Penelope Umbrico

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	Education	School of Visual Arts, New York, M.F.A., 1989 Ontario College of Art, AOCA, Toronto, Ontario, 1980

	Selected Solo Exhibitions	Discovery Award Exhibition, Rencontres d’Arles, France, 2011 LMAKprojects, New York, NY, 2010 P/M Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, 2010 Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA, May, 2007 P/M Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, November, 2005 Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA, January 7 – February 14, 2004 Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY, March 28 - May 4, 2002 Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY, January 17 - February 21, 1998 Montgomery Museum of Fine Art, Montgomery, AL, November 1996 - January 1997 Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY, September 7, - October 14, 1995 Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY, March 27 - May 1, 1993 International Center of Photography, New York, NY, April 30 - July 26, 1992

	Public Art Installations	Percent For Art, and New York Department of Cultural Affairs, permanent installation for PS/IS 71, 2013 Toronto Pearson International Airport, site-specific installation, Contact Photography Festival, 2010 Brooklyn Academy of Music, site-specific installation, Brooklyn, NY, 2010

	Selected Group Exhibitions	Pace MacGill Gallery, “Social Media”, New York, NY, 2011 Paraty Em Foco, “Future”, Paraty, Brazil, 2011 Hagedorn Foundation Galllery, “The New Photograph”, Atlanta, GA, 2011 Rencontres d’Arles, “From Here On”, curated by Fontcuberta, Parr, Schmid, Kessels, Cheroux, Arles, France, 2011 Public Surface, “Un Place”, Stockholm, Sweden, 2011 MassMoCA, “Memery: Imitation, Memory, and Internet Culture”, North Adams, MA, 2011 Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, Winter Park, FL, 2011 Voorkamer, "Meer", Lier, Belgium, 2010 Galerie West, "Carry-On", organized by David Horvitz, The Hague, The Netherlands, 2010 Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 2010 American University Museum, "One Hour Photo", organized by Adam Good, Washington, DC, 2010 Eastern Michigan University, "Open Book", MI, 2010 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, 2009 PS 1 Contemporary Art Center, "Between Spaces", Long Island City, NY, 2009 Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, China, 2009 Kunstverein Ludwigshafen, "Collecting Images", Germany, 2009 Aperture Foundation Gallery, "The Edge of Vision", New York, NY, 2009 Special Projects, Pulse-Art Fair, New York, NY, 2009 Rotunda Gallery, “In/formation”, Brooklyn, NY, Nov. 2008 KS Gallery, “Psychotic Reaction”, New York, NY, Oct.2008 The Ubiquitous Image, curator Lesley Martin, New York Photography Festival, May 2008 Cambridge Gallery - Riverside, University of Waterloo, Cambridge Ontario, Canada, July 2008 The Photographic Resource Center “Ad / Agency”, Boston, MA, November, 2007 Gallery of Modern Art, “The Leisure Class”, Brisbane, Australia, October 2007 – March 2008 The Drake, “Looking The Other Way”, curator Mia Nielsen, Toronto, Ontario Canada, May 2007 McDonough Museum of Art, The End(s) of Photography:Modeling the Photographic, curator Saul Ostrow, March 2007 Anthology Film Archives, “Wish List”, collaboration with Kelly Egan, November, 2007 Michael Steinberg Fine Arts, Form Follows Dysfunction, Miami FL, Dec. 2005 Art Basel Miami Beach Projects, curator Natalie Kovacs, Miami FL, Dec. 2005 Rotunda Gallery, Time’s Arrow: 12 Random Thoughts on Beauty, curator Janine Cirincione, Brooklyn, NY, Nov. 2005 Von Lintel Gallery, New York, June 9 – July 30, 2005 Gallery 44, Pixelware, Toronto, Ontario, February 10 – March 10, 2005 Wallspace, “Handmade”, New York, January 8 - February 12, 2005 Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, "Neither Here Nor There: Perceptions of Place," Feb. 2005 Dazibao, Montreal, Quebec, January 6- February 5, 2005 Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA, October, 2004 Visual Arts Gallery, SVA, Selected Alumni, curator Jerry Saltz, New York, NY, Sept. 2004 Space Force, “Wedding,” Tokyo, Japan, April 2004 Memphis College of Art, “Site and Situation,” Memphis, TN, February 24 – March 31, 2004 CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY, September 19 – December 20, 2003 Beaker Gallery, Tampa, FL, June 13 – September 6, 2003 Rotunda Gallery, “Clear Intentions,” curator Robert Morgan, Brooklyn NY, September 2003 Santa Barbara Museum of Art, “photoGENEsis:opus,” Santa Barbara, CA, November 2002 Winston Wachter Mayer Fine Art, “The Blurred Image,” New York, NY, July 2002 Katonah Museum of Art, “What’s Hot and New in 2002,” Katonah, NY, April 2002 Islip Art Museum, “Eccentric Photography,” East Islip, NY, April 2001 Dunedin Fine Art Center, “Synecdoche: Multiple Image Art Work,” Dunedin, FL, Oct. 2000 Rotunda Gallery, “Wunderkammer: Wonderworks,” Brooklyn, NY, September 2000 Spaces Gallery, “Painting Function: Making It Real,” curator Saul Ostrow, Cleveland, OH, January 2000 Denver Art Museum, "A Fine and Private Place: Monuments & Memory,” Denver CO, Nov. 1999 The Museum of Modern Art, "Object and Abstraction: Contemporary Photographs," NY, Sept. 1997 International Center of Photography, "Eye of the Beholder,” New York, September 1997 Creative Time, Art in the Anchorage '96, The Brooklyn Bridge Anchorage, Summer 1996 Numark Gallery, "Images of the Information Superhighway," Washington, DC, Jan. 1996 Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Florida, March 1996 The Bruce Museum, "Content and Discontent," organized by ICA, Connecticut, Summer 1995 The Ansel Adams Center for Photography, "The Abstract Urge," San Francisco, CA, April 1994 Museum of Modern Art, "Multiple Images," New York, Summer 1993 Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, "The Alternative Eye," Loretto, PA, June 1993 Jan Kesner Gallery, "Allure," Los Angeles, CA, June 1993 Sandra Gering Gallery, New York, July 1992 The Museum of Modern Art, "More Than One Photography," New York, May 1992 Art In General, "The Results Are In," New York, January 1992 P.S. 122, "Fearful Symmetry," New York, January 1991 The Drawing Center, Selections 41, New York, February 1988

	Selected Awards and Grants	Guggenheim Fellowship, 2011 Deutsche Bank Fellow, New York Foundation of the Arts, Fellowship, 2010 Anonymous Was A Woman Award, 2009 Aaron Siskind Foundation Individual Photographer’s Fellowship Grant, 2008 Harvestworks, Scholar Residency, 2008 New York Foundation of the Arts, Fellowship Grant, Spring 2002 New York Foundation of the Arts, Catalog Project Grant, 2000 Paula Rhoades Memorial Scholarship, 1989

	Selected Public and Private Collections	International Center of Photography, New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL Museum of Modern Art, New York San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Tampa Museum of Art, Florida

	Selected Bibliography	Faye Hirsch, “Inky Screen”, Art in America, December 2011 Marcel Feil, “In Conversation with Penelope Umbrico”, Foam International Photography Magazine, #21, Amsterdam, Winter 2011 Sujong Song, “ Penelope Umbrico”, Monthly Photographer, Vol. 525, Korea, October 2011 Silas Marti, "Artistas embaralham realidade e ficção e questionam autoria", Folha de Sao Paulo, Brazil, October 13, 2011 Foam International Photography Magazine, Amsterdam, Artist Project for “What’s Next,” #3/4, Summer 2011 Irina Rozovsky, “500 Words: Penelope Umbrico”, ArtForum.com, July 20 2011 Adam Jacques, “Portfolio: Penelope Umbrico”, The Independent, UK, July 17, 2011 Conor Risch, “Fishing the Photo Stream: Penelope Umbrico’s (photographs)”, Photo District News, June 2011 John Seven, “The Art of Sun Worship”, The North Adams Transcript, April 1 2011 The New York Times Magazine, cover and inside spreads accompanying "Ghosts In the Machine", January 9, 2011 Faye Hirsch, Art in America, November 2010 Blake Gopnik, The Washington Post, Sunday, May 23, 2010 R.M Vaughan, The Globe and Mail, Saturday, May 24, 2010 Area, "Seile", Number 22, Paris, France, Summer, 2010 "San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: 75 Years of Looking Forward", SFMOMA, 2010 Jessica Dawson, 'One Hour Photo', The Washington Post, Friday, May 7, 2010 The Multiplication of Being, or a Reflective Abyss? Lyle Rexer, Tate Etc., Issue 19, Summer 2010 Lay Flat : 02 Meta, ed. Michael Buhler Rose and Shane Lavalette, 2010 Martha Schewendener, The Village Voice, January 19, 2010 "The Digital Eye", Silvia Wolf, Prestel Publishing and Henry Art Gallery, Spring 2010 Foam International Photography Magazine, #21, Amsterdam, Artist Portfolio, Spring 2010 PAGE Magazine, Hamburg, Germany, August 2009 Foam International Photography Magazine, #19, Amsterdam, Lesley Martin, #19, Summer 2009 The Edge of Vision, Lyle Rexer, Aperture, forthcoming Spring 2009 Prefix Photo Magazine, Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art, Toronto Canada, November 2008 Elizabeth Ferrer, In/Formation, Exhibition Catalog, Rotunda Gallery, November, 2008 Foam International Photography Magazine, #15, “Construct”, with essay by Martin Parr, Summer 2008 Mary Panzer, Wall Street Journal, May 22, 2008 Ken Johnson, The New York Times, May 16, 2008 Gae Savannah, Flash Art Online, January 2008 Jennifer Tobias, "Mainstream/Slipstream: Indie Publishing”, Princeton Architectural Press, forthcoming 2008 Cate McQuaid, Boston Globe, Thursday May 31, 2007 Canadian Art Magazine, www.canadianart.ca, January 2006 The Education of a Photographer, Ed., Traub, Heller and Bell, Allworth Press, New York, 2006 Rhizome Art Base, www.rhizome.org, http://rhizome.org/object.rhiz?16641 Ubu Web, http://www.ubu.com/contemp/umbrico/index.html R.M. Vaughan, National Post, Canada, December 2005 Montreal Mirror, January 2005 Ici, Montreal, January 2005 Cabinet Magazine, Issue 14 / ”Doubles”, August 2004 ReThinking Marxism, vol. 16 no. 1, Routledge, January 2004 Cate McQuaid, The Boston Globe, January 30 2004 Richard Huntington, The Buffalo News, January 2 2004 wburg.com, “Duende Sizzles: Absence Observes”, interview, Winter 2004 Odili Donald Odita, Art US, Fall, 2003 Rhizome Art Base, www.rhizome.org, http://rhizome.org/object.rhiz?16641, June 2003 Hidenori Kondo, PS122 Gallery, Artwurl internet magazine, interview, Spring 2003 Aletti, Vince, The Village Voice, New York, April 30 2002 Sheryl Conkelton, essay for “Out of Place: Mirrors and Doors from Catalogs”, December 2001 Helen A. Harrison, The New York Times, Arts and Entertainment, (Long Island), May 12 2001 Karen Shaw, essay for “Eccentric Photography”, Islip Museum, Spring 2001 “On Concept: 10 Photo-based Artists from New York”, A Magazine, Tokyo, Japan, 2001 “Painting Function: Making It Real,” exhibition catalog, Saul Ostrow curator, January 2000 Aletti, Vince, The Village Voice, New York, February 10, 1998 Morgan, Robert C., “Signs Within the Inventory”, catalog essay, 1998 Gerald F. Brommer, “Discovering Art History”, third edition, Davis Publications, 1997 Adams, Kelly, interview for “Between Body and Object”, Montgomery Museum, 1997 Smith, Roberta, The New York Times, August 9 1996 Protzman, Ferdinand, The Washington Post, January 27 1996 Aletti, Vince, The Village Voice, New York, October 3 1995 Raynor, Vivien, The New York Times, Arts and Leisure, (Conn), Sunday, July 30 1995 Grundberg, Andy, essay for "Content and Discontent in Today's Photography," 1995 Aukeman, Anastasia, Art in America, January 1994 Marimo, Meiri, Nikkei Magazine, Japan, June 1993 Aletti, Vince, The Village Voice, New York, April 30 1993 Hartshorn, Willis, essay for "Variants", International Center of Photography, May 1992 Faust, Gretchen, Arts Magazine, New York, April 1992 Aletti, Vince, The Village Voice, New York, June 9 1992

	Selected Writing	"Penelope Umbrico: (photographs)", artist monograph, Aperture, Spring 2011 "Selfnessless", in Cultural Production in Virtual and Imagined Worlds, Cambridge Scholars Press, May 2010 "Articulate Surface, or (actually) Inarticulate Surface", Dear Dave, Spring 2009 "Words Without Pictures", ed. Alex Klein, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, May 2009 “Our New Library”, photo-essay for Rethinking Marxism, Routledge, November, 2008 “IMG MGMT: Our New Library”, www.artfagcity.com, 2008 “Ars Virtua on Second Life”, Bomb Magazine, Spring Issue, 2008 “The Education of a Photographer”, Ed., Traub, Heller and Bell, Allworth Press, 2006

	Faculty Appointments	Harvard University, Department of Visual and Environmental Studies, Fall 2010 School of Visual Arts, MFA Photography Video and Related Media, Core Faculty, 1998 to present School of Visual Arts, BFA Photography, Adjunct Faculty, 1999 to present Bard College, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Chair, MFA Photography, 2004 - 2010 Bard College, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Core Faculty, 2001 to present Sarah Lawrence College, Photography, Adjunct Faculty, 2004-07 Cooper Union, Visiting Faculty, 2006 Parsons School of Design, Adjunct Faculty, 2000 - 2005 Rhode Island School of Design, MFA Photography, Core Faculty, 2001 - 2003 New York University, MFA Photography, Adjunct Faculty, 1999 -2001 Cooper Union, Visiting Faculty, 2000 Sarah Lawrence College, Photography, Adjunct Faculty, 1999 International Center of Photography, Core Faculty, General Studies Program, 1995-99 Columbia University, Visiting Faculty, School of the Arts, 1997

	Selected Lectures/Presentations	Dear Dave, and School of Visual Arts, conversation with Cay Sophie Rabinowitz, October 2011 Paraty em Foco, artist talk and conversation with Juliana Monachesi, Brazil, September 2011 The Photographic Universe, presentation and discussion, “The Digital Sublime”, The New School, NY, March 2011 College Art Association, Annual Conference, presentation and panel: Data as Medium, NY, February 2011 Harvard University, artist talk, October 2010 Texas Technical Univeristy, artist talk, October 2010 Massachusetts College of Art and Design, artist talk, March 2010 Banff Center for the Arts, Canada, artist talk, February 2010 Calgary College of Art and Design, artist talk and panel presentation, February 2010 Vermont Studio Center, artist talk and visiting critic, February 2010 California College of the Arts, artist talk and visiting critic, January 2010 University of California, Irvine, CA, artist talk and visiting critic, January 2010 Columbia College, Chicago, IL, artist talk and visiting critic, November 2009 Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, artist talk and visiting critic, October 2009 Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, China, artist talk, September 2009 New York Photography Festival, panel, The Edge of Vision, May 2009 Centro Cultural Tijuana, Mexico, artist talk, December 2008 Society for Photographic Education, Mid-West Conference, Keynote Speaker, Cleveland, OH, November, 2008 Los Angeles County Museum of Art, presentation and panel: “A Picture You Already Know”, October, 2008 New York Photography Festival, Panel, “The Secret Life of Images”, May, 2008 New York Photography Festival, artist talk, May, 2008 Mid-Atlanic Popular American Culture Association Conference, November 2007 Aperture Foundation, artist talk, May 2007 Tisch School of the Arts, NYU, artist talk, April 2007 Maryland Institute College of Art, artist talk, visiting critic, March 2007 Society for Photographic Education, Northeast Regional Conference: presentation, “Digital Photography Now”, 2005 Ontario College of Art, artist talk, Fall 2005 Massachusetts College of Art, Spring 2004 International Center of Photography, Lecture Series, artist talk, 2003 Centro De Le Imagine, Mexico City, artist talk and visiting artist, 2001 Montclair State University, artist talk and visiting critic, 2001 Tisch School of the Arts, NYU, artist talk and visiting critic, 2001 Rhode Island School of Design, artist talk 2001 Cooper Union, artist talk, visiting critic, 1999