Martha Rosler

Brooklyn, New York, 1943 -

BiographyMARTHA ROSLERBorn: Brooklyn, NYLives and Works in Brooklyn, NY1974 M.F.A.; University of California, San Diego1965 B.F.A.; Brooklyn College of the City University of New YorkSELECTED INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS2009 Martha Rosler Power Game, Galerie Christian Nagel, KölnMartha Rosler: la calle, la casa, la cocina, Centro Jose Guerrero, Granada, Spain2008 Great Power, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New YorkMartha Rosler Library, Site, John Moores University’s School of Art and Design, LiverpoolLocation, location, location, Portikus, FrankfurtMartha Rosler, Langhans Galerie, PragueEmory Visual Arts Gallery, Emory Univserity, Atlanta, GA2007 Martha Rosler: Bringing the War Home, Worcester Art Museum, MAunitednationsplaza, Berlin, Martha Rosler LibraryLocation One, New York, Virtual Minefield2006 Sur/Sous le Pavé. University of Rennes Art GalleryGalerie Christian Nagel, Berlin, Germany, Martha Rosler: Kriegsschauplatze2005 e-flux, New York, Martha Rosler LibraryInstitute of Contemporary Arts, London, Martha Rosler: London Garage SaleHannover Sprengel Museum, Martha Rosler - If not now, when?2004 Gorney Bravin + Lee Gallery, New York, Photomontages 1965 – 20042003 Oleanna Space/Ship/Station, at Utopia Station at the 50th Venice Biennale. Curators Hans UlrichObrist, Molly Nesbit, Rirkrit Tiravanija. With students from Konstfack, Stockholm; RoyalAcademy, Copenhagen; and Yale University, New Haven; and with the FLEAS internationalcollective2000 New Museum in collaboration with the International Center of Photography, NewYork, Martha Rosler: Positions in the Life WorldKiasma Museum Of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Martha Rosler: Video1999 Galerie Christian Nagel, Köln, OOPS! Or, Nobody Loves a HegemonGenerali Foundation, Vienna; MACBA, Museu d’art contemporani, Barcelona;Villeurbanne, France, Martha Rosler: Positionen in der Lebenswelt1998 Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, Martha Rosler: Positions in the Life WorldFrankfurt Airport, In the Place of the Public, sponsored by the airport and Museum für Moderne KunstINIT: Kunsthalle, Berlin, Martha Rosler1997 Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York, Transitions and DigressionsGalerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, Rights of Passage1996 Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Everyday Objects: Videotapes by Martha RoslerPaper Tiger Television, Bronxnet, New York, NY, Martha Rosler Reads Vogue: Wishing, Dreaming,Winning, SpendingFree Speech TV, Boulder, Colorado, Born to Be Sold1995 Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago, Chile, Martha Rosler: Segundo Bienal del Video1994 Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH, In the Place of the PublicPalais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Videotapes of Martha Rosler1993 Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York, NY, In the Place of the PublicInstiut Valencià de la Dona, Valencia, Monográfico de Martha RoslerIn the series “Stadtfahrt (City Tour),” Hamburg, An Empty Space in Ottensen, Contaminated by History,Capital and Asbestos1991 Third Frauen Film Festival, Dortmund, The Machine Wreckers: The Lady Luddites1990 The City of Oxford and at the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, England, Housing Isa Human Right (Project on housing and homelessness in the city of Oxford and Oxfordshire)Galerie 7.0.7. Frankfurt, In Series: “Politische Diskurse,” Martha Rosler1989 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, andvisions of the city)Times Square Spectacolor animated signboard, New York, NY, Housing Is a Human Right1988 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 Works1987 Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA, Focus: Martha RoslerVideo Installation at Cornell Cinema, Ithaca, Global Taste: A Meal in Three Courses1986 Los Angeles Center of Photographic Studies and EZTV, Los Angeles, CACamerawork, San Francisco, CAInstallation Gallery, San Diego, CAElectronic Arts Gallery, Minneapolis1985 University/Community Video, MinneapolisSibell-Wolle Fine Arts Gallery, University of Colorado, Boulder, Fascination with the (Game of the)Exploding (Historical) Hollow Leg1983 The Office, New York, NY, Martha Rosler: Six Videotapes, 1975-19831981-2 Documenta 7, Kassel; Oberlin College Art Museum, Ohio; Walter Phillips Gallery, BanffCentre School of Fine Art; Mercer Union Gallery, Toronto; Dance TheatreWorkshop, New York, NY, Watchwords of the Eighties, curated by Lucy Lippard1980 Interaction Arts, New York, Sketch for a Ritual of Mutual Atonement: For AliceAnna Leonowens Gallery, Nova Scotia College of Art & Design, Halifax1979 Alberta College of Art, Calgary, University Art Museum, University of California,Berkeley Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, Getting the News1978 Véhicule Art, Montréal, Canada, Martha RoslerVideo Free America, San Francisco, CA, Martha RoslerLos Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art (LAICA), Domination and the EverydayUniversity of California, San Diego, CA, Getting the News in What’s Cooking II1977 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, Martha Rosler: New American Filmmakers SeriesCLOSE Artists’ radio, KPFK Los Angeles, CA, What’s Your Name Little Girl?La Mamelle Gallery garage, San Francisco, CA, Traveling Garage SaleLong Beach Museum of Art, California, Foul Play in the Chicken House1976 Parachute Center for Cultural Affairs, Calgary1975 The Kitchen, New York, NY (with Allan Sekula)1974 University of California, San Diego, A Gourmet Experience1973 University of California, San Diego, Monumental Garage SaleUniversity of California, San Diego, Vital Statistics of a Citizen, Simply ObtainedSELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS2009 Pavel Zoubok Gallelry, New York, Daughters of the Revolution: Women and Collage (July-August)The Third ICP Triennial of Photography and Video, New York, Dress Codes (October-January)PS1, New York, NY, (October-April)Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, Canada, Still RevolutionPatrick & Beatrice Haggerty Museum of Art, Milwaukee, WI, Jump Cut PopAndy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA, The EndSun Valley Center for the Arts, Sun Valley, Idaho, Domestic LifeCardwell Jimmerson Culver City, CA, San Diego and the Origins of Conceptual Art in California2008 Getty Center, Los Angeles, California VideoChelsea Art Museum, New York, The Dialectics of TerrorBronx Museum of the Arts, Street Art, Street LifeP.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, WACK! Art and the Feminist RevolutionThe New Museum, New York, UnmonumentalThe Jewish Museum, New York, NY, Action/Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning, and American ArtInstitut d’art contemporain, Villeurbanne, Ambitions of ArtLab for Culture, Victim’s Symptom, curated by Ana PeraicaARC Gallery, Chicago, Are We There Yet?: 40 Years of FeminismGuild & Greyshkul, The Human Face is a MonumentMildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University, St. Louis, On the MarginsMary Portner Sesnon Art Gallery, UC Santa Cruz, Interruption of HierarchiesChelsea Art Museum, New York, The Aesthetics of TerrorMichael Benevento, Los Angeles, Thanks for Coming!!New York University, 1968: Then and Nowe-flux, NY, OUT NOW!Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland, Darkside Part 1: Photographic Desire and Sexuality Photographed.Zacheta National Gallery, Warsaw, Poland, 1968 RevolutionsAmerican University Museum, Washington, D.C., Close Encounters – Facing the FutureMuseu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA), Universal ArchiveMissouri Billboard Project, multiple public sites, Art the Vote2007 Art Sonje Center and Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul, TomorrowMuseum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, WACK! Art and the Feminist RevolutionSkulptur Projekte MuensterDocumenta 12, Kassel, GermanyKemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, Beauty and the BlondWhitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, Resistance isJewish Museum, New York, NY, Food for Thought: A Video Art Sampler2006 Grey Art Gallery, New York University, The Downtown Show: The New York Art Scene, 1974-1984Traveling to Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh and Austin Museum, Austin, TXKent Gallery, New York, NY, KapitalMuseum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago. War Fare, with Ashley Gilbertson, SeanHemmerle, Sarah Pickering, and Sean SnyderCentre Georges Pompidou, Paris, Los Angeles 1955-1985, Birth of an Artistic CapitalUniversité Rennes 2, Galerie Art & Essai, Rennes, France, Sous Le Pavé2005 The Drawing Center, New York, NY, Persistent Vestiges: Drawings from the American-Vietnam WarMildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University, St. Louis, Inside Out Loud.Tate Modern, London. Curated by Donna De Salvo, Open Systems: Rethinking Art c.19702002 Vin & Sprithistoriska Museet, Stockholm, with Richard BillinghamModerna Museet, StockholmMaison Européenne de la Photographie, ParisWhite Columns, New York Gloria: Another Look at Feminist Art in the 1970s, Traveling to The Paleyand Levy Galleries, Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia; Rhode Island School of Design,ProvidenceMuseum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan, Through Women's Eyes —Video Art by WomenArtists2000 The Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NYBrussels 2000, Performance for the project Indiscipline, Romances of the MealCentre Georges Pompidou, Paris, Two-person screening (with Peter Boggers), Hors Champ: AgendaCaravanes1999 CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, CO, Suite of bus cards and subway light boxes in the exhibition, Ruins inReverse: Time and Progress in Contemporary Art, In the Place of the Public: Airport Series1997 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Views from Abroad III, (Selections from theWhitney Permanent Collection made by the Tate Gallery, London)1995 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, Public Information: Desire, Disaster, Document1985 New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, The Art of Memory, The Loss of HistoryThe Alternative Museum, New York, Disinformation: The Manufacture of Discontent1980 Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans and traveling, A Decade if Women’s Performance Art.Sponsored by the National Women’s Caucus for Art1979 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Whitney Biennial1975 Cable-TV screening, College Art Association, Hilton Hotel, Los Angeles, CA, The Evening News (withAlan Sekula)PHOTO-TEXT PUBLICATIONS"A budding gourmet", Serial postcard novel in 12 parts, first mailed Jan.-Apr. 1974Republished in: Service (see Books section), 1978"McTowersMaid", Serial postcard novel in 15 parts, first mailed Sep.-Dec. 1974Republished in: Service (see Books section, below), 1978Republished in: Socialist Review, No. 58, 1981"Immigrating," in the LAICA Journal (Journal of the Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art), Spring1975"Kitchen Economics: The Wonder of (White) Bread," in Jessica Jacobs, ed., Word Works Too. San José StateUniversity, Spring 1975"The Art of Cooking: A Mock Dialogue Between Julia Child and Craig Claiborne," Excerpted in: CrawlThrough Your Window (San Diego) No. 1, Spring, 1975"Tijuana Maid", Serial postcard novel in 12 parts, First mailed Oct. 1975—Feb. 1976Republished in: Heresies, No. 1, 1977Republished in: Service (see Books section, below), 1978"Losing: A Conversation with the Parents," in: Criss Cross Double Cross (Los Angeles), Fall 1976Republished in: Studio International, March 1977"A New -Found Career," Serial postcard novel in 12 parts. First mailed Nov. 1976 - Apr. 1977Republished 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. 2,1977Republished in Shoes & Shit: Stories for Pedestrians, Geoff Hancock and Rikki Ducornet, eds., Toronto: AyaPress, 1984"Know Your Servant Series, No. 1: North American Waitress, Coffee-Shop Variety," 1977, Photographs andtext, first published in: Entropy (Los Angeles), No. 1Republished in: Impressions (Toronto), No. 24/25, Spring 1980"The Restoration of High Culture in Chile", Photographs and text, 1977First published as gallery handout, Published (text only) in: The Minnesota Review, Spring 1979Republished 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), 1985Republished 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 NewMuseum of Contemporary Art, 1985"Martha Rosler Reads Vogue." Transcript of videotape text. In Profile, Vol. 5, No. 4 (Fall, 1986) Issuedevoted to Paper Tiger Television.Republished as "Always in Vogue." In Alternative Media (New York), Winter 1986Republished 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: InVietnam”) in Master Breasts (New York: Aperture, 1998)“Roadwork,’ a photo-text essay in Merge (Stockholm and New York) No. 6, Fall 1999, accompanying “VideoMode” interview by Stephan PascherContribution 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 derÜbergangszone", Galerie der Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig, Verlag der BuchhandlungWalther König, Köln 2005, S.118-137BOOKSService: A Trilogy on Colonization, New York: Printed Matter, 19783 Works, Halifax, N.S.: The Press of Nova Scotia College of Art & Design, 1981if You Lived Here...The City in Art, Theory and Social Activism, Brian Wallis (Hg.), Seattle: Bay Press, 1991Rights of Passage, Kanaal Art Foundation, Kortrijk, 1997In the Place of the Public: Observations of a Frequent Flyer/ An der Stelle der Öffentlichkeit: Beobachtungen einerVielfliegerin, Osterfildern: Cantz, 1998Positions in the Life World, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London: The MIT Press, 1999Positionen in der Lebenswelt, Wien: Generali Foundation und Köln: Walter König, 1999Martha Rosler: Posiciones en el mundo real, Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) and Actar, 1999Decoys and Disruptions: Writings, Selected 1975-2001. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2004.Passionate Signals. In conjunction with the 5th International Spectrum Prize in Photography. Hatje/Cantz, 2005Inside and Outside the Frame: On Photography, Art, and the Art World; Four Essays. Tel Aviv: PitomPublishing, 2006Martha Rosler, 3 Works. Halifax: Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art & Design, 2006. With newafterword. (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.”VIDEOTAPESA budding gourmet, 1974Semiotics of the Kitchen, 1975Losing: A Conversation with the Parents, 1977The East Is Red, the West Is Bending, 1977From the PTA, the High School, and the City of Del Mar, 1977Vital Statistics of a Citizen, Simply Obtained, 1977Traveling Garage Sale, 1977Domination and the Everyday, 1978Secrets from the Street: No Disclosure, 1980Martha Rosler Reads Vogue (with Paper Tiger Television), 1982A Simple Case for Torture, or How to Sleep at Night, 1983Fascination with the (Game of the) Exploding (Historical) Hollow Leg (installation tape), 1983If It’s Too Bad to Be True, It Could Be DISINFORMATION, 1985Global Taste: A Meal in Three Courses, 1985Born to Be Sold: Martha Rosler Reads the Strange Case Baby S/M (with Paper Tiger Television), 1988Seattle: Hidden Histories, 1991-95How Do We Know What Home Looks Like? The Unité d’Habitation de Le Corbusier at Firminy, France, 1993In the Place of the Public: Airport Series (2-channel video installation), 1993Chile on the Road to NAFTA, Accompanied by the National Police Band, 1997SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONSArt Gallery of Ontario, Department of PhotographyArt Institute of ChicagoBard College, Annandale on HudsonBarnard College of Columbia University, New YorkBrown University, Providence, Rhode IslandCalifornia College of the Arts, San FranciscoCentre Georges Pompidou, ParisColumbia University, New YorkContemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OhioContemporary Arts Museum, HoustonDia Center for the Arts, New YorkÉcole National Supérieure des Beaux Arts, ParisGenerali Foundation, Vienna, photographyGenerali Foundation, Vienna, videoGoldsmiths College, University of LondonHarvard University, Cambridge, MassachusettsInternational Center of Photography, New York, photographyInternational Center of Photography, New York, videoInstitut für Kunstgeschichte, BernInstitute of Contemporary Art, Boston Institute of Puerto Rican Culture, San JuanIVAM-Centre Julio González (Institut Valencia Arte Moderna) ValenciaKorea University, SeoulKunstmuseum BaselKunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, DüsseldorfKunstverein Hamburg Kunstverein MunichLong Beach Museum of Art, CaliforniaLouisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, DenmarkLux Centre, LondonMaison Européene de la Photographie, Paris, photographyMaison Européene de la Photographie, Paris, videoMalmö Art Academy, SwedenMassachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MAMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Department of PhotographyMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York, videoModerna Museet, Stockholm, photographyMoving Image Center, Auckland, New ZealandMusee d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, StrasbourgMuseo Nacional Centro de Arte, MadridMuseu de Arte Moderna do Rio de JaneiroMuseu d’Art Contemporani di BarcelonaMuseum of Contemporary Art, ChicagoMuseum of Contemporary Art, TaipeiMuseum of Modern Art, New York, Department of PhotographyMuseum of Modern Art, New York, Department of PrintsMuseum of Modern Art, New York, Department of Film &VideoMuseum of the Moving Image, LondonNational Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, Photography collectionNeue Berliner Kunstverein, BerlinNeue Galerie am Landesmuseum, Graz, AustriaNorth Carolina State University, RaleighOrange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CaliforniaThe Power Plant, TorontoPrinceton University, Princeton, New JerseyQueens Museum of Art, New YorkSan Francisco Museum of Modern Art, photographySan Francisco Museum of Modern Art, videoSan Francisco State UniversitySeoul Institute of the ArtsTaipei Fine Arts MuseumTate Modern, LondonVictoria and Albert Museum, LondonVirginia Museum of Fine ArtsWhitney Museum of American Art, New York, photographyWhitney Museum of American Art, New York, videoYale University Art Gallery, New Haven

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