Past
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Mind the Body
Parco della Versiliana, Pietrasanta, Italy 9 Jul - 23 Sep 2023 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. Read more -
Angels Listening
Collateral Event of the 59th International Art Exhibition –La Biennale di Venezia 23 Apr - 27 Nov 2022 For her presentation at the 57th 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. Read more -
Dinner for Two, Art Gathering Souls
Church of Santa Maria della Spina, Pisa, Italy 9 Jul - 22 Aug 2021 PLACEHOLDER EXHIBITION TEXT 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. 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. Read more -
Womens 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.
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Womens 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 relationship 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 traditions.
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Womens 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 negative moods and a reduced attention span.
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(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. Read more -
Perfect Baby Showroom
Dallas Art Fair, Dallas, TX 14 - 17 Apr 2016 PLACEHOLDER TEXT Read more -
Plastic Perfect
Pechersky Gallery, Moscow, Russia 9 Oct - 8 Nov 2014 EXHIBITION TEXT 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. Read more -
New Year’s Feast: Beijing 2014
Joyce Gallery, Beijing, China 1 Jan - 31 Mar 2014 In this installation, Hovnanian stages a celebratory meal that features family members ranging from young children to elder figures, all of whom are represented by vertical tablet screens that seemingly hover above every chair. Rather than the chatter of small talk, the audio plays only the notification sounds of various... 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. Read more -
Too Good to be True
The Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong, China 21 Mar - 15 Apr 2012 Too Good to Be True explores off-camera realities through pointedly cinematic scenes. Read more -
Too Good to be True
Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL 11 Dec 2010 - 29 Jan 2011 Too Good to Be True explores off-camera realities through pointedly cinematic scenes. 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. Read more -
Preservation of the Narcissus
Jason McCoy Inc, New York, NY 7 Nov - 22 Dec 2007 Preservation of the Narcissus explores the myth of Narcissus in terms of memory, identity, and loss. This series of works captures the essence of the narcissus flower, a fragile bloom whose symbolic associations are central to the history of art. Read more