Selected Group Exhibitions
2016
Photography and Contemporary Experience, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Strength in Numbers, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
Global Positioning Systems, Pérez Art Museum, Miami FL
Look Inside: New Photography Acquisitions, Harry Ransom Center, Austin, TX
Touch the Sky, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
2015
Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Triennial of Photography, Hamburg, Germany
Gallery University Stellenbosch, Think of Number 6, Stellenbosch, South Africa
Louisiana Museum of Art and Science, Star Bright, Baton Rouge, LA
Bernard A. Zuckerman Museum of Art, Forget Me Not, Kennesaw, GA
Boulder Museum of Conetemporary Art, Flatlander, Boulder, CO
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, A History of Photography, Houston, Texas
Ivorypress Space, Books beyond Artists: Words and Images, Madrid, Spain
Motorenhalle, DIGITAL_ANALOG.INDIFFERENCE, Dresden, Germany
Selections from Alt+1000, Geneva, Switzerland
Sextant et plus, FOMO, Marseille, France
2014
XPO Gallery, Paris, France
Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, CA
University Galleries, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL
BRIC Arts Media House, Brooklyn Biennial, Brooklyn, NY
Museum of Modern Art, A World of Its Own: Photographic Practices in the Studio, New York, NY
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Heavenly Bodies, Santa Barbara, CA
Beit Ha'ir Museum, Tel Aviv - Jaffa, Israel
Children’s Museum of the Arts, Cabinets of Wonder, New York, NY
Orange County Museum of Art, California Landscape into Abstraction, Newport Beach, CA
Oliver Francis Gallery, Dallas TX
David Owsley Museum of Art, Ball State University, Muncie IN
Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA
2013
McNay Museum, San Antonio TX
Rockland Center for the Arts, Systems, West Nyack, NY
Night Contact, New London Multimedia and Photography Festival, London, UK
Kasseler Kunstverein, Offline Art: Hardcore, curated by Aram Bartholl, Kassel, Germany
Photo Festival, Lodz, Poland
Le Mois de Photo a Montreal, Drone: The Automated Image, curated by Paul Wombell, Montreal, Canada
Grand Central Terminal Centennial Celebration Exhibition, MTA and Arts for Transit, New York
Centre d'Art Santa Mònica, From Here On, Barcelona, Spain
Foto Colectania, Artist as Collector, Barcelona, Spain
Somerset House, Landmark: The Fields of Photography, curated by William Ewing, London, England
Louisiana Art and Science Museum, The Edge of Vision, Baton Rouge, LA
2012
Aperture Foundation Gallery, “Aperture Remix”, New York, NY
319 Scholes Gallery, “Collect the WWWorld”, curated by Domenico Quaranta, Bushwick, NY
Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, “Picture Takers”, Summit, NJ
Daegu Photography Biennale, “Repositioned Personal” curated by Karen Irvine, Korea
Foto Museum, “From Here On”, Antwerp, Belgium
Photographers’ Gallery, “World in London” Olympic Project, London, UK
Photographers’ Gallery, “Born in 1987: The Animated GIF”, London, UK
Galerie West, “Let Us Keep Our Noon”, The Hague, The Netherlands
Work Gallery, “Critical Dictionary”, London, England
Benton Museum of Art, “Screenshots”, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
Hoffman Gallery of Contemporary Art, "The Edge of Vision", Lewis & Clark College, Portland OR
2011
Pace Gallery, “Social Media”, New York, NY
Hagedorn Foundation Gallery, “The New Photograph”, Atlanta GA
Rencontres d’Arles, “From Here On”, curated by Fontcuberta, Parr, Schmid, Kessels, Cheroux, Arles, France
Public Surface, “Un Place”, Stockholm, Sweden
MassMoCA, “Memery: Imitation, Memory, and Internet Culture”, North Adams, MA
Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, "The Edge of Vision", Winter Park, FL
2010
Voorkamer, “Meer”, Lier, Belgium
Galerie West, “Carry-On”, organized by David Horvitz, The Hague, The Netherlands
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
American University Museum, “One Hour Photo”, organized by Adam Good, Washington, DC
Eastern Michigan University, “Open Book”, MI
2009
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
PS 1 Contemporary Art Center, "Between Spaces", Long Island City, NY
Pingyao International Photography Festival, "The Edge of Vision", Pingyao, China
Kunstverein Ludwigshafen, "Collecting Images", Germany
Aperture Foundation Gallery, "The Edge of Vision", New York, NY
Special Projects, Pulse-Art Fair, New York, NY
2008
Rotunda Gallery, "In/formation", Brooklyn, NY
KS Gallery, "Psychotic Reaction", New York, NY
Cambridge Gallery, "Site Visits", Cambridge, Ontario
New York Photography Festival, "The Ubiquitous Image", curator Lesley Martin, NY
2007
Gallery of Modern Art, ”The Leisure Class”, Brisbane, Australia
The Photographic Resource Center ‚ “Ad / Agency”, Boston, MA
McDonough Museum of Art, “The End(s) of Photography”, curator Saul Ostrow, Youngstown, OH
Anthology Film Archives, “Wish List”, collaboration with Kelly Egan
2005
Art Basel Miami, Special Projects, curator Natalie Kovacs, Miami FL
Rotunda Gallery, “Time’s Arrow”, curator Janine Cirincione, Brooklyn, NY
Von Lintel Gallery, New York, NY
Gallery 44, “Pixelware”, Toronto, Ontario
Wallspace, “Handmade”, New York, NY
Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, "Neither Here Nor There: Perceptions of Place”
Dazibao, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
2004
Massachusetts College of Art, “Feed”, Boston, MA
Memphis College of Art, “Site and Situation”, Memphis, TN
2003
CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Beaker Gallery, Tampa, FL
Rotunda Gallery, “Clear Intentions,” curator Robert Morgan, Brooklyn NY
2002
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, “photoGENEsis:opus”, Santa Barbara, CA
Katonah Museum of Art, “What’Hot and New in 2002”, Katonah, NY
2001
Islip Art Museum, “Eccentric Photography”, East Islip, NY
2000
Dunedin Fine Art Center, “Synecdoche: Multiple Image Art Work”, Dunedin, FL
Rotunda Gallery, “Wunderkammer: Wonderworks”, Brooklyn, NY
Spaces Gallery, “Painting Function: Making It Real,” curator Saul Ostrow, Cleveland, OH
1999
Denver Art Museum, "A Fine and Private Place: Monuments & Memory”, Denver CO
1997
The Museum of Modern Art, "Object and Abstraction: Contemporary Photographs", NY
International Center of Photography, "Eye of the Beholder”, New York
1996
Creative Time, Art in the Anchorage '96, The Brooklyn Bridge Anchorage
Numark Gallery, "Images of the Information Superhighway", Washington, DC
Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Florida
1995
The Bruce Museum, "Content and Discontent" organized by ICA, CT
1994
The Ansel Adams Center for Photography, "The Abstract Urge", San Francisco, CA
1993
Museum of Modern Art, "Multiple Images", New York, NY
Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, "The Alternative Eye", Loretto, PA
Jan Kesner Gallery, "Allure", Los Angeles, CA
1992
Sandra Gering Gallery, New York, NY
The Museum of Modern Art, "More Than One Photography", New York, NY
Art In General, "The Results Are In", New York, NY
1991
P.S. 122, "Fearful Symmetry", New York, NY
1988
The Drawing Center, Selections 41, New York, NY
Selected Awards and Grants
2015
Pilchuck Glass School, Artist in Residence
2012
John Gutmann Photography Fellowship
Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship
2011
Guggenheim Fellowship
Peter S. Reed Foundation Grant
2010
Deutsche Bank Fellowship - New York Foundation of the Arts
2009
Anonymous Was A Woman Award
2008
Aaron Siskind Foundation Individual Photographer’s Fellowship
Harvestworks, Scholar Residency
2002
New York Foundation of the Arts, Fellowship
2000
New York Foundation of the Arts, Catalog Project Grant
Selected Museum Collections
Berkeley Art Museum, CA
Crocker Art Museum, CA
Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Honolulu Museum of Art, Hawaii
International Center of Photography, New York, NY
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA
McNay Museum, San Antonio, TX
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, CA
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
New York Public Library, NY
Norton Museum of Art, Palm Beach, FL
Orange County Museum of Art, CA
Perez Art Museum Miami, FL
Portland Art Museum, OR
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA
Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL
Selected Bibliography
2015
Susan Hodara, “Art and Its Inspiration Side by Side at the Aldrich”, The New York Times, July 11, 2015
Teju Cole, “On Photography”, The New York Times Magazine, April 19, 2015
Philip Gefter, “This is a… Photograph?”, Departures, May 15, 2015
Kate Palmer Albers, “Accessing the Landscape”, in Broken, Art and Theory Publishing, University of Gothenburg, 2015
J.A.P. Alexander, “Perspectives on Place”, Boomsbury Publishing, 2015
Jamie Waters, review, The Financial Times, April 25, 2015
Richard Klein, “Penelope Umbrico: Shallow Sun”, exhibition essay, Aldrich Museum, Spring 2015
Jacob Schiller, Wired Magazine, March 13, 2015
2014
Clément Chéroux, essay for monograph, “Out of Order”, RVB Books Paris, Fall 2014
Sharon Mizota, “Penelope Umbrico’s Skewed Digital Vision”, LA Times, October 17, 2014
William A. Ewing, “Landmark: The Fields of Landscape Photography”, Thames and Hudson, UK 2014
Julie Jones, Michel Poivert, “Histoires de la Photographie”, Jeu de Paume / Le Point du Jour, 2014
Ken Iseki, "Photograph Lives Thousands of Lives", IMA Living with Photography Magazine, Vol.8, Japan, 2014
Clément Chéroux, “Face au Flux”, Artpress2, Trimestriel no. 34, Aug/Sept/Oct 2014
“Printed Web #1”, Paul Soulellis, Library of the Printed Web, 2014
“On the Appropriation of Images found Online”, Screendump #2, Geldhoff and Krijgsman, Eriskay Collection, NL, 2014
“Heavenly Bodies”, exhibition catalog, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Nazraeli Press, 2014
2013
Kate Palmer Albers, “Abundant Images and the Collective Sublime”, Exposure Magazine, Fall 2013
“The Itinerant Languages of Photography”, Fontcuberta, Cadava and Nouzeilles, Princeton University Press, 2014
Jonny Weeks, “Sunsets: The Marmite of the Photography World”, The Guardian, December 18, 2013
Ellen Gammerman, “How Our Camera-Phone Nation is Inspiring Artists”, The Wall Street Journal, December 12, 2013
Miles Little, “On World TV Day”, Light Box, Time Magazine, November 21, 2013
Jessie Wender, “Technology and Photographic Art”, The New Yorker, Photo Booth, November 18, 2013
Blake Hannon, “Photographer Mines the Internet to Make Her Own Images”, The Lexington Herald Leader, October 17, 2013
Eloi Desjardins, "Rentrée Automnale 2013 Le Mois de la Photo at Fonderie Darling", Un Show de Mot'arts, September 20, 2013
"This Week in Photography", Wired, September 14, 2013
Photo District News, “Photo of the Day”, September 9, 2013
Joseph Henry, "Five Picks from Montreal's Mois de la Photo", Blouin Art Info, September 6, 2013
Canadian Art, Montreal's Mois de la Photo: Auto Focus, September 6, 2013
Jacques Doyon, "Drone: L'Image Automatisée", Ciel Variable, Fall 2013
Ana Kinsella, “Repeat Until Infinity”, artist profile, Bon Magazine, issue 24, Autumn / Winter 2013
Bill Kouwenhoven, Paul Wombell, Hotshoe, Winter, 2013
Drone: The Automated Image, exhibition catalog, Paul Wombell, Mois de la Photo a Montreal, Kerber Verlag, 2013
From Here On, Kessels, Schmid, Cheroux, Parr, Fontcuberta, exhibition catalog, RM Verlag, Spain, 2013
Afterimage, Society for Photographic Education, transcript of 2012 featured speaker presentation, Spring 2013
Jerome Delgado, "Un Mois ou Trop Plein ou Trop Simple", Le Devoir, September 28, 2013
John Pohl, Moments of Reflection, Mois de la Photo a Montreal, The Montreal Gazette, September 13, 2013
L'Oeil de Links, Video Interview, 3bis.21, Canal+, Paris, France, June 2013
Susannah Schouweiler, "Penelope Umbrico’s Mountains, Moving”, Knightarts, St. Paul, MN, April 24, 2013
David Little, exhibition essay, “Encounters on Distant Mountains”, Bethel University, St Paul, MN, April, 2013
Art Gallery Magazine, “Profile: Penelope Umbrico: A Photographer of the Internet”, Issue 172 , China, March 2013
Natalis Farre, "El fin de la fotographia tradicional", El Periodico,Barcelona, February 25, 2013
2012
Art That Iterates, exhibition catalog, Macy Art Gallery, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2012
Screenshots, exhibition catalog, William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, 2012
Bauhaus Dessau Magazine, “The Avant-Garde at the Net”, issue 4, Germany, December 2012
Odyssey Magazine, “Penelope Umbrico”, issue 16, Tel Aviv, Israel, Summer 2012
Art in America, Cover, March 2012
2011
Davis Evans, ed. “Critical Dictionary”, Black Dog Publishing, London UK, 2011
Faye Hirsch, “Inky Screen”, Art in America, December 2011
Marcel Feil, “In Conversation with Penelope Umbrico”, Foam International Photography Magazine, #21, Amsterdam, Winter 2011
Adam Jacques, “Solar Flair”, The Weekend Australian Magazine, November 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
The Economist, “When the Virtual is More Real Than the Physical”, September 16, 2011
Bryan Gresko, “Social Media Opens at the Pace Gallery, ” The Huffington Post” September 20, 2011
Domus, “Social Media at Pace Gallery” September 15, 2011
Foam International Photography Magazine, Artist Project for “What’s Next,” #3/4, Amsterdam, Summer 2011
Irina Rozovsky, “500 Words: Penelope Umbrico”, ArtForum.com, July 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, MA, April 1 2011
Conveyor Magazine, “The Digital Sublime: A Dialog with Penelope Umbrico”, Issue #1, Spring 2011
The New York Times Magazine, cover and inside spreads accompanying “Ghosts In the Machine”, January 9, 2011
2010
Faye Hirsch, exhibition review, 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, 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, Artist Portfolio, #21, Amsterdam, Spring 2010
2009
PAGE Magazine, Hamburg, Germany, August 2009
The Times Literary Supplement, July 31, 2009
Foam International Photography Magazine, Lesley Martin, #19, Amsterdam, Summer 2009
"The Edge of Vision", Lyle Rexer, Aperture, May 2009
2008
“Site Visits”, exhibition catalog, Esther Shipman, Cambridge Galleries, Ontario, Canada, 2008
Prefix Photo Magazine, Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art, Toronto Canada, November 2008
Dumbo Feather, Pass It On, "Sun, Sun But Different", Samantha Proudly, Issue 16, Australia, Winter 2008,
"In/Formation", Exhibition Catalog, Elizabeth Ferrer, Rotunda Gallery, NY, November, 2008
Foam International Photography Magazine, Martin Parr, #15, Amsterdam, 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
Greg Cook, The Boston Phoenix, January 7, 2008
2007
Cate McQuaid, Boston Globe, Thursday May 31, 2007
2006
Canadian Art Magazine, www.canadianart.com, January, 2006
2005
R. M. Vaughan, National Post, Canada, December, 2005
Montreal Mirror, January, 2005
Ici, Montreal, January 2005
2004
Cabinet Magazine, Issue 14 / "Doubles", August, 2004
"Site and Situation", exhibition catalog, Memphis College of Art, 2004
ReThinking Marxism, vol. 16 no. 1, Routledge Press, January, 2004
Kate McQuaid, The Boston Globe, January 30, 2004
Richard Huntington, The Buffalo News, January 2, 2004
2003
Odili Donald Odita, Art US, Fall, 2003
Hidenori Kondo, PS122 Gallery, Artwurl internet magazine, interview, Spring 2003
2002
Aletti, Vince, The Village Voice, New York, April 2002; February 1998; October 1995; April 1993; June 1992
2001
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
"On Concept: 10 Photo-based Artists from New York", A Magazine, Tokyo, Japan, 2001
2000
"Painting Function: Making It Real", exhibition catalog, Saul Ostrow curator, January, 2000
1998
Morgan, Robert C., "Signs Within the Inventory", catalog essay, 1998
1997
Adams, Kelly, interview for "Between Body and Object", Montgomery Museum, 1997
1996
Smith, Roberta, The New York Times, August 9, 1996
Protzman, Ferdinand, The Washington Post, January 27, 1996
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
1994
Aukeman, Anastasia, Art in America, January, 1994
1993
Marimo, Meiri, Nikkei Magazine, Japan, June, 1993
1992
Hartshorn, Willis, essay for "Variants", International Center of Photography, May, 1992
Faust, Gretchen, Arts Magazine, New York, April, 1992
