Barbara Rosenthal
(USA)
2010:
« Das Tagebuch gibt mir Ideen » Lettretage/Morgenvogel, Berlin.
2009:
« Masks », Tina B. Prague Contemporary Art Festival
(representing the US in Performance Art and Text Art), Prague.
« Car Coming » « Art of the Crash », Fusion Art Museum, NYC.
« Existential Interact, » Lucas Carrieri Gallery, Berlin.
2008:
« Existential Interact » Wooloo Berlin New Life Festival, Berlin.
2007:
« Existential Cartoons » L-Gallery, Moscow.
Reviews of « Existential Cartoons »:
ArtFairsInternational Magazine (English)
Nov-Dec 2007
Russian Art Times (Russian)
June 2007
« Existential Cartoons: Barbara Rosenthal in Moscow »
Articles by Sergei Yerkov
« Barbara Rosenthal Contemplates Suicide,”
Bathroom Installation, Pool Art Fair, NYC.
2006:
« Barbara Rosenthal: Devolution of Self, »
Pickled Art Center, Beijing, China.
« Barbara Rosenthal–Photography as Architecture »
Westbeth Gallery, NYC.
« Barbara Rosenthal — News Corrall »
Hudson Guild Farm, Andover, NJ.
« Barbara Rosenthal — News Wall »
Hudson Guild Farm, Andover, NJ.
« Barbara Rosenthal — Hanging Scrap Paper »
International Paper Show, Monique Goldstrom Gallery, NYC.
BORN
1948 Born in The Bronx, New York
Lives and works in New York and Berlin
EDUCATION
1971-1974 City University of NY / Queens College, New York, NY, MFA degree, 1974
1968-1969 Temple University / Tyler School of Art, Junior Year in Rome, Rome, Italy
1966-1970 Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, BFA degree, 1970
1966 Institute of Fine Arts at New York University, Art History Summer Program, New York, NY
1964-1966 Art Students’ League, New York, NY
1963-1964 Brooklyn Museum Art School, Brooklyn, NY
SOLO EXHIBITIONS / SCREENINGS / PERFORMANCES
2014 Frenchiotic, Scratcher Café, New York, NY
2013 Two Performances by Barbara Rosenthal– « Existential Interact, Brisbane » and « I’m Growing Up », Audiopollen/Room 60, Brisbane, Australia
Barbara Rosenthal– « Existential Interact, Sydney », Sydney Opera House Plaza, Sydney, Australia
Barbara Rosenthal – Authenticity in Art, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Barbara Rosenthal – The Medium is NOT the Message, Art Forum/Victoria College of Art, Melbourne, Australia
An Evening with Barbara Rosenthal: ‘Existential Interact with Provocation Cards’ and ‘The Secret of Life and Other Shorts’, Peanut Underground Art Projects, New York
Interior Space: Photographs by Barbara Rosenthal & Elsa Thorp, Studio-Baustelle, Berlin, Germany
Barbara Rosenthal – Existential Interact, Paris, Paris, Esplenade du Trocadéro, Paris, France
Barbara Rosenthal – Existential Word Play, Studio Baustelle, Berlin, Germany
Barbara Rosenthal – Mini Video Retrospective: Existential Word Play, Millenium Film Workshop, New York, NY
2012 Barbara Rosenthal – Surreal Photography: Trapped Figures and Tiny Houses, Visual Voice Gallery, Montreal, Canada
Barbara Rosenthal – Existential Word Play, Montreal Art Centre, Montreal, Canada
Decade Of Madness: Barbara Rosenthal – Photo Projections & Reading, Fourth Street Photo Gallery, New York, NY
2011 Barbara Rosenthal – Photo/Text/Performance Videos, eMediaLoft Projects, New York, NY
Barbara Rosenthal and DJ RoBeat On Stage, Joe’s Bar, Berlin, Germany
Barbara Rosenthal Filmabend, Galerie Glass, Berlin, Germany
Journal Into Art: Barbara Rosenthal – Reading With Projections, Central Booking Artspace, Brooklyn, NY
2010 Barbara Rosenthal – Das Tagebuch gibt mir Ideen, Lettrétage: Das junge Literaturhaus, Berlin, Germany
Barbara Rosenthal – Flying Objects, Photographs & Videos, Morgenvogel Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Barbara Rosenthal – Existential Interact, Brussels, Grand’Place, Brussels, Belgium
Barbara Rosenthal – Summer Solstice Mask Performance, Stonehendge, UK
Barbara Rosenthal – Video Poetry, Lettrétage: Das junge Literaturhaus, Berlin, Germany
2009 Existential Interact: Barbara Rosenthal – photo/text/installation/performance Lucas Carrieri Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Existential Videos: Barbara Rosenthal – Mini Retrospective, Directors Lounge, Berlin, Germany
2008 Barbara Rosenthal – Existential Interact, Berlin, Berlin New Life Festival, Berlin, Germany
2007 Barbara Rosenthal – Caveman Cartoons, L-Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2006 Barbara Rosenthal – Devolution of Self, Pickled Art Centre, Beijing, China
Barbara Rosenthal – Existential Interact with Provocation Cards: Two Street Performances During Performa05, in front of White Box Gallery and in front of Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
2005 Window Spotlight on Avant-Garde Artist Barbara Rosenthal, Left Bank Books, New York, NY
2001 Barbara Rosenthal Reading From ‘Soul & Psyche’, Anything Goes: WNYE-FM Radio(91.5), New York, NY
1997 Barbara Rosenthal – Featured Artist, Printed Matter, New York, NY
Video By Barbara Rosenthal, Art In General, New York City
1996 Barbara Rosenthal – Anthology of Shorts, Fono28 Budapest FilmEsVideo Szemle Belazs Bela Studio (Guest), Budapest Hungary
Barbara Rosenthal – Slide-Audio Installation & Book Talk,Artpool International Art Research Center, Budapest, Hungary
Anthology of Shorts: Video by Barbara Rosenthal, Senzatitolo (Guest) Rovererto, Italy
Anthology of Shorts: Video by Barbara Rosenthal, Laboratorium Haus der Jugendarbeit (Guest), Munich, Germany
Anthology of Shorts: Video by Barbara Rosenthal, filmGalerie (Guest), Regensburg, Germany
Anthology of Shorts: Video by Barbara Rosenthal, “Super-8 Lebt Festival,” Spittleburg Theater, Austrian Film’CoOp (Guest), Vienna, Austria
Barbara Rosenthal – Wall Works, Book Works, Video & Film” (Lecture); Museum of the 20th Century, Vienna, Austria
Small Gauge Filmmaking in the U.S. (Lecture); WUK/ Art & Politics; Vienna Austria
Anthology of Shorts: Video by Barbara Rosenthal, USIA, US Embassy, Vienna, Austria
1994 Barbara Rosenthal – Retrospective, 450 Broadway Gallery, New York, NY
1989 Media Poet, Barbara Rosenthal, Amos Eno Gallery, New York, NY
1988 Diaries, Documents, and Conceptual Pieces – Barbara Rosenthal In Video, The Kitchen Center For Video & Music, New York, NY
1985 Sensations: Reading With Slides by Barbara Rosenthal, St. Marks Poetry Project, New York, NY
1974 Barbara Rosenthal – Paintings In Balance, King and King Gallery, Seattle, WA
1973 Barbara Rosenthal – Large Abstract Oil Paintings, Valley National Bank, Valley Stream, NY
1970 Barbara Rosenthal – Figure Drawings, Three Rivers Gallery and Restaurant, Pittsburgh, PA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS / SCREENINGS / PERFORMANCES
2014 Rite of Passage Smith & Jones, Brooklyn, NY
Crap Art Series, Fusion Arts Museum on Stanton St, New York, NY
Under the Subway Series, Local Project, New York, NY
NY Poetry Festival, New York, NY
Crap Art Series, Fusion Arts Museum on Stanton St, New York, NY
Silence Unbound, Center for Book Arts, New York, NY
Soul & Psyche, Cornelia St Cafe, Brooklyn, NY
Difference Screen, UnionDocs, Brooklyn, NY
Fourth Under The Subway Video Art Night, Local NYC, New York, NY
Se Cayó Todo, Terror Gallery, Lima, Peru
Fondlad Digital Arts Festival, Coimbra, Portugal
Frenchiotic, Scratcher, New York, NY
2013 The Anatomy and Medicine Show, Central Booking Artspace, New York, NY
Dallas Video Festival, Dallas, TX
Diaries and Dirty Laundry, Metro Arts, Brisbane, Australia
Happy Flies Kissing Beautiful Face: Works in Black and White, Stefan Stux Gallery, New York, NY
Al Muttanabi Street Starts Here, Center for Book Arts, New York, NY
Poet Sculptures, Socrates Sculpture Garden, Long Island City, NY
New Museum Ideas City Block Party, Sara D. Roosevelt Park, New York, NY
Boddinale Film Festival, Loophole Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Performance Heart, Grace Exhibition Space, Brooklyn, NY
Eye of the Beholder, Teekengenootschap Pictura, Dordrecht, Netherlands
Under the Subway International Video Night 2013, Local Project Artspace, Long Island City, NY
Fest Ancˇa: Sixth International Animation Festival, Stanica Zˇilina, Bratislava, Slovakia
One Minute Films, Volume 6, Furtherfield Art Centre, London, UK
2012 EJECT Performance Video Festival, Mexico City, Mexico
In the Moment: Philly Short Film Festival, Philadelphia, PA
Surreal Photo-Projections and Stories, Tribes Gallery, New York, NY
NY/Berlin, K-Salon, Berlin, Germany
Flying Films Festival III, Berlin, Germany
Under the Subway International Video Night 2012, Local Project Artspace, Long Island City, NY
Future Migrations, Proteus Gowanus Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Object Migrations, Proteus Gowanus Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Emergency Index, The Kitchen, New York, NY
Film-makers’ CoOp at Microscope, Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
PlayGround9, ET Modern, New York, NY
Bound in Silence, Dowd Gallery, SUNY Cortland, NY
The 8th Berlin International Directors Lounge Festival for Contemporary Media and Film, Berlin, Germany
Condemned to Be, Free Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2011 Ethnographic Terminale 2011, Eastern Bloc, Montreal, Canada
Surreal Poetry, Bowery Poetry Club, New York, NY
New Readings, Cornelia St. Cafe, New York, NY
Seelenbilder und Landschaften: Drei Kunstlerein, Galerie Glass, Berlin, Germany
Contune International Social Art Project, Internet Curatorial of Gerd Jansen http://www.countune.com/countune.php?search-number=51669
Interviews and Interview Screenings, SET Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Under the Subway International Video Night 2011 Local Project Artspace, Long Island City, NY
The 7th Berlin International Directors Lounge Festival for Contemporary Media and Film, Berlin, Germany
Physics in Art, Central Booking Artspace, Brooklyn, NY
2010 Tina-B: Prague Contemporary Art Festival 2010 (representing the US in Performance Art), Prague, Czech Republic
Flying Films Festival II, Berlin, Germany
A Moving Exhibiton Performances & Videos, 10 Gales Gallery, London, UK
A Moving Exhibiton Videos, Wilson Williams Gallery, London, UK
Biology in Art, Central Booking Artspace, Brooklyn, NY
Gallery One: Gallery Artists, Central Booking Artspace, Brooklyn, NY
The 6th Berlin International Directors Lounge Festival for Contemporary Media and Film, Berlin, Germany
2009 Tina-B: Prague Contemporary Art Festival 2009 (representing the US in Performance Art and Text-based Art), Prague, Czech Republic
Art of the Crash, Fusion Arts Museum, New York, NY
Gallery One: Gallery Artists, Central Booking Artspace, Brooklyn, NY
Flying Films Festival, Berlin, Germany
International Performance Videos, University for the Creative Arts, Surry, UK
The 5th Berlin International Directors Lounge Festival for Contemporary Media and Film, Berlin, Germany
2008 White Box Auction, 2008, White Box Gallery, New York, NY
Stories, SWIRL: Sex-Workers Internet Radio Library http:// www.jeweltone16.org/swirl/Stories_Poetry.html
Generation Six, AIR Gallery, New York, NY
Pawnshop, E-Flux Gallery, New York, NY and Beijing, China
Fun & Games, Protues Gowanus Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2007 Bookworks and Videos, Center For Book Arts, New York, NY
Three Videos With Hannah Weiner, Poetry Project, New York, NY
Pool Art Fair, Chelsea Hotel, New York, NY
Maps & Places, Dispat-X Art Collective, Barcelona, Spain
2006 White Box Gallery Toy Box Auction, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY
Crossing Boundaries: Visual Art by Writers, Paterson Museum, Paterson, NJ
Generation Five, AIR Gallery, New York, NY
Friday Readings, Bowery Poetry Club, New York, NY
Three Existential Artists’ Videos, Sugar Lounge, New York, NY
2005 Rev9’s Poetry Karaoke, Bowery Poetry Club, New York, NY
People Without People (Featured Artist), FstopMagazine Online Show, http://www.fstopmagazine.com/pastissues/11/featuredartist.html
BoundLess, Stenersenmuseet Museum, Oslo, Norway + tour
2004 Nihilist Film Festival, Santa Monica, CA
Seoul International Video & Film Festival 2004, Seoul, Korea
Art in the 4th Dimension: Unfamiliar=Familiar, Artpool Art Research Center, Budapest, Hungary
Village Writers, Barnes and Noble, 8th St, New York, NY
Berlin International Subway Short Film Festival, Berlin, Germany
2003 Year of Threes: Descendants of Duchamp, Artpool Art Research Center, Budapest, Hungary
Photography & Paper International, CVB Space, New York, NY
International Paper Exhibition, Monique Goldstrom Gallery, New York, NY
Video Shorts, Monique Goldstrom Gallery, New York, NY
Conceptual Photography, Monique Goldstrom Gallery, New York, NY
X-Fest Animation, Remote Video Lounge, New York, NY
2002 Photography & Video From New York, NY, William Whipple Art Gallery, Walker, MN
9/11 Memorial Reading, Monique Goldstrom Gallery, New York, NY
Photography & Video, 2002, Monique Goldstrom Gallery, New York, NY
2001 Photo, 2001: Comparison of Vintage and Contemporary Photographers, Monique Goldstrom Gallery, New York, NY
Documenta, USA, Virtual Reality Museum, Rochester, MI
Big Movieola Touring Show, Portland, OR
Art Department Faculty Show, Manhattanville College, Purchase, NY
2001 Reading Series, Gathering of the Tribes, New York, NY
Artists’ Audio Works, Printed Matter, New York, NY
Share The Vision, Margaret Bodell Gallery @ Great Hall/Cooper Union, New York, NY
L’Utopia, Valmore Studio D’Arte, Venice, Italy
1999 Spirit in the Words: DaimlerChrysler National Poetry Awards & Readings, B.Smith’s Restaurant, New York, NY
Surveillance, Printed Matter, New York, NY
Photo-Text, Kulturni a Informacni Mesta Brna, Czech Republic
International Zine and Artists Book Show, Republic of Pinkingshear National Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
Five Artists in Video, Art Nation (Florence Lynch Gallery), New York, NY
Ten Years of Computer-Related Photo: 6 Artists, Yager Museum/Foreman Gal., Oneonta, NY
1998 Hannah Weiner 70th Birthday Memorial Readings, Poetry Project at St. Marks, New York, NY
The Automobile, Camara Municipal, Santiago Do Cacem, Portugal
Westbeth Studio Tour, Westbeth Artists’ Complex, New York, NY
Exposicao do Babbinho, 1998, Babbinho, Sao Paolo, Brazil
La Otra Perspectiva, Mae Cultural, Madrid, Spain
International Installation Festival, Artpool Art Research Center, Budapest, Hungary
1997 Cinemaki Series, James Sherry Bowery Loft, New York, NY
1996 Family Trauma, The Knitting Factory, New York, NY
Technophobia,The Dooley LeCappellaine Gallery, New York, NY
Matriz, Grupal, San Lorenzo del Escorial, Spain,
Art & Group, Avda, Meridiana, Spain
La Otra Perspectivak, Aptdo, Madrid, Spain
The Apartment Store, Exit Art, , New York, NY
Imagine: A Celebration of ‘John Ono Lennon,’ Cynthia’s Space, Mesa, AZ
Boy-Boy Girlie Girl Video Show, Art In General, , New York, NY
The Art of Shoes, Nishinomiya, Japan
1995 Anti-100 Years Super-8 Festival, Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY
Digital Imaging, St. Edwards University Gallery, St. Edwards, TX
Boxes, Off-Line Video, Ithaca, NY
17th Annual Benefit Auction, Center For Photography, Woodstock, NY.
Time, Memory, & The Limits of Photography, Center for Photography, Woodstock, NY
Video From The Media Loft, Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY
Personal Memory In Modern & Contemporary American Artists’ Eccentric Books, Utah State University, Logan, UT
Recent Conceptual Photography, Pulse Art, New York, NY
Brooklyn Waterfront Annual Spring Video Festival, BWAC, Brooklyn, NY
Working…, Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA
1994 Tongue-In-Cheek, 450 Broadway Gallery, New York, NY
Working…, Printed Matter, New York, NY
Articulated Speculation, Channel 30, New Jersey
Old & New Masters of Super-8, Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY
Four Weeks From New York, Nova Zembla Gallery, Hertogenbosch, Holland
Dedicato Donna, Museo Dell’Informazione, Senigalia, Italy
1993 Artists Space/ABACA Christmas Store, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York, NY
Holiday Open House, Artist’s Book Works, Chicago, IL.
Artists’ Books, Air De Paris Gallery, Nice, France
N-Eurovision, Enrico Ciceri Gallery, Giusano, Italy
Old Is Gold, Mashrabia Gallery, Cairo, Egypt
Mail Art Research, Artpool, Budapest, Hungary
Sealed With A Kiss, Chicago Children’s Museum, Chicago, IL
10 on 8, Windows on Eighth Avenue, New York, NY
Xerox Books, Printed Matter, New York, NY
1992 Amiga Artists On The Air, Willow Mixed Media Cable Access, Mid-Hudson Counties, NY
Ecstasy, Dooley LeCappellaine Gallery, New York, NY
Gallery, Dooley LeCappellaine Gallery, New York, NY
Salon, Dooley LeCappellaine Gallery, New York, NY
Eccentricity, Marg Gallery, Nowy Targ, Poland
Water/Word, Greenville Museum of Art, Greenville, NC
Recycled Materials, Taller Del Sol, Tarragona, Spain
By Any Means Necessary: Books, Publications & Statements By Artists, Printed Matter, , New York, NY
Give Me Your Hand, Miejski Osrodek Kultury, Chelm, Poland
Coordencao de Cultura, Museu de Arte e de Cultura Popular, Mato Groso, Brazil
The Last Acetate Show/Red Spot, The Palladium, , New York, NY
Fotogroup FAKT, Center of Culture & Information, Brno, Czecheslovakia
Biocultura, Casa De Campo, Madrid, Spain
Bohmische Dorfer, Ausstellung, Munich & Regensburg, Germany
Urban Jungle, Elston Fine Arts, , New York, NY
Readings From Downtown Magazine, Elston Fine Arts, , New York, NY
Performances From The Urban Jungle, The Living Theater, , New York, NY
1991 First Impressions, Last Resorts: Printmaking at the End of the Century, Charles Plohn Gallery, Fairfield, CT
Values, Dooley LeCappellaine Gallery, , New York, NY
Performance Night, CBGB’s Gallery 313, New York, NY
No-TV and Movies, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY
Multiples, Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA
Axelgrease, Squeaky Wheel/Buffalo Media Resources, Buffalo, NY
Film-makers’ CoOp Auction, The Gallery Three Zero, New York, NY
1989-1990: Brussels International Film & Video Festival (Guest), Brussels, Belgium
Video Witnesses: Festival of New Journalism, Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY, 1990
Small Is Big, Parsons Gallery, New York, NY
Starving Artists Cookbook, Paul Lamarre Video Room, Chelsea Hotel, New York, NY
No-TV, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY
1982-1988: Time and Memory: Video Art and Identity, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
Messages, Carlo Lamagna Gallery, New York, NY
Alternating Currents, Alternative Museum, New York, NY
Photo Offset Re-Productions, San Francisco Camerawork, SF, CA
The Page As Alternative Space, Franklin Furnace, New York, NY
SELECTED PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
AMERICAN
The Whitney Museum, New York, NY
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Franklin Furnace Archive, New York, NY
Donnell Media Center, New York, NY
The Kitchen, New York, NY
Experimental TV Center, Owego, NY
Los Angeles Center For Photographic Studies, Los Angeles, CA
Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
San Antonio Museum of Mod. Art, San Antonio, TX
Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center Video/CD-Rom Archive, New York, NY
The Jim Pomeroy Memorial Video Collection, University of Texas at Arlington
Zone Archive, Springfield, MA
Fogg Museum, Boston, MA
Tweed Museum, Duluth, MN
Center for Photography, Woodstock, NY
Albertsons Library at Boise State University Special Collections Book Archive, Boise, ID
Special Collections Library, University of Delaware
Special Collections Library, Hunt Library, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Downtown Writers Group, Special Collections, The Fales Library at the New York University Library, New York, NY
INTERNATIONAL
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Berlin Kunstbibliotek, Berlin, Germany
Berlin Jewish Museum, Berlin, Germany
King Stephen Museum Marcius, Hungary
Centro De Documentación D’Art Actual, Barcelona, Spain
O Centro de Cultura Alternativa, Rio de J., Brazil
Fukoka Museum, Japan
Biblioteca Nacional de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
Museo dell’Informazione, Senigalia, Italy
The Museum Of Book Art, Lodz, Poland
Artpool Art Research Center, Budapest, Hungary
AWARDS and RESIDENCIES
2013 XFR STN: Transfer Station, New Museum Video Technology Access, New York, NY
2006 Artists’ Residency, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing, China
2000 Media Presentation Grant, Experimental TV Center, Owego, NY
1998 NYSCA Video Facility Subsidy Grant at Margolis/Brown Adaptors, Bklyn, NY
1996 Residency Grant, Visual Studies Workshop Press, Rochester, NY
1991 Amiga Computer Video Imaging Residency Grant, Experimental TV Center, Owego, NY
New York City Film Bureau Production Grant, New York, NY
1990 New York City Film Bureau Production Grant, New York, NY
Medal of Honor, Brussels Ministry of Culture, Brussels, Belgium
Artists Space/Artists Grant, New York, NY
1989 New York City Film Bureau Production Grant, New York, NY
Artists Space/Artists Grant, New York, NY
Electronic Arts Grant, Experimental TV Center, Owego, NY
1988 Harvestworks Audio-Video Residency, NYC, 1988
Media Bureau/The Kitchen, NYC, Finishing Funds Grant
Video Arts Residency, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
1986 Artists Space/Artists Grant, New York, NY
1984 C.A.P.S. Creative Arts in Public Service, Video Fellowship, New York State
Tuscon Women’s Video Festival Award
1982 Global Village Documentary Festival Award, NYC
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