EDUCATION
1982
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019
Alan Rath: Virtual Unreality, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
2013
Irrational Exuberance, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2012
Skinetics, Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, New York, NY
2006
di Rosa Preserve, Napa, CA
2005
Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, New York, NY
Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Hatton Gallery, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
2004
Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
2003
Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2002
Track16 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA. (catalogue)
2001
Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA. (catalogue)
1999
Museum of Art, Austin, TX
Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ
Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1998
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Dorfman Projects, New York, NY
Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM (catalogue & traveling)
1996
Aspen Art Museum, Aspen , CO
Nelson Gallery, University of California, Davis, CA (brochure)
Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1995
Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX (brochure)
Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA (brochure)
1994
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan (brochure)
Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA (brochure)
John Weber Gallery, New York, NY
Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
1993
Gallery of Art, Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, KS (broch.)
Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC
1992
Galerie Hans Mayer, Dusseldorf, Germany (brochure)
Dorothy Goldeen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
University of Missouri, St. Louis, MO (catalogue)
1991
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN. (brochure, video tape)
traveled to:
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA. '92
Center for the Fine Art, Miami, FL. '92
The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI. '92
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
Katia 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
2014
The Avant-Garde Collection, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
Holding It Together: Collage, Montage, Assemblage, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2013
Vital Signs, Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, KS
2012
SmARTspace, Fine Art Gallery, SFSU, San Francisco, CA
Look Both Ways, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Blink, Turner Carrol Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Thanks, Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
2011
RAM: Rethinking Art and Machine, The Museum, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
Looking At Me Looking at You, di Rosa Preserve, Napa, CA
Sight Unseen, Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, New York, NY
2010
Pleasure Point: Celebrating 25 Years of Contemporary Collecting
Works from the Gallery Collection, Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
2009
Textual Landscapes: Real and Imagined, Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, New York, NY
The Moving Image, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA.
Tech Tools of the Trade: Contemporary New Media Art, de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara,CA.
Robots: evolution of a cultural icon, Sonoma County Museum, Santa Rosa, CA
Editions, Solway-Jones, Los Angeles, CA.
Cycling Apparati, Solway-Jones, Los Angeles, CA.
Hands, Solway-Jones, Los Angeles, CA.
2008
Material Terrain, Haines Gallery San Francisco, C.A.
2007
Nature (of Man), Trondelag Senter for Samtidskunst, Trondheim,Norway.
Paik, Rath, Ezawa: The Temporal Moving ImageHaines Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
Sound and Motion, Solway-Jones, Los Angeles, CA.
Cincinnati Collections, Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH.
Measure of Time, UC Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA.
2006
Director's Choice, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, C.A.
Complicit! University of Virginia Art Museum, Charlottesville, VA
To Be, Or Not To Be, 400 Years of Vanitas Paintings, Flint Institute of the Arts, Flint, MI.
Five Stories High, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA.
3D An Exhibition of Contemporary Sculpture, Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, OH.
A History and Future of Intermedia Art, Ball State University Museum of Art, Muncie, IN.
2005
Transfixed: New Media & The Body, Orange County Museum of Art, Costa Mesa, CA.
Ad Infinitum: The aesthetics of Repetition I, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
Ad Infinitum: The aesthetics of Repetition II , Haines Gallery, San francisco, CA
Summer Exhibition, Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, 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 Sculptur,e San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
traveled to:
Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena, CA
2003
Art Apparatus, Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, New York, NY (brochure)
Not-So-Still-Life, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA (catalogue)
traveled to:Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena, CA
Corporeal Identity - Body Language, Museum fur Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany (catalogue)
traveled to:Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY
Hess Collection - Hang zum Dissen,s CentrePasquArt, Biel, Switzerland
Video+, Carl Soway Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
The Greatest Album Covers that Never Were, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2002
Organic / Mechani,c John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygen, WI
Materials & Meaning ,Peter & Susan Barrett Art Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Visual Alchemy, Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland, CA
High Tech / Low Tech Hybrids, Walnut Creek Civic Arts Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
2001
The Gravity of the Immaterial, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan (catalogue)
traveled to:Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan
Body and Sin, Bienal de Valencia, Valencia, Spain (catalogue)
Mail Art Exchange, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Now Playing: Audio in Art, Susan Inglett, New York, NY
Chain Reaction, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA (catalogue)
traveled to: Tang Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
Inaugural Exhibition, Gallery 2211, Los Angeles, CA
Multiple Personalities, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Pictures, Patents, Monkeys and More, Western Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA (catalogue)
traveled to: John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygen WI
Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH
Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA
Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA
Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA
2000
Made in California, Art, Image and Identity, 1900-2000Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (catalogue)
S.O.S.: Scenes of Sounds, Tang Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY (catalogue)
A Lasting Legacy, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
1999
Double Trouble: The Patchett Collection, San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA (catalogue)
traveled to: Museo de las Artes and Instituto Cultural Cabanas, Guadalajara, Mexico
Museo Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico
Museo Universitario Contemporaneo de Arte, Mexico City, Mexico
Auditorio de Galicia and Inglesia San Domingos de Bonaval, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Sala Amos Salvador, Logrono,
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH
Crocker Museum, Sacramento, CA
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
di Rosa Preserve, Napa CA
Fundación Yannick y Ben Jakober, Mallorca, Spain
Hara Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
Hess Collection, Napa, CA
Library of Congress, Washington, DC
The Logan Collection, San Francisco, CA
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA
Museum fur Holographie & neue visuelle Medien, Cologne, Germany
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
The Patchett Collection, Santa Monica, CA
Progressive Corporation, Mayfield Heights, OH
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
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ
Robert J. Schiffler Foundation, Greenfield, OH
Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, KS
University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA