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| Born | in 1953, Buenos Aires, Argentina | |
| 1959-present | based in New York City, USA | |
ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS | ||
| 2009 | "Film Programme," Whitechapel Art Gallery, London. Curated by Ian White. After Hiroshima Mon Amour, shown four nights alongside films Nuit et Brouillard (Night and Fog) , Alain Resnais (1955); Marguerite Duras/Alain Resnais, David Dempewolf (2007) & Let Me Count the Ways: Minus 10 - Minus 6, Leslie Thornton (2004); Fi Hazal Bayt (In This House) , Akram Zaatari (2005). This program also included a live transatlantic reading of excerpts from Between Artists: Silvia Kolbowski and Walid Raad, by Silvia Kolbowski and Ian White. | |
| 2009 | "After Hiroshima Mon Amour" and "A Movie Will Be Shown Without the Sound," Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana, Slovenia "Silvia Kolbowski: Nothing and Everything", Galerie Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University, Montreal. Curated by Michèle Thériault. | |
| 2008 | "After Hiroshima Mon Amour," La><art, Los Angeles. Curated by Christopher Bedford | |
| 2007 | Center for Contemporary Art, Warsaw (weblink) | |
| 2004 | "inadequate...Like...Power," Secession, Vienna | |
| 2003 | "Unposed," Y8, Hamburg | |
| 2002 | "Like Looking Away," American Fine Arts, New York | |
| 2001 | "Seven x 7," Seven, New York | |
| 2000 | "an inadequate history of conceptual art," Western Front, Vancouver | |
| 1999 | "an inadequate history of conceptual art," American Fine Arts, New York | |
| 1997 | "Closed Circuit," Postmasters Gallery, New York | |
| 1995 | "These goods are available at...," an exhibition in six commercial sites in London, and at Galerie Roger Pailhas, Paris, sponsored by Desiring Practices | |
| 1992 | "Once more, with feeling, " and "Already," Postmasters Gallery, New York "Once more, with feeling," Galerie Roger Pailhas, Paris | |
| 1990 | Project, Harry Winston, Inc., New York | |
| 1989 | "Enlarged from the Catalogue: USA", Postmasters Gallery, New York | |
| 1988 | Postmasters Gallery, New York Interim Art, London | |
| 1986 | Nature Morte Gallery, New York | |
| 1985 | Nature Morte Gallery, New York | |
| 1982 | CEPA Gallery, Buffalo | |
| 1980 | Artists' Space, New York | |
SCREENINGS | ||
| After Hiroshima Mon Amour has been screened with accompanying discussions at the following locations: Courtauld Institute, London ("Research Forum," organized by Mignon Nixon and Tamar Garb 2008); Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw (organized by Luiza Nader and Powell Polit 2009); Cooper Union, New York ("Interdisciplinary Seminar" organized by Doug Ashford and Walid Raad 2009); San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco ("Spheres of Interest" organized by Renee Green 2009); Centro Hospitalar Psiquiátrico, Lisboa ("Our Time: Video Screening Project," organized by João Mourão and Maud Jacquin 2009); Muthesius Hochschule, Kiel (organized by Theresa Georgen 2009); Whitechapel Art Gallery, London ("Film Programme," organized by Ian White 2010); Parsons Fine Arts (organized by Coco Fusco) | ||
GROUP EXHIBITIONS/PROJECT COLLABORATIONS | ||
| 2010 | "Double Bind: Stop Trying to Understand Me!" Villa Arson, Nice. | |
| 2009 | "A Few Frames: Photography and the Contact Sheet," Whitney Museum of Art, New York. "The Third International Center of Photography Triennial of Photography and Video," ICP, NYC "Our Time," Smallbox, Hospital Julio de Matos, Lisbon (Traveling to various venues.) | |
| 2006 | "The Look of Law, " University Art Gallery, University of Irvine
"Points d'Impact," Piano Nobile, Geneva "Artist's Books, revisited," Art Metropole, Toronto, and Printed Matter, New York | |
| 2004 | The last Picture Show," Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (Exhibition traveled to many venues)
"Rapture," Barbican Art Gallery, London "Architourism," Arthur Ross Gallery, Columbia University | |
| 2001 | PHAG, Inc., New York
"Aussendienst," Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg (final stage unrealized) | |
| 2000 | "The Whitney Biennial," The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
"Black Box," Oliver Art Center, Oakland | |
| 1996 | "Something for Nothing," in "Present and Futures: Architecture in Cities," Centre de Cultura Contemporania, Barcelona
"100 Pictures," American Fine Arts Gallery, New York. "Making Pictures: Photographs by Women, 1975-Present," Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York Collaboration with Eisenman Architects, Design for a Viennese Memorial to the Jewish Victims of the National Socialists, Vienna (invited competition) | |
| 1995 | "Like the Difference between Autumn/Winter '94/'95 and Spring/Summer '95," in "Architectures of Display," Comme des Garcons, New York. Installation in collaboration with Peter Eisenman, Eisenman Architects, sponsored by the Architectural League and Minetta Brook, New York. | |
| 1994 | "L'Homelette" in "House Rules," The Wexner Center, Columbus. Project in collaboration with Smith-Miller + Hawkinson Architects. | |
| 1993 | "Commodity Image," International Center of Photography Midtown, New York
"DisContinuous Spaces," The Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York, and School of Architecture Gallery, Princeton University, Princeton. Project in collaboration with Smith-Miller + Hawkinson Architects. Design consultant to Eisenman Architects, design for an Art Center, Tours, France (invited competition) | |
| 1991 | Postmasters Gallery, New York | |
| 1990 | "Marginal Practices," Gracie Mansion Gallery, New York
"New Directions," S. Bitter-Larkin Gallery, New York "Charade of Mastery," The Whitney Museum of American Art, Downtown at Federal Reserve Plaza, New York "Word as Image," Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee "The Desire of the Museum," The Whitney Museum of American Art, Downtown at Federal Reserve Plaza, New York. "Jet Lag," Turon Travel Agency, New York "Sculpture Show," THE Gallery, New York | |
| 1990 | "Image World: Art and Media Culture," Whitney Museum of American Art, NY | |
| 1988 | "Fabrications," Carpenter Center for Visual Arts, Harvard University, Boston
"Material Ethics," Milford Gallery, New York "Signs of the Times," Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris "The Politics of Gender," Queensborough Community College Gallery, New York "A Drawing Show," Cable Gallery, New York "Female Reproduction," White Columns, New York "The Selling of Ourselves," 10 on 8, New York "Modes of Address: Language in Art Since 1960," The Whitney Museum of American Art, Downtown at Federal Reserve Plaza, New York | |
| 1987 | "The Castle," by Group Material, Documenta 8, Kassel, West Germany
"Romance," Knight Gallery, North Carolina "This is not a Photograph," Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota "Aspects of Voyeurism," Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, New York "Perverted by Language," Hilwood Art Gallery, Long Island University "Art Against Aids," Nature Morte Gallery, New York "Three Artists from New York," Binghamton University Art Center, Binghamton | |
| 1986 | "Picture This," Hallwalls, Buffalo
"The Fairy Tale: Politics, Desire, and Everyday Life," Artist's Space, New York "The Public Art Show," Nexus Gallery, Atlanta | |
| 1985 | "Transitional Objects," Galerie Philip Nelson, Lyons
"Thought Objects," Cash/Newhouse Gallery, New York "Photo-Object," Postmasters Gallery, New York "Fact, Fiction, and Fantasy," Center Gallery, Bucknell University "Engendering Gender," University of Massachusetts at Amherst "Talking Back to the Media," Aorta Gallery, Amsterdam "Seduction: Working Pictures," White Columns, New York | |
| 1984 | "Difference: On Representation and Sexuality," New Museum of Contemporary Art
"Re-placements," Hallwalls, Buffalo | |
| 1983 | "Fashion Fictions," White Columns, New York
"The Stolen Image and its Uses," Light Work Gallery, Syracuse "Extended Photography," Wiener Secession, Vienna "Working Process," Organization for Independent Artists at the New York Cultural Center, New York | |
| 1980 | "An/other History," P.S. One. Installation in collaboration with Laurie Hawkinson.
"AEIOU and sometimes why," Organization for Independent Artists at the New York Municipal Court Building, New York | |
COLLECTIONS | ||
| The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York | ||
| The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis | ||
| The Museum of Modern Art, New York | ||
| Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA | ||
| Berkeley Museum of Art, Berkeley, CA | ||
| Sammlung Hoffmann, Berlin | ||
| Various private collections | ||
EDUCATION | ||
| 1974 | Franconia College, Franconia N.H. A.A. dipl. | |
| 1974-1980 | Hunter College, CUNY, N.Y., B.S., Magna cum Laude | |
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS | ||
| 2003- | Advisory Board, Michael Kalil Foundation, New York | |
| 1993-2000 | Co-editor, October | |
| 2000-present | Advisory Board, October | |
| 1980-83 | Fellow, The Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies, New York | |
AWARDS/FELLOWSHIPS/SELECTED EDITORSHIPS | ||
| 1998 | New York Foundation for the Arts | |
| 1989 | National Endowment for the Arts | |
| 1986 | New York Foundation for the Arts | |
| 1980-1983 | Fellow, The Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies, NYC | |
| 1978-1982 | Co-Editor, Exhibition Catalogues, The Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies, NYC | |
| 1993-2000 | Co-Editor, October journal | |
| 2000-present | Advisory Board, October journal | |
| 2000-2006 | Editor, Scapes journal | |
| 2007-present | Advisory Board, Filip journal | |
LECTURES/CONFERENCES | ||
| (Unless symposium/panel title is noted, all locations indicate individual lecture.) "Small Changes," The Berlage Institute and the Zagreb City Planning Department; "Contemporary Returns to Conceptual Art," New York University and Art Journal; "The Sex of Architecture," The Architectural League; Harvard Graduate School of Design; Boston Museum School; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; The School of Visual Arts; "ANYway" conference, Barcelona; University of Kentucky; University of Ohio; "Practices: The Problem of Divisions of Cultural Labor," The New Museum and Acme magazine; University of Rochester; Rhode Island School of Design; Pasadena Art Center; Oberlin University; New York University; Whitney Museum of American Art; Worcester Art Museum; California Institute of the Arts; UCLA; Rensellaer Polytechnic Institute; "SOM Foundation Conference on Architectural Theory," Chicago; "Artists Talk on Art"; "Picturemakers," International Center of Photography; SUNY at Binghamton; A Space; Renaissance Society; "Legacies of Critical Practice," DIA Art Foundation; The Buell Center, Columbia University; The Berlage Institute; The Architectural Association; "La Cultura de la Metropolis," Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona; Yale University; Hochschule der Kunste, Emily Carr Institute, "Theory in Architectural Education, " Columbia University, "The Artist as Public Intellectual?"? The Secession and the Akademie der Biildenden Kunste, Vienna, "Architecture and Perception," Departamento de Arquitectura, Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City, The Getty Museum Research Center, "The Look of Law," UCI, Irvine; CampariTalks, Artist's Space; Pratt Institute; Courtauld Institute of Art, London; LAB cinema, Centrum Sztuki Wspolczesnej, Warsaw;Contemporary Art Strategies, Museum of Art, Lodzi; "The Next Step, International Conference of Museums of Modern and Contemporary Art, Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana; Muthesius Hochschule, Kiel.; "Spheres of Interest," San Francisco Art Institute | ||
TEACHING/VISITING ARTIST POSITIONS | ||
| 2002, 2005 | The Cooper Union, New York | |
| 2000-present | Ecole Superieure d'Art Visuel, Geneva | |
| 1999-2008 | Parsons School of Design/Dept. of Architecture | |
| 1999 | Visiting Artist, Muthesius Hochschule, Kiel, Germany | |
| 1998 | The Berlage Institute, Amsterdam | |
| 1997 | Harvard University, Graduate School of Design
Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture and Planning | |
| 1988-1996 | The Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, New York | |
| 1996 | Yale University, School of Architecture | |
| 1995 | Visiting Artist, California Institute for the Arts [studio]
New York University The Berlage Institute | |
| 1994 | Visiting Artist, Boston Museum School
Visiting Artist, California Institute for the Arts | |
| 1988 | Visiting Artist, Claremont Graduate School | |
| 1985 | New York University | |
| 1984 | Visiting Artist, Banff Center for the Arts | |
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