the Arts in 2013 and in 2014 he was named a MacArthur Fellow. Lowe lives and works in Houston.