Estate of Channa Horwitz
Born in Los Angeles, where she lived and worked for her entire life, Channa Horwitz (1932–2013) studied graphic design in the early 1950s at Art Center College of Design and Fine Art at Cal State Northridge in the early 1960s. In 1972 she received a BFA from the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California. There she studied with more well-known peers John Baldessari and Allan Kaprow, participating in some of Kaprow’s notorious ‘Happenings’ and creating her own. Now regarded as an important proponent of Conceptual Art and West Coast Minimalism alongside Mary Corse, John McCracken and others, Horwitz only received art world endorsement much later in life, when she was included in the Whitney Biennial (2014) and the Venice Biennale (2013) in the year of her death, aged 80.
Most recently Horwitz was exhibited in solo exhibitions at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, León (2019), and the Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver (2018). Her work was included in "Thinking Machines: Art and Design in the Computer Age, 1959-1989", at The Museum of Modern Art, New York (2018), and in 2016, The Museum of Modern Art, New York organized a solo presentation of acquired works, as part of the museum’s ongoing series titled “Inbox”. Prior to this, Horwitz’s work was the subject of solo exhibitions at Raven Row, London, UK (2016); Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary art, Berlin, Germany (2015); Brandenburgischer Kunstverein, Potsdam, Germany (2009); among others. Her work has been included in major group exhibitions at Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria (2016); Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil (2015); Museum Tinguely, Basel, Switzerland (2015); Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA, USA (2015); 2014 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA (2014); the 55th Venice Biennale (2013); Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany (2013); Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (2012); Kunsthaus Dresden, Germany (2012); among others. Her work is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA; Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA; Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA; and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; among others. Horwitz received an Artist Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1978, and was awarded a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship Grant in 2013, just before her death at the age of eighty.
Forthcoming and Recent Projects
Channa Horwitz: Rhythm Intertwined, the He Art Museum, Shunde, China (25 Feburary – 11 June 2023)
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Rhythm of Lines
1993
Gold leaf and flashe on canvas
91.4 x 121.9 x 3.8 cm
36 x 48 x 1 1/2 in
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Language Series – 3 Circles and 2 Squares
2011
Acrylic mural installed at Channa Horwitz: Rhythm Intertwined, The He Art Museum, Shunde, China
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Square Moiré Sampler (in two sections)
1985
Plaka on paper
147.3 x 129.5 cm / 58 x 51 in
Collection of the He Art Museum, Guangdong, China
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Sonakinatography Compostition # 9 0 To the Top diminished
2011
Casein on mylar
50.8 x 34.9 cm
20 x 13 3/4 in
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Canon Fragment
c. 2011
Ink on mylar
22.8 x 39.7 cm / 8 7/8 x 15 5/8 in
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Language Series Working drawings - color with orange grid
2004-2005
Colored pencil on graph paper
21.6 x 27.9 cm / 8 1/2 x 11 in
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Language Series #18
2003-2004
Casein on paper board
25.4 x 38.1 cm / 10 x 15 in
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Rhythm of Lines, 6-7
1988
Casein and 23 karat gold leaf of mylar 76.2 x 101.6 cm / 30 x 40 in
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"Moiré on Red” - Rhythm of Line ll Series
1992
Casein and gold leaf on paper
27.9 x 38.1 cm
11 x 15 in
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Moire and different angles #16
1983
Ink on mylar
55.8 x 81.2 cm / 21 7/8 x 31 7/8 in
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Rhythm of Lines
1983
Casein, ink, and pencil on graph mylar
20.3 x 53.3 cm / 8 x 21 in
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Canon 2
1982
Ink on mylar
66 x 86.3 cm / 25 7/8 x 33 7/8 in
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Untitled (Canon Diamond)
1981
Casein on mylar
45.5 x 51 cm / 17 7/8 x 20 in
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To The Top Large To Small #1
1980/1985
Ink on mylar
4 drawings, framed: 55.9 x 61 cm / 22 x 24 in (each)
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Moire Canon Eleven
1984
Casein on mylar
50.8 x 50.8 cm
20 x 20 in
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8
1979
Lithograph
Closed: 55.9 x 52.1 cm / 22 x 20 1/2 in
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Untitled (Slices Structure)
1976
Ink on graph mylar
Framed: 38.1 x 38.1 cm / 15 x 15 in
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Variation and Inversion on a Rhythm l
1976
Ink on blue graph paper
64 drawings, framed: 43.2 x 54.6 cm / 17 x 21 1/2 in (each)
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Four Levels
1974-1977
Ink on paper
Framed: 102.9 x 497.8 cm / 40 1/2 x 196 in
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Slices #1
1976
Coloured pencil on paper
Framed: 45.7 x 116.8 cm / Framed: 18 x 46 in
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Time structure composition III Sonakinatography I
1970
Casein on graph paper
21.5 x 20.9 cm / 8 1/2 x 8 1/4 in
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Time structure composition III Sonakinatography I (detail)
1970
Casein on graph paper
21.5 x 20.9 cm / 8 1/2 x 8 1/4 in
Museum Exhibitions
Exhibitions
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Patternmaker's Maze
20 July – 12 October 2024
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Channa Horwitz
3 September – 22 October 2022
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Channa Horwitz
3 March – 16 April 2022
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Selected works in London
8 December 2020 – 12 January 2021
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Channa Horwitz
22 October – 1 November 2020
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Channa Horwitz: Rules of the Game
15 March – 4 May 2019
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Channa Horwitz
19 January – 24 February 2018