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Martha Rosler

Biography

MARTHA ROSLER

Born: Brooklyn, NY
Lives and Works in Brooklyn, NY

1974 M.F.A.; University of California, San Diego
1965 B.F.A.; Brooklyn College of the City University of New York

SELECTED INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS

2009
Martha Rosler Power Game, Galerie Christian Nagel, Köln
Martha Rosler: la calle, la casa, la cocina, Centro Jose Guerrero, Granada,
Spain

2008
Langhans Galerie, Prague
Emory Visual Arts Gallery, Emory University, Atlanta, GA (upcoming)
Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York
Portikus, Frankfurt
Martha Rosler Library, Site, John Moores University's School of Art and Design, Liverpool

2007
unitednationsplaza, Berlin, Martha Rosler Library
Location One, New York, Virtual Minefield
Martha Rosler: Bringing the War Home, Worcester Art Museum, MA

2006
unitednationsplaza, Berlin, Germany, Art Social Life; The Case of Video Art
Galerie Christian Nagel, Berlin, Germany, Martha Rosler: Kriegsschauplatze

2005
53 Ludlow Street, New York, Martha Rosler Library
Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, Martha Rosler: London Garage Sale
Hannover Sprengel Museum, Martha Rosler - If not now, when?

2004
Gorney Bravin + Lee Gallery, New York, Photomontages 1965 - 2004

2000
New Museum in collaboration with the International Center of Photography,
New York, Martha Rosler: Positions in the Life World
Kiasma Museum Of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Martha Rosler: Video

1999
Galerie Christian Nagel, Köln, OOPS! Or, Nobody Loves a Hegemon
Generali Foundation, Vienna; MACBA, Museu d'art contemporani,
Barcelona; Villeurbanne, France, Martha Rosler: Positionen in der Lebenswelt

1998
Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, Martha Rosler: Positions in the Life World
Frankfurt Airport, In the Place of the Public, sponsored by the airport and Museum für Moderne Kunst
INIT: Kunsthalle, Berlin, Martha Rosler

1997
Jay Gorney Fine Art, New York, Transitions and Digressions
Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, Rights of Passage

1996
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Everyday Objects: Videotapes by Martha Rosler
Paper Tiger Television, Bronxnet, New York, NY, Martha Rosler Reads Vogue: Wishing, Dreaming, Winning, Spending
Free Speech TV, Boulder, Colorado, Born to Be Sold

1995
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago, Chile, Martha Rosler: Segundo Bienal del Video

1994
Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH, In the Place of the Public
Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Videotapes of Martha Rosler

1993
Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York, NY, In the Place of the Public
Instiut Valencià de la Dona, Valencia, Monográfico de Martha Rosler
In the series "Stadtfahrt (City Tour)," Hamburg, An Empty Space in Ottensen, Contaminated by History, Capital and Asbestos

1991
Third Frauen Film Festival, Dortmund, The Machine Wreckers: The Lady Luddites

1990
The City of Oxford and at the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, England, Housing Is a Human Right (Project on housing and homelessness in the city of Oxford and Oxfordshire)
Galerie 7.0.7. Frankfurt, In Series: "Politische Diskurse," Martha Rosler

1989
Dia Art Foundation, New York, NY, If you lived here... (Six-month project including group shows, screenings, readings, and other activities, and a series of open forums on housing, homelessness, and visions of the city)
Times Square Spectacolor animated signboard, New York, NY, Housing Is a Human Right

1988
American Film Institute Video Festival, Los Angeles, CA, Viewpoints on Video Cable Series, organized by the Premiere screening, Born to Be Sold, Martha Rosler: Four Works

1987
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA, Focus: Martha Rosler
Video Installation at Cornell Cinema, Ithaca, Global Taste: A Meal in Three Courses

1986
Los Angeles Center of Photographic Studies and EZTV, Los Angeles, CA
Camerawork, San Francisco, CA
Installation Gallery, San Diego, CA
Electronic Arts Gallery, Minneapolis

1985
University/Community Video, Minneapolis
Sibell-Wolle Fine Arts Gallery, University of Colorado, Boulder, Fascination with the (Game of the) Exploding (Historical) Hollow Leg

1983
The Office, New York, NY, Martha Rosler: Six Videotapes, 1975-1983

1981-2
Documenta 7, Kassel; Oberlin College Art Museum, Ohio; Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff Centre School of Fine Art; Mercer Union Gallery, Toronto; Dance Theatre Workshop, New York, NY, Watchwords of the Eighties, curated by Lucy Lippard

1980
Interaction Arts, New York, Sketch for a Ritual of Mutual Atonement: For Alice
Anna Leonowens Gallery, Nova Scotia College of Art & Design, Halifax

1979
Alberta College of Art, Calgary, University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, Getting the News

1978
Véhicule Art, Montréal, Canada, Martha Rosler
Video Free America, San Francisco, CA, Martha Rosler
Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art (LAICA), Domination and the Everyday
University of California, San Diego, CA, Getting the News in What's Cooking II

1977
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, Martha Rosler: New American Filmmakers Series
CLOSE Artists' radio, KPFK Los Angeles, CA, What's Your Name Little Girl?
La Mamelle Gallery garage, San Francisco, CA, Traveling Garage Sale
Long Beach Museum of Art, California, Foul Play in the Chicken House

1976
Parachute Center for Cultural Affairs, Calgary

1975
The Kitchen, New York, NY (with Allan Sekula)

1974
University of California, San Diego, A Gourmet Experience

1973
University of California, San Diego, Monumental Garage Sale
University of California, San Diego, Vital Statistics of a Citizen, Simply Obtained

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2009
Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, Canada, Still Revolution
(May)
Patrick & Beatrice Haggerty Museum of Art, Milwaukee, WI, Jump Cut Pop
(July-October)
Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA, The End (January-May)

2008
Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA), Universal Archive
Getty Center, Los Angeles, California Video
Chelsea Art Museum, New York, The Aesthetics of Terror
Bronx Museum of the Arts, Street Art Street Life
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution
The New Museum, New York, Unmonumental
The Jewish Museum, New York, NY, Action/Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning, and American Art
Institut d'art contemporain, Villeurbanne, Ambitions of Art

2007
Art Sonje Center and Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul, Tomorrow
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution
Skulptur Projekte Muenster
Documenta 12, Kassel, Germany
Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, Beauty and the Blond
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, Resistance is
Jewish Museum, New York, NY, Food for Thought: A Video Art Sampler

2006
Grey Art Gallery, New York University, The Downtown Show: The New York Art Scene, 1974-1984 Traveling to Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh and Austin Museum, Austin, TX
Kent Gallery, New York, NY, Kapital
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago. War Fare, with Ashley Gilbertson, Sean Hemmerle, Sarah Pickering, and Sean Snyder
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, Los Angeles 1955-1985, Birth of an Artistic Capital
Université Rennes 2, Galerie Art & Essai, Rennes, France, Sous Le Pavé

2005
The Drawing Center, New York, NY, Persistent Vestiges: Drawings from the American-Vietnam War
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University, St. Louis, Inside Out Loud.
Tate Modern, London. Curated by Donna De Salvo, Open Systems: Rethinking Art c.1970

2002
Vin & Sprithistoriska Museet, Stockholm, with Richard Billingham
Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris
White Columns, New York Gloria: Another Look at Feminist Art in the 1970s, Traveling to The Paley and Levy Galleries, Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia; Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan, Through Women's Eyes —Video Art by Women Artists

2000
The Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
Brussels 2000, Performance for the project Indiscipline, Romances of the Meal
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, Two-person screening (with Peter Boggers), Hors Champ: Agenda Caravanes

1999
CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, CO, Suite of bus cards and subway light boxes in the exhibition, Ruins in Reverse: Time and Progress in Contemporary Art, In the Place of the Public: Airport Series

1997
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Views from Abroad III, (Selections from the Whitney Permanent Collection made by the Tate Gallery, London)

1995
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, Public Information: Desire, Disaster, Document

1985
New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, The Art of Memory, The Loss of History
The Alternative Museum, New York, Disinformation: The Manufacture of Discontent

1980
Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans and traveling, A Decade if Women's Performance Art. Sponsored by the National Women's Caucus for Art

1979
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Whitney Biennial

1975
Cable-TV screening, College Art Association, Hilton Hotel, Los Angeles, CA, The Evening News (with Alan Sekula)


PHOTO-TEXT PUBLICATIONS

"A budding gourmet", Serial postcard novel in 12 parts, first mailed Jan.-Apr. 1974
Republished in: Service (see Books section), 1978

"McTowersMaid", Serial postcard novel in 15 parts, first mailed Sep.-Dec. 1974
Republished in: Service (see Books section, below), 1978
Republished in: Socialist Review, No. 58, 1981

"Immigrating," in the LAICA Journal (Journal of the Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art), Spring 1975

"Kitchen Economics: The Wonder of (White) Bread," in Jessica Jacobs, ed., Word Works Too. San José State University, Spring 1975

"The Art of Cooking: A Mock Dialogue Between Julia Child and Craig Claiborne," Excerpted in: Crawl Through Your Window (San Diego) No. 1, Spring, 1975

"Tijuana Maid", Serial postcard novel in 12 parts, First mailed Oct. 1975—Feb. 1976
Republished in: Heresies, No. 1, 1977
Republished in: Service (see Books section, below), 1978

"Losing: A Conversation with the Parents," in: Criss Cross Double Cross (Los Angeles), Fall 1976
Republished in: Studio International, March 1977

"A New -Found Career," Serial postcard novel in 12 parts. First mailed Nov. 1976 - Apr. 1977
Republished in: LAICA Journal, Oct. 1977, with cartoon illustrations

"She Sees in Herself a New Woman Every Day," Photographs and text, first published in: Heresies No. 2, 1977
Republished in Shoes & Shit: Stories for Pedestrians, Geoff Hancock and Rikki Ducornet, eds., Toronto: Aya Press, 1984

"Know Your Servant Series, No. 1: North American Waitress, Coffee-Shop Variety," 1977, Photographs and text, first published in: Entropy (Los Angeles), No. 1
Republished in: Impressions (Toronto), No. 24/25, Spring 1980

"The Restoration of High Culture in Chile", Photographs and text, 1977
First published as gallery handout, Published (text only) in: The Minnesota Review, Spring 1979
Republished in: 3 Works (see Books section, below)

"Letters on Abusing Women and Trying to Blame Them for It." Serial letter work, mailed in conjunction with "Social Works" show, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, (LAICA), Sep.-Oct. 1979

"Optimism/Pessimism: Constructing a Life." Excerpt from performance text first published in the "Documenta 7" exhibition catalogue. (Kassel: Documenta, 1982)
Republished in Heresies No. 20 (Vol. 5, No. 4), 1985
Republished in Blasted Allegories, Brian Wallis, ed. New York: The New Museum of Contemporary Art, 1987

"The Opportunity for World Brands," The Art of Memory, the Loss of History. New York: The New Museum of Contemporary Art, 1985

"Martha Rosler Reads Vogue." Transcript of videotape text. In Profile, Vol. 5, No. 4 (Fall, 1986) Issue devoted to Paper Tiger Television.
Republished as "Always in Vogue." In Alternative Media (New York), Winter 1986
Republished as "Always in Vogue." In Utne Reader (Minneapolis), No. 17, Aug./Sep. 1986

"Bringing the War Home," in Reframings: American Feminist Photography, Diane Neumaier, ed. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1994)

Untitled contribution (works from "Body Beautiful or Beauty Knows No Pain" and "House Beautiful: In Vietnam") in Master Breasts (New York: Aperture, 1998)

"Roadwork,' a photo-text essay in Merge (Stockholm and New York) No. 6, Fall 1999, accompanying "Video Mode" interview by Stephan Pascher

Contribution to "Exploding Eve, Women's Words on Space Exploration," Mute (London), No. 14 (Fall, 1999), pp. 37-38, pp. 158-161

"In the Place of the Public: Airport Series," photo-text essay in Casabella (Milan), No. 673/674 (Dec. 1999-Jan 2000), issue entitled "Architecture USA: Forms of Spectacle."
Contributor to final issue of Assemblage (Winter 2001)

"Rights of Passage", in: Beatrice von Bismarck (Hrsg.), "Grenzbespielungen. Visuelle Politik in der Übergangszone", Galerie der Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln 2005, S.118-137



BOOKS

Service: A Trilogy on Colonization, New York: Printed Matter, 1978

3 Works, Halifax, N.S.: The Press of Nova Scotia College of Art & Design, 1981

if You Lived Here...The City in Art, Theory and Social Activism, Brian Wallis (Hg.), Seattle: Bay Press, 1991

Rights of Passage, Kanaal Art Foundation, Kortrijk, 1997

In the Place of the Public: Observations of a Frequent Flyer/ An der Stelle der Öffentlichkeit: Beobachtungen einer Vielfliegerin, Osterfildern: Cantz, 1998

Positions in the Life World, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London: The MIT Press, 1999

Positionen in der Lebenswelt, Wien: Generali Foundation und Köln: Walter König, 1999

Martha Rosler: Posiciones en el mundo real, Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) and Actar, 1999

Second Nature: For an Art Against the Mythology of Everyday Life (working title). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003 (in press). An October Book/An ICP Book

Passionate Signals. In conjunction with the 5th International Spectrum Prize in Photography. Hatje/ Cantz, 2005

Inside and Outside the Frame: On Photography, Art, and the Art World; Four Essays. Tel Aviv: Pitom Publishing, 2006

Martha Rosler, 3 Works. Halifax: Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art & Design, 2006. With new afterword. (New edition of book originally published in 1981)

Paul Chan and Martha Rosler. New York: Art Resources Transfer, 2006.
In the series "Conversations Between Artists."


VIDEOTAPES

A budding gourmet, 1974
Semiotics of the Kitchen, 1975
Losing: A Conversation with the Parents, 1977
The East Is Red, the West Is Bending, 1977
From the PTA, the High School, and the City of Del Mar, 1977
Vital Statistics of a Citizen, Simply Obtained, 1977
Traveling Garage Sale, 1977
Domination and the Everyday, 1978
Secrets from the Street: No Disclosure, 1980
Martha Rosler Reads Vogue (with Paper Tiger Television), 1982
A Simple Case for Torture, or How to Sleep at Night, 1983
Fascination with the (Game of the) Exploding (Historical) Hollow Leg (installation tape), 1983
If It's Too Bad to Be True, It Could Be DISINFORMATION, 1985
Global Taste: A Meal in Three Courses, 1985
Born to Be Sold: Martha Rosler Reads the Strange Case Baby S/M (with Paper Tiger Television), 1988
Seattle: Hidden Histories, 1991-95
How Do We Know What Home Looks Like? The Unité d'Habitation de Le Corbusier at Firminy, France, 1993
In the Place of the Public: Airport Series (2-channel video installation), 1993
Chile on the Road to NAFTA, Accompanied by the National Police Band, 1997

SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Art Gallery of Ontario, Department of Photography
Bard College, Annandale on Hudson
Barnard College of Columbia University, New York
Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
California College of the Arts, San Francisco
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Columbia University, New York
Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston
Dia Center for the Arts, New York
École National Supérieure des Beaux Arts, Paris
Generali Foundation, Vienna, photography
Generali Foundation, Vienna, video
Goldsmiths College, University of London
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
International Center of Photography, New York, photography
International Center of Photography, New York, video
Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Bern
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston Institute of Puerto Rican Culture, San Juan
IVAM-Centre Julio González (Institut Valencia Arte Moderna) Valencia
Korea University, Seoul
Kunstmuseum Basel
Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
Kunstverein Hamburg Kunstverein Munich
Long Beach Museum of Art, California
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
Lux Centre, London
Maison Européene de la Photographie, Paris, photography
Maison Européene de la Photographie, Paris, video
Malmö Art Academy, Sweden
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Department of Photography
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, video
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, photography
Moving Image Center, Auckland, New Zealand
Musee d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, Strasbourg
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte, Madrid
Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro
Museu d'Art Contemporani di Barcelona
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Department of Photography
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Department of Prints
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Department of Film &Video
Museum of the Moving Image, London
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, Photography collection
Neue Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin
Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum, Graz, AustriaNorth Carolina State University, Raleigh
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California
The Power Plant, Toronto
Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey
Queens Museum of Art, New York
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, photography
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, video
San Francisco State University
Seoul Institute of the Arts
Taipei Fine Arts Museum
Tate Modern, London
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, photography
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, video
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven

Artist Exhibitions

FALLOUT - Cold War Culture - March 30 - April 29, 2006
Martha Rosler - GREAT POWER - September 6 - October 11, 2008

Artist Images

The Gray Drape
2008
Photomontage
40 by 30 in. 101.6 by 76.2 cm.


Point and Shoot
2008
Photomontage
30 by 40 in. 76.2 by 101.6 cm.


Invasion
2008
Photomontage
30 by 53 in. 76.2 by 134.6 cm.


Cellular
2004
Photomontage
20 by 24 in. 50.8 by 61 cm


Lounging Woman
2004
Photomontage
24 by 20 in. 61 by 50.8 cm


Gladiators
2004
Photomontage
20 by 24 in. 50.8 by 61 cm


Saddam's Palace (Febreze)
2004
Photomontage
20 by 24 in. 50.8 by 61 cm


Bowl of Fruit
1972
Photomontage
14 by 11 in. 35.6 by 27.9 cm


Red Stripe Kitchen
1967-72
Photomontage
20 by 24 in. 50.8 by 61 cm.


Cleaning the Drapes
1967-72
Photomontage
20 by 24 in. 50.8 by 61 cm


First Lady (Pat Nixon)
1967-72
Photomontage
20 by 24 in. 50.8 by 61 cm


Bathroom Surveillance or Vanity Eye
1966-72
Photomontage
20 by 24 in. 50.8 by 61 cm.


Nature Girls Jumping Janes
1966
Photomontage
30 by 40 in. 76.2 by 101.6 cm


Woman with Cannon (Dots)
1967-1972
Photomontage
20 by 24 in. 50.8 by 61 cm.


Tract House Soldier
1967-72
Photomontage
20 by 24 in. 50.8 by 61 cm.


Self Portrait II (Lost in the City)
1966-72
Photomontage
16 by 20 in. 40.6 by 50.8 cm.


Transparent Box, or Vanity Fair
1966-72
Photomontage
20 by 24 in. 50.8 by 61 cm.


O'Hare (Chicago)
1986
C-print
26 1/2 by 40 in. 67.3 by 101.6 cm.


Diaper Pattern
1973
Installation with text on cloth diapers
138 by 110 in. 350.5 by 279.4 cm


Semiotics of the Kitchen
1975
Film still, video 6:09