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)
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Penelope UmbricoMirror #18W from Mirrors (From Home-improvement Websites), 2011Digital chromogenic print face mounted to non-glare plexiglass24 x 18 in (61.0 x 45.7 cm)
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Penelope UmbricoScreenshot 2015-11-07 18.34.11 / Pink Filter, 2015Archival pigment print mounted to dibond40 x 40 in (101.6 x 101.6 cm)
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20th Anniversary Exhibition
REWIND 16 Dec 2021 - 19 Feb 2022 Gallery ExhibitionsBruce Silverstein Gallery is pleased to announce REWIND , a celebration of our 20th anniversary. Featuring works selected from over one hundred exhibitions, REWIND is an opportunity to revisit the...Read more -
Drawing the Line
11 Jul - 30 Aug 2019 Gallery ExhibitionsBruce Silverstein Gallery is pleased to announce a group exhibition featuring works by Harry Callahan, Germaine Krull, Shinichi Maruyama, Barbara Morgan, Sigmar Polke, Man Ray, Aaron Siskind, Keith A. Smith,...Read more
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PARIS PHOTO 2019
7 - 10 Nov 2019Bruce Silverstein Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition that will include both iconic and lesser known photographs by some of the most important photographic...Read more -
FRIEZE MASTERS 2019
3 - 6 Oct 2019For Frieze Masters 2019, Bruce Silverstein will display a series of photographic masterworks from the 20th century including works by Brâncuși, Baldus, Kertész, Steichen, Model,...Read more -
AIPAD 2019
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PARIS PHOTO 2018
8 - 11 Nov 2018Recognized today as one of the most influential figures in modern photography, the Hungarian artist, designer and educator, György Kepes (1906-2001) was one of the...Read more -
AIPAD 2018
5 - 8 Apr 2018 -
THE ARMORY SHOW 2018
8 Mar 2018 - 11 Mar 2019 -
AIPAD 2017
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THE ARMORY SHOW 2017
2 - 5 Mar 2017For The Armory Show 2017 Bruce Silverstein Gallery will present an exhibition of paintings and photographs by Alfred Leslie, Paul Outerbridge, Eric Fischl, Todd Hido,...Read more -
PARIS PHOTO 2016
10 - 13 Nov 2016Bruce Silverstein Gallery is pleased to present at Paris Photo an exhibition inspired by one of the cornerstones of modern art, F. Holland Day’s seminal...Read more -
AIPAD 2016
14 - 17 Apr 2016At the 2016 AIPAD Photography Show, Bruce Silverstein Gallery is proud to present Triumph of the Egg, featuring works of the same title by two...Read more -
THE ARMORY SHOW 2016
3 - 6 Mar 2016