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 UmbricoDoors (From Catalogs), 2001-2002Digital chromogenic prints flush mounted on aluminum74 in (188 cm)
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Penelope UmbricoMirror #11 from Mirrors (from Catalogues), 2001-2007Digital chromogenic print face mounted to non-glare plexiglass18 x 24 in (45.7 x 61 cm)
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Penelope UmbricoMirror #9 from Mirrors (from Catalogues), 2001-2007Digital chromogenic print face mounted to non-glare plexiglass25 x 16 in (63.5 x 40.6 cm)
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Penelope UmbricoSuns (From Sunsets) from Flickr, 2006Photo montage
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Penelope UmbricoGrid of 12 in book_sRGB-72dpi from Broken Sets (eBay), 2009-2011Digital c-prints152.4 x 304.8 cm
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Penelope UmbricoSignals Still, 2010-2012Digital c-prints64.8 x 111.8 cm
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Penelope UmbricoIMG71 from Mirrors (From Home-improvement Websites), 2011Digital chromogenic print face mounted to non-glare plexiglass29 x 18 in.
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Penelope UmbricoMirror #10bW from Mirrors (From Home-improvement Websites), 2011Digital chromogenic print face mounted to non-glare plexiglass13 x 18 in (33 x 45.7 cm)
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Penelope UmbricoMirror #110W from Mirrors (From Home-improvement Websites), 2011Digital chromogenic print face mounted to non-glare plexiglass20 x 12 in.
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Penelope UmbricoMirror #124W from Mirrors (From Home-improvement Websites), 2011Digital chromogenic print face mounted to non-glare plexiglass24 x 16 in.
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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 UmbricoMirror #2W from Mirrors (From Home-improvement Websites), 2011Digital chromogenic print face mounted to non-glare plexiglass35 x 12 in (88.9 x 30.5 cm)
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Penelope UmbricoMirror #4W from Mirrors (From Home-improvement Websites), 2011Digital chromogenic print face mounted to non-glare plexiglass26 x 22 in (66 x 55.9 cm)
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Penelope UmbricoMirror #6W from Mirrors (From Home-improvement Websites), 2011Digital chromogenic print face mounted to non-glare plexiglass28 x 40 in (71.1 x 101.6 cm)
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Penelope UmbricoSignals Still, 2011Chromogenic prints on metallic paper, face-mounted to plexi8 1/2 x 11 in.
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Penelope UmbricoMountains, Moving: of Aperture Masters of Photography (9 Westons), 2012-2013Set of 9 archival pigment prints76.2 x 71.1 cm
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Penelope Umbrico21,887,750 Suns from Sunset from Flickr (Partial) 06/27/2014, 2014C-prints assembled with archival tape126.4 x 128.3 cm
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Penelope Umbrico23_IMG_9596, 2014Digital C-print45.7 x 61 cm
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Penelope UmbricoWeston with Quad DaidoMoriyama and 6x6TTV70sFilter (IMG_2142), from Range: of Masters of Photography, 2014Chromogenic print30 x 30 in.
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Penelope Umbrico(Not) Easy Canvases, from, Four photographs of Rays of Sunlight in Grand Central Station…. 2015, 201515 archival giclee prints on polyester canvas
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Penelope UmbricoEveryone’s Photos Any License (654 of 1,146,034 Full Moons on Flickr, November 2015), 2015Digital C-Print104 x 324 in (264.2 x 823 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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Penelope UmbricoScreenshot 2015-11-07 18.34.11 / Pink Filter, 2015Archival pigment print101.6 x 101.6 cm
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Penelope UmbricoScreenshot 2015-11-24 18.14.32 / Blue Filter, 2015Archival pigment print101.6 x 101.6 cm
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Penelope UmbricoScreenshot 2017-10-12 15.34.40 / Orange Filter, 2017Archival pigment print mounted to dibond40 x 40 in (101.6 x 101.6 cm)
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Penelope UmbricoScreenshot 2017-10-12 15.34.53 / Purple Filter, 2017Archival pigment print mounted to dibond40 x 40 in (101.6 x 101.6 cm)
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Penelope UmbricoScreenshot 2017-10-12 15.35.07 / Green Filter, 2017Archival pigment print mounted to dibond40 x 40 in (101.6 x 101.6 cm)
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Penelope Umbrico49,315,646 Suns from Sunsets from Flickr (Partial) 01/30, 2023Digital C-Print48 x 72 in (121.9 x 182.9 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 gallery's...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
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THE ARMORY SHOW 2018
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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
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THE ARMORY SHOW 2016
3 - 6 Mar 2016