Resume Mary Beth Edelson

Permanent Collections Major Museums
Selected Listing of Books
Video Tapes
On-line Web Sites and CD-Roms
Who's Who Listings
Selected Listings of Reviews, Articles, and Publications
Selected Listings of Catalogs
Selected One-Person Exhibitions
Selected Group Exhibitions
Selected List of Public Lectures, Workshops, and Panels
Grants Received
 
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Permanent Collections Major Museums
Academic Degrees
   
The Guggenheim Museum of Art, New York, NY
B.A., DePauw University, IN
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
M.A., New York University
Nat'l Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C.
Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts,
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
DePauw University, IN
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.  
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN  
Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, MI  
Musuem of Modern Art, New York, NY  
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA  
Malmö Museum, Sweden.  
Fine Arts Museum in Santa Fe  
   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Selected Listing of Books
2005 Women's Culture in a New Era: A Feminist Revolution, Gayle Kimball
2005 Performances of the Sacred in Late Medieval and Early Modern England, edited by Susanne Rupp and Tobias Doring, The Lady's Supper, Ina Schabert
2004 The End of Art, Donald Kuspit, Cambridge University Press
2003 Disappearing Witness: Changes in 20th Century American Photography, Gretchen Garner, Johns Hopkins University Press
2003 Alternative Art New York 1965-1985, JulieAult, ed, Drawing Center,U of Mn. Press conversations)
DAP distribution NYC, www.artbook.com
2002 The Art of Mary Beth Edelson, (200 pg. color illustrations, 5 essays & conversations)
DAP distribution NYC, www.artbook.com
2001 Art and Feminism, Reckitt/Phelan, Phaidon, London
2001 Feminism-Art-_Theory: An Anthoglory 1968-2000. Hillary Robinson, Blackwell Press, UK
2000 Picturing the Modern Amazon, The New Museum, Frueh, Fierstein and Judith Stein, Rizzoli
1999 Where is Ana Mendieta? Identity, Performativity, and Exile, J. Blocker, Duke Univ.
1997 Suffragettes to She-Devils (2 photos & text) Phaidon Press Ltd. London
1997 Art and Propaganda in the Twentieth Century, Toby Clark, Calmann & King, Lond.
1997 The Vocation of the Artist, (photo & text),Deborah Haynes, Cambridge Univ. Press
1995 The Pink Glass Swan: Feminist Essays on Art,, Lucy R. Lippard, New Press, N.Y
1995 Time Capsule, edited by Robin Kahn, published by Creative Time, SOS Int'l.
1994 Lone Visions, Crowded Frames, (3 photos+text)Max Kozloff, U of New Mexico.
1994 The Power of Feminist Art, Norma Broade & Mary D. Gerrard, Harry Abrams
1994 Visions of America: Landscape as Metaphor. Denver &Col. Art Mus.,Abrams
1993 The Modern Artist as Shaman, Mark Levy, pp 24-41, Bramble, CN.
1993 Firsthand: Photographs by Mary Beth Edelson 1973-1993 and Shooter Series,
essay by Jan Avgikos, "No Reverse Gear," 40 pp, 89 photos, self-pub, NYC.
1992 Mutiny and the Mainstream: Talk that Changed Art, 1975-1990, Midmarch Press
1992-95 Understanding Art, Lois Fichner-Rathus, Prentice Hall, N.J. (first-fourth ed.)
1991 The Dancing Goddess, Heide Gottner-Abendroth, translated by Maureen T.
Krause, Beason Press, cover image. 5 photos, extensive text on MBE.
1990* Shape Shifter: Seven Mediums, Mary Beth Edelson, interview with Mel Watkins,
1989 Vanishing Presence, Walker Art Center, Adam Wienberg: chap on MBE, 14
photos, Rizzoli.
1989 Making Their Mark: Move into the Mainstream, Randy Rosen, Abbeville Press.
1984 A Concise History of American Painting and Sculpture, Matthew Baigell, photo
and text, Harper & Row.
1983 The Amazing Decade, Moira Roth & Mary Jane Jacobs, (2 photos &chap.)Astro Artz, L.A.
1983 The Art of Performance: A Critical Anthology, G. Battcock & R. Nickas, E.P. Dutton
1983 Overlays: Contemporary Art and the Art of Prehistory, Lucy R. Lippard, 20 photo &
text Pantheon Books.
1982 The Politics of Women's Spirituality: Essays on the Rise of Spiritual Power Within
the Feminist Movement, Charlene Spretnak, chap. by MBE, Anchor, Doubleday.
1980 Seven Cycles: Public Rituals, Mary Beth Edelson, introduction by Lucy R. Lippard,
64 pages, 140 photos, self-published, NYC.
 
Video Tapes
2006 What's Performance? Mary Beth Edelson (in the works)
2000 Conversations Between Artists including: Nancy Spero, Carolee Schneeman
and Miriam Schapiro with Edelson
1999 Just Looking: Mary Beth Shops for a New Mate.
1997 Biting and Picking, video produced for Berlin exhibition sponsored by halle fur
kunst, titled "Female Perversion"
1994 Combat Zone: Campaign Hq. Against Domestic Violence-the video,10 min.
1993 Visiting Artist Lecture Series, University of Colorado, Boulder, 40 min.
1993 22 Others Project, Interview with MBE by Char & Mike Gardiner, 15 min./60 min.
1989 For Arts Sake #6: Mary Beth Edelson, interview by Pauline Kayes, produced by
Peggy Shaw for public television, Parkland College, IL.
1988 Art installations, Mary Beth Edelson, produced by R. D. Garrett, Dr. Jami Smead,
college access channel 6, Fort Wayne, IN.
1985 The Art of Mary Beth Edelson, narrated by Donald Kuspit, produced by
Gerry McCarthy, Roanoke Public TV. 15 min.
 
On-line Web Sites and CD-Roms
The World's Women On-Line http.//www.asu.edu/asu-cwis/as/isa/
Women Artists on CD-ROM: A Multimedia History of Women Artists, Their Lives, Works
and Times. In't Ref., ed. div. MacMillian Publishing. June 1997
http://forgrening.a51.no- Borders Workshop
 
Who's Who Listings
Who's Who of American Art
Who's Who of American Women
Who's Who of Professional & Business Women
International Biographical Center, Cambridge, England
Foremost Women of Twentieth Century, I.B.C.
International Who's Who of Women
 
Selected Listings of Reviews, Articles, and Publications
2006 18 reviews and articles of the retrospective "A Well Lived Life," Malmokunst Museum, Sweden
2006 Maybe Not the First Postmodernists, but Who's Counting, New York Times, 1/8/06
2004 Indisk Mat, Collaboration with refugee community, Lofoten, Kablevag, No
2003 Art and Politics: Feminism at 40, Art in America, Lovelace,(photo/text) pg. 67, May
2003 Book Report www.Artnet.com/magazine/index/robinson8-14-02 Walter Robinson
2003 Bringing Home the Evolution, Organica, book review (3 photos)
2002 No Guts No Glory, New York Times, Oct. 13, Arts and Leisure (photo)p.35
2002 Texte Zur Kunst, 6 page article, 7 photos, by susanne Leeb, June, # 46.
2000-2 Numerous reviews of MBE traveling exhibition not yet entered on this list
2000 Politiken, Review of Malmo Exhibition, Kristine Kern
1999 Art in America, Michael Duncan, P111, April
1999 Politiken, Islands Brygge er Stredet,Copenhagen, Denmark,(photo)May 14
1998 Contemporary Visual Arts, Mary Beth Edelson, Trickster The Agency, Issue 19.
1998 Time Out, London, Mary Beth Edelson, The Agency, Sara Kent, July.
1998 Flash Art, review, Mary Beth Edelson, The Agency, John Slyce, Nov.-Dec.
1998 Springin, Austria, Female Perversions (exhibition in Berlin), March-May, p.62,
1998 New York Magazine, ART, p. 70, Jan.5,1998
1997 New York Times, Holland Cotter, Nov. 21, Weeekend
1995 Artforum, photo and review by Kirby Gookin on Combat Zone, March
1995 Art in America Review of " The Power of Feminist Art". Jan.
1993 New York Avantgarde, Saison, October, cover and 3 photos. Germany
1993 Wake-Up Call, Arlene Raven, Village Voice, p 89, March 9.
1993 Art in America, Eleanor Heartney, review with photo, October..
1992 Dirty Laundry, Village Voice, photo and review by Elizabeth Hess, p 91, May 12.
1989*

Open Letter to Thomas McEvilley , theoretical article by MBE, New Art Examiner,
pp 34-38, photos, April.

1988 The Shaman as a Gifted Artist, Mark Levy on Yves Klein, Joseph Beuys,
Mary Beth Edelson & Karen Finley, High Performance, pp 54-61, photos, Autumn.
 
Selected Listings of Catalogs
2006 WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution. MOCA, LA
2006 Idol: The Iconic Female in Contemporary Art, Katonah Mus., NY
2006 How American Women Artist Invented Postmodernism: 1970 - 1975
2005 Eye Contact :A Collaborative Social Project, with Kablevag Kunst and Fimskole, Kablevag, No. Mary Beth Edelson,16 pgs.
2004 Humans, Fucking Humans. Lofoten International Art Festival, LIAF 04, Norway
2002 Personal and Political, GuildHall Museum, Hamptons, L.I.
2001 Century City: Art and Culture in the Modern Metropolis, Tate Gallery. London.
2000 Picturing the Modern Amazon, New Museum, NYC, Rizzoli
1999 Contemporary Classicism, Neuberger Museum of Art .N.Y.
1997 Leonardo Lives, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA.
1997 Vraiment Feminisme et Art , Magasin, Grenoble, France
1997 Original Visions, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston
1996 Love Gasoline, Mercer Union, Toronto, Canada
1995 In-significance, The Agency, London.
1992 Object Choice, Hallways, Buffalo, NY.
1992 Sprung in Die Zeit, Berlinische Galeria Museum fur Moderne Kunst, Ger.
1992 Censored in USA, Seeing Red White and Blue, Visual Arts Center of Alaska.
1989 Vanishing Presence,"Walker Art Center, MN.
1989 Photography and Performance, Boston Photo Resource Center, MA.
1989 Dream On..., Washington Project for the Arts, D.C.
1988 Edelson, Puryear, Scanga, Stackhouse, Corcoran Gallery of Art, D.C.
1988 Committed to Print, Museum of Modern Art, NY.
1986 Other Gods: Containers of Belief, Everson Museum, NY.
1986 Resistance or Submission, Walter Philips Gallery, Alberta, Canada.
 
Selected Exhibitions
2006 Utopiana, An on-going collaboration with the historic utopian village of New Harmony, In. and Mary Beth Edelson with Southern Indiana University
2006 A Life Well Lived, A Survey of Mary Beth Edelson's Work, Malmo Museum, Sweden
2006 Idol: The Iconic Female in Contemporary Art, Katonah Mus., NY
2006 WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, MOCA, LA, (Travels to other major sites)
2006 How American Women Artist Invented Postmodernism: 1970 - 1975, Rutgers Univ. Gallery, N.J. (travels to five other sites).
2005 Different Wavelengths, Tina Kim Fine Art, Alissa Friedman, curator, NYC
2005 Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, Remy Toledo Gallery, New York, NY
2005 Whispers to Shouts: Indiana Women Who Create Art, Indiana State Museum, Indianapolis, IN
2004 Humans, Fucking Humans. Lofoten International Art Festival, curated by Tor Inge Kveum and Gören Christenson, LIAF 04, Norway
2003 Mothers of Invention, Mumok Museum of Conteporary Art, Vienna
2003 Making Peace, Shedhalle, installation, Zurich, CH
2003 2003 Fall Line, Chelsea Art Museum, Chelsea, NYC
2002 Goddess, Galleri LeLong, NYC
2002** Personal and Political, GuildHall Museum , Hamptons, L.I.
2001 Century City: Art and Culture in the Modern Metropolis. Tate Gallery, London.
2000 Borders, Royal Danish Academy, Louisiana Museum, Roskilde Museum of Cont. Art
2000** Picturing the Modern Amazon, New Museum, NYC
2000 Borders, Collaborations: Reneé Green, Jimmie Durham, Douglas Gordon,
Tony Oursler, Edelson. Malmö Art Academy & Royal Danish Acad, Copenhagen
2000-2 Re-scripting the Story, Traveling Exhibition to 8 sites: Gettysburg,;Franklin & Marshall, Phillips Museum of Art; Dickinson, Trout Gallery; Univ. of N. Texas, Fort Worth, TX; Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio, TX.; Albany Museum, SUNY,NY; Stony Brook Museum ,SUNY.
2000 Home-made Root Beer, Malmö Museer, Malmö, Sweden
1999** le Grand Praemiere Opening Show,, Nicolia Wallner, Copenhagen
1999 Censorship,, Richard Anderson, Chelsea, NYC
1999 War –Artists Bulletin Board, Postmasters, Chelsea, NYC
1999-00** Contemporary Classicism, Neuberger Mus. of Art, N.Y. Travels to Tampa Mus
1998 Trickster: Proposition for a Retrospective, Agency Gallery, London, UK
1998 Tip of the Iceberg, Dorfman Projects, Chelsea, NYC
1997 Female Perversion, halle für kunst, Berlin, Germany
1997** Vraiment Feminisme et Art , curated by Laura Cottingham, Magasin,Centre
National D'Art Contemporain de Grenoble, France
1997** Original Visions, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston, with Agnes Martin, Pat Steir,
Carrie Mae Weems, Magdalena Abakanowitz and Mary Beth Edelson
1997 Eye of the Beholder, Avon Collection, International Center of Photography,NYC
1997 Colaboration MBE with Paul Bloodgood, Art Resourses, Inc. NYC
1997 Melkonian, Bard College, Curatorial Studies, Travels to numerous venues.
1996 Nicolai Wallner Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
1996 American Dreaming, curated by Hiedi Zuckerman at Linda Kirkland, NYC
1996 Personal Best, Chaisse Post Gallery at Atlanta Olympics
1996** Love Gasoline, Mercer Union, Toronto, Canada
1996 Combat Zone 2 ,p.s.#122 Gallery, NYC
1996** Divine Flesh, Artopia, curated by Susanne Ramljak, NYC
1995** In-significance, The Agency, curated by Bea de Souza, London.
1995-** Sniper's Nest: Art that has Lived With Lucy R, Lippard, curator Neery
1995 Selections from 1989-1995, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, NYC.
1995 Tarot, curated by Amy Lipton, Lombard/Freid, NYC
1994-5 Combat Zone: Campaign Hq against Domestic Violence. sponsored by
Creative Time. NYC
1994 Yes I Am, No I'm Not, Momenta , Eric Heist and Laura Parnes, curators, NYC.
1993-00** Action/Performance and the Photograph, Turner/Krail Galleries, L.A.
1993 Coming to Power, David Zwirner Gallery, NYC.
1993 A/C at 303, Paul Bloodgood and Alissa Friedman, curators, 303 Gallery, NYC.
1993 Obala Theatre, Sarajevo, former Yugoslavia.
1993** A Non-Survey of Photographic Works in Two Parts: Hopelessly Essentialist
(Think Again) Early Body Works 1970-1977, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, NYC.
1993 Context: Chiffon Pieces and Photographs, 1977-1993, A/C Project Room, NYC.
1992 Object Choice, Hallwalls, Ken Gonzales Day and Andrew Perchuk, curators.
1992 Shape Shifters, Amy Lipton, NYC.
1992 Between the Sheets, PPOW , NYC.
1992 Paper Show, Kiki Smith, curator, Joe Fawbush Gallery, NYC.
1992 Group, Galerie Rizzo, Paris, France.
1992 In Your Face: Politics of the Body and Personal Knowledge, A/C Project Room, NYC.
1992 The Fetish of Knowledge, A/C Project Room, NYC.
1992 Salon/ Back Room , Dooley Le Cappelaine Gallery, NYC.
1992 Censored in the USA: Seeing Red ,White and Blue, Visual Arts Center of Alaska.
1990 Universal Pictures: The Paintings, Dolan/Maxwell, NYC.
1991 Salvage Utopia, A/C Project Room, NYC.
1991 Shooter's Hill, A/C Project Room, NYC.
1990-89** Vanishing Presence, Adam Weinberg, curator, Walker Art Center, MN. Book pub.
Rizzoli, essays by Eugenia P. Jamos and Max Kozloff, traveled to Detroit Art Inst.,
High Museum, Atlanta, Johnson Museum, Cornell, Virginia Commonwealth Univ.,
Anderson Gallery.
1988-90** Shape-Shifter: the Art of Mary Beth Edelson, 15-year retrospective incl. unique
wall painting installed at each site, 64 p. book, video interview with Donald Kuspit,
traveled to Univ. of Tennessee, Hillwood Art Museum, L.I., Ft. Wayne Art Mus.,
IN, Kenyon College, OH, Emison Art Center, DePauw University, IN.
1989 Universal Pictures: the Drawings, Dolan/Maxwell, PA.
1989** Dream On..., Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, D.C., major wall
painting installation with catalog and lecture.
1989** Photography and Performance, Photographic Resource Center, Boston,
other artists: Ulay and Marina Abramovic, Cindy Sherman, Arnulf Rainer,
catalog, lecture, wall painting installation.
1989** Four Artists: Mary Beth Edelson, Martin Puryear, Italo Scanga, Robert
Stackhouse, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, major wall painting.
1989-90** Committed to Print, Museum of Modern Art, NYC, Deborah Wye, curator,
catalog & national tour, slide set by Sandex.
1989** Resistance or Submission, . Other artists: Komar and Melamid, Michael Tracy,
Tony Oursler, Alex Gray, catalog, major wall painting at each of the sites: Mendel
Gallery, Saskatoon, Musee du Quebec, London Regional Gallery, Phillips Gallery.
1986** Fish in the Sky, Danforth Museum, Boston, Lasse Antonsen, curator
1986 Phases of the Loon, P.S.1, NYC. Edward Leffingwell, curator.
1984 Art Against Apartheid, NYC.
1983 A Path Without Shores, Cologne, Germany, Ulrike Rosenbach, curator.
1983** New York Painting Today, Pittsburgh Glass, Donald Kuspit & Elaine King, curators.
1983** New Work: A Future Vision, Hewlett Gallery, Carnegie Mellon Univ., PA.
1983 Pollyanna Perverse, A.I.R. Gallery, NYC.
1981-82 A Survey of Photographic Works by Mary Beth Edelson, Wright State Univ., OH.;
traveled to N.A.M.E. Gallery, Chicago, Herron School of Art Gallery, IN. Univ.
1981 The Archaeology of Trickster Rabbit (in Re-cycled time), from the Immodest
Trickster series, A.I.R. Gallery and Max Hutchinson Gallery, NYC.
1981 Unfinished Plans for Utopia, Elise Meyer, NYC.
1980 Mary Beth Edelson: Recent Work, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY.
1980** Contemporary Performance, Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA,
Mary Jane Jacob, curator.
1979** International Feministiche Kunst, Stichting de Appel, Amsterdam, Holland.
(Toured four major European museums.).
1979 The Nature of Balancing, A.I.R. Gallery, NYC.
1978** Story Gathering Boxes, Franklin Furnace, NYC.
1977 In Honor of Oyvind Fahlstrom: Exposition of His Friends, Galerie Bucholz,
Munchen, Germany.
1977 Proposals for: Memorials to the 9,000,000 Women Burned as Witches in the
Christian Era, A.I.R. Gallery, NYC.
1977 Your 5,000 Years Are Up! , Mandeville Gallery, UCSD, LaJolla, Arlene Raven, curator.
1975** Giving Myself a Five Year Retrospecive, A.I.R. Gallery, NYC.
1975** Woman Rising, Henri Gallery, Washington, D.C.
1973** 22 Others, Henri Gallery, Washington, D.C.
**Exhibitions with catalogs.
 
Selected List of Public Lectures, Workshops, Panels and Teaching
2005 The Portrait Project, YADDO residency presentation
2004 LIAF (Lofoten International Art Festival), seminar presentation Practicing Theory :Making Eye Contact with the Other
2004 NamNam Resturant Project Workshop, Lofoten, No. at Film and Art School, Kablevag
2003 2003 NomadicCommunities:Int€'lFemCollaboativeofthe70'sandFindingCommunityToday, Performative presentation at Mothers of Invention,Mumok Museum of Contemporary Art, Vienna
2003 Making Peace, Performative lecture, Shedhalle, Zurich, CH
2001-04 Danish Royal Academy, Copenhagen
2000-2 Not Just a Joke: Humor, Activism and Movie Star’s in Edelson’s Art,, Franklin &
Marshall, Dickinson, No. Texas U, Blue Star, Tx, Albany Museum, Stony Brook Museum, NY.
2000 Who Does She Think She Is? Identity and Humor. Gettyberg workshop
2000 Royal Danish Academy Seminar, Borders: Branching Out
1999 The Goddess in Pop Culture, Nancy Spero, Jane Kromm & MBE. Neuberger Museum
1997 Committing Heresies, Lucy Lippard, Betsy Hess, Joyce Kozloff & MBE, A.I.R., NYC
1997 Useable Issues: A Conversation on Community, MBE and Paul Bloodgood, NYC
1997 Re-scripting the Story, Lecture, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston
1997 halle für kunst. Univ. Lüneburg e.V., lecture in East Berlin, Germany
1996 Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademi, lecture, Copenhagen, Denmark

1995

Contemporary Projects, University of So. Florida, lecture and juror.
1994 Series of workshops on Domestic Violence held at the first Combat Zone, NYC
1994 Fearless in the Artworld, Clemson University, SC.
1993 University of Colorado, Boulder. seminar.
1989 How Does the Nature/Culture Split Effect our Environment?, discussant
Mary Beth Edelson, Storefront for Art and Architecture, NYC.
1989 Metaphysical Paradigms, lecture, National Museum of Women in the Arts, D.C.
1989 Walker Art Center MBE presented a performance and panel for symposium.
1988 Feminism: Its Cultural Implications, Judith Russi Kirschner, Carol Becker,
Bruce Guenther, Ann Lee Morgan, James Yood, Artemisia Gallery, Chicago.
1984 Corcoran School of Art, Keynote graduation address.
1983 Political Attitudes, Kruger, Kuspit, Rosler, Gornik, Rifka and MBE, A,I.R., NYC
1982 Artist Seminar, Whitney Museum of Art, NYC.
1981 Personal Ecologies, lecture at Whitney Museum of American Art, Fairfield County.
1980 Albright-Knox Art Gallery, lecture and workshop.
1980 The Artist and The Shaman: Evolution in Culture and Consciousness, Joan
Halifax & Mary Beth Edelson, sponsored by the Mellon Program at Pratt, NYC
1977-00 Over 70 public lectures at various museums and universities
 
Grants Received 2000-2004
IASPIS (International Artists Studio Program In Sweden), 6 months, 2006
Yaddo Residency 2005
National Endowment for the Arts 1999-2000
The Richard Florsheim Art Fund 1999-2000
The Thanks Be to Grandmother Winifred Foundation 1999-2000
Pollack-Krasner Foundation 2000-2001
Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts 2000-2001
IASPIS residency- Malmo, Sweden 2005-2006

 

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