Monument (News), 2018, 42 broken LCD TVs and computer monitors, live cable stream, installation at BRIC Arts Media, Brooklyn, 2018
ARTFORMS
Video, photography, and Installation
MATERIALS/MEDIA
Mixed media: Electronic items, metals, paper, photography, Picture sharing websites ( consumer-to-consumer websites ).
GUIDING INTEREST
Penelope Umbrico is an award-winning New York-based artist.
Her work (installations, video, and digital media) utilizes common software applications and consumer-to-consumer websites as a wide archive in order to explore screen space, light, and electronic signals.
She likes to navigate between the producer and the consumer, the individual and the collective with attention to the technologies that are shaped by and produce these forces.
Umbrico’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally (Guggenheim Museum; LACMA; Metropolitan Museum of Art; Milwaukee Art Museum; Museum of Modern Art New York) and is the winner of multiple awards and grants (Guggenheim Fellowship in 2011, Pilchuck Glass School, Artist in Residence in 2015, Sharpe-Walentas Studio Fellowship in 2018.
She has served as a member of faculty at Bard College’s Summer MFA, and she is a core faculty member at the School of Visual Arts MFA Photography Video and Related Media in NYC.
INTERVIEW: Fri 16 Jan 2015, 18:00 | Penelope Umbrico In Conversation with Katrina Sluis
For more details about this interview please refer to the photographer’s gallery
QUOTE
“I have always been more interested in how we as a culture see things than how I see in particular.”
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND INSTALLATIONS
2019 │ Rochester NY │ George Eastman Museum | Everyone’s Moon Any License
2019 │ Ballarat, Australia│Ballarat International Foto Biennale | Everyone’s Moon Any License
2019 │ Chicago, IL│ 150 Media Stream, Screen to Screen (eBay, Craigslist)
2018 │ Brooklyn, NY│BRIC Media House
2018 │ Le Locle, Switzerland│Musée des Beaux-Arts, Out of Print
2017 │ Peoria, IL│Peoria Riverfront Museum, Screen Light
2017 │ Denver, CO │David Smith Gallery
2016 │ Paris France│Salon d’Honneur, Paris Photo, Range: of Masters
2016 │ Bienne, Switzerland│Photoforum PasquArt, Biel/Bienne Festival of Photography
2015 │ NY, USA│Grand Central Terminal Light Boxes, Four Photographs of Rays at Grand Central
2015 │ UC Riverside, CA│Museum of Contemporary Photography, Range
2015 │ Rossinière, Switzerland│Alt+1000 Festival de Photographie results from A Proposal and Two Trades
2015 │ Ontario, Canada│Justine M. Barnicke Gallery, Hart House, University of Toronto,
2014 │ Paris, France│RVB Books,
2013 │ Rossinière, Switzerland│ Alt. + 1000 Festival de Photographie, A Proposal and Two Trades,
2013 │ Kentucky, KY│ Art Museum at the University of Kentucky
2013 │ St Paul, MN│ Olson Gallery, Bethel University,
2012 │ Vevey, Switzerland│ Vevey, Ville d’Images, Cameras from the Smithsonian History of Photography Collection, billboards,
2011 │ Paraty, Brazil│ Paraty Em Foco, Future,
2010 │ Brooklyn, NY│ Brooklyn Academy of Music, Suns from Flickr (Box Office), site-specific installation,
2013 │ Toronto, Ontario│ P/M Gallery,
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020 | Rochester, NY | George Eastman Museum, Gathering Clouds: Photographs from the Nineteenth Century and Today
2020 | Vevey, Switzerland | Festival Images Vevey Biennale
2019 | Lianzhou, China | Lianzhou Foto Festival 2019, Living Mountains curated by Natasha Egan
2019 | Portland, OR | Portland Art Museum, Toughened to Wind and Sun: Women Photographing the Landscape
2019 | Belgium | Foto Museum Antwerp, Maan/Moon, Antwerp, Belgium, 2019
2019 | Sunderland, UK | Northern Centre of Photography, Observe Experiment Archive, Sunderland, UK, 2019
SELECTED CURATORIAL
2020 | Munich, Germany | Surplus Management, Guest Editor, Der Greif, Issue #13
2017 | Brooklyn, NY | Monument, Gowanus E-Waste Warehouse
2017 | Los Angeles, CA | Frame Element, Photo La
SELECTED MUSEUM COLLECTIONS
Berkeley Art Museum, CA
Crocker Art Museum, CA
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Honolulu Museum of Art, Hawaii
International Center of Photography, New York, NY
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS AND WRITING
Fall 2017 | Oslo | Subjective: on the current political climate, essay, Objective Journal
Spring 2016 | Mongo Thomson, Negative Space; Oliver Laric, Ancient Copies; and Mishka Henner, Photography Is, book reviews for “The PhotoBook and the Archive”, The Photobook Review, Aperture,
July – August 2015 | The Back Page, Photograph Magazine
Summer 2014 | NY| Range, artist monograph, Aperture,
2014 | Paris | Out of Order: Used Office Books and Used Office Plants for Sale, artist monograph, essay by Clément Chéroux, RVB
BIO
American artist. Lives in New York
1957 │Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
FORMATION
1980│ Toronto, Canada│Graduated from the Ontario College of Art.
1989│ New York, USA │Obtained her M.F.A at the School of Visual Arts.
ARTISTIC AWARDS/GRANTS/RESIDENCIES
2017-2018 │ Sharpe-Walentas Studio Fellowship
2015 │ Pilchuck Glass School, Artist in Residence
2012 │John Gutmann Photography Fellowship
2012 │Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship
2011 │ Guggenheim Fellowship
2011 │ Peter S. Reed Foundation Grant
2010 | Deutsche Bank Fellowship – New York Foundation of the Arts
2009 | Anonymous Was A Woman Award
2008 | Aaron Siskind Foundation Individual Photographer’s Fellowship
2008 | Harvestworks, Scholar Residency
2002 | New York Foundation of the Arts, Fellowship
2000 | New York Foundation of the Arts, Catalog Project Grant
LINKS
Penelope Umbrico’s Website
Penelope Umbrico’s Facebook Account
Penelope Umbrico’s Instagram collaborative project
FEATURED PORTRAIT AND IMAGES
Images courtesy of Penelope Umbrico
Author
Ines Baccouche