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
  • 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)
  • 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)
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