Barbara Ess
Born 1948, Brooklyn, NY. Lives and works in New York City.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2007
I'm (un) easy, Souterrain, Berlin, Germany.
2004
Cipher, Galerie Frederic Giroux, Paris, France.
Cipher, Wallspace, New York, NY.
Presentation House, Vancouver, Canada
2003
I Am Not This Body, The Galleries at Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA and Burden Gallery, New York, NY (Aperture traveling show).
2001
I Am Not This Body, Exhibition in conjuction with the publication of the book, Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY.
FIAC, Galerie Frederic Giroux, Paris, France.
2000
She Woke With A Start, Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY.
1998
Faggionato Fine Arts, London, UK.
Wild Life, Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY.
1997
Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, California.
1996
Stills Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland.
Curt Marcus Gallery, New York.
1994
Faggionato Fine Arts, London.
Curt Marcus Gallery, New York.
Fundacion "La Caixa," Barcelona, curated by Juan Vicente Aliaga (catalogue).
1993
Barbara Ess: Photography, Installation and Books 1978-1991, The Queens Museum, Flushing, New
York, NY; the Miami Center for The Arts, Miami, FL; Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth
University, Richmond, VA (catalogue).
Galerie La Maquina, Espanola, Madrid, Spain.
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA (catalogue).
Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY.
1991
Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (catalogue).
1990
Galeria La Maquina Espanola, Madrid, Spain (catalogue).
Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY.
1989
Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, France.
1988
Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY.
Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp, Germany.
1987
Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, HI.
Interim Art, (with James Casabere) London, UK.
Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles
Food for the Moon & Other Photos, Johnen & Schottle Galerie, Cologne, Germany.
1986
Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY.
Middendorf Gallery, Washington, D.C.
C.E.P.A Gallery, Buffalo, NY.
1985
The Doppler Effect, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY.
Cable Gallery, New York, NY.
1981
Have You Ever Experienced Ecstasy?, Printed Matter, New York, NY.
Shameless Longing, J.N. Herlin Bookstore, New York, NY.
1978
Census, Franklin Furnace, New York, NY.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008
Bare Market, Thierry Goldberg Projects, New York, NY.
2006
Music is a Better Noise, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, NY.
Modern-Life Painters, a Photograph Collection, Musee National d'Art Moderne, Paris, France.
2005
Transformations - Expositions des artistes de la galerie, Galerie Frederic Giroux, Paris, France.
Regional Triennial of Photographic Arts, The Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY.
Copilandia, curated by GRATIS, Centro de Arte de Sevilla, Spain.
Tune (Out)))side, Free103point9 Transmission Series, Acra, NY.
Benefit Auction, White Columns, New York, NY.
2004
Anthology of Art, Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany, exhibtion, website and cat. (traveling show).
...because cynicism left yesterday, Disjecta Gallery, Portland, OR.
Art and Architecture 1900-2000, curated by Germano Celant, Genoa, Italy.
Subway Series, curated by Carlo McCormick and Thomas Solomon, Queens Museum of Art, New York, NY.
Repulsion, curated by Heidi Schlatter, Illinois State University, Normal, IL.
2003
Photography Past Forward: Aperture at 50, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Traveling until June 2006.
Photography Invitational, curated by Jeff Burden, Columbia State University, GA.
Spot Light on Photography, Hul No'eau Visual Arts Center, Maui, HI.
The Holiday Shopping Show, curated by Robin Kahn, Wallspace, New York, NY.
2002
Private Eyes - Image and Identity, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Fine Arts Center, Amherst, MA.
Contemporary Views, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ.
Photography Transformed, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH.
2001
Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY.
2000
Drawings and Photographs, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, NY.
Exurbia, Gallery Luisotti, curated by Shirley Irons, Santa Monica, CA.
Galería Pepe Cobo, Sevilla, Spain.
Dream Machines, Hayward Gallery, London, national touring exhibition, selected by Susan Hiller.
1999
Female, Wessel & O'Connor Gallery, curated by Vince Alett, New York, NY.
The Big Picture, Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, VT.
13, The Robert Mann Gallery (Blind Spot exhibition), New York, NY.
Salome, Images of Women in Contemporary Art, Castle Gallery, The College of New Rochelle, curated by Katie Gass, New Rochelle, NY.
1998
Defining Eye: Women Photographers of the 20th Century, Traveling Exhibition: St. Louis Art Museum, MO; The Museum of Fine Arts, Sante Fe, NM.; The Mead Museum of Art, Amherst, MA; and the Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, KS.
Disappearing Act, Bound & Unbound, Leslie Tonkonow Gallery, New York, NY.
From the Heart: The Power of Photography - A Collectors Choice, Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX.
The Cottingley Fairies And Other Apparitions, Leslie Tonkonow Gallery, New York, NY.
1997
With a Different Camera, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO.
100 Photographs, American Fine Art, New York, NY.
Eye of the Beholder, photographs from the Avon Collection, International Center of Photography New York, NY.
Islas, Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, travelling exhibition.
Barbara Ess and Bruce Conner, Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY.
1996
Exposure, Caldic Collectie, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Making Pictures: Women and Photography, 1975-Now, Nicole Klagsburn, New York, NY.
Blind Spot Photography: The First Four Years, Paolo Baldacci Gallery, New York, NY.
The Baseball Show, Curt Marcus Gallery in collaboration with Craig Smyth, New York, NY.
Alice's Looking Glass: A Glimpse at the Non-Linear, Apex Art, curated by Mary Beyt, New York, NY.
Lush, Christinerose Gallery, curated by Anastasia Aukeman, New York, NY.
PROSPECT '96, curated by Peter Weiermair, Frankfurt, Germany (catalogue).
Barbara Ess / Barbara Kruger, Fisher Landau Center, Long Island City, NY.
Perfetti & Invisibili: The Image of Children Between Manipulation and Reality, Instituto degli Innocenti, Florence, Italy.
Anima Mundi, James Graham & Sons, New York, NY.
1995
Wheel of Fortune, Lombard Freid Fine Arts, curated by Amy Lipton, New York, NY.
Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY.
Beyond the Looking Glass: Contemporary Women Photographers, David Adamson Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Scattershot, Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York, NY.
Seeking the Sublime: Neo-Romanticism in Landscape Photography, Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach Community College, Daytona, FL.
Blind Spot, The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, TX.
Project Exhibit, The Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD.
Visions of Childhood, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-On-Hudson, New York, NY.
1994
Chasing Angels, Cristinerose Gallery, New York, NY.
Digressions, Caren Golden Fine Art, New York, NY.
World of Tomorrow, Thomas Solomon's Garage, curated by Douglas Blau, Los Angeles, CA.
The Psycho-Pathology of Everyday Life, Ruth Bloom Gallery, curated by Gregory Crewdson and Rhona Edlebaum, Santa Monica, CA.
Pictures of The Real World (In Real Time), Paula Cooper Gallery, curated by Robert Nickas, New York, NY.
Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY.
Figure As Fiction: The Figure In Visual Art and Literature, The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH.
1993
Memories, Facts & Lies, Blum Helman, curated by Lawrence Gipe, New York NY.
Photoplay, traveling exhibition of works from The Chase Manhattan Bank Art Collection, curated by Lisa Phillips and Manuel Gonzalez (catalogue).
Body Exposures, Kunsthaus, Zurich, Switzerland (catalogue).
The Loss of Intensity, Shedhalle, curated by Harm Lux, Zurich, Switzerland.
Fictions of The Self, Herter Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA; traveling exhibition (catalogue).
Mirror/Mirror, Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY.
Multiplicity, traveling exhibition, curated by Kirby Gookin.
VIVID: Intense Images by American Photographers, Raab Galerie, Berlin, Germany; traveling to London and Milan (catalogue).
1992
Group Exhibition, Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY.
Open Mind: The Lewitt Collection, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT.
Die 29. Ausstellung, Mai 36 Galerie, Luzern, Switzerland.
Aspects de la Collection Photographique Contemporaine, Musee de La Roche-Sur-Yon, France.
Un Secreto Fluir, Galeria La Maquina Espanola, Madrid, Spain.
Dysfunction in The Family Album, Diane Brown Gallery, curated by David Humphrey, New York, NY.
1991
Postmodern Prints, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK.
Contemporary Abstract Photography, CompassRose, Chicago, IL.
The Library, Josh Baer Gallery, curated by Douglas Blau, New York, NY (catalogue).
The Sibylline Eye, Kunsthalle, organized by Foto e.V. and Barbara Ess, Munich, Germany.
Gross Gallery (catalogue)
James Casebere/Barbara Ess, Interim Art, London, UK.
Lights in the Darkness, Lintas: Worldwide, curated by Magaret Mathews-Berenson, New York, NY.
1990
Images In Transition: Photographic Representation In the Eighties, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo and Kyoto, Japan. (catalogue)
La Collection Des Ouevres Photographiques, The Musee De La Roche-Sur-Yon, France.
The Empire State Biennial, The Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY.
Figures et Lectures, Galerie Samia Saouma, Paris, France.
Natural Magic, The Print Club, Philadelphia, PA.
The Indomitable Spirit, International Center of Photography, curated by Marvin Heiferman, New York, NY (catalogue, traveled).
Romance and Irony, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth; National Gallery of New Zealand, curated by Louis Grachos and John Stringer (catalogue, traveled).
Botanica: The Secret Life of Plants, Lehman College Art Gallery, New York, NY.
1989
Abstraction in Contemporary Photography, Emerson Gallery Hamilton College & Anderson Gallery, Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA (catalogue).
Parallel Views, ARTI, curated by Joke Kops, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (catalogue).
Shifting Focus, Serpentine Gallery, London and Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, UK (also traveled to: Cambridge Darkroom, City Museum and Art Gallery, Newport Museum and Art Gallery, Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston) (catalogue).
Democracy: Education, DIA Foundation, curated by Group Material, New York, NY.
Memory & Artifact: Romanticism Revisited, Barbara Fendrick Gallery, New York, NY.
Fauxtography, Art Center College, Pasadena, CA.
Obscured, Josh Baer Gallery, New York, NY.
The Photography of Invention, National Museum of American Art, curated by Joshua P. Smith, Washington, D.C. (accompanying book).
Galerie Georges Verney-Carron, Villeurbanne, France.
Galeria La Maquina Espanola, Madrid, Spain.
The Observatory, Thomas Solomon's Garage, curated by Douglas Blau, Los Angeles, CA (catalogue).
Through A Glass Darkly, University Galleries, curated by Barry Blinderman, Illinois State University, Normal, IL.
Arrangements I, Mai 36 Gallerie, Luzerne, Switzerland.
Marta Cervera Gallery, New York, NY.
Broken Landscape, Discarded Object, P.P.O.W, curated by Christopher Sweet, New York, NY.
1988
Certain Shots, McNeil Gallery, Philadelphia, PA.
Made in Camera, Galleri Sten Erikson, Stockholm, Sweden (catalogue).
Of Another Nature, Loughelton Gallery, New York, NY.
Das Licht von der Anderen Seite, Monika Spruth Galerie, Cologne, Germany (catalogue).
The Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA.
Media Post Media, Scott Hanson Gallery, curated by Collins & Milazzo, New York, NY.
Twelve From New York, Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York, NY.
Photography On The Edge, Patrick and Beatrice Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI.
Visual Paradox: Truth and Fiction in the Photographic Image, Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI (catalogue).
1987
Consonance, ISD Corporation, curated by Steven Harvey, New York, NY.
Gallery De Lege Ruimte, Brugge, Belgium.
Poetic Injury: The Surrealist Legacy in Contemporary Photography, Alternative Museum, curated by G. Roger Denson, New York, NY.
Non in Codice, Galleria Pieroni & American Academy in Rome, Italy. (catalogue).
Arrangements for the Camera: A View of Contemporary Photography, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland.
Cash/Newhouse Gallery, New York, NY.
Contemporary Diptychs: Divided Visions, Whitney Museum of Art, Stamford, CT.
In Black and White, The Carnegie Museum of Art, curated by John Caldwell, Pittsburgh, PA.
The New Romantic Landscape, Whitney Museum of Art, Stamford, CT.
Symposium Uber Fotografie IX, Forum Stadtpark, Graz. Austria (cf. Camera Austria, October 1988).
1986
Remembrances of Things Past, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA (catalogue).
Apparitions and Allusions; Photographs of the Unseen, University Art Gallery, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA.
Johnen & Schottle Galerie, (with James Welling and Ian Wallace), Cologne, Germany.
Ultrasurd, S.L. Simpson Gallery, curated by Collins & Milazzo, Toronto, Canada.
New New York, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, curated by William Olander, Cleveland, OH.
Inaugural Exhibition, Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY.
Photography, 303 Gallery, New York, NY.
1985
Currents, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA.
Salon De Facto, (with Peter Nadin and Michelle Zalopany), New York, NY.
Minimal Representation, Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
Thought Objects, Cash/Newhouse Gallery, New York, NY.
Painting, Sculpture, Photography, Cable Gallery, New York, NY.
Rudiger Schottle Gallery, (with Ken Lum and Rodney Graham), Munich, Germany.
MASS, traveling show curated by Group Material
1984
Sex, Cable Gallery, New York, NY.
Salon, Bill Rice Gallery, New York, NY.
Sextet, Coburg Gallery, curated by Vikky Alexander, Vancouver, Canada.
Wedge Benefit, Nature Morte, New York, NY.
Con Rumore, Galerie Westersingel, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
1983
Benefit Exhibition, Artists Space, New York, NY.
Maze, Public Illumination Gallery, New York, NY.
1982
White Columns, (with Susan Hiller), New York, NY.
Audio Arts at the Tate Gallery, The Tate Gallery, London, UK.
1981
Books, White Columns, New York, NY.
Pictures and Promises, The Kitchen, curated by Barbara Kruger, New York, NY.
1980
Speaking Volumes, AIR Gallery, New York, NY.
1979
Library, 5 Bleecker Street, New York, NY.
EDUCATION
1971 London School of Film Technique, London, UK.
1969 B.A. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
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