Ellen Rothenberg

Ellen Rothenberg (born 1949) is an American visual artist and writer whose socio-political art manifests itself in performance, installation, objects, and visual essays.[1]

This article is about the American writer. For the American biologist, see Ellen Rothenberg (scientist).

Ellen Rothenberg
Born1949
EducationBFA Cornell University, 1971
MFA Massachusetts College of Art, 1979
StylePerformance, Installation, Fiber Art and Material Studies
AwardsNational Endowment for the Arts
Illinois Council on the Arts
Websitewww.ellenrothenberg.com

The content of her art addresses the politics of everyday life and how communities engage through collaborative practices.[2]

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[3] 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.[4]

Exhibitions

Rothenberg has exhibited her work in the Feast of Astonishments: Charlotte Moorman and the Avant Garde, the show traveled to Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Grey Art Gallery NYU, Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art (2016–17). In 2015, she had a solo exhibition, elsetime at Sector 2337, Chicago. In 2008-2011 her work was included in the Experimental Geography exhibition at the Richard E. Peeler Art Center DePauw University, the show traveled to Rochester Art Center, Albuquerque Museum, and Museum of London. Her work was also included in 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). In 1994 she had a solo show, Partial Index and a Probability..., at the Portland Museum of Art Maine.

Collections

Rothenberg's work is included in the collections of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and the Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University.[5][6]

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.[7]

References
  1. Picard, Caroline, ed. (2018). Shadowed!. Chicago, IL: Green Lantern Press. ISBN 978-0-9974165-1-0.
  2. Thompson, Nato; Independent Curators International (2015). Experimental Geography: Radical Approaches to Landscape, Cartography, and Urbanism. Melville House. ISBN 9781612193991. Retrieved 4 January 2017.
  3. Abse Gogarty, Larne (March 2014). "Time & Motion: Redefining working life". Art Monthly (374): 21–23.
  4. Rothenberg, Ellen (February 2018). "ISO 6346: ineluctable immigrant". Exhibition Brochure, Spertus Institute.
  5. "Artwork: Death Kimono, Ellen Rothenberg". mfa.org. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Retrieved 4 January 2017.
  6. "Colloquium". University of California, Santa Barbara. Retrieved 4 January 2017.
  7. "Illinois Arts Council Announces FY02 Artists Fellowship Award Recipients". arts.illinois.gov. Illinois Arts Council Agency. Retrieved 4 January 2017.
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