Biography

Penelope Umbrico’s (b. 1957) photo-based installations, video, and digital media works utilize photo-sharing and consumer websites as an expansive archive to explore the production and consumption of images on the web. Her work navigates between producer and consumer, local and global, the individual and the collective, with attention to the technologies that produce (and are produced by) these forces.

 

Umbrico work has been included in exhibitions at MoMA PS1, NY; Museum of Modern Art, NY; MassMoCA, MA; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA; Le Mois de Photo a Montreal Photo Festival, Canada; Lodz Photo Festival, Poland; Foto Colectania, Barcelona, Spain; The Photographers’ Gallery, London; Daegu Photography Biennale, Korea; the Pingyao International Photography Festival, China; Kunstverein Ludwigshafen, Germany; Rencontres d’Arles, France; Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane Australia; Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, NY; International Center of Photography, NY, among many others. 

 

Her work is represented in museum collections including the Guggenheim Museum, NY; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA; Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY; Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN; Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, CA; Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Perez Art Museum Miami, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA,  Berkley Museum of Art, CA.

 

She is the recipient of a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship; a John Gutmann Photography Fellowship Award, a Deutsche Bank Fellow/New York Foundation of the Arts Fellowship, a Peter S Reed Grant; an Anonymous Was A Woman Award; a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship; and an Aaron Siskind Individual Photographer’s Fellowship.

 

Her monographs include: "Penelope Umbrico (photographs)", Aperture (Spring 2011); Range, Aperture (Fall 2014); Out of Order, RVB Books Paris (Fall 2014)
Selected Works
  • Suns (From Sunsets) from Flickr
    Penelope Umbrico
    Suns (From Sunsets) from Flickr, 2006
    Photo montage
  • Grid of 12 in book_sRGB-72dpi from Broken Sets (eBay)
    Penelope Umbrico
    Grid of 12 in book_sRGB-72dpi from Broken Sets (eBay), 2009-2011
    Digital c-prints
    152.4 x 304.8 cm
  • Signals Still
    Penelope Umbrico
    Signals Still, 2010-2012
    Digital c-prints
    64.8 x 111.8 cm
  • Mirror #18W from Mirrors (From Home-improvement Websites)
    Penelope Umbrico
    Mirror #18W from Mirrors (From Home-improvement Websites), 2011
    Digital chromogenic print face mounted to non-glare plexiglass
    24 x 18 in (61.0 x 45.7 cm)
  • Mountains, Moving: of Aperture Masters of Photography (9 Westons)
    Penelope Umbrico
    Mountains, Moving: of Aperture Masters of Photography (9 Westons), 2012-2013
    Set of 9 archival pigment prints
    76.2 x 71.1 cm
  • 21,887,750 Suns from Sunset from Flickr (Partial) 06/27/2014
    Penelope Umbrico
    21,887,750 Suns from Sunset from Flickr (Partial) 06/27/2014, 2014
    C-prints assembled with archival tape
    126.4 x 128.3 cm
  • 23_IMG_9596
    Penelope Umbrico
    23_IMG_9596, 2014
    Digital C-print
    45.7 x 61 cm
  • (Not) Easy Canvases, from, Four photographs of Rays of Sunlight in Grand Central Station…. 2015
    Penelope Umbrico
    (Not) Easy Canvases, from, Four photographs of Rays of Sunlight in Grand Central Station…. 2015, 2015
    15 archival giclee prints on polyester canvas
  • Everyone’s Photos Any License (654 of 1,146,034 Full Moons on Flickr, November 2015)
    Penelope Umbrico
    Everyone’s Photos Any License (654 of 1,146,034 Full Moons on Flickr, November 2015), 2015
    Digital C-Print
    104 x 324 in (264.2 x 823 cm)
  • Screenshot 2015-11-07 18.34.11 / Pink Filter
    Penelope Umbrico
    Screenshot 2015-11-07 18.34.11 / Pink Filter, 2015
    Archival pigment print mounted to dibond
    40 x 40 in (101.6 x 101.6 cm)
  • Screenshot 2015-11-07 18.34.11 / Pink Filter
    Penelope Umbrico
    Screenshot 2015-11-07 18.34.11 / Pink Filter, 2015
    Archival pigment print
    101.6 x 101.6 cm
  • Screenshot 2015-11-24 18.14.32 / Blue Filter
    Penelope Umbrico
    Screenshot 2015-11-24 18.14.32 / Blue Filter, 2015
    Archival pigment print
    101.6 x 101.6 cm
  • 49,315,646 Suns from Sunsets from Flickr (Partial) 01/30
    Penelope Umbrico
    49,315,646 Suns from Sunsets from Flickr (Partial) 01/30, 2023
    Digital C-Print
    48 x 72 in (121.9 x 182.9 cm)
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