Rick Lowe is the founder of Project Row Houses, an arts and cultural community located in Houston, Texas. As an artist, Mr. Lowe has participated in exhibitions and programs nationally and internationally. From 1996 to the present, he has exhibited at Phoenix Art Museum, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Museum of Contemporary Arts, Los Angeles, Neuberger Museum, Purchase, New York, Kwangji Bienale, Kwangji, Korea, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Glassell School, and at the Kumamoto State Museum, Kumamoto, Japan. In 2005, he worked with the British architect, David Adjaye, on a project for the Seattle Art Museum in their new Olympic Sculpture Park. He worked with California based artists Suzanne Lacy and curator Mary Jane Jacobs on the Borough Project for Spoleto Festival 2003, in Charleston, SC and was lead artist on the Delray Beach Cultural Loop, Delray Beach, Florida. From 2001-2002, he worked in collaboration with arts consultant Jessica Cusick on the Arts Plan for Rem Koolhaus designed Seattle Public Library. Rick Lowe received many awards, among others, the American Institute of Architecture Keystone Award in 2000, and has served as a (board) member for SHAPE Community Center, the Municipal Arts Commission, and many others. Rick Lowe has been an artist-in-residence at universities throughout the United States and has lectured internationally.