Selected Exhibitions

Whispers of Solitude, Echoes from the Angels

Parco della Versiliana, Pietrasanta, IT 13 Jul - 31 Aug 2024 Read more

You Are Not Alone, Angels Listening

Chiesa e Chiostro di Sant'Agostino, Pietrasanta, IT 30 Mar - 2 Jun 2024 The American artist, who has been a resident of Pietrasanta for years, has conceived an exhibition tailored for the town of Versilia and its public spaces with a site-specific criterion symbolizing an increasingly close bond between the artist and the territory, also sealed by the creation of works in the... Read more

Beyond the Hedges

C O U N T Y, Palm Beach, FL 8 - 22 Mar 2024 Beyond the Hedges (2024) is an exhibition of nearly 30 works including large-scale oil paintings, mixed-media collages, and works on paper that combine printed photographs, painting, advertising, and other mixed media to create heavily layered canvases featuring hyper-real environments rendered in lush and tropical tones. The COVID-19 pandemic, and ensuing... Read more

Perception

Rachel Lee Hovnanian Studio, Miami Beach, FL 6 - 8 Dec 2023 This Miami Art Week, renowned conceptual artist Rachel Lee Hovnanian opens the doors to her new studio, with an intimate presentation of artworks from her oeuvre to date. A collaboration with curator Bakul Patki, Perception takes a fresh look at works that explore how we see and judge ourselves, paradoxes... Read more

The Divine Feminine: Contemporary Women Sculptors

Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens 1 Dec 2023 - 1 May 2024 The Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens is proud to present The Divine Feminine: Contemporary Women Sculptors, a transformative exhibition curated by Sarah Gavlak and Allison Raddock in partnership with New Wave. This remarkable showcase will run from December 1st, 2023, through May 1st, 2024, at the historic Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens... Read more

Mind the Body

Parco della Versiliana, Pietrasanta, Italy 9 Jul - 23 Sep 2023 MIND THE BODY- An Artistic Reflection on Power, Identity, Feminism and Hierarchy Mind the Body is the installation by Rachel Lee Hovnanian in which her message of analysis on the media and communication continues. A sculptural installation in chromed metal made up of ten replicas. Absent bodies, expected and alluded... Read more

Angels Listening: A Collateral Event of the 59th International Art Exhibition –La Biennale di Venezia

Centro Studi e Documentazione della Cultura Armena, Venice, Italy 23 Apr - 27 Nov 2022 First presented at the 59th Biennale de Venezia in 2022, Venice For her presentation at the 59th Venice Biennale, Hovnanian presented Angels Listening (2022), an interactive exhibition featuring seven large-scale bronze angels staged around a silver confessional box, each figure rendered in silence with its mouth “taped” shut. Viewers were... Read more

Dinner for Two, Art Gathering Souls

Church of Santa Maria della Spina, Pisa, Italy 9 Jul - 22 Aug 2021 Read more

So Far So Close: Dinner for Two

Church of San Cristoforo, Lucca, Italy 7 Aug - 6 Sep 2020 An exhibition to celebrate the power of art and culture, in their capacity to act as transmitting elements that intercept the future, together with their ability to generate hope and energy for human beings. A powerful stimulus to rise up and start again with renewed vigor after each and every... Read more

Open Secrets

The Medici Palace Museum, Seravezza, Italy 20 Jul - 16 Sep 2019 Open Secrets is an exhibition spanning ten years of Hovnanian's work that combines painting, sculpture, interactive installations, works on paper, and video art. This show marked Rachel Hovnanian's first solo museum exhibition, in Tuscany. With Open Secrets, Hovnanian posits a Humanist approach that emphasizes our autonomy within this digital age... Read more

The Women's Trilogy Project, Part III: PURE

Leila Heller Gallery, New York, NY 7 Jun - 20 Jul 2018 The Women's Trilogy Project, PURE, explores societal ideals of perfection and purity, shedding light on the often-detrimental effects of media on our psyches. Social media platforms have become the current podiums from which we are encouraged to broadcast our curated selves. PURE presents Ivory soap casts as icons of societal... Read more

The Women's Trilogy Project, Part II: HAPPY HOUR

Leila Heller Gallery, New York, NY 21 Apr - 31 May 2018 Part II of The Women's Trilogy Project, HAPPY HOUR, is a multimedia exhibition that explores domestic culture and gender roles in relation to alcoholism through a series of paintings, works on paper and installations using the narrative style of Dick and Jane, and iconography borrowed from Girl Scout and debutante... Read more

The Women's Trilogy Project, Part I: (The Ray Lee Project, Vol. 1) NDD Immersion Room

Leila Heller Gallery, New York, NY 3 Nov - 22 Dec 2017 Part I of The Women's Trilogy Project, (The Ray Lee Project Vol. 1): NDD Immersion Room, is a large-scale immersive installation whose title derives from the concept of Nature Deficit Disorder (“NDD”), used to describe a form of human alienation from nature that results in both a greater susceptibility to... Read more

(The Ray Lee Project Vol.1): NDD Immersion Room

Victori + Mo, Brooklyn, New York, NY 3 Nov - 22 Dec 2017 The Ray Lee Project—an ongoing exploration of the gendered ways in which artworks are consumed. (The Ray Lee Project Vol. 1) NDD Immersion Room is a large-scale immersive installation, which is accompanied by a series of small-scale mixed media works made using raw, natural pigments sourced from stone. Working at... Read more

Perfect Baby Showroom

Dallas Art Fair, Dallas, TX 14 - 17 Apr 2016 Everything's supposed to be bigger in Texas, but the stars of this week's Dallas Art Fair are positively infant-sized, putting even the toddlers of Seoul Fashion Week to shame. The hyperrealistic work of multimedia artist Rachel Hovnanian, they're gathered in an installation called 'Perfect Baby Showroom,' a 'laboratory meets shopping... Read more

Plastic Perfect

Leila Heller Gallery, New York, NY 4 Sep - 18 Oct 2014 In Plastic Perfect, Hovnanian revisits obsession, narcissism and intimacy in a collection of interactive installations, sculpture, video and photography to explore where our natural and synthetic worlds collide. The artist takes us back 50 years to answer questions about digital technology today and its future trajectory, challenging viewers to reevaluate... Read more

New Year’s Feast: Beijing 2014

Joyce Gallery, Beijing, China 1 Jan - 31 Mar 2014 In her installation, Hovnanian stages a celebratory meal in contrasting red and white, the colors of mirth and death. Family members, ranging from young children to elder figures, are represented by vertical tablet screens seemingly hovering above every chair. Rather than the chatter of small talk and petty arguments, however,... Read more

Mud Pie

Leila Heller Gallery, New York, NY 3 May - 2 Jun 2012 Mud Pie, Hovnanian’s 2012 solo exhibition, includes large-scale installations, sculpture, mixed media, paintings, and photography that explore the blurring of reality. The exhibition posits that individuals constantly revise memories, editing and reinterpreting them to fit the narrative of our invented identities - identities that, at their core, were first encoded... Read more

Too Good to be True

The Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong, China 21 Mar - 15 Apr 2012 The Cat Street Gallery is pleased to present Rachel Hovnanian’s first solo show in Hong Kong. Hovnanian is known for her ongoing exploration of deep stereotypes as they pertain to female beauty, as well as off-camera realities behind the public illusions of beauty. Her visual vocabulary includes trophies, narcissus flowers,... Read more

Power & Burden of Beauty

Jason McCoy Gallery, NY 5 Nov - 22 Dec 2009 Power and Burden of Beauty explores how beauty can both empower those who possess it, but also emotionally as well as psychologically challenge those who strive for it in vain. Hovnanian’s visual vocabulary includes pageant winners in the artist’s home state of Texas, along with their trophies, flowers, tiaras and... Read more