Mika Rottenberg

Argentina, 1976 -

BiographyBorn in Argentina in 1976, Rottenberg grew up in Israel and is now based in New York. She’s best known for video installations that explore issues relating to the female body. One recurring theme is an assembly line where women tirelessly create comestibles by harvesting parts of themselves. In Mary’s Cherries, 2003, for example, red fingernails are made into maraschino cherries, while in Cheese, 2008, women squeeze milk from their hair. For W, Rottenberg built an elaborate multichambered set in her Harlem, new york, studio, constructing each “room” to fit the person she photographed inside it. Rottenberg received her M.F.A. from Columbia University and was included in the 2007 Moscow Biennale and the 2008 Whitney Biennial.

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Nicole Klagsbrun
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MIKA ROTTENBERG
1976 Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina
1998 Hamidrasha, Bait Berl College of Arts, Israel
2000 Bachelor of Fine Arts, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
2004 Master of Fine Arts, Columbia University, New York, NY
Lives and works in New York, NY
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008 Drawings, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY
Alona Harpaz and Mika Rottenberg (collaboration), New York, NY
2006 Dough, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
Dough, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY
2005 Tropical Breeze, Le Case D'Arte, Milan, Italy
2004 Mary’s Cherries, Special Projects, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Queens, NY
Marta Del'Angelo and Mika Rottenberg, Le Case d'Arte, Milan, Italy
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008 2008 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Body Collective, Alogon Gallery, Chicago, L
Galerie Laurent Godin (two-person exhibition with Marilyn Minter), Paris, France
2007 The Irresistible Force, Tate Modern, London, UK, Curated by Ben Borthwick and Kerryn Greenberg
Americans In New York, Galerie Michael Rein, Paris, France, Curated by Ami Barak
The Shapes of Space Part 2, Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Welcome to my World, Alexandre Pollazzon, London, UK, Curated by Amy Davila and Matthew Day Jackson
Foam of the Daze, Smith-Stewart Gallery, New York, NY
Herzliya Biennale, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya, Israel
*Moscow Biennale, Moscow, Russia, Curated by N. Bourriaud
Negatec, Espacio Fundación Telefónica, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Curated by Luis Camnitzer
2006 intermittent, Gallery for One, Dublin, Ireland, Curated by Paul O’Neill and Vaair Claffey
Globalization: Indications, Side Effects, Warnings, Espacio 1414, Santurce, Puerto Rico
*New York, Interrupted, pkm gallery, Beijing, China, Curated by Dan Cameron
*Uncertain States of America: American Art in the Third Millenium, Curated by Daniel Birnbaum, Hans Ulrich Obrist
and Gunnar B. Kvaran, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
Remember Who You Are, Mary Boone Gallery, Curated by Amy Smith-Stewart
*Everywhere, Busan Biennale, Contemporary Art Exhibit: “A Tale of Two Cities: Busan-Seoul/Seoul-Busan,”
Busan Museum of Modern Art, Busan, South Korea
(New York as) Open Market: An Individual in Globalized Spectacle, Galerija Remont, Belgrade, Serbia
Mid-Life Crisis, Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, New York, NY, Curated by Tara Subkoff and Ivana Salander
pa*per*ing, Deutsche Bank Lobby Gallery in collaboration with Art in General, New York NY
Survivor, Bortolami Dayan, New York, NY, Curated by David Rimanelli
The Garden Party, Deitch Projects, New York, NY
2005 Day Labor, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Queens, NY
*KunstFilm Biennale, Koln
Look at Me: The Perception of Video, Palazzo delle Papesse Centro Arte Contemporanea, Sienna, Italy
*Uncertain States of America: American Art in the Third Millenium, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art,
Oslo, Norway, Curated by Daniel Birnbaum, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Gunnar B. Kvaran, Travels to:
Bard College Center for Curatorial Studies, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY; Serpentine Gallery, London, UK;
Warsaw, Poland; Sérignan, Montepellier, France; Beijing, China; Reykjavik, Iceland
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
New Work/ New Acquisitions, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
*Greater New York, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Queens, NY
Art Review 25 Emerging Artists, Phillips, de Pury & Company, New York, NY
Paper, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY
Situational Prosthetics, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
2004 Economies, Artandgallery, Milan, Italy
Always Already Passé, Gavin Brown's Enterprise at Passerby, New York, NY
We are the World, The Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY
Nicole Klagsbrun
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2003 Miami Heat, Placemaker Gallery, Miami, FL
My Sources Say Yes, Guild & Greyshkul Gallery, New York, NY
2002 Tensionism, Kenny Schachter’s 132 Perry Street, New York, NY
2001 Projects 2001, Islip Museum, Central Islip, NY
2000 Paladar, Cuban Biennial 2000, Havana, Cuba
Short Films and Videos, Stanford University Gallery, Stanford, CA
A.V.A.F.S, *67 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Short Cuts, Luggage Space Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1998
Spring at the End of the Summer, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel-Aviv, Israel
* Catalogue
COLLECTIONS
Museum of Modern Art, NY
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, NY
Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway
AWARDS
2006 The Cartier Award, in conjunction with the Frieze Art Fair
2004 The Rema Hort Mann Foundation
2002 The Dean Fellowship, Columbia University
2001 Projects 2001 award, Islip Museum
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