BARBARA ESS SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2007 - I'm (un) easy, Souterrain, Berlin 2004 - Frederic Giroux Gallery, Paris - Cipher, Wallspace, NYC 2003 - The Galleries at Moore College of Art, Philadelphia and Burden Gallery, NYC (Aperture travelling show) 2000 - She Woke With A Start, Curt Marcus Gallery, NYC 1998 - Faggionato Fine Arts, London - Curt Marcus Gallery, NYC 1997 - Kohn/Turner Gallery, LA 1996 = Stills Gallery, Edinburgh 1994 - Fundacion la Caixa, Sala Montcada, Barcelona - Curt Marcus Gallery, NYC - Barbara Ess: Photography, Installation and Books, Queens Museum, traveled to Center for Fine Arts, Miami 1992 - High Museum of Art, Atlanta, - Curt Marcus Gallery, NYC 1991 - Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles 1990 - Galeria La Maquina Espanola, Madrid - Curt Marcus Gallery, NYC 1989 - Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris 1988 - Curt Marcus Gallery, NYC - Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp 1987 - Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu - Interim Art, London - Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles - Johnen & Schottle Galerie, Cologne SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2006 Music is a Better Noise, P.S.1/MOMA, L.I.C, NY, curated by Nick Stillman 2005 - Copilandia, Centro de Arte de Sevilla, curated by GRATIS - Triennial of Photographic Arts, Center for Photography, Woodstock, NY - Tune (Out)))side, Free103point9 Transmission Series, Acra, NY (sound piece) 2004 - Anthology of Art, website, exhibition + catalogue, Gropius-Bau, Berlin, 2004, traveling+ - ... because cynicism left yesterday, Disjecta Gallery, Portland - Art and Architecture 1900-2000, Genoa, Italy, curated by Germano Celant - Repulsion, Illinois State University, Normal, IL, curated by Heidi Schlatter - Subway Series, Queens Museum of Art, NY, curated by Carlo McCormick and Thomas Solomon 2003 - Photography Past Forward: Aperture at 50, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, travelling through June 2006 - Spot Light on Photography, Hui No'eau Visutal Arts Center, Maui, HI 2002 - Private Eyes: Image and Identity, Fine Arts Center, University of Massachusetts Amherst - Contemporary Views, Princeton University Art Museum, curated by Peter C. Bunnell 2000 - Drawings and Photographs, Matthew Marks Gallery, NYC - Exurbia, Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica, curated by Shirley Irons (video) - Dream Machines, Hayward Gallery, London, touring exhibition selected by Susan Hiller 1999 - Female, Wessell + O'Connor, NYC, curated by Vince Aletti - 13, Robert Mann Gallery (Blind Spot exhibition), NYC - The Big Picture, Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, Vermont 1998 - Apparitions, Leslie Tonkonow, NYC - Landscapes, Meyerson & Nowinski, Seattle - Disappearing Act, Bound & Unbound and Leslie Tonkonow, NYC, curated with Robin Kahn & Kirby Gookin 1997 - Defining Eye: Women Photographers of the Twentieth Century, Saint Louis Art Museum, traveling - 100 Photographs, American Fine Art, NYC - Eye of the Beholder, Photographs from the Avon Collection, International Center for Photography, NYC - Barbara Ess and Bruce Connor, Curt Marcus Gallery, NYC - Islas, Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, travelling 1996 - Making Pictures: Women and Photography, 1975 - Now, Nicole Klagsbrun, NYC - Prospect 96, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, curated by Peter Weiermair - Lush, Cristenrose Gallery, NYC, curated by Anastasia Aukeman - Anima Mundi, James Graham & Sons, NYC - Alice's Looking Glass, APEX Art, NYC, curated by Mary Beyt 1995 - Beyond the Looking Glass: Contemporary Women Photographers, David Adamson Gallery, Washington DC - Scattershot, Nolan/Eckman Gallery, NYC - Seeking the Sublime, Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, FL - Visions of Childhood, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 1994 - Chasing Angels, Cristinerose Gallery, NYC - The Psychopathology of Everyday Life, Ruth Bloom Gallery, LA - The World of Tomorrow, Tommy Solomon, LA, curated by Douglas Blau - Pictures of the Real World (In Real Time), Paula Cooper, NYC, cur. Robert Nickas - Figure as Fiction in Visual Art and Literature, Contemporary Art Center, Cincinatti, curated by Dr. Elaine King 1993 - Memories, Facts & Lies, Blum Helman, NYC, curated by Lawrence Gipe - Body Exposures, Kunsthaus Zurich, Zurich - Vivid: Intense Images by American Photographers, Raab Galerie, Berlin, traveled to London and Milan - The Loss of Intensity, Shedhalle, Zurich, curated by Harm Lux 1992 - Open Mind: The Lewitt Collection, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford - Die 29. Ausstellung, Mai 36 Galerie, Luzern - Un Secreto Fluir, Galeria La Maquina Espanola, Madrid - Dysfunction in The Family Album, Diane Brown Gallery, NYC, curated by David Humphrey 1991 - Postmodern Prints, Victoria and Albert Museum, London - The Library, Josh Baer Gallery, NYC, curated by Douglas Blau - The Sibylline Eye, Kunsthalle, Munich, organized by Barbara Gross Gallery and Foto e.V. 1990 - Images in Transition, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo - Shifting Focus, Serpentine Gallery, London and Arnolflini Gallery, Bristol - Figures et Lectures, Galerie Samia Saouma, Paris - The Indomitable Spirit, International Center of Photography, NYC, curated by Marvin Heiferman - Romance and Irony in Recent American Art, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, curated by Louis Grachos SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY Ken Johnson, "Art Guide" New York Times, June 11, 2004 Vince Aletti, "Voice Choices", The Village Voice, June 14, 2004 Edward J. Sozanski, "Crude, Alluring Images", The Philadelphia Inquirer, September 12, 2003 Melissa Harris, ed., essay by R.H. Cravens, Photography Past Forward, Aperture Foundation, 2002 Vince Aletti, "The Best Photography Books of 2001: Eyes Wide Open", Village Voice, Jan 22, 2002 Bleddyn Butcher, "Soundcheck" (review of Radio Guitar audio CD and book, I Am Not This Body), The Wire, Feb 2002 I Am Not This Body, monograph with text by Michael Cunningham et al, Aperture, NYC, November 2001 A.D. Coleman, "Books: Fantastic Voyages and Street Life", ART News, February 2002 Jane Harris,"Aura Fixation: Old Technology for New Photography", Art on Paper, Jan/Feb 2001, v. 5 no. 3 Sarah Schmerler, review, Art in America, November 2000 Blind Spot # 13, 6 pages reproductions, 1999 Grace Glueck, review, New York Times, May 1, 1998 Nancy Princenthal, "Barbara Ess at Curt Marcus", Art in America, December 1996 David Lillington, "Being Me", Creative Camera, October/November, 1996 Adrian Searle, review, The Guardian (UK), August 27, 1996 Katherine Dieckmann, "In the Clear", Village Voice, May 28, 1996 Levi-Strauss, David, review, Artforum, Summer, 1994 Volk, Gregory, review, Art News, September, 1994 Blair, Dike, review, Flash Art, Summer, 1994 Craddock, Sacha, review, The London Times, 5/17/94 Helen L. Kohen, "Photographs' truths are in eyes of the beholder", The Miami Herald, August 15, 1993 P.C. Smith, "Complex Vision", Art in America, March 1993 Keith Seward, review, Artforum, September 1992 Peter Schjeldahl, "Fogmeister", Village Voice, April 28, 1992 Rosenzweig, Phyllis et al, Mattress Factory: Installation and Performance 1982-1989, Mattress Factory, 1991 Constance Sullivan, ed., Women Photographers, pub., Harry N. Abrams, NY, 1990 Nancy Princenthal, "Barbara Ess: Machine Dreams", The Print Collectors Newsletter, December 1990 Dina Sorenson, "Barbara Ess", Arts Magazine, October 1990 Carlo McCormick, "XY Ess", Artforum, Summer 1990 Vince Aletti, "Fuzz Box", Village Voice, May 22, 1990 Phyllis Freeman et al, eds, New Art, pub. Harry N. Abrams, NY, 1990 Joshua P. Smith et al, Photography of Invention, Nat'l Museum of American Art/Smithsonian Institute and MIT Press, 1989 SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY #1, 1', 2006 Phobia, 6'40", 2004 Acid Karaoke, 46', 2000 When Mowing, Know That You Are Mowing, 23', 2000 No Title (After The Red Shoes), 5'50", 1994 SELECTED DISCOGRAPHY Radio/Guitar: Thrum, vinyl, 2003, Table of the Elements Radio/Guitar, CD with Peggy Ahwesh, 2001, Ecstatic Peace Y Pants, comprehensive re-release, Periodic Document #01, 1998 Twist in Bed, Ultra Vulva EP, Drum Core, 1995 GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS 2007 The Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio, Italy 2006 Yaddo Artist Residency, Saratoga, NY 2005 & 2003 MacDowell Fellow, MacDowell Art Colony, NH 1999 The Tesuque Foundation 1997 MacDowell Fellow, MacDowell Art Colony, NH 1994 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grant 1991 Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation Fellowship

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