Exhibitions

2019

Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy (solo)

Whitechapel, London, UK (solo)

2018

Fourth Plinth Commission, Trafalgar Square, London, UK (solo)

Bagdad mon amour, Institut des Cultures d’Islam, Paris, France

Radio Silence, launching July 29 (solo)

I’m good at love, I’m good at hate, it’s in between I freeze (performance and film), commissioned by Musée d’Art Contemporain, Montréal with support from Creative Capital (solo)

Backstroke of the West, Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Chicago, USA (solo)

Four Plinth Shortlist Exhibition, The National Gallery, London, UK

Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada (solo)

Third Space/Shifting : Conversations about Contemporary Art, Birmingham Museum of Art, AL, USA

Urban Planning: Art and the City 1967 -2017, CAM St. Louis, MO, USA

The Image of War, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden

2017

Leonard Cohen: A Crack in Everything, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Québec, Canada

40 Years: Part 3. POLITICAL, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, USA

2016

The Flesh is Yours, The Bones are Ours, The Graham Foundation for Advanced Fine Arts, Chicago

The Flesh is Yours, The Bones are Ours, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago

The invisible enemy should not exist, Mason Hall Atrium Gallery, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA

The invisible enemy should not exist, Galerie Barbara Wien, Berlin

Ephemeral Architecture, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK

Replaced, Rampa, Istanbul, Turkey

Endless House: Intersections of Art and Architecture, MoMA, New York, NY, USA

How Long Is Now?, KINDL - Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Berlin, Germany

MoMA, The Artist’s Experiment Series, New York City, USA (solo)

Zones of Contention: After the Green Line, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina, USA

Countour7, Mechelen, Belgium

2015

14th Istanbul Biennial, Turkey

Archaeology and Aesthetics, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, NYU, New York, USA

Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands (solo)

2014

A Proximity of Consciousness, Sullivan Galleries, School at the Art Institute of Chicago, IL

Yokohama Triennial

Ravaged: Art and Culture in Times of Conflict, Museum Leuven, Belgium

Milani Gallery, Brisbane, Australia (solo)

Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts (solo)

Arizona State University Art Museum, Phoenix (solo)

BAK (basis voor actuele kunst), Utrecht (solo)

The Breakup, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago (solo)

Palestine, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide, March

Tectonics, The Moving Museum/Traffic Gellery, Dubai March-April

2013

Dar Al Sulh, Traffic, Dubai (solo)

The Way of the Shovel, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

SITE, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art

Camp Out, Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, MO

2012

The Breakup, Lombard Freid Gallery, New York City (solo)

dOCUMENTA (13),, Kassel, Germany

FEAST: Radical Hospitality in Contemporary Art, Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago

Taking Sides, Curated by Robin and Zak Williams on Paddle8.com

Ianimate Beings, La Casa Encendida, Madrid

Yes, We Don't, Institut d'art contemporain Villeurbanne/Rhone Alpes, Villeurbanne, France

2011

Spoils, Park Avenue Restaurant, presented by Creative Time (solo)

Scramble for the Past, SALT, Istanbul, Turkey, November 2011-March 2012

I’m good at love, I’m good at hate, it’s in between I freeze, BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht, Netherlands (postponed until 2014 due to my wife’s illness) (solo)

Asian Art Biennial, Taiwan

2010

Secondary School, Percent for Art Commission, permanent installation at Midwood High School, Brooklyn (solo)

The worst condition is to pass under a sword which is not one’s own, Level 2 Gallery, Tate Modern, London (solo)

The Jerusalem Show, edition, Al-Ma’mal Foundation for Contemporary Art, Jerusalem

Transmission Interrupted, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, UK

The Place of the Work and the Space of the Object, Sculpture Center, Long Island City, NY

Return to Function, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, Wisconsin

Out of Line, Lombard-Freid Projects, NY

Michael Rakowitz: Recent Projects on Baghdad and Montreal, SBC Gallery of Contemporary Art, Montreal, Canada

Jack Wolgin International Competition in the Fine Arts at the Tyler School of Art at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA

Los de arriba y los de abajo, Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros, Mexico City, Mexico

2009

The Storyteller, iCI traveling exhibition (Salina Art Museum, Kansas; The New School, New York; Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada)

The worst condition is to pass under a sword which is not one's own, Lombard-Freid Projects, NY

2008

16th Biennial of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary, Museum of Art & Design, New York, NY

Shelter X Survival – Alternative Homes for Fantastic Lives, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan

Urgent Shelter, Gallery 210, University of Missouri, St. Louis, MO

The invisible enemy should not exist, Lombard-Freid Projects, New York, NY

Sharjah Biennial 8: Between The Desert And The Sea, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

10th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey

Consuming War, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL

2007

An Atlas of Events, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal

Instant Urbanism, S AM- Swiss Architecture Museum, Basel, Switzerland

Endgames, Galleria Alberto Peola, Turin, Italy
Percent for Art Program, New York City

Mind the Gap, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY

LESS - Alternative Living Strategies, PAC, Milano, Italy

Revisiting Home, NGBK, Berlin, Germany

Art in the Contested City, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY

Who Cares, Creative Time, New York, NY

Percent for Art Program Commission, Department of Cultural Affairs, New York, NY

The Visionaries, Trafo Gallery, Budapest, Hungary

Enemy Kitchen, More Art, New York, NY

2006

Return, Creative Time, Brooklyn, NY

Civic Performance, Stony Brook University, Staller Center for the Arts, Stony Brook, NY

2005

Dull Roar, Lombard-Freid Fine Arts, New York City

Return Longwood Art Gallery, Bronx, NY

2004

Greeting from Stowe, Vermont, Stadtturmgalerie, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Austria

Living In Motion, Vitra Design Museum/Z33 Hasselt, Belgium
Parasites: When Spaces Come Into Play, Ludwig Museum, Vienna
Ars Electronica Linz, Austria
The Interventionists, MassMOCA, North Adams, MA
Adaptations, Apex Art, New York City and Friedricianum, Kassel, Germany

2003

Romanticized All Out of Proportion, Special Project, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY

2000 - 2001

Climate Control, Special Project, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Queens, NY