Tracey Baran

Bath, New York, 1975 - 2008

BiographyPhotographer Tracey Baran died last Tuesday after a brief illness. She was born in Bath, New York, and for the past six years had been represented by Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York. Baran had many solo exhibitions, including a 2002 show at the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, and participated in more than thirty group shows at galleries and museums throughout the world including the Guggenheim Museum (New York and Bilbao), the Folkwang Museum in Essen, P.S. 1 in New York, the Milwaukee Art Museum, and the Pusan Metropolitan Art Museum in Korea. She was the recipient of several grants and awards including the Henry Buhl Foundation Grant's first prize in 2002, the Aaron Siskind Foundation Individual Photographer’s Fellowship in 2005, and the Santa Fe Center for Photography Juror’s Choice Grant in 2006. Her work is included in the collections of the Hessel Museum of Art at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York; the Milwaukee Art Museum; the Miami Art Museum; and other institutions.

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ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2007spacerNote To Self, Arratia Beer, Berlin Germany
2006spacerSee Through Me, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
2004spacerRed, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
2002spacerThe Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago
2001spacerStill, Liebman Magnan, New York
1999spacerGive and Take, Liebman Magnan, New York
1998spacerLiebman Magnan, New York

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2007spacerJune Bride, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York
spacerHome, Alice Austin House Museum, Staten Island, N.Y.
2006spacerSpeaking with Hands: Photographs from the Buhl Collection, Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany;
spacerThe State Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
2005spacerArtists Interrogate: Race and Identity, The Milwaukee Art Museum
spacerSpeaking with Hands: Photographs from the Buhl Collection, Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain
spacerEccentric Modern, The Foundation To-Life Inc., Exhibition Space, Mount Kisco, N.Y .
spacerA Kiss Isn't Just a Kiss . . . , Contemporary Art Galleries, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Conn.
spacerHeartfelt, Museum of Fine Arts, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Fla.
spacerPairs, Groups and Grids, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
2004spacerSpeaking with Hands: Photographs from the Buhl Collection, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
spacerRimbaud, curated by Max Henry, I-20 Gallery, New York
spacerSigns of Being, The Foundation To-Life Inc., Exhibition Space, Mount Kisco, N.Y.
2003spacerExtreme Landscape, The Hunterdon Museum, Hunterdon, N.J.
spacerMe, Myself & I: Looking at Portraiture, CRG Gallery, New York
spacerPresence, The Foundation To-Life, Inc. Exhibition Space, Mount Kisco, N.Y.
2001spacerFaces and Figures, Douglas Udell Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2000spacerGreater New York, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, N.Y.
spacerPsychosoma, Lombard Fried, New York
spacerNONPLUSULTRA, Fiebach & Minninger Galerie, Cologne, Germany
spacerMommie Dearest, Gimpel Fils Gallery, London
spacerGallery Artists, Liebman Magnan, New York
1999spacerThe Comforts of Home, Hand Workshop Art Center, Richmond, Va.
spacerFemale, curated by Vince Aletti, Wessel + O’Connor Gallery, New York
spacerNature/Culture, Hales Gallery and Gimpel Fils Gallery, London
1998spacerInternational House and Garden, Pusan Metropolitan Art Museum, South Korea
spacerNeighborhood Watch, Julie Saul Gallery, New York
spacerPersonal Touch, Art in General, New York

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Milwaukee Art Museum
The Marieluise Hessel Collection, The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on Hudson, N.Y.
Miami Art Museum
The Capital Group, Los Angeles

BIBLIOGRAPHY

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