Ellen Rothenberg
| Ellen Rothenberg | |
|---|---|
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| Education |
BFA Cornell University, 1971 MFA Massachusetts College of Art, 1979 |
| Style | Performance, Installation, Fiber Art and Material Studies |
| Awards |
National Endowment for the Arts Illinois Council on the Arts |
| Website |
www |
Ellen Rothenberg (1949-) is an American visual artist and writer whose socio-political art manifests itself in performance, installation, objects, and visual essays.[1] The content of her art addresses the politics of everyday life and how communities engage through collaborative practices. She has exhibited her work internationally at the Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, the Brukenthal National Museum, Romania, the Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen, Germany, among other institutions. Her writing has been published in "Immersive Life," University of Chicago Press; "Experimental Geography,” ICI NYC; Art Journal; and Woman Studies Quarterly, among other publications. [2][3]
Performances
Informed by the anti-war, civic protests, and feminist movements of the 1960s, Rothenberg has brought her performances and installations into the public sphere and outside of traditional gallery and museum venues. Often concerned with labor issues[4] and intrusive government policies that limit individual mobility and rights, her performances since the 1980s have incorporated research to highlight the connections between historical events and contemporary issues of displacement and human rights.[5]
- Chelen Amenka (Dance with Us) (2012)
- Chicago Torture Justice Memorials, Opening the Black Box: the Charge is Torture[6] (2011-12)
- Reading Landscape(s) (2009)
- The Invisible Garden (2004)
- Industry Not Servitude (1992)
Exhibitions
Rothenberg's work is included in private, public and corporate collections, including the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University.[7][8]
- ISO 6346: ineluctable immigrant, Spertus Institute (2018)
- Feast of Astonishments: Charlotte Moorman and the Avant Garde, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Grey Art Gallery NYU, Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art (2016-17)
- elsetime, solo exhibition, Sector 2337 Chicago (2015)
- Dublin Biennial International Exhibition, Sol Art Gallery (2012)
- Experimental Geography, Richard E. Peeler Art Center DePauw University, Rochester Art Center, Albuquerque Museum, Museum of London (2008-11)
- Hide and Seek, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (2010)
- Unraveling Tradition, 516 Arts Albuquerque (2010)
- Mapping the Self, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (2008)
- Consuming War, Hyde Park Art Center (2007)
- After Images: Art and Social Memory, Neues Museum Weserburg (2004)
- Telling Histories, Boston University Art Gallery (1999)
- After Auschwitz, Royal Festival Hall London, Manchester City Art Gallery (1995)
- Partial Index and a Probability..., solo exhibition, Portland Museum of Art Maine (1994)
Awards, honors
Rothenberg has received grants, fellowship and awards for her work, including three fellowships from the Illinois Arts Council, three fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Bunting Institute Fellowship from Radcliffe College, and grants from CEC Artslink, LEF Foundation, and the Propeller Fund among others.[9]
References
- ↑ Picard, ed., Caroline (2018). Shadowed!. Chicago, IL: Green Lantern Press. ISBN 978-0-9974165-1-0.
- ↑ "Ellen Rothenberg". saic.edu. School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Retrieved 4 January 2017.
- ↑ Thompson, Nato; Independent Curators International (2015). Experimental Geography: Radical Approaches to Landscape, Cartography, and Urbanism. Melville House. ISBN 9781612193991. Retrieved 4 January 2017.
- ↑ Abse Gogarty, Larne (March 2014). "Time & Motion: Redefining working life". Art Monthly (374): 21-23.
- ↑ Rothenberg, Ellen (February 2018). "ISO 6346: ineluctable immigrant". Exhibition Brochure, Spertus Institute.
- ↑ CTJM Advisory Board. "About the Chicago Torture Justice Memorials Project" (PDF). Retrieved 28 June 2018.
- ↑ "Artwork: Death Kimono, Ellen Rothenberg". mfa.org. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Retrieved 4 January 2017.
- ↑ "Colloquium". University of California, Santa Barbara. Retrieved 4 January 2017.
- ↑ "Illinois Arts Council Announces FY02 Artists Fellowship Award Recipients". arts.illinois.gov. Illinois Arts Council Agency. Retrieved 4 January 2017.
