Mitchell-Innes & Nash

Martha Rosler

Biography

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

2007
Galerie Christian Nagel, Berlin, Germany, "Martha Rosler: Kriegsschauplatze"

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; The New Museum, New York, "Martha Rosler: Positions in the Life World"
INIT: Kunsthalle, Berlin, "Martha Rosler"
Museum für Moderne Kunst, "In the Place of the Public Frankfurt Airport"

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

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

1995
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago, Chile, "Martha Rosler: Il 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 Luddities"

1990
Project on housing and homelessness in the city of Oxford and Oxfordshire; Public sites in the city and at the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, "Housing Is a Human Right"
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"

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"

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, "Getting the News"
University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley

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

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"

1976
Parachute Center for Cultural Affairs, Calgary

1975
The Kitchen, New York, NY (with Alan Sekula)
Cable-TV screening, College Art Association, Hilton Hotel, Los Angeles, CA, "The Evening News" (with Alan Sekula).

1974
University of California, San Diego, CA, "A Gourmet Experience"


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2007
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA "WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution. Curated by Connie Butler"
Skulptur Projekte Muenster
Jewish Museum, New York, NY, "Food for Thought: A Video Art Sampler"

2006
Kent Gallery, New York, NY, "Kapital"
Denise Bibro Fine Art, Inc., New York, NY, "Disturbing the Peace"
Université Rennes 2, Galerie Art & Essai, Rennes, France, "Sous Le Pavé"
Center for Book Arts, New York, NY, "The Only Book"
Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York, NY, "The Downtown Show: The New York Art Scene 1974-1984" Traveling to Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh and Austin Museum, Austin, Texas

2005
The Drawing Center, New York, NY, “Persistent Vestiges: Drawings from the American-Vietnam War”

2002
Vin & Sprithistoriska Museet, Stockholm, with Richard Billingham
Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris

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"

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"

1982
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"

1981
Powerhouse Gallery, Montréal, Canada, "Two Evenings of Video"
In “ActingOut: The First Political Performance Series”, Elisabeth Irwin High School, New York, curated by Lucy Lippard

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"
Orange Coast College Photography Gallery, Costa Mesa, California
Institute of Contemporary Arts, London

Artist Exhibitions

FALLOUT - Cold War Culture - March 30 - April 29, 2006

Artist Images

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


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


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


Election (Lynndie)
2004
Photomontage
20 by 24 in. 50.8 by 61 cm


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


Red and White Shades (Baghdad Burning)
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


Barefoot, Kassel (III)
1983
C-print
40 by 26 1/2 in. 101.6 by 67.3 cm


Subway, Vienna
1983
C-print
26 1/2 by 40 in. 67.3 by 101.6 cm


Subway Station, Frankfurt
1983
C-print
26 1/2 by 40 in. 67.3 by 101.6 cm


New York City
1995
C-print
26 1/2 by 40 in. 67.3 by 101.6 cm


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


Dallas or Los Angeles
1991
C-print
26 1/2 by 40 in. 67.3 by 101.6 cm


JFK, TWA Terminal
1990
C-print
26 1/2 by 40 in. 67.3 by 101.6 cm


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


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


Hothouse, or Harem
1972
Photomontage
20 by 48 1/2 in. 50.8 by 123.2 cm


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


Vacuuming Pop Art
1966
Photomontage
24 by 20 in. 61 by 50.8 cm


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